MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101d | 2025-11-06 17:58:03+00:00
> Last I checked, they had archive.is blacklisted; the people with power there had (as far as I can tell) come to the conclusion that people using that site to prove that websites had stated X on date Y were the bad guys.

Or they're worried about the paywall by-passing functionality (which is probably what a good portion of people use it for) and copyright claims against archive.today potentially having it taken down and thus breaking a lot of links.
Ask HN: Have people started to see cracks in the ChatGPT answers with time
by sandeepkd | 2025-11-06 17:58:30+00:00
Context: I have a co-worker who is used to execute the suggested scripts from Chat-gpt with high confidence. Lately one of the scripts to use Github API was not working and he asked me to debug. Turns out, Github had changed/updated the attribute names in the output and they no longer matched with the Chat-Gpt provided script. Hard part, this individual is really good engineer, however he/she was low on confidence about how to debug the Chat-gpt provided script
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-06 17:58:47+00:00
But what percentage of those startups are making such grand promises while taking in such unfathomable amounts of capital? The sheer scale of the investment per AI company, the massive tax incentives being given out by states and debt being taken on by energy companies promising massive increase in loads…I mean this is all without precedent. AI speculation is rapidly driving infrastructural changes at the state level across the country.

We know they can’t all be winners. But the price and ripple per failure (at least it seems to me) will be staggering. Am I off base here?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-06 17:59:05+00:00
Yeah, but "open weights" never seems to have taken off as a better description, and even if you did have the training data + recipe, the compute cost makes training it yourself totally impractical.

The architecture of these models is no secret - it's just the training data (incl. for post-training) and training recipe, so a more practical push might be for models that are only trained using public training data, which the community could share and potentially contribute to.
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-06 17:59:07+00:00
Welcome to the internet! Have a look around

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU)

Another obligatory song named Jeff bezos by Bo Burnham (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5w2QwdYik)

C'mon Jeffrey you can do it! (I mean you can break half the internet with AWS us-east-1, but in all seriousness both songs are really nice lol)
by perihelions | 2025-11-06 17:59:14+00:00
> "The American Service-Members' Protection Act, known informally as the Hague Invasion Act[1] [sic] (ASPA, Title 2 of Pub. L. 107–206 (text) (PDF), H.R. 4775, 116 Stat. 820, enacted August 2, 2002) is"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
by slwvx | 2025-11-06 17:59:16+00:00
The lack of anything at all on the roadmap page [1] and lack of a link to their code repository on a blog post touting their open-source cred [2] does not build confidence. I found their code repo link in the comments here, after not finding it easily on their site.

EDIT: to be clear, I'm all for open source software, and for more options to tools from big tech firms.

[1] https://www.opendesk.eu/en/roadmap

[2] https://www.opendesk.eu/en/blog/open-source-software-trust
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-06 17:59:45+00:00
Only half correct. English is roughly 50% French and 50% German.

The English dictionary is also about 50% larger than the French Dictionary. The length of the German dictionary is irrelevant because: Hottentotenstrottelmutterattentäterlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte

It is very frequent in English to use both the French word and the German word for the same thing in different situation.

Beef (French: bœuf) / Cow (Germanic) Pork (French: porc) / Pig/Swine (Germanic) Mutton (French: mouton) / Sheep (Germanic) Veal (French: veau) / Calf (Germanic) Venison (French: venaison) / Deer (Germanic) Poultry (French: poulet) / Chicken/Fowl (Germanic) Purchase (French) / Buy (Germanic) Commence (French) / Begin (Germanic) Inquire (French) / Ask (Germanic) Receive (French) / Get (Germanic) Odor (French) / Smell (Germanic) Aroma (French, positive) / Stench (Germanic, negative) Cardiac (French/Latin) / Heart (Germanic) Ocular (French/Latin) / Eye (Germanic) Dental (French/Latin) / Tooth (Germanic)
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-06 17:59:49+00:00
I can't argue with your ethical concerns.

The internet is fundamentally different than print though—perhaps this fundamental change to journalism requires another way to pay the bills. (Advertising is the obvious one.)

Or maybe we, as a society (because of our internet ways) simply don't deserve these services any longer.

Perhaps the internet itself is the problem. What if instead that was the big mistake after all?
by analognoise | 2025-11-06 17:59:57+00:00
Most of the basic medical research is funded by tax dollars.

Also, are you sure the bureaucracy isn't exactly the point? If you're too sick to fight off a denial and die, they keep the money.

I think we're subsidizing Wall Street's profits with our garbage system, but the sooner people realize our system is totally failed maybe we can knock it down and do something else.
by freedomben | 2025-11-06 17:59:57+00:00
For sure, you shouldn't just trust whatever random mirroring site pops up (in fact, you probably should trust almost none of them), but archive.is has established themselves pretty credibly IMHO. At some point it could turn, but I don't think we should kill them now just in case they turn at some point.

The fact that the FBI is involved, and given the insane amount of IP protection racket stuff going on, I think it's pretty highly likely this is all about copyright. I think the powerful interests care more about copyright than they do about most other things.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 17:59:58+00:00
> "Your AI just deleted 20 years of my hard work"

I assume it didn't. I can't imagine it's not versioned.

> The response doesn't acknowledge the severity of the problem at all

Offering to escalate to a phone call immediately seems to acknowledge the severity to me. Not really sure what you want here. The person came in with complaints, the response is to dig into them over the phone. That's ideal.

> the wording of "what you're struggling with" suggests that the original poster is somehow at fault (or too dumb) for "struggling" with Mozilla's terrible decisions.

This is a bizarre interpretation. I read it as validating that the person is having a rough time. There is zero indication of whose fault it is, or that it has anything to do with intelligence. That's coming from you, not the text. The fact that you are reading empathetic wording as an insult to someone's intelligence baffles me.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-06 18:00:51+00:00
With most of the Chinese models it doesn't matter how good your English is when you phrase this question.

But ... Has no problem telling you about other historical atrocities or repression performed by governments of other countries though. And then refuses to compare or contrast the two.

It's amazing how well they've done at tweaking it for this.

Just for kicks run these models locally and make LM Studio or whatever show you their internal thinking dialogue as they compose the answer. Convoluted as hell.
by hazn | 2025-11-06 18:00:56+00:00
what i am pondering is: is it easier in theory to port swift to freebsd rather than linux? the facts that macOs has shared history with freebsd tells me yes, the fact that llvm favors linux (?) tells me both.

also, congrats, the swift and freebsd are ambitious in terms of new deployment platforms and compatibility! (see embedded swift, oci freebsd containers, freebsd on firecracker)
by ungovernableCat | 2025-11-06 18:01:07+00:00
Yep. An American is free to pay $80k for a Tesla while the rest of the world buys a BYD for $25k An American is free to pay $100 for Insulin while the rest of the world pays $20. So too will an American pay for OpenAI while they start blocking foreign competitors from the market "for security reasons" the more the government gets entangled into the scheme.
by runjake | 2025-11-06 18:01:12+00:00
This is a neat use of shell and I'd probably go back to using this if I didn't have to share all my calendars with colleagues and family members.

I used to more or less do this and even modify my .plan[1] file when finger(1) and .plan were actually a thing. The modern equivalent seems to be to have a page at the path /now on your website and I dig it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)#Finger_user_...
by stego-tech | 2025-11-06 18:02:14+00:00
Folks keep confusing where I used the term “literal” in that sentence. I said “literal Nazis and pirates”, not Nazis and literal pirates.

It’s why I staunchly refuse to touch Cloudflare for fucking anything. When your company defends a group whose ethos is genocide, you’ve lost me forever, free speech be damned.
by mrandish | 2025-11-06 18:02:49+00:00
I agree it sucks this is necessary but given the situation in that area I'm not sure it's fair to just blame the retailers. It's either increasingly invasive things like this or locking most products away behind glass reducing convenience and increasing wait times - or raising prices even further to pay for more loss prevention staff (at SF wages on top of already pricey SF lease costs).

Many other retailers have already relocated elsewhere, so at least Safeway is still there trying to provide people with a local option.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-06 18:03:06+00:00
Australia has some cutting edge tech that actually sends control signals through the electric wires.

It rolled this out in 1953:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellweger_off-peak

It let coal plants run more efficiently and people could heat their water overnight.

Somewhat bafflingly they seem to have somewhat failed this same task with the solar rollout.

Presumably 21st century capitalism got in the way of the mid 20th century engineering.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-06 18:03:30+00:00
For reference, that would give me in Maine the ability to buy power from a solar farm in Arizona or other literally unutilized deserts.

Local power costs are over 30 cents per KWh, so that could be pretty competitive.

The problem is that, no profit based organization will ever build "surplus" solar to enable that kind of thing. If we want surplus power, if we want a strong grid, if we want cheap power, if we want to enable the ability to quite literally waste solar power on inefficient processes (including things like industrial processes that produce less CO2 or generating hydrogen or methane as long term energy storage), we have to get the government to make it happen

But, uh, we hired people who would rather spend $170 billion on harassing random cities and brown people so..... Everyone get ready to pay absurd rates for electricity to support outdated businesses that have been directing American energy policy since Reagan, including paying about 60k coal miners in west virginia for a resource that is economically inferior to other fossil fuels but because they voted for a democrat once they now get a stranglehold on the US economy.
by pzo | 2025-11-06 18:03:41+00:00
Even if pay-to-play companies like moonshootai help to pay less.

You can run previous kimi k2 non-thinking model e.g. on groq with 720tok/s and for $1/$3 for million input/output tokens. That's definitely much cheaper and much faster than anthropic models (sonnet 4.5: 60tok/s, $3/$15)
by stingraycharles | 2025-11-06 18:04:06+00:00
With these things it’s always both at the same time: these super grandiose SOTA models are only making improvements mostly because of optimizations, and they’re just scaling our as far as they can.

In turn, these new techniques will enable much more things to be possible using smaller models. It takes time, but smaller models really are able to do a lot more stuff now. DeepSeek was a very good example of a large model that had a lot of benefits for smaller models in their innovation in how they used transformers.

Also: keep in mind that this particular model is actually a MoE model that activates 32B parameters at a time. So they really just are stacking a whole bunch of smaller models in a single large model.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-06 18:04:13+00:00
Recently, as my kid is learning to read and write Danish, while I've started to use English more and more, due to work. My observation is that English isn't that great a language, it's just very popular. The more English I speak, read and write, the more I appreciate my own native language.

It's really sad to see English language and words replace native ones, especially if your own language in many cases have better precision and quite frankly reads better. Recently I listened to a "Danish" podcast, about Charlie Kirk. I put Danish in " " because one of the hosts, a native Dane, struggles severely with expressing her thoughts and observation without the use of English.

English is easy to criticize. It doesn't have all the letters it needs. It doesn't have compound noun. A significant part of the vocabulary is just borrow from Norse, German or French (and pronounced wrong). It is however VERY popular, billions speak it, and that's a quality all on it's own.
by soiltype | 2025-11-06 18:04:16+00:00
And yet, the arguments against the narrative of Uighur genocide seem to exclusively be childish insults. Seriously, I see comments just like this all the time when someone mentions Uighur genocide, of which there is some evidence, and never an actual refutation. Are simpletons those who believe evidence might indicate truth, or those who let themselves be browbeaten by tribalism into believing otherwise? I wouldn't even ask if I thought you were just a CCP bot but your post history suggests you're not.
by munk-a | 2025-11-06 18:04:20+00:00
MS lives by corporate contracts and there are a lot of very powerful US companies that will roll over if Trump barks - if MS had already fled the US in a legal sense they'd definitely be in a better place but trying to leave during this administration would cause Trump's ire to focus on them and likely cost them an immense amount of money. I don't particularly like MS and both office and windows are declining in quality quickly so I wouldn't be opposed to the move but... nothing would sink that ship faster than losing a bunch of large US contracts as Trump toadies demonstrate their loyalty by bravely switching to alternatives.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-11-06 18:04:22+00:00
I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I've heard a story about the difference in French/Germanic word usage may stem from inequalities from the Norman invasion - the masters were speaking French, and the common folk were doing the dirty work speaking old English derived from germanic languages. So, the masters were dealing with the finished product with French words - beef, pork, mutton, veal, venison, poultry - and the commoners were dealing with animals with Germanic words - cow, pig, sheep, deer, chicken, etc
by fragmede | 2025-11-06 18:04:27+00:00
Because then you're wasting time trying to quote bash inside of yaml juuuust right to get the runners to DTRT.

Okay no but seriously, if you're not being held back by how slow GitHub CI/Gitlab runners are, great! For others they're slow as molasses and others in different languages with different build systems can run an iteration of their build REPL before git has even finished pushing, nevermind waiting for a runner.
by _lex | 2025-11-06 18:04:30+00:00
The buildout is already taxpayer funded: see the big beautiful bill, which seems like it was engineered to make this effectively free.

They can blend leverage, 100% 1st year depreciation with using the hardware itself as a financing asset and dozens more financial engineering steps -

Their actual cost of financing is probably incredibly low already.

I worry that they are thinking of trying to run the company just ahead of debt/lease payments or something, otherwise this is just a distraction

So they want even more?
by stego-tech | 2025-11-06 18:04:39+00:00
I had missed this and find it deeply hilarious that actual meatspace pirates raided a company’s datacenter that protects digital pirates.

Also, just for folks seemingly confused by my words in the original post: I got no beef with digital piracy myself, just more pointing out that if your company is willfully protecting hate speech (like Nazis) and piracy sites, well, you’re courting a very specific kind of response, and whining about receiving that response after the fact is not exactly sympathetic.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-06 18:04:40+00:00
However note that (and this isn't just true for Python) if your "performance critical kernel" is "the whole program" then this does have the implication you think it does, you should not write Python.

If your Python software is spending 99% of its time doing X, you can rewrite X in Rust and now the Python software using that is faster, but if your Python software is spending 7% of its time doing X, and 5% doing Y, and 3% doing Z then even if you rewrite X, and Y and Z you've shaved off no more than 15% and so it's probably time to stop writing Python at all.

This is part of why Google moved to Go as I understand it.
by kergonath | 2025-11-06 18:04:43+00:00
> I think the bigger question is why they were using microsoft products in the first place.

There used to be this quaint idea of rule of law and things like that. We can always argue that governments were happy to get dirty and occasionally illegal, and they certainly were. But a) it was universally seen as a bad thing, and b) no country would have done it so blatantly and openly. Perversely, this narrative was important to advance the US’ interests because it opened opportunities for American companies to go deep into foreign administrations. Which they did.

So yeah, the clock ticked and now we’re in a new and exciting era for geopolitics and who knows what system will prevail in the end. What is certain is that the US abdicated their leadership.

> USA has been very hostile to the ICC under trump, but its not exactly a huge shift, bush was also incredibly hostile. It seems borderline incompetent to use a microsoft cloud offering given the political situation.

There is a difference between hostility as in "we won’t take part and won’t cooperate in any way" and "we’re also going to pressure private companies to steal your stuff". The ICC is also full of NATO countries and allies so any form of hostility has to be calibrated to keep them on your side. If you care about alliances, that is.

> Not to mention given the type of work they do, seems like hosting stuff off site at all is a bad plan.

Indeed. To be fair, it seems like a bad plan for most large companies with anything that looks like industrial secrets, let alone a government or such a supra-national organisation.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-06 18:06:00+00:00
I guess so. In a way it makes sense if you can share your code base between the iOS/MacOS app and your backend. It makes development easier. But I guess that the majority of apps is not running MacOS servers for the backend. So far it's probably some node backends and all going JSON inbetween. But for some dedicated apps without a web portal inbetween it might be easier if app and backend are both in Swift.
by mikestew | 2025-11-06 18:06:05+00:00
$44k for something useless.

Pretty sure I can get groceries in that thing, but that isn't the point.

Why are you guys ignoring that part of the equation...

Because that wasn't the question at hand. I was responding to the idea that to buy this thing one must have a country club membership and two Ferraris in the garage already. I'm just saying that this is wrong, and plenty of "ordinary" people would drop that on a weekend toy. But if you're poor, yes, this is not the car for you.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-06 18:06:06+00:00
And French is just bad Vulgar Latin and Gaulish.

There is no such thing as purity or correctness in language - those concepts are farcical. Every second of every day language evolves with the words and pronunciations of the people currently using it. If enough people spell or pronounce the "wrong" way, it becomes the "right" way.

French today is slightly different than it was yesterday, and the day before, and 50 years ago.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-11-06 18:06:08+00:00
>> Companies ARE replicating it.

They are trying. They are not succeeding yet. Maybe in 10 years the gap will be closed. Maybe it will not. I'll guess the latter. Nvidia's situation has changed too - the R&D $$ they have to spend to defend are dramatically higher. Nothing stands still, it's harder to catch up than it seems.
by latexr | 2025-11-06 18:06:23+00:00
> The Swift compiler and runtimes have a few dependencies. Please install the following dependencies:

> (…) python3 (…)

Wait, which part requires Python, and why? And is that only for FreeBSD, or in general? And is that something which will change? Feels very weird that a compiled systems language is dependent on a high-level scripting language.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-06 18:06:31+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20250903203659im_/https://media....

227 MB 3:57:01

400 customers

47 years never lost a customer

Epic refuses to be acquired or engage in M&A

These podcasters seem to appreciate Epic. According to this recording, Epic's licensees like the product

According to the podcast, the software was so useful, Epic's future customers asked its founder to start a company

This was before the microprocessor had been invented

No venture capital

Today, 5.7B revenue
by cubefox | 2025-11-06 18:06:42+00:00
> AlphaEvolve is an optimization tool from Google. It differs from traditional tools because the search is guided by an LLM, whose job is to mutate a program written in a normal programming language (they used Python).

To clarify, AlphaEvolve is an evolutionary algorithm which uses a neural network (in this case an LLM), which is based on gradient descent, for mutation.

Evolutionary algorithms are generally a less efficient form of optimization compared to gradient descent. But evolutionary algorithms can be applied more widely, e.g. to discrete problems which aren't directly differentiable, like the optimization of Python code. AlphaEvolve combines the two optimization approaches by replacing random mutation with the output of a gradient-based model.
by Havoc | 2025-11-06 18:07:02+00:00
>Almost all of those startups fail.

Funding model aside this has little in common with them. The average SaaS isn't in the right spot at the right time for a once in a lifetime general-purpose technology (along with money to execute at scale)

>doesn’t mean [..] equally justifiable positions.

Indeed. And I'm not confident it'll be enough to cover Sam's 1 trillion either but the range of possible outcomes here seem very wide to me and a good chunk of it being positive. Seems entirely plausible to me that the odds are 60% in favour here or whatever. We don't really know, but we're reading an article that seems very certain.
by joshmn | 2025-11-06 18:07:17+00:00
As someone who has been the target of an FBI investigation for what was effectively criminal copyright infringement (later arrested and did time in prison), my only takeaway is that this, if anything, should just be a civil suit just like so many other similar cases of copyright issues.

In my personal experience, the priorities of the FBI are typically highly politically motivated. The exceptions are if you’re doing something seriously icky, or doing fraud that deceives people.

For those interested in what’s reported and what actually happens, I’ve made some comments on my case and my experience here: https://prison.josh.mn