MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pickle-wizard | 2025-11-20 14:58:24+00:00
My biggest issue at the moment is that development of the MVP is taking way longer than I had initially thought. It's just me working on it and it has turned into a real grind. I am just so ready to get this done. I could hire contractors, but quality contractors are expensive and cheap ones don't deliver quality. Either way I would be burning runway and I'd rather save my money for later.

My other issue is that it is just me sitting at my home office working. I don't really have anyone that I can talk to. I started this venture after I took a sabbatical from work, so everyone IRL just thinks I'm unemployed farting around the house all day. Whereas I am working 6 days a week, I'm just not getting paid. I have tried to join some online communities, but there are just people stumping for their own start ups. I am considering joining a coworking space next year that is geared toward startups. The problem is that is also expensive, especially considering that next year I have to pay full freight on my health insurance.

Right now I am living off my investments. I have done well this year, but like others I am starting to be concerned that we might be in a bubble. I am pretty conservatively invested, but it would suck to have a prolonged 20 or 30% draw back.

I really need to bring on a cofounder to help with business development. Though I have to find someone willing to work for equity only as I don't have enough cash to pay them a salary.

So I guess you could say money is one of my biggest struggles.
by pta2002 | 2025-11-20 14:59:28+00:00
I've encountered systems that only have bash in /bin/bash, or in /usr/bin/bash, and it's a hell of a pain to have to fix every script when using different distros (I think it must've been an old Fedora and Ubuntu?).

Nowadays, most distros are moving towards having /bin be a symlink to /usr/bin, so it's mattering less and less, but I see no reason not to just do /usr/bin/env which is supposed to be on the same place on every distro.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-20 14:59:34+00:00
Starcraft becoming uber popular in Korea I think really hurt the RTS genre. I did play RTS games online when I was younger. But I think you're right, Everything went from lets make a fun game with a cool campaign, to lets make an Esport. Company of Heroes 1 to 3, Dawn of War 1 to 2, Age of Empires 1,2,3 vs 4. You can really see this.
by leetnewb | 2025-11-20 14:59:39+00:00
One thing I would note on the client side of xmpp - there does seem to be a lot of work happening under the surface. Snikket is working on an SDK to streamline modern client development. There are a couple of alpha stage clients written on it already, and maturatoin of the SDK should lower the bar for pushing clients forward.

Also independently, Movim keeps advancing and Libervia is doing a ton of cool work. I'm sure I am missing others.
by Aperocky | 2025-11-20 15:00:02+00:00
There are no such thing as 210 IQ.

It correlates to 7.3 sigma, meanwhile 7-sigma event has a probability of approximately 1 in 390 billion. We only have 8 billion humans on Earth.

These absurd claims about IQ is almost evidence that the claimant are nowhere close. For starters, any IQ tests are not going to be normalized to that range because it is impossible to normalize to that range as there are 0 realistic samples.
by hnburnsy | 2025-11-20 15:00:08+00:00
>You are able to turn these ads off, but only individually by editing the videos one by one. I spent hours going through my backlog of videos disabling ads I didn’t place.

This is like my Google Wallet where I have hundreds of old boarding passes that can only be deletion d by editing each on. No delete all, no multi select. I consider this malicious compliance, where Google sees a way to store your history (travel in this case) despite having all other location history off.
by 827a | 2025-11-20 15:00:40+00:00
The "world's smartest man" very recently predicted on X that Bitcoin would hit $220k by the end of the year. [1]

Here's the thing: IQ probably doesn't mean much of anything. But it is one of only a handful of ways we have to benchmark intelligence. The training of AI systems critically requires benchmarks to understand gain/loss in training and determine if minute changes in the system is actually winging more intelligence out of that giant matrix of numbers.

What I deeply believe is: We're never going to invent superintelligence, not because its impossible for computers to achieve, but because we don't even know what intelligence is.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-smartest-man-predicts-b...
by coldpie | 2025-11-20 15:01:18+00:00
Game mechanics are not considered copyrightable[1]. If you had a clean room implementation with your own significantly different assets, it would be allowed.

However, the exact definitions of "significantly different" and "assets" is where things start to get fuzzy. While you could definitely make a very similar RTS game, exactly how similar can you get? EA doesn't own "military-themed RTS", but they probably do own "Soviets vs Allies with about 5 different unit types, air transports, and tesla coils." Getting even more fuzzy, are unit abilities considered assets, or game mechanics? It'd have to be worked out in court.

My gut feeling is these clone engines would probably lose in court. I think the specific expression of the general game mechanics being cloned here probably would constitute infringement. But there isn't much upside to the IP owners to pursue enthusiastic hobbyists cloning a 20+ year old game in a non-commercial way, so they let it slide.

[1] "Although Amusement World admitted that they appropriated Atari's idea, the court determined that this was not prohibited, because copyright only protects the specific expression of an idea, not the idea itself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc._v._Amusement_World...
by voidhorse | 2025-11-20 15:01:18+00:00
The gauge I use for intelligence is how much stock a person puts into an IQ test.

In my view, people who are able to question the legitimacy or applicability of IQ as a general measure of "intelligence", an idea that is highly contextual, are probably intelligent. They are at least smart enough to question social conceptions and to recognize the contingent nature of such conceptions. People who uncritically view IQ as some kind of unassailable proof of "intelligence" may be good at solving certain classes of known problems but, I really am not surprised that they may lack the imagination to contribute meaningful things to society, as a blind faith in a measure developed by fallible human beings is indicative of limited thinking /creativity.

Obviously someone can score well on an IQ test and question its validity as a signifier of intelligence, just as one can score poorly and place a strong degree of faith in it—but the way someone approaches it, in either case, is a very telling indicator of their own intellectual biases and limitations.
Show HN: Built a vibe testing tool to turn screen recording into Playwright test
by Sandeepg33k | 2025-11-20 15:01:36+00:00
I built a tiny tool that turns a screen recording or video into a clean playwright test. Just upload and it extracts every step automatically and then turns it into working playwright code. You even get a live preview of the browser while AI is running your flow.

My Stack: Next.js, Vercel (AI Gateway + AI SDK), Browserbase, WorkOS, Upstash, Google Gemini + Anthropic Claude for the models

Appreciate any feedback!
by maxloh | 2025-11-20 15:01:57+00:00
From Allen AI's Discord:

Today we’re announcing *Olmo 3*—our leading fully open language model suite built for reasoning, chat, and tool use, & an open model flow that exposes not just the final weights, but the entire training journey.

Most models ship as a single opaque snapshot. Olmo 3 opens the model flow end to end – pretraining, mid-training, and post-training – plus data recipes and code, so you can see how capabilities are built and customize any stage of the process.

Meet the Olmo 3 family:

*Olmo 3-Base (7B, 32B)*—foundations for post-training with strong code, math, and reading comprehension skills

*Olmo 3-Instruct (7B)*—focused on multi-turn chat and tool use

*Olmo 3-Think (7B, 32B)*—“thinking” models that surface their reasoning steps

All are compact, dense models designed to run on hardware ranging from laptops to research clusters.

Under the hood, we trained Olmo 3 on ~6T tokens from our new *Dolma 3* pretraining dataset, plus new post-training sets with stronger data decontamination and richer math/code/reasoning mixes. A long-context extension pushes Olmo 3’s context window to ~65K tokens—enough for full papers, books, and other long files.

At the center is *Olmo 3-Think (32B)*, the best fully open 32B-scale reasoning model we’re aware of, alongside our strongest 32B base model.

*In our evaluations:*

⦿ Olmo 3-Think (32B) is the *strongest fully open 32B-scale reasoning model*

⦿ Olmo 3-Base models *beat fully open Marin & Apertus *and* rival Qwen 2.5 and Gemma 3*

⦿ Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) *beats Qwen 2.5, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.1 on tough chat + tool-use benchmarks*

We’re also rolling out a major Ai2 Playground upgrade alongside Olmo 3:

*Thinking mode* to see intermediate reasoning on complex tasks

*Tool calling* so you can define JSON-schema tools or call tools via our Asta platform

Olmo 3 is wired into *OlmoTrace* in the Ai2 Playground, so you don’t just see its behavior—you can trace it. For example, you can ask Olmo 3-Think (32B) to answer a general-knowledge question, then use OlmoTrace to inspect where and how the model may have learned to generate parts of its response.

If you care about AI you can customize, inspect, and improve, Olmo 3 is for you—available now under Apache 2.0.

Dive deeper & get started:

Give Olmo 3 a spin in the Ai2 Playground → https://playground.allenai.org?utm_source=discord&utm_medium...

Download the models: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/olmo-3-68e80f043c...

Read more in our blog: https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3?utm_source=discord&utm_medium...

Check out the tech report: https://allenai.org/papers/olmo3?utm_source=discord&utm_medi...
by stavros | 2025-11-20 15:02:35+00:00
> As World's Highest IQ Record Holder, I expect #BITCOIN is going to $220,000 in the next 45 days.

> I will use 100% of my Bitcoin profits to build churches for Jesus Christ in every nation.

> “For with God nothing shall be impossible.” (Luke 1:37)

Something tells me maybe he doesn't actually have an IQ of 276.
by volkk | 2025-11-20 15:02:41+00:00
> It correlates to 7.3 sigma, meanwhile 7-sigma event has a probability of approximately 1 in 390 billion. We only have 8 billion humans on Earth.

why can't you use historical population? like, the total amount of humans that ever existed? rough google shows around 100billion. seems legit that in the history of humanity, we could pop out someone so intelligent? But I do agree that IQ is probably a decent signal but entirely meaningless as sole measurement.
by indigo945 | 2025-11-20 15:03:00+00:00
MeBoy brings back some memories. I used it to catch so many Pokémon in middle school.

What's really cool about that emulator is the way its sound emulation works. Instead of emulating the Gameboy's synthesizer synchronously and outputting a PCM waveform to a buffer, which is probably impossible on J2ME due to hardware and platform constraints, it uses the phone's own MIDI (or square wave) synthesizer to play whatever the GameBoy synthesizer should be playing. This gives the video game music a very idiosyncratic sound when played back in MeBoy.
by pxc | 2025-11-20 15:03:06+00:00
Kim Ung-yong (the one from the article with 210 IQ sounds like a good guy with a respectable career and a healthy self-conception. He even describes himself as happy!

It seems like 210 IQ has proven to be plenty for him, although measurement of his IQ and intense childhood pressure may not have been beneficial to him.
by zahlman | 2025-11-20 15:03:30+00:00
I did J2ME development in the 64KB JAR era.

I can still remember setting up palette swapping (inspired by retro consoles, but still a common contemporary idea e.g. on GBA) by loading the byte data of PNG resources into an array and locating and replacing the PLTE chunk before handing it off to the MIDP image loader. Always wondered if anyone else had picked up the trick. I can also remember people suggesting on Nokia in particular to just store raw bitmaps (since they'd be compressed in the JAR anyway) with their API and that this was saving tons of space for some people... later I found out that one of these reports came from someone who had started out with individual image files for 12x12 tiles that had a full 256-entry PLTE (i.e., more colour entries than pixels).

I also remember a device-specific bug where doing something like `x[y+1]`, where `y` was a static byte set to -1, would produce an `IndexOutOfBoundsError` claiming the index used was -256. I assume this was some threading issue in the Java implementation, where the value would be loaded into a register and then the sign-extension would somehow affect the register after the increment. I only ever reproduced it with static class members, I think (but it did also happen with shorts).
by bellamoon544 | 2025-11-20 15:03:36+00:00
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by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-20 15:03:38+00:00
Your post is very naive. In the UK, some universities are so dependent now on foreign students paying high fees to break even, that it has been widely reported in the media. And in a few EU countries, polytechnics have been upgraded to university status (at least in their English-language names) in order to attract fee-paying students from the developing world. Finnish polytechnics, for example, run whole marketing campaigns in the Indian Subcontinent in order to get people to come and pay those sweet, sweet foreign-student fees.
by brainwad | 2025-11-20 15:03:50+00:00
Pay day loans are generally good _for the borrower_ - they aren't just window breaking. The consequences of missing an important payment can be way worse than the high interest on the pay day loan, e.g. if you don't pay for a course in time, they disenroll you and you no longer get to take the course; if you don't pay rent in time, you might get eviction proceedings filed against you; if you don't pay for your car repairs the garage will not return your car and you will lose time every day taking public transport.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-20 15:04:34+00:00
A really good litmus test of individual perspective and maturity, here. Already seeing comments nitpick specific arguments or points, which is itself the trap to shine a light on those individuals more obsessed with arbitrary external measures of their personal definition of success, rather than self-reflecting on said definition and asking whether or not this definition fits who they are or want to be as a person, or their desired achievements and goals in life.

It’s a sonnet of sorts about the curse of intelligence in an increasingly insane world, a reminder that brilliant people can be absolute monsters, and that the only person who can bring you contentment in life is yourself.
by grepfru_it | 2025-11-20 15:04:37+00:00
As always, the home model is what has greater influence than any tv show. If parents are also behaving as in the TV shows then the shows simply serve as confirmation bias to what the children observe.

I noticed that when I adopted a loving, quieter tone, and truly focused on do as i do vs do as i say attitudes, my children began to reject the "norms" shown on the tv shows. Today my children remark about how their friends act at their homes and towards their parents, and we have discussions about it.

That said, I definitely had the problem you describe, but it was resolved by focusing on consequences of actions and being ready to follow through on punishments (much like you did). Combined with the do as i do attitude, those punishments were ultimately punishments for me as well. You are being a terorrizing little bad ass? ok no TV. But then this means I can't watch TV because then they might watch TV while in the same room as me. Mutual pain.
by sureglymop | 2025-11-20 15:04:44+00:00
How is Langan thought of as a smart guy? I can't read further because this guy to me is either a grifter or suffering from mental illness. The linked interview doesn't surprise me at all, daily wire readers/listeners are just as gullible and exploitable as people who would think that Langan is smart.

Every smart person I've met in life so far has known that humility is key if you want other smart people to take you seriously. And to let your work speak for yourself.

It's somewhat similar to those YouTubers who help homeless people on camera. It's a paradox where if it's done on film it seems more self serving than generous but if it wasn't on film no one would know.

But there is a difference. Instead of going on film, smart people can produce actual works for others to read and validate.
by adwn | 2025-11-20 15:05:01+00:00
> But he is not complaining that we use the Gregorian calendar.

Yes, he is:

>>> Yet this "world" history uses Europe's reference point [of BC/CE] as universal.

It wouldn't make sense to use any other than the Gregorian calendar for this map, and it also wouldn't make sense to mix different calendar systems.

> He is pointing out that is just one calendar among many […]

But it's not. The Gregorian calendar is the calendar in world wide use today. Giving dates in BC/CE is not an expression of Eurocentrism, it simply reflects reality.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-20 15:05:19+00:00
(2) surprised me a little. Not because of the performance consequences, but because I almost never see explicit calls to `copy()` in Python (and I read a lot of Python).

I think maybe a more realistic example there would be people using splatting without realizing/internalizing that it performs a full copy, e.g.

xs = [1, *ys]

Another one that stood out was (3). Slots are great, but >95% of the time I'd expect people would want to use `slots=True` with dataclasses instead of manually writing `__slots__` and a constructor like that. `slots=True` has worked since Python 3.10, so every non-EOL version of Python supports it.
by klodolph | 2025-11-20 15:05:20+00:00
> Langan has not produced any acclaimed works of art or science. In this way, he differs significantly he differs significantly from outsider intellectuals like Paul Erdös, Stephen Wolfram, Nassim Taleb, etc.

Paul Erdős is the only outsider intellectual on that list, IMO.

(Also note that ő and ö are different!)
by herval | 2025-11-20 15:05:23+00:00
> IQ probably doesn't mean much of anything. But it is one of only a handful of ways we have to benchmark intelligence.

IQ means a lot of things (higher IQ people are measurably better at making associations and generating original ideas, are more perceptive, learn faster, have better spatial awareness).

It doesn't give them the power to predict the future.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-20 15:05:43+00:00
Exactly. We don't have a good definition of intelligence and I don't think we ever will. Like all social concepts, it is highly dependent on the needs, goals, and values of the human societies that define it, and so it is impossible to come up with a universal definition. If your needs don't align with the needs an AI has been trained to meet, you are not going to find it very intelligent of helpful for meeting those needs.
by nis0s | 2025-11-20 15:06:05+00:00
It’s like trying to pray the gay away (you can’t), nature is only controllable to an extent. If your ideology requires relatively more energy to adhere to than not adhering to it, then guess what happens? Groups of people will always prefer a low energy and less resistant path, unless they’re part of political fringes which necessitate staying the course due to some existential crisis.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-20 15:06:24+00:00
Most anti-jailbreak techniques are notorious for causing surface level refusals.

It's how you get the tactics among the line of "tell the model to emit a refusal first, and then an actual answer on another line". The model wants to emit refusal, yes. But once it sees that it already has emitted a refusal, the "desire to refuse" is quenched, and it has no trouble emitting an actual answer too.

Same goes for techniques that tamper with punctuation, word formatting and such.

Anthropic tried to solve that with the CRBN monitor on Sonnet 4.5, and failed completely and utterly. They resorted to tuning their filter so aggressively it basically fires on anything remotely related to biology. The SOTA on refusals is still "you need to cripple your LLM with false positives to get close to reliable true refusals".
by jjmarr | 2025-11-20 15:06:25+00:00
Allegedly most of them, since they have non-profit mandates and are often tax-exempt.

The University of Staffordshire is a public university and is funded by the government to provide education to British people. Its mandate isn't "about cashflow".

In reality, that particular school created a private commercial subsidiary called "Staffordshire University Services". All new employees are hired by that subsidiary, which does have a mandate to generate cashflow.
by meetpateltech | 2025-11-20 15:06:34+00:00
Developer Blog: https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-image...

DeepMind Page: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/pro/

Model Card: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Ge...

SynthID in Gemini: https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-image-verification-gemi...
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-20 15:06:40+00:00
> One thing we've leaned heavily into was using Langgraph for agentic workflows

Probably my single biggest mistake so far with developing LLM tooling so far has been to try to use Langgraph even after inspecting the codebase, because people I thought were smarter than me hyped it up.

Do yourself a favor and just write the plumbing yourself, it's a lot easier than one might think before digging into it, and tool calling is literally a loop passing tool requests and responses back and forth until the model responds, and having your own abstractions will make it a lot easier to build proper workflows. Plus you get to use whatever language you want and don't have to deal with Python.
by jaccola | 2025-11-20 15:06:49+00:00
The thought experiment I do when speaking with graduates is: assume you could just buy the certificate from the institution you went to for the same price as the tuition you paid, would you do that?

I do not always get a "yes" but most of the time I do.

These are generally people who went to top universities and now have well paying and respected jobs. I suspect if I asked most students of lower tier universities the answer would be "I'd rather pay for neither".

Thankfully, things are generally shifting, there is a push for apprenticeships and one can even become a solicitor or barrister via the apprenticeship route now. University will go down as one of the largest economic wastes in human history.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-20 15:06:53+00:00
The other problem with IQ is that it's not a fixed scale, so you can't really compare IQ scores across time. An IQ of 100 is average by definition. Even if the average "intelligence" (or whatever IQ measures, because it doesn't seem to be intelligence as people think of intelligence) rises or falls over time, that average will always be a 100 IQ.