MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 01:29:19+00:00
Offering way more doesn't mean it's necessarily worth it. If that 'way more' is not so valuable, then it doesn't matter.

It's a lot like the old Mac comparisons of days old. Well you see, the 5K iMac is actually a good value, because a 5K monitor costs 1500 dollars! Okay... but a 4k monitor doesn't, and it's almost the same thing.

Amazon markets itself as competitive by doing the whole 'you have to compare apples to apples' thing. But do you want the apples? Will you eat them? Any product can make itself seem like a good value when it throws in a bunch of stuff you'll never use.

This is one of the most common sales tactics out there. Go to a car dealership, and they'll talk your ear off about the amazing!!1 dealership addons. Whooaaa dude it's such a good value, look you get an oil change coupon and this stripe painted on your door!! Those other dealerships don't give you that, you gotta factor that in man!
by stephc_int13 | 2025-11-27 01:29:46+00:00
This is where it is a bit confusing for people not familiar with the state of the art.

Some people don't seem to realize how critical the "eval" function is for machine learning.

Raw data is not much more useful than noise for the current recipes of model training.

Human produced data on the internet (text, images, etc.) is highly structured and the eval function can easily be built.

Chess or Go has rules and the eval function is more or less derived or discovered from them.

But the real world?

For driving you can more or less build a computer vision system able to follow a road in a week, because the eval function is so simple. But for all the complex parts, the eval function is basically one bit (you crashed/not crashed) that you have to sip very slowly, and it very inefficient to train such a complex system with such a minimal reward even in simulations.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-27 01:30:04+00:00
> If a company’s crypto holdings are worth more than its market cap wouldn’t that mean I should buy the stock as its enterprise value is higher than its current market cap?

Well, one question to ask is if the company can actually cash out their crypto holdings at the current market price? If they have substantial holdings of thinly-traded crypto, the answer is usually "lol".

Faith in the company matters too. You can't compel them to sell, and if you think the company is going to slowly drive itself into the ground, you probably don't want to give them your $$$. There are quite a few companies that traded below their book value for that reason. IIRC, Kodak is a current example. Want to bet on that?
by citizenpaul | 2025-11-27 01:31:33+00:00
How do you complain and go to another hotel if every single hotel is owned by four companies that are colluding together to do the same thing. This ignores the very obvious fact that you may not want to search for a hotel at 2AM in a strange city when you are exhausted. Keep making excuses for your masters though, this is the world you live in.

Marriot,Hilton,IGT,Hyatt own almost all hotels in any area you want to go to.

Enshittification is not just for apps anymore.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-27 01:32:53+00:00
"Agentic" doesn't really mean much and I dislike it. There's no clean line between a "normal" LLM and an "agentic" LLM. Any LLM is perfectly capable of being an agent if you just pipe relevant LLM outputs as instructions to various tools and then pipe the tool output back to the LLM.

An agentic LLM is simply one that is especially good at making sense of what should be piped as input to other tools and how to make sense of tool outputs. Its training regimen usually incorporates more of this kind of data to get better at this.
by Bender | 2025-11-27 01:33:02+00:00
It was. Governments either fell behind on crypto or were in on it. [1][2] The laws for the physical equivalents were applied in the early 19th century. It is repeating all over again.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpqreZlmHGU [video][7 mins]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_o3nZHzCwA [video][4 mins]
by ac29 | 2025-11-27 01:33:07+00:00
Reviewing 100% of generated code is undoubtedly good software engineering practice, but its not vibe coding, at least by my definition.

I vibe coded a tool this week and my process was an iterative process of the prompting an LLM agent to implement small bits of functionality, the me checking the resultant output by hand (the output of the program, not the outputted code). There were shockingly few problems with this process, but when they did arise, I fixed them through a combination of reviewing the relevant code myself, reviewing log files, and additional prompting. I dont think I actually wrote or fixed a single line of code by hand, and I definitely haven't read 100% of it.

Once the project was feature complete, I used more or less the same process to refactor a number of things to implement improvements, simplifications, and optimizations. Including a linter in my automated commit workflow also found a couple minor problems during refactoring such as unused imports that were trivial for the agent to fix.

Is the code perfect, bug free, and able to handle every imaginable edge case without issue? Almost certainly not, but it works well enough for our use already and is providing real labor savings. But, its not documented very well, nor are any tests written yet. It might or might not be long term maintainable in its current state, but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable trying to sell or support it (we are not a software company and I am not a software developer).

I should note that while I have been very impressed with my use of agentic coding tools, I am skeptical that they scale well above small projects. The tool we built this week is a bit over 2000 lines of code. I am not nearly skilled enough to work on a large codebase but I suspect this vibe coding style of programming would not work well for larger projects.
by krackers | 2025-11-27 01:33:56+00:00
The real world is governed by physics, so isn't "next state prediction" a sufficient eval function that forces it to internalize a world model? And increasing the timespan over which you predict requires an increasing amount of "intelligence" because it requires modeling the real-world behavior of constituent subsystems that are often black-boxes (e.g. if there is a crow on a road with a car approaching, you can't just treat it as a physics simulation, you need to know that crows are capable of flying to understand what is going to happen).

I don't see how this is any less structured than the CLM objective of LLMs, there's a bunch of rich information there.
by pants2 | 2025-11-27 01:34:25+00:00
If you see them returning value to shareholders in the short term, perhaps. But some of these DATs are giving their leadership massive pay packages (up to $400M[1]) so IMO they will sit on their treasuries as long as possible paying themselves huge salaries to... hold Crypto.

1. https://unchainedcrypto.com/a-musk-style-reward-anthony-pomp...
by mrandish | 2025-11-27 01:35:07+00:00
> eliminating rooms with two beds

Quick tip I discovered when traveling with my teenage daughter: a lot of hotel sites are now unclear on whether a booking is for a room with one or two beds. I found that listing "occupants" as 3 would usually force such sites to sort for rooms with two beds (even though there would only be two of us). Assuming there's no breakfast included, the price is usually the same for 2 or 3.
by Animats | 2025-11-27 01:36:04+00:00
More info on "Strategy", the company, which is supposedly the world's largest public Bitcoin holder.[1] "According to its most recent X post, the firm has raised $11.9 billion through common equity, $6.9 billion in preferred equity, and $2 billion in convertible debt."

The equity part includes listed stocks: STRF, STRC, STRE, STRK, and STRD. Those are on the NASDAQ, not crypto exchanges. Here's a long discussion of Strategy's strategy.[2] They're leveraged, but the financing for the leverage is not from crypto markets, and has more strength behind it. The whole thing will come unglued if there's a prolonged drop in the price of Bitcoin, but they can ride through medium-length down periods. Strategy's various stocks have dropped more than the price of Bitcoin.

[1] https://cryptonews.com/news/strategy-reports-21b-raised-in-2...

[2] https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digital-assets/matthew-si...
by spiked | 2025-11-27 01:36:36+00:00
Yeah this seems like something that you'd be able to do anywhere, but some banks don't support this kind of export, or they don't allow you to export beyond a certain date in the past. It started as a side project for a contractor buddy who needed 300 pages and 4 years of transaction data imported into Quickbooks, and his bank actually SENT him the pages in the mail. eyeroll. So, of course scanned documents have no export option. In addition, some banks actually restrict bulk exports, and connectors like Plaid or Finicity don't always cover historical data.

As for security, totally fair concern. I tried to cover as much as I could here: https://statementstosheets.com/security Some key points: I'm using secure authentication, https enforecment, sandboxed processing within GCP containers, automatic deletion of user data, a lifecycle policy for data that does get uploaded, and secure payment processing with Stripe.

Genuinely curious from a security standpoint — what would you want to see on a site like this before trusting it with financial docs?
by dcreater | 2025-11-27 01:37:19+00:00
People have been saying this before chatgpt and ever since. And they're right.

Its charlatans like sama that muddy the waters by promising the sky to get money for their empire building.

LLMs can make and are great great products. But its sneaky salesmen that are the ones saying scaling is the path to AGI. The reality is that they're just aiming for economies of scale to make their business viable
by questioner8216 | 2025-11-27 01:38:01+00:00
I am not breaking any rules, instead my comments are on point and show better debate culture than other comments, including better than yours and the previous comment. Please do better. You are at fault 100%, and you are well aware of it.

Edit: Downvoting comments that you know are good, is even further against good debate practice. You are doing worse and worse, and you are well aware of it. Have some shame.
by wraptile | 2025-11-27 01:38:03+00:00
I agree with other commenter and speed is primary danger for scooters. I've been driving for 7 years (mostly in Thailand) and never had an accident as the risk distributions is incredibly obvious:

- stay within reasonable speed

- keep distance

- don't do highways

- project your intentions very clearly with no sudden moves

vast majority of accidents happen when this simple rule set is broken (aside from obvious DUI). If you're driving 40km/h max in a city you are surprisingly safe, especially as scooter traffic culture is very river like so once you're familiar with the area you are basically being carried by the traffic.

Most stats of SEA scooter deaths are coming from really bad driving, as in drunk uncle driving a scooter on the opposite side of the road with no headlights sort of bad driving (sadly very common). The culture can be very unserious about scooter safety when it's quite achievable in practice. It really is an incredible form of transportation when taken seriously.
by baubino | 2025-11-27 01:39:10+00:00
> Something can be said about unlocking deprecated devices, but it would only ever be used by a tiny percentage of people. Apple devices in particular last a very long time anyway, as you should expect from a premium brand.

Used by a tiny percentage only because Apple has made it as difficult as possible to not upgrade, which is especially egregious precisely because their devices are long-lasting.

(This comment brought to you via a perfectly functioning iPhone 8 running the latest possible iOS that supports it.)
by system2 | 2025-11-27 01:39:45+00:00
I had 4yr+ relationships. I am a shy pooper; I can't poop when someone watches me, while I fart or potentially destroy the toilet bowl. And also, there is the smell. Is "giving them full self" going full ape? Not judging, I am just curious, I don't talk about this with my other friends usually. Most guys don't share these weird details; it does not come up.
by jameslk | 2025-11-27 01:40:02+00:00
For those that don’t know, the point of the bitcoin holding strategy of MSTR is that they sell convertible notes to buy bitcoin, which is essentially a put against the US dollar (they’re making a profit from the US dollar losing value over time due to inflation, assuming bitcoin rises against it). The convertible notes can be purchased by institutional investors that aren’t allowed to buy bitcoin directly as indirect bitcoin exposure because the notes can be converted into MSTR shares
by newman8r | 2025-11-27 01:40:45+00:00
> Web 1.0 was full of weirdos doing cool weird stuff for the pure joy of discovery. That's the ethos we need back, and it's not incompatible with AI.

True. And to some extent, I've seen more 'useless but fun' projects in the last year because they can be done in an afternoon rather than a week. We need more of that.
by serf | 2025-11-27 01:40:59+00:00
> I've been wanting to have an AI play Kerbal Space Program because I think it would just be pretty hilarious.

people have been experimenting with this since early Opus days.

Check out kRPC. Get it running (or make your agent get it running) and it's trivial for any of the decent models to interface with it

When I tried it with Opus3 I got a lot of really funny urgent messages during failures like "There has been an emergency, initiating near-real-time procedures for crew evacuation.." and then it's just de-couple every stage and ram into the ground.

Makes for a fun ant-farm to watch though.

[0]: https://krpc.github.io/krpc/
by m463 | 2025-11-27 01:41:10+00:00
I would mention a few non-political things:

- their cars keep on "deprecating" controls, such as turn signal and drive select stalks, mechanical door releases, defog, dashboard and other critical controls. unsafe and a cheapo move.

- the model y looks ugly now, especially lighting. the older version looks nice, and was a best-seller.

- cybertruck

all of this just hands market share over to the competition, which has appeared.
by lmm | 2025-11-27 01:41:59+00:00
I don't think it's independent. I think part of the reason for the rise of gambling in all its forms of late is a certain nihilism/despair among the younger generation (one that's not really unjustified; the median under-30 citizen now has no reasonable hope of ever owning a home anywhere where they could earn enough to support themselves, much less a family, for example).
by accrual | 2025-11-27 01:42:13+00:00
Here are the key points one can have after using some scripts to load the content:

* Tesla Model Y ranked most unreliable among nearly new cars, with 17.3% serious defect rate.

* TÜV report found rising major defects, particularly in electric vehicles like Tesla’s Model 3 and Y.

* European brands, especially Mercedes and Volkswagen, dominated reliability rankings across all age groups.
Show HN: TwitterXZ – clean, fast Twitter/X video downloader(free and no signup)
by mrasong | 2025-11-27 01:43:02+00:00
I got tired of shady Twitter video downloaders, so I built a clean one with no ads or tracking. Just paste a tweet URL and it returns the video files (multiple resolutions, HD if available). Stateless backend; nothing stored.

https://twitterxz.com

Feedback welcome.
by aeonfox | 2025-11-27 01:43:13+00:00
I'm inclined to agree. But occasionally, someone is so dead set on talking past every point made and or is just posting flame-bait. Engaging with them doesn't help.

I think at least one chance for them to clarify their position, or genuinely answer to critique should be given. If it's clear that it's just a drive-by low-effort comment, or if they just have an axe to grind, only then should they be downvoted. If they are serial offenders, they typically get shadow-banned.
by snickerer | 2025-11-27 01:43:15+00:00
Physics are not so bad for interstellar travel.

We just need a an engine that accelerates our space ships with 1g constantly. With that, we would reach something like 80% lightspeed after one year. Exactly in the middle between start and destination, we would turn the ship around and start accelerating towards earth again.

A trip to Alpha Centauri could be done in less than 4 years ship-time. Earth-time would be some years longer.

1g constant acceleration would be quite comfy for humans.

The only thing we need for this plan is the constantly running engine. I propose to bend space-time in front (or behind) the ship, for it to keep falling forwards.
by conception | 2025-11-27 01:43:57+00:00
Gemini CLI is a wild beast. The stories of it just going bonkers and refactoring everything it reads on its own are not rare. My own experience was something like, "Edit no code. Only give me suggestions. blah blah blah" first thing it does is edit a file without any other output. It's completely unreliable.

Pro 3 is -very- smart but it's tool use/following directions isn't great.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-27 01:44:10+00:00
This is some new age Costanza shit.

Joking aside, I find this far more in newer European hotels for whatever reason (though I'm sure it exists stateside and elsewhere too). My wife and I at this point just agree to tell each other when we're going to occupy it because we don't feel like it getting weird. Feels like - if the conspiracy-ish theory of it being used to dissuade people sharing rooms is true - they're inadvertently throwing out the couples dynamic.

To borrow another Seinfeld bit: there's good naked and bad naked. The glass door problem invites the latter.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-27 01:44:40+00:00
> The USB-C thing just made everything better. It cost Apple basically nothing

It made all the iPhone docks/speakers/etc. obsolete. The last time that happened, when Apple swapped the old 30 pin connector for lightning, it pissed off a fair number of customers.

This time they could blame the EU which was likely a huge plus.
Show HN: Calisthenics Memory – Open-source bodyweight training tracker
by Gonbei774 | 2025-11-27 01:44:53+00:00
Hey HN, do you work out?

I couldn't find an open-source calisthenics tracking app, so I built one for my own training records. It's now polished enough to share.

Key points: - Full customization: No preset exercises, no locked features. Every exercise you create has access to all settings (reps/time, unilateral/bilateral, goals, per-exercise timers) - Two modes: Quick manual logging or guided workout with timers - Completely offline: No account, no tracking, no ads. Your data stays on your device.

Source code and APK available on Codeberg (GPL-3.0).

https://codeberg.org/Gonbei774/CalisthenicsMemory

Feedback welcome!
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-27 01:44:55+00:00
> The value of ChatGPT is not the ChatGPT, it's what ChatGPT produces. It's a middleman...

Spotify and Uber are aggregators with high marginal costs that they do not control. Spotify has to pay labels for every stream; Uber has to pay drivers for every ride. They cannot scale their way out of those costs because they don't own the underlying asset (the music or the labor).

OpenAI is not a middleman; they own the factory. They are "manufacturing" intelligence. Their primary costs are compute and energy. Unlike human labor (Uber) or IP licensing (Spotify), the cost of compute is on a strong deflationary curve. Inference costs have dropped orders of magnitudes in the last couple years while model quality has improved and costs will keep dropping. Gemini's median query costs no more than a google search. LLM inference is already cheap.

> Any idiot off the street can be the most used website on Earth. Easy - go to my website, and I give you free stuff.

If they were only burning cash to give away a free product, you’d be right. But they are reportedly at ~$4B in annualized revenue. That is not "giving away free stuff" to inflate metrics; that is the fastest-growing SaaS product in history.

You are conflating "burning cash to build infrastructure" (classic aggressive scaling, like early Amazon) with "structurally unprofitable unit economics" (MoviePass).

Open AI's unit economics are fine. Inference is cheap enough for ads to be viable enough for profitability as a business today. The costs this article is alluding to ? Open AI don't need to do any of that for tier of models and use-cases they have today. They are trying to build and be able to serve 'AGI', which they project will be orders of magnitudes more costly. If they do manage that, then none of those costs will matter. If they don't, then they can just...not do it. 'AGI' is not necessary for Open AI to be a profitable business.
by stingraycharles | 2025-11-27 01:45:14+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.

When talking with non-tech people around me, it’s really not about “rational minds”, it’s that people really don’t understand how all this works and as such don’t see the limitations of it.

Combine that with a whole lot of FOMO which happens often with investors and you have a whole pile of money being invested.

From what I hear, most companies like Google and Meta have a lot of money to burn, and their official position towards investors is “chances of reaching ASI/AGI are very low, but if we do and we miss out on it, it will mean a huge opportunity loss so it’s worth the investment right now”.
by 6510 | 2025-11-27 01:45:32+00:00
A decade or two ago I talk with a 90 year old who bought, sold and especially exchanged everything not bolted down since he was 12. He had a crappy shed he filled with all kinds of garbage/treasures. I wouldn't call it a business. He did have businesses later on but that wasn't his primary activity. He would trade some old wood stoves for goats that he traded for a boat. That's not a business model is it? He obtained one classic car that took many years to get back on the road. Not really a business? I barely knew the guy but know enough hilarious stories to fill a book. Without that shed however he wouldn't have happened.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-27 01:46:04+00:00
"Buyer beware! You are responsible for checking for X!" is a lame excuse, and just enables the worst possible behavior from vendors and service providers. I shouldn't have to check 500 things every time I choose to do business with someone! This is madness.

Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

We shouldn't all have to live our lives with Caveat Emptor as some sort of horrible default societal moral framework.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-11-27 01:46:47+00:00
I've found that hummingbirds are surprisingly not very picky and are quite persistent. Check out what sort of things are native to your area though because you may be able to attract a lot more than hummingbirds.

I'm in the Bay Area and in terms of native flora the hummingbirds like the monkey flower (both red and orange), California fuchsia, and Pacific bleeding hearts I've got planted. They also go for the Christmas cactus and fuchsia (neither of which are native but both of which are currently in full bloom). As an added bonus the carpenter and bumble bees both frequent all of the above (as well as the California poppies).