MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kbrkbr | 2025-11-18 12:29:26+00:00
I have also a hard time understanding how AGI will magically appear.

LLMs have their name for a reason: they model human language (output given an input) from human text (and other artifacts).

And now the idea seems to be that when we do more of it, or make it even larger, it will stop to be a model of human language generation? Or that human language generation is all there is to AGI?

I wish someone could explain the claim to me...
by endoblast | 2025-11-18 12:30:37+00:00
It's hard not to trust answers which are superhumanly plausible.

Imagine being offered a choice of two oracles. The first oracle would give you an answer that is inspiring yet mysterious and oblique. The second gives an answer that is guaranteed to be unoriginal but also highly, highly plausible. It also maintains a record of all the questions and makes them available to unknown persons.
Show HN: Tool to check risks of your startup
by hulk-konen | 2025-11-18 12:30:56+00:00
I noticed around a year ago that LLMs can be used to set up financial models (vs. being the model, if that makes sense).

Before I turned into a full-time software developer and CS student, I ran a small business (local coffee roastery) and was in business roles in several startups due to my having an MSc in economics.

I think this tool captures pretty nicely the risks that I noticed when I was doing the business roles. For example, running a coffee roastery that was essentially failing financially, it would have helped me greatly to identify and take seriously risks this model outputs before putting all my savings on the line.

In my testing, the model has performed nicely from the most valuable company on earth to my current operation: no revenue, no funding, no team (the 'contact team' button on the webpage reflects hoped-for future state). Smaller companies are of course more interesting, as the web is not full of research papers about your startup.

NVIDIA: https://www.siqnalis.com/risk-check?uuid=89ce075e-58cd-4340-...

Siqnalis: https://www.siqnalis.com/risk-check?uuid=f421f0b5-4551-4f72-...

This is just a quick tool intended to test your company's, competitors', suppliers etc. risks.

Basic principle: Input company name + URL --> black-box --> risk profile identified.

But I'm working on this: Input background info --> edit everything after models have been set up --> much clearer picture about your company's market, situation and possibilities. So the idea is to open up the black box for users to edit and play with.

This way, sub-$50M companies could access risk logs, predictive modeling, and other financial tools.
by scrlk | 2025-11-18 12:31:03+00:00
Benchmarks from page 4 of the model card:

| Benchmark | 3 Pro | 2.5 Pro | Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-5.1 | |-----------------------|-----------|---------|------------|-----------| | Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | 21.6% | 13.7% | 26.5% | | ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | 4.9% | 13.6% | 17.6% | | GPQA Diamond | 91.9% | 86.4% | 83.4% | 88.1% | | AIME 2025 | | | | | | (no tools) | 95.0% | 88.0% | 87.0% | 94.0% | | (code execution) | 100% | - | 100% | - | | MathArena Apex | 23.4% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 1.0% | | MMMU-Pro | 81.0% | 68.0% | 68.0% | 80.8% | | ScreenSpot-Pro | 72.7% | 11.4% | 36.2% | 3.5% | | CharXiv Reasoning | 81.4% | 69.6% | 68.5% | 69.5% | | OmniDocBench 1.5 | 0.115 | 0.145 | 0.145 | 0.147 | | Video-MMMU | 87.6% | 83.6% | 77.8% | 80.4% | | LiveCodeBench Pro | 2,439 | 1,775 | 1,418 | 2,243 | | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 54.2% | 32.6% | 42.8% | 47.6% | | SWE-Bench Verified | 76.2% | 59.6% | 77.2% | 76.3% | | t2-bench | 85.4% | 54.9% | 84.7% | 80.2% | | Vending-Bench 2 | $5,478.16 | $573.64 | $3,838.74 | $1,473.43 | | FACTS Benchmark Suite | 70.5% | 63.4% | 50.4% | 50.8% | | SimpleQA Verified | 72.1% | 54.5% | 29.3% | 34.9% | | MMLU | 91.8% | 89.5% | 89.1% | 91.0% | | Global PIQA | 93.4% | 91.5% | 90.1% | 90.9% | | MRCR v2 (8-needle) | | | | | | (128k avg) | 77.0% | 58.0% | 47.1% | 61.6% | | (1M pointwise) | 26.3% | 16.4% | n/s | n/s |

n/s = not supported

EDIT: formatting, hopefully a bit more mobile friendly
by zweifuss | 2025-11-18 12:31:04+00:00
The history of the Windows TCP/IP stack went most likely like this:

IBM (NetBEUI, no TCP/IP) -> Spider TCP/IP Stack + SysV STREAMS environment -> MS rewrite 1 (early NT, Winsock instead of STREAMS) -> MS rewrite 2 (make win2000 faster):

https://web.archive.org/web/20151229084950/http://www.kuro5h...
by chongli | 2025-11-18 12:31:18+00:00
No, the argument isn’t “help these people instead of helping those people”, it’s “help who you want to help, but make sure your money is actually spent helping rather than paying people to raise awareness”.

There are loads of charities that are basically scams that give very little to the cause they claim to support and reserve most of the money for the high salaries of their board members. The EA argument, at its core, is to do some research before you give and try to avoid these scams.
by JdeBP | 2025-11-18 12:31:33+00:00
Sadly, I can report that this has brought down 2 of the major Mastodon nodes in the United Kingdom.

Happily, the small ones that I also use are still going without anyone apparently even noticing. At least, the subject has yet to reach their local timelines at the time that I write this.

2 of the other major U.K. nodes are still up, too.
by Balinares | 2025-11-18 12:31:45+00:00
Wealth transfer from the middle class to the capital-owner class within an economy still leaves the wealth in that economy, it just doesn't benefit the masses.

In terms of how the wealth flows into the economy in the first place, it's tech worker wages, which are of course taxed at a rate that would give corporations an apoplectic fit. The money that funds said corporations' needs in public infrastructure and educated workforce has got to be procured somewhere.
by ben_w | 2025-11-18 12:31:47+00:00
I don't know if you've noticed, but internet discussions collectively can't seem to avoid "no true Scotsman"-ing what counts as capitalism, likewise its alternatives.

I've seen some people on HN criticise the "socialist" healthcare of the nordic countries on the basis of what Stalin was like, and others saying that China as is today is each of communist and capitalist depending on the point the poster wants to make.
by FooBarBizBazz | 2025-11-18 12:32:05+00:00
Oof! Thank you for the correction. I should have checked the publication date. I thought it was from the late '50s; I was wrong.

(By contrast, turns out 1984 -- which is always paired with BNW -- came out later than I thought, in '49. Yet BNW seemed more forward-looking. I always imagined it was written partially in response. It wasn't.)

There goes my benzo theory.

Though they remain what I imagine when I read about soma.
by itsmevictor | 2025-11-18 12:32:11+00:00
Noteworthily, although Gemini 3 Pro seems to have much benchmark scores than other models across the board (including compared to Claude), it's not the case for coding, where it appears to score essentially the same as the others. I wonder why that is.

So far, IMHO, Claude Code remains significantly better than Gemini CLI. We'll see whether that changes with Gemini 3.
by remus | 2025-11-18 12:33:41+00:00
I think google is uniquely well placed to make a profitable business out of AI: They make their own TPUs so don't have to pay ridiculous amounts of money to Nvidia, they have a great depth of talent in building models, they've got loads of data they can use for training and they've got a huge existing customer base who can buy their AI offerings.

I don't think any other company has all these ingredients.
by type0 | 2025-11-18 12:34:33+00:00
I have some relatives that assured me that they won't upload some embarrassingly drunken pictures of me to the cloud. Guess what they didn't, but One Drive was happy to share those anyway. Wouldn't even surprise me if Windows posted it to Linkedin with automatic face detection to help me find "new work places". And we can we be sure that agentic AI will solve those problems for me
by udev4096 | 2025-11-18 12:35:06+00:00
I would never recommend this article for anyone looking for comparison. It's wrong in so many ways. Your opinions are highly biased and it's an extremely poor attempt to make GrapheneOS look bad. For a factual and technical comparison, I would suggest this blog post series: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/android-grapheneos-calyxos-und-co...

It's well written and focuses on facts rather than poorly made assumptions
by adwn | 2025-11-18 12:35:36+00:00
> […] but don't cover the use cases of all users.

No single concurrency primitive covers all use cases. I was addressing your misconceptions about mutex performance and overhead, not whether mutexes are the best solution to your particular problem.

> […] it has no way of getting notified when the mutex gets unblocked […] The OS (lets assume Linux) wont wake it up the thread until the next scheduler tick, and its under no obligation to do so even then (and has no idea it should).

You've misunderstood the parking_lot implementation. When thread B tries to lock a mutex that's currently locked by thread A, then, after spinning a few cycles, thread B "parks" itself, i.e., it asks the kernel to remove it from the Runnable task queue. On Linux, this is done using the futex syscall. When thread A unlocks the mutex, it detects that another thread is waiting on that mutex. Thread A takes one thread from the queue of waiting threads and "unparks" it, i.e., it asks the kernel to move it into the Runnable task queue. The kernel is notified immediately, and if there's a free CPU core available, will tend to dispatch the thread to that core. On a non-realtime OS, there's no guarantee how long it takes for an unblocked thread to be scheduled again, but that's the case for all concurrency primitives.
by rurban | 2025-11-18 12:35:40+00:00
The compiler knows about the sizes by either statically allocated sizes (_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, __builtin_object_size) or malloc'ed sizes (_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3, __builtin_dynamic_object_size). See e.g. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/09/17/gccs-new-f...

Since the user is mostly wrong with memory bounds, the compiler checks it also. And with clang even allows user-defined warnings.

We all known that C programmers know it better, and hate bounds-checks, that's why there are so many out-of-bounds errors still.
by jongjong | 2025-11-18 12:36:38+00:00
Wow the Internet is completely broken today... At work we've been having platform issues... Then after work, I decide to test my open source library on the latest Node.js engine for annual maintenance... Dependencies broken... I upgrade the dependencies... Fixed but a whole bunch of tests are now failing for no reason (obviously Node.js broke compatibility)... My project is a relatively low level socket library with few dependencies, I've never seen so many issues from a Node.js upgrade... I try to publish the update of my library to npm and Cloudflare keeps asking me to prove that I'm human over and over... I give up...

I go to Twitter/X to complain about the coming software apocalypse... Saying how, these days, higher version numbers means that the software is getting worse, not better... I try to post my Tweet but it says "Something went wrong". I try multiple times. I give up.

Then I come here to HN, see this post... Now lets see if this post is successful...
GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy
by ascii | 2025-11-18 12:36:54+00:00
GoSign is a desktop client used across Italian public administrations and enterprises for qualified electronic signatures, produced by Tinexta InfoCert, one of Europe’s major eIDAS-regulated trust service providers. Researchers found that versions ≤ 2.4.0 disable TLS certificate verification when a proxy is configured and use an unsigned update manifest. Combined, these flaws allow man-in-the-middle attacks and delivery of malicious updates leading to remote code execution.
by udev4096 | 2025-11-18 12:37:01+00:00
e/OS is a joke: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-... and https://community.e.foundation/t/service-announcement-26-may... are sufficient to conclude that

Lineage is better and Graphene is obviously the gold standard which provides better privacy and security for normal people. The author is wrong in thinking you gotta be some journalist to use it. GrapheneOS is for everyone
by DustinKlent | 2025-11-18 12:37:02+00:00
>The 40 year old who won't date a real girl because he is in love with a bot I'm more concerned with.

I think on the Venn diagram of 40-year-olds only willing to date bots and 40-year-olds capable of actually dating real women, the overlap is incredibly small at this point in time.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-18 12:37:13+00:00
Racoons, even city's racoons are terrible beasts. Sure, they are friendly when they aren't upset; Take a treat away from the hands of the sweetest racoon and it will either pounce on you to retrieve it, scream bloody murder, or pounce and slash at you until you retreat.

Racoons, especially in the city, will kill and eat an older housecat or easy to access domestic chickens without hesitation.

Declawing them helps, but nature happens when a declawed racoon feels a call to roam and is outmatched by even a small hawk or possum.
by jwr | 2025-11-18 12:37:14+00:00
You mean you outsourced to Cloudflare the decision on who is allowed to view your website. That could be well-intentioned, but it's a risky thing to do, and I would not to outsource that decision. Especially as I wouldn't know who failed to get to my website as there is no way to appeal the decision.

As a side note, what does your site do that it's possible to use up all server resources? Computers are stupid fast these days. I find it's really difficult to build something that doesn't scale to at least multiple hundreds of requests per second.
by sznio | 2025-11-18 12:37:47+00:00
There's plenty of DDoS if you're dealing with people petty enough.

The VPS I use will nuke your instance if you run a game server. Not due to resource usage, but because it attracts DDoS like nothing else. Ban a teen for being an asshole and expect your service to be down for a week. And there isn't really Cloudflare for independent game servers. There's Steam Networking but it requires the developer to support it and of course Steam.

Valve's GDC talk about DDoS mitigation for games: https://youtu.be/2CQ1sxPppV4
by moktonar | 2025-11-18 12:39:17+00:00
I’ve read the article and skimmed the paper, but they don’t seem to say if the model has to be retrained every few days or every now and then. Because if it’s trained on marginals it seems to me that the model essentially learns to forecast weather at each location (a bit like locals do), but weather patterns might change over time so I guess they’ll have to retrain it. The retraining frequency might be a deal breaker if for example you have to train it for 3 wall lock days every, say, 7 days.
by czl | 2025-11-18 12:39:39+00:00
I agree that consumption is the point of production in the long run, but that does not mean consumption is neutral in terms of tradeoffs. When someone consumes, the underlying real resources are gone and cannot be used for other purposes. That is the core of the broken window point: activity can rise while net wealth falls if resources are used in less productive ways than the alternatives. Saying consumption is not "taking from society" skips over the opportunity cost of what could have been built with the same labor and capital.

On who controls investment, it is fair to worry about political influence, but it does not follow that highly concentrated private wealth is mostly idle or socially useless. Large fortunes are usually claims on productive assets that employ people and produce goods and services. Capital markets already involve broad and diverse mechanisms like index funds, pensions, and institutional investors that pool the savings of millions of non wealthy people and allocate them based on expected returns. That is not perfect, but it is not simply a handful of billionaires directing everything according to whim.

The equation of exchange point also overstates the role of velocity in judging what is good for the economy. A dollar that flows into an asset is not disappearing from the real economy. It is funding someone else who is selling equity or debt and who will use that for wages, R&D, or capital spending. Lower velocity at the cash register can be consistent with higher long run output if more of today’s income is channeled into projects that raise productivity tomorrow. High velocity tied to fragile consumption and low investment can look good in the short term but leave people poorer over time.
by ohyoutravel | 2025-11-18 12:39:42+00:00
I don’t know anyone who uses Grok, but in my peer group everyone uses 1-2 paid services like Gemini or Clause or ChatGPT. They’re probably not as “extremely online” as I am, so I can’t generalize this thought, but anecdotally my impression has been that Grok is just very “right wing influencer” coded.
Show HN: Filtered GitHub Trends
by nilsherzig | 2025-11-18 12:39:44+00:00
I like new RAG libraries like the next guy, but I also like finding projects, which aren't RAG libraries, so here is a simple "GitHub Trending" frontend which allows blacklisting terms. Nothing fancy, just a single HTML file (written mostly by Gemini while I'm waiting at the doctor's office).

Allows setting the time range and language and will change the URL anchor accordingly for easy sharing / bookmarking.

Happy to implement other quality of life things (sharing filter lists?), as long as the whole thing stays client side. Code is up on GitHub, but as I said, it's like 300 lines written by Gemini.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-18 12:39:53+00:00
Sure, it's a great fair-weather technology, makes some things cheap and easy.

But in the face of adversity, it's a huge liability. Imagine Chinese Hackers taking down AWS, Cloudflare, Azure and GCP simultaneously in some future conflict. Imagine what that would do to the West.

I don't believe in Fukuyamas End of History. History is still happening, and the choices we make will determine how it plays out.
by dlisboa | 2025-11-18 12:40:33+00:00
> Most people, most of the time, doing most web work, are so thoroughly outclassed on speed by their web framework and server that the speed of their choice is irrelevant. Which means they should be selecting based on all the other relevant features.

I disagree with that as the choice of framework doesn't impact just the request/response lifecycle but is crucial to the overall efficiency of the system because they lead the user down a more or less performant path. Frameworks are not just HTTP servers.

Choosing a web framework also marries you to a language, hence the upper ceiling of your application will be tied to how performant that language is. Taking the article's example, as your application grows and more and more code is in the hot path you can very easily get into a space where your requests that took 50ms now take 500ms.
by rincebrain | 2025-11-18 12:41:05+00:00
The problem is not strictly the pennies themselves, but all of the prices that rely on being able to quantize things to a cent, and a number of different laws about not playing games with prices.

Most recently, a stick in the SNAP benefits laws is that you can't charge SNAP recipients different amounts from other people - which was presumably intended to ensure you can't play games like charging SNAP recipients more for things, but in practice, means that if you, hypothetically, wanted to charge SNAP and credit card holders exact amounts (which you would likely want to do to avoid weird effects where SNAP recipients, who tend to be very price sensitive, find their bills going up), and charge cash users rounded up or down, you would be in violation.

Those are the kinds of warts you would hope to see a plan for before these things were announced, rather than having to figure out one in the middle.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-11-18 12:41:10+00:00
It's chic. Young bois or adult pepl with boi like mentality.

What, they have Cloudflare and we don't? We also must have cloudflare. Don't ask why.

Now that you have it, you are at least level 15 and not a peasant.

Same applies to every braindead framework on the web. The gadget mind of the bois is the cause for all this.
by lukev | 2025-11-18 12:41:58+00:00
Or else it trained/overfit to the benchmarks. We won't really know until people have a chance to use it for real-world tasks.

Also, models are already pretty good but product/market fit (in terms of demonstrated economic value delivered) remains elusive outside of a couple domains. Does a model that's (say) 30% better reach an inflection point that changes that narrative, or is a more qualitative change required?
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-18 12:42:20+00:00
Curiously, this website seems to be blocked in Spain for whatever reason, and the website's certificate is served by `allot.com/emailAddress=info@allot.com` which obviously fails...

Anyone happen to know why? Is this website by any change sharing information on safe medical abortions or women's rights, something which has gotten websites blocked here before?
by pjmlp | 2025-11-18 12:42:53+00:00
Nah, unless talking about C++ Builder extensions for COM, in Visual C++ land it still sucks big time.

For some reason, there are vocal teams at Microsoft that resist anything in C++ that is comparable to VB, Delphi, .NET, C++ Builder ease of use regarding COM.

Hence why we got MFC COM, ATL COM, WRL, WinRT (as COM evolution), C++/CX, C++/WinRT, WIL, and eventually all of them lose traction with that vocal group that aparently rather use COM with bare bones IDL files, using the command line and VI on Windows most likely.
by the_bear | 2025-11-18 12:44:01+00:00
My small SaaS app has been DDoSed a handful of times, always accompanied by an email asking for a ransom in the form of bitcoin.

The first time we switched to Cloudflare which saved us. Even with Cloudflare, the DDoS attempts are still damaging (the site goes down, we use Cloudflare to block the endpoints they're targeting, they change endpoints, etc.) but manageable. Without Cloudflare or something like it, I think it's possible that we'd be out of business.
by npn | 2025-11-18 12:44:06+00:00
well, there are 3 kind of usages for grok: - using grok inside X/Twitter: most people interacts with Grok this way. - using grok on its website: this is really annoying, as you get delayed by cloudflare everytime you access the site. As grok does not provide serious advantage over other services, why bother - you can also use the app, but it is not as convenient as other services.

it is understandable that grok is not popular.
by Jotalea | 2025-11-18 12:44:20+00:00
I believe every AI company does this. we have proof that Google does, that Antropic does too.

and I have my own experience with OpenAI, where their chatbot referenced one of my computers having certain specs, but I mentioned those in a different log, and that information was never added to the memory.

https://chatgpt.com/share/691c6987-a90c-8000-b02f-5cddb01d01...
by zygentoma | 2025-11-18 12:44:29+00:00
> Yes, it is of course in Germany forbidden to kill an invading predatory species - even on your property. This is Germany 2025.

This is blatantly false.

The nandus that are living in the north can and are being killed for exactly this reason: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandu#Wilde_Population_in_Nord... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_rhea#Distribution_and_... for a shorter paragraph in English)

I guess there is a more nuanced reason for not killing the raccoons in Kassel.