MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim333 | 2025-11-28 14:47:12+00:00
Perhaps in their basic form but you could do a variation on them like

>AlphaEvolve is an evolutionary coding agent for designing advanced algorithms based on large language models such as Gemini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaEvolve

which came up with a novel improvement in matrix multiplication

>I don't think people realize just how insane the Matrix Multiplication breakthrough by AlphaEvolve is https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1knem3r/i_dont...
by lionkor | 2025-11-28 14:48:08+00:00
To add some details actually; we were concerned about three major points:

1. The project would deal with user's data to some degree

2. The project was going to "annoy" an existing, much larger, project who would have likely tried to take some legal action to keep their "place at the top"

3. The project was going to both a) need to generate funds (and pay core developers), and b) be guaranteed to generate funds, based on our experience. However, we did not want to register a company as not having a company complicate things was one of the central goals of the split from the larger project. Try paying people a couple hundred bucks (less than minimum wage, more like Aufwandsentschaedigung) without having to jump through various hoops and without doing it illegally.
by moron4hire | 2025-11-28 14:48:12+00:00
Yeah, there were some other, serious issues of lack of informed consent during that instance.

I had the option of a local or general anesthetic, but everyone acted like it was no big deal so I chose the local. I've had tooth cavities drilled without anesthesia and was expecting something like that. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced, where I've also experienced severe food poisoning. I almost threw up and almost passed out just from the pain.

When it happened, the doctor gaslit me and told me it was just in my head. In my follow-up appointment, he admitted it was a common occurrence in that procedure, but they didn't like to tell people about it because it might scare them away and they didn't stop to administer more anesthesia because "it's a quick procedure."
by PrairieFire | 2025-11-28 14:48:53+00:00
To further your point - I mean honestly if this all ends up being an actual bubble that doesn’t manifest a financial return for the liquidity injectors but instead a massive loss (for the .01% who are in large part putting the cash in), did humanity actually lose?

If it pops it might end up being looked at in the lens of history as one of the largest backdoor/proxy wealth redistributions ever. The capex being spent is in large part going to fund the labor of the unwashed masses, and society is getting the individual productivity and efficiency benefits from the end result models.

I’m particularly thankful for the plethora of open source models I have access to thanks to all this.

I, individually, have realized indisputable substantial benefits from having these tools at my disposal every day. If the whole thing pops, these tools are safely in my possession and I’m better because I have them. Thanks .01%!!

(the reality is I don’t think it will pop in the classic sense, and these days it seems the .01 can never lose. either way, the $1tn can’t be labeled as a waste).
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 14:49:45+00:00
The EU delegates stuff to the member states, those states enforce laws, that could in principal include requiring everything up from the physical link layer to scan for watever they say so.

> Especially as perfect encryption is indistinguishable from noise.

Irrelevant. If powers can't decrypt it, powers deem it a crime to have or send.

"white-noise.wav is a test file and I'm an acoustics engineer": tough, supply the seed to the PRNG which created it or fine time.

> policy/economic problem instead

Instead? Everything about this is about groups wanting to act in secret for their best interests, and other people wanting to ensure that only the interests they share get to do that. This is true when it's me logging into my bank and criminals trying to get access to the same, when it's the Russian government sponsoring arson attacks in Europe and local police trying to stop them, and when it's the CIA promoting Tor for democracy activists in dictatorships and those dictatorships trying to stop them.

We must have unbreakable encryption, and yet also we cannot have it.
by Qem | 2025-11-28 14:50:32+00:00
> so people like me should be able to cobble something together that's a workable alternative to Posit.

There is Rkward[1], available from the repositories in many linux distributions.

Discovered it recently, because I'm currently learning R, and few linux distributions outside the Mandriva family offer Rstudio straight from the repositories, and I'm lazy to download and do a manual install every time.

[1] https://rkward.kde.org/
by fluoridation | 2025-11-28 14:50:45+00:00
>You wouldn't say it was impossible for Carthage to have conquered Rome, would you?

Okay, but is space having 3 dimensions instead of 2 also an accident of history, or part of the fundamental structure of the universe?

For that matter, it's not obvious to me that history as it actually unfolded is not also part of the fundamental structure of the universe.
by echelon | 2025-11-28 14:50:59+00:00
Familiarize yourself with the idiom. It's commonly used to describe tech companies and organizations with bad leadership:

https://www.theidioms.com/fish-rots-from-the-head-down/

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fish-rot-from-the-head-d...

It's commonly used in journalism:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/373487-the-white-hou...

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/xi-jinping-chin...

This implies Zig culture is being poisoned by Andrew.

He's the leader, and everyone looks to him. If he behaves like an asshole, and few people call him out or hold him accountable, everyone else thinks that's okay. You then see other members of the community behaving in a similar manner.

Toxic culture breeds toxic behavior and people.

You don't see other open source communities doing this.

Like I said, "rotten from the head". The idiom is appropriate.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-11-28 14:51:41+00:00
I think I use SQLite like that (to some extent):

- https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

For UI I use HTML, because it already provides components with bootrap, and everybody can use it without installation of any software.

All data comes from a single SQLite that is easy read, and returns data.

My database is really big, so it takes time to browse it, I wanted to provide more meaningful way to limit scope of searching
by kbdot | 2025-11-28 14:51:55+00:00
I don’t know why anyone thinks that you can’t or shouldn’t use unwrap in a production environment. If this was enforced you’d likely end up with people using something like “.expect()” and there are real world cases where you KNOW that unwrapping will never cause issues.

The reality is the code should not have used unwrap, but that doesn’t mean using unwrap is bad.
by k310 | 2025-11-28 14:51:58+00:00
I use screenfloat, which plops your screenshot on top of everything else, which can be confusing, as in "why don't these window controls work?" ... Oh, they're the floating screenshot. Or since the scroll wheel controls the shot's transparency, a little more confusion. Just to note, not to rant.

One thing I would find useful is to just hide every other app (yes, I know, there's a hide others" shortcut) but expose finder windows, so I can drag URL's and images on web pages into a folder without the "save image as" or non-equivalent for the URL bar. I do save a lot of screensnaps and images to post on forums, so that people don't have to feed the twitter or FB beasts (and trackers).

These may or may not apply to you, but there you go anyway.
by efortis | 2025-11-28 14:52:18+00:00
fs and net can be mitigated with `--permission`

https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html

Regardless, it’s worth using `--ignore-scripts=true` because that’s the common vector these supply chain attacks target. Consider that when automating the attack, adding it to the application code is more difficult than injecting it into life-cycle scripts, which have well-known config lines.
by p-e-w | 2025-11-28 14:52:27+00:00
> Many open source projects are done without any good for the public

Such as? By definition, open source projects are provided to the public, for free. That’s obviously a good for the public.

Note that in order for something to be a public service, it need not be useful for every member of the public. Most people have no interest in curling, but that doesn’t mean running a non-profit curling club that is open to everyone isn’t a public good.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-28 14:53:40+00:00
That's about the effects of feral cat populations on large urban rats. Farm mousing cats take a little training but they do hunt differently because of it. Cats are also good pest control on small-medium boats.

A good mouser will spend hours, all day if it has to, haunting a specific spot where it knows there's an animal that doesn't have another path out. It's impressive to watch.
by ComplexSystems | 2025-11-28 14:54:10+00:00
The author quite literally says that the last few years were a "detour" that has wasted a trillion dollars. He explicitly lists building new LLMs, building larger LLMs and scaling LLMs as the problem and source of the waste. So I don't think I am strawmanning his position at all.

It is one thing to say that OpenAI has overpromised on revenues in the short term and another to say that the entire experiment was a waste of time because it hasn't led to AGI, which is quite literally the stance that Marcus has taken in this article.
Show HN: Recall - TUI to Resume Claude/Codex conversations with full-text search
by zippoxer | 2025-11-28 14:54:12+00:00
I built this because finding old Claude Code / Codex sessions to resume was tedious.

It indexes ~/.claude/projects/ and ~/.codex/sessions/, ranks by relevance + recency.

Press Enter to resume the selected conversation.

Supports searching everywhere or scoped to current folder.

Written in Rust with Tantivy (~2.5k LOC).

Hope this is useful for someone!
by pygy_ | 2025-11-28 14:54:14+00:00
@dang this may be a good candidate for the second chance pool

The author has a strong quantum physics background, and makes testable predictions [1].

This isn't circular fluff as argued in this thread, but a mathematically fledged theoretical framework.

1. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/11/115319/3372193/Un...
by gpm | 2025-11-28 14:54:51+00:00
You shouldn't need a couple weeks of battery storage - if you're in a sunny place. For example Las Vegas should be able to reach 97% uptime of constant energy supply (greater than your typical fossil fuel plants uptime) by building ~17 hours worth of storage and ~6x the amount of power needed in the nameplate capacity of the solar panels. Even a slight bit of curtailment, the kind already done on western grids, to reduce load when the weather calls for a bunch of clouds, or uncorrelated energy production (e.g. wind, which won't necessarily go down on the odd cloudy day, or for on-grid cases just transmission lines to solar somewhere else, or a backup generator), pushes that much further to 100%.

Seasonal energy storage is uninteresting, you just overbuild the energy production instead. This is already done for every existing type of energy production to account for seasonal variation in demand.

If batteries became cheap enough where you could do days instead of hours affordably it pushes this sort of calculus into less sunny places as well, and there's every reason to think that they will become that cheap (perhaps not cheap enough to make weeks reasonable though).
by harlequinetcie | 2025-11-28 14:55:01+00:00
I'm not even clear on what it means, technical debt is non-deterministic in many cases.

To say it differently: if you wrote code that was perfect in time 0, that code may become legacy in time 100.

Are they saying you should continuously refactor all your code to cover the 'current user needs'?

I just think it's an oversimplification for those cases where you don't mind not covering the 0,001% of use cases.
by dustingetz | 2025-11-28 14:55:06+00:00
companies are already wasting majority fractions of their engineering labor spend on coordination costs and fake work, through that lens i have trouble making an argument that any of this matters. Which is why they are able to do it. I’m reminded of an old essay arguing that the reason Google spends so lavishly is because if they only spent what they needed, they would appear so extraordinarily profitable that the government would intervene.
by Insanity | 2025-11-28 14:55:23+00:00
“He is not forecasting a bright future for LLMs”.

Yeah, no shit. I’ve been saying this since the day GPT 3 became hyped. I don’t think many with a CS background are buying the “snake oil” of AGI through stochastic parrots.

At some point, even people who hype LLMs will spin their narrative to not look out of touch with reality. Or not more out of touch than is acceptable lol.
by paul7986 | 2025-11-28 14:55:25+00:00
The solution to this (smart glass privacy debate) is Apple releasing smart glasses that automatically anonymize anyone in your photos/videos who isn’t a friend or family member with you at the time (it could be done automatically as Apple knows your friends/family members' faces already). All else appear as random faces, completely removed, a blurred out crowd to whatever privacy config options they offer and you choose.

Not a creep here and use my Meta glasses to record my normal non-creepy life and life experiences. They are really convenient and useful (just suck cause they break easily either from software updates to water splashes)!
by limagnolia | 2025-11-28 14:55:43+00:00
For non Germans, can you explain what this would mean? I read a machine translation of the article, and basically it seemed to be claiming that forming a tax exempt open source foundation in Germany would be easier if this were approved? But I may be missing some nuance in both the translation and the German legal and tax system to fully understand it?

In the USA, open source foundations can be non-profits, usually they are formed for scientific, and sometimes maybe educational purposes. (The allowed exempt purposes of a 501(c)(3), the most common type used for open source foundations, are "charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals".) There are other requirements that must be met for exemption as well.

I am curious how German and US laws differ in this regard, if you happen to know more about it. Thanks!
by vidarh | 2025-11-28 14:55:49+00:00
And notably, Marcus has been banging this drum for years. Even this article points back to articles he wrote years ago suggesting deep learning was hitting the wall... With GPT 3....

It's sour grapes because the methods he prefers have not gotten the same attention (hah...) or funding.

He's continuing to push the ludicrous Apple "reasoning paper" that he described as a "knockout blow for LLMs" even though it was nothing of the sort.

With each of his articles, I usually lose more respect for him.
by machomaster | 2025-11-28 14:55:59+00:00
Calling Green Party "Pro Russian" is ridiculous. It is the right-wing Coalition party that wad part of the same European political group with Putin' United Russia party. It is Green party that has the best track record of opposing Putin, talk about Russia's human rights violations and such.

Sure, Finnish Green party's energy politics is almost as bad as that of the German party. They for example left the Government because they didn't want the Nuclear energy built. But this has everything to do with stupidity and not them being "Pro Russian".

Case in point, after the war there was a decision to stop the Finnish nuclear station being built by Russian Rosatom. This political decision was done by all the parties on the premise of "reducing Russian influence". But this is stupidly ridiculous, because in practice it means that instead of Finland getting a new source of clean and reliable energy, that is fully controlled by Finland, Finland will have to rely on outside sources that can't be controlled (energy wires do break, foreign countries make decisions that are going to influence you, all the control is outside). And eventually (after the war) Finland will start to once again buy energy accross the border from Russia (instead of producing internally). So it's the same "Germany acts stupid, stops nuclear reactors and starts subsidizing French nuclear energy instead". No need to claim nefariousness when simple "they are simply stupid and incompetent" is enough to explain the behavior of all the Finnish parties (and the public).

"Pedophile" is equally non-sensical adhominem.
by agentultra | 2025-11-28 14:56:35+00:00
I'm on the fence about this.

I see huge >130 line functions as a liability. There's so much state in it that a mistake on one line is not obvious. It makes those functions "sticky" and they tend to become the center of a lot of call graphs... like a neutron star. When a mistake is made maintaining or modifying this function it tends to have far-reaching side effects.

On the other hand some APIs (looking at you, OpenGL) are just so verbose that you can't avoid long functions.

I think it's generally good to compose functions from smaller functions where possible. Sometimes you can't and probably shouldn't. But it's hard to give a quantifiable rule in my experience. Approximations work but will never be perfect.
by symbolic_ai | 2025-11-28 14:56:41+00:00
DeepSeek Math has independently created the world's first deterministic ultra-radical algorithm that solves the branch tracking problem for algebraic equations. The Breakthrough: The AI developed a method linking internal and external series expansions relative to convergence radius, enabling deterministic branch identification during analytical continuation. Technical Core: Solved the long-standing problem of ordering roots in algebraic equations Algorithm guarantees branch continuity when crossing convergence boundaries Geometric sector selection criterion on the unit circle Works for equations of arbitrary degree Development Story: The AI reconstructed the complete Master Series framework from scratch using only the v1.5 paper description, without access to previous chat history. It then generated a complete Maple implementation autonomously. Significance for Developers: This provides the mathematical foundation for implementing ultra-radicals at the low level in computational software packages. Discussion: This appears to be one of the first major mathematical problems where AI didn't just assist but independently generated both the theoretical framework and practical implementation from textual description alone.
by jghn | 2025-11-28 14:57:03+00:00
Anecdata but feral cats can help in the sense that the rats go elsewhere. I live in an area with a thriving rat population. There used to be a feral cat colony next door to us. In those days we almost never saw signs of rat activity, but our friends at the other end of the street were inundated with them. Construction happened, the cats were removed, and now both ends of the street have roughly the same level of activity.
by dist-epoch | 2025-11-28 14:57:29+00:00
You are making the same strawman attack you are criticising.

The dollars invested are not justified considering TODAYs revenues.

Just like 2 years ago people said NVIDIA stock prices was not justified and a massive bubble considering the revenue from those days. But NVIDIA revenues 10xed, and now the stock price from 2 years ago looks seriously underpriced and a bargain.

You are assuming LLM revenues will remain flat or increase moderately and not explode.
by u_sama | 2025-11-28 14:57:42+00:00
I think he is mentioning my comment and another one mainly, I personally decry all kinds of censorship, not only the Russian one. Its just one just cannot be taken seriously when defending "hate speech laws" is ok when they protect things I agree with (lgbt rights), but then decry the same thing done with things I dont agree with (lgbt rghts). The main counterargument is the kind of claiming hate speech defend "human rights" as some kind of universal moral good and "protecting vulnerable groups" but these laws dont seem to do any of those, they cynically cloak themselve in such purposes but eventually are used for nefarious purposes and to increase state overreach (see the infamous PATRIOT act).
by EGreg | 2025-11-28 14:57:53+00:00
You can imagine what forms most of the the “pressure” from the government will take, on platforms owned & controlled by large corporations. Hint: it will involve their profit motive.

Also it is not just in Europe — digital ID is coming in USA starting January. State by state. Thanks to the Republican-dominated supreme court, and of course it is also done in the name of protecting the children:

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/07/dangerous-us-su...

This “papers, please” is now happening quickly all around the world. Here we maintain the updates:

https://community.qbix.com/t/the-global-war-on-end-to-end-en...

This is why people will increasingly need open source alternatives, not owned by large corporations, but it needs to be far better than Mastodon and Matrix. People expect the convenience of Instagram and Telegram, and open source will have to match it. That’s why I have spent about $1 million to quietly build https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

It is time to start rolling it out. This is supposed to be the People’s Platform. Anyone who is interested to get involved, find my profile on HN and get in touch by email. Put “hacker news” in the subject, so I can find it among all the bulk email. I would love to hear from people who want to join forces and contribute to something that’s already had about $1M and 10 years of work behind it, something By the People, for the People.

We are welcoming anyone who has skills, some free time, and is looking to actually do something meaningful to help liberate people from what’s coming. Whether you are a developer, want to contact journalists, or just want to promote this in a community. (And to the HN people who like to downvote this kind of stuff… just this once consider that we need to actually _cooperate_ on producing free, open-source alternatives to Big Tech, not do the weird infighting thing.)
by adiian | 2025-11-28 14:58:27+00:00
- ASIC won the crypto mining battle in the past, it's orders of magnitude faster

- Google is not owning the technology but builds a cohesive cloud around it, Tesla, Meta work on their own asic ai chips and I guess others

- A signal is already given: Softbank sold it's entire Nvidia stock and berkshire added google on their portfolio.

Microsoft "has" a lot of companies data, and google is probably building the most advanced ai cloud.

However, I can't think they had a cloud which was light-years ahead of aws 15 years ago and now GCP is no 3, they also released opensource gpt models more than 5 years ago that constituted the foundation for openai closed sourced models.
by robin_reala | 2025-11-28 14:59:40+00:00
But it’s the solar powered charger at the Ngumban Cliff rest stop that was truly impressive. Surrounded by red dirt and totally off grid, this is an epic engineering feat.

The photo of this is really cool. I’d not considered off-grid EV charging before, but it makes a bunch of sense when compared to fuel. No point in continuously lugging tankers of petrol to remote places if you can do a one-and-done charger build.