skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Freewrite Alpha last summer and which I'd gotten something like this instead. The Alpha's great in many ways, but has just enough aggravation that it makes me resent the thing a little:

* I have a model without a backlight, and the screen's all but invisible unless you're under a light. Wake up and think of something you want to write? Either turn on the lights, or hope it actually turned on when you hit the power button and that you're not typing on a powered-off device.

* Why, oh why, can it only remember 1 single Wi-Fi password? I write most of the time from home, but sometimes I like to go to a nearby coffee shop. If I connect it to the coffee shop's Wi-Fi, I have to manually re-enter my home password when I get back. I don't need it to remember thousands of networks, but maybe just the 3 or more most recent ones would cover the above cases, plus tethering to my phone.

I joined the BYOK[0] Kickstarter last year. I hope it turns into the device I hoped the Alpha would be.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/byok/byok-the-ultimate-...
>There is no intelligence here and Claude 3.7 cannot create anything novel.

I wouldn't be surprised if people would continue to deny the actual intelligence of these models even in a scenario where they were able to solve the Riemann hypothesis.

"Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'" - cit
hi! I've been working on demos where I let Claude Code run for hours at a time on a sandboxed project: https://x.com/ErikSchluntz/status/1894104265817284770

TLDR: asking claude to speed up my code once 1.8x'd perf, but putting it in a loop telling it to make it faster for 2 hours led to a 500x speedup!
The article specifically says that he had tech CEO's running the project.

The mistakes they made also seem pretty fundamental to farming; things like:

1. they didn't consider that a greenhouse designed for the desert wouldn't work in Hawaii

2. solar panels need to be installed differently depending on their location and never see the theoretical power generation in practice

3. immature/mature plants were growm right next to each other in a way that spread pests

4. they bought marijuana greenhouses without considering that it is grown so differently from other standard crops.

This is pretty basic stuff that should have been caught by someone with knowledge of agriculture. This seems to indicate that while they had a really smart team, they made the mistake of assuming that general AI/robotics would map 1:1 to the problems of agriculture.

The success rate of university research should have been the ultimate warning sign that you shouldn't dump half a billion into "solving agriculture." Progress in established fields like agriculture is expensive, time consuming, and (usually) incremental.

The thought that you could do all of that at once and outcompete an approach that has been refined for thousands of years is wild. Kudos to them for dreaming big, but I just don't see why they thought they had an edge here outside of "AI can solve any problem" hubris.
Claude 3.5 has been fantastic in Windsurf. However, it does cost credits. DeepSeek V3 is now available in Windsurf at zero credit cost, which was a major shift for the company. Great to have variable options either way.

I’d highly recommend anyone check out Windsurf’s Cascade feature for agentic-like code writing and exploration. It helped save me many hours in understanding new codebases and tracing data flows.
I feel like you're nitpicking. Intelligence is ALSO a broad term with no singular consensus on what it means or what it is.
Bit of a strawman, yea?
Copyrighted material is flung from one end of the Earth to the other from thousands of places and you want to single out a single entity? How's that 3rd grade education working for ya?
> Rich people didn’t feed the poor.

Al Capone's soup kitchens?
I was coming here to say this is a survival analysis problem, and thus a different branch of probability and statistics. However, you can also frame it as a stochastic process if you have extra epigenetic data that is associated to those 50 DNA loci or some genes they regulate.

For example, your DNA loci of interest could have a state (methylated or unmethylated). And you could come up with a stochastic process where death occurs when a function of methylation changes at those loci (e.g. a linear model) crosses a threshold (first passage in stochastic process jargon).

Omer Karin & Uri Alon have published a similar concept to explain how the decreased capacity of immune cells to remove senescent cells leads to a Gompertz-like law of longevity, something that originates from actuarial studies! Their model is simpler as they deal with a univariate problem [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13192-4
Design and Testing of a Wearable System for Monitoring Car Drivers
Scary to watch the pace of progress and how the whole industry is rapidly shifting.

I honestly didn’t believe things would speed up this much.
This is rather https://en.mwikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_modelling_(insuran...
it's been evolutionary for a long time. I fine-tuned a GPT-2 based chat bot that could form complete sentences back in like 2017

It's been so long that I'm not even certain which YEAR I set that up.
Pen and paper, thank me later.
pramp.com had peer interviews which was helpful just to start practicing coding fast while talking.

Then I did interviewing.io. I think I paid ~$500 for four interviewers from verified Big Tech companies (faangmula) or something like that.
Sometimes in another office building's lobby.
> ... each quarter is ~13 weeks ...

When I worked at Network Appliance (Q1 earnings call is August 27th), they used a strict 4-4-5 calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4–4–5_calendar

This meant that it wasn't "about" 13 weeks for each quarter, the quarter was defined as 13 weeks (91 days).
Which is exactly the number of days a week you plebs will work, and that is final.
EU Officially Begins Work on $11B Starlink Rival IRIS2, Eta 2030
My vague memory of it is that MS discontinued it because it detracted from their plans with MS Access on the low-end, and MS SQL Server on the high end. I think, maybe, that it may not have fit in with Visual Basic very well.
Show HN: From No CS Background to a Diet Tracking App
As a person who graduated from a business school, I've never taken any Computer Science classes. Before I got started, I doubted that I could even make this Diet-Tracking app. Hope you guys can give me some feedback about this app. Appreciate it!

Language: SwiftUI
Data and Authentication: Firebase

About this app:
You can track your daily calories, carbs, protein, and fat. You can add your food by meals and one tap to add yesterday log. It also supports custom food and saves favorite foods.

Some thoughts from this experience.

Start earlier: I spent half a year learning Storyboard. It turned out to be completely useless when I knew I could use SwiftUI.
Spend more time to find the correct API: I tried 3 different APIs and wasted too much time on the two that I don't use.
Design an MVP first: I had too many ideas when I was writing the UI part, but then I realized I couldn't finish the app if I built everything I wanted
Don't rely too much on ChatGPT: When you copy a lot of code at once from ChatGPT, it's very likely to crash

What I don't know:
No Idea how to advertise it: I couldn't even find the App if I only searched "Keto" in AppStore even though it's called "Keto Spell"
Some performance issues: It takes about 2 seconds to open the first food details view. Then it becomes normal to open the other views. It also takes 2 seconds to upload the image to Storage and send back the image URL to Firestore. I use a listener to update the UI. Usually, the loading time isn't that long when I use other apps. I have absolutely no idea about how to solve these issues

Please let me know what you think about this app or the tools I used. Thanks a lot!
I'm building a freemium browser extension (https://trashpandaextension.com/) that primarily removes "social metrics" (number of likes, subscribers, views, friends, etc. you see on websites) and sales tactics (20 people have this in their shopping cart, limited time offer, -78% sale!, etc.).

It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the ability to paste passwords.

The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it has a lot more development to get it where I want it.

Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension itself as well as advice on monetization.

https://trashpandaextension.com/
Haven't had time to try it out, but I've built myself a tool to tag my bookmarks and it uses 3.5 Haiku. Here is what it said about the official article content:

I apologize, but the URL and page description you provided appear to be fictional. There is no current announcement of a Claude 3.7 Sonnet model on Anthropic's website. The most recent Claude 3 models are Claude 3 Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, released in March 2024. I cannot generate a description for a non-existent product announcement.

I appreciate their stance on safety, but that still made me laugh.
This is exactly a use case a streaming processing like Timeplus excels, which help users do 20s streaming to dynamic table joins (imagine the hand side tables are dynamically updates) to denormalize data before the data lands in ClickHouse. This helps a lot for warehouse like ClickHouse to save the joins in them. Disclaimer, I am one of the Timepluer core engine engineer.
> How exactly would one "hoard" money these days

They buy real estate and sit on it. Since land taxes are so low, you can make money without actually doing anything with the land.
Technically everyone is a next token predictor. The only difference is how good the prediction is.
Where RL can play into post training there's something of an anti-moat. Maybe a "tow rope"?

Let's say OAI releases some great new model. The moment it becomes available via API, everyone else can make use of that model to create high-quality RL training data, which can then be used to make their models perform better.

The very act of making an AI model commercially available is the same act which allows your competitors to pull themselves closer to you.
Anyone else noticed all the reasoning models kinda catch up on claude and claude itself turned to crap last week?
The fundamental innovation is training the model to reason through reinforcement learning; you can train existing models with traces from these reasoning models to get you within the same ballpark, but taking it further requires you to do RL yourself.
Oh sorry! I recognized the description but since I recalled mine being a Google Sheets link, I just went straight into search mode - and yep, it actually took me a bit to find.
Claude 3.5 sonnet has been my go to for coding tasks, it’s just so much better than the others.

but I’ve tried using the api in production and had to drop it due to daily issues: https://status.anthropic.com/

compare to https://status.openai.com/

any idea when we’ll see some improvements in api availability or will the focus be more on the web version of claude?
> I prefer the traditional English pronunciation of Latin (so "caveat" is "kay-vee-it").

...That's not an example of the traditional English pronunciation of Latin. The traditional English pronunciation of Latin caveat would have /kæ/ (TRAP vowel) in the first syllable, not /keɪ/ (FACE vowel).

> when a vowel is followed by a single consonant (or by a cluster of p, t, c/k plus l, r) and then another vowel [...]

> [such a vowel bearing stress in any syllable other than the penultima] is closed and the vowel is short [unless the vowel is U].

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_English_pronunciat... )

/'ka.ʋɛ.at/ -> /'kæv.i.ət/
The coffee from the machine in the office is even worse.
i’m more for right to repair than not but i can see unintended consequences of things like iphones being bulkier and heavier if modular components like batteries are required in the broadest reach of the concept. these bills may be narrower and probably are. that’s the ultimate question though is how far the balance should be.
Hi Boris et al, can you comment on increased conversation lengths or limits through the UI? I didn't see that mentioned in the blog post, but it is a continued major concern of $20/month Claude.ai users. Is this an issue that should be fixed now or still waiting on a larger deployment via Amazon or something? If not now, when can users expect the conversation length limitations will be increased?
You’re missing the point. It’s not a simple ‘high taxes bad, low taxes good’ binary—it’s a spectrum. The U.S. has a tax structure that allows wealth to concentrate at the top while failing to enforce competition, which actually stifles innovation. Meanwhile, countries like Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Japan—despite having higher taxes—consistently drive innovation.

Germany leads in engineering and automotive tech (Siemens, BMW, Bosch). Sweden produces global tech giants like Spotify and Klarna. Denmark is a leader in renewable energy (Vestas, Ørsted). Japan? It revolutionized robotics, semiconductors, and high-speed rail while fostering companies like Toyota, Sony, and Nintendo.

The issue isn’t just tax rates—it’s whether a system allows new players to compete or just protects entrenched monopolies. The U.S. is increasingly choosing the latter.
OBD isn't enough anymore.
Some things are free (like 10Gb traffic), but storage for example is not. So you don't pay for the account, but you need to pay for usage.
Portfolio Investment Management and Tracking
6. Divest losing tens of billions in the industries where this strategy doesn’t work (see adtech, oracle data cloud - few billions in acquisitions just closed down
not even sold)

7. Doesn’t matter, still have billions to spare and can eat huge failures
Does it show the raw "reasoning" tokens or is it a summary?

Edit:
> we’ve decided to make its thought process visible in raw form.
I have never heard that as an explanation. That kind of credit is often expressed in foot/end notes, at least in the field I worked in. It is implied that the authors speak for themselves.
Where did 3.6 go?
I find this odd because that's exactly how I thought viruses worked when crossing species and I have no background that would lead me to that conclusion and have almost nothing in my life that would make me ponder such a thing.

I feel like someone explained this in the 80s to me.
Eh, to some extent - there's still a pretty significant cost to actually running inference for those models. For example, no consumer can run DeepSeek v3/r1 - that requires tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of dollars of hardware to run.

There's still room for other models, especially if they have different performance characteristics that make them suitable to run under consumer constraints. Mistral has been doing quite well here.
We built Claude Code with Claude Code!
I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon).

Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?
ffmpeg for audio? hmm.. here's what i use:

* wav -> mp3: lame

* anything -> wav: mplayer (or the specific format decoder if one bothers)

* resampling: sox, it does much better quality. But it does not do mp3, so wav > wav

have fun!
You can just look at the numbers. Percentage of GDP that is driven by government spending:

China: 33%

USA: 34%

Germany: 50%

Economically, modern Europe is more communist and exerts more centralized control than China. Might explain why the current class of European elites have presided over the greatest destruction of an industrial base since the Soviet Union.
For a simple version bump, I feel like brew is fine. Or do you have other tooling updates in mind?
nicely done, and while we on the topic of doomscrolling, maybe there's a surge of anti-doomscrolling trends coming soon? I know I built lessnews.dev to overcome my urge to mindlessly scroll HN all day.
A central control point that appears to coordinate multiple aspects of aging.
The second half of the sentence is a bit awkward, but the first bit is pretty clear: “We do not use your Workspace data”
Keep this in mind when manufacturers insist only "authorized" (by the manufacturer, not you, the alleged owner of the car or other device) mechanics may work on their cars. Take one guess what conditions will be placed on them, regarding how they may or may not alter the vehicle.
I've been working on digitizing my family genealogy. ~90 years ago, a book was published documenting my family's lineage in America. I've digitized part of it, used OCR to extract the text, and then used LLMs to format the data for integration into a family tree. I hope to publish the family tree and make it editable so that it's a living family tree that others can add to and keep up to date.
Awesome work, Claude is amazingly good at writing code that is pretty much plug and play.

Could you speak at all about potential IDE integrations? An integration into Jetbrains IDEs would be super useful - I imagine being able to highlight a bit of code and having a plugin check the code graph to see dependencies, tests etc that might be affected by a change.

Copying and pasting code constantly is starting to seem a bit primitive.
NATS does much more than pub/sub (with any fan out), it also does queueing in Core NATS (no persistence) and streaming including queuing over streams (with ack/nack/term). Don't be fooled into thinking NATS doesn't do queueing because it doesn't have a "Q" in the name :).
> I think the issue is that life is boring; most problems are solved. There's nothing to talk about. Why go learn guitar when AI can make a song for you?

Why learn piano 200 years ago? We would’ve been forgettable even back then.

Life and the mundane is interesting, most people can be loved in some platonic friendly sense. Doing so is an active skill society seems to have forgotten.

I was in a large extrovert group recently, talking to a new person over a drink… we got to talking about their grad school research, which didn’t pan out and which they’d largely moved on from in work… just 5-10 minutes on that and they were so excited and connected because “no one is ever interested”. Their boisterous group was just that, jokey chatty nothing, all noise no signal.

Another friend, just yesterday, we spent 20 minutes talking about ice cream over ice cream after 2hrs hanging out 1:1.

If someone doesn’t have something to talk about, they are either surrounded by bad friends, have some self-work to do, or they are a corpse.
Technically, everyone is just an ugly giant bag of mostly water.
I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an approach to observability based on the functional difference between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based on local knowledge, dovetails quite nicely. Living off the land: redis, python + dnspython + dpkt, DNS as both observable and transport.

The core components are on GitHub:

* https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo
* https://github.com/m3047/rear_view_rpz
* https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns

Not the first time I've referenced these on HN. I did just implement a Redis operator which Redis doesn't have, SHARDS:

* https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/blob/main/SHARDS_Command.md

No GUI, command line tools work for me. I've got a toolkit. I don't give it away because I don't want to support it but if you made friends and asked nicely I'd toss it your way. Here's a silly little two minutes of your life... done in one take, in Skype:

* https://www.zipcon.net/~m3047/observability-dream.mp4

I actually eat this dog food to the point where I publish (some) telemetry data on the internet with this toolkit using DNS. Again, make friends and I'll tell you where to find it. I think it would be great if other people ran this toolkit and published telemetry data for other edge operators to see: things can be federated, they don't need to be centralized.
When you ask: 'How many r's are in strawberry?'

Claude 3.7 Sonnet generates a response in a fun and cool way with React code and a preview in Artifacts

check out some examples:

[1]https://claude.ai/share/d565f5a8-136b-41a4-b365-bfb4f4400df5

[2]https://claude.ai/share/a817ac87-c98b-4ab0-8160-feefd7f798e8
The plural of calculus is calculi or calculuses. Calculare might be an autocorrection for a different language (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calculare), though given that the author has a Korean name, it’s more likely just a weird typo.
A self-contained little web server that supports Lua, HTTP/3, PostgreSQL and all sorts of different things:

https://github.com/xyproto/algernon

A snappy and configuration-free little editor/IDE for the terminal:

https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton
I hate the "not all" argument. It falsely accuses us of making a claim that all X has property Y. It falsely implies that we cannot comment about a feature unless we expand the comment to the universe of other features. The "didn't you know" barb ties in here, as it presupposed that we somehow agreed to this "must include all" rule and broke it.
If I submit something that's recently been submitted, HN just loads the prior submission. How do you avoid that?
Oh god that's genuinely way more amusing than I thought llm systems were capable of.
We are definitely aware of this (and working on it for the web UI), and that's why Claude Code goes directly through the API!
And any accidentally included classified details are logged where, exactly? :p
I don't get it either, it takes twenty minutes to burn a USB stick and run the installer. It takes me longer to remove the bloatware and set up my preferred settings on a proprietary OS than it does to install Linux nowadays, and that's been true for a decade at least now.

It's just not hard! It's not more work! And yet the meme about it being more trouble just. won't. die.

You people are supposed to be technologists! Why won't you spend 20 minutes of one time setup to get a better experience?

Not all hardware works? I don't see anybody complaining about having a limited set of hardware options when they buy Apple! Canonical maintains a list of fully compatible computers; just pick one, buy it, and you wind up with a computer just as easy to use as Mac OS but without the endless paper cuts of using a system that has no respect for you at all and thinks it knows better
Shining a spotlight on an issue is completely different than the issue already existing.
Pending regulatory FDA approval…

Surely they mean pending regulatory capture
My theory is that if aliens ever turn up in a ship, assuming it is visible, it will be a butt-ugly super optimized messy asymmetrical shape.
I think an argument could be reasonably made that the app layer is the only moat. It’s more likely Anthropic eventually has to acquire Cursor to cement a position here than they out-compete it. Where, why, what brand and what product customers swipe their credit cards for matters — a lot.
https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith
OpenAI should be worried as they products are weak
Working on improving my barista skills, although my latte art seems to have ground (sorry) to a halt at 'heart', which I guess is level 1.

Next I'd like to add a Pi into the espresso machine for some remote fun. A couple of the control panel pcb-pop-style? buttons are failing, and I thought it might be fun to try and control via a touch screen. I suspect I'll want some kind of timer on the machine side to ensure a safe/timely cut-off, but I haven't done anything like that since using a 555 a very long time ago. Maybe I'll just drive a relay from a digital Pi i/o pin, but suspect it is switching mains level V.