MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 59nadir | 2025-12-04 08:23:02+00:00
> There's no way someone that works with real code all day could spent an honest few weeks with a tool like Claude and come away calling it "hype". someone might still not prefer it, or it's not for them, but to claim it's "hype", that's not possible.

I've tried implementing features with Claude Code Max and if I had let that go on for a week instead of just a couple of days I would've lost a week's worth of work (it was pretty immediately obvious that it was too slow at doing pretty much everything, and even the slightest interaction with the LLM caused very long round-trips that would add additional time, over and over and over again). It's possible people simply don't do the kind of things I do. On the extreme end of that, had I spent my days making CRUD apps I probably would've thought it was magic and a "game changer"... But I don't.

I actually don't have a problem believing that there are people who basically only need to write 25% of their code now; if all you're doing for work is gluing together libraries and writing boilerplate then of course an LLM is going to help with that, you're probably the 1000th person that day to ask for the same thing.

The one part I would say LLMs seem to help me with is medium-depth questions about DirectX12. Not really how to use it, but parts of the API itself. MSDN is good for learning about it, but I would concede that LLMs have been useful for just getting more composite knowledge of DX12.

P.S.:

I have found that very short completions, 1-3 lines, is a lot more productive for me personally than any kind of "generate this feature", or even function-sized generation. The reason is likely that LLMs just suck at the things I do, but they can figure out that a pattern exists in the pretty immediate context and just spit out that pattern with some context clues nearby. That remains my best experience with any and all LLM-assisted coding. I don't use it often because we don't allow LLMs for work, but I have a keybind for querying for a completion when I do side projects.
Show HN: Wan 2.6 – Multimodal AI Video Generation for Creators
by lu794377 | 2025-12-04 08:23:48+00:00
Hi HN,

we’ve been working on Wan 2.6, a multimodal video model built for real creative production workflows—not just single random clips. Wan 2.6 generates complete videos with synchronized audio, motion design, and consistent character identity across shots.

Key features

Social Media Creation

Generate TikToks, Reels, and Shorts in 9:16 with voiceover and soundtrack in one pass. Describe the scene and Wan 2.6 handles motion, framing, timing, and output formats.

Built for Marketers

Turn ideas into pitch-ready product videos: cinematic lighting, active camera work, and synced narration. All outputs include commercial usage rights.

Tools for Filmmakers

Storyboard concepts, cut short scenes, and explore character-driven ideas. The motion engine improves transitions, continuity, and detail accuracy frame-to-frame.

E-commerce at Scale

Produce large batches of product videos with consistent style. Showcase rotations, lifestyle scenes, and multiple aspect ratios from one workflow.

Why Wan 2.6 stands apart

Multimodal Core: text + image + video + audio in one model

Two Variants: 5B for efficiency, 14B for maximum capacity

Precision Lip-Sync: accurate voice-to-motion alignment

Audio-Driven Video: generate visuals from music or audio tracks

Flexible Formats: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 (MP4, MOV, WebM)

Full Usage Rights: unrestricted commercial deployment

We’d love feedback on:

Where consistent video generation fits in your workflow, and what APIs or tools make adoption easier.

Try it here:https://www.wan26.info/?i=d1d5k
by jesprenj | 2025-12-04 08:24:28+00:00
unfortunate that you can't start it without the ethernet interface in UP state. if you start it while the ethernet cable is disconnected, it will start the daemon but not actually "listen" on the device, even after the cable gets plugged in.

my solution: create a bridge with your ethernet device and add a dummy device and UP the said summy device, thereby UPing the bridge.
by hirako2000 | 2025-12-04 08:24:34+00:00
I asked. What is life.

It gave me a decent introduction to biology, it defined what life is, then quizzed me. The problem is, it says to select the appropriate answer, but selection does not work.

It reminds me of the game developer behind "Another World". He made some good games, and was able to raise money from early game investors. He thought he could make a game maker. He would develop it once, and it would make all sort of games. So he pitched it, and investors were more interested than ever. Obviously he realized that such concept would never work. Today we have over ambiguous ideas, but they ship them anyway.
by franga2000 | 2025-12-04 08:24:58+00:00
I'm definitely not saying it's a binary can/can't afford situation. The point is that people don't "afford" things equally. I might some need RAM so badly that I'm prepared to take a huge risk and spend half of my paycheck on it. But that doesn't matter because someone else has 3x my paycheck, savings, and investment portfolio and a good credit score. How much money someone can spend on somethong is no indicator of how much they need/want it.

Something like "GPUs are actually scarce" doesn't even make sense to say, since scarcity is more a function of demand than supply. The supply of GPUs wasn't exhausted because people suddenly needed more GPUs or because Taiwan couldn't produce as many of them as they used to, it was because a few rich bastards were buying into a bubble so they could make as much money a possible before it all comes crashing down. They didn't "need" those GPUs much more than even the scalpers. They were just a vehicle to make short-term profits at the expense of everyone else.

And yes, of course those willing to buy things are the ones enabling the peice gouging. But that's not a useful observation. You either need something, so you'll buy it even if it doesn't make financial sense, or it makes financial sense to buy it, so you will. Notice how scalpers also fall into that second category, along with the rich bastards draining the supply.
by yannoninator | 2025-12-04 08:25:17+00:00
> The Rust Foundation is a 501(c)(6) and not a 501(c)(3). The Rust Foundation would do better for the community if they were a 501(c)(3) and more transparent about finances. Follow this example for the greater good.

This was exactly my issue with the Rust Foundation back in 2021 when it was formed, 501(c)(6) are for trade organisations. To this day, individuals still CANNOT donate to the Rust Foundation which means it is not community led.

> Note: At this time, the Rust Foundation [still] does not offer individual memberships.

https://rustfoundation.org/get-involved/#donations

The main issue of the Rust Foundation is that makes it easy for companies to buy influence in the project by buying a board seat as a benefit.

I agree that the Rust Foundation should change their governance structure to a 501(c)(3) instead of a 501(c)(6).
by obius_prime | 2025-12-04 08:25:46+00:00
You're right — that script (hamiltonian_perfect_finder) IS a parameter search tool. It will find matches to whatever targets you give it. That's not the core claim. The core claim is in the white noise tests and the basic resonance chamber: with FIXED geometry and RANDOM input, the same constants keep appearing. We're not searching for them — they emerge. Try running topology_wave_generator_tests.py with white noise input. No parameter optimization. See what ratios appear without being told what to look for. The question isn't 'can we fit these numbers' — it's 'why do these specific numbers keep showing up when we're not looking for them?
Show HN: I made StartupLaunchDay,daily startup launches and funding in one place
by aiseoscan | 2025-12-04 08:25:47+00:00
I made https://startuplaunchday.com because I was constantly bouncing between Hacker News, random newsletters, Twitter, and government portals just to answer three simple questions:

What did people launch today?

What’s actually trending in startups right now?

Are there any funding opportunities I should know about?

StartupLaunchDay pulls those into one place and updates automatically every day.

On the site, there are three main views:

Launches – a daily feed + archive of startup/product launches, so you can quickly see what other founders are shipping and dig through previous days if you need inspiration or competitors to study.

Trends – a “what people are actually searching for” view of startup topics (ai, SaaS products, developer tools, startup funding, etc.), so you can get a sense of real demand and not just vibes.

Grants – curated funding opportunities grouped by category (technology, healthcare, small business, energy, etc.), with deadlines and links to the official pages, so you don’t have to dig through government sites yourself.

On top of that, founders can also list their own startup on the site. Listings get their own SEO page, a dofollow backlink, and permanent placement for a one-time payment (no recurring fees). The idea is: if people come here specifically to discover startups and research markets, your listing should be something they can actually find later, not just a tweet that disappears in a feed.
by AlexCoventry | 2025-12-04 08:25:52+00:00
The warmup process is necessary in order to try to find high-probability regions of the target distribution. That's not an issue for an LLM, since it's trained to sample directly from a distribution which looks like natural language.

There is some work on using MCMC to sample from higher-probability regions of an LLM distribution [1], but that's a separate thing. Nobody doubts that an LLM is sampling from its target distribution from the first token it outputs.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14901
by markbao | 2025-12-04 08:25:52+00:00
Newspaper websites are a good example of bloat, true. I think if you’re in the business of primarily serving text content and not doing much interactive stuff, you don’t need a heavy site. A lot of them tend to cram their websites with trackers and ads and I guess that’s a business thing.

Tbh, it’s unpopular around HN, but I felt like AMP was a great experience for users. AMP pages were super fast and had no annoying banners - and none of my pet peeve: layout shift.
by utopiah | 2025-12-04 08:27:39+00:00
> Some people really do hate AI

That's probably me for a lot of people. The reality is a bit finer than this namely :

- I hate VC funded AI which is actually super shallow (basically OpenAI/Claude wrappers)

- I hate VC funded genuine BigAI that sells itself as the literal opposite of what it is, e.g. OpenAI... being NOT open.

- I hate AI that hides it's ecological cost. Generating text, videos, etc is actually fascinating, but not if making the shittiest video with the dumbest script is taking the same amount of energy I'd need to fly across the globe.

- I hate AI that hides it's human cost, namely using cheap labor from "far away" where people have to label atrocities (murders, rape, child abuse, etc) without being provided proper psychological support.

- I hate AI that embodies capitalist principles of exploitation. If somehow your entire AI business relies on an entire pyramid of everything listed above to capture a market then hike the price once dependency is entrenched you might be a brilliant business man but you suck as a human being.

etc... I could go on but you get the idea.

I do love open source public AI research though. Several of my very good friends are researchers in universities working on the topic. They are smart, kind and just great human beings. Not fucking ghouls riding the hype with 0 concern for our World.

So... yes maybe AI haters have a slightly more refined perspective but of course when one summarize whatever text they see in 3 words via their favorite LLM, it's hard to see.
by creatonez | 2025-12-04 08:27:59+00:00
Where are the images sourced from? I'm not necessarily against AI illustrations... but making recreations of extinct species right is a tricky multidisciplinary thing, not something AI can do well without a great deal of tweaking and domain-specific knowledge. If it's AI, it would be good to know the prompts and what specific features they mention, because then we'd know the actual methodology.

Edit: Don't waste your time scrolling. The images are a complete joke. There are some bad recreations out there - these are worse than you can imagine.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-12-04 08:28:09+00:00
Someone wrote on HN the (IMO) main reason why people do not accept AI.

AI is about centralisation of power

So basically, only a few companies that hold on the large models will have all the knowledge required to do things, and will lend you your computer collecting monthly fees. Also see https://be-clippy.com/ for more arguments (like Adobe moving to cloud to teach their model on your work).

For me AI is just a natural language query model for texts. So if I need to find something in text, make join with other knowledge etc. things I'd do in SQL if there was an SQL processing natural language, I do in LLM. This enhances my work. However other people seem to feel threatened. I know a person who resigned CS course because AI was solving algorithmic exercises better than him. This might cause global depression, as we no longer are on the "top". Moreover he went to medicine, where people basically will be using AI to diagnose people and AI operators are required (i.e. there are no threats of reductions because of AI in Public Health Service)

So the world is changing, the power is being gathered, there is no longer possibility to "run your local cloud with open office, and a mail server" to take that power from the giants.
by xerox13ster | 2025-12-04 08:30:30+00:00
Homelessness wasn’t ignored in Sim City 2013, it was an integral part of managing housing supply and employment. Until I figured out how to balance things my parks were filled with homeless camps, inverting the land value effect of the park.

I’m deeply autistic about city builders and figure out the systems behind them and build metropolises. I’ve spent well over 35k hours playing city simulators since sim city on SNES and most of that with Sim City.

I haven’t given Cities 2 a try because they think cars should be free from a parking standpoint and while I can design around that to minimize the number of cars overall, it doesn’t feel real.

Parking is something every city builder tries to pretend isn’t real so I hope this game considers that a problem to solve by city designers, not the game designers…

This is really exciting, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
by lerp-io | 2025-12-04 08:31:49+00:00
i had idea like this when gpt first came out but decided not to go down this route because idk at what point to automate and at what point to refine and just seemed too complex and now tools like claude cli seem to make more sense for devs. but as internal b2b tool for non technical with predefined schemas and apis and very strong ui rules (eg u must use this library/component/pattern at all times for X or Y) u COULD generalize but then it would also be impotent to fork and extend those that already been made and without bugs or be able to fix bugs..and the second u need something slightly non trivial would need to be able to “drill down” to fix this or fix that or tweak or whatever so just becomes to vibe code and deploy so maybe like to vibe code harder and faster and deploy faster but maybe with enough rhfl it would be viable… i can imagine like some sort of fluid experience especially for learning or research where u just need to process and visualize some data and don’t care about stuff breaking because its internal tool
by 6510 | 2025-12-04 08:32:44+00:00
Not sure how thing are today but I hear the weirdest story from a German farmer a decade or so ago: They make biogas then turn it into electricity and sell it to the grid for next to nothing. What they really wanted was to pump it into the gas net for domestic use but this wasn't allowed because it is of better quality than the "normal" Russian gas. Apparently someone really cares if some other customer got better gas for the same price(!?)

He was rather pissed off about it. That and some remark that they didn't produce enough gas for the entire country. He said, we are suppose to make enough gas for the entire country but do so without selling it. They did have an association with plans to make biogas from hemp at scale. It just cant happen.

edit: Apparently their law makers came to their senses since.
by xwolfi | 2025-12-04 08:33:39+00:00
I work on a stock market trading system in a big bank, in Hong Kong.

The code is split between a backend in Java (no GC allowed during trading) and C++ (for algos), a frontend in C# (as complex as the backend, used by 200 traders), and a "new" frontend in Javascript in infinite migration.

Most of the code was made before 2008 but that was the cvs to svn switch so we lost history before that. We have employees dating back 1997 who remembers that platform already existing.

It's made of millions of lines of code, hundreds of people worked on it, it does intricate things in 10 stock markets across Asia (we have no clue how the others in US or EU do, not really at least - it's not the same rules, market vendors, protocols etc)

Sometimes I need to configure new trading robots for random little thing we want to do automatically and I ask the AI the company is shoving down our throat. It is HOPELESS, literally hopeless. I had to write a review to my manager who will never pass it along up the ladder for fear of their response that was absolutely destructive. It cannot understand the code let alone write some, it cannot write the tests, it cannot generate configuration, it cannot help in anything. It's always wrong, it never gets it, it doesn't know what the fuck these 20 different repos of thousands of files are and how they connect to each other, why it's in so many languages, why it's so quirky sometimes.

Should we change it all to make it AI compatible, or give up ? Fuck do I know... When I started working on it 7 years ago coming from little startups doing little things, it took me a few weeks to totally get the philosophy of it all and be productive. It's really not that hard, it's just really really really really large, so you have to embrace certain ways of working (for instance, you'll do bugs, and you'll find them too late, and you'll apologize in post mortems, dont be paralized by it). AIs costing all that money to be so dumb and useless, are disappointing :(
by written-beyond | 2025-12-04 08:34:17+00:00
Congratulations on earning that opportunity!

Thank you for your work. I was in a position where I had to choose between minio and seaweed FS and though seaweed FS was better in every way the lack of an includes dashboard or UI accessibility was a huge factor for me back then. I don't expect or even want you to make any roadmap changes but just wanted to let you know of a possible pain point.
by Aldo_MX | 2025-12-04 08:34:31+00:00
That's not a realistic expectation.

Classic examples like:

User: I'm feeling bad LLM: Have you considered k*****g yourself?

Are a good example of what an LLM "without censorship" looks like: Good at predicting the most common sequence of text (ex. the most common sarcastic reply from Reddit), but effectively useless.

In order to build a useful LLM (ie. one that actually follows instructions) you need to teach the LLM to prefer the most helpful answer, and that process by itself is already an implicit layer of "censorship" as it requires human supervision, and different humans have different perceptions on what the most helpful answer is, especially when their paycheck is conditioned to a list of "corporate values".

You can only pick between a parrot that repeats random text from the Internet, or a parrot lobotomized to follow the orders from their trainers (which occasionally repeats random text from the Internet, because the training isn't perfect).

Unsurprisingly, the lobotomized parrot is more useful to get actual work done, even if it won't tell you what the CIA[1] did to Mexican Students on October 2nd, 1968.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-45662739
by dwb | 2025-12-04 08:34:35+00:00
I don’t get the extreme negative reaction here and elsewhere. It’s not for me either, but I also don’t think it looks ridiculous – it just a little bag. There’s a pretty hard limit on how crazy that can look. It’s like the detractors aren’t aware or accepting that there are people with different tastes in the world. Why not just say “it’s not for me”?
by utopiah | 2025-12-04 08:35:23+00:00
> PC gaming is going fast to requiring controller support.

Hmmm I don't know. I did play Elden Ring & Clair Obscur with a controller but I also played Baldur's Gate 3 on mouse and keyboard. I also play VR games with controllers or hand tracking. Basically I play with whatever the game recommends.

To me it's like saying PC game is dead because mobile phone is so popular. Sure a LOT of players, and thus money, goes into mobile gaming but that doesn't prevent proper AAA and indies games on PC to have interesting mechanics.

PS: if you are into these kind of things checkout exotic controllers in events like Amaze. I remember a collaborative where you had to blow in pipes to push a rocket in the right direction and plenty of weirder stuff. Really cool but totally niche.
by sheepscreek | 2025-12-04 08:35:24+00:00
This is very cool. If it can reliably work even for the examples provided, one can wrap a lot of C++ methods comfortably and reduce a ton of friction.

Is the 2026 spec still at the draft stage?

Update: Nevermind - just read that it only works with Bloomberg’s clang fork. Hopefully it’ll land in upstream clang soon.
by qalmakka | 2025-12-04 08:35:32+00:00
There's a huge difference between "AI" and "tech bros and finance guys getting amazed by an LLM that talks back to them without realising it's just a language model and not intelligence, so they started chucking the massive piles of cash they had lying around the world to evade taxes to them in a pyramid scheme of colossal scale". We currently are heading more and more towards the latter, and when it crashes it will sow so much distrust and curse the "AI" name so much that we'll probably get a decades-long AI winter after that. In the end none of this nonsense will help the world towards getting better AI any time soon.

Already most "AI researchers" outside of the big corps have basically turned in the last 3 years from "people training their models and doing research" to "webdev plugging into other people's APIs to use LLMs they don't know crap about". When, not if, the big AI bubble bursts, the damage done to the sector will be immense
by bayindirh | 2025-12-04 08:39:26+00:00
I believe I failed to convey what I'm trying to say.

I'm a strong believer on copyleft. I only share my code with GNU/GPLv3+, no exceptions.

However, this doesn't allow AI companies to scrape it, remix it and sell it under access. This is what I'm against.

If scraping, closing and selling GPLv3 or strong copylefted material is fair use, then there's no use of having copyleft if it can't protect what's intended to be open.

Protecting copyleft requiring protecting copyright, because copyleft is built upon copyright mechanism itself.

While I'm not a fan of a big media company monopolizing something for a century, we need this framework to keep things open, as well. Copyright should be reformed, not abolished.