MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VHRanger | 2025-11-14 17:07:50+00:00
Yes we were aware of that when building it.

Image slop is directly detectable by a model, but web page slop is necessarily a multi-signal system (page format, who posted it, link structure, content,...)

So having AI images in a webpage is just one input signal for the page being slop (it's not even used yet in the classification for webpages).
by ivanr | 2025-11-14 17:08:24+00:00
> versioning

Here's an example of a common long-running workflow: SaaS trials. Upon trial start, create a workflow to send the customer onboarding messages, possibly inspecting the account state to influence what is sent, and finally close the account that hasn't converted. This will usually take 14-30 days, but could go for months if manually extended (as many organisations are very slow to move).

I think an "escape hatch" would be useful here. On version mismatch, invoke a special function that is given access to the workflow state and let it update the state to align it with the most recent code version.

> transactional enqueuing

A workflow that goes "database transaction" -> "enqueue child workflow" is not safe if the connection with DBOS is lost before the second step completes safely. This would make DBOS unreliable. Doing it the other way round can work provided each workflow checks that the "object" to which it's connected exists. That would deal with the situation where a workflow is created, but the transaction rolls back.

If both the app and DBOS work off the same database connection, you can offer exactly-once guarantees. Otherwise, the guarantees will depend on who commits first.

Personally, I would prefer all work to be done from the same connection so that I can have the benefit of transactions. To me, that's the main draw of DBOS :)
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-14 17:08:28+00:00
AFAIK LXD is still opensource, as are most if not all products from Canonical. I think the fork is because LXD when it was moved to Canonical made the community uneasy because of the way that they would integrate with Ubuntu lifecycle and tooling.

https://github.com/canonical/lxd it's AGPL-V3
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 17:08:55+00:00
> If everyone in the world has access to a "tool" that requires little/no expertise to conduct cyberattacks (if we go by Anthropic's word, Claude is close to or at that point), that would be pretty crazy.

That's already the case today without LLMs. Any random person can go to github and grab several free, open source professional security research and penetration testing tools and watch a few youtube videos on how to use them.

The people using Claude to conduct this attack weren't random amateurs, it was a nation state, which would have conducted its attack whether LLMs existed and helped or not.

Having tools be free/open-source, or at least freely available to anyone with a curiosity is important. We can't gatekeep tech work behind expensive tuition, degrees, and licenses out of fear that "some script kiddy might be able to fuzz at scale now."

Yeah, I'll concede, some physical tools like TNT or whatever should probably not be available to Joe Public. But digital tools? They absolutely should. I, for example, would have never gotten into tech were it not for the freely available learning resources and software graciously provided by the open source community. If I had to wait until I was 18 and graduated university to even begin to touch, say, something like burpsuite, I'd probably be in a different field entirely.

What's next? We are going to try to tell people they can't install Linux on their computers without government licensing and approval because the OS is too open and lets you do whatever you want? Because it provides "hacking tools"? Nah, that's not a society I want to live in. That's a society driven by fear, not freedom.
by everfree | 2025-11-14 17:09:13+00:00
I can't imagine a quality random sample could come from 52 users who self-selected to participate in a browser beta, then self-selected to post about it in a thread on the Mozilla Connect forum.

The reactions to Firefox's AI features likely range from moderately positive to extremely negative. People who feel moderately about something don't usually bother posting. It doesn't matter how many people feel that way.
by nijave | 2025-11-14 17:09:18+00:00
Holding out for government IdP that can return verified but anonymous data (like age)--like a JWT that has no identifier besides an age claim.

Seems highly unlikely it would ever happen (at least in the U.S.) but seems like it'd solve a decent amount of verification problems. With a JWT, the IdP wouldn't even necessarily need to know the recipient since the validity could be verified by the consuming party using asymmetric crypto.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-11-14 17:09:18+00:00
> The few that I know for a fact come from exceptional money

The article is not about people "coming from exceptional money". And I bet a lot of the people you are assuming are "middle class" aren't actually middle class.

There is a really bad habit in this country of assuming that you can have money, but unless you are "movie star rich" then you are middle class. That's not the case.

A lot of people work for a living but are not middle class (nor are they CEOs of fortune 500 companies).

More specifically a lot of the people reading HN right now likely fall into the category the researchers talk about. If you work in tech there is a very, very good chance you are not middle class. Just because you don't think of yourself as rich doesn't make you middle class.

It's something that being in an echo chamber of tech that people easily forget.

Someone can go look up a more precise definition, but if middle class were the middle 50th of household incomes, then if you have a household income (not individual, but combined AGI) that is > $100k you are not in the middle-class.[1] That doesn't mean you have multiple yachts, or act privileged or have exceptional money. It simple means (by that definition) you aren't middle class.

And before someone replies with it, "Cost Of Living" arguments do not change this substantially at all. Look at the AGI tables below, many people who think of themselves as middle class, are not. And if you're on HN reading that post, with a US job in tech, there is a good chance that includes you.

[1] Income in the United States - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_States
by nik_ca | 2025-11-14 17:09:22+00:00
Yes, you're right, matrix too. However, I've tried ruining servers for both, synapse for matrix and prosody for xmpp and I should say matrix felt very sluggish and limited, while prosody is fast and insanely flexible. In addition, client software for XMPP is more diverse and feature-rich, I'm particularly impressed by movim (web) and conversations (android). Also, there are variety of bridges for everything, e.g. matrix <-> whatsapp or xmpp <-> telegram, so one is not limited too much while committing to a certain messaging tech.
by immibis | 2025-11-14 17:09:29+00:00
So, right-wing conspiracy theories tend to be more like: these three people secretly own everything through a hidden system of written contracts. Like "there's a secret room beneath Comet Pizza, specifically, where they buy and sell a chemical extract from the blood of scared babies"

And left-wing conspiracy theories tend to be more like: all the people who share a certain set of characteristics have similar incentives and therefore act in similar ways that aren't good for the rest of us. Like "billionaires are fucking us over. Since media companies are owned by billionaires a large part of what they broadcast is just pro-billionaire propaganda."
Show HN: spymux – Spy on your tmux panes
by crap | 2025-11-14 17:09:56+00:00
I had motivation for writing this after I kept switching back and forth between agents to see if they've finished what they were working on (and I couldn't find a similar tool out there). I'd imagine it can be useful for other scenarios as well, e.g. tracking multiple build/test jobs over multiple windows.

Still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share :)
by Xss3 | 2025-11-14 17:10:14+00:00
The refresh rate on e ink makes them awkward for coding. Scrolling through a text file or terminal window. Browsing files. Etc. Web dev would be very cumbersome.

Everything gets slowed by it. Even typing fluently feels rough at less than 1Hz.

We need a biiiiig improvement in e ink displays before any products like what you describe could be good.
by paulddraper | 2025-11-14 17:10:16+00:00
Yes.

I want AI in my email to speed up (and avoid typos) in replying.

I want AI in my news feed to pull the topics that are interesting to me.

I want AI in online shopping to filter and recommend products by complex conditions.

I want AI in my car to make me safer.

I want AI in my calendar to schedule with a minimum of interruptions.

I want AI in my work chats to answer questions that people have already asked me.

I want AI to make clinical diagnoses more accurate.

I want AI for a thousand things and most people do, or will.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-14 17:11:15+00:00
The previous commentator said "could have very easily turned into life threatening" and when asked what that was about, they sent the link about that person dying after sitting playing games for 3 days.

Are you saying they're lying or are wrong about this? They seemed to have personal experience about it, and I'm assuming they're not outright lying, but I do think it sounds strange they would let children sit and code for 3 days straight.
by dreadsword | 2025-11-14 17:11:28+00:00
"Single-crystal graphene is important because it is very strong. Tensile strength is a measure of the force needed to pull apart any material and is measured in Pascals (Pa). Commercially available structural steel has strength of 550 MPa (550 Million Pa). A space elevator tether needs to be made from a material with strength of at least 50GPa (50000 MPa), so steel is not strong enough. Single-crystal graphene on the other hand, has a tensile strength of 130GPa. (130000 MPa). It is the strongest material ever tested and will be strong enough to make a space elevator tether."
by techblueberry | 2025-11-14 17:11:28+00:00
" I am deeply on Marc Andreessen’s side when he makes the basic point that society should aim to build more things like vaccines, housing, manufacturing, and new technologies.

Andreessen has, over the past few years, been engaged in a battle with people he calls ‘decels’, the enemies of growth."

Watching Marc Andreesen talk, I noticed everything he says is sort of strategic cosplaying. In the interview with Joe Rogan, one thing that jumped out at me was when he says, Democrats are now the party of the rich and the poor and Republicans are the party of the middle, but like, I could just vibe he didn't give a fuck about what he was saying, it just sounded good and was useful to him to say in that political moment.

I've listend to two interviews with him, and while he's obviously very smart and well read, he sort of obviously bias' everything he does to how he feels in the current moment, very adolescent in the elon musk / trump way. On the one hand he's able to write the it's time to build manifesto that does seem to say alot of the right things, while I think sort of secretly just trying to destablize the US / take down institutions / deeply nihilistic.
by mikemarsh | 2025-11-14 17:11:28+00:00
Even granting all of your unfounded assertions; "the output" of one is the rain you see outside, "the output" of the other is a series of notches on a hard drive (or the SSD equivalent, or something in RAM, etc.) that's then represented by pixels on a screen.

The difference between those two things (water and a computer) is plain, unless we want to depart into the territory of questioning whether that perception is accurate (after all, what "output" led us to believe that "jellied meat spread" can really "perceive" anything?), but then "the output" ceases to be any kind of meaningful measure at all.
by dmix | 2025-11-14 17:11:35+00:00
That's the sort of convenient framing that lets you get away with hand wavy statements which the public eats up, like calling LLM development 'superintelligence'.

It's good for a conversation starter on Twitter or a pitch deck, but there is real measurable technology they are producing and it's pretty clear what it is and what it isn't.

In 2021 they were already discussing these safety ideas in a grandiose way, when all they had was basic lego building blocks (GPT 1). This isn't just a thought experiment to them.
by palmotea | 2025-11-14 17:12:47+00:00
> Remember x11 was initially a client server model, where multiple clients could access a single x11 server. This brought a lot of complexity we don’t use these days

It's worth noting that the "client" and "server" are flipped from what was typical: your screen on your desk is the server and the client is a program running on some expensive machine on a rack somewhere.

It's still really cool to be able to spin up a GUI app on a remote machine, and use it like it's running locally.
by robbomacrae | 2025-11-14 17:12:49+00:00
You've hit the nail on the head of one of the main motivators of this project! I always context switch and miss when its done its task or sometimes forget completely..

So essentially at present when you setup TalkiTo with a Slack bot (instructions are shown by running `talkito --setup-slack`) it will do this its just its sending all the output to slack not just the final completion. I have verbosity levels and I could try tweaking them so that -verbosity 0 essentially does what you want ie filter everything except for prompts to the user. If you put in an issue on GitHub I'll get to it!
by maeln | 2025-11-14 17:12:55+00:00
Well, Genshin Impact is at the forefront of predatory B2C business practice. It is a gacha game, engineered to extract as much money from its prey as possible. On the other end, most AI company can afford to be generous with their user/consumer right now because they are being bankrolled by magic money. The real test will be when they have to start the enshitification. Will the product still be enough to convince consumer to spend an amount of money guarantying a huge margin for the service provider ? Will they have to rely on whale desperately needing to talk to their IA girlfriend ? Or company and people who went deep into the whole vibe coding thing, and can't work without an agent ? I think it is hard to say right now. But considering the price of the hardware and running it, I don't think they will have to price the service insanely to at least be profitable. To be as profitable as the market seems to believe, that's another story.
by ignoramous | 2025-11-14 17:12:58+00:00
> I don't think that my skepticism about his claims is violence or hate.

You realise the investigations are on-going after the initial community-led assessments done with remote sensing tech like GPRs (ground penetrating radars)? This is where this denialism takes an ugly turn.

> If a white person has a drunk uncle or crazy aunt tell a wild conspiracy theory at a family gathering, people dismiss them as a kook.

I mean, new Holocaust mass graves are still being discovered as institutions keep their investigations up using GPRs! You deny those graves, too? Sure Holocaust denialism is filled with "kooks" unto itself, but surely, we're not those kooks? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327194663_Holocaust...
by pixl97 | 2025-11-14 17:13:02+00:00
And honestly, without a lot more communication even with a person that speaks your language you have no idea if you actually have a shared context. While an American from NYC and one from some backwater town in Kansas share a lot of context but there is a lot of context they don't, so as communication becomes more detailed between them it's very likely that 'translation' between each other will be somewhat incorrect.

This is also why lawyer speak is so particular. Language is fuzzy in most cases. Only language that relates to discrete physical objects gets closer to the binary state of exactness described in the article.
by echelon | 2025-11-14 17:13:02+00:00
They demoed a ton of new features in various stages of completion. Some of them are already production-grade and are being launched soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqAAFX1XXY8 - dynamic 3D scene relighting is insane, check out the 3:45 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLxFn_BFB5c - molding photos like clay in 3D is absolutely wild at the 3:58 mark.

I don't have links to everything. They presented a deluge of really smart editing tools and gave their vision for the future of media creation.

Tangible, moldable, visual, fast, and easy.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-11-14 17:13:17+00:00
if my car comes with the ability to start normally but also an alternate mode where, by deisgn, it explodes and kills my entire family is that providing me with freedom of choice in my automobile experience? am I in control because I have the option to do things I would never under any circumstances actually want to do? or is someone trying to convince me that i'm in charge because I get to pick from a menu they wrote?
by John23832 | 2025-11-14 17:13:37+00:00
You're trying to be reductionist, but I'll bite.

That is a living situation which would reduce the risk of going of and starting a startup. That person would not have to worry about working and splitting effort and could totally immerse themselves in their startup endeavors.

However, the scope of money the article is talking about (and that we often see in the founder class), no that would not qualify as coming from money.

Coming from money is not just about the reduction of risk, but also the connections formed by having money.
by noname120 | 2025-11-14 17:14:09+00:00
I’m worried app maintainers will start to indiscriminately run xattr -d no matter if the user actually wants that or not. There will not be any kind of standard way to do that so the experience will be very inconsistent between casks…

I hope Homebrew will start supporting hooks at a later point because it would allow users to automatically de-quarantine instead of having all maintainers add xattr -d garbage commands to all their casks.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-14 17:14:18+00:00
So say someone decides to produce a remaster of NOLF. Does Activision have to produce this piece of paper once they sue to establish standing? If Activision's version of this piece of paper was chewed up by rats in the 90s, does their ownership stake vanish in a puff as well?

If the potential victory from a lawsuit is $20K and Activision estimates it will cost them $50K to find this piece of paper, is the company relatively safe from a lawsuit?
by re-thc | 2025-11-14 17:14:42+00:00
> When it was all announced I was very very vocal that using an inexperienced startup for the sovereign compute capabilities seemed a very poor choice.

Cohere raised from Nvidia. Cohere spends on Coreweave. Coreweave raised from Nvidia and buys Nvidia chips.

This is why they buy from Coreweave.
by quantummagic | 2025-11-14 17:14:44+00:00
> Historical usage matters.

To who? Not to me, and I don't have a single black friend who likes "person of color" any more than "colored". What gives you the authority to make such pronouncements? Why are you the language police? This is a big nothing-burger. There are real issues to worry about, let's all get off the euphemism treadmill.
by skibz | 2025-11-14 17:14:59+00:00
NOLF is actually source-available [0][1][2], and it has been since not that long after its original release.

There's also a community-driven project [3] keeping it playable on modern hardware - however, it hasn't seen any activity in several years.

If you haven't played or heard of NOLF before, I highly encourage checking it out. It's a fantastic title, even after all these years.

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20020217233624/http://pc.ign.com...

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20010720053220/http://noonelives...

2: https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever

3: https://github.com/haekb/nolf1-modernizer
by a-dub | 2025-11-14 17:15:30+00:00
intuitively it has seemed that these kinds of "fuzzy text search" applications are an area where llms really shine. it's cool to see evidence of it working.

i'm curious about some kind of notion of "prompt overfitting." it's good to see the plots of improvement as the prompts change (although error bars probably would make sense here), but there's not much mention of hold out sets or other approaches to mitigate those concerns.
by Balinares | 2025-11-14 17:15:42+00:00
I don't know how the coding benchmarks are computed but this model, on its own and outside of agentic loops, definitely doesn't compare to e.g. Qwen3 Coder. I might still try that for fun, just to see how it performs given a feedback loop.

On math questions, though, beside a marked tendency towards rambling thinking, it's just plain implausibly good for a 1.5B model. This is probably just rote learning, though. Otherwise this might well be a breakthrough.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-14 17:15:51+00:00
>you probably should talk with a psychiatrist or psychologist about that and your anger, because it seems to affect you in your daily life, since you're walking around being "disgusted" by very natural things.

"Dear shrink, I am totally happy with my life. I suffer from no mental problems, I have healthy relationships, am productive and fulfilled at work and outside of it. I have absolutely no reason to be here, except some guy on the Internet told me to, because I don't want to be stared at by homosexuals when going swimming."
by rich_sasha | 2025-11-14 17:16:06+00:00
It's a tenuous analogy, but if you along with it, you can take it further.

You could consider the "cost" of expressing a word as some kind of metric or norm on the vector. What in one language/basis is a simple Kronecker delta, in another is a very complex vector (of course if it were the same vector in two bases, it would have the same length, but we could rather think of translation as an affine transformation, say).

And finally, with two bases, they need not span the same vector space. You can have a three-coordinate vector space all you like, if you have only two basis vectors you ain't spanning it. At best you can hope for an orthogonal projection from one to the other, and lose some nuance.

Eventually, with bilinguality, you learn not to translate words. Concepts live in different languages and describe a reality. Usually you can describe that reality in two different languages, but sometimes not.
by jarrattp31 | 2025-11-14 17:16:09+00:00
Apple’s Illusion of Thinking study showed how even strong LLMs lose reliability as reasoning chains grow. Our new research demonstrates the first system to complete 1M+ dependent reasoning steps with zero errors using a decomposed, microagent-based approach. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030 Blog: https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/ai-lab/blog/maker
by azov | 2025-11-14 17:16:13+00:00
I was hoping for easy backup via zfs send as well, but turns out it’s not so easy atm.

IncusOS does not give you shell access, you have to figure out IncusOS ways to do things via their CLI/API. I haven’t found an easy way to do incremental backup of the whole system yet. You can backup individual instances/volumes via incus export (which seems to use zfs send under the hood), but not the whole thing.

I have mixed feelings about their decision not to give you shell access. Guess those who want flexibility can always just install Incus on top of any Linux they like, but it would be nice to have an escape hatch for when IncusOS gives you almost everything you want…