MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-11-22 15:40:00+00:00
An LLM in itself is inert - it's just the model, so when talking about an LLM doing anything it is doing so as part of an inference engine. An inference system with a loop is trivially Turing complete if you use the context as an IO channel, use numerically stable inferencing code, and set temperature to 0 - in that case, all you need is for the model to encode a 6 entry lookup table to operate the "tape" via context.
by dgacmu | 2025-11-22 15:41:06+00:00
As the above poster said.

Generation costs are a small part of most consumers' bills, but particularly in CA.

If you look at the location marginal pricing map from CA ISO: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/prices

You'll see that right now (before solar has really kicked in), The price for the next megawatt hour of generation is $49 -- i.e., under 5c per kWh. That's comparable to the average price in PJM (east coast) at the same time:

https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/prices

vs https://pjm.com/

The big problem for California is that cheap generation via solar doesn't move the needle as much on consumer bills because of the transmission and distribution costs. In San Francisco, for example the distribution fee is over $0.20/kWh. That's twice what mine is in Pittsburgh. In contrast, the generation pricing is only about $0.04/kWh more than mine:

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

though this pricing does favor behind the meter generation such as residential solar.
by video_dude8362 | 2025-11-22 15:41:47+00:00
I have a ton of porn on my PC. And the truth is I just like finding videos and downloading them. I rarely watch them though after I download them because I just have a sea of mp4 files in a folder.

That all changed. I tried this SiftVid but was super cautious about giving a web app permission to view my folders. I loaded the site opened up the inspect panel and the network tab to see what was happening and strangely enough the site works offline. I mean you have to load the page but if you turn off your internet or go incognito you data even tries to be sent out. So its safe.

Next thing was I selected my porn folder and that was it. It already had tagged my entire collection and had 18,000 porn categories built in. All on the same categories from XVideos and PornHub. Then I clicked the model dropdown and they had my favorite models already there. The say the have 78,000 actresses already in the app.

The wild part is they have a cumshot mode where they play random videos in your collection back to back but only the money shot. I gotta admit. I'm pretty impressed. Has anyone else tried SiftVid. Look like they just launched.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-22 15:42:47+00:00
I'm finding it hard to feel sympathy for DJI. They have had five years to develop a drone system that doesn't require a cloud connection to their servers. To build firmware update delivery system that didn't require a cloud connection. To develop drone control module and video feeds that don't stream the entirety of their operations to offshore servers.

The issue here is a company insistent on building toys, tools, and appliances which all contain military grade surveillance and data metrics systems that require a connection to DJI servers in order to function.

While I am no proponent of the US hypocrisy regarding digital freedoms; you need not bother auditing a company that has had half a decade to demonstrate they aren't an arm of if a foreign surveillance state yet actively release software with even more aggressive phone home functions.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-11-22 15:43:27+00:00
It's just a way of keeping track of your finances. If you just have a single bank account and nothing else, then it probably doesn't give you much. But if your assets and liabilities are spread across multiple bank accounts, brokerage accounts, credit cards, loans, P2P/angel investing platforms, etc, then it can be a good way to get a holistic overview of your finances in one place and can help with things like tax returns.

(I don't use beancount but I use GnuCash which is a very similar concept.)
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 15:43:51+00:00
I think you might be unaware of the various regulations that are driving all of these other non-aviation industries towards better safety. Not only that, but liability and insurance claims also drive safety measures, which are also enabled by workman's comp and other regulations). I'm having trouble imagining a single company policy around safety (either for workers or customers) that is not ultimately driven by government involvement or the legal system.
by bashmelek | 2025-11-22 15:43:52+00:00
I followed tutorials for Vulkan. I liked vk-guide, until it updated to the latest version. People said the newer SDL is so much better, but I honestly had more fun and got things done back with Renderpasses.

I personally have just been building off of tutorials. But notwithstanding all of the boilerplate code, the enjoyability of a code base can be vastly different.

The most fun I’ve ever had coding, and still do at times, is with WebGL. I just based it off of the Mozilla tutorial and went from there. WebGLFundamentals has good articles…but to be honest I do not love their code
by ben_w | 2025-11-22 15:44:01+00:00
Those changes to the rural environments started getting made over a century ago, with horse drawn combine harvesters dating to the 1820s-1830s and self-propelled ones to the 1910s; while the insect decline became noticeable this century.

Now sure, the causes could be multipliers, insect_pop = base * (cause_0 * cause_1 * …), or even exponential, insect_pop = 1/e^(cause_0 + cause_1 + …), so I'm not saying none of that stuff matters, but also there's definitely something nee.
by Arvmor | 2025-11-22 15:44:58+00:00
Abstract

Traditional Proof-of-Work (PoW) protocols were originally designed around solo mining, where rewards go to whichever individual achieves the winning result first. As a consequence, miners with more efficient hardware capture a disproportionate share of rewards, causing smaller participants to expend energy without meaningful returns. This dynamic pushes the ecosystem toward centralization and mining monopolies over the time.

While mining pools mitigate some of this imbalance, they remain tightly coupled to specific blockchains or protocols. FonkETH introduces a protocol-agnostic peer-to-peer (P2P) networking layer that allows miners of any scale to aggregate their compute, coordinate work, and share context-dependent opportunities (e.g., miners with different capabilities or insights can contribute uniquely to the process). This approach enables proportional reward distribution among participants based on their actual contribution.
by mrcartmeneses | 2025-11-22 15:45:03+00:00
I saw a CTO put an email send script in a while (true) loop like this and we only stopped dossing one of our investor’s email after our sendgrid bill hit £32k. Funny thing about emails is they get in a proverbial traffic jam all across the internet so no matter how many times the poor guy would clear his inbox more would magically arrive
by Tanoc | 2025-11-22 15:46:44+00:00
Normal people were shown that they had no real bearing on the world, and were forced to live without being rushed for a year or in some places two. Without the need to constantly look over their shoulders for encroaching crises people started to examine the world around them. They had time to enjoy things without constantly battling with mental, emotional, or physical exhaustion that lead to procrastination just to recover a little bit. So many realized they were being deprived of not only recreation, but fulfilling their basic needs outside of food and sleep. So they shifted from fearing the systems that deprived them to loathing them and the people who administrated them, and resolved to deny contributing to those systems as much as possible. That's why there were so many sweeping changes starting in May of 2020, not in the way the systems of the world were run, but in the way the public at large engaged with them.

Much of what's been happening over the last five years can be compared to the behaviours of those suffering through trauma after long term abuse. Some continued the cycle against new targets, ignoring a collective truth. Others realized they were victims of the cycle and chose to work towards safeguards that would prevent it from continuing. Another group learned about the cycle and thought they would benefit from being new instigators for it.
by thsbrown | 2025-11-22 15:46:48+00:00
As a game developer who's primary tool I utilize is Unity I always find outside sentiment about it funny.

There's no doubt that Unity has put its users through the ringer over the last few years or so.

That said I still for the most part enjoy working with it. I think Unity had the right idea in regards to a lot of the toolset but unfortunately it's suffered in regards to stability.

With Unity 6+ though it really feels like we're starting to see the fruits of Unity labor. UI Toolkit, input system, rendering pipeline the package manger and more are finally starting to feel stable.

Additionally the engine itself feels far more rock solid then it had in years.

A rather large piece for me also really just enjoys programming in C#.

I'm actually super pumped that we have a great open source game engine to keep Unity on the straight and narrow. I'm also pumped that we have an amazing tool like Unreal for things more AAA in nature (although that's certainly not all). I personally think Unity is perfectly sandwiched in the middle of those options.

With the right ideas and execution I think it's going to be really exciting to see where it ends up.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-22 15:47:19+00:00
You don't want to know what I keep in my basement ...

(... but it really isn't so interesting, so in order to keep the mystery, I'll simply not say what it is!)

> In 1975, Kodak powered up the country’s first californium neutron flux multiplier (CFX). Though it couldn’t live up to the sci-fi-tinged promise of its name

Why? It vanished! Nobody knows why or how.
by smokel | 2025-11-22 15:47:26+00:00
There is a difference between wanting to make money and wanting to have money.

If you understand the difference, it is often painfully obvious that most of us are in the last boat.

If you want something, you would typically be doing it already. Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch, but you might be more interested in asking questions than in giving answers. In that case, just try to enjoy life as long as it is smiling to you.
by getpost | 2025-11-22 15:48:33+00:00
Kenneth Mejia, our progressive, data-driven controller audited LAPD helicopter use, and published his findings.

"The ASD program costs nearly $50 million annually while most of the flight time is not devoted to high priority events. Our audit found that the estimated annual cost to operate the helicopter program is $46.6 million (i.e., $127,805 per day or $2,916 per flight hour). There are 14 City departments whose annual budgets do not reach this amount;"

https://controller.lacity.gov/landings/lapd-helicopters
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-11-22 15:48:53+00:00
This a where I lean also.

I forget where (and I really ought find it again) but I recall some linking of ADHD as simply the kind of traits that are necessary for survival -esque scenarios.

I know that I don't feel as awkward and weird when I'm in nature or building huts or what have you. Seeing the abundance of what nature has to offer and the possibilities actually feels far better than being in a concrete building and being forced to walk ONLY in designated walking areas.

My ADHD always feels the worse when I realize that I have to abide by _insert_arbitrary_deadline_here.
by andrewrn | 2025-11-22 15:49:43+00:00
Something to note here that annoys me about the title is that the LLMs aren't taking in the raw data (LLM's are for text, after all). The raw data is fed through audio and motion models that then produce natural language descriptions, that are then fed to the LLM.

Unrelated: yeah, this article is a little creepy, but damn is it interesting technically.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-22 15:50:14+00:00
If you're ever in GA/TN/NC, check out Cook Out and Pal's fast food establishments.

They cost just a little more than national chains, for a much more satisfying meal (still fast food tho).

Things I miss most about Austin (2nd-gen that left, a decade ago): H-E-B Grocery and P'Terry Hamburgers.
by Spivak | 2025-11-22 15:50:28+00:00
How about a different angle then since you seem to be of the opinion that words related to sex can't be in the vicinity of children. Book stores. There aren't age ratings for books and a 8 year old is not only free to wander around by themselves near all the smut—from missionary to rape to drugged group sex with hockey boy dragon princes—but they would be allowed to buy them too. The only 'protection' from this happening is the fact that kids aren't actually interested in this kind of stuff.

So it gets to the heart of what these age ratings are really for and what kind of things do we actually not want kids around. And it seems like the line is drawn at sexually explicit imagery. And so app stores in a way are kind of unique in that they apply age restrictions much more liberally than the wider world around them.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 15:50:44+00:00
But that thing they all were peddling and getting investors over could be anything! For a while it was "blockchain." Everyone had to do blockchain because everyone was doing blockchain, and investors were giving you money if you say blockchain. I wonder what it will be once the AI bubble bursts.

I swear that every 5-10 years, corporate CEOs all get together in a secret meeting where they all agree on the next buzzword technology. They invite Harvard Business Review and the tech press to give them their marching orders. Then, finally, the white smoke comes forth from the chimney indicating the next bubble buzzword has been chosen, and the industry goes bananas over it for 10 years for no reason.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-11-22 15:50:57+00:00
I’ll say the same is true for those that hold your point of view.

When the public or a segment are signaling concern about a dictatorship, it’s an alarm and signal that they see signs.

What is misunderstood: Once the dictator secures power, it’s far too late. The critics are long silenced, and all of the checks and balances have been hollowed out and made powerless.
by echelon | 2025-11-22 15:50:59+00:00
We now have capacity to program and automate in the optics, signals, and spatial domains.

As someone in the film space, here's just one example: we are getting extremely close to being able to make films with only AI tools.

Nano Banana makes it easy to create character and location consistent shots that adhere to film language and the rules of storytelling. This still isn't "one shot", and considerable effort still needs to be put in by humans. Not unlike AI assistance in IDEs requiring a human engineer pilot.

We're entering the era of two person film studios. You'll undoubtedly start seeing AI short films next year. I had one art school professor tell me that film seems like it's turning into animation, and that "photorealism" is just style transfer or an aesthetic choice.

The film space is hardly the only space where these models have utility. There are so many domains. News, shopping, gaming, social media, phone and teleconference, music, game NPCs, GIS, design, marketing, sales, pitching, fashion, sports, all of entertainment, consumer, CAD, navigation, industrial design, even crazy stuff like VTubing, improv, and LARPing. So much of what we do as humans is non-text based. We haven't had effective automation for any of this until this point.

This is a huge percentage of the economy. This is actually the beating heart of it all.
by taude | 2025-11-22 15:51:17+00:00
That's wild. I first typically LinkedIn search someone, and then web search someone, even before I get too deep into the resume (they've already been filtered and ranked for me).

In the past I got a job I had for 8 years through my blog, a startup that eventually sold....

So, it's been pretty good for me, and doesn't actually take that much extra effort on top of the learning you do daily working in tech.
by bjord | 2025-11-22 15:52:44+00:00
I'm not and that's not my position. I thought I made it pretty clear in multiple previous comments that I think the way the US wields its power, especially considering the absolute lack of due process, is wrong. This French judge is a perfect example of some of the pitfalls and avenues for abuse.

I agree with your overall point (hence "all of the above is true") and am merely trying to make it clear that the guy you're talking about is a nazi and that I think it detracts from the argument. There are plenty of better examples.
by loxs | 2025-11-22 15:52:47+00:00
The answer to the final question in the article is: "Mostly, because the government forbids us from solving this problem". Start a company? That will be 2k for incorporation and 3k per year for auditing/bookkeeping. You want to build something physical in Europe? What a bummer, come here and pay the exorbitant carbon tax. You still think you are very smart? Your will pay 70% effective tax rate if you want to hire someone else to help you.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-22 15:53:17+00:00
> I think it might be as simple as ipv4 is just nicer to look at…maybe we should have just done “ipv5” and added another block. Eg 1.1.1.1.1.

This was discussed in the early 1990s. Criteria that were to be used for selecting then-IPng (§5.1: 10^12 / 2^40 was the minimum):

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726

The winning proposal, SIPP, was originally 'only' 64 bits, but it was decided to go to 128:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1752

> I know its stupid, but ipv6 addresses are just so hard to remember and look at that I think its just human nature to gravitate towards the simplicity of ipv4.

If only there was a system that allowed for easy to remember human labels to be translated to a machine-usable sequence of bits that we call "an address"…
by WillAdams | 2025-11-22 15:53:26+00:00
Habitat seems to play a large role --- I've always raked leaves and piled up sticks which fall from trees in our yard into a compost pile in a shady area, which I've been careful to disturb as little as possible from from fall through spring, since fireflies lay eggs in such piles, and their larvae mature in such conditions.

My kids would invite their friends over on nice summer evenings to see fireflies, since none of the McMansion neighborhoods had nearly as many.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-22 15:53:28+00:00
Yes and developers these days don’t know assembly like I learned at 12. Does it matter?

I’m sure the list of things that you don’t know that some other developers do know is long.

No one is an “expert” at everything. I know AWS well (trust me on this) and I’ve used more services than you can imagine in a production capacity. I choose not to know the intricacies of Linux and front end development for instance. That’s either “someone else’s problem” or in the former case, I just give a zip file with my code in it and run it in Lambda or a Docker container and run it using a managed Kubernetes/ECS cluster, use Lambda (yes you can deploy a Docker container to Lambda) or Fargate (AWS manages instances in Docker cluster).
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-11-22 15:53:47+00:00
This right here.

The shear breadth of experience is sometimes staggering.

The difficulty for me is translating that into sustainable income. Job and experience hopping is great when your young, but then you get older and your resume portrays you as a total flake. (And admittedly, of the project is slow and boring, I might just dip. Life is short, I have things to do. And sitting still in an office for 8+hrs a day isn't one of them)
by johnisgood | 2025-11-22 15:54:15+00:00
You write (as a response to someone else in this thread): "If the brain is limited to the Turing computable, then the brain itself is existence proof it is possible to do so efficiently."

No. The brain is existence proof that that particular physical substrate can achieve intelligence efficiently. A bird is existence proof that flight is possible efficiently, but not that elephants can fly. You are claiming "computational equivalence" means any Turing-complete system can efficiently replicate any other, but this does not follow from Turing's thesis at all.

You say: "Computationally equivalent here refers to any two Turing complete systems being able to compute all functions that the other can."

But then you make claims about replicating brain capabilities. These are different things. A Python interpreter and raw transistors are Turing-equivalent, but we do not conclude Python can efficiently do what transistors do. The abstraction layers, the architecture, the implementation: these all matter for the actual question at hand.

You dismiss the evolutionary substrate: "That is irrelevant to the question of whether it is possible. That's an engineering problem, not a fundamental limitation.".

This concedes the key point. You are now admitting current AI systems lack something the brain has (millions of years of encoded optimization), then handwaving it away as "just engineering". But the original discussion was whether LLMs as currently implemented can represent truly novel ideas. You have retreated to arguing about theoretical possibility with complete knowledge and arbitrary resources.

Finally: "It seems you're arguing difficult and complexity, while I argued over possibility."

Exactly. Your argument has contracted from making claims about actual LLM capabilities to an unfalsifiable position about theoretical possibility. In the sense you are now defending, it is "possible" that monks with abacuses could run Crysis given infinite time and perfect execution. This tells us nothing interesting about whether current LLMs have unbounded creativity.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your original argument. Could you clarify what your argument is exactly? I want to make sure we are not talking past each other.
Show HN: Pro Color Harmonies – A library for color harmonies
by meodai | 2025-11-22 15:54:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a TypeScript library for generating color harmonies that prioritise human perception over simple math.

Most color libraries generate harmonies using simple hue rotations in HSL or HSV (e.g., Complementary = Hue + 180°). While mathematically "correct," this often produces unbalanced results—yellows become muddy browns, and perceived lightness varies wildly between hues.

Pro Color Harmonies works entirely in the OKLCH color space. Instead of rigid formulas, it uses perceptual "styles" and "magic numbers" (heavily inspired by Ryan Feigenbaum's research) to generate palettes that feel naturally balanced.

Key Features:

- Muddy Zone Avoidance: The algorithm actively steers hues away from unappealing areas (like dark, desaturated yellows).

- 4 Harmony Styles: Instead of just one "Triadic" formula, you can choose between Square (geometric), Triangle (balanced), Circle (expressive), and Diamond (luminosity-aware for UIs).

- Modifiers: Includes post-processing algorithms (Sine, Wave, Zap, Block) to add organic variation and texture to the generated scales.

It's written in TypeScript, has zero dependencies for the core logic, and is MIT licensed.

The demo lets you tune explore the capabilities of the lib and shows you how to call the function if you scroll down.

https://github.com/meodai/pro-color-harmonies

I'd like to hear your feedback on the generated palettes and especially the API.