MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mabedan | 2025-12-09 16:24:44+00:00
It’s a little like saying calculators cannot do math because they don’t really understand numbers or arithmetic and they just do bit operations.

I understand the sentiment, but reality is that it does with words pretty much what you’d expect a person to do. It lacks some fundamentals like creativity and that’s why it’s not doing real problem solving tasks, but it’s well capable of doing mundane tasks that the average person gets paid to do.

And when it comes to trust and accuracy, if I ask it a question about German tax system, it will look up sources and may give an answer with an inaccuracy or two but it will for sure be more accurate than whatever I will be able to do after two hours of research.
by roryirvine | 2025-12-09 16:24:51+00:00
Because otherwise you'd have to do a lot more planning in advance.

For instance, I called in to the patisserie this morning on a whim to treat myself to a pain au chocolat for breakfast. And I think I fancy cheese for dinner, so after work I'll nip out to the deli for some stilton and the greengrocer for walnuts and figs to go with it. I've already got fancy crackers and some good port from my last online delivery so that's everything I need for dinner.

I'm used to being able to pick stuff up according to what I feel like eating on the day. Yeah, it wouldn't be a huge quality of life reduction to have to plan meals in advance but why bother if I don't have to?

Plus, when I'm working from home, it keeps me from being entirely sedentary on a miserable, drizzly winter's day when I might not otherwise have bothered leaving the house, so it has physical & mental health benefits too.
by VLM | 2025-12-09 16:24:55+00:00
I worked at a food store as a student a long time ago. Remarkably few customers are weekly. We did sell entire cartloads of food on certain days at certain times but it's pretty rare. Most of the people walking in will have to skip a meal that day if they did not stop at the store for just one thing. Then add some impulse purchases. Most people walk out with one grocery bag, some walk out with only one item. Where I lived, most of this behavior was poor planning not financial. Most of the items were pretty nice, not the cheapest. People who can't plan ahead to have enough eggs or whatever will never plan ahead enough for the enormous latency of very slow delivery. Those eggs they're buying, will be cooking mere minutes after purchase not hours.
by Moto7451 | 2025-12-09 16:25:31+00:00
I’m doing a PoC at work with Workback.ai, which is essentially what you’re asking about. So far it’s early but it seems ok at first brush. We have a firm we pay for traditional accessibility assessments, remediation, and VPATs and my expectation is that the AI tooling does not replace them due to how business needs and product design interact with accessibility.

I.e. ChatGPT and Cursor can probably remediate adding screen reader support for a solving a Captia for the blind, but do you want to really do that? There’s likely a better design for the blind.

Either way, I agree. This is a big area where there can be real impact in the industry. So far we’ve gotten scans back in record time compared to human in the loop scans.
by moomoo11 | 2025-12-09 16:25:36+00:00
Honestly I judge people pretty harshly. I ask people a question in honest good faith. If they’re trying to help me out and genuinely care and use AI fine.

But most of the time it’s like they were bothered that I asked and copy paste what an AI said.

Pretty easy. Just add their name to my “GFY” list and move on in my life.
by hopelite | 2025-12-09 16:26:06+00:00
> make sure that the AI summaries are just as liable for libel actions

Is libel in AI generated summaries a problem?

Also, it seems you are fundamentally missing how AI is different. What would you expect a “regulator mandatory correction” to look like, a one sentence summary comes with a notice that it was corrected at some point?

AI is also going to make regulators and bureaucrats totally superfluous if done properly, where AI simply “regulates” based on laws written in a clear text and open weight manner.
by sbrother | 2025-12-09 16:26:20+00:00
I strongly agree with this sentiment and I feel the same way.

The one exception for me though is when non-native English speakers want to participate in an English language discussion. LLMs produce by far the most natural sounding translations nowadays, but they imbue that "AI style" onto their output. I'm not sure what the solution here is because it's great for non-native speakers to be able to participate, but I find myself discarding any POV that was obviously expressed with AI.
by badsectoracula | 2025-12-09 16:26:22+00:00
> Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small 2 uses Apache 2.0. Both are open-source and permissively licensed to accelerate distributed intelligence.

Uh, the "Modified MIT license" here[0] for Devstral 2 doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source):

> 2. You are not authorized to exercise any rights under this license if the global consolidated monthly revenue of your company (or that of your employer) exceeds $20 million (or its equivalent in another currency) for the preceding month. This restriction in (b) applies to the Model and any derivatives, modifications, or combined works based on it, whether provided by Mistral AI or by a third party. You may contact Mistral AI (sales@mistral.ai) to request a commercial license, which Mistral AI may grant you at its sole discretion, or choose to use the Model on Mistral AI's hosted services available at https://mistral.ai/.

[0] https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-25...
by cpburns2009 | 2025-12-09 16:26:25+00:00
Everyone who promotes a product they use every day doesn't have to be a paid shill. I like PyCharm, DataGrip, and IntelliJ because they generally work very well for me at my day job and open source side projects.

Firefox is an odd case because I've personally never experienced stability issues with it on Ubuntu. The only problem I've had in the past is some Google products are noticeably slower than on Chromium. Colleagues of mine have had stability issues on Windows though.
by AlwaysRock | 2025-12-09 16:26:32+00:00
I guess... That is the point in my opinion.

If you just say, "here is what llm said" if that turns out to be nonsense you can say something like, "I was just passing along the llm response, not my own opinion"

But if you take the llm response and present it as your own, at least there is slightly more ownership over the opinion.

This is kind of splitting hairs but hopefully it makes people actually read the response themselves before posting it.
by Zak | 2025-12-09 16:26:34+00:00
I don't think people should post the unfiltered output of an LLM as if it has value. If a question in a comment has a single correct answer that is so easily discoverable, I might downvote the comment instead.

I'm not sure making a rule would be helpful though, as I think people would ignore it and just not label the source of their comment. I'd like to be wrong about that.
by ghusto | 2025-12-09 16:26:40+00:00
> Historically the strength of Apple was that they didn't ship things until they actually worked. Meaning that the technology was there and ready to make an experience that was truly excellent.

Tell that to almost anything they've shipped in the last 5-10 years. It's gotten so bad that I wait halfway through entire major OS version before upgrading. Every new thing they ship is almost guaranteed to be broken in some way, ranging from minor annoyance to fully unusable.

I buy Apple-everything, but I sure wish there were better options.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-09 16:26:46+00:00
> your new created libpam-mysql

I do not need to create it, it already exists. Yes, you can write your own pam module, but in general you do not need to.

> just use what Microsoft sells you.

Which means now your employees need to manually sync the MS and your internal databases. Depends on how much your employees time is worth for you. I mean a lot of companies do exactly that, but it is certainly not the cheaper option.

Also using what MS sells is also illegal. Not that anyone cares, as whole Europe ignores that, but when you meet a civil servant on the wrong foot, your company is toast.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-09 16:27:00+00:00
Why bother with which? I don't understand the question.

Delivery is for less frequent things that last much longer.

Local ships are for more frequent things that spoil quickly.

And adding the heavier/bulkier things to my local trips, even in smaller quantities, just makes the bags too heavy and unwieldy in the end. I only have two hands. Plus it's way more expensive to buy paper towels as individual rolls than in packs of six.
by bonesss | 2025-12-09 16:27:34+00:00
Religions are about faith, faith is belief in the absence of evidence. Engineering output is tangible and measurable, objectively verifiable and readily quantifiable (both locally and in terms of profits). Full evidence, testable assertions, no faith required.

Here we have claims of objective results, but also admissions we’re not even tracking estimations and are terrible at making them when we do. People are notoriously bad at estimating actual time spent versus output, particularly when dealing with unwanted work. We’re missing the fundamental criteria of assessment, and there are known biases unaccounted for.

Output in LOC has never been the issue, copy and paste handles that just fine. TCO and holistic velocity after a few years is a separate matter. Masterful orchestration of agents could include estimation and tracking tasks with minimal overhead. That’s not what we’re seeing though…

Someone who has even a 20% better method for deck construction is gonna show me some timetables, some billed projects, and a very fancy new car. If accepting Mothra as my lord and saviour is a prerequisite to pierce an otherwise impenetrable veil of ontological obfuscation in order to see the unseeable? That deck might not be as cheap as it sounds, one way or the other.

I’m getting a nice learning and productivity bump from LLMs, there are incredible capabilities available. But premature optimization is still premature, and claims of silver bullets are yet to be demonstrated.
by a4isms | 2025-12-09 16:27:43+00:00
That is a true and useful component of analyzing risk, but the point is that human behaviour isn't a simple risk calculation. We tend to over-guard against things that subjectively seem dangerous, and under-guard against things that subjectively feel safe.

This isn't about whether AI is statistically safer, it's actually about the user experience of AI: If we can provide the same guidance without lulling a human backup into complacency, we will have an excellent augmented capability.
by esafak | 2025-12-09 16:27:45+00:00
Less than a year behind the SOTA, faster, and cheaper. I think Mistral is mounting a good recovery. I would not use it yet since it is not the best along any dimension that matters to me (I'm not EU-bound) but it is catching up. I think its closed source competitors are Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro Fast (TBA) and whatever ridiculously-named light model OpenAI offers today (GPT 5.1 Codex Max Extra High Fast?)
by Rastonbury | 2025-12-09 16:28:17+00:00
Probably the point is to think whether the horse or chess engine analogy is a good one. The premise being there will come a certain point when technology reaches a level that makes the alternative obselete suddenly. I don't have good reasons to think that AI will not be able to automate simple jobs with an acceptable error rate eventually, once that happens whole categories of jobs will evaporate. Probably dealing with more people type job, making excel models, transactions based, same thing day in day out, those teams may be gone and only a person or two to do a final review
by Aurornis | 2025-12-09 16:28:28+00:00
> How long does the battery last?

> Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording. On average, I use it 10-20 times per day to record 3-6 second thoughts. That’s up to 2 years of usage.

I feel like I’m usually good about being able to imagine a market for different devices even when I’m not the target audience, but I’m having a hard time with this one.

Having 20 different 3-second thoughts transcribed to notes that I have to process every day sounds more like added complications than problem solving. If I stretch, I can think of a few things that flashed into my mind and then I forgot again for a couple days because I wasn’t in a location to immediately pull out my phone and put it on my todo list (which takes about 10 seconds because I put a shortcut in my lock screen). However, those locations weren’t something where I could be “whispering” to a ring, either.

So I don’t know. I hope repebble succeeds with everyone they’re doing, but this product feels like they went too far into the novelty end of the spectrum and neglected some of the actual usability that made the original Pebble popular.

EDIT: On second thought, maybe the lack of recharging is an acknowledgement that they don’t actually expect people to use this product a lot or for very long. Maybe the target audience is people who want to have something new and unique that they can also use as a conversation starter. Once the novelty wears off maybe it doesn’t get worn much. If it does become popular with a niche audience they can release a V2 with charging.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-09 16:28:29+00:00
Good luck getting that to perform. Or even boot. High-speed buses are the darkest of the dark arts to design, at the kind of frequencies particularly PCIe runs even the slightest trace length mismatch, impedance issue with the PCB itself, vias, or even external RF sources can, do and will mess with your sanity.

That's my entire point. It's not easy to design a complex thing such as a smartphone.
by ronibhakta | 2025-12-09 16:28:32+00:00
Thanks for the feedback, Sahil. I have the example of those right above the benchmarks on the homepage you can try here -> https://zonformat.org/

And here are some extra for you too look at > https://zonformat.org/docs/eval-llms#real-world-benchmark

I have attached the script and the logs comparing how ZON performs well everytime compared to TOON. and how ZON-FORMAT has a feature of Eval to get rid of LLM Hallucination.
by zoomablemind | 2025-12-09 16:28:38+00:00
There's hardly a standard for a 'quality' contribution to discussion. Many styles, many opinions, many ways to react and support one's statements.

If anything, it had been quite customary to supply references for some important facts. Thus letting readers to explore further and interpret the facts.

With AI in the mix the references become even more important, in the view of hallucinations and fact poisoning.

Otherwise, it's a forum. Voting, flagging, ignoring are the usual tools.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-09 16:28:44+00:00
Formalizing it within the community rules removes ambiguity around intent or use, so yes, I do believe we should be barring AI-generated comments and stories from HN in general. At the very least, it adds another barometer of sorts to help community leaders do the hard work of managing this environment.

If you didn’t think it, and you didn’t write it, it doesn’t belong here.
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-12-09 16:28:53+00:00
Yes and no. It’s true that some people really only care about a slice of the process, but if you’ve been around the gamedev scene long enough you’ll also see people working on very technically ambitious projects while they’re fooling themselves thinking they’re making a game.

I just need a few more years working on my 4D non-euclidian voxel MMO engine before I can make my game!
by em-bee | 2025-12-09 16:28:54+00:00
i don't understand this part:

donors who believe their charitable contributions are being spent to maximize the good done, and not to support for-profit ventures.

the money is used to buy or make wreaths. exactly how is that supposed to work at that scale without sourcing from a for-profit venture?

the article suggests that the for-profit part should be sold to someone else. while i get the potential conflict of interest, that's only a conflict if the owners attempt to maximize their profits.

i am willing to bet that if they sell the for-profit part, whoever buys it, will do exactly that: raise prices and maximize profits.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-09 16:28:58+00:00
Go does surprisingly well at keeping GC freezes to a minimal in a way that you're unlikely to notice... C# has gotten a lot better since the core split as well. That said, there's a lot that comes down to how a developer creates a game.

I was added late to a project working on a training simulation engine, similar to games, where each avatar in the game was a separate thread... man, the GC pauses on the server would sometimes freeze for literally 10-15s, and it was not good at all. I refactored it to use an event-loop model and only 2 other threads, which ran much better overall. Even though it wasn't strictly a game itself, the techniques still matter. Funny how running through a list of a few hundred things is significantly better than a few hundred threads each with their own timers, etc.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-09 16:29:18+00:00
> At the very least the copy paster should read what the llm says, interpret it, fact check it, then write their own response.

then write their own response using an AI to improve the quality of the response? the implication here is that an AI user is going to do some research when using the AI was their research. to do the "fact check" as you suggest would mean doing actual work, and clearly that's not something the user is up for indicated by use of the AI.

so, to me, your suggestion is fantasy level thinking
by listenallyall | 2025-12-09 16:30:15+00:00
What's more important - "redistribution of wealth" or simply reducing the percentage of people living in abject poverty? And wouldn't you agree that by that measure, most of the world, including its largest countries, have done quite a good job?

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/ending-poverty

From 1990 to 2014, the world made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty, with over one billion people moving out of that condition. The global poverty rate decreased by an average of 1.1 percentage points each year, from 37.8 percent to 11.2 percent in 2014.
by arscan | 2025-12-09 16:30:27+00:00
The Kali TCP/IP IPX bridge allowed you to play this multiplayer over the internet, and the style of game was tolerant to low bandwidth and high pings. Which made this one of the first games that really provided a glimpse of the future of gaming (for better or worse, much of gaming has moved away from single person campaigns to multiplayer). I have so many great memories of this era in gaming because of this game and the handful of others that Kali supported (descent, doom 2).
by dawnerd | 2025-12-09 16:30:32+00:00
What’s frustrating is you basically are required to use JS when basic css and html would normally work. There’s been some improvements thanks to the dialog and popover apis but it’s still not fully there yet.

Also seems the large companies that have to have compliance only care about it from a legal standpoint and are fine with just making the tests pass from whatever compliance company they use.
by jonfw | 2025-12-09 16:31:28+00:00
If you have not started working on a new codebase while adopting AI, it may be harder to realize the gains.

I switched jobs somewhat recently. At my previous job, where I was on the codebase for years, I knew where the changes should be and what they should look like. So I tried to jump directly to implementation with the AI because I didn't need much help planning and the AI got confused and did an awful job.

In a new codebase, where I had no idea how things are structured, I started the process by using AI to understand where the relevant code is, the call hierarchies and side effects, etc.

I have found by using the AI to conduct the initial investigation, it was then very easy to get the AI to generate an effective spec, and then it was relatively easy to get the AI to generate the code to that spec. That flow works much better than trying to one shot implementation
by mindcandy | 2025-12-09 16:31:36+00:00
Is the content of the comment productive to the conversation? Upvote it.

Is the content of the comment counter-productive? Downvote it.

I could see cases where large walls of text that are generally useless should be downvoted or even removed. AI or not. But, the first example

> faced with 74 pages of text outside my domain expertise, I asked Gemini for a summary. Assuming you've read the original, does this summary track well?

to be frank, is a service to all HN readers. Yes it is possible that a few of us would benefit from sitting down with a nice cup of coffee, putting on some ambient music and taking in 74 pages of... whatever this is. But, faced with far more interesting and useful content than I could possibly consume all day every day, having a summary to inform my time investment is of great value to me. Even If It Is Imperfect
by mistrial9 | 2025-12-09 16:32:00+00:00
the system of long-lived nicks on YNews is intended to build a mild and flexible reputation system. This is valuable for complex topics, and to notice zealots, among other things. The feeling while reading that it is a community of peers is important.

AI-LLM replies break all of these things. AI-LLM replies must be declared as such, for certain IMHO. It seems desirable to have off-page links for (inevitable) lengthy reply content.

This is an existential change for online communications. Many smart people here have predicted it and acted on it already. It is certainly trending hard for the forseeable future.
by kennycoder | 2025-12-09 16:32:56+00:00
I've been building water cooling PCs for some years and lately focusing mostly on SFF builds. Anyway, long story short, working with mini ITX motherboards created a problem.. no TEMP headers on most of them. Even full ATX ones don't have any anymore unless you go into the very premium sector.. and that comes with other headaches.

So I wanted to solve this problem once and for all and decided to build a small controller that supports water temperature readings out of the box and not being OS / BIOS dependent at all.

It's an open source/open hardware solution available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/kennycoder/waku-ctl). Parts are mostly off the shelf components, available from mouser, digikey, and similar shops.

Happy to answer any questions and I hope this is useful to someone!
by ghusto | 2025-12-09 16:34:50+00:00
As someone who buys Apple-everything and has thought about switching to Android just so I can have Gemini as an assistant, my opinion is their selling of phones is threatened by AI.

I know it's fashionable to shit-talk AI and Google, and lord knows I dislike the latter, but Gemini works and is day-to-day useful.
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-09 16:34:56+00:00
I think people are just presuming that others are regurgitating AI pablum regardless.

People are seeing AI / LLMs everywhere — swinging at ghosts — and declaring that everyone are bots that are recycling LLM output. While the "this is what AI says..." posts are obnoxious (and a parallel to the equally boorish lmgtfy nonsense), not far behind are the endless "this sounds like AI" type cynical jeering. People need to display how world-weary and jaded they are, expressing their malcontent with the rise of AI.

And yes, I used an em dash above. I've always been a heavy user of the punctuation (being a scattered-brain with lots of parenthetical asides and little ability to self-edit) but suddenly now it makes my comments bot-like and AI-suspect.

I've been downvoted before for making this obvious, painfully true observation, but HNers, and people in general, are much less capable at sniffing out AI content than they think they are. Everyone has confirmation-biased themselves into thinking they've got a unique gift, when really they are no better than rolling dice.