MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Balgair | 2025-11-06 21:53:02+00:00
Boulder homeowners are not representative of the population of the city.

Like, a lot of the town is just kids at CU. Also, a lot of the younger families are in what little apartments or condos there are in the city and aren't homeowners. Also, like, you probably should only look at adults anyways as under 18s are very unlikely to have their own houses.

Granted a lot of 80+ year olds are in care facilities.

And like, maybe we can relax this to 60+ years olds, in which case based on the raw data there, that's about 18% of the population.

I mean, just looking around Boulder, the homeowners are old people, that's pretty clear.
by credit_guy | 2025-11-06 21:53:08+00:00
This is very exciting. I tried it on OpenRouter, and the speed is really impressive. I compared it with gpt-oss-120B. I would say Mercury was a few times faster. Was it 10x faster? Maybe, I didn't check with a timer, but subjectively, I would say it's at least 3x faster. About the quality: if anything I liked Mercury better. But I think at this point it's just a matter of style preferences. The content was absolutely comparable.

Now, what I tried was some free sample for both models. It looks like if you want to use the models in earnest, you pay $1 per million output tokens for Mercury, and between $0.25 and $0.95 for gpt-oss-120B, with Cerebras getting you a mindblowing 6645 tokens/second for the latter, at $0.65/MM tokens.

Still, Mercury is able to trade punches with freaking OpenAI. That's, in my opinion, quite exciting.
by sloped | 2025-11-06 21:53:12+00:00
I switched to using masked emails with Fastmail primarily so I could see who sold my data. The potential security benefit was not really a driver. Having 1Password be able to generate a unique email makes it a no-brainer these days. For those services that require a username that is not your email, they can usually be used without the domain part. Works really well.

I even wrote a tiny little local only web app that I can use to generate a masked email on my phone, so when I need an email for an in person thing I can just show them my brand new weird email directly on my phone.
by wry_discontent | 2025-11-06 21:53:17+00:00
I've been using NoBS toothpaste tabs for a couple years which are nano-hydroxyapatite. I find them effective. No issues at my dentist.

In fact, a year ago, they wanted to put in a filling for a minor cavity, but I wanted to put it off and by the time I went back they said it was gone.

edit: I also like the tabs because they're easy to travel with.
by AngryData | 2025-11-06 21:53:22+00:00
Random poor farmers manage to drive cars, trucks, planes, boats, drones, etc. What is so special about a DIY submarine with a max depth of like 15 feet that they couldn't be taught in about 15 minutes? These aren't WWII U-boats, they are small personal craft. There is even an entire community of DIY Caribbean submarines for exploring coral reefs and shit and they aren't all build and drove by engineering PHDs.
Show HN: When 7 Codex Agents Sent Each Other 1k Messages over 2 Days
by eigenvalue | 2025-11-06 21:53:46+00:00
For my mcp agent mail project, I wanted to make a way to easily share the agent mailbox used by my coding agents for a real project so that people could really see in detail how it works, since screenshots only show so much.

I've been working for a couple of days on a commercial "companion app" for the project and previously shared my workflow for that using 7 concurrent codex instances working as a team.

After many hours of work, they've now exchanged over 1,000 agent messages, so I decided to use that as an extreme example.

You can see the actual inbox for all the agents at the link, which is a static site hosted on GitHub pages without using a traditional server.

It uses a WebAssembly version of SQLite and is pretty performant despite running completely in the browser.

I also added a very easy-to-use command to the project so anyone can "export and share" their agent mailbox and automatically deploy it to GitHub using the gh utility (or Cloudflare pages).

The "share" viewer matches the look and feel of the built-in python web UI and fully supports filtering, sorting, searching, and a nice "message thread" mode similar to the Gmail interface. And it's easy to update an existing mailbox share as your agents send more messages.

It's useful on its own, but the real reason I added this feature was to show off the system when it's used in a real project, following the workflow I’ve previously shared (see https://x.com/doodlestein/status/1985405083488755740?s=46 ), where you use a detailed development plan and also have the agents use Steve Yegge's Beads project for task management.

If you go through the actual sample messages at the link above, you can get a very good sense for how well the system works. The agents just figure things out and instantly know how to communicate effectively and self-organize to solve problems cooperatively.

It takes just a couple minutes to set the system up on your machine using the one-line install command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agen... | bash -s -- --yes

Give it a shot and you will feel the AGI as your agents suddenly turn into a little development shop or startup team working for you.
by teiferer | 2025-11-06 21:54:07+00:00
Write an agent, it's easy! You will learn so much!

... let's see ...

client = OpenAI()

Um right. That's like saying you should implement a web server, you will learn so much, and then you go and import http (in golang). Yeah well, sure, but that brings you like 98% of the way there, doesn't it? What am I missing?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-06 21:54:15+00:00
Well, OK, perhaps not a declarative rule, more a procedural one (induction heads copying data around, and all that) given the mechanics of transformer layers, but does it really make a conceptual difference?

Would you quibble if an expert system was procedurally coded in C++ rather than in Prolog? "You see this pattern, do this".
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-06 21:54:33+00:00
ACA subsidies that were put into place with ACA itself, are still intact. Literally every single continuing resolution that the GOP has put forth does not touch them. What’s going away automatically at the end of the year (again not being touched by funding proposals) is an additional set of subsidies that were added as a COVID emergency measure. The funding resolution doesn’t do anything about those either - they just happen to expire at the end of this year, which is completely expected. After all, they were temporary.

Just to reiterate in case it isn’t clear, one side (Republicans) is not making any changes. The other side is refusing to fund the government in a way that makes no changes. Instead, they’re asking for a change and in an odd way (by extending emergency measures) rather than by passing legislation that, for example, changes how the ACA works.
by yuchen20 | 2025-11-06 21:54:59+00:00
Built an evolutionary code golf agent for Kaggle's NeurIPS 2025 Google Code Golf Championship. Solves ARC-AGI puzzles and compresses solutions to the fewest bytes through: - Extensive prompt engineering - An evolutionary database enabling cross-task crossover to escape local minima - Hand-crafted templates to teach the LLM large refactoring tricks Sharing what worked, what failed, and lessons for LLMs in program synthesis.
by freejazz | 2025-11-06 21:55:18+00:00
Who told you that? ChatGPT?

No, not really. It does not help. It evidences that they knew the risks were present but did not take the actions to adequately warn the consumers of its products, which OpenAI knows do not read the entirety of the TOS.

Again, this is exactly why you see warning labels on products. Prohibiting certain uses in small text, hidden in the TOS, is not a warning.
by righthand | 2025-11-06 21:55:45+00:00
Well maybe you should at least start licking some boots because your attitude towards a templating language is the billion dollar corpo way. You fit right in and could at least get some perks out shitting on technology you probably never fully understood and you get to be a better contributor to helping close off the web.

All of the disliked technologies and people who use them will be gone one day as we champion these destructive initiatives onward. Thank you hater!
by griffzhowl | 2025-11-06 21:55:57+00:00
Yes, some good ones and some garbage, and the LLMs had no idea which was which. The good solutions were arrived at by an iterative procedure which depended on the scoring function written by the mathematicians, and it seems plenty of other ingenuity besides.

It's a fascinating use of LLMs by mathematicians to produce new results, but the LLMs are just one component of the tools used to get the results.
by cameldrv | 2025-11-06 21:56:12+00:00
You can put the ESP32 into deep sleep, and it can wake based on a timer, or it can run the ultra-low-power core which is a very slow, very low memory, very low power core. It's good enough to look at ADC or I2C devices and do a little math. This can be woken up fairly frequently to check a sensor, and say, compare against a previous measurement, and then wake up the main core if you need to process the measurement or do WiFi.

I think you're right that this won't work well with a CR2032, but if you're careful about using good voltage regulators it can last a long time on 4 AAs.
by layoric | 2025-11-06 21:56:38+00:00
I have a hard time trying to conceptualize lossy text compression, but I've recently started to think about the "reasoning"/output as just a by product of lossy compression, and weights tending towards an average of the information "around" the main topic of prompt. What I've found easier is thinking about it like lossy image compression, generating more output tokens via "reasoning" is like subdividing nearby pixels and filling in the gaps with values that they've seen there before. Taking the analogy a bit too far, you can also think of the vocabulary as the pixel bit depth.

I definitely agree replacing AI or LLMs with "X driven by compressed training data" starts to make a lot more sense, and a useful shortcut.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-06 21:57:03+00:00
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/data-centers-pjm-capacity-a...

> Data center load drove up revenue in the PJM Interconnection’s last capacity auction by $7.3 billion, or 82%, to $16.1 billion, according to the grid operator’s market monitor.

> Combined with PJM’s previous capacity auction, existing and forecast data center load resulted in $16.6 billion in capacity auction revenue, or about half of the $30.8 billion in revenue from the two auctions, Monitoring Analytics said in a report released Wednesday.

> “Data center load growth is the primary reason for recent and expected capacity market conditions, including total forecast load growth, the tight supply and demand balance, and high prices,” the market monitor said.

> “The current conditions are not the result of organic load growth,” it stated. “The current conditions in the capacity market are almost entirely the result of large load additions from data centers, both actual historical and forecast.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJM_Interconnection
by nomel | 2025-11-06 21:57:12+00:00
> don't know who is on the boats

I think that's somewhat orthogonal though, since stopping the act is the goal, rather than knowing/caring who's doing it.

> don't have any evidence that they are involved in drug trafficking

I tried, but can't find anything related to this. All I can find is that they haven't provided evidence, with many claiming they don't have any. Do you have a reference? The military rarely, if ever, gives away how they gather intelligence, so I'm not sure why it's expected now.
by arjie | 2025-11-06 21:58:10+00:00
There's this class of article which is just X is the most Y. One of the things I like to amuse myself with is to pick a random city X and type in "top city for" and see if there's an article for it.

e.g. Fremont was the top US city for startups

https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/10/09/fremont-ranked-top-u-...

Appleton, WI is the fifth best place to live in America

https://www.nbc26.com/appleton/study-finds-appleton-is-the-f...
by pksebben | 2025-11-06 21:58:34+00:00
You know what? Fair point. I can't necessarily talk for anyone else, but I will say that I have a tendency to be extra critical where state power is being abused. I served, and in my Army, we knew to our bones that our mandate was to protect the American people from foreign threat of violence, not as a police force. Not then and not ever. Posse comitatus wasn't the law of the land - it was a commandment from the highest authority.

So I suppose I jumped on with a little more haste than a sharing of opinions warrants. Sorry about that - this stuff gets me very hot under the collar.

If I step back and take another look at it, well - I'm still not ready to make a judgement as to what those boats were doing. There's not enough information - even taking the profiling argument into account. There are people who live as digital nomads on the sea just because they like to. Those boats might have been smuggling something other than drugs, like people (who might have any number of reasons to be on it - from human trafficking to refugees). There may be reasons that people have for taking a boat of that shape out that I am unaware of. Irrespective of the use of force, there is simply not enough data to come to a reasonably certain conclusion.

My time in service was spent as part of an IO unit - we would never have advised action on the data that's available here. The Risk factors are simply too broad and too deep.
by layer8 | 2025-11-06 21:58:57+00:00
Interestingly, the HIBP data seems to have an expiration date. My email address from the Dropbox data breach [0] is now shown as having no recorded breaches, although it did back in 2016 after HIBP acquired that dataset.

[0] https://haveibeenpwned.com/breach/Dropbox
by aiauthoritydev | 2025-11-06 21:59:00+00:00
Thats a dumb metric. It is like saying conditioned on a doctor saw you, how many people were saved. You gotta count folks who died because they did not see the doctor too.

Some of the unicorns could be simply rent seekers making money by colluding with government people. Investors saw them sure shot and hence invested. That model is neither scalable not healthy.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-06 21:59:03+00:00
From that chess paper:

> Each position in the ECM test suite has a predetermined “best move”. Each chromosome processes all of the 879 positions, and for each position it attempts to find this predetermined best move as fast as possible.

> Instead of counting the number of correctly “solved” positions (number of positions for which the organism found the best move), we used the number of nodes the organism had to process in order to find the best move.

That isn't a 1-or-0 objective function, and the paper isn't an example of using an evolutionary loop in which the objective function doesn't give you any information on which candidates are better in a given iteration. Because that isn't possible.

Re brute forcing by evaluating the countable set of correct proofs within a given formal system, people have been trying that since computers were invented and it hasn't resulted in the magic proof factory yet. People continue to work on better and better heuristics for trimming the search and I understand some of the stuff people have been doing in that direction with Lean is actually useful now, but there hasn't been a huge breakthrough in it and nobody expects a system like that to spit out a proof of the Collatz Conjecture any time soon. More to the point of this discussion, it's not what AlphaEvolve does.

Anyway, I need to go to bed. It's been fun.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-06 21:59:09+00:00
> The relative jump in difficulty from interstellar to intergalactic is much smaller than from interplanetary to interstellar.

Interesting way to put it... This doesn't seem that accurate. With sufficiently advanced technology, many of which we already possess, we could expect to propel a minute spacecraft to a considerable fraction of the speed of light, and reach nearby stars possibly within the end of the century. Reaching the other end of the galaxy is a massive undertaking. It's a logarithmic scale at every step of the way.

Pluto is about 38 AU from Earth. Proxima Centauri is about 6.3 × 10^4 AU away (or about 4.24 ly), and that's roughly a 2 × 10^3 multiplication. The Milky Way is about 50000 ly in radius, and the Andromeda Galaxy is about 3 × 10^6 ly away. Going from interplanetary distances to interstellar, and thence to intergalactic, involves at least a 10^5 factor (give or take) at each step.
by zamalek | 2025-11-06 21:59:57+00:00
> constantly had issues with them losing their minds and having to redo the setup

I forked out for SmartWings blinds. You can choose between either Zigbee/Matter or Z-Wave (or neither I think?). The first-party hub is completely optional (that's important to look out for with Zigbee, which can be vendor-locked). They are drastically simpler than the average motorized blinds I've seen around, so I haven't had any of the mechanical failure nightmares. Pretty happy overall; though I haven't had them for 10 years.

I do use them as a kind of alarm clock as I am absolutely horrific with mornings, so manual ones wouldn't really work out for me.
by xoa | 2025-11-06 22:00:23+00:00
>According to some calculations, it should in principle be possible to colonize the entire observable universe in less than a hundred million years

...what? That doesn't seem right, just from a really quick gut check it looks like the observable universe has a radius of 45.7 billion light years [0]. Even if the universe wasn't expanding nobody could get to everything any faster than that number of years right? Maybe you saw something that was talking about the local (Virgo) supercluster, which I think has a radius of around 55 million light years, so that sounds more like something that could be done on that timescale "in theory". But there are millions and millions of superclusters in the observable universe overall.

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
by AlienRobot | 2025-11-06 22:00:25+00:00
my password: 2,408

password: 46,628,605

your password: 609

good password: 22

long password: 2

secure password: 317

safe password: 29

bad password: 86

this password sucks: 1

i hate this website: 16

username: 83,569

my username: 4

your username: 1

let me login: 0

admin: 41,072,830

abcdef: 873,564

abcdef1: 147,103

abcdef!: 4,109

abcdef1!: 1,401

123456: 179,863,340

hunter2: 50,474

correct horse battery staple: 384

Correct Horse Battery Staple: 19

to be or not to be: 709

all your base are belong to us: 1
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-06 22:00:45+00:00
Right. IF they were taking the issue seriously the response would be more along the lines of 'we didn't intend this outcome, and have paused availability of the bot while we re-examine the issue.' Mistakes do happen in large organizations where communication and project management is highly distributed, but but appears to be less of a mistake and more of a fait accompli, where a decision was made at a high level to roll out a new feature and objections are being treated as a PR problem.
by fcpguru | 2025-11-06 22:00:45+00:00
what if the app could guide you more on exactly who you wanted to meet. The more info you give, the better we can match with:

1. potential customers / vendors (business network event)

2. potential mates (speed dating)

3. potential friends (222.place or timeleft)

I'd keep my phone out at a 222 event if the app guided me into a group of people that all share a specific interest.
by costco | 2025-11-06 22:01:35+00:00
Yes I would say the handling of series is probably the biggest problem. Once my test metrics got to a point I was happy with and my quality spot checks passed (can I follow the models recommendations from one generic history book to Steven Runciman, also making sure popular books don't always dominate the results), I was ready to release because I had been working on this project for so long. The solution is probably using the transformer model to generate 100-200 candidates and then having a reranker on top.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-11-06 22:02:06+00:00
I think you might be conflating an agent with an LLM.

The term "agent" isn't really defined, but its generally a wrapper around an LLM designed to do some task better than the LLM would on its own.

Think Claude vs Claude Code. The latter wraps the former, but with extra prompts and tooling specific to software engineering.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-06 22:03:06+00:00
That I've heard of (from across the pond, but reading a few British news sites on the regular), ex-HRH Andrew is the only Brit with unsavory ties to Jeff Epstein.

That seems unlikely to actually be true.

Any chance that other names have been named in Blighty, or that meaningful consequences might loom for other perps there?
by hex4def6 | 2025-11-06 22:03:23+00:00
For the vast majority, they're not "open source" they're "open weights". They don't release the training data or training code / configs.

It's kind of like releasing a 3d scene rendered to a JPG vs actually providing someone with the assets.

You can still use it, and it's possible to fine-tune it, but it's not really the same. There's tremendous soft power in deciding LLM alignment and material emphasis. As these things become more incorporated into education, for instance, the ability to frame "we don't talk about ba sing se" issues are going to be tremendously powerful.
by asdff | 2025-11-06 22:03:33+00:00
This discounts the effects of things like shills (commercial or government) or propaganda in general and its quieting effect on discussion. Yes, there are conspiracy theories, but there is a reason why they end up relegated to the quacks and aren't broached upon at all, save for in jest perhaps, by mainstream sources of information. I mean really consider the actual diversity of thought among mainstream sources in this country. It is astoundingly limited and entirely biased towards neoliberalism. Our political spectrum is extremely narrow and differentiated by only a small handful of hobby horse issues.
by zahlman | 2025-11-06 22:03:34+00:00
From what HIBP tells me (from an email address; I am not about to put any site's password in there, I don't care that they don't know who I am or what it's for):

> During 2025, the threat-intelligence firm Synthient aggregated 2 billion unique email addresses disclosed in credential-stuffing lists found across multiple malicious internet sources. Comprised of email addresses and passwords from previous data breaches, these lists are used by attackers to compromise other, unrelated accounts of victims who have reused their passwords. The data also included 1.3 billion unique passwords, which are now searchable in Pwned Passwords.

(Edit: this is also directly linked in TFA. Well, I guess the site was still somewhat successfully advertised here...)

So, this doesn't seem to comprise new information, and doesn't imply that your email has been associated with your password by the hackers.

Although they probably do have passwords for a couple of services I don't use any more, which I have not reused.
by ontic | 2025-11-06 22:03:36+00:00
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