skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We kinda went through this with images when Photoshop and similar tools appeared. I remember a lot of people asking questions in the late 90s/early 00s in particular about if an image were “real” or not and the distinctions between smart photography and digital compositions. Nowadays we just assume everyone is using such tools as a baseline and genuinely clever photography is now celebrated as an exception. Perhaps ditto with CGI and prop/set making in movies. Unless a director crows about how genuine the effects are, we assume CGI.
Show HN: I built Skyhunt – A VPN-powered tool to find cheap flights globally
Hi, I’m Alonso. After 6 months of coding during late nights and weekends, I’m excited to share Skyhunt, an app that compares flight prices across 30+ countries by automatically using VPNs.

The idea came from my frustration with manually switching VPNs and searching for the same flights on platforms like Skyscanner to find the lowest prices. Skyhunt automates this process, saving time and money by showing the best global deals in one place.

Key features:

* Automated VPN searches: Compare prices in multiple countries effortlessly.

* Save time: No more repetitive manual searches.

* Optimize costs: Take advantage of regional price differences to find the lowest fares.

Skyhunt is perfect for frequent travelers like me or anyone looking to explore the world while spending less. It’s currently in a functional beta stage, and I’d love to get feedback from the community to make it even better.

You can try Skyhunt here: https://skyhunt.app/

If you have any questions or suggestions, I’d be happy to answer them in the comments. Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
Also even if the answer is incorrect, you can still cook the eggs on the laptop :)
That word for word describes what I experienced- we could have been in the same class
Ask HN: How hard is your company pushing AI on its employees?
Clearview wasn't mentioned in the affidavit used to get the search warrant, according to the article:

> Legg’s affidavit did not disclose that police used facial recognition as part of their identification.

> The affidavit simply says the fusion center matched Tolbert to “the unidentified male suspect, based on recovered surveillance video.”

(I had to look up what a "fusion center" is, it's a cooperation between different agencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center)
Wow, that escalated quickly...
If Trump renamed it to like "The Gulf of Hitler Did Nothing Wrong" then sure, pick a fight. "Gulf of America" is a nothingburger.
> No one is proposing a tax that would apply to all your assets

Yes they are, that’s literally what a wealth tax is.

How were you defining wealth?
this directly blends people with a government.. Western people is not equal to the USA govt. Here in California, three decades of China human rights history is very clear to a lot of people. In fact, many Chinese speaking people on the Americas west coast, left China for specific reasons, too.

Utilitarian money-oriented self-servers definitely have less "care" about these things? EU or UK or wherever
they can, feel free to inference and give it an interpreter
That would get the contractor fired on the spot along with whatever network engineer allowed it to happen.
That's funny. Traumatic for her, but funny.
A lot of the niceness about DeepSeek-R1's usage in coding is that you can see the thought process, which (IME) has been more useful than the final answer.

It may well be that o1's chain of thought reasoning trace is also quite good. But they hide it as a trade secret and supposedly ban users for trying to access it, so it's hard to know.
Your application for XYZ was rejected because the LLM was instructed to. Please do not try again later, because the outcome might be different.
Any idea how to use a cloud hosted version with cursor?
I doubt this was done in 1 week.

Obviously this product had to be released. It takes a lot of design to build stuff for Government, lot of bureaucracy etc.
That's ok if all you want to know is which model should I use today, but a test like that is totally dependent on training data, and there is no reason to expect that either DeepSeek-V3 (the base model for R1) or the additional training data for R1 is that same as what OpenAI used for O1 and whatever base model it was built on.

The benchmark comparisons are perhaps, for now, the best way to compare reasoning prowess of R1 vs O1, since it seems pretty certain they both trained for those cases.

I think the real significance of R1 isn't the released model/weights itself, but more the paper detailing (sans training data) how to replicate it, and how effective "distillation" (i.e. generate synthetic reasoning data for SFT) can be to enhance reasoning even without using RL.
German scientific paternalism and the golden age of German science
And the United States subsidizes plenty of things too. For example the CHIPS act has $39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing on U.S. soil. There's nothing wrong with either country's subsidies. I personally don't believe in maximum free market. Government subsidy is more often than not a good thing and we need more of them both here and in China.
I've bought quite a few Udemy courses over the years. I only buy them when they are having one of their sales, of course. I've never paid "list price" for a Udemy course as far as I know.

But that said, why would I buy a course over using an LLM? A couple of reasons come to mind:

1. I'm just more familiar/comfortable with the modality of listening to an instructor lecture and use visual aids, than chatting with an LLM when working on getting an understanding of a broad field. I see LLM's as more suited for more focused, "bite sized" interactions. For example, asking one how to solve a specific math problem that I am stuck on or something.

2. I also don't necessarily trust the LLM completely. And if I'm learning something that's very new to me, then by definition I won't be equipped to detect when the LLM is hallucinating. If I'm asking about something where it's easy to "check my answer" or confirm the information, then fine. But otherwise I still have a measure of skepticism (and I say this as somebody who is, in general, very "pro AI").
Yeah, it is definitely a big deal.

I expect it will be a net positive: they proved that you can both train and run inference against powerful models for way less compute than people had previously expected - and they published enough details that other AI labs are already starting to replicate their results.

I think this will mean cheaper, faster, and better models.

This FAQ about it is very good: https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847758
Apart from the benefits you already mentioned, mainly that TUI applications are usually keyboard driven.
I super do not want even a muffled supersonic boom crashing over my house!

It would definitely breed some significant resentment against the rich to have my house even gently shaking day by day.

My gut tells me this is in no way a solvable problem. But I too fear that after it's built, it'll be the LLM story of "yes we had to illegally access & use every book & piece of art in existence to train this, but now that we've built it, how could we turn back?"
I could forget about the job aspect, since I'm not working on my startup. Hopefully, it takes off and I don't have to worry about job. But for investors, I'm not sure of how I would handled that. Regardless, I no choice but to find a way out.
That's my search engine!
That is also fine here, provided that the warrant for drugs was legally obtained. Even if it were not illegally obtained, finding an actual victim of kidnapping, who testifies under their own free will, would probably be enough to trigger the attenuation doctrine, which allows the admission of illegally obtained evidence when it is of sufficient distance from the illegality to "attenuate" the connection.
If you murder someone, you would probably keep the same gun at home, no?
Someone else mentioned Parallel Construction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction); in this case, Clearview could be used to find the suspect's social media, get better pictures, which could then be matched with other surveillance footage. or something. There's ways and means.
My LLM senses are tingling...
As someone who travels cross-atlantic semi-occasionally my price threshold for a 50% shorter flight is 25% increased cost. This is coming from a relatively well off middle-aged software engineer.

It is hard to think that this tech will ever be common besides a few "high status" (NY->London) routes like the concord was. It is my understanding that fuel costs increase as speed increases so there is no way this could ever be cheaper than non-hypersonic flights. But of course there is a market even if it is very limited, just like there was one for the concord. I expect this tech might displace some of the private plane market.

To me it seems more likely that we will see short-haul smaller electric aircraft take over for even cheaper costs with more stops along the way. Think like NY -> Açores -> London or LA -> Hawaii -> Japan.

edit: reading about this it seems the fuel-efficiency calculation is not as simple as I thought, there are some savings to be had in fuel by going above sound-speed. It seems the lowest fuel-efficiency happens at just below speed of sound. I am no expert in the subject though.
Oh wow okay thank you for the context
> Many people also confuse how hard they work for how much business value they create. Staying late, working long hours is only beneficial if it creates value.

Ok.

> Is that work something that anyone else could do?

Maybe not anyone else, but someone else, sure.

But here is the real point. In order to get promoted you have to be selfish. You have to shirk doing the work that isn't perceived as creating the highest value, and leave it to some other sucker. If no-one did that work, what then? It's not like plumbing fields around SBE messages is difficult, or writing some additional business logic is difficult. And the same goes for running some performance tuning, and shaving a few micros here and there. Any developer on our teams can do either task. But the person who can prove that they shaved a few micros off tick to trade latency and made us a bunch of money is going to get noticed a lot more than the poor sucker who plumbed in a few fields to allow risk team to monitor things more carefully.

Almost all work that moves the company forward is valuable. Some just has greater perceivable value, and results in the higher reward.

We've all been through this, we know how it works.
Visiting leaky, crowded Louvre is 'physical ordeal', museum's boss says
This gets suggested over and over again. Sometimes people say it should be in one city. The romantics suggest Athens (because the Greeks invented the thing) but the practical suggestion is Los Angeles.
The cops lied about where the suspect was identified?

So the warrant was granted from false pretense.
You'd end up losing a lot of detectives though, which is also pretty damning.
I strongly suspect that the income for lecturers at community colleges and continuing education (which is what someone on Udemy is competing with) is quite a bit lower.
they have not benchmarked the quantized model.
Unfortunately, as mentioned in another comment, the Bluetooth stack is apparently one of the items that is not included in the source release[0]:

Some parts of the firmware have been removed for licensing reasons,

including:

[...]

- The Bluetooth stack, except for a stub that will function in an emulator

[...]

Which suggests that the Bluetooth stack wasn't entirely of their own making, so perhaps any of Pebble's own additions were too intertwined (e.g. gave away too much Bluetooth stack vendor proprietary API info) to be easily separated?

[0] https://github.com/google/pebble/blob/3b927684809fba173ee540...
US. There are walk in clinics all over that take people first come first serve (once in a while the receptionist says no way and sends you to an ER where they take people in priority order). Generally they are open 9am-8pm 7 days a week, though it varies by location. These are called urgent care and for are things that you need urgent but non-emergency care for - you typically get an antibiotic or some such treatment (depending on what you have) and are sent home. Depending on what you have sometimes you are told to make an appointment with your regular doctor, sometimes sent to a hospital.

My regular doctor I do need to make an appointment to see. Typically I can get an appointment in about a week anytime I call, though normally I just make the next appointment as I leave the last one and so they are months out.
> I suspect if you can get a face to face gig, that's a more reliable income source--although the upside is limited.

its a reasonable trade off for me, as a side gig

> At least in the US though, community college or some sort of continuing education isn't going to be a very good gig financially.

Nor here. They also want teaching qualifications. I would rather run something of my own. The problem is how to set it up and advertise.
Here, "vaping" is a mistranslation. The law actually refers to 加熱式たばこ, or "heated tobacco products" (HTP), which contain tobacco leaf just like regular cigarettes, but don't combust. On the other hand, nicotine vapes are classified as medical devices and have never been approved for sale, but technically individuals can import them.
The evidence for HTPs being healthier than cigarettes is thin.
I believe that overregulation of nicotine vapes is a form of protectionism for Japan Tobacco, which the Government of Japan owns a large stake in. This is a clear conflict of interest.
Antagonizing Mexico, especially in a petty way, and renaming geographic features to include the word "America", seem very solidly on-brand. I assume the majority of Trump voters would support this. I.e. this specific thing is not a promise, but this genre of behavior is an implicit promise.
oh I got distracted writing that, I meant real problems with supersonic flight lose relevance and start opening ways to have super sonic flights over ground just to save some time.
>>People in Latin America rarely call the US "America", although often call people born in the USA "Americano".

As an American not from the US who lives in America but not in the US, the only Americans I have heard calling US citizens "Americans" are people who live in the US, be them US citizens or not. Many of them acquire a cuban accent, btw (florida effect)

The regular gentilice we use for US citizens is "gringo" I don't know the origin, but it is not used as an offence. Calling them "Americans" does sound odd and a little offensive, ironically!
Without meaning to Godwin the discussion, do you know what other constitutionally elected leader made it his mission to sow deep, deep, deep division within his country?
Serious question, when was the last time you degraded the battery of a phone enough to warrant replacement?

I got a Xperia XZ2 compact in 2018, and used it daily util a month ago. It made it through a day of regular use until the very end, when I had to retire it because of issues with software updates.

Modern-ish Li-Ion batteries can take thousands of full cycles.
No, that isn't true at all. Workers are often exploited even though they can leave (legally) at any time because their economic circumstances have made them desperate. They take side gigs that they hope will earn them enough to make money because they don't see obvious alternatives.

I've seen this in-person... friend was a single-mom trying to get by. These gigs market themselves in ways that are dishonest in order to get participants. Sure, there is high turnover, but that doesn't make it OK.
> more like a "Wavelength-division multiplexing"

no joke, the hype around DWDM is why I got into networking -- waves are the future, man!
I Slack is interrupting your presentations, that's on you. You can mute the bell, you can even silence the popups. I've done both and my productivity is way up, now the only notification indicator is the badge.
Ah, I see. Intel's price reduction leaves the Xeon 6 prices lower than the AMD Genoa (2022) prices, but higher than the AMD Turin (2024) prices. Strange that the article doesn't mention Turin at all.
Probably trying to say to investors, "the government will never use DeepSeek, our moat is being a trusted US AI company who is trusted for government work"

Whether it sticks or not is another matter.
Assuming the police didn't lie about the connection and the warrant was issued by a judge, both of those things would be fine. The issue in this case is that the police were not forthcoming about the source of the connection, and the connection itself was from a tool that explicitly says that it is not admissible in court. The warrant was obtained based on false pretenses, making the subsequent search illegal.

A judge probably would not rule in favor of a warrant based solely on a tool whose utility is entirely unproven and which itself warns that it should not be relied upon as evidence, while they might rule in favor of eyewitness testimony.
> Can an uber (eats) delivery really be an order of magnitude more expensive and still be viable?

It's a 30 minute round trip from my home to the Chinese takeaway and back.

If I go myself, it costs fuel and 30 minutes of a person's time.

If I have Uber Eats bring it to me, it still takes fuel and 30 minutes of a person's time. Plus any time idle between orders. And on top of that, Uber's cut. And on top of that, the taxman's cut.

The economics make a lot more sense as the gap between rich and poor widens. Or if the drivers stack orders, and let the food get cold. Or in cities where most people don't have cars.
Both of those things are legal. That’s the difference.
Everywhere where you are unhappy and/or uncomfortable is a prison for yourself. It could be a football stadion where some weird guy has made you the mocking target.
Hmm, can you share the domain name? Either here or email me? I can look into it. (Though it's most likely suffix-list related, there are some outstanding issues in that regard.)
> I am here to tell you the guards and fences are down at the chow truck while commoners are using LLMs.

I've read this over and over and have no idea what this means.
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Look it up yourself. Paul Graham does not have a core competency regarding what smart people are or are not willing to do. That would be sociology or psychology or economics.

https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3ldx24kvc...
Related:

The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834341
https://25min.work/js/pomodoro.js
yeah the FOSS angle is big. it's not just good, it's good and it's out there for anyone.
Helion's $425M Series F
I doubt the current occupant of the oval office cares.
Because for a random passerby you can have them withness and be responsible for the withness statement. Clearview can fill their database with crap, or even fake some data, to manipulate the police investigation. Because Clearview knows this is not only possible, but also likely, the database matches their should not be used as any evidence. If such tools are used, a lot of innocent people are arrested and just arresting you for a murder, even not guilty, will destroy your life.
For me the line between a small and medium business is if you have HR.
I think the key point is that you start with a valid warrant, no?
oh yeah not about to do that, in these instances one hand washes the other — lots of junk sociology is based on junk science
Thanks for mentioning yt-x, I'll give it a try. I'm so tired of YouTube absolutely crushing my CPU usage in Firefox.
i spent a months salary on these eggs and can no longer afford to cook them :(
True, but it certainly lands differently today than it would have a week ago.
Sure, it creates "jobs", but some jobs are awful and degrading

And yet the people voluntarily choosing to take these "jobs", apparently find their lives are in some measure better by doing the job than by not doing it.

Do I like the idea of people doing things that are awful and degrading? No. Do I think these companies should be praised for operating the way they do? Also no. But I also don't feel that I have any standing to tell people that they shouldn't do something that they find value in, because I judge it undesirable.
I really don't get the hate for Teams. At least on Windows and Android it works well enough. One thing I find impressive is since I can't join my earbuds to my company PC I join a meeting on the PC and my phone so I can use my earbuds and microphone while watching video on my PC screen.
So it’s good for employees when the company does something criminal? That seems like misaligned incentives. If you and I can engineer a crime, we can seize all of the stock from shareholders?

I don’t think these solutions are well thought through.
Sometimes doesn't have to be 1% true!
Very familiar, but even regular planes are loud as hell already since I happen to live between the airport and a holdover route.
Ask HN: If I am so smart, why I am not rich?
I grew up very modestly, borderline poverty. None of my extended family/friend went to college, I was the first one to graduate from college later in life.

I was always a good student A- since it didn't come easy but I was eager and motivated to put the time and work to achieve.

When I was 18 with a few buddies we started a "fun" business and it was mildly successful. When I tried to start another business everyone told me that I needed an education (college).

Fast forward a couple of decades I have my BS and MBA,with a decent career in high tech (operations). Through the years I have started a few projects and they all failed (my bad), at the same time I have been working for entrepreneurs who are able to make a pretty good living with mediocre ideas and bad management.

I am now at a point in my career where I have the time and some funds to start something, but I am stuck by "analysis paralysis". I know AI is a great opportunity, but I can't find a pain point to use as an entry point.

I am well versed with Paul Graham essays, with the Innovator's Dilemma strategy, and Lean Startup methodology; still not much going on.

I have also done Startup School.

Am I just an employee-type and not cut for entrepreneurship?

Looking for honest feedback, resources, pointers anything.

Thank you in advance.
>I think online courses are a challenge.

The professors who do EdX (or whatever) versions of their big lecture classes--which they've done a million times--can be pretty good and they don't get a lot of real-time feedback there either. But that is the exception, of course.
Didn't Trump have some of his first term plans frustrated by "civil disobedience" of his civil service?

I'd love to see his decisions overturned, but I suppose it shows the dangers of trying to smother populists in non-democratic ways. He is reacting reasonably to his first term, and he is not shy of such actions.

A better way to fight populism long-term is to deliver a system of fair government, and education so people can recognize that and not vote for tyrants. I am amazed what state schooling actually does for 12 years, at a huge cost to worldwide budgets, with people coming out the other end barely able to do maths and reading comprehension.
Just wanted to say I appreciate that a few people here have actually been paying attention to the evidence re: lab leak and are willing to bash their head against the wall 'educating' the rest of the community. It's a repetitive, thankless task but I'm heartened that the comments aren't all just the same low-brow "is anyone surprised, it was obviously a lab leak from day-1" nonsense that shows up in almost every discussion of this.
> and then got a warrant to go to his house and found the gun.

The police claims it's the gun. That has not been proven, and the article doesn't present a shred of evidence.