MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nottorp | 2025-11-25 11:49:29+00:00
> In 2025, there are extremely efficient CPUs from Intel and Apple. Under 5W idle!

I don't think Intel has any "efficient" CPU that can go passively cooled at load though. Maybe Apple can do it for the low end SoCs.

The Pi 3 can go passively cooled and maybe even without a heatsink at load, but the newer Pis can't. Judging by the progression from 3 to 4 to 5, they will reach P4 levels of heat in the name of speed around ... 7?

> And just so it's clear, the author is using an old Raspberry Pi 3.

Yes, the author has harder problems to solve than what I'm whining about. But my concern is a bit related.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-25 11:50:45+00:00
This is the cost of bleeding edge... in our internal company ai slack channel people ask what is the best method to do something every week.

The answer is always something like: "As of today, do a,b,c. But this will be different next week/month".

I like it, we are at the forefront of this technology and years from now we will be telling stories to kids on how it used to be.
by tw1984 | 2025-11-25 11:51:00+00:00
the only contribution of that paper is they found & reported that there are potentially dozens of temperature sensors in a typical server.

the method of using two PPS signals configured to be some delta time apart to detect jitter is not new. the whole learning the tempco of the crystal thing is like 80 years old.

they also avoided touching the most critical part of the issue - how would you be sure that such learned tempco is accurate enough for the estimated bound.
by trashb | 2025-11-25 11:51:51+00:00
> Why are OpenBSD people always so rude and defensive? Sheesh

Because there is a limited amount of maintainers and a clearly stated goal/direction. There are also a lot of people requesting features that don't actually contribute to the goal or don't even use OpenBSD. It is a way to manage resources.

There is also the sentiment "if you need it you implement and maintain it" hence if someone is requesting without any investment it doesn't seem like they are serious.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-25 11:52:06+00:00
UTF-8 was invented in 1992 and was first published in 1993. Windows NT 3.1 had its first public demo in 1991, was scheduled for release in 1992 and was released in 1993.

Technically UTF-8 was invented before the first Windows NT release, but they would have had to rework a nearly finished and already delayed OS
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-25 11:52:56+00:00
I don't really find this a helpful line to traverse. By this line of inquiry most of the things in software are psychological.

Whether something is a bug or feature.

Whether the right thing was built.

Whether the thing is behaving correctly in general.

Whether it's better at the very moment that the thing occasionally works for a whole range of stuff or that it works perfectly for a small subset.

Whether fast results are more important than absolutely correct results for a given context.

Yes, all things above are also related with each other.

The most we have for LLMs is tallying up each user's experience using an LLM for a period of time for a wide rane of "compelling" use cases (the pairing of their prompts and results are empirical though right?).

This should be no surprise, as humans often can't agree on an end-all-be-all intelligence test for humans either.
by muldvarp | 2025-11-25 11:53:06+00:00
There is absolutely no guarantee that those things will happen just because Claude takes your job. Taking your job doesn't require super-intelligence, it doesn't even require human-level intelligence. It requires just enough intelligence to pump out mediocre code that sort of works and being way cheaper to run than your pay.

Super-intelligence is a completely different can of worms. But I'm not optimistic about super-intelligence either. It seems super naive to me to assume that the spoils of super-intelligence will be shared with the people who no longer can bring anything to the table. You aren't worth anything to the super-rich unless you can do something for them which the super-intelligence can't do.
H00k.dev
by steebono | 2025-11-25 11:53:10+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Stefano and I’ve just launched h00k.dev, a webhook inspector focused on clarity, privacy, and useful developer tools.

It lets you capture and explore incoming webhooks, preview bodies as JSON, images, audio, videos and so on, inspect headers, decode JWTs, and save snapshots for debugging or sharing. You can also forward requests to your local environment and create AI-generated mock responses.

Built because I often needed more than just a basic request viewer when debugging distributed systems.

Happy to hear your thoughts!
by teekert | 2025-11-25 11:53:22+00:00
I doubt that very strongly and would like to talk to you again after going though 2 versions (with and without LLM) of my 25-pager to UMC management on HPC and Bioinformatics :)

I understand the sentiment, even appreciate it, but there are books that draw you into a story when your eyes hit the paper, and there are books that don't and induce yawning instead (on the same topic). That is a skill issue.

Perhaps I should add that using the LLM does not make me faster in any way, maybe even slower. But it makes the end results so much more pleasant.

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter". Now I can, but in similar time.
by ben_w | 2025-11-25 11:53:42+00:00
> $191k USAGM broadcasting contract for “broadcast operations and maintenance in Ethiopia, Africa”

USAGM's mission is to promote the USA's diplomatic interests in parts of the world with little or no press freedom. Whole thing was cut by executive order of Trump to the maximum extent possible.

Because of that order, it's not even a "not specialised" role, it's not a role.

If USAGM should be cut or not, should have been the choice of congress rather than the executive, but that's a different question entirely.

> Botswana MI curriculum

What's "MI"? Mission-Influenced? That sounds like a plausible amount to spend on a curriculum about Botswana for the benefit of the State Department, let alone in Botswana on anything.

And if it is in Botswana, you have to then actually ask "what is this mission, and is this in the interests of the USA taxpayer?", which needs specialists.
by fjfaase | 2025-11-25 11:53:52+00:00
No, even if a grammar is ambigious it can require unbound look-ahead to be parsed, although this is very rare the case for meaningfull grammars such as the ones you would write for a programming language.

What I wanted to say that you do not need complex algorithms to implement parser if you do not have a grammar that can be parsed with look-ahead lexical element.
by bakugo | 2025-11-25 11:54:45+00:00
In real dating apps, the ratio is never 1:1, there's always way more men.

The "problem" will arise anyway, of course, but as I said, it's a different problem - the women aren't struggling to find dates, they're just choosing not to date the men they find. Even classifying it as a "problem" is arguable.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-25 11:54:49+00:00
Yes, thousand times yes. How tf cultivation of tobacco is still legal? This shouldn't be an industry. There should be 3 plants per person limit and ban on sales and gifting. It's should be a controlled substance. Nicotine is the most addictive substance known to man and in tobacco it's packaged with cancer inducing garbage. How is it legal?
by lukan | 2025-11-25 11:55:13+00:00
That would be way, way more verbose for everything.

Every display object has a x y width and height for example. And there is basic validating for every object. Now a validate method can be conposited. But variables? Also the validating, there is some base validating every object share (called wih super) and the specific validating (or rendering) is done down in the subclasses.

And even for simple things, you can composite a extra object, but then you cannot do a.x = b.x * 2 anymore, but would have to do a.po.x = b.po.x * 2 etc
by reflexe | 2025-11-25 11:55:14+00:00
Also, FYI for the one person here who uses raw nand flash: run ubihealthd (https://lwn.net/Articles/663751/).

It will trigger reads in random areas in flash, and try ti correct any errors found.

Without it, the same issue as in the original article will happen (even if the device is powered on): areas in the NAND were not read for long time will have more and more errors, causing them to be non recoverable.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-11-25 11:55:35+00:00
Drive prices have already exploded. New hard drives have doubled in price since the beginning of the year. I haven't checked SSD prices, but why would they not be crazy, too?

The AI bubble has also pushed up secondhand prices. I work in ewaste recycling. Two weeks ago, a petabyte's worth of hard drives showed up. After erasing, testing, listing, and selling them, I'll have a very merry Christmas.
by survirtual | 2025-11-25 11:56:05+00:00
I never said women don't need men, did I? Let me read what I said again.

No, I never said that. I said women need safety, and society is largely not safe for them.

Human beings are social creatures. Women need men. Women need women. Men need women. Men need men. We all need each other.

The system patterns of online dating cultivate undesirable traits in both men and women which result in side effects that no one would want. "Flakiness" is one such side effect.

Online dating dynamics create high abundance, low commitment environments that systematically produce “flakiness,” so the issue isn’t about women needing men or not, but that both sexes operate in a degraded safety/trust landscape shaped by platform incentives rather than by real world social cues. Restore actual interpersonal safety and the entire pattern shifts positive, with less defensive behavior, less attrition, less pain, and more ethical orgasms.

All people, regardless of gender, should cultivate a safety in both society and in themselves. This safety is liberating. Instead of controlling people, you free them. Instead of binding, you uplift. Instead of harming, you heal. This is the basis of safety.
by fhd2 | 2025-11-25 11:56:51+00:00
Fully agree, luckily I don't maintain projects on GitHub anymore, but it used to be challenging long before LLMs. I had one fairly questionable contribution from someone who asked me to please merge it because their professor tasked them to build out a GitHub profile. I kinda see where the professor was coming from, but that wasn't the way. The contributor didn't really care about the project or improving it, they cared about doing what they were told, and the quality of the code and conversation followed from that.

There's many other kinds of questionable contributions. In my experience, the best ones are from people who actively use the thing, somewhat actively engage in the community (well, tickets), and try to improve the software for themselves or others. From my experience, GitHub encourages the bad kind, and the minor barriers to entry posed by almost any other contribution method largely deters them. As sad as that may be.
by justinclift | 2025-11-25 11:57:29+00:00
The US kinds of stands out as far more um... "prudish" than most other countries though, at least in my understanding of things.

And the US seem to be trying to spread its level of um... "prudish"-ness to any country it feels isn't as anti-sex?

The VISA and Mastercard + Steam kerfuffle recently seems like that kind of thing, but there are heaps of instances in that set historically.
by kpcyrd | 2025-11-25 11:57:45+00:00
Out of the 789 npm packages in this incident, only 4 were ever used in any dependency tree of any Linux operating system (including Homebrew). Not in the affected versions, but ever.

If your Rust software observes a big enough chunk of the computer fever dream you are likely to end up with 2-3 digit amount of Rust dependencies, but they are probably all going to be high profile ones (tokio, anyhow, reqwest, the hyper crates, ...), instead of niche ones that never make it into any operating system.

This is not a silver bullet of course, but there seems to be an inverse correlation between "is part of any operating system dependency tree" and "gets compromised in an npm-like incident".
by pessimizer | 2025-11-25 11:57:53+00:00
This is so basic that I feel I shouldn't need to say it, but you can't be selective if you don't pay. You take what you get.

The reason teaching became largely a women's profession when they used to be exclusively men is because we wanted to make education universal and free so we did that by paying less, and women who needed to work also had to take what they could get. The reason it has become a moron's profession is because we have made it uniquely undesirable. If you think that teachers should be amazing and imminently qualified and infinitely safe to have around children, pay them like programmers.

Instead, the middle-class meme is to pay them nothing, put them in horrible conditions, and resent them too. Typical "woman's work" model.
by poulpy123 | 2025-11-25 11:58:10+00:00
I'm very impressed by the models, to the point I was wondering if they were really converting the pdf or just reading the content. I tried on documents in french, english and spanish, very heaving on graphics and with complex layouts (boardgame, flyer, book about rust), and I wasn't expecting anything great. Especially some models were showing symbols and smileys quite close from the original.

I noticed that some models were resisting better to faking data than other, especially I saw that in a sentence cut from the document, GPT5 was inventing the end of the sentence and opus was properly showing it cut.

I didn't try with my writing but in the playground there is one example and some models read it better than me.

I wish the output would show the confidence of the model on each part. I think it would help immensely.

Note that sometimes a model get stuck in a loop, preventing to vote and to see which model is which
by elric | 2025-11-25 11:58:47+00:00
It doesn't have to be a class. It can be an interface. And regardless of what it is, it has to go somewhere. Whether it's in assorted_functions.c or Permissions.java makes little difference.

I mean it makes sense to group "like" things together. Whether that's in a module, a class, an interface, or a namespace. Having a huge number of things globally is just confusing pollution.
by clbrmbr | 2025-11-25 11:59:07+00:00
Does anyone have a benchmark that clearly distinguishes the larger models? I would think that the high parameter count models would have capabilities distinct from the smaller ones, that would easily be read out. For example, Opus 4 has apparently memorized many books. If you ask it just right (to get around the infuriating copyright controls), it will complete a paragraph from The Wealth of Nations or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in Ancient Greek. That cannot be possible on a smaller model that needs to compress more.
by Zobat | 2025-11-25 11:59:42+00:00
> We do not need more ways for people to be convinced of suicide.

I am convinced (no evidence though) that current LLMs has prevented, possibly lots of, suicides. I don't know if anyone has even tried to investigate or estimate those numbers. We should still strive to make them "safer" but with most tech there's positives and negatives. How many, for example, has calmed their nerves by getting in a car and driven for an hour alone and thus not committed suicide or murder.

That said there's the reverse for some pharmaceutical drugs. Take statins for cholesterol, lots of studies for how many deaths they prevent, few if any on comorbidity.
by catstor | 2025-11-25 12:00:34+00:00
Cambridge dictionary has crowned parasocial as word of the year for 2025. It is defined as, "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence".

I like to divide these interactions into two categories. One is using them for mental health support; the second is for a full-fledged romantic relationship...

Using them for mental health support involves sharing own or others behavior with chatbot asking to analyze another person’s behavior, chatting, etc.
by kace91 | 2025-11-25 12:01:18+00:00
There’s been two main massive shifts that create before-and-after feelings in tech. One is going from “the computer is that super-typewriter that can send mail” to internet culture, and the second is going from online in pcs to always online in smartphones.

Win 95 feels from era1, xp and git was already in era 2.

Once those two changes were done by 2010 though, there’s been no game changer, if anything we've regressed through shittyfication (we seem to have fewer social networks vs the original Facebook for example, as most of them turned single player feed consumption).

Maybe pre and post LLMs will feel like an era change in a decade as well?
by thibran | 2025-11-25 12:01:36+00:00
I get your point and think in a similar way. The difference between AI and the coconuts is -> there is no way deaths by coconuts increase by 10000000x, but for AI it's possible.

The reasons we have not - and probably will not - remove obvious bad causes is, that a small group of people has huge monetary incentives to keep the status quo.

It would be so easy to e.g. reduce the amount of sugar (without banning it), or to have a preventive instead of a reactive healthcare system.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-25 12:01:54+00:00
This is not always true.

NVIDIA does exactly what you said. Move everything to firmware and closed GL libraries, and open source a kernel module to facilitate communication. They even created different firmware versions to prevent open source drivers to use the whole card.

AMD did the inverse: They re-implemented a fully open driver from scratch, opened up the specs, made every part which they can make (legally) accessible, accessible, open sourced ROCm and send in packages to major distributions' (main / open source) repositories. Their firmware is closed source, but it's obtainable and doesn't require signatures to enable the card. They even clashed with HDMI forums to make a libre implementation of v2.1, but the forum basically threatened them.

Intel's graphics drivers are basically the same with AMD.

Broadcom / Intel / Realtek NICs work without their respective firmware blobs, yet their offloading capabilities are disabled. Either way, the drivers are completely open source and in the kernel mainline.

Same for most sound cards sans Creative Labs. I want to hit them with a foam cluebat so bad.

Logitech's all stuff works with open drivers. They are the primary contributor to V4L standard, standardize their webcam interfaces and provide drivers or help.

Do you have any examples in mind?
by oliwarner | 2025-11-25 12:02:22+00:00
There are LLMs with more self-awareness than this guy.

Repeatedly using AI to answer questions about the legitimacy of commits from an AI, to people who are clearly skeptical is breathtakingly dense. At least they're open about it.

I did love the ~"I'll help maintain this trash mountain, but I'll need paying". Classy.
by nickpp | 2025-11-25 12:02:33+00:00
There is absolutely no guarantee that Claude takes your job either. But if you believe so much in AI, investing in it is accessible to pretty much any pocket, you don't have to be rich to partake.

And when did "the rich" hoard anything for themselves only?! Usually I see them democratizing products and services so they are more accessible to everyone, not less.

Computers in my pocket and on my wrist, TVs as big as a wall and thin like a book, electric cars, flights to anywhere I dream of traveling, investing with a few clicks on my phone - all made possible to me by those evil and greedy rich in their race for riches. Thank you rich people!
by happosai | 2025-11-25 12:03:08+00:00
ChromeOS is much more close to regular Linux systems than Android. The vendors had support Linux properly to get into ChromeOS. This allowed google go support ChromeOS laptops for very long period. Also, a a side-effect Chrome OS contractors got to contribute a lot into mainline Linux.

Android Otoh let's vendors get away with shipping binaries that work once on one Android version, making upgrades pain. And thus Android devices are generally stuck with the build they released with.

The Google decision to drop ChromeOS in favour of Android is going is going to be a huge disaster for Linux ecosystem.
by port11 | 2025-11-25 12:03:54+00:00
I think that if you explain it properly, most people would be concerned.

Privacy is a nebulous term, but what does it enable? The right to be yourself, to expose what you want, to take back mistakes, to keep for yourself somethings that you don't want to share.

Privacy is therefore the right to be yourself. You do have something to hide, you don't want everyone knowing your deepest thoughts, aspirations, all of your past mistakes, etc.

But instead we always explain it in ways that people don't connect with.
by armchairhacker | 2025-11-25 12:04:20+00:00
OP’s code (at least plausibly) helped him. From https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-35568...

> Damn, I can’t debug OCaml on my Mac because there’s no DWARF info…But, hey, there’s AI and it seems to one-shot fairly complex stuff in different languages, from just a Github issue…My needs are finally taken care of!

So I do believe using an LLM to generate a big feature like OP did can be very useful, so much that I’m expecting to see such cases more frequently soon. Perhaps in the future, everyone will be constantly generating big program/library extensions that are buggy except for their particular usecase, could be swapped with someone else’s non-public extensions that they generated for the same usecase, and must be re-generated each time the main program/library updates. And that’s OK, as long as the code generation doesn’t use too much energy or cause unforeseen problems. Even badly-written code is still useful when it works.

What’s probably not useful is submitting such code as a PR. Even if it works for its original use-case, it almost certainly still has bugs, and even ignoring bugs it adds tech debt (with bugs, the tech debt is significantly worse). Our code already depends on enough libraries that are complicated, buggy, and badly-written, to the extent that they slow development and make some feasible-sounding features infeasible; let’s not make it worse.
by alex-moon | 2025-11-25 12:04:32+00:00
This is actually a surprisingly effective way to get a broad range of feedback on topics. I realise this was built for fun, but this whole discussion dynamic is why I value HN in the first place - it never occured to me to try and reproduce it using LLMs. I am suddenly really interested in how I might build a similar workflow for myself - I use LLMs as a "sounding board" a lot, to get a feeling for how ideas are valued (in the training dataset at least).
by metalman | 2025-11-25 12:05:16+00:00
ok, it looks like you are extra literal,linear thinking, and blind to context and inferance, which is fine as I resemble that by times, myself so ICE is seeking to criminaly prosecute a person who was captured outside of a protest and detained and there property confescated which included a magazine, created and published by protestors and/or there assosiates, the crime ICE has invented, is carrying a magazine. This is a case where exactly the same people conducting the GAZA genoside are running operations in the US, useing the same methods to justify there actions, and the public responses are very similar to the civilian response in Palestine, where people are closing up there businesses and vacating the streets when the goons show up. The point bieng, that the US cant export it's contradictions any longer and is quite litteraly, going to hell. MADGA,make america's depression great again*

*now with AI hardware