MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-10 19:24:42+00:00
> which is why I am surprised that people think these models are good enough to replace humans at work.

There are a lot of office jobs that I'd fit into the category of "bullshit jobs." They may serve some purpose in the huge bureaucracy of enterprises but the day to day ultimately boils doing to managing someone's calendar and sending emails.

Quite a few people at my work have now started using Copilot for their emails. It's obviously AI (at least to me), and yet, the content and formatting are an improvement over what they were sending before.

So much of the marketing hype on LLMs is about how it'll replace all the engineering work (the MBA's wet dream, to replace all the expensive labor). In reality, I think its more capable at replacing non-tech labor and middle management.

An LLM can send out an email to the team and analyze a project check-in faster, and better, than some overpaid middle manager can. I have no doubts an LLM could probably serve the role of a project management office, or a business analyst.

Sure, there should still be a human in the loop for now, but you need far, far less humans in those roles than previously.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-10 19:24:54+00:00
update: I don't think this comment is correct, after kerkeslager's response to it. I'm leaving it intact underneath so the conversation still makes sense.

People on here almost universally value logical consistency over beneficial outcomes. By the HN moral consensus a rule that can be applied to all situations without modification is a good rule. It does not much matter what outcomes that produces.
by wlesieutre | 2025-11-10 19:25:27+00:00
> He took out his phone, opened ChatGPT, and asked for restaurant suggestions. Why get close to someone who outsources decisions, including the fun ones like picking where to eat? If someone is so lazy they’ll hit up ChatGPT to plan a first date, imagine how little effort they’ll spend six months in.

Do they have a similar reaction to searching "restaurants near here" in a maps app? Practically any time I go out to eat I'm either going to one or two favorite places, or I'm looking on the internet where something gives me a list of possibilities.

It's not like I've memorized every local restaurant, so looking online for recommendations online is a way to learn about new places.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-10 19:25:28+00:00
Oooh, then it makes sense why there isn't a good set of layers:

XmlReader -> (XmlDocument or XmlSerializer) generally hits all use cases for serialization well. XmlReader is super-low-level streaming, when you need it. XmlDocument is great when you need to reason with Xml as the data structure, and XmlSerializer quickly translates between Xml and data structures as object serialization. There's a few default options that are wrong; but overall the API is well thought out.

In Newtonsoft I couldn't find a low level JsonReader; then in System.Text.Json I couldn't find an equivalent of mutable JObject. Both are great libraries, but they aren't comprehensive like System.Text.Json.
by arbol | 2025-11-10 19:25:54+00:00
The solvers are a problem but they give themselves away when they incorrectly fake devices or run out of context. I run a bot detection SaaS and we've had some success blocking them. Their advertised solve times are also wildly inaccurate. They take ages to return a successful token, if at all. The number of companies providing bot mitigation is also growing rapidly, making it difficult for the solvers to stay on top of reverse engineering etc.
by ebbi | 2025-11-10 19:26:06+00:00
Taking inspiration from the East India Company, Apple should colonize the UK and take over the government - the iGovernment, if you will.

Citizens will regain their right to e2ee privacy, they will not have to deal with voting for mediocre politicians to lead them. Instead, Tim Cook will be their new leader, and every morning over the mandatory installation of HomePods in each home, citizens will be greeted with an ecstatic "Good morning!" to get them energized for the day ahead.

Voting will be done via iPhones, where FaceID will verify the eligibility of the voter before the vote has been submitted.
by zdragnar | 2025-11-10 19:26:16+00:00
They'll make accommodations, but those will be very budget accommodations and not comfy, just like everything else about them.

Hence why you're better off going with something else. In fact, you're almost always better off going with something else. I'm not a giant, but at 6'4" (1.93 meters) I've found that I absolutely detest most shared transit. Either my legs are too long or shoulders too broad, and even non-budget airlines can be unpleasant to fly in.
by cipehr | 2025-11-10 19:26:42+00:00
A little annoyed, this seems like is has nothing to do with the ICE arrests...

> The city suspended its Flock system because city officials could not guarantee they wouldn’t be forced to release data collected by those devices someday, she said.

Key part is "someday". Seems like the article is implying that flock may have shared this data with ICE which led to the arrests... but there is no proof supporting this...

> On Thursday, a Skagit County Superior Court judge ruled that pictures taken by Flock cameras in the cities of Sedro-Woolley and Stanwood qualify as public records, and therefore must be released as required by the state’s Public Records Act, court records show.

This is the more likely reason. What do folks here think about this ruling?

IMO it seems obvious that this should be public records/data, but would love to hear alternative positions to this.
by dr2chase | 2025-11-10 19:27:02+00:00
Depends how you define "equal". One approach is simply to scale the charge by income -- effectively, convert time to money, and charge you a congestion tax of some amount of money-earning time. "6 minutes" is 1/10000 of your annual income -- $2 for someone earning $20,000 per year, $20 for someone earning $200,000 per year.

But does a vehicle with several people in it pay for the max, min, median, average, or the driver's time? I suspect "driver" is easiest, it seems like it might work but I'll bet there are some screwy ways to game that rule, too.
by nicklewers | 2025-11-10 19:27:12+00:00
Thanks! So yeah its all on-device using Apples Vision framework. I use feature prints and embeddings + face counts + person counts + a few other properties to cluster similar photos, then score each one based on sharpness, exposure, face clarity, composition, emotional score, and Apple’s aesthetic score. Each of those is weighted a bit differently.

You don’t need to define “similar” yourself, you select i.e. 100 photos from your library, then it figures that out the groups by itself, and there’s the review screen so you can confirm the decisions made before deleting anything.
by seplox | 2025-11-10 19:27:23+00:00
Yeah, but. The side-effect of catching criminals and protecting the children is that they also provide a searchable database of everyone's historical travel habits.

It's my opinion that our historical ideas of expectation of privacy when in public spaces are incompatible with the current state of surveillance technology. Sure, everyone should expect that they might be recognized by an acquaintance when out in public, but I don't think it follows that our entire past history should be available at any time in the future.
by rp_talent | 2025-11-10 19:27:42+00:00
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by prmoustache | 2025-11-10 19:27:48+00:00
I think everybody uses clues as warning sign. I can safely say that heavy vocal[1] chatGPT users tend to be of the very boring type from my own statistics. Emphasis on heavy AND vocal.

[1] by that I mean those that keep saying everyone around them they ask chatGPT or you should ask chatGPT for whatever is the subject of the conversation.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-10 19:27:56+00:00
I find that it is terrible for research, and hallucinates 25% to 90% of its references.

If you tell it to find something and give it a detailed description of what you're looking for, it will pretend like it has verified that that thing exists, and give you a bulletpoint lecture about why it is such an effective and interesting thing that 1) you didn't ask for, and 2) is really it parroting your description back to you with embellishments.

I thought I was going to be able to use LLMs primarily for research, because I have read an enormous number of things (books, papers) in my life, and I can't necessarily find them again when they would be useful. Trying to track them down through LLMs is rarely successful and always agonizing, like pulling teeth that are constantly lying to you. A surprising outcome is that I often get so frustrated by the LLM and so detailed in how I'm complaining about its stupid responses that I remind myself of something that allows me to find the reference on my own.

I have to suspect that people who find it useful for research are researching things that are easily discoverable through many other means. Those are not the things that are interesting. I totally find it useful to find something in software docs that I'm too lazy to look up myself, but it's literally saving me 10 minutes.
by ls612 | 2025-11-10 19:28:35+00:00
But the sorts of ICE actions that are causing this controversy only have political support because the US immigration laws have been flouted for 30+ years. Regardless of what you or I think of it it’s the reality that lots of the electorate wants deportations and lots of them and that likely isn’t true in a world where the laws on the books were more strictly enforced in the past.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-11-10 19:28:53+00:00
This is completely wrong. The equal protection clause, and the constitution as a whole, describes the rights of individuals as well as the structure and limits of the government. Individuals and companies are, in a literal sense, completely incapable of violating the Constitution, unless they are acting on behalf of the government.

It's the same reason that you have absolutely no right to free speech in the workplace. The first amendment applies only to governments.
by hathawsh | 2025-11-10 19:29:04+00:00
I've seen similar results in physics. I suspect LLMs are capable of redirecting the user accurately when there have been long discussions on the web about that topic. When an LLM can pattern-match on whole discussions, it becomes a next-level search engine.

Next, I hope we can somehow get LLMs to distinguish between reliable and less-reliable results.
by capten | 2025-11-10 19:29:12+00:00
I've been working on a ttrpg site for the last year with my own IP. The intent is to create an experience that makes an intuitive UI that minimizes tedious tasks.

You need to know "does this guy look hurt"? The enemy HP bar can be set to either an actual percentage, or set to have cracks in the bar to signify a range of damage. Does only person take notes? Personal notes are shareable and there's a section for community notes. Do you have enough perception to notice a hidden door? The UI can be set to go off passive perception and give you those notifications automatically.

It's still in early alpha testing with friends, but it should eliminate general GM pain points to encourage more groups to form.
by serial_dev | 2025-11-10 19:29:13+00:00
You can usually get the ticket printed at the desk, print it at home, have a PDF on any device like a Kindle, take a screenshot of the QR code, add to your wallet on your phone even without proprietary apps, etc…

I download the airline’s apps, but I hate relying exclusively on these potentially unreliable apps, or unreliable phones so I always get the ticket in other formats, too: always have an analog version, and some form of digital version on at least two devices.

I don’t travel often, but when I do, missing a flight would be expensive or annoying, so it’s a reasonable trade off for me, ymmv. With that said, I also don’t fly Ryanair, so they can do whatever they want.
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-10 19:29:21+00:00
GMKtec, maker of the EVO-X2 mini-PC that uses a Ryzen AI Max 395+, posted a blog post with a comparison between the DGX Spark and their EVO-X2 miniPC.

from https://www.gmktec.com/blog/evo-x2-vs-nvidia-dgx-spark-redef... (text taken from https://wccftech.com/forget-nvidia-dgx-spark-amd-strix-halo-... since the GMKtec table was an image, but wccftech converted to an HTML table - EDIT-reformatted to make table look nicer in monospace font w/o tabs)

Test Model Metric EVO – X2 NVIDIA GB10 Winner Llama 3.3 70B Generation Speed (tok/sec) 4.90 4.67 AMD First Token Response Time (s) 0.86 0.53 NVIDIA Qwen3 Coder Generation Speed (tok/sec) 35.13 38.03 NVIDIA First Token Response Time (s) 0.13 0.42 AMD GPT-OSS 20B Generation Speed (tok/sec) 64.69 60.33 AMD First Token Response Time (s) 0.19 0.44 AMD Qwen3 0.6B Model Generation Speed (tok/sec) 163.78 174.29 NVIDIA First Token Response Time (s) 0.02 0.03 AMD
by jjfoooo4 | 2025-11-10 19:29:45+00:00
I’m working on an AI-assisted reminders app using on device models for iOS.

Things like, “get xyz a birthday gift”, and it finds the contact and sets the reminder for a few weeks before the birthday.

The source data is calendar and contact info, but the nice thing about local models is that no data gets sent to providers, and the app can be cheap
by esseph | 2025-11-10 19:29:52+00:00
Wimax hasn't been something anybody I've known in the US has talked about for more than 15 years.

I've built fiber networks and fixed wireless networks. Almost ended up becoming an LTE network as well. It didn't make any sense in any sort of financial modeling, even with spectrum availability.

LTE helps solve "general connectivity". What it does not do is build scalable, reliable, high speed, economical sensitive broadband infrastructure.
by kcartlidge | 2025-11-10 19:30:03+00:00
Neither has the UK government.

* It wasn't the general election.

* They offered local councils the chance to request it if they were going through a reorganisation or devolution process.

* 18 councils requested and 9 were accepted as justified.

* And even those are only delayed until May next year (one year after the rest of the UK).

So to be clear the UK government not only didn't postpone the general elections but half the councils who requested the local elections were postponed were denied, with the other half having reasons and still doing it a year later anyway.

And all that is actually covered in the page you link to.
by jjice | 2025-11-10 19:30:26+00:00
I often miss certain things that people consider important due to the humanity behind it, so this may be one of those cases (although things like art and I definitely do see that for) - but this feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water to me.

If I went on a few dates with someone and was really having a great time, but they told me that all their planning and conversation pieces were from a gen AI platform, I absolutely wouldn't like that. If they used it to audit some code to check for any performance considerations though? Those are so different, at least to me.

This quote:

> A good friend recently told me that she spent a night with a man, and in the morning suggested they get breakfast together. He took out his phone, opened ChatGPT, and asked for restaurant suggestions. Why get close to someone who outsources decisions, including the fun ones like picking where to eat?

Is one I find fair. There is some humanity to choosing some place to eat with another human. It also doesn't feel crazy to me to outsource the gathering and ranking to ChatGPT, though.

Then a lot of the article banks on "societal harm":

> OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause?

With some of the things that the article points out to, like water and power usage, I can also see the argument there. But then you can point to so many other things with similar arguments. A classic being "you're using an iPhone right now, don't you know how those are made".

This quote also feels along these lines to me:

> Pereira thinks that using ChatGPT “shows such a laziness”.

>

>“It’s like you can’t think for yourself, and you have to rely on an app for that,” she said.

But we all use Google and a million other services that "remove thinking". This just feels like an additional step (depending on the case, as mentioned above).

I have no idea where to stand on any of this. There's so much to consider and I feel like I can only find one side or the other online to read about. No one with a middle ground that makes sense (that I've stumbled upon).

That said, I do think there's a huge difference between having it draft your love letters for you and having it tell you how to best treat a cut you got on your finger.
by gruturo | 2025-11-10 19:30:41+00:00
It absolutely doesn't take an app to issue a boarding pass which will appear in your Apple Wallet. It's literally a zip (with extension .pkpass) containing a master JSON, a few assets like logos and a digital signature. There are tutorials for making your own.

Many airlines let you download one once you check in on their website, or email you one, or embed a download link in an SMS, just to name 3 alternatives.
by adammarples | 2025-11-10 19:30:48+00:00
This guy is in the UK, like me. The UK hiring market is freezing up, and has been since reeves et al raised employer taxes on hiring employees. They also just added some more legislation to make them harder to dismiss, and increased minimum wage, fueling wage compression. Now everyone is waiting for the budget in November to see what will happen next. I'm pretty sure most of this guy's problems are related to that, not AI. I work as a contractor in tech and bounce around different businesses. A lot of them are encouraging/using AI in some form but there are always new hires, whole functions aren't being replaced. People are on boarded every week. This is more science fiction than reality at the moment. The problem is taxes and regulations.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-11-10 19:31:04+00:00
> HTML was also redefined to be an SGML application with 4.0

Nope, it was intended as SGML from the get go; cf [1].

> SGML has really spectacularly failed (IMO) due to sheer flexibility and complexity

HTML (and thus SGML) is the most used document language there ever has been, by far.

[1]: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-10 19:31:11+00:00
The AI is also indiscriminate with what "sources" it chooses. Even deep research mode in gemini.

You can go through and look at the websites it checked, and it's 80% blogspam with no other sources cited on said blog.

When I'm manually doing a Google search, I'm not just randomly picking the first few links I'm deliberately filtering for credible domains or articles, not just picking whatever random marketing blog SEO'd their way to the top.

Sorry Gemini, an Advertorial from Times of India is not a reliable source for what I'm looking for. Nor is this xyz affiliate marketing blog stuffed to the brim with ads and product placement.

Some of that is due to that's probably 90% of the internet, but weren't these things trained on huge amounts of books, and published peer-reviewed works? Where are those in the sources?
by metaltyphoon | 2025-11-10 19:31:33+00:00
> As a small example wrt Rust: resetting an arraylist/vector while reusing its memory is a weirdly complicated trick https://lobste.rs/s/emvkea/why_we_didn_t_rewrite_our_feed_ha...

Nitpicking? Let’s show an example on creating an interface in Zig to see all complicated tricks.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-11-10 19:31:34+00:00
> The fact new construction in 2025 doesn’t mandate ethernet drops in every non-bathroom is what’s contributing to Wi-Fi crowding, and prevalent last-mile wired access ensures that mobile operators have to compete on cost rather than data caps - and thus hinders their monopolization efforts.

This would raise the cost of construction, in the middle of widespread housing shortages.
by supportengineer | 2025-11-10 19:31:39+00:00
I am familiar with both of those, and I sometimes ask ChatGPT because I am curious what it will come up with. I am curious to see if it comes up with something surprising or unexpected.

Perhaps the man in question is a thoughtful and curious person who was utilizing all of the resources available to him to provide a great experience to someone he cared about.
by legitster | 2025-11-10 19:31:47+00:00
> Over the past few months, as warnings of an impending AI-induced doomsday have dominated my news feed and party conversations, I’ve come up with a new one. I will not date someone who uses ChatGPT.

It's fairly telling that the people who hold these strong opinions think of themselves as strong independent thinkers but are slavishly devoted to the opinions of an algorithm.

I think there are a lot of decent reasons to be skeptical of AI. But this doesn't read like someone who is thoughtfully cautious and has concerns over actual issues with LLMs - this reads like someone in the 50s reading about microwaves and committing to never own one.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-10 19:32:02+00:00
"Habitually fighting anything new" is nonpolitical conservatism. It's not my stance but it's a pretty valid one, long recognized. There is social value in having people and groups who reject all changes regardless of their apparent merit or sophistication. You can't trick or swindle them, they can't be fooled or persuaded. It provides a counter to the incentives pushing us to change too fast, or without understanding enough of the possible consequences of broad social/technological changes.

I think a lot of the problems we have now is an unbalance on this, an insufficiently strong conservative force. "Conservative" political movements stopped filling this role a couple generations ago in favor of a sort of radical revanchism. They want to change everything too, just in a different way.

People who fight every change will always lose. But they are still valuable to us.
by yndoendo | 2025-11-10 19:32:34+00:00
I find all these Popup Assistant Bots as bad User Experience.

No, I don't want to use your assistant and your are forcing me to pointlessly click on the close button. Some times they event hide viable information during their popup.

They seem to be the reincarnation of 2000s popups; there to satisfy a business manager versus actually being a useful tool.
Show HN: ND Loss Optimizer Arena
by olliepro | 2025-11-10 19:32:45+00:00
A teaching/learning tool to understand popular optimization Algorithms against a roughly textured quadratic landscape

In 2D you can visualize all optimizers at once and see their behaviors around local minima etc.

In 3-15D you can visualize the loss landscape for the first two parameters being optimized. The loss landscape changes as the unobserved parameters change, and because of this, you can only visualize a single optimizer at a time.

This was a quick weekend project vibe coded with the help of codex. Github is here: https://github.com/olliepro/ND-Optimizer-Arena/tree/main