MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-11-27 01:47:25+00:00
In the future, maybe a hundred years from now, when we're able to do whole head or brain transplants on top of monoclonal bodies we grow in a lab - to regain our youth, our health; to trivially be rid of cancer - do you think people will really give a damn about any of that?

We'll have people swapping genders and races and even species (I'm certain someone will pay to have cat ears or a tail). This will happen left and right because there will be no societal stigma anymore. People will embrace the full spectrum of possibility. We won't hate on a superficial basis. (Just for all the others, like pride and jealousy.)

You might even find yourself wanting to become a transgenic "trigender pyrofox from the forest planet". And I wouldn't judge. Who am I to tell you how to live your life? I'm not taking your Bible, guns, privacy, or religion away either. I just want you to ease up on hating others.

One day science fiction will be reality. And when it is, can you possibly harbor this same primitive hate?

Btw, my wife is trans. She's a fashion model. She's 100% passing and men steal glances at her and try to get her number constantly. You have probably met trans people you're attracted to and don't even know it.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody knew it, did you commit the sin of lusting after "the wrong chromosomes?" Is someone going to damn you to eternal hell for it?

Live and let live. You're being the "far left progressive people" you claim to hate when you try to interfere in the lives of others. They want to take your guns and your god? Well, why are you trying to take people's dignity and tell them how to live? Two way street. It's horseshoe shaped and you have more in common than you think. Blind hatred for a way of life you're unfamiliar with is chief most. You have leftist allies who hate Christianity and other groups. You have so much in common. The only thing is that you're playing for a different team with a different jersey and a different brand of prejudice.

Jesus told you to love. Do it. Don't follow the antichrists teaching messages of hate.

Love is what brings us together and makes us stronger. If you don't have love to give or nice things to say, just keep it to yourself and stop adding negativity to the world.
by wdpatti | 2025-11-27 01:47:39+00:00
Thanks for all the compliments!

In all reality I spent like 30 minutes on this one Sunday afternoon when every model failed nearly 100% of the time - now it's more like 95% but about half figure out that there is something wrong and prompt the user to fix it. This isn't meant to be a permanent fix at all - just a cool idea that will be patched just like DANs were back in 2023.
by novoreorx | 2025-11-27 01:48:22+00:00
I really wish there were a de facto state-of-the-art coding agent that is LLM-agnostic, so that LLM providers wouldn't bother reinventing their own wheels like Codex and Gemini-CLI. They should be pluggable providers, not independent programs. In this way, the CLI would focus on refining the agentic logic and would grow faster than ever before.

Currently Claude Code is the best, but I don't think Anthropic would pivot it into what I described. Maybe we still need to wait for the next groundbreaking open-source coding agent to come out.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-27 01:48:23+00:00
>All that said, the actual workday is absolutely filled with busy work that no one really wants to do, and the refusal of a loud minority to engage with that fact is what's leading to this.

And the dangerous part is that we are so hasty to remove that "busy work" that we fail to make sure it's done right. That willful ignorance seems counter to hacker culture which should encourage curiosity and a deeper understanding.

>It's why people can't post a meme, quote, article, whatever could be interpreted (very often, falsely) as AI-generated in a public channel, or ask a chatbot to explain a hand-drawn image without the off chance that they get an earful from one of these 'progressive' people.

In my experience, it's often is Ai generated more often than not. And yes, it is worth calling out. If you can't engage with the public, why do you expect them to engage with you?

It's like being mad about being passed on the current round of a game, all while you clearly have a phone to your ear.
by sasaf5 | 2025-11-27 01:49:03+00:00
I have been using Emacs+git on termux on an Android phone for more than 5 years.

I don't even use a third party software-keyboard, I just use termux's special key bar. To set it up, add the following to ~/.termux/termux.properties

extra-keys = [['TAB','CTRL','ALT','ESC','HOME','END','LEFT','UP','DOWN','RIGHT']]

This has been enough for using org mode in everyday life tasks, and I don't need to keep swapping keyboards.
by e12e | 2025-11-27 01:49:16+00:00
,> Pretty sure the article is AI slop

Yeah, the actual video with transcripts (YouTube link in bottom of TFA):

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2

Ed: TFA is basically a dupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125
by nis0s | 2025-11-27 01:50:05+00:00
Cute, but in practice, even if it’s a more serious tool, it would be relatively easier to perform an adversarial attack on the underlying system models to get a decision in your favor vs. bribing a judge. Similarly, it’s easier to steal crypto from a company than it is to rob a bank. I guess a judge could remotely verify the decisions.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-11-27 01:51:06+00:00
I'm a 3x terrorist because I also use GrapheneOS.

Seems a modern problem is the significant watering down of what "terrorist" means. If blocking ads has become three measure of a terrorist:

If everyone's a terrorist... No one is.

The word no longer has any meaning. Eventually there will be two labels to apply to everyone: "corporate sheep" and "terrorist".

In which case I will always strive towards terrorist.

WTF is going on with France?
by teruakohatu | 2025-11-27 01:51:44+00:00
> Stick a microphone and camera outside on a robot and you can get unlimited data of perfect quality (because it by definition is the real world, not synthetic).

Be careful with mistaking data for information.

You are getting a digital (maybe lossy compressed) samples of photons and sound waves. It is not unlimited, a camera pointed at a building at night is going to have very little new information from second to second. A microphone outside is going to have very little new information second to second unless something audible is happening close by.

You can max out your storage capacity by adding twenty ML high megapixel cameras recording frames as tiff file but gain little new useful information for every camera you add.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-27 01:54:02+00:00
>That is a failure of basic observation. A failure to see the thing you don't like because you don't like and decide not to look. Will you like it if you look?

Maybe we're observing different parts of the elephant. This is my industry right now: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/call-of-duty/call-of-duty-blac...

A deca-billion dollar franchise now owned by a trillion dollar tech company... using it to make art that wouldn't pass a junior interview. It's no surprise there's such a strong rejection by the community who's paying attention. Cheaping out on a product a consumer pays $70 + a bunch of microtransactions for clearly shows the company's priorities.

Maybe there are spaces where you find success, but it's very clear that the water is muddying at large. You don't argue against a swamp by saying "but my corner here is clean!".
by poutu | 2025-11-27 01:54:23+00:00
A huge amount of music now is “copy and pasting samples” in FL studio or GarageBand and that is considered 100% human so I would say the line is very clear. The line is at “did it matter that you did this, or would any layperson in your stead have been able to make pretty much exactly the same thing (qualitatively judged)?”
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-27 01:54:26+00:00
In my part of the US, a lot of our "old" houses were built before indoor plumbing.

So when the plumbing was installed, obviously some went to the kitchen. And the bathroom, which previously didn't exist, was often an addition to (or a division from) the kitchen -- with a doorway [with a door] betwixt the kitchen and the bathroom -- because that made the plumbing easier.

IIRC, that particular feature disqualifies the home for financing with both the VA and with HUD for reasons of hygiene.

So by extension: According to VA and HUD, hygiene requires at least one door and at least one additional room of separation between the place where you shit and the place where you eat.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-27 01:54:49+00:00
Not everyone is discussing in good faith, just because it's "enlightened" HN. And just because I have an opinion doesn't mean I want to argue with them endlessly. Accounts are free and require no credentials, we get bots and Nazis and fools like anywhere else.

However, I disagree with you on a second point. If you comment, don't downvote at all. Your words make your opinions known and downvoting feels both disrespectful to your conversational partner and arrogant. Like voting for yourself for prom king.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-27 01:54:52+00:00
They did the same for the iPad Pro. My kid is using the hand-me-down of my mother (so from grandmother to granddaughter). I put a case on it to protect against bumps, protect screen (has a couple of burn-in marks but it is still very usable) and put tape on top of the camera (the mics likely still work). I also put it on my IoT VLAN. She uses it for YouTube Kids and Disney+, mainly, but schooldays it is limited to 15 min a day and weekend days (fri and sat) to 1 hr. After that, she needs to ask for more time. Usually we don't give that, although in vacations we are lenient. The device still works very well, although the battery (still same as in 2017 or so when it was bought new) is a lil' bit hammered. Now here's the thing: is this device not overkill for the tasks I mentioned? I think so, yes. A kid her age (almost 8) would be happy with whatever, it could be 480p and they're cool with it, as long as the software is still secure (and don't give me the BS of 'don't give them a tablet'; it is locked down and my first shared PC was in like 1989 when I was about her age). And sadly, Apple doesn't want to provide software updates for this device anymore. Microsoft not either, btw, as they deprecated Windows 10 and Windows 11 requires TPMv2 (though Windows is more about PCs and laptops, I'm not sure if there's any effect on Surface hardware). I believe companies can do better, but if they don't want to, they should unlock the bootloader and give the user free reign on the device. You quit support, you unlock the hardware, or else you're violating the local law. That'd be my preference.
by arjie | 2025-11-27 01:55:01+00:00
The PNAS article has more photos and videos https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1818350116

Looking online apparently this damages the magnetron, but no one has found out why precisely. There are some pop-culture explanations that the reflected energy overloads the magnetron and so on, but I don't think anyone has done the parallel what this team has done to actually say what happens to the magnetron.

The PI has a website https://www.aaronslepkov.com/research but nothing new about this stuff there. I'm curious.

We know now why the plasma forms. I hope they're able to explain why the magnetron breaks.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-11-27 01:55:11+00:00
This caught my eye.

> The industry is already operating at insane scale.

Sounds a lot like "640K ought to be enough for anybody", or "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".

I don't doubt this person knows how things should go but I also don't doubt this will get bigger before it gets smaller.
by AYBABTME | 2025-11-27 01:56:46+00:00
There's definitely a method to using them well. It took me 6 months of trial, giving up, trying again, refining my approach, ... to eventually get fairly good results in a consistent manner. It's useful to know what the LLMs are good at and what type of errors they will do. It's also very useful to be a stickler about software engineering practices to keep the LLMs focused in the right direction.

Example stuff that helps:

- extensive test suites - making LLMs use YAML for data-intensive files, instead of writing inline - putting a lot of structural guard rails using type-systems, parse-dont-verify, ... - having well scoped tasks - giving the LLM tight self-serve feedback loops

Recently I made it fix many bugs in a PEG grammar and it worked really well at that. I made it turn a test suite from an extensive Go test array to a "golden file" approach. I made it create a search index for documentation and score the search quality using qualitative IR metrics, and then iterate until the metrics met a minimum standard.
by tom_ | 2025-11-27 01:57:19+00:00
Including the keyboard seems a strange choice, especially when it's an oddity such as this one. Surely it'd be cheaper to add an extra USB port and have the buyer supply their own? I mouse left-handed, so a left hand numpad makes it an instant no from me - but even if you don't care what I think (which you shouldn't), there's so many other oddities in the layout as well! Where's PrtSc? Why is the Esc key so gigantic? Why is F7 not in its normal place? And, wait a moment - what is £ doing on 4? Why is € on 5?

This company is apparently based in London, but I wonder how many UK residents were involved in the design of the keyboard at least.

(I don't want to sound too mean though. It's no sin to attempt to experiment with a potential new market segment.)
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-27 01:58:35+00:00
Samsung released the first USB-C Galaxy S device five years after the iPhone moved to lightning (2012 vs 2017). They had Galaxy A devices on micro USB a year later in 2018.

A couple of devices like the Pixel (4 years after lightning - 2012 vs 2016) got it a bit earlier, but no, it wasn't two years.

The iPhone rocking a massively better connector half a decade earlier than the vast majority of the competition is legitimately a thing.
by mchusma | 2025-11-27 01:59:07+00:00
This may not be AGI, but I think LLMs as is, with no other innovation, are capably enough for gigantic labor replacement with the right scaffolding. Even humans need a lot of scaffolding at scale (e.g. sales reps use CRMs even though they are generally intelligent). LLMs solve a “fuzzy input” problem that traditional software struggles with. I’m guessing something like 80% of current white collar jobs can be automated with LLMs plus scaffolding.
by gpm | 2025-11-27 02:00:19+00:00
Fecal particles are well documented as a vector for disease transmission, particularly an issue when travelling with someone who is sick but also just from the long term distribution of them into the room.

Going from no regulation to one does carry some of what you suggest, but there are already regulations about tons of things here (fire alarms, exits, building codes, etc) adding one more does not increase the need for lawyers and documentation.
Show HN: Calcumake – A 3D print pricing calculator (Rails and Kamal)
by moabjp | 2025-11-27 02:01:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I just got into 3D printing about 3 months ago after picking up a K2 Plus. I live in a somewhat rural area of Japan and don't know a single person with a 3D printer, so friends and family immediately started asking me to print things for them.

I struggled to give them accurate prices. At first, I was guessing ("100 yen for this, 200 yen for that"), but I realized I was ignoring setup time, CAD work, failed prints, and electricity. I checked out the top results like OmniCalculator and Prusa’s tool but found them frustrating—specifically the inability to save calculations or handle complex projects with multiple plates and different filaments.

So, I decided to build my own. I have Rails experience, and using Kamal I was able to keep cloud pricing to a minimum. I used Claude Code to assist, finishing the MVP in about 2 months of free time (real talk: I know some people ship SaaS apps in a week, but that sounds hellish to me).

I'm trying to optimize the code and push updates every day. The next big update involves an AI tool where you can paste text or invoices to automatically bulk import filaments. I'm also working on:

A native 3MF import tool.

Per-unit pricing (for people running web stores).

Better failed print calculations.

I've even considered adding a directory to search for makers by city or neighborhood (since I can't find anyone near me!), but I'm undecided on that.

Right now, I'm just trying to get the word out. Hopefully, someone besides me finds this useful.

Feedback is welcome!
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-27 02:01:05+00:00
>iPhone on Lightning meant cable fees and control.

Strange, then, that Apple already moved the iPad Pro and iPad Air to USB-C, right? Didn't they get the memo about "cable fees and control"? It's almost like they were incrementally moving all their platforms over.

The cable fees conspiracy has always been a weird one. At the absolute highest, MFi fees were estimated at some $80M per year. Do you know how utterly irrelevant that number is to Apple? It's like 0.02% of their revenue. Far more logically they literally intended it as a quality assurance given that the company was very focused on user satisfaction.
by jmpman | 2025-11-27 02:01:18+00:00
I have a 2019 Model 3, and it has some paint issues, specifically in the door hinge areas. It had some suspension issues which were repaired in half a day, under warranty. It has an issue where the windshield in front of the self driving cameras gets obscured with some gunk, blocking the cameras (it continues self driving even when half blind). The steering wheel material is falling apart. Other than that, for the past 6 years, it’s turned on every day, driven flawlessly, and cost me exactly $0 in maintenance other than tire replacement - not even brakes needed in 90k miles. No German car I’ve owned has ever come close to that record. I’m skeptical of the review.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-11-27 02:01:21+00:00
A few things about this stand out:

- Calligra with two 'l's is the name of a KDE office suite.

- Why does the keyboard have macOS keys? At least as a Linux user, I've felt like most Linux desktops reflect the Windows keyboard layout more.

- Can I have pictures of the internals of the machine, or is this a 3D rendering?

- The Workbench OS makes a lot of claims that I want more information about. Is this a rice on a common WM or something they made themselves? Why is it "suitable for sovereign and secure deployments"? Won't having homebrew and DNF lead to conflicts (this is more of a general question, since I genuinely don't know)?

Nonetheless, I have to say that it does look cool from a design perspective, and with the pace of DRAM prices, maybe the actual system price won't actually be that crazy in a few months.
by erxam | 2025-11-27 02:01:24+00:00
Men don't know what oppression is. It is as simple as that.

When we get attacked on our privilege, we feel as if it were a mortal wound.

I completely agree with you. Men pull out the victim card like it was the easiest thing in the fucking world. Of course, if anything happens, it's the fault of those weaker than us.

That's because we aspire to be them. To be the oppressors. There won't be any liberation, just a change of guard.

I fucking hate men and masculinity. This is the poison that will lead to humanity's extinction.
by levocardia | 2025-11-27 02:01:36+00:00
I dunno, some of the questions on things like Humanity's Last Exam sure strike me as "godlike." Yes, I'm happy that I can still crush LLMs on ARC-AGI-2 but I see the writing on the wall there, too. Barely over a year ago LLMs were what, single digit percentages on ARC-AGI-1?
by esperent | 2025-11-27 02:02:16+00:00
As a migraine sufferer who is not overweight, I don't agree. I think it's likely there's a strong connection between inflammation and migraines, but even if that's not the case, migraines have triggers. I've spent years working out what mine are but still when there's an unfortunate combination (a storm/high pressure, plus I worked too much yesterday, plus I drank a tiny bit too much coffee, plus I didn't have time to workout for a day, plus I drank a glass of wine last night etc.) then I will get a migraine.

It's frustrating because if this combination of things doesn't line up, being busy so that I skip a workout and then drink a glass of wine to relax in the evening would be totally fine. But add a couple more variables that are out of my control, then a migraine will hit me and I can't do anything for two days.

I can see that a drug which reduced my craving for things like chocolate, coffee, wine, food - especially at times when I'm stressed and my willpower is low - might have large results on reducing my migraines.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-11-27 02:05:40+00:00
Did you even read the article. Yes, he had 1 sentence on ICE, which maybe you disagree with its politics. But most of the article was with technical issues in github as a platform and its neglect of non AI features. Please take your low quality comment to X.

Finally, I can’t believe I have to say it, but a creator of an open source project is free to infuse it with whatever values he wants, no one hates on SQLite, no need to hate someone for adding his brand of politics / values to his passion project. Please go create your own “non woke” language if you hate it so much.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-27 02:06:03+00:00
>there are options there are options that involve continuing the “craft” aspects you enjoy

My endgame is not to be beholden to any given corporations' sense of value (because it is rarely in the engineering), so I don't personally care what happens at large. I'll still enjoy the "craft" on my own and figure out the lines where I need to take a disciplined stance and grind it out myself, where I take on a dependency, or where I leave the work to a black box.

But if time comes for collaboration, then we'll work as a team. AKA we'll decide those lines and likely compromise on values to create something larger than the all of us. I doubt my line will ever be "let's just vibecode everything". But it's likely not going to be "use zero AI" unless I have a very disciplined team at hand and no financial stress between any of us.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-27 02:06:48+00:00
> I don't think this is a violation of my (self-imposed) rules - it's supporting config, not code.

Before this[0] HN comment, I had seen no evidence of prompts used to affect change, only the commits pushed to GitHub. Maybe others had access to those prompts or I just missed them, either way I applaud you for having shown a sample of those used.

As to any determination of "violations", that is not my place. All I was hoping for was some evidence of "vibe coding" being employed. Without evidence, it is nigh on impossible for anyone to have confidence claims made are plausible outside of those making them.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044782
by Nathanba | 2025-11-27 02:07:01+00:00
I agree, AI image recognition is so good already that it can tell what someone is doing or what is happening in a picture. Just have that run at 30 fps and make the robot's movements align with that understanding and bam, you effectively have "AGI" in some sense no? I mean sure, maybe it doesn't really remember anything like a human would and it doesn't learn on the fly yet but it's definitely some kind of intelligent, autonomous thing that will be able to respond to just about anything in the world. Making it able to learn on demand is something people are working on. Chatgpt remembers some stuff already too after all. It's very small and very spotty, weird memory but hey, it's something. As soon as that becomes a tiny bit better you'll already beat humans at memory.