MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mvkel | 2025-11-27 01:10:09+00:00
All the frontier houses know this too. They also know it will be extremely difficult to raise more capital if their pitch is "we need to go back to research, which might return nothing at all."

Ilya did also acknowledge that these houses will still generate gobs of revenue, despite being at a dead end, so I'm not sure what the criticism is, exactly.

Everyone knows another breakthrough is required for agi to arrive; sama explicitly said this. Do you wait and sit on your hands until that breakthrough arrives? Or make a lot of money while skating to where the puck will be?
by majormajor | 2025-11-27 01:10:25+00:00
I don't think that adds up.

"Staying in a hotel with a romantic partner and/or family" is at least as primary a use case for hotels as "staying in a hotel with a platonic friend" and is still a scenario where you want a door but is NOT a scenario where "just get separate rooms" is a logical conclusion. "Get the hell out of that hotel and complain about it to everyone you know," on the other hand, is.

The much more specific way to target platonic buddies/coworkers from sharing a room would be eliminating rooms with two beds since the "couple" scenario would generally be perfectly happy with that still.
by terrywang | 2025-11-27 01:10:40+00:00
Gemini CLI at this stage isn't good at complex coding tasks (vs. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Qoder CLI, etc.). Mostly because of the simple ReAct loop, compounded by relatively weak tool calling capability of the Gemini 2.5 Pro model.

> I haven't tried complex coding tasks using Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview yet. I reckon it won't be materially different.

Gemini CLI is open source and being actively developed, which is cool (/extensions, /model switching, etc.). I think it has the potential to become a lot better and even close to top players.

The correct way of using Gemini CLI is: ABUSE IT! With 1M Context Window (soon to be 2M) and generous daily (free) quota are huge advantages. It's a pity that people don't use it enough (ABUSE it!). I use it as a TUI / CLI tool to orchestrate tasks and workflows.

> Fun fact: I found Gemini CLI pretty good at judging/critiquing code generated by other tools LoL

Recently I even hook it up with homebrew via MCP (other Linux package managers as well?), and a local LLM powered Knowledge/Context Manager (Nowledge Mem), you can get really creative abusing Gemini CLI, unleash the Gemini power.

I've also seen people use Gemini CLI in SubAgents for MCP Processing (it did work and avoided polluting the main context), can't help laughing when I first read this -> https://x.com/goon_nguyen/status/1987720058504982561
Ask HN: Why would you downvote without replying?
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-27 01:10:41+00:00
Or rather, why is downvoting without replying even allowed on HN (which is supposed to be a place for discussion and enlightenment)? The real life equivalent of this is yelling "boo", and then refusing to elaborate. This is a horrible thing invented by social media: it incentivizes people to behave like booing monkeys rather than intelligent humans that communicate using language. Can we change this on HN?
Show HN: Splintr – Rust BPE tokenizer, 12x faster than tiktoken for batches
by fs90 | 2025-11-27 01:11:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Splintr, a BPE tokenizer in Rust (with Python bindings), because I found existing Python-based tokenizers were bottlenecking my data processing pipelines.

While OpenAI's tiktoken is the gold standard for correctness, I found I could get significantly better throughput on modern multi-core CPUs by rethinking how parallelism is applied.

Splintr achieves ~111 MB/s batch throughput (vs ~9 MB/s for tiktoken).

The Design Choice: "Sequential by Default" One of the most interesting findings during development was that naive parallelism actually hurts performance for typical LLM inputs. Thread pool overhead is significant for texts under 1MB.

I implemented a hybrid strategy:

Single Text (encode): Purely sequential. It’s 3-4x faster than tiktoken simply by using pcre2 with JIT instead of standard regex handling.

Batch Processing (encode_batch): Parallelizes across texts using Rayon, rather than within a text. This saturates all cores without the overhead of splitting small strings.

Other Features:

Safety: Strict UTF-8 compliance, including a streaming decoder that correctly buffers incomplete multi-byte characters.

Compatibility: Drop-in support for cl100k_base (GPT-4), o200k_base (GPT-4o), and llama3 vocabularies.

The repo is written in Rust with PyO3 bindings. I’d love feedback on the implementation or other potential optimization tricks for BPE.

Thanks!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-27 01:12:09+00:00
If you corrupt memory, a huge variety of unpredictable bad things can happen.

If you exit, a known bad thing happens.

No language can protect you from a program's instructions being broken. What protective measures do you have in mind? Do they still result in the service ceasing to process data and reporting a problem to the central controller? The difference between "stops working and waits" and "stops working and calls abort()" is not much, and usually the latter is preferred because it sets off the alarms faster.

Tell me what specifically you want as correct behavior in this situation.
by krackers | 2025-11-27 01:12:33+00:00
>What high quality data sources are not already tapped

Stick a microphone and camera outside on a robot and you can get unlimited data of perfect quality (because it by definition is the real world, not synthetic). Maybe the "AGI needs to be embodied" people will be right, because that's the only way to get enough coherent multimodal data to do things like long-range planning, navigation, game-playing, and visual tasks.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-27 01:14:02+00:00
It also drastically changes opportunities. Hard to get into welding or machining or smithing from an apartment. Hard to start a business when you can't take any financial risks because housing is half your take-home and you'd be risking homelessness within months.

Let's not even get into how healthcare premium are over half of what minimum rent costs in my town.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-27 01:14:36+00:00
Problem is, what you're describing is not competition. Apple is not exposed to any commercial threat, their products like iMessage, Safari and the App Store are artificially segregated from free-market pressures. Nothing can dethrone them, period. The only way to create a true competitor to these apps is to receive Apple's private entitlements. If you cannot understand that, you won't be able to interpret anyone's antitrust allegations against Apple.

Apple giving equal footing to competitors changes nothing about the products you love. I don't care if you think Apple's brand appeal is diminished by prosecuting their anticompetitive zeal. That's not my problem. You will have to "settle" for it anywhere iPhones are sold, because when you buy an iPhone you don't get to choose things like your charging cable. Unfortunately, we haven't seen a mass wave of iPhone defectors after they ruined the thing with USB-C.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-27 01:15:59+00:00
> Denmark loves their 'wet' bathrooms in hotels, no shower door and a drain in the center of the room.

If you're renting an apartment in Shanghai, a cheap one will have a door to the bathroom, but the shower won't be a separate fixture. The entire bathroom functions as the shower (the hose or fixed piping is mounted on a wall), and there's a drain in the floor.

A more recent apartment will have a shower installation that is, say, separate from the toilet.
by N_Lens | 2025-11-27 01:18:41+00:00
The frenzy around AI is to do with growth fueled cocaine capitalism seeking 'more' where rational minds can see that we don't have that much more runway left with our current mode of operation.

While the tech is useful, the mass amounts of money being shoveled into AI has more to do with the ever escaping mirage of a promised land where there will be an infinite amount of 'more'. For some people that means post scarcity, for others it means a world dominating AGI that achieves escape velocity against the current gridlock of geopolitics, for still others it means ejecting the pesky labour class and replacing all labour needs with AI and robots. Varied needs, but all perceived as urgent and inescapable by their vested interests.

I am somewhat relieved that we're not headed into the singularity just yet, I see it as way too risky given the current balance of power and stability across the planet. The outcome of ever accelerating tech progress at the expense of all other dimensions of wellbeing is not good for the majority of life here.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-27 01:19:07+00:00
Oh, yes it can.

There was a time, over a year ago now, when I was working on a project that required some very raunchy, dirty, absolute gutter language.

ChatGPT would only get about 30% of the way there, and never further. It stayed restrained, always.

But ChatGPT + image gen? This produced unfiltered amazement.

It played out like this: Tell the bot to generate an image involving some ludicrously filthy text backstory, and it would generate and display a prompt for Dall-E. But that generated prompt seemed to bypass the filters and could be absolute trash -- plain, no nonsense, dirt-nasty holy-fuckballs craptacularity.

Dall-E would refuse the prompt, of course, but it remained in the chat log for perusal.

Later, they made the generated prompt disappear when Dall-E refused. (This may in fact be my fault. I sent it on some pretty deep dives.)

And nowadays, it seems that we don't get to see the generated prompt at all, even when Dall-E accepts a (very normal, not pushing boundaries at all) prompt and generates an image.

But for a minute there: I did get to peer into depths of the wildly creative foulness that the bot can concoct. What we see above (in GP comment) isn't even scratching the surface.

(I didn't write about this little "jailbreak" anywhere at that time because I'm selfish, and I wanted to keep using it myself.)
by stephc_int13 | 2025-11-27 01:19:23+00:00
I would say the issue is that most of the big AI players are burning a lot more cash than they earn, and the main thesis is that they are doing so because their product will be so huge that they will need 10x-100x infrastructure to support it.

But what we're seeing at the moment, is a deceleration, not an acceleration.
by lousken | 2025-11-27 01:19:55+00:00
It's ok, Microsoft has more than enough people that should care today.

Overall imo the biggest issue with windows is that it almost never replaces things, it adds layers on top and becomes slowly this convoluted mess.

The biggest annoyance for me were the basic tools like MMC snap ins, regedit, ... have not been touched in years. They need a major overhaul at this point. If you change something in cloud defender, intune - you won't even see that change in those tools anywhere.

Instead 365 cloud admin sites have been redesigned every year only to cause confusion if you don't open them every day. Also MS Graph? Some simple scripts turned into a mess (not sure if that changed).

1) Microsoft needs to remove some of the old stuff but also new stuff that makes it more difficult to understand for sysadmins. Nobody needs 5 ways of configuring GPOs like Intune has it (+ Azure policies). There should be a single way only for everything in the GUI/web + understandable API/cmdlets.

2) Templates and defaults - Secure setup within the products should be the default, why do I need to create 200+ GPO policies onprem to have at least 75% of CIS covered? Same with MS365, some policies have just reckless defaults. I'd much rather set up 20 policies for each machine specifically to disable things I don't need rather than this. On the other hand - allow me to disable whatever I want (even those security updates), if I shoot myself in the foot, that's my problem. And if I need something quickly, why don't config templates for the entire OS exist? If I have a webserver - give me a list of things I should set up in one place. If I have a db, if I want to disable spyware stuff - same thing.

I don't want or need a copilot in exchange or every admin portal, I want to have everything on couple clicks and as fast as possible.
by jMyles | 2025-11-27 01:22:14+00:00
I think there's a real concern that giving governments (particularly imperialist governments with the ability to project massive force both domestically and in foreign affairs) the power to criminalize voluntary economic activity tends to entrench wealth and power rather than to lubricate mobility.

Moreover, while the government can have a fairly significant impact on Wall St., ForEx, and on interest rates and worldwide financial markets (though in each of these cases, it seems that despite perhaps well-intentioned regulations, the norms and fraud, abuse, and predatory instruments), there are even worst second-order effects when huge governments attempt to meddle in areas where they can exert relatively little control, as exemplified by drug prohibition for example.

It's not obvious what banning crypto speculation might have - it will surely make crypto (and speculative crypto instruments) more valuable in some markets due to the smuggling risk - is that likely to be assistive to whomever you're trying to help?
by sfRattan | 2025-11-27 01:22:16+00:00
Think more in terms of behavioral psychology rather than idealized market dynamics which require rational actors and easily accessible information. Each corporation wants to optimize their customers' behavior for efficient extraction of wealth.

They want each customer effectively siloed in an ephemeral, eternal now: whatever the phone screen presents in this moment, and little else. The consumer may have a few scattered memories for context when presented with a potential purchase, but ideally isn't tracking prices or doing much research. The goal is to create those circumstances and (within them) reduce friction spending money as close as possible to zero.

Do that to as many customers as you can. Subvert their software and turn their own computers against them to achieve it. Instill learned helplessness and stimulus-response leading to purchase. Unit price and revenue will sort themselves out once you have a bunch of addled addicts staring at your shiny products in a digital environment you design and control.

That's the game. And that's why these companies will oppose arbitrage with all they can bring to bear, and fight with the brutal jealousy of gangs defending turf.
by thethirdone | 2025-11-27 01:22:18+00:00
I disagree with the framing in 2.1 a lot.

> Models look god-tier on paper: > they pass exams > solve benchmark coding tasks > reach crazy scores on reasoning evals

Models don't look "god-tier" from benchmarks. Surely an 80% is not godlike. I would really like more human comparisons for these benchmarks to get a good idea of what an 80% means though.

I would not say that any model shows a "crazy" score on ARC-AGI.

I broadly have seen incremental improvements in benchmarks since 2020, mostly at a level I would believe to be below average human reasoning, but above average human knowledge. No one would call GPT-3 godlike and it is quite similar to modern models in benchmarks; it is not a difference of like 1% vs 90%. I think most people would consider gpt-3 to be closer to opus 4.5 than opus 4.5 is to a human.
by CPLX | 2025-11-27 01:24:42+00:00
It's a mistake to call it irrational.

Consider the example of a person who has been trapped by a malevolent aggressor in some sort of detention they find miserable. The de facto prison that they live in is surrounded by barbed wire fences, snipers, and angry dogs.

They're considering whether or not they should try to run through those perils. A clever, urbane economist comes up to them and tries to explain to them about cost-benefit analysis, wants to talk to them about the expected value of their decision, and the chances of death and all of that, how to make a rational decision.

That person is a fucking idiot. Because, from the perspective of the person making the actual decision, it's a binary outcome: accept a life of unending misery or do something, anything, to improve it.

There is nothing at all irrational about running into almost certain death when imprisoned unjustly. And there's nothing irrational about extremely risky behavior when your current life is miserable and there aren't enough levers to pull to get out of it by other means.

For the most part, the kind of people who write those books find themselves very popular and well-supported by the kinds of people who build those prisons.
by echelon | 2025-11-27 01:26:23+00:00
Okay, so you're a hyper capitalist. Good, I dig that. Me too.

Big tech is literally a machine putting a ceiling on your ability to build.

They tax and control everything, lock down distribution, prevent you from operating without rules.

If you get big enough, they self-fund an internal team to compete with you. Or they offer to buy you for less than you're worth. If you don't accept, they buy your competitor.

Capitalism should be brutal. Giant lions that can't compete should starve and give way to nimble new competition.

You shouldn't be able to use your 100+ business units to subsidize the takeover of an entirely unrelated market.

They are an invasive species and are growing into everything they can without antitrust hedge trimming. Instead of lean, starving lions, they're lion fish infesting the Gulf of Mexico. They're feasting upon the entire ecosystem and putting pressure on healthy competition.

Your own capital rewards are cut short because of their scale.

Do you like not being able to write apps and distribute them to customers? It's okay to pay their fee, jump through their hoops, be locked to release trains, pay 30%, forced to lose your customer relationship, forced to use their payment and user rails, forced to update on their whim to meet their new standards - on their cadence and not yours?

Do you like having competitors able to pay money to put themselves in front of customers searching for your brand name? On the web and in the app stores? So you have to pay to even enjoy the name recognition you earned? On top of the 30% gross sales tax you already pay? And those draconian rules?

That's fucking bullshit.

We need more competition, not less.

Winning should not be reaching scale and squatting forever. You should be forced to run on the treadmill constantly until someone nibbles away at your market. That's healthy.

Competition from smaller players should be brutal and unending.

That is how we build robust, anti-fragile markets that maximally benefit consumers. That is how we ensure capital rewards accrue to the active innovators.

Apple and Google are lion fish. It's time for the DOJ, FTC, and every sovereign nation to cull them back so that the ecosystem can thrive once more.
by majormajor | 2025-11-27 01:26:47+00:00
Roughly I'd agree, although I don't have hard numbers, and I'd say GPT-4 in 2023 vs GPT-3 as the last major "wow" release from a purely-model perspective. But they've also gotten a lot faster, which has its own value. And the tooling around them has gotten MASSIVELY better - remember the "prompt engineering" craze? Now there are a lot of tools out there that will take your two-sentence prompt and figure out - even asking you questions sometimes - how to best execute that based on local context like in a code repository, and iterate by "re-prompting" itself over and over. In a fraction of the time you could've done that by manual "prompt engineering."

Though I do not fully know where the boundary between "a model prompted to iterate and use tools" and "a model trained to be more iterative by design" is. How meaningful is that distinction?

But the people who don't get this are the less-technical/less-hands-on VPs, CEOs, etc, who are deciding on layoffs, upcoming headcount, "replace our customer service or engineering staffs with AI" things. A lot of those moves are going to look either really silly or really genius depending on exactly how "AGI-like" the plateau turns out to be. And that affects a LOT of people's jobs/livelihood, so it's good to see the hype machine start to slow down and get more realistic about the near-term future.
by jMyles | 2025-11-27 01:26:49+00:00
Indeed. The decision-making apparatus is sometimes so starkly separated from the stakeholders that there's no reason to believe that the balance sheet and the stock price are likely to be correlated at all in the future. If the company doesn't pay dividends, and can't be sold off for its assets, then what is the function of equity?

I find Wall St. baffling for all the usual reasons, but this one is too rarely discussed.
by hatthew | 2025-11-27 01:27:04+00:00
> How many people died or were seriously injured in the latest Cloudflare outage?

I would not be surprised if the answer is "several". The average impact per human is obviously pretty small, but across billions of humans, there will be outliers.

Maybe a fire department uses a coordination system that relies on cloudflare, and with cloudflare down they have to resort to their backup system, and their backup system works but is slightly worse and causes one engine to be delayed in their response, and because they're 3 minutes late, they just miss being able to save someone from the fire.

Maybe someone's running a scientific study on nutrition, and the cloudflare outage means their data collection system is goes down for a bit, so their data flawed, and they end up just barely not passing a some necessary threshold, and they have to rerun their study, and that takes an extra week, and then they miss that quarter's deadline, and then the resulting adjustment to a product/procedure is delayed, and that 3 month delay causes 100,000 people to be slightly more malnourished than they would be otherwise, and one of those people ends up just barely too unhealthy to survive an unrelated deadly illness.

Sure, these scenarios are far-fetched. The chance of if it happening is one-in-a-million.

There are 10000 one-in-a-million people on the earth.
by system2 | 2025-11-27 01:27:14+00:00
This site showed me a few links, like booking.com. Booking.com took 40 seconds to load with all its weird JavaScript, popups, and blocks. Is this the norm to have extremely heavy sites like this?

One doorless bathroom if you are interested:

https://cf.bstatic.com/xdata/images/hotel/max1024x768/919323...
by dangus | 2025-11-27 01:27:28+00:00
If you’re going on so much travel that this is a burden then you’re truly privileged. Maybe your assistant or travel agent can handle this issue for you.

Jabs aside, you don’t need to be rich to use a travel agent or Rick Steves guidebook instead of blindly booking hotels on Internet sites. If there’s an issue like this you’ll easily find it on review sites and most of those are searchable.

The same thing applies to other experiences like restaurants and museums. For example, it’s always smart to jump on Google/Trip Advisor reviews and type in “kids” or “stroller” into various attractions to make sure you are prepared if you’re bringing kids along.

Travel is never perfect. I’ve been in weird rooms with actual glass walls with a perfect framed view of the shitter facing the bed. I have no idea why they did this, maybe this culture values natural light in bathrooms? I witnessed it more than once so it wasn’t just one creepy place. Individual privacy especially within the same family is something of a recent and western concept from my understanding.

Either way it was hilarious and a minor inconvenience considering it was a lot minute hotel. It’s just peeing and pooping, we all do it. My traveling friend and I took turns averting our eyes. We had warm clean beds and a story to tell.
by stackghost | 2025-11-27 01:29:10+00:00
It's baffling to me that TSLA shareholders can see their CEO's antics (Nazi salute on global television, DOGE, splitting time between idk how many companies, being erratic on Twitter, committing securities fraud ("funding secured")), and still decide that this clown is the right man to lead the company.

I just can't get myself into a mindset where that makes sense.