MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2025-10-06 18:49:26+00:00
At some point, they won't even need your personal data; the models will be good enough to be 99% accurate in predicting your consumer relevant behaviors simply by modeling most of your demographics. They'll be able to do the truly scary cognitohazard things like model voting behaviors with super sophisticated and complex A/B sequences for eliciting behaviors at scale. I think something in this vein will likely cause the first major AI "incident" resulting in legislation, but if the wrong players get ahead with the massive modeling and manipulation sims, they might effectively be immune from regulation. Think about all the old subliminal messaging and brainwashing scares, and while ads on tv and subtle media hacks could see limited success, stuff like simulating populations wholesale could allow a politician to craft hyperpersuasive campaigns for which none of us have any defenses, and it might as well appear to be a natural series of messages and debates and conversations.

I don't know if infinite feeds are particularly apt for this use case, but it certainly looks that way - having an AI carefully tune the pace, visual appeal, timing, and messaging of events could almost trivially program people to see the world in a particular way desired by the operators. I don't think OpenAI is particularly susceptible to going down this path, but there are plenty of entities out there in the world who'd make use of this tech. It'll go from authentic human debate and conversation around current events to carefully managed AI driven salvos of content, using the "authentic" human content in the same way that Bumblebee uses word snippets from radio broadcasts to put his sentences together. You won't even notice the manipulation, and will agree or be mad or be shocked on demand, whatever is most likely to nudge your future behavior in the direction desired by the manipulators.

We should probably get around to outlawing the levers these systems can use, like feed manipulation, large population psychometrics, and so on.
by gruez | 2025-10-06 18:49:35+00:00
Not sure about you but in my area it's only true in the sense that new ATMs can dispense more bill types. They can also now dispense $5 and $10, where previously they only dispensed $20 and $50. I haven't seen any machines that only dispensed $20/$100, or $50/$100 for instance. The implication that they're preparing for some hyperinflationary event is therefore totally unfounded.
by markab21 | 2025-10-06 18:49:39+00:00
The skepticism is understandable given the trajectory of GPTs and custom instructions, but there's a meaningful technical difference here: the Apps SDK is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is an open specification rather than a proprietary format.

MCP standardizes how LLM clients connect to external tools—defining wire formats, authentication flows, and metadata schemas. This means apps you build aren't inherently ChatGPT-specific; they're MCP servers that could work with any MCP-compatible client. The protocol is transport-agnostic and self-describing, with official Python and TypeScript SDKs already available.

That said, the "build our platform" criticism isn't entirely off base. While the protocol is open, practical adoption still depends heavily on ChatGPT's distribution and whether other LLM providers actually implement MCP clients. The real test will be whether this becomes a genuine cross-platform standard or just another way to contribute to OpenAI's ecosystem.

The technical primitives (tool discovery, structured content return, embedded UI resources) are solid and address real integration problems. Whether it succeeds likely depends more on ecosystem dynamics than technical merit.
by JdeBP | 2025-10-06 18:49:47+00:00
I don't understand the deduction, either.

But it seems that no BusyBox bug-fixer has spotted an easy-to-fix error that is stopping the BusyBox Bugzilla from working, and causing the hyperlink in that e-mail to lead to an error message that dumps out a glob of SQL and stack trace in black on red. It has a table named groups, and Bugzilla is attempting to use the table without quoting the MySQL keyword.

* https://github.com/bugzilla/bugzilla/commit/08679016bd83d2b1...

This bug was fixed in Bugzilla over a year ago. BusyBox's instance of Bugzilla is still exhibiting it today. It makes Buzilla unusable. Thus I do wonder at all of the automated messages to that mailing list with hyperlinks to stuff that does not work. Perhaps no-one is reading the mailing list as well as no-one using the bug tracker.
by mhl47 | 2025-10-06 18:49:51+00:00
There was a recent post here about how deeply ingrained the chat interface is in OpenAIs organization. This really doubles down on that, but does anyone really like to interact with so much language instead of visual elements? Also feels horrible that you are supposed to remember a bunch of app names like "zillow" and punch them in the chat. And like an opportunity for them to slowly introduce ads for this apps or "preferential discovery", if you will, as monetization strategy.

Personally I don't hope thats the future.
by ramses0 | 2025-10-06 18:50:06+00:00
I'll do you one better- take ~6ft of paracord, tie a simple loop in one end and a stopper-knot in the other. You can then use the noose-end to start a loop and wrap the remainder (zig-zag) around the rolled clothes and tuck the stopper knot underneath the criss-cross sections.

You go from "loose rolls of clothes" to "solid bundles of fabric". Makes it so you can take in/out individual items rather than having everything randomly unrolling every time you try and pull something out.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-10-06 18:50:14+00:00
I have an ignorant question about insider trading. Say I'm a company thinking about making a giant, billion dollar purchase. I will probably buy from one of a few companies. Can I legally buy a bunch of stock in one of those companies, then arrange a giant purchase, then announce it, and then sell the stock? Can I have insider knowledge about a company that the company in question doesn't itself know yet?
by gitpusher | 2025-10-06 18:50:24+00:00
The author makes it seem like we have two choices:

1) enable memory, and use ChatGPT like a confessional booth. Flood it with all of your deepest, darkest humiliations going all the way back to childhood ...

2) disable memory

Perhaps my age is showing. But memory or no memory, I would never tell ChatGPT anything compromising about myself. Nor would I tweet such things, write them in an email, or put them into a Slack message. This is just basic digital hygiene.

I've noticed a lot of people treat ChatGPT like a close confidant, which I find pretty interesting. Particularly the younger folks. I understand the allure – LLMs are the "friend" that never gets bored of listening, never judges you, and always says the right thing. Because of this people end up sharing even MORE than they would to their closest human friends.
by dangle1 | 2025-10-06 18:50:42+00:00
Funny anecdote that Dr. Brunkow thought she was being spammed when the Nobel Committee tried to inform her:

>Brunkow, meanwhile, got the news of her prize from an AP photographer who came to her Seattle home in the early hours of the morning. She said she had ignored the earlier call from the Nobel Committee. “My phone rang and I saw a number from Sweden and thought: ‘That’s just, that’s spam of some sort.’”

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2025/10/sc...
by estearum | 2025-10-06 18:50:44+00:00
No that's not allowed

> Can I have insider knowledge about a company that the company in question doesn't itself know yet?

Yes you can

It's useful to think of this not as "insider knowledge" but the actual term: material non-public information.

Is the information you have material (i.e. will move the stock price)? Is it non-public? Then there you go: it would be ill-advised to trade on it.
by twobitshifter | 2025-10-06 18:51:28+00:00
It isn’t hard to imagine an AI that can remember everything AND make the connections between interactions not only to be able to accurately report your feelings on a subject, but to use it to manipulate and control you. The belief that AI will always tell you the truth is foolish and we now know that all the leading AIs will resort to blackmail for self-preservation. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

Now imagine an AI that has unlimited blackmail material on each and every citizen and either a permission or a survival instinct driving it to use it to manipulate the population. After all OpenAI, doesn’t only have access to one person’s interactions they have that for all users.
by ralfn | 2025-10-06 18:51:40+00:00
But do you think with the profit margins of NVidia, others won't be offering competing chips? Google already has their own for example.

From that perspective the notion that NVidia will own this AI future while others such as AMD and Intel standby, would be silly.

Im already surprised it took this long. The NVidia moat might he software, but not anything that warrants these kind of margins at this scale. It is likely there will be strong price competition on hardware for inference.
by nosianu | 2025-10-06 18:51:42+00:00
The German magazine "Spiegel" has a (paywalled) career-info article on the homepage right now about a lawyer specializing in getting rid of unwanted employees.

https://www.spiegel.de/karriere/entlassungen-wie-unternehmen...

The headline text translated:

> “I'm currently trying to get a severely disabled works council member out. We're well on our way.”

> Removing high earners from the payroll, compensating employees who cannot be dismissed: employer lawyers like Alexander Birkhahn are booming. Here, he reveals how companies can get almost anyone out—and how employees can secure their jobs.
by spullara | 2025-10-06 18:51:44+00:00
We have been building MCP servers and this looks very good directionally. Fills a bunch of holes in the protocol and gives meaning to something that were kind of like placeholders. Being able to return UI to the client is fantastic and will make lots of things possible. We have been working on these kinds of things assuming that the clients would improve to meet us.

https://lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2122
by bell-cot | 2025-10-06 18:51:46+00:00
> Why so?

Because actual mentally disturbed people are often difficult to distinguish from the internet's huge population of trolls, bored baloney-spewers, conspiracy believers, drunks, etc.

And the "common sense / least hypothesis" issues of laying such blame, for profoundly difficult questions, when LLM technology has a hard time with the trivial-looking task of counting the r's in raspberry.

And the high social cost of "officially" blaming major problems with LLM's on mentally disturbed people. (Especially if you want a "good guy" reputation.)
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-06 18:52:03+00:00
I'm not surprised. President Nicolás Maduro (allegedly but there's solid evidence) rigged last year's election, then used state violence and intimidation to suppress protests.

> Maduro, who started a third term in January after an election widely denounced as a sham, signed a decree on Monday granting him additional, unspecified security powers.

From before

- https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155)

And he's been jailing protestors without due process and censoring media for a while.

- 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/americas/venezuela-... (https://archive.ph/Ljgvs, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14325532)

- 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140706094137/http://www.busine... (original link dead, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7241722)

I'm conflicted on US involvement in foreign nations given our past, but I have neither sympathy for nor support Maduro's government.
by micwag | 2025-10-06 18:52:20+00:00
> Also, by closing operating power plants, Germany weakened European energy production at the time when we geopolitically need it the most.

Ironically that was France which needed to shut down a lot of its nuclear reactors in 2022 and 2023 due to repairs. So according to your own logic France "weakened European energy production at the time when we geopolitically need it the most."

Here in Switzerland the reason given for the "energy crisis" was also mostly France as Switzerland usually imports a lot of energy from France.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-10-06 18:52:34+00:00
This $100bn deal didn't cost anything and isn't worth anything. Remember back two weeks ago when Nvidia gave OpenAI $100bn so they can keep buying Nvidia GPUs? This is AMD trying to do the same, but they don't have $100bn so they are offering OpenAI share options to buy GPUs.

The share options will be worth at least $100bn too, if the conditions are met. But meeting the conditions will require buying huge numbers of GPUs from AMD. GPUs worth $100bn, and somewhere to put them. OpenAI can't afford that - not even close.

So they need to raise financing. On the face of it, the options seem to mean that lending OpenAI the money to buy the GPUs is perfectly safe. You take the stock options as collateral. You lend the money, OpenAI buy the GPUs, the AMD stock goes up, the option conditions are met, and even if OpenAI didn't pay you back the options will let you recover your investment.

However, this loan is far less safe than it first appears. The problem is that although lending the money allows openAI to buy GPUs, this doesn't necessarily cause AMD stock to rise. Infact if OpenAI don't find a profitable use for them then both their stock price, and AMD's will go down. And you'll be left with worthless collateral and a big loan to a company which can't afford to pay it back. So they haven't actually magically created financing at all. They just created the illusion of it. It's very clever. But it's fake. The real announcement will be when or if someone lends OpenAI cash.
by thisisit | 2025-10-06 18:53:15+00:00
This kind of apologia seems to be doing rounds lately. It is extension of the "this government has received mandate from the people". A line frequently repeated by this administration. People gave mandate, government acted, company buckled. Now why don't we think of these poor private billion dollar companies - how are they at fault if people elected this government?

Lots of articles out there blaming people who enabled this mess. The divide doesn't exist for nothing.

Even more articles blaming this administration for pressuring private companies. For examples lots of ink has been spent on FCC and Kimmel saga.

So, if there are few posts like these blaming private companies I think it should be fine without this kind of apologia.
by 65 | 2025-10-06 18:53:19+00:00
Maybe one good thing about the torture of living in NYC is you get used to the torture of living in NYC.

My very small, very expensive apartment has had no running water throughout the work day for the past two weeks because of water main construction (which I get woken up to at 7am every day). There's a jerk chicken restaurant next door to my apartment that blasts music all day long outside. Roaches and mice and rats. Long crowded subway commutes. I do hate this life in various ways, but I guess it toughens you up and you get used to it.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-06 18:53:24+00:00
Obviously, I'm not you, but at my previous home I had a lot of pine trees (so needles rather than leaves, and lots of cones to remove as well) on a corner lot (so effectively two front yards). I also had a mulching lawn mower.

During the fall and winter, I would mow two or three times. The mulching blade made quick work of the detritus and it was faster and less work than raking the whole thing. I'm far enough south that snow, while possible, was still a novelty not guaranteed to happen every year.
by kakacik | 2025-10-06 18:53:41+00:00
Depends where you go, if planning some 3 week remote hiking in ie Nepal it may not be the best approach.

Ie I've recently spent 2 weeks in remote islands in Sulawesi, Indonesia and didn't bring enough mosquito spray. Well, on whole island chain I was in, nobody in tiny local shops ever had one. When asked, they told me they suck up malaria if caught and move on, sort of how we deal with flu. Luckily dengue wasn't there. So suck it up I did, luckily it seems I avoided it (knock on the wood).

With spray comes sunscreen. Some basic diving equipment. Non-tiny first aid kid. Some photography stuff. But yeah for that one I could still put it all into 1 medium backpack, just liquids travelled separately. For that Nepal, backpack was bigger. For Aconcagua, there was an extra big duffel bag. If doing full camping and cooking, one backpack but much bigger.
by samrus | 2025-10-06 18:54:15+00:00
This points to something i have felt when using codegen. The agents are pretty stupid, but if you already know what your doing then they can be an immense force multiplier. Like a calculator

This guy had 15 years of experience in cybersec. I wonder how we will get that in the future if people dont code themselves but have AI code for them and give up if it doesnt work
by lisbbb | 2025-10-06 18:54:18+00:00
I like that this guy's ethos is something along the lines of "better dressed homeless person." It won't last, though. Anyone of any means falls into the materialism trap. If you ever want to build anything, create art, open a business, all of that requires "stuff." If you're just some yob blogger dude then I guess you can make it work. I doubt very many women find it appealing.

I see people living out of their cars when I go to the library. It looks messy. My son gave up on Boy Scouts partially because camping and "urban outdoorsman" have become synonymous. The kids don't think camping is cool--at all.
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-06 18:55:30+00:00
Depends on what you mean by "pay-to-play".

Google's business model was to take FLOSS software, ostensibly make it work without them being involved, but make it obvious that if you wanted things to be as simple as possible, you needed to use their version of it. Can you use Chromium as your daily driver? Sure, but it's not as simple as just using Chrome. Android is even more like this. And of course, the simplest way to use this software also just happens to give Google a ton of your data, which enabled them as an ad-serving company.

They wouldn't have given the browser away for free if they weren't making at least the cost of the browser development back in the take from ad revenues.

I guess you could argue that the moves to buy services like YouTube and other big pillars of the web and have that reflected in Chrome development cost money.
by zahlman | 2025-10-06 18:55:32+00:00
Seems like quite a few people making this argument recently. It feels more coordinated than the raw numbers can justify. It's not like this level of market concentration happened overnight. But I guess bears just come out whenever a new ATH is reached.

> Now think back to how you felt during the heat of the sharp decline for the S&P 500 through April 8. Did you wish you had a more diversified — or less risky — portfolio?

Probably many people did, and took off risk at the exact wrong time, missing the recovery.

> Mark Hulbert spelled this out in an article about investment-portfolio diversification last week: “In the past, when the market was overvalued as it is now, a 60/40 portfolio almost always beat the S&P 500 over the subsequent decade.”

This is the crux of the argument made throughout the article. The problem is the premise that the market must be "overvalued" today compared to historical levels, because of metrics like P/E ratios compared to historical levels. But this ignores that the fundamentals are different. Overwhelmingly, the successful companies today are ones that have been reinvesting profits or doing stock buybacks rather than paying out a dividend. (This is, per Buffett's ideas, something that investors should be agnostic to — total return is total return — but this fails due differences in tax treatment between being paid 1% of the stock's current value as a "dividend" and selling 1% of your holding and realizing a "capital gain". So many companies now prefer to not pay a dividend and expect investors to make their own dividends through sale of appreciated stock.)

The old rules are based on a model of stocks that tread water while paying a hefty dividend, and expecting that dividend to exceed the risk-free rate of return plus a risk premium, averaged out of the long term. But it turns out that maintaining a functioning economy post-gold-standard requires considerable fluctuation over time in the risk-free rate of return. Meanwhile, of course if your investment instrument is designed with the expectation of appreciating over time representing the accumulated wealth of the company, the price is going to reach higher multiples of earnings. Because that wealth is a function of the integral of earnings over time.

People making this argument are not saying "this time it's different". They're pointing at decades-long trends and shifts, and adding them up to say "nowadays things are different in general". There isn't a "this time", because the thresholds for declaring a "time" are entirely arbitrary.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-06 18:55:51+00:00
LOL. I rarely eat there, just saw that $8.00 price advertised here maybe it's a special offer.

A couple of years ago my wife and I stopped there to get a meal on the road (there was really not much else to choose from) and when the total for the two of us was over $20 I actually did a double take and said "there must be some mistake, it's just two meals" but that was the cost. Haven't eaten there since.
by toast0 | 2025-10-06 18:56:12+00:00
If you want 40M connections, on FreeBSD, the maxfd count is physpages / 4; you could edit the kernel to change this, but are you really going to serve 40M connections with only 16k ram for each user? If my math is right that puts you around 640GB of ram. (40M * 4096 * 4 = 40G * 4 * 4 = 640 G), which is totally doable on a server socket. Probably you don't have everyone simultaneously connected, but probably you also need more ram per connection, so kind of depends. By the time you find 40M users to connect to your server, you should be in tune with your hardware needs ;)
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-06 18:57:00+00:00
STEM =/= science. The STEM explosion I'm referring to is the big push there's been since I was a teenager to rush high schoolers and young adults into, "hard science" programs in the hope that expanding scientific literacy would result in greater economic prolificity notwithstanding that this correlates with a reduction in funding for the humanities and literature departments. Over time and combined with immigration policy this has led to an oversaturated market for engineers, technologists, and researchers AND decreased public demand for emergent literatures, literary criticism, and philosophy.

There's a reason Jordan Peterson is so famous especially on the, "new right." There's a reason people take medical advice from the JRE program. There's a reason half of Americans believe in angels. It's because we don't have the institutions and incentives require to create something better than Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. That's the best you get with the current set.

Tangentially related; there's a better, "science" lying in waiting:

https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/Stanford/CS477/papers/Kuhn-SSR-2ndEd...
by N70Phone | 2025-10-06 18:57:17+00:00
> I find it funny how people say GPT-5 "bombed".

I used scare quotes for a reason. It didn't "bomb" in the sense of failing [insert metric], it bombed in the sense that OpenAI needed it to generate exponentially more hype and it just didn't. (And on a lesser level, GPT-5 was supposed to cut OpenAI's costs but has failed to do so)

> I can trust its proofs or code to be about as correct as my own.

I have little to say about this, as I find such claims to be broadly irreplicable. GPT-5 scores better on the metrics, but still has the same "classes" of faults.