MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nmaley | 2025-11-14 05:11:16+00:00
LLMs are parameter based representations of linguistic representations of the world. Relative to robot predictive control problems, they are low dimensional and static. They are batch trained using supervised learning and are not designed to manage real time shifts in the external world or the reward space. They work because they operate in abstract, rule governed spaces like language and mathematics. They are ill suited to predictive control tasks. They are the IBM 360s of AI. Even so, they are astonishing achievements.

LeCun is right to say that continuous self supervised (hierarchical) learning is the next frontier, and that means we need world models. I'm not sure that JEPA is the right tool to get us past that frontier, but at the moment there are not a lot of alternatives on the table.
by Marsymars | 2025-11-14 05:11:25+00:00
> I also doubt most people will be able to detect AI text generated with a non-default "voice" in the prompt.

I'll grant you that if someone is careful with prompts they can generate text that's difficult to detect as AI, but it's easy to see that in practice, web results are still full of AI-generated slop where whoever is publishing it doesn't care about making it non-slop-like.

Second to that, much of what I read or search for isn't amenable to an AI summary... like I'm very often looking for facts about things, where trust in the source is of primary importance, so whether I can detect text as AI-generated or not doesn't matter, what matters is that there's an actual source willing to stake their reputation, either as an organization or an individual, on what's been written.
by xbmcuser | 2025-11-14 05:12:25+00:00
This could be the turning point from where worlds fossil fuel burning stabilizes and then starts declining.

It's interesting to see that it was fossil fuel burning ie industrial revolution (steam engine) that led to the dominance of western civilization over last few 100 years. Now that it sunsets and the eastern civilization (China) rises we are also witnessing the rise of what I personally call electronic revolution.
by defrost | 2025-11-14 05:13:26+00:00
That would have been a nuanced conversation with some breadth (albeit skewed right) given that JD Vance was recently warned by a right wing source about the recent even more right wing Groyper takeover of the GOP.

JD Vance Received a Dire Warning About the Groyper Takeover of the GOP From a Strange Source (November, 2025)

“After these last three days in Washington, I am more convinced than I have ever been that we are moving towards some kind of totalitarianism — or at best, authoritarianism,” said Dreher. The claim that more than a third of young GOP staffers are at least sympathetic to Fuentes isn’t entirely shocking. Recent years have seen numerous indications that this new brand of neo-Nazism and white nationalism has increasingly taken hold in the right-wing establishment.

and

what’s notable about Dreher’s post isn’t the idea that Groypers are ascendant in the MAGA era. The remarkable thing here is the fact this message to Vance came from fairly far out on the right. Dreher is perhaps most famous for his 2018 book — The Benedict Option — in which he pitched the idea that conservative Christians should form their own separatist communities due to their concerns about modern, secular values and the increasing acceptance of the LGBTQ community. In a 2022 essay where Dreher discussed the fact his father had been a Klansman, he described himself as a “race liberal” while also asserting “black people and white people really were very different in terms of culture,” including what he called a “sexual code” among African-Americans that includes teenage motherhood and absentee fathers. In the very essay where he decried the rising tide of Groyperism in D.C., Dreher repeatedly empathized with the roots of these young extremists’ anger and declared that, while anti-Semitism is misguided, Europe has been overwhelmed by a “Muslim mob.”

~ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vance-received-a-dire-...

So much for those that claimed MAGA lacked diversity, disagreement about the angle of salute has scale akin to that of Lilliput and Blefuscu.
by josephg | 2025-11-14 05:15:32+00:00
> I'd say that rust has a weird level of being both verbose and terse in strange ways. If you ever have to deal with lifetimes, then the verbosity goes up pretty significantly.

I find rust generally more terse than both C and - especially Go, to which rust was compared upthread. Writing out lifetimes explicitly can be confusing. But I don't think it adds that much syntactic noise. Maybe 1/20 functions in my code have explicit lifetimes. That will confuse beginners, but I don't think its too bad once you're used to them.

> And, dealing with pointers ultimately introduces multiple layers of concepts that you don't necessarily run into with C++/Go/Java.

This is my #1 complaint about rust's syntax. If you ever need to interact with raw pointers within unsafe blocks, I feel like the language really fights you. It seems so strange, too - since unsafe blocks are exactly the place where it matters the most that my code is easy to read. Improving the syntax around pointers (for example by adding C's -> operator) would make unsafe blocks clearer.
The Historical Position of Large Language Models – and What Comes After Them
by HaixiangChen | 2025-11-14 05:17:28+00:00
The Historical Position of Large Language Models — and What Comes After Them

Author: CNIA Team

Introduction

The rapid rise of large language models (LLMs) has created an impression that humanity is already standing at the edge of AGI. Yet when the fog lifts, a clearer picture emerges: LLMs represent only the first, communicative stage of machine intelligence — powerful, visible, but not yet structurally self-grounded. What follows them is not “scaling more parameters,” but the emergence of structural, self-consistent, cognitively grounded intelligence architectures, such as CNIA (Cognitive Native Intelligence Architecture).

1. The Two Axes of Intelligence: Communication vs Cognition

A foundational distinction is often overlooked: communication intelligence vs cognitive intelligence. Communication intelligence involves the ability to produce coherent language. LLMs excel here. Cognitive intelligence, however, requires stable conceptual structures, internal consistency, and closed-loop reasoning mechanisms.

2. The Human Analogy: Why This Distinction Matters

A child begins life with strong communication ability but weak structured cognition. A child can speak fluently long before they possess structured reasoning. Cognitive intelligence emerges only through long-term structural development — the formation of stable internal rules. This mirrors the position of LLMs today.

3. LLMs in Historical Perspective

LLMs resemble the early stage of human intelligence: expressive, coherent, but lacking structural reasoning. They cannot yet maintain internal logical frameworks or deterministic verification. Scaling alone cannot produce AGI because scaling amplifies expression, not structure.

4. What Comes After LLMs: The Rise of Cognitive Native Intelligence Architecture

After communication intelligence comes structural intelligence. CNIA embodies this stage: stable reasoning, deterministic verification, self-consistency, and conceptual coherence. It represents the moment when intelligence stops merely speaking and begins genuinely thinking.

5. The Evolutionary Arc of Machine Intelligence

Machine intelligence evolves through:

Stage 1 — Probability Intelligence (LLMs)

Stage 2 — Structural Intelligence (CNIA)

Stage 3 — Closed‑Loop Intelligence

Stage 4 — Native Intelligence (unified generative + cognitive architecture)

LLMs dominate Stage 1; CNIA defines Stage 2 and beyond.

Conclusion

LLMs are not the destination. They are the beginning — the communicative childhood of machine intelligence. Understanding their true historical position reveals the path ahead: from probability to structure, from communication to cognition, from LLM to CNIA. Only on this foundation can AGI become controllable, verifiable, and real.
by turdprincess | 2025-11-14 05:18:38+00:00
Virtual credit card numbers are a great way to combat this.

For example, the Wall Street journal pricing is pretty wild (8 dollars a month for the first 3 months then jumps to much higher) so I use a virtual card which expires right before the planned price hike.

For other services I like to either use a virtual card with a single transaction limit, or just buy the service and cancel right away which typically is equivalent to just paying for a month
by mnutt | 2025-11-14 05:20:08+00:00
Sure, you can only use EC2, not use autoscaling or spot and instead just provision to your highest capacity needs, and not use any other AWS service that relies on dynamo as a dependency.

We still take some steps to mitigate control plane issues in what I consider a reasonable AWS setup (attempt to lock ASGs to prevent scale-down) but I place the control plane disappearing on the same level as the entire region going dark, and just run multi-region.
by zrobotics | 2025-11-14 05:20:12+00:00
I mean, that certainly is a hot take, but you are getting down voted without people responding why.

I can certainly understand just wanting filler content just for background noise, I had the history for sleep channel recommended to me via the algorithm because I do use those types of videos specifically to fall asleep to. However, and I don't know which video it was, but I clicked on a video, and within 5 minutes there were so many historical inaccuracies that I got annoyed enough to get out of bed and add the channel to my block list.

That's my main problem with most AI generated content, it's believable enough to pass a general plausibility filter but upon any level of examination it falls flat with hallucinations and mistruths. That channel should be my jam, I'm always looking for new recorded lectures or long form content specifically to fall asleep to. I'm definitely not a historian and I wouldn't even call myself a dilettante, so the level of inaccuracies was bad enough that even I caught it in a subject I'm not at all an expert in. You may think you are learning something, but the information quality is so bad that you are actively getting more misinformed on the topic from AI slop like that.
by layoric | 2025-11-14 05:20:32+00:00
Totally true. I have a trusty old (like 2016 era) X99 setup that I use for 1.2TB of time series data hosted in a timescaledb PostGIS database. I can fetch all the data I need quickly to crunch on another local machine, and max out my aging network gear to experiment with different model training scenarios. It cost me ~$500 to build the machine, and it stays off when I'm not using it.

Much easier obviously dealing with a dataset that doesn't change, but doing the same in the cloud would just be throwing money away.
by miguel_martin | 2025-11-14 05:20:40+00:00
When I used to use emacs to write code I did this, but it would be great if I could use tramp instead, unfortunately the latency is unbearable.

Also, when compared to neovim, the latency for auto-completion (with LSP as a source) is also unbearably slow. Even with libgccjit enabled.

Now I only stick with emacs for org mode. Maybe I'll try it again, but neovim is just faster.
by kyboren | 2025-11-14 05:21:05+00:00
I realize I was probably too oblique before, so let me be more specific.

The US has pivoted from traditional AWACS to the proliferated warfighter space architecture, the idea being hundreds of LEO satellites can provide a cheaper and much more survivable (not to mention persistent) air moving-target indicator capability. There is substantial project risk, but the US is resource constrained and cannot afford to fund everything under the sun.

European NATO nations don't currently need something so fancy and without the US, E-7's per-unit costs would be too high. But the US now prioritizes its needs in the Pacific theater (where those E-7s would not be survivable) over Europe's security interests (cheap, capable traditional AWACS). That's the pivot to Asia in action.

I don't even think that this outcome is bad for Europe. It's a reminder that Europe's needs are not America's priority, which helps to light a sorely-needed fire under European asses. Europe will buy GlobalEye or some Airbus platform, and the US will have a decent alternative available if the PWSA doesn't work out. It's also a potential opportunity for European NATO countries to contribute to PWSA, Starshield, and/or Golden Dome and more visibly and tangibly contribute to NATO's mutual defense.
by Void_ | 2025-11-14 05:21:13+00:00
I made WhisperType [1].

The price tag is $30/YEAR. The current MRR is about $700 and I'm paying $7/mo for Groq Whisper Turbo.

These apps really don't have any reason to be so pricey, it's all just margin.

1. https://whispertype.com/
by scuff3d | 2025-11-14 05:21:42+00:00
OpenAI is claiming they'll post 74 billion in loses through 2028. Anthropic is on course to lose 3 billion by the end of this year, they lost 5 billion last year.

As far as I can tell the inference provider landscape is a fucking mess, and I can't find any decent financial information on any of the ones I tried. So unless you have something showing those companies are profitable I'm not buy it.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-11-14 05:22:44+00:00
Envoy is designed with the intent that a machine is dynamically reconfiguring it at runtime. It is not designed to be configured directly by a human.

The tradeoff is that you can do truly zero downtime configuration changes. Granted, this is important to a very small number of companies, but if it's important to you, Envoy is great.
by tw1984 | 2025-11-14 05:24:40+00:00
> I doubt most companies would be interested in developing hacking tools.

welcome to 2025. Chinese companies build open weight models, those models can be used / tuned by hackers, companies that built and released those models don't need to get involved at all.

That is a very different dev model compared to the closed Anthropic way.

> Claude is better than Deepseek

No one is claiming DeepSeek to be better, in fact all benchmark results show that Chinese KIMI, MiniMax and GLM to be on par or very close to the closed weight Claude Code.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-14 05:24:52+00:00
If a piece of information can be produced and consumed using general purpose computers, then there's no good reason for it to be made scarce under copyright. It should have a reciprocal copyleft license like AGPL or CC-BY-SA instead. This goes for digital drawings, writings, source code, AI model weights, and pretty much everything on the Internet. Forcing copyright on information that don't need to be scarce just creates extra problems.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-11-14 05:25:11+00:00
A friend of mine just related one of his epiphanies:

"I found myself saying that I can't concentrate because it's not interesting. I chided myself and told me to concentrate so that I would find it interesting".

Aurelius would have been proud (3.2, "And so, if a man has a feeling for, and a deeper insight into the processes of the Universe, there is hardly one but will somehow appear to present itself pleasantly to him, even among mere attendant circumstances.")
by LoganDark | 2025-11-14 05:25:13+00:00
I tried to cancel a virtual card to cancel a service (that only allowed me to change anything by phone call, so this would have been far more convenient and less confrontational) and they tallied up a "delinquent balance" and threatened to sue if I didn't pay everything I owed in order to cancel.

Canceling the card does not work for predatory companies. Maybe for well-meaning ones that automatically cancel when a charge declines.
by insin | 2025-11-14 05:25:18+00:00
observe(document.body, {childList: true, subtree: true})

as a Service

I didn't realise how rough the UX around the userScripts API was, but your onboarding page does a good job of walking the user through it.

If you edit the userscript metadata in a tweek then share it, the original metadata is still displayed on the site and when you install.

You can cheekily add existing user scripts (used to test the above):

Hacker News: https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/97ba1102db5a46f88f34454a

Twitter: https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/1eed748ffbe74fce93c677ed

Are there plans to add the ability to preview the source before installing? Absent any other indicators that a tweek is legit, I'm never clicking that Install button without being able to check it first.
by wild_egg | 2025-11-14 05:27:12+00:00
Get your favourite coding agent to make one. These things are incredibly simple. You really only need a few ingredients:

- `sherpa-onnx` bindings for your favourite language

- package for capturing your mic input

- package for hotkey capture

- package for clipboard management (or shell out to `xclip`)

- shell out to `xdotool key --clearmodifiers "ctrl+v"` to paste

Tell it to go research all the above and then assemble into whatever form you want. I had Claude write a Go daemon that loads parakeet and runs as a systemd user service listening for Alt-Space in about 20 minutes.
by buster | 2025-11-14 05:28:17+00:00
I think we are having different contexts here. I am mostly talking about selfwritten services and how writing, maintaining and deploying helm charts for them is a nightmare.

Regarding dependencies: Using some SaaS Kubernetes (Google GKE) for example, you'll typically use terraform for SQL and other Services anyway (atleast we do use Google CloudSQL and not some selfhosted postgres in k8s).

I find it interesting that cert-manager points to kubectl for new users and not helm: https://cert-manager.io/docs/installation/

But, for sure, there may be reasons to use helm, as you said. I'm sure it is overused, though.
by xethos | 2025-11-14 05:29:20+00:00
Now account for how many vehicles we can get off the road if we have proper bus service, and the impact on pedestrians and cyclists.

Or consider the licensing requirements (class 2 + an air brake endorsement here in BC), and how difficult it is to buy, and store, a 40' bus, compared to any modern truck.

This is a daft comparison that only serves to muddy the waters, and attempts to excuse excessively large modern trucks
by musicale | 2025-11-14 05:30:00+00:00
"You don't upgrade your toaster, do you?" -Steve Jobs (supposedly, infamously opposing any kind of upgrades, slots, etc. for the Mac)

see also: https://www.folklore.org/Diagnostic_Port.html

> Steve immediately nixed his proposal, stating that there was no way that the Mac would even have a single slot...

> He would also rather have them buy a new 512K Mac instead of them buying more RAM from a third-party

The more things change...
by maxlin | 2025-11-14 05:30:11+00:00
Kind of? That is what how the early adopter "section" of buyers work. It's not a secret that supercars have more arbitrary faults too, and repairs aren't as available as getting your Corolla running again.

CB has a lot of experimental stuff because it's truly one of a kind of a car. Most buyers know this. Comfier and more reliable than a car made purely for showing off of course though, it's a car that truly looks like it comes from the future but that you can still daily drive by design.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-14 05:30:59+00:00
> People usually say contemporary media sucks because of commercial pressures, but those commercial pressures and conditions wouldn't exist without the expansion of copyright.

I think this is a pretty bold assertion. Copyright protection exists because of what you call "commercial pressures", and what I would call "the desire of content producers to pay their bills". Sure, it leads to self-reinforcing pathologies that seek to expand the scope of the protections, but for every Disney, there are millions of small-scale creators who get to make a living because there are at some legal hinderances to third parties selling copies of their music, books, and so forth.

I don't think we can assume that if copyright did not exist, we'd live in an utopia where all the same content is still available and we get some additional liberties to write Mickey Mouse erotica. More likely, we'd see a significant drop in certain types of creative activity, because in the absence of royalties, you need a wealthy patron to pay your bills, and wealthy patrons are in short supply. I'd also wager that media empires would still be built, just structured around barriers less pleasant than copyright. A Disney-operated cinema with metal detectors and patdowns for all guests. Maybe a contract you need to sign to enter, too.
by johnecheck | 2025-11-14 05:32:16+00:00
Are you religious? If not, you should assume that your cognition is a product of your body, a magnificent machine.

I don't think LLMs are sapient, but your argument implies that creativity is something unique to humans and therefore no machine can ever have it. If the human body IS a machine, this is a contradiction.

Now, there's a very reasonable argument to be made concerning the purpose of copyright law, but "machines can't be creative" isn't it.
by geor9e | 2025-11-14 05:32:59+00:00
Okay, but have you used the large Whisper model? Sure, voice typing has been around for 10 or 20 years. And it's great if you have a good mic and enunciate, but these new models are insane. You can just mumble something from across an entire room, with peanut butter in your mouth, and it won't miss a single word.
by krapp | 2025-11-14 05:33:28+00:00
It's a hobby though.

At the end of the article the author says 'This is why telling burned-out people to "find work-life balance" or "pursue hobbies" often fails.' But this is literally a hobby. Something you put effort into without needing to justify why, just because you enjoy it, is a hobby.

It's cool but the author makes it out to be way more profound than it is (ironically, justifying it with a narrative to turn out as content.)
by CGamesPlay | 2025-11-14 05:34:03+00:00
Yeah, makes sense Homebrew doesn't sign everything with their own certs. I was suggesting that Homebrew could run codesign locally with the user's local certificate as part of the install process.

> The bad actors would flood homebrew with malicious binaries, which homebrew would auto-sign, users would download & run, and the bad actors would laugh all the way to the bank.

Every software distributor has this problem, code-signed or not. This is either already happening to Homebrew (and not using code signing) or there's some other reason that it isn't happening.
by rob74 | 2025-11-14 05:35:13+00:00
Yes, I think the crux of the matter is what constitutes fair use and what doesn't. And I would say that a summary in an encyclopedia article about a copyrighted work is not only fair use, but also in the work's own interest, while being ingested and regurgitated by an LLM isn't, so... The article only mentions that twice, in passing.