MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by appreciatorBus | 2025-12-15 02:34:06+00:00
I did not argue the tools lowered the value of labour in aggregate - I merely said that they did not increase it. However, the effect on the individual and the group are different. If you have 10 people carrying boulders across the field, and you introduce a wheelbarrow, and now you have one person carrying the same amount of boulders across the field, the total aggregate value of labour has stayed the same. This particular person can certainly capture more of that aggregate value than they could have before, but the total value has not gone up. It’s also true that now you have lowered the cost of moving boulders across the field, so yes, there could be more demand for whatever it is you’re selling and that could mean that maybe you need two or three workers with wheelbarrows. but I think if you’re going to talk about the value of aggregate labor, you have to control for the amount of demand.
by tzs | 2025-12-15 02:34:59+00:00
People are mentioning alternatives, but do any of them have the repairability of a Roomba? The maker was famous for keeping parts readily available for even the oldest models, and making it so replacing parts was easy (although I've heard that in mid-2024 they started on some model making wheels, chassis, and motors an integrated unit that the user cannot easily service).

If you were happy with your Roomba you could keep it running for many many years. You only needed to buy a new Roomba if you wanted new features.
by luxuryballs | 2025-12-15 02:35:30+00:00
I have an OLED from them that’s 5 years old or so now, I have never once updated it or used any of the software beyond switching inputs and screen/color settings. It’s sad if it sounds like it’s getting to the point where you can’t just use a screen as a dumb screen as an option, I never minded smart features… as long as I never had to use them.
by arthurcolle | 2025-12-15 02:35:50+00:00
It has been noted, by whom? Their system cards?

It is deprecated and unavailable now, so it's convenient that no one has the ability to test these theses any longer.

In any case, it doesn't matter, this was over a year ago, so current models don't suffer from the exact same problems described above, if you consider them problems.

I am not probing models with jailbreaks making them behave in strange ways. This was purely from a eval environment I composed where it is asked to repeatedly asked to interact with itself and they both had basically terminal emulators and access to a scaffold to make them able to look at their own current 2D grid state (like a CLI you could write yourself and easily scroll up to review previous AI-generated outputs)

These child / neighbor comments suggesting that interacting with LLMs and equivalent compound AI systems adversarially or not might be indicative of LLM psychosis are fairly reductive & childish at best
by Teever | 2025-12-15 02:36:57+00:00
> You're transported into a world in which efficiencies mean that much fewer people need to work,

It's a matter of perspective. I'm pretty sure that from their perspective those people very much need to work because they need to pay taxes, rent, insurance, food etc...

What mechanism is going to ensure that the increased productivity is going to result in lower cost of living for these people such that they no longer require to spend so much of their life working to survive?
by ehnto | 2025-12-15 02:37:18+00:00
Not often discussed is the digital nature of this all as well. An LLM isn't going to scale a building to illegally paint a wall. One because it can't, but two because the people interested in performance art like that are not bound by corporate. Most of this push for AI art is going to come from commercial entities doing low effort digital stuff for money not craft.

Musicians will keep playing live, artists will keep selling real paintings, sculptors will keep doing real sculptures etc.

The internet is going to suffer significantly for the reasons you point out. But the human aspect of art is such a huge component of creative endeavours, the final output is sometimes only a small part of it.
by spott | 2025-12-15 02:38:50+00:00
Cause the risk isn’t actually that bad.

There are three nodes that are running with the same repo. If one of them force pushes, the others have the repo to restore it.

In 6+ months that I’ve had this setup, I’ve never had to deal with that issue.

The convenience of having the agents create their own prs, and evaluate issues, is just too great.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-15 02:38:57+00:00
Alpha radiation has very little in the way of penetration. I can be basically shielded by tin foil.

As the Pu238 decays it will transform into other materials that will probably emit beta and gamma radiation which could be detected. And also the shielding might get compromised over time (hopefully not!)

But at least when it was new this would not have been an option. Heat was the only detectable emission coming off it.
by kragen | 2025-12-15 02:39:12+00:00
I mean, there isn't exactly a thriving ecosystem of existing software built for CapROS. Right now I don't think anybody even has CapROS itself building.

The problem has gotten a lot easier since the EROS days, thanks to Xen, QEMU, UEFI (?), and the explosion of cheap hardware, but it looks like maybe Charlie got sick or lost interest or something?
by vdupras | 2025-12-15 02:39:27+00:00
I like the spirit of this article, but I find it strange that they open their article by quoting me, but then don't include Dusk OS's C compiler in the list.

Fairly counting SLOC is a tricky problem, but my count is 1119 lines of code for the C compiler (written in Forth of course), that's less than 8x the count of chibicc, described as the smallest.
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-15 02:39:36+00:00
> doesn't offer any programs that soak for a noticable length of time

Again, wouldn't it be great if we could program the washing machine? A display and a couple of buttons would be enough.

Something like:

Menu ->

New program ->

(automatically assigns it a number, e.g., "14"; no need for fancy names and a keyboard, just write it down) ->

Enter first cycle ->

(gives you options like "let it soak", "rotate", "dispense soap", "remove water" or whatever) ->

(gives you sub-options like temperature, RPM) ->

Enter second cycle ->

(and so on).

I don't know much about washing machines, but it seems doable.
by mmooss | 2025-12-15 02:40:00+00:00
> The only thing that you can't do is go back to the way things were.

I totally agree.

> That technology advances and that causes issues is inevitable

That such things happen is inevitable. But we can control how it advances, and what issues and trade-offs we face.

See above regarding 'inevitability'. It also strikes me as a way to avoid making a specific claim and supporting it - it's like invoking a higher power.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-12-15 02:40:30+00:00
Hmmm we've never approached the Irwin estate, even though all our work is about stingray sting prevention and treatment. We do need to make profit to stay in business, so it's not entirely charity. Maybe we should see how they feel though. I also worry about the optics of advertising so directly on somebody's death. Especially because none of our products would have prevented / helped in his scenario.

Anyways, it's a good idea, thanks for the push!
by wantlotsofcurry | 2025-12-15 02:40:40+00:00
I've had an LG tv for a couple years. I was previously able to use LG's THINQ app on my phone like a remote to operate the tv. A couple days ago I went in the app to use the remote and the feature had been totally locked behind the "access local networks & devices" permission... This permission was never needed in the past 3 years yet now it's necessary for the same functionality.

So, I disconnected the TV from the internet, uninstalled the app, and bought an Apple TV 3rd gen. LG TV quality is great but their software is unbearable.
by pabs3 | 2025-12-15 02:40:47+00:00
I wonder if it is possible to install a standard Linux distro on LG TVs. There is KDE Plasma Bigscreen for a TV-like experience on such distros.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

If not, there are some webOS exploits on this wiki page:

https://wiki.debian.org/Exploits

Hopefully the Vizio lawsuit will mean the right to repair software comes to TVs more easily.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
by BurningFrog | 2025-12-15 02:41:37+00:00
I have two ways to think of it, and both give similar numbers.

A: 250 years ago, 98% worked in farming. Today it's 2% (who produce more food!). Assume that the other 2% are at least twice as productive, and you get that 3% of the population now produces as much as 100% back then.

B: It's hard to directly estimate how much GDP per person has increased in 250 years. But the typical number economists get when trying is that it's 30x as big. Which means 3.3% of today's workforce produces as much (per person) as the whole workforce did back then.

Both A and B can be critiqued, but the precise numbers don't really matter for the argument.
by potatoman22 | 2025-12-15 02:42:05+00:00
I'm saying LLMs are deterministic and because of that, prompt engineering can be effective. You knew what I was trying to say, but chose to ignore it.

You should follow the HN Guidelines. I'm trying to have a discussion, not a snarkfest.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
by c-hendricks | 2025-12-15 02:42:15+00:00
JSDoc does not understand typescript syntax though? The typescript language server just kinda plows through/over JSDoc sure, but try getting JSDoc to parse some of the TS-ified things that JSDoc has alternatives for.

https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/issues/1917

https://github.com/jsdoc/jsdoc/issues/1917#issuecomment-1250...
by canjobear | 2025-12-15 02:42:22+00:00
This is right in terms of the rigorous statistical sense of “Markov model”. But in practice in the world of NLP and chatbots through the 90s and 2000s, “Markov model” was usually used to refer to Markov chains (ie you only condition on the previous k words). Hence the term “Hidden Markov Model” to refer to what you’re calling a Markov model.
by typpilol | 2025-12-15 02:42:31+00:00
Sounds cool for long term data storage, but they need to get the read write speeds up.

4mbps write and 30mbps read is extremely slow. Even if they achieve their roadmap 500mbps is still slow compared to modern drives.

Better not keep any data you need access to within like 90 days on it or you're toast.

What market is this even aiming for? Bitcoiners?
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-15 02:44:33+00:00
The number would be most of the people who use the keyboard shortcuts && who use 2 or more layouts && who don't want to change languages to search for something.

It's just muscle memory for me.

CTRL+T -> x <search_term> -> ENTER

Most often I enter <search_term> with CTRL+V, so the sequence is:

CTRL+T -> x CTRL+V -> ENTER

Nowhere in that sequence is the keyboard layout important (if you don't write anything, but just paste).

Just like CTRL+T works even if you're not writing in a layout where the "T" key is mapped to the letter "T", so should "x" work no matter what it's mapped to.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-15 02:44:48+00:00
Trying to nail down version 1.0 of mooR, my defibrillation, rewrite, resurrection, and completely bike shedded rewrite of LambdaMOO.

https://timbran.org/moor.html https://codeberg.org/timbran/moor

along with the prototype brand new ultramodern MOO "core" (starter DB) "mooR cowbell"built on top of it https://codeberg.org/timbran/cowbell, with example/demo at https://moo.timbran.org/
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-15 02:45:12+00:00
>> I'm not surprised to see these horror stories

> I am! To the point that I don’t believe it!

> You’re running an agentic AI and can parse through logs, but you can’t sandbox or back up?

When best practices for using a tool involves sandboxing and/or backing up before each use in order to minimize the blast radius of using same, it begs the question; why use it knowing there is a nontrivial probability one will have to recover from it's use any number of times?

> Like, I’ve given Copilot permission to fuck with my admin panel. It promptly proceeded to bill thousands of dollars ... But support immediately refunded everything. I had backups.

And what about situations where Claude/Copilot/etc. use were not so easily proven to be at fault and/or their impacts were not reversible by restoring from backups?
by eucyclos | 2025-12-15 02:45:13+00:00
I'm working on a collection of mnemonic images for learning written Chinese. Each has a solarpunk-style image referencing both the character's meaning and pictographic etymology, with the character overlaid and color-coded to indicate the tonality in Mandarin.

While I'm talking about it, do the folks here have any suggestions where I should make it available? I want it to be a free educational resource for whoever might want it.
Show HN: ElasticMM – 4.2× Faster Multimodal LLM Serving (NeurIPS 2025 Oral)
by PaperWeekly | 2025-12-15 02:45:25+00:00
ElasticMM is a newly released open-source serving system designed for modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The work was selected as an Oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025.

Unlike existing serving stacks such as vLLM—which are primarily optimized for text-only workloads—ElasticMM introduces Elastic Multimodal Parallelism (EMP), a new execution paradigm that adapts parallelism across different inference stages and modalities.

Key findings from the paper:

Up to 4.2× reduction in TTFT

3.2×–4.5× higher throughput under mixed multimodal workloads

Modality-aware scheduling, elastic stage partitioning, unified prefix caching, and non-blocking encoding

Paper (OpenReview PDF): https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Zd6VyjmN1S

GitHub repo: https://github.com/hpdps-group/ElasticMM

Curious to hear what the HN community thinks, especially from those building LLM/MLLM inference stacks or dealing with multimodal serving in production.
by telui | 2025-12-15 02:46:18+00:00
The popular photo sharing platform gets open sourced due to issues

The issue was that Netlify, the hosting service, blocked the platform due to the free domain

Netlify's free tier used to not have credits, but then they added it, and it makes the platform less accessible to users

Users wouldn't like if they saw the site was deleted,

This means more users leaving, and less users using StudioArt Why this is bad

StudioArt is a popular photo sharing platform, and if Netlify blocks it, it will be less accessible to users What we are doing about it

GitHub Pages is a free hosting service that we are using to host StudioArt now

Open sourcing StudioArt will allow anyone to contribute to the platform and make it better

StudioArt is now open sourced on GitHub, and anyone can contribute to the platform

We open sourced it due to issues with Netlify's free tier, and that GitHub Pages is free with open source projects.
by jwaldrip | 2025-12-15 02:46:48+00:00
On OpenAPI vs GraphQL: I disagree with the premise that OpenAPI achieves the same thing. GraphQL is necessarily tightly coupled to your backend — you can't design a schema that does something other than what's actually implemented. OpenAPI, on the other hand... I've seen countless implementors get it wrong. Specs drift from reality, documentation lies, and you're trusting convention. Sure, OpenAPI can do whatever you want, but for those of us who prefer convention over configuration, GraphQL's enforced contract is the whole point. On authentication concerns: Yes, auth in GraphQL has varied implementations with no open standard. But REST doesn't thrive here either... it's all bespoke. This is a tooling problem, not a GraphQL problem. Resolvers become your authorization boundary the same way endpoints with controller actions do in REST. Different shape, same responsibility. On type generation: In my experience, the codegen tooling with Apollo and Relay is incredible. I haven't seen anything on the OpenAPI side that comes close to that developer experience.
by sangeeth96 | 2025-12-15 02:47:04+00:00
For similar reasons many years back when I broke the bank for a G2, I decided to disconnect it forever. Besides the always-on spyware, every update broke something, which is incredibly frustrating considering the amount I spent. For instance, I got a GX soundbar for free with the TV which worked fine for 1–2 months until some update borked it and made it glitch out randomly. To date, none of their updates seem to have fixed it. I now only connect it back to the web — if needed — once a year or so but even this needs plenty of careful research across the web to see if the update package breaks something else I take for granted.

Hooking up an Apple TV 4K to this thing was the best decision I ever made and the sheer performance of this thing puts every TV vendor to shame. I would recommend everyone to do the same if they're already in the Apple ecosystem.
by jimz | 2025-12-15 02:47:11+00:00
Hey, just wanted to let you know that your honeypot data for PHP-based attacks ended up factoring in charges being dropped in two criminal cases where prosecution attempted to run with a harebrained and ludicrous theory that basically centered around some... mythical idea of how these attacks happen and how specific they can be. The criminal justice system is where lurid fantasies of how tech works end up putting people in prison for sometimes years and budget concerns meant that attorneys filled parking meters every 4 hours and we had two full time investigators in an office of 40, most with a 80-120 caseload (rolling basis). Sometimes the data one puts online can really make an impact that my guess is that it was entirely unexpected and for two people in their 20s with young kids (separate cases, in fact, although not too far apart), it really reclaimed a good chunk of their lives. Thank you for that, and I hope others would do the same, because one never knows when it'll come in handy. So many products sold to LE are basically snake oil and without data and facts, the threat is incredibly coercive. Any leverage for defense helps balancing the playing field and frankly, nobody deserves to be taken to trial based on utter BS that has merit merely because it matches the equally unfounded anxieties of people, however unsubstantiated.Thanks again!
by D-Machine | 2025-12-15 02:47:22+00:00
Not sure where you read that, but the person is obviously wrong (EDIT: oh I see, they say it in the otherwise very good article linked in GP). Soap helps reduce pathogens just like does in washing hands: it doesn't sterilize, but it removes a huge amount, and makes it so subsequent proper sterilization (bleach, heat, etc) properly reaches the surface.

But, yes, if you just soap a board and rinse after cutting raw chicken on it, and then immediately (i.e. without allowing drying overnight) put on e.g. raw vegetables, and then e.g. throw those raw veggies in the fridge to be consumed / eaten hours or days later, then indeed the simple washing may not in general be enough, or may not be practically much different than using lots of very hot running water. E.g. some epidemiological studies fail to find washing habits predict outbreaks (https://academic.oup.com/jaoac/article-abstract/89/2/538/565...).

But the conclusion to draw from this is not to skip the soap, but, rather, that the drying is often a more crucial part of good washing than the particular washing method.
by neilv | 2025-12-15 02:48:34+00:00
That disclosure is infuriatingly only at the end of the piece, after 16,000 words.

The only hint I saw: there's many unusual notes in how she's speaking, which don't come across comfortably. You have to stop and consider whether she's speaking out of personal bitterness and resentment, or is using herself as an example, to drive home a point about how women in general were mistreated. Then it turns out it's fabricated, and this is not what she spoke in an interview.

I'm very sympathetic to the message, but angry over the misleading way it was presented.

The disclosure comes only after 16,000 words of fabricated interview and community Q&A. And, in the ~900-word afterword, the "We ask you to read this interview in the spirit in which it is offered: as a thoughtful, historically grounded, but frankly fictional..." really should've been at the beginning. I hope this was a publication editing mistake, rather than intentional.

We need people to be much smarter than we are right now. Yet, in a discourse environment in which truth and reasoning are being attacked and eroded from many directions, this article offers new bad example to young adults.

||voxmeditantis.com^$important
by qdotme | 2025-12-15 02:48:48+00:00
The better question is the seek latency. The bandwidth for read isn’t too horrible, if the seeks can be kept within reason. This is somewhere between tapes and actual pressed optical media (not dyed /re/writeable). Should seek way faster than tape (maybe even on par with BluRay) and 30Mbps read is manageable for doomsday scenarios.

Long term databanks. Libraries. GitHub’s archive bunkers. Microfilm replacements.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-15 02:48:56+00:00
> If some sectors of the economy become drastically more efficient, and some do not, overall society has become wealthier, even if the prices in the latter sectors rise a lot.

That's assuming all sectors have become more efficient. Some, like construction, have become less efficient. And that's a big problem when it's relevant to necessities like housing.

Suppose people used to spend 20% of their income on housing and healthcare and 20% on apparel and electronics. Then housing and healthcare triple in price, apparel drops by two thirds, electronics drops by 98%, and everything else stays the same. Are they better off? No, because the most you can improve the cost efficiency of something is 100% (it becomes free), but the things that that cost more can increase in cost by more than 100% of the original cost, and some of them have.
by sphars | 2025-12-15 02:49:35+00:00
Been scrobbling since 2008. I found out what last.fm was thanks to installing Rockbox on my iPod nano, and seeing they had this "scrobbling" feature. Had to remember to plug in the iPod, pull the scrobble log and upload it using a website someone created.

If you need a scrobbler for Android (and Linux) I recommend Pano Scrobbler: https://github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-15 02:49:56+00:00
> it can feel as good to give a kindness as to receive one

True - I love giving gifts and helping people more than receiving them or getting help. But it's still awkward/uncomfortable to receive help.

> her mom was embarrassed and then out-did me

Out-did you how? Did she buy better shoes for the kid? Or did she give you a gift?
by arthurcolle | 2025-12-15 02:50:59+00:00
Thank you for your concern, but Anthropic researchers themselves describe their misaligned models as "evil" and laugh about it on YouTube videos accessible to anyone, such as yourself, with just a few searches and clicks. "We realized the models were evil" is a key quote you can use to find the YouTube video in the transcripts from in the past two weeks.

I didn't think the language in the post required all that much imagination, but thanks for sharing your opinion on this matter, it is valued.
by olyjohn | 2025-12-15 02:52:06+00:00
I still think that most people don't know what it is. There's so much shit getting installed on peoples TVs / PCs / Phones that they didn't ask for, I think that they just ignore it like they do SPAM.

Back when IE was king, nobody even knew what the hell Internet Explorer was. They just clicked the blue E thing to get to Google.