MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keeda | 2025-11-13 20:11:41+00:00
Before this devolves into the morass of outraged comments that usually comprises any discussion of patents, here is the golden rule I coined for such threads:

RTFC: Read the Fucking Claims

The claims are the only part of the patent that really matter because those are the only enforceable language. Plus, this is a patent application so the claims have not even been examined yet.

Without commenting on the merits of this patent itself, remember that new applications of existing techniques are still novel, and hence patentable. In fact, if you think about it, almost all inventions and innovations are just applying novel combinations of well-known techniques to new use-cases. (Anything that doesn't fit that definition and introduces genuinely new methods is usually in the "groundbreaking" category.)

So I'd guess "applying old technique to new problem" is probably the case here. I'm no subject matter expert, and there may be prior art that invalidates this, or it may not meet the non-obviousness bar... but when the "200 year old math" came about neural networks were not really a thing.
by antegamisou | 2025-11-13 20:11:56+00:00
> you say LLMs mislead people and can't reason

Why would you postulate these two to be mutually exclusive?

> then fault them for being good at helping people solve puzzles or win trivia games

They only help them in the same sense that a calculator would 'help' win at a hypothetical mental math competition, that is the gist; robbing people of the creative and mentally stimulating processes that make the game(s) fun. But I've come to realize this is an unpopular opinion on this website where being fiercely competitive is the only remarkable personality trait, so I guess yeah it may be useful for this particular population.
by linuxhansl | 2025-11-13 20:12:03+00:00
Software patents are mostly garbage and unneeded. And I say that having some in my name (I actually tried to get my name off them, but our lawyers said it's not possible).

Show me one useful software patent that (a) is not "obvious to one skilled in the art", and (b) benefits society by being granted a monopoly. Just one!

Software rarely requires expensive research that would be worth protecting. Rather than enabling a fair market, this takes fairness out of the market.

Software patents are like getting a patent on "Murder story with final revelation of who did it." Maybe add one or two features, like a "detective with hat", etc. In one fell swoop you would be able to own most murder mysteries.

Software (like books, stories, art, etc) is better handled by Copyright law. May the one who actually has a better product win!

Sorry for the rant.
by toss1 | 2025-11-13 20:12:14+00:00
>>rural concerns just get steamrolled by the urban concerns

But effectively giving dirt a vote clearly isn't the solution. When voting maps are made weighted by strict land area they look one way, but weighted by population, they look entirely different, e.g., [0]

Or, should Wyoming, with a population of 587,618 as of 2024 [1] really have as many senators as the 39,431,263 people in California [2]? California has nearly five times the rural population of Wyoming [3], yet all rural and urban Californians get only 1.4% of the representative power of anyone living in Wyoming. Does a Wyoming resident really deserve 67X the representation of people in California?

I absolutely think rural concerns must be heard and met, but this setup is not right, and is clearly not meeting those concerns.

[0] https://worldmapper.org/us-presidential-election-2024/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California

[3] https://www.ppic.org/publication/rural-california/
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-13 20:12:16+00:00
Uh..

No.

It's worse.

It's Chinese intel knowing that you prefer Claude. So they make Claude their asset.

Really no different than knowing that, romantically speaking, some targets prefer a certain type of man or woman.

Believe me, the intelligence people behind these things have no preferences. They'll do whatever it takes. Never doubt that.
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-13 20:12:48+00:00
I did my undergrad in applied math and MS in machine learning, worked writing automated trading algorithms for a few years before drifting into infra layer, and there is no universe in which I'd consider myself anywhere remotely close to an expert in AI and I'm really not sure such people exist outside of the senior leadership at major labs, i.e. the LeCun/Hinton types.

But I know enough to know neither AI nor machine learning are subfields of the other. AI just developed out of the very earliest days of electronic computing as an expression of the desire to get intelligent behavior out of computers by any means possible. Machine learning arose from the desire to express functions in which we know the inputs and outputs but not the form of the function itself, so we use various estimation methods that can be learned from the data itself. A whole lot of overlap and parallel efforts simultaneously developed the same or similar techniques between computer scientists and software engineers on the one side and statisticians and applied mathematicians on the other side. It seemed to have turned out that statistical methods generally seem to provide the best algorithms for machine learning, and machine learning has seemed to provide the best algorithms to get intelligent behavior out of computers.

So they've kind of grown together, stats, automated learning, and AI, but they're still distinct things that developed independently of one another and still exist independently of one another.

This is putting aside all the various "big data" technologies and efforts that grew out of the 2007 or so era of collecting enormous amounts of user or machine-generated data that required new tech to store, query, and new ways to perform parallel batch processing often married to the storage and query tech, all of which was necessary for and enabled statistical machine learning to become as successful as it has become, but is completely separate from the mathematical and algorithmic discipline itself.

Even the guys I named above are probably not really experts in all of these things separately. As with anything, it takes a village.
by Closi | 2025-11-13 20:12:51+00:00
To be honest this is the sort of thing Nano Bannana is weak at in my experience. It's absolutely amazing - but doesn't understand left/right/up/down/shrink this/move this/rotate this etc.

See below to demonstrate this weakness with the same prompts as the article see the link below, which demonstrates that it is a model weakness and not just a language ambiguity:

https://gemini.google.com/share/a024d11786fc
by anthk | 2025-11-13 20:13:03+00:00
That's why you should always use either European or Canadian mirrors. On FreeType, maybe Clear Type related; but I remember some slight hinting methods not related to cleartype which looked far superior on flat LCD screens IMHO.

Another one was Lame and MP3. And I remember the codecs issue with the Penguin Liberation Front for Mandrake, LIVNA for another distro and Debian Multimedia, among others.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-13 20:13:26+00:00
Meh, drama aside, I'm actually curious what would be the true capabilities of a system that doesn't go through any "safety" alignment at all. Like an all out "mil-spec" agent. Feed it everything, RL it to own boxes, and let it loose in an air-gapped network to see what the true capabilities are.

We know alignment hurts model performance (oAI people have said it, MS people have said it). We also know that companies train models on their own code (google had a blog about it recently). I'd bet good money project0 has something like this in their sights.

I don't think we're that far from a blue vs. red agents fighting and RLing off of each-other in a loop.
by Peanuts99 | 2025-11-13 20:13:48+00:00
I live in the UK and would have to agree with these two. LLU was very successful but also forcing Open reach infrastructure like ducting to be used by Altnet companies such as Cityfibre who want to build out their own networks. I'm with a very small ISP too (Idnet - wonderful company), who provide a fast reliable service over FTTP for less than £26 a month.

On energy, we have many companies competing and offering really diverse products. Octopus were once a small little upstart but they became top dog by providing decent support, incentives and new products such as tariffs that track the wholesale rate - including negative pricing. They've got a REST API that you can use to pull all kind of data out for various home automation use cases - I can't ever imagine a government run company providing that.
by nucleardog | 2025-11-13 20:13:55+00:00
This is more or less the approach Apple's "pkl" takes.

You define your data in the "pkl language", then it outputs it as yaml, json, xml, apple property list, or other formats.

You feed in something like:

apiVersion = "apps/v1" kind = "Deployment" metadata { name = "my-deployment" labels { ["app.kubernetes.io/name"] = "my-deployment" ["app.kubernetes.io/instance"] = "prod" } } spec { replicas = 3 template { containers { new { name = "nginx" } new { name = "backend" } } } }

And then you `pkl eval myfile.pkl -f yaml` and get back:

apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: my-deployment labels: app.kubernetes.io/name: my-deployment app.kubernetes.io/instance: prod spec: replicas: 3 template: containers: - name: nginx - name: backend

The language supports templating (structurally, not textually), reuse/inheritance, typed properties with validation, and a bunch of other fun stuff.

They also have built in package management, and have a generated package that provides resources for simplifying/validating most kubernetes objects and generating manifests.

There's even a relatively easy path to converting existing YAML/JSON into pkl. Or the option to read an external YAML file and include it/pull values from it/etc (as data, not as text) within your pkl so you don't need to rebuild everything from the ground up day 1.

Aaaaand there's bindings for a bunch of languages so you can read pkl directly as the config for your app if you want rather than doing a round trip through YAML.

Aaaaand there's a full LSP available. Or a vscode extension. Or a neovim extension. Or an intellij extension.

The documentation leaves a bit to be desired, and the user base seems to be fairly small so examples are not the easiest to come by... but as far as I've used it so far it's a pretty huge improvement over helm.
by swyx | 2025-11-13 20:13:58+00:00
yeah its not fair to call it a finetune because finetune carries connotation of "there wasnt that much extra compute and data added". RLFT has a lot more added to it as Sasha alluded in his talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md8D8eNj5JM - the x axis is log scale, think about that

the framing here is more about "why would you start from random weights when perfectly good starting weights exist" https://www.latent.space/p/fastai
by terramauthe | 2025-11-13 20:14:06+00:00
I use LLMs to find items for me all the time and it's great. I still have to use my human capacities for consideration and kindness as well as my deep understanding for the people in my life who I care about to suggest what gift I might want to get them. I still need to care. The people in my life have very specific needs and finding the right vendor for a gift involves a lot of searching and reading. Not to mention navigating the brilliant tariffs that have recently made shopping such a joy. LLM tools turn this 3-5h process into a 5 minute exploration.

I'm glad to see this being made mainstream. Hopefully nobody imagines that this will let them care less about people in their lives, since we need a lot more people to care about each other in my opinion.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-13 20:14:24+00:00
>why do you think your opinions can outweigh other’s?

I don't see where this is implied. I took the implication of "your opinion did not sway my own"

>Do you have a fleshed out logically sound argument?

The "logic" is "larger states in a democracy should have more power because they represent more people". Which naively makes sense. I'm sure game theory would show some consequence of this formation though as a bunch of smaller states coalition around each other and make a two party system based on land, as opposed to ideology.
by satvikpendem | 2025-11-13 20:14:35+00:00
Looks great. I use some CRDTs like Loro and Automerge, are there any learnings or collaboration you're taking from them to improve DeltaDB?

Also the name, I thought it was a database with CRDTs due to the "DB" at the end of DeltaDB, but it's a version control system, I thought that was somewhat misleading, any reason why it's named so?
by lawlessone | 2025-11-13 20:14:43+00:00
>There will be a new developer “account type for students and hobbyists” that allows “you to distribute your creations to a limited number of devices without going through the full verification requirements.” This is aimed at folks who just want to make a custom app for friends, family, or other small groups, not those who want to make their apps widely available though

I don't think that's "sideloading" .this is just what they were always gonna do but state differently. Hows that gonna work for f-droid etc?
by mike_hearn | 2025-11-13 20:14:44+00:00
I think they mean that "COBOL" is often used as a synonym for old mainframe based software. The language isn't the biggest issue with such systems, usually. Any programmer can learn COBOL, just translating one syntax to another doesn't buy you much. It's also about the hardware the stuff runs on, the database systems, the job schedulers, etc.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 20:14:48+00:00
> I have friends who smoke and have seen over the years how they've abandoned hobbies in favor of smoking more. Where's the outrage about that?

Why in the world would I or anyone else have any right to be outraged over someone trading one hobby for another?

> I take public transport and the people who smoke make the entire train smell.

Make and enforce laws about smoking on public transport.
by cmckn | 2025-11-13 20:15:21+00:00
> you can't really get around maintaining some sort of fall-back poll.

This has been my experience with GitHub Actions as well, which I imagine rely on the same underlying event system as webhooks.

Every so often, an Action will not be triggered or otherwise go into the void. So for Actions that trigger on push, I usually just add a cron schedule to them as well.
by maximilianburke | 2025-11-13 20:15:40+00:00
I don't think the senate is necessarily the _biggest_ flaw, but it's close.

A bigger flaw I think is the apportionment of house reps, and that the number of house reps hasn't changed in nearly 100 years.

Splitting the Dakota Territory into North and South to get two extra senators is pretty egregious and should be counteracted with DC and Puerto Rico being admitted as states.
by linegel | 2025-11-13 20:15:48+00:00
Hello World! I mean, it feels like all those starting comments are written by AI but anyway

This project started as a funny idea for a small page that, after a few hours, quickly spiraled into this puzzle mini-game. What was supposed to be a quick weekend project turned into a "slow down and finish it calmly" effort (and yes, I totally missed my original self-imposed deadline)

It's not a serious CTF or a deep security challenge. It’s a casual, 20-minute puzzle adventure designed to be solvable even if you're just starting your IT career. Technically, you don't even need any browser's dev tools

As you probably guessed from the title, the whole thing is packed with stupid and silly IT jokes. I was aiming for peak 'programmer humor' cringe, and I think I got pretty close.
by kulahan | 2025-11-13 20:16:01+00:00
People that say this are only looking to ensure the repression of those at the bottom of the totem pole remain oppressed! It's a direct path to fascism, and it is designed entirely to massively accumulate wealth at the top of the pyramid while ensuring all others starve and suffer!

If you're going to make inane comments about how ahckchtually everything in the world is a creation of the man who just wants to keep us down, you'll need to qualify the statements.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-13 20:16:10+00:00
100% agree. In south asia and south east asia (maybe other parts too), it's very common to have insects like spiders, lizards, local bugs, ants inside apartments and houses. No one bats an eyelid and, if we felt, a larger insect was trapped and couldn't make it outside, we would just put them on paper tissue and take them outside.

In the US though, I frequently find people freaking out if they see any insect. There's a zero-tolerance policy for any living creature indoors. They are almost always killed. It leads to a disconnect between human beings and any other life. Other creatures are always a distant presence in zoos or on TV although exceptions are made for pets.

This shows up in language too. Instead of saying, a bear was killed for straying into settled human land or breaking into a house, the phrase used is "the bear was euthanized" (still accurate) or "the bear was destroyed" as if it was a piece of furniture. To contrast this with, say India, even tigers and elephants that kill, are mostly tranquilized and moved deep into a forest. This is very alien in the US where the trigger-happy reaction is to kill the animal.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-13 20:17:15+00:00
It's certainly a conversation worth having, but a fundamental difference between the CT and something like an F150 is utility -- the CT is unapologetically a lifestyle vehicle emphasizing form over function. A regular pickup is very utilitarian. I know it's fashionable to argue that half-ton pickups are very commonly used as lifestyle pickups too, but at least the design is clearly aimed at function over form.

So the argument probably is less about how the design should change, but how to avoid incentivizing the use of utility vehicles for family duty.

Disclaimer: I drive an F150 Lightning, so I'm part of the problem I suppose; but damn if it isn't just about the most useful all-around family vehicle I've ever owned. As long as you don't routinely drive downtown, and I don't.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-13 20:17:26+00:00
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it (poorly). Same for anyone doing software that entirely ignores Computer Science. You are missing core skills and reinventing well known wheels when you could be busy building smarter things.

> no more so than an accountant is an economist or a carpenter is an architect

I know many accountants who would claim you can't be an a good accountant without being an economist. Arguably that's most of the course load of an MBA in a nutshell. I don't know a carpenter who would claim to be an architect, usually when carpentry happens is after architecture has been done, but I know plenty of carpenters that claim to be artists and/or artisans (depending on how you see the difference), that take pride in their craft and understand the aesthetic underpinnings.

> reread my comment - at no point did i complain about the article. i'm complaining that SWEs have overinflated senses of self which compel them to write such articles.

You chose which article to post your complaint to. The context of your comment is most directly complaining about this specific article. That's how HN works. If you didn't read the article and feel like just generically complaining about the "over-inflated senses of self" in the software industry, perhaps you should be reading some forum that isn't HN?
by kure256 | 2025-11-13 20:17:52+00:00
More users are now getting information through AI assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) instead of traditional browsing. This project proposes a set of open, practical guidelines for building websites that AI systems can actually understand, index, and cite — similar to how SEO defined rules for search engines.

It’s not a framework — just a minimal, evolving set of best practices aimed at making the web machine-readable again.

Repo (docs): https://github.com/ai-first-guides/first.ai/blob/main/docs/i...

Feedback, Contribution and Stars from HN is welcome.
by satvikpendem | 2025-11-13 20:18:07+00:00
Based on this comment [0], they're building DeltaDB as a version control system which uses a CRDT, so I assume even in single player mode, the file will instantiate its own CRDT for fine grained tracking of changes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196#45919739
by celsoazevedo | 2025-11-13 20:19:15+00:00
That uses a workaround based on WiFi debugging even though it's all local. It doesn't run if you're not connected to a trusted WiFi network, you have to set it all up when connecting to a new network, etc.

Not only users are not connected to WiFi all the time, but in many developing countries people often have no WiFi at home and rely on mobile data instead. It's a solution, but not a solution for everyone or a solution that works all the time.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 20:19:48+00:00
More than a decade later, the GOP has still yet to present an alternative healthcare plan to the ACA. Actual leftists have continued to push and argue for a true single payer system.

The ACA Is far from perfect but it was a significant step up from what we had before, and the party that spends all of their time trashing it has never made any sort of serious attempt at creating any sort of alternative.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-13 20:19:49+00:00
Congress as a whole? I don't know if there's anything unique it solves. It's merely the US's compromise to balance between a monarchy and a weak federal government with little control over the coalition of states.

The big issue is that our House of Representatives stopped being proportional to the population some 90 years ago. I believe analysts suggested that a House today would have over 1000 members, as to the 435 seats today. So that only increases representation of smaller states.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-11-13 20:20:00+00:00
If Anthropic should have prevented this, then logically they should’ve had guardrails. Right now you can write whatever code you want. But to those who advocate guardrails, keep in mind that you’re advocating a company to decide what code you are and aren’t allowed to write.

Hopefully they’ll be able to add guardrails without e.g. preventing people from using these capabilities for fuzzing their own networks. The best way to stay ahead of these kinds of attacks is to attack yourself first, aka pentesting. But if the large code models are the only ones that can do this effectively, then it gets weird fast. Imagine applying to Anthropic for approval to run certain prompts.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-13 20:20:03+00:00
> You need something that essentially represents each whole state as a unit.

Er, why?

I understand why the country needed this at the beginning. It was a union of sovereign nations. The states were effectively the constituents of the federal government and it makes sense to have a body where each one is represented equally. And in practical terms, there was a real risk that the smaller states wouldn't have joined the union if they didn't have something that compensated for the increased power the larger states had due to their population.

But today? The states are glorified administrative divisions. They still have some independent power but it's not a lot. And there's no option to leave the union.

We still have the Senate in its current form due to inertia and the fact that the states that get disproportionate power from the current form of the Senate also have disproportionate power in deciding whether it changes. It's hard to convince the smaller states to give up that power.