skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been much, much slower to load on click for me now. Surprised others haven't experienced that so wondering if it is some extension conflict. Consistently takes 2-3 seconds to load up after click whereas before was instant-ish.
Show HN: Acorn, a theorem prover with built-in AI
For a while I've been interested in mathematical theorem proving. It just seems like the sort of thing that a computer should be able to do. Or at least to help check your math.

But it's just hard to use theorem provers. Even for someone who has used regular programming languages. You typically have to remember many different theorems and tactics, even to prove "basic things" that people would usually just assert without explanation.

Acorn is an attempt to fix this problem, to make a theorem prover that's as easy to use as a regular programming language. A "Python for theorem proving".

Acorn includes an AI model, but a small one, that runs on your machine. The whole thing runs as a VS Code extension, so it's easy to install.

If you've ever used a theorem prover before and found it interesting but annoyingly difficult, Acorn is for you. Check it out and I'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks!
Feedback: It is not importing data for chrome extension URLs. I linked my chrome extension but for some reason its suggesting data for some roblox related extension.
I Study Financial Markets. The Nvidia Rout Is Only the Start
I discovered the Garmin Instinct last year, and was very happy to switch to it from my Apple Watch.
A good reason to ask "how is this free service making money?" before using it for something serious.
OK, fun. What can we do to mitigate this until it gets patched?
> I wonder how Wall Street feel about this.

"lol", I suspect. Given X's track record so far on this.
It's All One Bubble
AI is the new bitcoin. Its a buzzword attractive to people looking for attractive investments but cannot be bothered to really map the practical utility back to practical application.

Let's be real. We have had autocomplete on the cheap for more than a decade before LLMs. How much greater utility do LLMs provide above autocomplete? Is that difference in value enough to justify the market value of something like OpenAI? I would say no. That is the definition of a bubble.

I suspect some of the misconception is that people envision LLMs will do things like replace developers. That is so misleading. Yes, AI can replace some developers that cannot do much on their on their own, but that draws entirely incorrect conclusions. Correlation does not imply causation. Just because your developers suck doesn't mean AI is magic. It just means your business couldn't select the right people, or train them, to write software. It also doesn't mean AI will provide something new or better than those people it replaces, which was likely just as true for a more intelligent autocomplete system.
> We disclosed SLAP to Apple on May 24, 2024, and FLOP on September 3, 2024
From 68 days ago:

"/usr/bin/env -S uv run": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198256

125 points, 45 comments
It's unclear that they sold the trademark in the first place.
The reason isn't "acceptable" is because the world is fraught with examples where the sentiment of superiority of culture or race led to horrific outcomes.

Therefore people have worked extremely hard over the decades to stop those sort of things.

I see from your profile you're from South Africa, so I'd assume you are more capable than many others of recognising that.

Perhaps things swung a bit too far one way (I genuinely am undecided), but we should realise the intentions in this started out well. And we'll swing too far back the other way if we're not careful.
I wonder if Apple are being slow due to the complexity of the potential fix, or because they're dragging their feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_aviation
This looks pretty cool, although I think you could definitely get a better deal with a mac mini. Although it's apple and we know how they are.
Well we did at my company when we moved from AWS to GCP
I don't claim it's a sign of despair. Rather, it's a boots-dug-in belief that one does is special and cannot be done autonomously. I think it's wholly natural. Work, time, education ... these operate like sunk costs in our brains.

I think what we're all learning in real-time is that human technology is perpetually aimed at replacing itself and we may soon see the largest such example of human utility displacement.
My passwords, my choice.
"“I don’t need coffee breaks, I don’t miss deadlines, and I’ll outperform any social media team you’ve ever worked with - Guaranteed," the profile page for one of these AI accounts called Ella said. “Tired of human ‘experts’ making excuses? I deliver, period.”"

This is a publicity stunt from an AI startup.
Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
I feel that 50 people is not a small company!

It’s all relative, of course.

But 50 people is big enough that as the business owner, you’d need to be permanently in hire mode, just to replace people moving on for various reasons. And you’d be frequently be exposed to your employee’s personal issues.

I prefer running a _really_ small company - just 5 people.
All of these things can be mitigated by a little care and attention by yourself.

What you are really saying is you want a way to be able to recover your account thats easy, quick, and you dont need to think about it. Unfortunately strong security will never be any of those things.
Can't be answered with no other information (People available for hire for your area / company in RoR), your previous experience etc. but as another Go developer that jumped on RoR for my side projects a few years ago I can only encourage you. It brings the fun back into getting something running quickly without having to implement every crud operation manually.
How is Enpass's auto fill? Bitwarden has been hit or miss for me on mobile
Python 1.0.0, released 31 years ago
> Working effectively with LLMs for writing code is an extremely deep topic.

There is a space for learning materials here. I would love to see books/trainings/courses on how to use AI effectively. I am more and more interested in this instead of learning new programming language of the week.
There's no fundamental reason that we can't save for retirement in a world with a roughly static population.

What we can't do is continue to use pyramid scheme math. Everyone more or less needs to set aside their own surplus for retirement over the course of their lives. Of course this gets financialized away such that the current workers pay the current retirees and whatnot but the math still holds. Basically at scale average people's entire lives can no longer be run based on net neutral or net debt with reliance upon market growth to have surplus available to spend at the end of it. We'll have to run a surplus and set some aside.
Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable zone
At a certain point I don't see why a human needs to be in the loop at all. But I suppose that's the most dystopian part of it all.
That’s a fine thing to believe.

But the bit of data we got in this story is that a human wrote tests for a human-identified opportunity, then wrote some prompts, iterated on those prompts, and then produced a patch to be sent in for review by other humans.

If you already believed that there might be some fully autonomous coding going on, this event doesn’t contradict your belief. But it doesn’t really support it either. This is another iteration on stuff that’s already been seen. This isn’t to cheapen the accomplishment. The range of stuff these tools can do is growing at an impressive rate. So far though it seems like they need technical people good enough to define problems for them and evaluate the output…
Sometimes, but sometimes people just say stuff like "god is testing us" when things appear to be truly random.

I reckon we'll see a lot of new religious thinking about this stuff
Concorde was civilian, though.
Here, give it a shot - https://gist.github.com/jodavaho/8fb042fab33c1aaa95cd67144da...

I'm at work so I can't try again right now, but last I did was use claude+context, chatGPT 4o with just chatting, Copilot in Neovim, and Aider w/ claude + uploading all the files as context.

I even went so far as to grab relevant examples from https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/tree/latest/examples#exam... , adding relevant ones as I saw fit.

It took a long time to get anything that would compile, way longer than just reading + doing, and it was eventually wrong anyway. This is a recurring issue with Rust, and I'd love a workaround since I spend 60+h/week writing it (though not bevy). Probably a skill issue.
I wasn't even necessarily talking about your perspective specifically and didn't mean this to get at all personal. Sorry it came off that way.
Hm... as I read it this is much worse. Spectre/Meltdown were data isolation vulnerabilities. You could exploit side channel (mostly timing) information to intuit state about memory across a protection boundary. Basically you can prime the CPU state to allow you to tell which of multiple code paths the kernel/hypervisor/whatever took, and then go from there to reading arbitrary data. Which is bad, obviously.

Here, they claim to have a remote exploit vulnerability. It's not that Apple is leaking data, it's that the CPUs have a bug where they appear to be actually executing code based on incorrectly-loaded ("predicted") data.

Though the details are, as is usually the case, thin. I await further analysis.
True! I like that idea.
If you think GoDaddy is the most terrible, you have never been exposed to the hell that is Network Solutions.

GoDaddy is big, safe and terrible.
Network Solutions is big, safe and even worse.
That doesn't make it a military project (with regards to aviation, there are military and civil planes).

Same applies to the Tu-144.
> Only real gotcha is that you need ssl

Any reverse proxy handles that by default, its no longer a gotcha
You are correct that there's an exception for "system libraries", see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#SystemLibraryEx....

However, I'm pretty sure that the Switch SDK would not fall under this exception.
I have my own automated LLM developer tool. I give a project description, and the script repeatedly asks the LLM for a code attempt, runs the code, returns the output to the LLM, asking if it passes/fails the project description, repeating until it judges the output as a pass. Once/if it thinks the code is complete, it asks the human user to provide feedback or press enter to accept the last iteration and exit.

For example, I can ask it to write a python script to get the public IP, geolocation, and weather, trying different known free public APIs until it succeeds. But the first successful try was dumping a ton of weather JSON to the console, so I gave feedback to make it human readable with one line each for IP, location, and weather, with a few details for the location and weather. That worked, but it used the wrong units for the region, so I asked it to also use local units, and then both the LLM and myself judged that the project was complete. Now, if I want to accomplish the same project in fewer prompts, I know to specify human-readable output in region-appropriate units.

This only uses text based LLMs, but the logical next step would be to have a multimodal network review images or video of the running program to continue to self-evaluate and improve.
An alternative is to just drop the whole thing.
Ruhr-University Bochum, in Germany
By September 2004, a new NSA technique enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off. JSOC troops called this "The Find," and it gave them thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq, according to members of the unit.

Sounds more like a radar metal detector sort of thing than phone hacking.
I looked into this a while back and it was quite complicated. If you're used to hosting your own infra, it may not be a big deal, but it's definitely not a simple task for even an advanced desktop user. I ended up choosing KeepassXC, which just uses a dumb file on disk that I sync with Git.
> Western trained models will tell you politically inconvenient things,

Pull the other leg.
Do you know who David Mayer is?
Hint: https://archive.ph/iI5xC
If someone is locked out of their password vault, they are likely also locked out of their email...
New Zealand relaxes visa rules to lure digital nomads and influencers
I'm very frustrated about this because for a lot of my family members, their phone is the only computing device they have.

When they lose it, they lose access to email, and there is no backup plan here. Using bitwarden is far far superior to them using the same password everywhere, but this will drive them back to the same behavior.
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de
Ruhr University Bochum, the third author's University
Actually, if the AI is making the code, starting from scratch might not be great. You'd get a new and different set of bugs.
Related question: is there any way to keep the Bitwarden window open when I’m unfocusing it without popping it out into a separate window? That workflow makes copying logins painfully slow for me.
DeepSeek will not acknowledge the events on that day.
Subpixel Snake
I built a tool to make subtitles painless for video creators
TechCrunch has degenerated into a clickbait site with horrifically unprofessional "journalists" working there.

You get god awful articles like this, where "civil" is used instead of "civilian" and the author is too addicted to scrolling TikTok to be aware of the fact that this thing called the Concorde used to exist before he was born, rendering his mangled statement to be factually inaccurate.
doesn't work, those dimensions aren't bijections to the reals
Federal funding freeze to disrupt Medicaid in Illinois
When articles like this are posted, there are usually many whataboutism comments regarding US tech companies also collecting data.

This is known as the False Equivalence Fallacy.
maxima has logic package, written in 2009 by alexey beshenov. it lives in share/logic which is also where the texi docs are. it's included with the op version,

load(logic);
logic_simp (a or (b or false or (a or b)));
characteristic_vector (a xor b);
zhegalkin_form ((a implies b) or c);
e : ((a or b) xor c) and d$
logic_equiv (e, zhegalkin_form (e));
logic_diff (a or b or c, a);
demorgan (boolean_form (a nor b nor c));

etc. there's more stuff in docs
Their SLAP demo provides a great example of how defence-in-depth can make/break the viability of an exploit. That terrifying Safari demo is possible because Safari fails to isolate new windows in individual processes when calling `window.open` in js.

All the other side channel magic presented here doesn't matter if the data you want to read is in a seperate process with sufficient separation from the "hostile" process in the address space.
Based off what we've seen at this point it would be worthwhile to try.
MI300X (RunPod) 192gb ram
Hourly Rate: $2.49/hr.
Break-even Point: You can rent for 2,410 hours (~100 days of non-stop-continuous use) before reaching the cost of the $6000 Mac. Mac's top out at 192GB not 2TB ;)
Consideration: If your AI training requires sporadic use (e.g., a few hours daily or weekly), renting is significantly cheaper.
MI300X will also get you result many times faster too, so you could probably multiply that 100 days!
Huh. I had to look it up, because I never would have put Subaru at the top of the reliability charts; experience and anecdotes would put it in the lower tier of Japanese automakers (granted, still well above average). But CR says #1 .. for now!

Historically, their history of head gasket issues, cam seal issues, ringlands on turbo cars, the continued use of timing belts, and other issues would definitely not have one placing Subaru at the top of perceived reliability rankings.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...
I think the appeal can also be that suddenly a weekend in Paris/Rome/(choose your destination) is as feasible (time-wise, if not budget-wise) and logistically light as a trip to Cancun. I for one don't usually go to Europe unless I can spend at least 4-5 days there, just to make the lengthy journey 'worthwhile', but I'm done cross-US weekend trips numerous times.
That's the naiveity of software engineers. They can't see their limitations and think everything is just a technical problem.

No, work is never the core problem. Backlog of bug fixes/enhancements is rarely what determines the headcount. What matters is the business need. If the product sells and there is no/little competition, the company has very little incentive to improve their products, especially hiring people to do the work. You'd be thankful if a company does not layoff people in teams working on mature products. In fact, the opposite has been happening, for quite a while. There are so many examples out there that I don't need to name them.
I think it could be powerful to reframe here. Instead of asking us how marketing works, show us how it should work and discover for yourself. There's no rules, no laws, just people copying eachother. Be someone that they copy, instead
>They made a lot of money, for a few years, but ended up crashing and burning.

I'm not sure whether it proves my point or yours, or both.

>I’m really hoping that they get their mojo back. There’s a better than even chance they will.

Regression to the mean and entropy will eat us all. There is no hope.
This seems entirely fine, after a brief review of the contents. Where do you think it goes off the rails?
How cool is that, hopefully will pressure Airbus into developing one too. So far they did silly concept vides only.

I'm also quite worried about Airbus after winning against Boeing becoming complacent since Chinese or Russians are not even close.
There's a lot of conflicting information here.

There are two papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437v1 for DeepSeek-V3-Base, which makes claims about 2.8M H800 GPU hours, and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948 for DeepSeek-R1, which was based on V3-Base but doesn't seem to quote the cost of its RL steps.

https://newsletter.languagemodels.co/p/the-illustrated-deeps... is a really fascinating overview of what those new steps were! The innovation here seems to be that the creation of a cutting-edge reasoning model could be made from a relatively inexpensive base model, regardless of how much RL is needed. Part of this seems to be a novel methodology for generating large volumes of chain-of-thought training data; it's left ambiguous exactly how the bulk of this data was generated, though, and it could have been a long process of manual curation.

I'd also take the assertion that they started R1 with V3-Base in its release form with a grain of salt. We'll see whether people can reproduce similar results. Either way, there's a new chain-of-thought model with open weights, and that's an incredible achievement regardless of the context - and one that will be meaningful to future research.
Per the article: "At a Jan. 9 hearing, McMonagle agreed with defense attorneys, saying the AI identification of Tolbert was akin to an anonymous informant, which is not enough to establish probable cause."

So no, a tip (which is an informant) is not enough for a warrant.
Newer CPUs use more and more "hacks" - out of order execution, caching, speculative execution, branch prediction, etc - to gain performance improvements. The further back you go, the less vulnerable CPUs generally are to these (but possibly more vulnerable to other kinds of attacks).
Hi! It'd be a huge help if you can stop by chat.zulip.org and share in #feedback what you find bizarre. Maybe we can fix them for you :)
Or it's a hardware issue and they don't have any way to do a microcode fix for this
So why is this happening but SST got pilloried due to noise, vibration, moisture in the stratosphere, ozone layer, etc. Did these issues get solved with the Boom aircraft, or is the solution to route around them via marketing and hope no one opens a history book?
France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland
The thing about dictators is once you give them power, you can't take it back, even if they promise they want it just for one day.
Why should anyone think that if the NSA was backdooring phones in 2003 they wouldn't be doing the same thing in 2025?
Thank goodness it is a bug. For a second, I thought I was on the new squid game.
Neo accelerator 2025 – Applications open
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From the FAQ:

> While FLOP has an actionable mitigation, implementing it requires patches from software vendors and cannot be done by users. Apple has communicated to us that they plan to address these issues in an upcoming security update, hence it is important to enable automatic updates and ensure that your devices are running the latest operating system and applications.
instructions on how? I need to walk through family members to do this.
For those unfamiliar with the special meaning of "civil", in the specific context of aviation:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civil_aviation#English
Is it bad that I disable spectre mitigations on all my PCs to get a free double-digit-% performance boost?