skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page.

If you have questions like this, you should be sending them to hn@ycombinator.com so we can actually see and answer them, not posting metathreads about it. (This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.) The only reason I found out about this thread is that a different user did email us.

It's all too easy to look at a limited set of datapoints and misinterpret what you're seeing. For example, some spam rings post legitimate (or legitimate-looking) submissions in order to cover for their spam. If you see a submission like that being auto-killed, you might well think "how can the moderators possibly be so heavy-handed" when in fact we're working hard to prevent spammers from taking over the site.

It's a constant struggle, like a cat-and-mouse game crossed with an arms race, and it's impossible to get the anti-abuse code perfect, so there will always be false positives. When you see those, you can help by vouching for them and/or by letting us know about them at hn@ycombinator.com so we can fix it. Many users do those things every day.
There's definitely a negative sentiment around "vibe coding" on HN. I remember a few days ago seeing a story [1] on the home page which immediately got downvoted/flagged.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43231978
> There are a lot of people working on coordination though

Where? Genuinely curious.
Interestingly I’m currently going through and scanning the hundreds of journal papers my grandfather authored in medicine and thinking through what to do about graphs. I was expecting to do some form of multiphase agent based generation of LaTeX or SVG rather than a verbal summary of the graphs. At least in his generation of authorship his papers clearly explained the graphs already. I was pretty excited to see your post naturally but when I looked at the examples what I saw was, effectively, a more verbose form of

``` ![img-0.jpeg](img-0.jpeg) ```

I’m assuming this is partially because your use case is targeting RAG under various assumptions bur also partially because multimodal models aren’t near what I would need to be successful with?
is there some metaphor i’m missing or is it just funny?
Vibe coding is fun until you need vibe debugging
Tens of thousands of innocent people have been murdered by Israel. That's not in question. There are plenty of pictures and videos of handcuffed people murdered, people buried by tanks, innocent children being shot. None of that is in question.
> Where do you observe the promotion of the absurd narrative that says that the rich are better humans?

This is kind of like asking where one observes the promotion of the absurd narrative that white people are better people. It's rare to get an explicit source, but you have to benefit from it or be willfully blind to it not to believe it's there.

For one example of a reasonably explicit source, a very loud voice in the US agreed that those who benefits from government services are "the parasite class" (https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-musk-reposted-meme-120...). Leaving, therefore, only the wealthy, who (so the narrative goes) impose no burden on others, to be the virtuous, non-parasitic class.
Swift developers.
CNN might have some shitposting, but I don't think it's "known" for shitposting. I think most people consider it a "news" organization, though I'm sure how "good" of a news organization it is depends largely on your politics.
Its killer feature was how frictionless it was to adopt initially. If I sent you a Discord link, back then you could just click it and be going in under a minute.

Same reason Zoom quickly took over video chat. It was so easy to use that you didn't have to convince your friends to sign up for it, you just sent them a link and it just worked.
I mean, short answer is that of course they're absolutely useful if you sit behind security firewalls. Is that not enough?
Vibe-Coded Games
Sorry missed it.
The reason for that is because you can fuck off with the persistent harassment of those who come to get abortions, including by "praying", that is, hanging around near the clinic trying to guilt-trip pregnant women. You're completely free to fuck the fuck off away from the area and bow your head disapprovingly. You're also free to think whatever you like inside the designated safe zone so long as you're not being demonstrative about it. Anyone who's deliberately come near to the clinic in order to visibly pray is picketing it. Having a grievance about this as if it was thought policing is dishonest.
I barely have the mental energy to do my job.

Spending the time and effort to do the SECOND job, after my first one is just a mathematical impossibility. I don't have any gas left in the tank.

It has been like this since last October. My life is just a fucking chaos firepit and there is no way out of this reactive hellscape
What's a good alternative? Google BigQuery?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcyYnUHVBA
The Balfour Declaration and Nakba are things you desperately need to read up on.
Edit: Updated the question with this link for those who don’t know what “vibe coding” is.
This is a good idea. We should publish a benchmark results/comparison.
This isn't quite the "gotcha" that a lot of folks think it is, and I say this as someone polticaly far to the left of the US Democratic Party.

Consider the closing down of public pools when they started desegregating them. It might seem like a loss (and I agree that it is), but if you feel you're insulated from the effects then it's not a problem so much as a bad thing that you're happy is happening to other, undeserving people.

And a lot of folks are either materially in a position where they aren't super impacted by that kind of thing (they can build their own pools) or they are so far into a fantasy about aspiring to be that kind of person that they don't see themselves as impacted.

At the same time, while I total understand the ire at that voting bloc (they are no friends of mine), I do have a lot of poor friends in red states and it's been very hard to muster any enjoyment of watching folks who live under highly authoritarian systems (often gerrymandered to the point of intractability) get some imaginary "comeuppance".

Consider that "if you feel you're insulated from the effects [because you live in a blue state] then it's not a problem so much as a bad thing that you're happy is happening to other, undeserving people."
If you have a judge system, and Mistral performs well on other tests, wouldn't you want to include it so if it scores the highest by your judges ranking it would select the most accurate result? Or are you saying that mistral's image markdown would score higher on your judge score?
You two have both missed, or chosen to talk yourself out of, the reality that the rich really are the root problem.
Yep, it does that. I have 64 GB and was actually running 40 GB of other stuff.
I saw CSAM on their once like seventeen years ago, reported it, and it was removed pretty quickly. I've been fortunate enough to not see it again.
Rayhunter – Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot
IDK about never in their life, but I have in-laws who got a sympathetic doctor to declare them permanently disabled around the time of the 2008 financial crisis, at which point their lack of education and skills had rendered them unemployable.
> Reach out to your friends (even distant ones) and professional network - that's where all the good jobs are.

This is the part of the social / career collapse that is the most painful and probably largest roadblock I have. Once you lose connections it's really hard to find new ones when you are seen as "why don't you have any OTHER friends?"

I don't know how to tell people that I have nobody else without sounding pathetic. Nobody wants to get my loser failure filth on them, they are all afraid they will be associated with me and nobody wants that. It's why my wife left me.
Looks good but in the first hover/slider demo one can see how it could lead to confusion when handling side by side content.

Table 1 is referred to in section `2 Architectural details` but before `2.1 Multimodal Decoder`. In the generated markdown though it is below the latter section, as if it was in/part of that section.

Of course I am nitpicking here but just the first thing I noticed.
See [1]

1. https://forum.cktn.de/t/hacker-news-has-a-duplicate-submissi...
God forbid someone just enjoys engaging more of their body in the act of driving. What's next, pillorying retro-computing enthusiasts and accusing them of arrested development because no one legitimately enjoys old & slow computers?
Yeah no worries, I was wondering why the threads didn't show up and found the bot profile where it said it's actually the first weekday of the month, so it's all good.
Great idea. I was thinking of something similar after 9/11. Install explosives on all commercial airliners and have them automatically detonate and destroy the plane if it gets too close to a building where it isn't supposed to be. It's foolproof!
I'd travel the world, taking in diverse centers of culture, history, and nature. I'd try to learn new languages. I'd do more track days, karting, and Ultimate. I'd buy a shell and try to get back into rowing. I'd play more computer games. I'd play ping-pong, foosball, and board games with my kids. I'd coach kids' sports. I'd go to more plays and concerts. Even movies. I'd volunteer.

Of course I wouldn't do ALL of that, since even without work there are only so many hours in the day. But I certainly wouldn't want for things to do!
GM also claimed that with the (I think) C7 corvette. “Encrypted” PCM programming meant it wasn’t possible to reflash, you could only go piggyback, or full standalone (or engine swap obviously) but you’d lose connectivity with a bunch of other modules. Got worked around relatively quickly, but still.
Apples to oranges. It's along the lines of "if you're trying to get around the track fast, why not just use a motorcycle? It's superior in every way." Technically, yes, you will put down faster times on a bike. But it's not the same thing.

Likewise, stick shift vs autotragic is just not the same thing.
One of the pointless games of musical chairs at my last job was migrating to OpsGenie.

The amount of opportunity costs that racked up nearly killed them.
>I currently have English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian spam regularly in my mailboxes. They all started after I visited respected countries, and continue since I still visit them semi-regularly.

It's far more likely your email addresses are getting leaked by airlines/hotels (or basically anyone you gave your email to during your travel) than random apps selling your location to data brokers, data brokers being competent enough link those locations back to your email, but somehow too incompetent to know that being in France for a month doesn't mean you're interested in buying French car insurance. The latter isn't impossible, but occam's razor says we should favor the more straightforward explanation.
6.6%, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palest...

Also note, from the same page:

> The purchase of land was often accompanied by the eviction of the Arab tenants.

> When it came to the national aspirations of the Zionist movement, the Ottoman Empire opposed the idea of Jewish self-rule in Palestine, fearing it might lose control of Palestine after recently having lost other territories to various European powers.

> In 1881 the Ottoman governmental administration (the Sublime Porte) decreed that foreign Jews could immigrate to and settle anywhere within the Ottoman Empire, except in Palestine and from 1882 until their defeat in 1918, the Ottomans continuously restricted Jewish immigration and land purchases in Palestine.
I agree with everything you said, except your last sentence.

As a parent, and as a gun owner, I'm fine with there being gun control that leads to no more school shootings. And no, you can't depend on a "good guy with a gun" (Uvalde, Parkland). I don't know what the solution is, to be honest, but other countries don't have the school shooting problem the US has.
Can you expand a bit on the kinds of things you are doing in operators and controllers? I've been wary to put to much in the cluster... but maybe I should be doing more.
> You need to spend lots of time around good people. You need a job that gives you daily positive social connection. You need to actively look for that.

Trying to find this has been one of the most frustrating experiences of my life. Losing everything, having my idea of what friendship and love can be shattered without any closure or explanation.

I just can't make friends anymore. It's like trying to walk on a broken leg. I can find new acquaintances but making any meaningful connections with people I can depend on is literally fucking impossible for me right now. I am having panic attacks and nervous breakdowns about it.

I don't know how to get out of this cycle. I don't think it's possible. I think I am so damaged that I just need to live without my needs being met. It's the only way forward but it seems so wrong and painful.
One was killed because the account was banned for being part of a spam ring.

One was killed because the account, while not banned, is breaking this guideline: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

One was killed because the site is banned on HN (in this case, because it has been the source of too many low-quality posts and too much promotional behavior).

Two look like false positives by spam filters, though it's not so easy to be sure. I've unkilled those now:

Show HN: I made an AI platform that combines GPT-4o, Claude, DeepSeek and more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278331

Benchmark on Multi-Embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278119
https://github.com/cmu-pasta/fray

Fray is a controlled concurrency testing tool for the JVM that supports record and replay. It could be a perfect backend for codetracer. (I'm the author of Fray)
How do you know someone is a European? They think therapy and mental health issues are a silly American "trendy" fixation.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283931
> I don’t agree with this at all.

Are you actually saying that nobody exists who learns better when taught in the best ways we currently know how to teach, and in the way all formal education currently works? That everyone is better off teaching themselves with no help?

You are disagreeing if and only if this is what you are saying.
Unfortunately the sort of exponential advance of technology we imagined through Star Trek seems to have been overoptimistic. If humans ever leave the solar system it'll be on something like a generational ship, or in some kind of freezedried/informational form where we're reconstituted much later at our destination.
This is cool! With that said for anyone looking to use this in RAG, the downside to specialized models instead of general VLMs is you can't easily tune it to your use specific case. So for example, we use Gemini to add very specific alt text to images in the extracted Markdown. It's also 2 - 3X the cost of Gemini Flash - hopefully the increased performance is significant.

Regardless excited to see more and more competition in the space.

Wrote an article on it: https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2-tips
And I'm saying that anybody who claims Japan, South Korea or even Singapore isn't civilized is being absurd. Their own country is almost certainly more dangerous than those, there are very few countries with lower intentional homicide rates than those three.
I’m doing this personally for my own project - essentially building an agent graph that starts with the image output, orients and cleans, does a first pass with tesseract LSTM best models to create PDF/HOCR/Alto, then pass to other LLMs and models based on their strengths to further refine towards markdown and latex. My goal is less about RAG database population but about preserving in a non manually typeset form the structure and data and analysis, and there seems to be pretty limited tooling out there since the goal generally seems to be the obviously immediately commercial goal of producing RAG amenable forms that defer the “heavy” side of chart / graphic / tabular reproduction to a future time.
Could you write your comment in a Scottish accent, please?
This just tells you who is most likely to be caught.
I don't think Discord has anymore shady activities than any other large scale social media platform. When I helped moderate a very large server, we had access to Discord Trust and Safety team and they were trying against what is a massive flood. Automated moderation is extremely difficult even with all AI tools unless you 100% block any NSFW content and sexual messaging and even then, you will get false positives.

I do find it interesting that we hold these platforms liable but not the phone/pager/mail service. If this doctor had called this girl on her cell phone, no one would be mad at Verizon.

Part of the problem is most parents have no clue about social media/communication tools outside what they use. At my church, I gave presentation about Discord and it was shocking to see how clueless parents were.
Blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258620
Possibly! But I’ve recently wanted to dabble with computer vision, so I’d be looking at a project like this as a way to scratch a specific itch. Again, not OP so I don’t know what their priorities are, but just offering one angle for why one might choose a less “optimal” approach.
> First step is to find someone trusted who can support you. Whether it's a friend, family member or a professional. If they aren't available, a local support group. And if that isn't available, find a pro bono service online. You need someone checking in with you and helping you put a plan together over the next few months.

If I could get this I wouldn't have made this post.

This is a reminder to everyone else that there are good, hardworking people falling through the cracks. Because nobody cares. You can do all the shit but if nobody cares about you, you will NEVER get your needs met. Ever. Once society sees that you have been rejected it's impossible to remove the black stain on your social standing. It doesn't matter if it's justified or reasonable, once the smear occurs you are done.
That’s mostly the AP1 with the 9,0000 rpm rev limit.

Wanna know how I _handle_ it? I check the oil before I drive it and top it up. Perhaps I could swap retainers and banjo bolts but I’m lazy and checking the oil is easy. I pop the hood when I pull into my garage to remind me to check the oil before racing off.
Discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406145
>13h should work on anything

You misinterpreted what he wrote. He wasn't saying that mode 13h didn't work; he meant that the optimizations in the mode 13h path of the executable weren't as good as the Mode Y path. It's the optimization that didn't work, not mode 13h itself.
Indeed. Modern LLM research is more about large-scale systems design than deriving gradients by hand. Math matters, but systems win.
I just released a JS/TS/Python time travel debugger that overlays variable values on top of vscode. It's just a npm or pip install and VsCode extension so it might be easier to use for you: https://github.com/dedale-dev/ariana
I'm also planning to add MCP integration today actually!
The term "vibe coding" is not a known term for anyone outside of the terminally online AI hypebubble, so a link to a definition is helpful.
I use AI every day while coding. I love it.

And hey, I get both Techcrunch and YC need clickbaity, hyperbolic PR, but guys, don't jump the shark on this.

95%? I wish! Either they have access to some seriously next NeXt NEXT gen stuff, or this is pure nonsense, exaggerated by at least half an order of magnitude.
I don't think that would be economical on the back, not to mention airflow issues. Framework seemingly came to the same conclusion.

Also, was hard to see--there are more than six ports on the back. There's plenty of ports, many usbc and usba, which can be daisy chained.
We need to update the examples on the front page. Currently for things that are considered charts/graphs/figures we convert to a description. For things like logos or images we do an image tag. You can also choose to exclude them.

The difference with this is that it took the entire page as an image tag (it's just a table of text in my document). rather than being more selective.

I do like that they give you coordinates for the images though, we need to do something like that.

Give the actual tool a try. Would love to get your feedback for that use case. It gives you 100 free credits initially but if you email me (ali@doctly.ai), I can give you an extra 500 (goes for anyone else here also)
Likely true.
My goto library for succinct data structures is SDSL-Lite [0].

[0] https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite
Yeah that's kind of what I was getting at.

Who knows what kind of weird mathematical or scientific things have been discovered by hobbyists and posted on some obscure forum thread or abandoned blog that wasn't appreciated by anyone?

Like, if someone had a proof for the Goldbach Conjecture, and for whatever reason posted about it on the WatchUSeek forums (just as a throwaway example), it could just lay dormant for who knows how long? The audience on WatchUSeek might not realize the significance of a such a discovery, and maybe not even the poster, so it doesn't get any recognition and just never gets picked up.

I mean, going with the example in the original post, I don't know much about Superpermutations (only a little after this post went viral), so if I had seen this 4chan post in the wild, I would just assume it's some guy doing a bit of math that I wasn't familiar with. I wouldn't be able to spot that this was actually a contribution to anything.