MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varun764 | 2025-11-10 19:50:16+00:00
Working on AI interpretability infrastructure! Starting with hallucination/failure mode detection and causal tracing in transformer-based foundation models. It's non-SAE, domain-agnostic, and works for any kind of tokens or sequence data (e.g. not just English text - biological sequences, physics data, etc). Some of our early tests indicate that this detection setup could broadly work well for any property, but we've mostly validated on hallucinations. If you have access to self-trained or open-weight models, would love to have you try out the alpha version - running it through HuggingFace!
by webdevver | 2025-11-10 19:51:07+00:00
nobody is going to stop you leaving the UK.

its entering another country that suddenly becomes a real problem, and ofcourse, if you're in the UK, the only country worth moving to at that point is the US with (as I understand) quite stringent immigration restrictions.

in reality, if the US were to open their doors to the UK, holy moly - this entire country would turn into Ukraine overnight, with nobody but pensioners left. which actually isn't in either governments interest: obviously not the UK, but infact, the UK presents a source of cheap labour for the US: read any hackernews thread concerning tech wages in the UK, the comments are hysterical/diabolical ("you make HOW much!?" - "A fast food worker makes more..." - etc.)

so, the current state of affairs is probably a good business arrangement for both parties involved, and aren't gonna change any time soon.
by belorn | 2025-11-10 19:51:16+00:00
You can choose not to delegate it, but then how long and who should maintain the list of names that should not be delegated? Who should pay for the work to implement it, and who should pay for the maintenance for said system, and for how long? Should there be an appeal process or some kind of oversight, and who should body those roles?

In theory the law makers could specify this in law as form of registry regulation, but no one want to do that just to address one or two court cases where this question comes up. The registrar of last resort doesn't give any direct answer to those questions either.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-11-10 19:51:20+00:00
I agree that we sometimes need regulation to guarantee access for everyone.

But regulations need to be kept up-to-date and they need to be consistently enforced. That's a lot of work. Having too many of them only helps lawyers and people who can afford them.

Some random company requiring a smartphone for access to some service doesn't strike me as exclusionary enough to justify burdening the system with more regulation.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-11-10 19:51:41+00:00
Hundreds of thousands to millions of people have come to the US legally each year for the last thirty years.[0] How is that impractical? In fact the share of immigrants in the US has increased significantly (by 3 times) in the last 50 years, and is above the level of the EU, and is at the highest level in the last 100 years in the US.[1][2] Even if legal immigration was set to zero, that shouldn't give people the right to come here illegally.

To be clear I am not making an argument that mass surveillance is needed to solve any problem.

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/green-card-holders-a...

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024... via https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/u-s-immig...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.TOTL.ZS?most_rec...

US vs EU vs OECD: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.TOTL.ZS?most_rec... - I'm pretty sure the values here include illegal immigration as well, so if you factor that in the US may be lower than the EU, but again still at historically very high levels.
by aseipp | 2025-11-10 19:52:02+00:00
That was also my experience with their Jetson series [1], but my understanding is that these DGX kernels are not maintained by Nvidia but by Canonical, so they operate directly out of their package repos and on Canonicals' release and support schedule (e.g. 24.04 supported until 2029.) You can already get 6.14 from the package repos, and 6.17 can be built from source and is regularly updated if you follow the Git repositories. It's also not like the system is unusable without patches, and I suspect most will go upstream.

Based on my experience it feels quite different and much closer to a normal x86 machine, probably intentional. Maybe it helped that Nvidia did not design the full CPU complex, Mediatek did that.

[1] They even claim that Thor is now fully SBSA compliant (Xavier had UEFI, Orin had better UEFI, and now this) -- which would imply it has full UEFI + ACPI like the Spark. But when I looked at the kernel in their Thor L4T release, it looked like it was still loaded with Jetson-specific SOC drivers on top of a heavy fork of the PREEMPT_RT patch series for Linux 6.8; I did not look too hard, but it still didn't seem ideal. Maybe you can probably boot a "normal" OS missing most of the actual Jetson-specific peripherals, I guess.
by k310 | 2025-11-10 19:52:14+00:00
We are certainly in a live cyberwar.

Given the increasing use of computer versus computer, and now AI versus AI, I'd venture to say that we are heavily into live re-runs of StarTrek and Twilight Zone.

Just hoping that the computers don't decide that humans are basically useless and annihilate us for the LulZ. Or turn us into batteries.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-11-10 19:52:37+00:00
It would be an interesting application of that principle, but I think it would lead to a rapid deceleration in medical research and advancement since the state of the art requires so much experimentation even at the clinical and practical level.

Research institutions and universities would dramatically reduce the amount of testing they're doing if they can't get any compensation for the shit they're throwing at the wall.
by anechouapechou | 2025-11-10 19:52:58+00:00
> I just cannot imagine forming a deep, lasting connection with someone who regularly interacts with a technology that’s kneecapping our collective attention spans

I wonder if she has such strong opinions on social media and short video content.

> I probably won’t find what I value in someone who thinks “productivity” means asking an app to summarize a movie plot so they don’t have to waste their time, you know, watching it.

Reasonable, but it would be very foolish to assume that everyone that uses LLMs uses it in such a stupid way. Everyone is free to have their own opinion, and my opinion is that the author didn't even try to go deep into the subject, just feeling the ick and reasoning it later.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-10 19:53:02+00:00
So what “context” makes this okay “ If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”?

What “context” makes it okay to call someone a “patriot” if they would be willing to pay to bond out the guy who beat Pelosi’s husband almost to death?

Did he also speak out against the unqualified people in the Trump administration like RFK Jr., and the entire DOGE effort? Where is the outrage about Trump appointing his own lawyer to be a DA who has never prosecuted a case because all of the qualified ones wouldn’t go after his enemies? Is it only “unfair” if a non White person (supposedly) gets a job they aren’t qualified for?

So he was “just saying what other people think”. He was actually a good caring Christian man that wouldn’t say a bad word about anyone…

Most of the time when “great men” die, their true believers quote what they said during their life. Not one of his supporters will quote his most famous speeches.
by gspencley | 2025-11-10 19:53:23+00:00
More colloquially, people would say that Wikipedia could not be trusted because "anyone can edit the pages or write whatever they want."

Of course that's demonstrative of the genesis fallacy. Anyone can write or publish a book, too. So it always comes down to "how can you trust information?" That's where individual responsibility to think critically comes in. There's not really anything you can do about the fact that a lot of people will choose to not think.
by john01dav | 2025-11-10 19:53:28+00:00
I wonder how these gate agents will react if I show their app throwing a hissy fit and refusing to work when it is blocked from any data mining. No permissions, no google play services, no safetynet, maybe no network. It is non cooperation with their bs, but it looks like a technical issue. And, if it can work without such things, then I hate it much less.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-10 19:53:55+00:00
What more are human brains than piles of wet meat?

It's not an argument - it's a dismissal. It's boneheaded refusal to think on the matter in any depth, or consider any of the implications.

The main reason to say "LLMs are just next token predictions" is to stop thinking about all the inconvenient things. Things like "how the fuck does training on piles of text make machines that can write new short stories" or "why is a big fat pile of matrix multiplications better at solving unseen math problems than I am".
by Izikiel43 | 2025-11-10 19:54:07+00:00
> will only result in more illegal migration in the long term

Why? Wouldn't it disincentivize illegal immigration by making it much more riskier?

Agreed that the legal immigration system needs an overhaul, these are a lot of people living in limbo, paying taxes and not causing crimes with very few rights. The term no taxation without representation was the reason the USA got founded.
by tavavex | 2025-11-10 19:54:10+00:00
Where the "panic" part starts to set in is that the people who are educated in the discipline aren't going anywhere. Suppose the trend does eventually reverse. In 5 years you will still be competing with the people who graduated alongside you today, most people who graduated over the last few years, and people who will graduate in 2030. The supply side will continue overflowing with candidates, so anyone who graduated a long time ago and has no job experience after that will be left behind - this is the group that's graduating today. It truly feels like not being able to find a job under a certain time limit will basically make your education irrelevant for hiring purposes.

And even if you manage to find a job after that indeterminate amount of time, it seems like anything but a blessing in disguise. Putting everything you've worked for on hold to work some soul-crushing, minimum-wage, abusive job while the rest of the world moves on without you. Even if you find a job in your field after this, you would've missed out on years of development that people who graduated during a boom would have acquired by now.
by dfxm12 | 2025-11-10 19:54:13+00:00
As always, trust, but verify! Google maps lists "made up" places or outdated info. AI isn't scouting these locations physically...

Of course, at that point, the real question is, what's the value difference (taking into account personal, external and social costs) between asking chatgpt and /r/rockhounding (or whatever message boards they frequent)? At least if you start a thread on reddit, you might meet other people in the area with the same hobby, find a spot no one's talked about yet, get expert context and leave a trail for others to find.
by gawry | 2025-11-10 19:54:51+00:00
I'm documenting my journey building a distributed database using Elixir/OTP and RocksDB. Not trying to replace Postgres, but exploring whether Elixir's concurrency primitives and supervision trees offer a fundamentally different approach to distributed storage. This first post covers the known hard problems: CAP theorem trade-offs, conflict resolution, node failures, network partitions, and why these challenges are actually interesting to work through. Happy to discuss any of the technical decisions or answer questions about the approach so far.
by prngl | 2025-11-10 19:55:10+00:00
"Metaphorically, I think about any job given to Claude as having 3 dimensions. There's the breadth of the task (roughly how many lines of code it will touch), the depth of the task (the complexity, the layers of abstraction needed, the decision making involved, etc.), and the time spent working on it. Those three axes define a cube, and the size of the cube is how much entropy I'm shoving into the project."

That's an interesting conceptualization that tracks with my experience using CC. And they were able to get an impressive amount of work done:

"""

The specifics don't matter too much here, but for context, some of what I had it do:

- Research all the available on-device speech-to-text models with permissive licences

- Demo the transcription speed of each one on an android device attached to the PC

- Write a C wrapper for the best one (Moonshine) and build an embeddable dynamic library

- Build this for iOS, Android, Linux, and macOS, and integrate it with my app code using the FFI

- Build a Nim wrapper for the fdk-aac library

- Integrate it with miniaudio, so I can play AAC audio and pipe the audio into Moonshine

"""
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-10 19:55:13+00:00
Temporarily controlling screen brightness is something that, at least on android, the app can do itself...

The cracked screen thing - funny.

I wonder how long these twats will hold out.

I hope by the next time I fly Ryanair, someone has figured out how to emulate the look of the app and extract the relevant data so I don't have to run their garbage malware on my phone in order to have the pleasure to fly a "cheap" airline which bills you for everything after using every dark pattern imaginable when you purchase their tickets.
by fragmede | 2025-11-10 19:55:18+00:00
Meta wouldn't just not block ads, they'd use the eye tracking system in the apple goggles to charge advertisers for time you spent actually looking at the ads, and then also the ad countdown timer would only count down while you were actually watching the ad. Look away from the ad and the ad stops playing! (See? No black mirror necessary for my brain to dredge out some dystopian ass shit)
by pomatic | 2025-11-10 19:55:18+00:00
Quite sure the complexity of AWS is forcing the SME types out - even the most basic operations require reference to chatGPT to find the details buried in the UI. It's gone from being 'good enough' - I mean the UI 15 years ago was basic, but adequate to labyrinthine. We don't have complex needs, they're met by AWS, but the combo of premium pricing and a diabolical UI will force our migration eventually.
by bobnarizes | 2025-11-10 19:55:19+00:00
Correct — right now Floxtop classifies images based on text only. It does not yet classify based on visual objects. If automatic object-based sorting (e.g. detecting pets, buildings, etc.) would be useful for you, I’d be interested to hear your use case.

Regarding privacy: everything runs locally on your Mac. No files or metadata are uploaded anywhere. The only network request is from Sparkle to check for updates. If you prefer, you can disable update checks and Floxtop will have zero network activity.

If you have questions or want to share feedback, you can reach me anytime at floxtop@proton.me.
by soared | 2025-11-10 19:55:53+00:00
A very large portion of medicine is for treating symptoms, improving quality of life, making someone comfortable, etc. so you’d sometimes defin the problem needs fixing as the illness, the symptom, something else. But then part of medicine is identifying what the illness is, what causes the symptoms, etc. additionally, there is no “fix” for illnesses. Everything has a list of approaches that doctors choose from based on the context - IE strep throat may have prescription A as like 1 (the first/best choice generally), but the patient could be allergic, have used that medicine in the past unsuccessfully, etc.
by eszed | 2025-11-10 19:56:02+00:00
Hence my antipathy, 20+ years ago, to the creation to a department of "Homeland" Security. Not that function of that entity itself was necessarily a bad idea, but that the concept of a "homeland" is fundamentally at odds with the USA's credal concept of civic belonging. Smuggling the blood and soil metaphor (further and officially) into the national consciousness has born disastrous fruits.
by sandworm101 | 2025-11-10 19:56:51+00:00
Exactly. I expected reference to all sorts of things that have been held at customs. I remember one old case titled something like "New York v. a shipment of dildos." I also remember some state law where guns were 'persons'. If cops wanted to destroy siezed guns they had to go to court, where the guns would be represented by a lawyer who would argue for sale over destruction. (Arizona iirc)
by gspencley | 2025-11-10 19:57:17+00:00
> In my experience when humans are given the choice to cooperate or fight, most choose to cooperate.

Personally, my opinion of human nature falls somewhere in the middle of those two extremes.

I think when humans are given the choice to cooperate or fight, most choose to order a pizza.

A content creator I used to follow was fond of saying "Chill out, America isn't headed towards another civil war. We're way too fat and lazy for that."
by tristor | 2025-11-10 19:57:46+00:00
I was able to replicate the user-facing error, but the errors originally logged in the console are now resolved, but instead it seems to blow up inside of Firefox with `AbortError: Actor 'Conduits' destroyed before query 'RuntimeMessage' was resolved 2 ConduitsParent.sys.mjs:383 _raceResponses resource://gre/modules/ConduitsParent.sys.mjs:383`

This looks like you might be using concurrency in your JS for the import and a timeout is being hit?
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-10 19:59:14+00:00
There's a YouTube video that talks about how valuable the major US airlines reward program is. The market cap of each airline is less than the value of each airline's reward program at the time the video was made.

I recall Apple was valued in a similar manner back in the late 1990s. Their market cap was barely more than cash on hand. Talk about missed investing opportunities...

Not that I'm saying airlines are the next AAPL.

edit - here's the video - "How Airlines Quietly Became Banks" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUduBmvQ_4
by mattcantstop | 2025-11-10 19:59:37+00:00
I think this is true. It can super charge some bad takes.

But I've had the opposite experience. The average person is never going to read a scientific study, nor invest the time to find out the real details of any topic they are opinionated about other than simply typing a Youtube search and finding a video that is:

- Entertaining - The person has their same biases - the present the information in a short, consumable manner that doesn't require much investment.

In comparison to this dynamic LLMs are wonderful. They can reference scientific data. I have noticed that they do push back on bad takes (very gently) and steer people towards truth.

It's not that I think LLMs are perfect. They are not. But they are infinitely better than the average human at discovering truth.
by prmph | 2025-11-10 19:59:38+00:00
You might laugh, but in years of serious development, I have not come across a better git UI tool than SourceTree.

If I want to be hard-core, I'd use the original git CLI. SourceTree is unmatched in how it makes using git so much more pleasant for when you need to do something relatively simple, but which would be quite cumbersome to do with the CLI and most other tools I've tried.

Its file status and history view is unmatched IMO. I can easily stage/unstage hunks and even lines. The whole UI is generally quite polished and pleasant to use.

It's a real shame there is not a version for linux. I've tried every other git interface under the sun and keep coming back to it. In the meantime, I tried lazygit the past weekend and I think it is one of the better TUI git tools out there, definitely better than GitUI.
Show HN: There're TOO many SEO tools, so my wife created a new one
by shurman81 | 2025-11-10 19:59:50+00:00
I quit my well-paid job in a good company to work on my “next big thing” startup, with ~6 months of runway and the usual plan: ship in a month, then do marketing and SEO. Reality: the launch kept slipping, my runway kept shrinking, and the SEO tools I needed started at ~$200/month subs — which, at that point, was basically “one extra month of life” money. So I asked my wife (also a dev) to vibecode a minimal internal rank tracker for me. Two weeks later it worked well, so in 2 extra weeks we shipped a production-grade product. Looking for feedback.
by sedatk | 2025-11-10 19:59:56+00:00
Everything a government does is about a law, but, even if only Apple had received this notice, why would it change the unfairness of singling out Apple? Did UK government issue this request as their final request of this kind? Did they forbid any further requests to be made? Did they single out Apple out of something specific to Apple Inc (or, say, United States) or did Apple happen to be just too visible?

Singling out Apple in the article's title sends the wrong message here. The author should have gone with something along the lines of "UK residents should stop using E2EE cloud services". Current title implies there might be a safe E2EE service in the UK. Heck, they even claim that in the article: "If you need an e2ee service try Proton" as if Proton is exempt from getting a notice from the UK. It's not.
by evanjrowley | 2025-11-10 19:59:58+00:00
This is what I do now. Achieving effiicency through performing all these steps carries it's own kind of burden. This has led me to conclude that effectively scheduling a meeting is a job I'm desperate to offload to someone else.

For all it's failings, Microsoft 365 has a Bookings feature that greatly simplifies the amount of work required: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/boo...