MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jclarkcom | 2025-11-23 22:28:11+00:00
I've experimented with using LLM to setup and/or maintain some servers for me for various different use cases (this being one). What I like is an agentic LLM can either document it's initial build process or "explore" your server to better understand how it works, what configuration files are used, software versions installed, etc. When you have that documentation/context provided to a frontier LLM it can take care of most maintenance work you'd like do by hand for "simple" servers. A good prompt to get an llm to explore an existing server to make sure it fully understands it is to ask it to make a working backup.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-23 22:28:44+00:00
Did you read the article?

> "The official could not confirm whether Burns employs the AI to draft full written decisions or only to read his written rulings aloud using text‑to‑speech software..."

He is using AI to read judgments and has not said either way whether AI also wrote them. Using it to read them raises suspicion of further automation employed. So it is not accurate to claim that the voice is known to be the full extent
by rckt | 2025-11-23 22:28:48+00:00
This is amazing. Once a company that built its reputation on quality and performance wants to focus on that. iOS became a parody of itself. 26 feels like a cheap knockoff of an iOS. Hundreds of people get paid to enshitify experience for millions of users. That’s incredible. And then they simply say that yeah you know it’s time to work on quality and performance. Isn’t it what always had to be there in the first place? Ridiculous.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-23 22:28:59+00:00
> "The official could not confirm whether Burns employs the AI to draft full written decisions or only to read his written rulings aloud using text‑to‑speech software..."

He is using AI to read judgments and has not said either way whether AI also wrote them. Using it to read them raises suspicion of further automation employed. So it is not accurate to claim that the voice is known to be the full extent
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-23 22:29:14+00:00
Did you read the article?

> "The official could not confirm whether Burns employs the AI to draft full written decisions or only to read his written rulings aloud using text‑to‑speech software..."

He is using AI to read judgments and has not said either way whether AI also wrote them. Using it to read them raises suspicion of further automation employed. So it is not accurate to claim that the voice is known to be the full extent
by nis0s | 2025-11-23 22:29:46+00:00
I think they can try it, but they’ll just be confirming the effect of nurture vs nature. Unless, they add a socioeconomic control, and provide gene editing of babies that don’t have access to wealthy and connected parents, the efficacy of their genetic protocols would be unproven and suspicious, at best.

OTOH, one could say that they’d just have the “best” compete with the “best”, at which point let me remind everyone that having money doesn’t mean you have the best genes, and there’s no telling what effect you could have on someone with a Frankenstein monster’s combination of gene expression.

They may also want to prepare themselves for the inevitable law suits by gene-edited adults who 1) never asked for being born (at all or this way), and 2) could not consent to the procedure as the unborn.

Gene editing companies can prepare themselves better for the future of gene editing by working on approaches that can be used in adults as well, that way they can offset the potential lawsuits from gene-edited adults.
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-23 22:30:03+00:00
I'm trying to wrap my head around coming to this bizarre conclusion from these two news items that are 40 years apart. It is incredibly difficult to come to anywhere close to similar conclusion when considering it with any seriousness.

Ok, so I'm squinting my eyes and trying to imagine...Ok, so I'm an American in the 1940s just reading a news article about the discovery of extermination camps in Germany by allied forces. They just discovered these camps and they don't know yet quite how many people were killed. WW2 has just ended, information is just coming out, slowly. Incidentally I also subscribed to a magazine that prints daily news from 28-30 years ago and I coincidentally also just read, in a news items from 1915-1917, that some group of people calling themselves Zionists, whatever that means, killed a Swedish anthropologist in Palestine who was living with a Arab tribe that was being harrased by the group when attempting to intercede on the tribe's behalf.

And I'm supposed to think what exactly from these two tidbits of information? That Jews seem to have been on this violent chosen people gambit for a quite a long time and that the Nazis had a point?

Or maybe instead of answering that you can just ask the one in three Jews in New York who voted a pro-palestinian mayor into office why they didn't know any better. New York, incidentally a city that supposedly only rivals Tel Aviv in the number of Jewish residents residing in it.
by int0x29 | 2025-11-23 22:30:40+00:00
When I was a child the front side displays on new Muni buses used to use these probably solonoid driven LED arrays. If you sat under one you could here this clattering sound that sounded kinda like rain each time the display changed. This discussion is bringing back old memories of those.

The older Breda trains and I think buses also used to use backlit paper rolls for signs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/T_Third_... Those were significantly more readable
by krackers | 2025-11-23 22:33:10+00:00
I think long-term just having a single LLM responsible for everything will win out compared to brittle and complex subagent hierarchie. Most use of "subagents" today are just workarounds for LLM limitations: lack of instruction following, context length, non- determinism, or "hallucinations".

All of these are things that will need to be solved long-term in the model itself though, at least if the AI bubble needs to be kept alive. And solving those things would in fact materially improve all sorts of benchmarks, so there's an incentive for frontier labs to do it.

I think this is why you have the back-forth pattern that GP mentioned. You start with a single model doing everything. Then you find all sorts of gaps that you start to plug ad-hoc, and decide that breaking it into subagents might help fix things. This works for a while but then you realize that you lose out on the flexibility of a single-model having access to the entire context, so you starting trying to improve communication between subagents. But then a new model drops that fixes a lot of the things you originally had to workaround, so you go back to a single-model setup. Rinse and repeat. It's a great VC- bubble funded employment program though.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-23 22:33:14+00:00
> Not by creating a new distro, which you do not have the resources to properly maintain

Given the fact said distro is based on Ubuntu LTS there is very little to maintain except a set of themes and desktop customisation and default choices. The long support cycle makes it that the Zorin team is not facing major changes so often as they keep the same Gnome version for a long time. This is a perfectly decent sokution for people who do not feel the need to stay current with the latest version of any given desktop at all time.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-11-23 22:33:18+00:00
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by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-23 22:34:25+00:00
I don’t usually complain about UX issues because I’m not bothered by small things. I can’t recall having a problem with ios before ios26, when the screenshot tool stopped showing the screenshot after you took one. Instead it would automatically save it to the gallery, which is not what I wanted.

The workaround for this bug was to lock and unlock the screen. Not the worst thing, but it indicated a shocking lack of give-a-fuck in Cupertino. This is one of the most basic flows, which they shipped in a broken state.
by oAlbe | 2025-11-23 22:34:32+00:00
I mean, ignoring the fact that it's one example versus a list of examples I posted, I still don't think Debian website is that bad. I remember how it used to be, when it had a link to get the CDs with the distro and the option of getting all the packages in the package manager repository. Debian evolved like everybody else.

To me, and of course this is personal, Debian website looks pretty professional in an enterprise-y kind of way. I quite like it.

But then again, it's one example. Hell, even OpenSUSE's website looks super slick and modern.
by Tarsul | 2025-11-23 22:35:09+00:00
Yes! I use "Dark Background and Light Text" addon for firefox, where you can set the colors yourself, which I did. I use #FFF2cc (I'd like to call it sandy) as my background color for nearly every website (even HN). (+permanent night mode, +blue light glasses that are orange-tinted, so your mileage may vary)
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-23 22:35:50+00:00
>I see art as a measure of quality.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you mean to say the worth of an artwork for you is tied to how well it executes technque? "Art" is a word so nebulous that it's hard to pin down a definition, but I think the millions of people that prefer a punk rock song over an academic figure drawing study would disagree with this.

>And furthermore, I see both disciplines as fields which humans engage in to solve specific identified problems

Well, I'm both an artist and a programmer, and I can tell you I engage in neither to solve problems. I do both because the process of doing them is enjoyable. If they stop being fun, I'll stop doing them, and there wouldn't be any lingering problem in my life to go unsolved.

If you say you picked up art faster than programming I'll believe you, because I only meant it as a general observation.

Art is like playing Dark Souls -- maybe you beat the hardest boss once, but that doesn't mean you won't die ten more times before beating them again.

Programming is like Zelda. Once you know the solutions to the puzzles, you're basically going through the motions.

This isn't me guessing based on philosophy -- this is my lived experience as both an artist and a programmer.
by cluckindan | 2025-11-23 22:35:56+00:00
Correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand, it’s the quality of lipids in grain fed meat that causes inflammation.

Grain feeding causes ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids get skewed towards more omega-6, which causes increased synthesis of pro-inflammatory interleukins and other PUFA metabolites.
by tomp | 2025-11-23 22:36:15+00:00
Yeah, it's very easy to get into a situation of "type is a subtype of a larger version of itself" which obviously grows without bounds.

But the solution is trivial - basically the same as the old mathematical issue "set vs class": only small types are types, large types aren't. Which types are "small"? Well, precisely those, that don't contain abstract types.

See this brilliant paper for a longer treatise (the above is the essential summary): 1ML by Andreas Rossberg

https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/
by fluoridation | 2025-11-23 22:36:52+00:00
>Let me make a comparison: Me: "People should be able to walk to work" You: "If someone can't walk 10 miles to work along the side of a road with cars whizzing by at 100mph, why should they be able to walk to work?"

Yeah, like I said, you completely missed the point of my comment. Here, let me fix the analogy for you:

A: The fact that people drive cars on roads is a bug, not a feature.

B: A bug where? Like, in people's minds for thinking that driving cars on roads is a practical mode of transportation?

C: People should be able to walk to work.

Do you see how C's reply to B is a non sequitur? It doesn't answer the question that was posed, it presents an irrelevant "should", and even if one is generous enough to grant that people should be able to walk to work, it doesn't make choosing to drive cars on roads for other purposes an irrational decision. And, and, it most certainly doesn't make it irrational in the world we actually live in.

EDIT:

>We shouldn't be debating whether the individual should carry a flamethrower to the grocery store, we should be discussing how to improve society so they don't have to.

I don't appreciate being told what is or isn't okay to talk about.
by chillfox | 2025-11-23 22:37:07+00:00
Get her on a Mac if you can. I got my mum to switch to Mac from Windows over a decade ago and it’s been fantastic for both of us. Her support needs dropped from once every two months to once every few years, and she’s been able to do more with her computer than she would ever have attempted on Windows. She’s been using knitting software to make patterns to share and learnt how to use photoshop, all by herself. The computer just working and not breaking anytime she tried something was fantastic for her confidence in trying/learning new things.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-11-23 22:37:11+00:00
Honestly that's one of the thing where Linux is truly behind other os. Design really need someone to step up, gnome choices are really debatable, kde is great but c'mon.. it's not for beginners or people who just want things to work.

I found that Linux mint desktop environment is the best of both world, zorin a bit behind then everything else.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-23 22:37:19+00:00
Cool.

As a consultant and subject matter expert, pretty every week, I have to make billable detours from productive work to explain to a client how they've been led astray by some ChatGPT response that they put errant trust in. It's been critically wrong pretty much any time a client's presented me with a response from it. I get paid to help when this haple s and to fix things that go wrong, so I guess technically that's not a negative from my perspective, but it is kind of frustrating and does seem pretty wasteful.

Meanwhile, as a friend, I've consistently had to coach people through doubting what they've received as medical guidance from ChatGPT and other chatbot or search LLM's, variously pointing out how: (a) the response doesn't actually agree with the cited sources nor correct information, (b) the cited are poor authorities (blogspam) and are not correct themselves, or (c) both.

Thankfully, the consequences in both these kinds of scenarios have been innocuous to date, so ostensibly "not negative", because most ChatGPT/chatbot inquiries are really for moot trivia rather than anything of true consequence, but it's repeatedly shown itself to be a pretty risky and unreliable tool, as things go, so I accept that it's only a matter of time before the true "negative experience" comes and nudge people away from it when I can.
by HillRat | 2025-11-23 22:37:32+00:00
That’s not because of the FDA, that’s because of CEPS. If the USG negotiated drug prices the way France does, there’d be far less disparity in average pricing. (Given the continual litany of safety, efficacy, and dosage control issues with imported drugs, FDA isn’t regulating them enough, largely because the inspection budget just isn’t there.)
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-23 22:37:54+00:00
While reading the release notes, I was also surprised, that they finally have this kind of multi-threading. I knew about places, but they were kind of inflexible, as you couldn't easily send a lambda in Racket, and serializable-lambda was infectious, so one ended up having to pre-define all logic and at runtime only sending data not functions to other places, which was a shame. One could not really build a thing that distributes work via multiple places with that. Or at least no one managed to do that and no one could tell me how to do it. I hope that with the new concurrency stuff this is now possible, even if it may not be as conceptually clean as places were supposed to be.

Ultimately, multi-threading is one reason, why I mostly used GNU Guile, instead of Racket in recent years. Guile's story of using multiple cores is much more solid, using its futures and possibly fibers via a library. I have used futures, which are backed by a pool of threads underneath, to implement a toy parallelized decision tree algorithm/model, that had linear (or close to) speedup.
by hamasho | 2025-11-23 22:38:28+00:00
One thing I like about the current AI craze is that several services start to provide user-oriented services again, like 90s and 00s. Search engine for AI returning only relevant results (no ads and promotions), online stores showing only relevant items, news articles in non-clickbait, clear and concise style.

I'm not confident the current AI craze will be net positive for humanity. But one possible good outcome could be that many people prefer simple chat UI to interact with services, most companies have to adopt them and are forced to provide simple, straight, no-nonsense content instead of what they want to sell, while LLMs are just commodity so unnamed Chinese companies can provide models as good as the one from the most VC-funded company so they can't enshittify the UX.
by grepfru_it | 2025-11-23 22:38:41+00:00
>I’d want to know exactly what they worked on, and have them explain their ethical rationale for continuing.

Now I’m imagining I meet someone who is on the other side of the interview table having these thoughts. Are my capabilities ignored because they are already prejudiced to a decision I made years prior? What if my answer, trying to improve issues from within, is not good enough?

This new world is scary..
by epolanski | 2025-11-23 22:39:22+00:00
> Milan and Napoli would both be happier not having to deal with each other.

I'm Italian and this is absolutely false.

While any political and historical event will have people saying that it wouldn't even better if X or Y stayed Z, the overwhelming majority of Italians want a united Italy.

Federalist parties never took huge political weight (and the major one, Lega, won most votes when it dropped that narrative entirely) and separatist ones get irrelevant number of negligible votes.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-23 22:40:12+00:00
It has a remarkably inconspicuous language selector, also using the names of countries rather than languages, located in the page footer. Compared to Dyson, Apple's list of country names is much more willing to use English in preference to whatever someone from that country would call it. This isn't consistent; many countries are rendered in their own language (日本 / Ελλάδα) and many aren't (Georgia / Kazakhstan).

The page defaults to the locale that you request in the URL. https://www.apple.com/ shows up in English, regardless of your country;† https://www.apple.com/bg/ shows up in Bulgarian. Switching your preferred location simply takes you to the page for that location. (Dyson does the same thing.) Some locations support more than one language; there's https://www.apple.com/lae/ for Latin America (English) and https://www.apple.com/la/ for Latin America (Spanish). If you're on the page for a location like this, a language selector (with language names) displays next to the location selector. In the case of Latin America, only two languages are supported, and the language selector automatically displays "Español" if you're on the English site and "English" if you're on the Spanish site, which makes sense but won't generalize.

Apple's selector is inconspicuous because it refuses to display flags, which I would guess is due to much higher political exposure than Dyson. So it's lower-quality in two ways, but fundamentally the same approach. The user asks for a language, and the site honors that.

Given that I presented Dyson as an example of doing language selection correctly, I'm confused about what you wanted me to see on apple.com. They're trying to do the right thing, but less effectively.

† I tested this by accessing the site(s) from Mongolia, Vietnam, and Morocco using ExpressVPN.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-11-23 22:40:28+00:00
I love Racket. Just for fun, I wrote a Racket book, read online: https://leanpub.com/racket-ai/read

For Scheme languages I recommend Racket or Gerbil. Racket is great for beginners since the IDE is pretty good and the standard libraries and contributed libraries are good. Gerbil is good for systems programming. network utilities, etc.
by mooreds | 2025-11-23 22:41:39+00:00
While I'd be interested in learning about AI and how to build/create/augment content using it, this was a poor article. It was really hard for me to understand the point of any of the paragraphs, other than using cheaper models is good.

Author: please write an article about this topic with examples of content you've created, discussions about dead ends and things that didn't work, and technical details about your setup.

That's the kind of article I'd love to read.