skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs keep showing more and more they are the wonder of AI that we awaited for decades: talking machines that every two months do progresses that two months before were anticipated impossible because of <put here some limit that was actually in the prejudice of the skeptical AI community> (just stochastic parrots, no reasoning possible without symbolic representations, there are no longer tokens, ...)

At the same time, part of the scientific community continues to diminish what was accomplished and the steps that are being made. A few months ago LeCun arrived to tell new researchers to move away from LLMs since they are a dead end: imagine the disservice he made to the surely non-zero folks that followed the advice, putting themselves out of the AI research that matters. (Incidentally, this skepticism of the Meta AI head must have something to do with the fact that Meta, despite the huge efforts allocated, produced the worst LLM among Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek -- I bet Zuckerberg is asking questions lately).

It's very hard to explain this behavior if not by psychological denial.

[EDIT: you can't see the score of this comment, but I can: it's incredible how it goes from 3, to -2, to 1, and so forth. The community is split in two, and it is pretty sad since this is not a matter of taste or political inclination: there must be a single truth]
I don't identify as an incompatibilist, but to try to steelman their position:

Some incompatiblist determinists might view metaphysical libertarianism as a logically coherent possibility, albeit a false one. They might then view "free will" as useful in naming a way the universe coherently could have been, but turned out to actually not be – much like they might view Ptolemaic epicycles, phlogiston, the luminiferous aether, and steady state theory. And, much as a person might object to the position "the luminiferous aether is actually true, if we redefine all the terms involved to refer to concepts from special and general relativity" as a form of unhelpful obscurantism, they might view compatibilist determinism as doing the same kind of thing to metaphysically libertarian free will.

There's also the other kind of incompatibilism: metaphysical libertarianism is itself a form of incompatibilism. Both incompatibilist determinists and metaphysical libertarians agree that determinism and free will are incompatible. They just disagree on whether that means we should junk free will or junk determinism.

Although I think here "determinism" is a bit of a misnomer. Most physical determinists don't actually have a problem with the idea that there might be irreducible quantum indeterminism (whether or not they believe there actually is). An incompatibilist determinist would say "a clock doesn't have free will, and a roulette wheel doesn't either, so neither can some hybrid between the two". A compatibilist determinist will say that whether it is a clock or a roulette wheel or a hybrid of them, if it gets sufficiently complicated in the right ways, then it will have free will. For both, the real objection is to metaphysically libertarian ideas that human choice involves some irreducible "third thing" which is neither deterministic causation nor impersonal chance, nor any mere combination of the two. There are also claims (e.g. by Roger Penrose) that quantum indeterminism operates in some special way within the human brain, different from how it operates normally, and that human free will is somehow rooted in that. Many "determinists" (whether compatibilist or incompatibilist) would view that as uncomfortably close to metaphysical libertarianism, even if it does attempt to partly replace the transcendental metaphysics with something closer to the realm of the empirically testable (even if not quite there). But, while "quantum indeterminism operates in a very special way in the human brain" makes them uncomfortable, I don't think most of them view in the same way "quantum indeterminism is real and irreducible, but it doesn't operate in the human brain in any way differently from how it operates anywhere else"–again, whether or not they actually believe it. Some will prefer purely deterministic interpretations of quantum theory instead, such as many worlds or de Broglie–Bohm theory–but that debate has no inherent connection to the topic of human free will.
> Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

> Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

Your first question with anything like this should always be WHICH MODELS:

> For our experiments, we evaluate the performance of 6 LLMs: GPT4 (gpt-4) [58], ChatGPT
(GPT3.5-turbo) [57], GPT3 (text-davinci-003) [11], FlanT5 [17] and LLaMa [75].

This is ancient. This research was done centuries ago. This is research about the possibility of isotopes, written about radium in 1903, published in 1946. It is a criminal level of journalistic malpractice to leave uninformed readers with the impression that this is where AI stands yesterday.
Stunmesh-go, a WireGuard helper tool to get through Full-Cone NAT
Hello everyone
I'm excited to share my latest personal open-source project, STUNMESH-go! This networking tool, is designed to tackle CGNAT traversal challenges, enabling devices in diverse network environments to connect seamlessly and form a robust, flexible mesh network.

- Optimized for CGNAT Environments:

stunmesh-go is specifically tailored for Full Cone NAT. In such environments, it uses the STUN protocol to help devices correctly obtain their public IP addresses and establish Wireguard P2P connections without any relay server.

Example: Imagine two devices located in different telecom networks, each behind CGNAT. Traditional methods might struggle with the NAT restrictions. However, stunmesh-go uses the STUN protocol to determine their public addresses and, by utilizing the Full Cone NAT characteristics, allows these devices to communicate directly.

- Decentralized Network Architecture:

stunmesh-go leverages a decentralized design that eliminates the need for a VPN hub or centralized servers to relay traffic, enabling direct peer-to-peer connections. This not only enhances network fault tolerance and scalability but also helps save on significant data transfer costs typically associated with public cloud providers like AWS.

For instance: If one node temporarily goes offline, the remaining nodes can still communicate through the mesh network without a single point of failure disrupting the system.

- Ease of Use:

stunmesh-go doesn't require installing an additional WireGuard distribution (e.g. Tailscale/Headscale). Instead, you can directly use the WireGuard kernel module on Linux and the wireguard-go on macOS. This makes integration seamless, providing a consistent experience across different operating systems.

stunmesh-go has been successfully tested on both #VyOS Router and macOS platforms, further demonstrating its stable operation and cross-platform integration capabilities. In the project README, you can get the sample configuration to setup your VyOS with STUNMESH-go.

stunmesh-go is an excellent complement to #VyOS or #OpenWrt with 4G/5G modems for building flexible and efficient SD-WAN solutions. Leveraging its NAT traversal capabilities, you can easily integrate resources from diverse networks in Full Cone NAT (e.g., CGNAT) environments to achieve stable remote connectivity and dynamic routing, meeting modern enterprises’ demands for high reliability and network flexibility.

I believe this tool can empower you to build stable P2P or mesh networks in Full Cone NAT environments, such as those found in telecom CGNAT scenarios. If you’re interested in networking technologies, P2P connections, or distributed systems—and your use case meets the Full Cone NAT requirements—please check out the project and share your feedback!

Project: https://github.com/tjjh89017/stunmesh-go
You can download the pre-built binary in the release page,
or you can deploy it as containers from: `docker pull tjjh89017/stunmesh:latest`
The 11-year-old fan who pulled one-of-a-kind Skenes card
Yep at all levels. Chinese businesses planning their next 5 years may want to diversify away from US customers. US people voted for unhinged presidents is the clear message.
No, the US has been able to have a clean transfer of power without sending in random goons who won't identify themselves & who download key/secure OPM data onto random hard drives & leave with it.

This is all batshit insanity, an assault on democracy.
Here’s one - 90% of autistic teens w mood problems reported at least one trauma. 4x likelihood of having PTSD. Perhaps I exaggerated the totality but I do think the science is in on whether autistic people are more traumatized.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK573608/
Oracle has a very impressive and long-standing reputation truly unlike any other large company. The stories that people are sharing in the comments here are not all that different from the stuff I heard about them back in the 90s.
Interestingly running this in the console works but from a bookmarklet changes all the page content to false,false,false,.... (on firefox)

Any idea?
> OpenAI's new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set…

Sounds fishy to me
Retraction isn’t censorship, and bans on what you can publish at work as part of your job are not restraints on your individual right to free expression.
Subset of HN who are foes of open society working to enable these looters of open society.

The moderation system here is doing incredible damage beyond belief right now, is being exploited by the very worst to suppress exchange of ideas at a key time.
Show HN: I Built an AI to Auto-Write LinkedIn Posts
Hey HN,

I built an AI that automates LinkedIn content creation—from generating post ideas to writing full posts in seconds.

I started this because I saw how hard it is for people (including myself) to consistently post engaging content on LinkedIn. Whether you’re growing a personal brand, marketing a business, or just trying to stay active, writing good posts takes time.

This AI solves that by:
• Generating post ideas instantly
• Writing complete posts based on a topic or input
• Optimizing for LinkedIn’s algorithm (hooks, CTAs, hashtags, etc.)

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How It Works

1⃣ Enter a topic or let the AI suggest one
2⃣ Choose the tone & style
3⃣ Generate & refine your post
4⃣ Copy & share on LinkedIn

Why I Built This

I wanted to make content creation effortless. I noticed many AI tools generate posts, but they lack customization, scheduling, and engagement optimization.

Would love to hear your thoughts! What features would make this more useful for you?
Small claims court is, in many jurisdictions, quite friendly to small claimants suing large corporations for legitimate grievances. Procedurally they don’t reward having expensive legal teams, so all that having an expensive legal team does is cost you more in billable hours.
There's a big difference between word filters and this: this one has a chilling effect. The intent is to send a message, but that message is a threat.

If you are a spammer and get past the filters you win, if you get past the word filter here the thought police can still decide to punish you.

The more successful you are the more likely you are to be punished instead of being rewarded. It will require self-sacrifice to actually work on "dangerous" topics.
It is going to be pretty hard to beat the efficiency of phase-change heat pumps. And I hope it is more powerful than merely being able to keep a home fridge cool, because they already don't use all that much power unless it is absolutely ancient.

This is great stuff to research, but trying to market them for potentially slightly more efficient refrigerators seems like going for the highest fruit on the tree.
I’m excited to share this with HN! I built this tool to make LinkedIn posting effortless, but I know it’s not perfect yet. What’s missing? What would make this actually useful for you? Open to feedback!
Because they actually need to come home and have been in space far too long: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/nasas-suni...
This is going to be ranty. I felt this is the same question over and over again. And Tech is worst than Fast Fashion Industry.

C or Death? Lets replace C with Rust.

SQL or Death? Lets replace SQL with NoSQL and now back to SQL and to something else?

HTML or Death? Lets replace everything with JS client side rendering.

PDF? JPEG? AAC? H.264 / AVC? x86 / ARM [1]? Every single thing that is 10 - 20 years old are considered old fashioned and we need to rip them apart without learning about their merits and pitfalls they went through. And sometimes as Alan Kay said only to reinventing the flat tire.

How about Better C? Better SQL? Better JPEG? etc And most if not all the time it isn't the language or spec that is the problem. It is the implementation. I am willing to bet we wont even have an Open Source SQL implementation that is as good as today's Oracle or MS_SQL in 10 years time. There are still insane amount of work on implementation alone.

It seems the Tech industry as a whole is in an eternal philosophy battle of throwing away everything and build something new vs improving what we have today and iterating on it.

[1] A prominent Intel engineers once said by the time you learn everything about Hardware design pitfalls from GPU to CPU and different ISA and be ready to design something truly so much better you will be at the age of retirement. I think this sort of hold true in other areas as well.
Show HN: Posthyve: A New Social Media Management Tool
Hello everyone,
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What about contracting? Hourly rates? Employment?
I don’t know any serious person who could make these arguments without also acknowledging that premiums were increasing before the ACA. They typically won’t acknowledge that the rate of increase slowed down post ACA because then their entire argument falls apart.
> In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,” according to an email sent to CDC employees (see below).”

So yep, censorship. Any article that even _mentions_ LGBT (e.g. for epidemiological reasons) is now prohibited to be even referenced.
> But if the tariffs don’t actually cost the target anything

I don’t think anybody has suggested this.

Or, see my analogy; pulling a grenade pin in a moving car costs everybody.
What?? Not even close.
Thanks. Is there a PDF version? I kind of feel difficulty switching links.
Turbo Pascal was revolutionizing when they retailed it at USD 49.99 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
That's not true. The restriction applies only to scrutiny of the President himself -- his agents still can be prosecuted.
So these are related to the "Effective Altruism" far-right movement?

If so, I'm not surprised they've started killing.
Correct. I think the parent commenter is confusing a language's concrete syntax with its abstract syntax. At the end of the day, the ease (or lack there of) of translating an AST into performant executing code is highly correlated with the potential variance of those ASTs.

The more higher-level expressions your languages supports, the more work its compiler (whether targeting physical or virtual hardware) must do to translate those ASTs into "machine" code and the higher the variance of that code during its execution workload.

It's even more work when that language's expressions are declarative instead of imperative.
For my personal backup use, I actually use RAR with recovery records, optionally with encryption if it's sensitive. I was only using xz in places where I couldn't use RAR (e.g. for work), and those places tend to also have lzip available.
Trump ordered to Army Corps of Engineers to just start releasing water from dams, so they did. They them took the initiative upon themselves to stop when it became obvious continuing would just cause damage. Are you saying the Army corps should have waited for a case to make it's way through the supreme court?

Our government doesn't run top to bottom, that is how fascism/dictatorships work. Our executive branch executes laws/policy, Trump oversees that, not dictates. Trump does not give federal employees orders. He can only give orders to the military. We also don't go for the 'I was just following what I was told' excuse. In fact, we've executed a whole nations leadership for using that excuse in how they governed.
What else do we need to backup now before it's gone?
How does eliminating research that was already done make the government smaller?
The ones who want to confront reality even when it has unpleasant truths rather than believing comfortable lies.
Talk about winning a war without firing one shot at the enemy. The admiration, envy and emulation of totalitarian Chinese despotism in the U.S. must feel like a victory.
So the US government is cancelling federal research that uses terminology it doesn't like?

Isn't this sending an Unamerican view of freedom of thought and expression? And a very dictatorial view of the American government and institutions?

All future research must abide by whatever histrionic whim the president has? I could imagine this being news from Belarus
with mandatory minimum sentencing, judges have in many cases already been automated
I get the sentiment, but I actually think some skepticism in the system is healthy.

Billions are flowing towards LLMS, and Sam Altman will overpromise AGI is just around the corner and the days of jobs are gone to fill his coffers to anyone that will listen.

Additionally if we begin to use these things in real production environments where mistakes matters, knowing the exact limitations is key.

None of this takes away from the fact that these are exciting times.
Unsure why you'd be a condescending person about this. Why not?

MacBooks made great Linux machines for many years before the bad times started. And hopefully will again some day!

Microsoft for years tried to act like a good guy with Secure Boot standards that promised systems would remain general purpose computers. If Microsoft obeys it's own standards, that should be the case here too! If not, how can we expect other vendors to provide the general purpose computing systems Microsoft has promised to keep available, as they locked down the boot chain?
the term you're looking for is pascal's mugging, and it originates from within rationalism
Not sure what you're trying to say here. This person has opinions about package managers, but also shows lack of understanding of how they and the dependencies work. Small bits of that could be improved with a better documentation, but the rest... you just need to understand something before criticising it.
I'ts neat, but it's not that new and it has pretty limited use cases due to the poor surface quality, which albeit has improved from earlier wire-feed systems.

Norsk Titanium has been doing wire-feed 3D printing for many years, and is even delivering FAA certified parts made using a similar wire-feed deposition system and plasma arc as the power source. Looks like the laser gives you a higher resolution surface finish, but all those parts are going to still need machining on most of their critical surfaces for real world use anyway. You cannot tolerate a surface finish like that on a fatigue critical part. You also can't do dye penetrant or mag particle inspection on a surface like that without getting all kinds of spurious indications. Once you have the part clamped and indexed in the CNC to machine the bores and mounting features you might as well skim the whole thing.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/norsk-titanium-components-as_...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15256008/3d-printed-titan...

The carrot is that you get near-forging strength levels without having to buy a very expensive, very very long-lead closed-die titanium forging, or having buy an pretty expensive rectangular forged rectangular block of titanium and machining 90% of it away.

BTW that 3D printed lobed exhaust noise supressor is cute and all but that thing would fall to bits in hours if installed on a real jet aircraft.
Actually, you don't have to. Any first element would do, even if it's a random one.

It's perfectly possible to do `SELECT * FROM blah LIMIT 1`, after all.
Because that hasn't happened unlike Trumps actual crimes.

Using fiction to justify Trumps real corruption is ridiculous.
Welcome to the party pal.
Nice work! I’ve been thinking of taking on a similar project and would be curious what’s your experience like with latency? Can you view the video feed and control remotely? My main reservation is the presumption that it would be too laggy for obstacle avoidance at most speeds.
I just installed and tried. Pretty neat stuff!

Would be great if the addon allows user to override the sys prompt (it might need minor tweak when changing different server backend)?
Wait, do you think China is more accepting of LGBT ideology than the USA, even after this directive?
An Unconventional Plan for Fixing the Federal Budget
Trump is not exactly young. President Biden also hoped for a next term.
My specific issue is with moral responsibility, which I believe is out of one's control. (So for example I don't think developers are to morally blame for writing bad code.)
thank you for your input, gpt-4o with web search..
Foundation wasn't made to be part of the Swift project until recently. 25 years ago it was the "foundation" of Cocoa, the Mac OS X API derived from NEXTSTEP. It was an Apple platform thing explicitly—now it is remade in Swift and is part of the Swift project.
Show HN: I built a full mulimodal LLM by merging multiple models into one
Solving key challenges in AI-assisted code reviews
The entire “freedom” thing in the US has some pretty funky “terms and conditions apply”. I am not sure if anyone actually thinks they are more “free” than other first world countries.
"'He had a samurai sword stuck to his back with about a foot of it sticking out in front, his face cut up all over,' said his friend Patrick McMillan."

https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-held-in-death-of-fellow-squatt...
Registry Explorer
I noticed phillebaba using it during his Spegel talk at FOSDEM.
Is it even a con? I mean, these people straight up said what they were going to do if elected, and now they are doing it. I know there are some Trump voters who are now going, "uhh, I didn't think he actually meant all that", but c'mon.
I'm not sure you can fit a decent quant of R1 in digits, 128 GB of memory is not enough for 8 and I'm not sure of 4 but I have my doubts. So you might have to go for around 1, which has a significant quality loss.
Which ten regulations did they cut to introduce this anti-free speech one?
Yes there is another part of the community that overhypes everything. But I can expect that from a CEO of an AI company (especially if he is Altman), but from researches? Also the fact that LLMs may reach superhuman expertise in certain fields in a short timeframe (a few years), since reinforcement learning is starting to be applied to LLMs may no longer be a totally crazy position. If it is possible to extend considerably the same approach seen in R1-Zero there could be low hanging fruits around the corner.
Nukes for everyone yay! Hey Georgia is also under Russian threat, why don’t they also get a nuke or two? Then maybe their neighbor Armenia will think to themselves “why not me, I’m also under threat by an ex-Soviet country”? Then maybe Azerbaijan, then Turkey, then Saudi Arabia, everyone gets a nuke, I freaking love it! Then maybe other countries that got invaded by a bigger power like maybe Vietnam? Iraq? Why not!
If you want to use a distro then you accept the distro maintainers decisions on what's a dependency.

If you want to yolo it and let scripts run with root access from some random person, you can go use arch with the AUR