skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way I am glad that C++ has become such an unholy mess, as it means there will probably always be employment available for those of us whose careers have grown along with it, but I really don't want to spend the rest of my career pigeonholed into legacy maintenance work. I am glad to work for a company which uses both C++ and Rust, so I have opportunities to develop experience with the latter.
For starters: I agree with you.

The guidelines for Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) state that they don't want "political" topics posted here, and prefer topics that "good hackers find interesting" and that foster constructive discourse.

These topics do tend to create a lot of low-signal posts and I think there's a certain contingent of HN users who flag for that reason. I think there are also a contingent of users who flag these topics because they are, to put it bluntly, trying to censor them for ideological reasons.

The latter group is beyond help. The former I think would do well to wake up to the state of the world and use the considerable reach of HN to wake others up.

"Good hackers" will be having considerably less interesting conversations under an authoritarian regime, and by that point it'll be too late.
Staging is an extra concept that adds complexity. Jujutsu shows you can achieve all the power of a staging area with strictly fewer concepts.
>"Netflix's prices went up!" "The store wanted me to pay for my groceries and wouldn't just let me walk out with them!" "I smashed my neighbor's car with a bat and now the judge says I have to pay for it." These things are not "literally" theft.

But who is saying they are? I certainly am not. I agree those things arent literally theft. I think the government deciding how much money you owe and getting it with or without your consent basically is theft. The main distinction is that its legal, but that is a coincidental distinction because theft could be made legal as well.
Oh. Not again that german ideas!
Others including Tesla [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2025/03/04/tesla-brings-back-0-loans-to-...
Another - adjacent time zones in the US only ever differ by one hour. When we transition to standard time they're both the same for 1 hour, and when we transition to daylight saving time they differ by 2 hours for 1 hour. Those are also the days you have 25 hours and 23 hours in the day.
AI is the media's chance to reinvent itself
sounds good in theory, maybe not in practice
Defuddle, an open source library to replace Mozilla's Readability
We published this benchmark the other week. We'll can update and run with Mistral today!

https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark
We’ll just stick LLM Gateway LLM in front of all the specialized LLMs. MicroLLMs Architecture.
Land of the free and the home of the brave, huh?
AI is expensive so no surprise
Pretty cool, would love to use this with paperless, but I just can't bring myself to send a photo of all my documents to a third party, especially legal and sensitive documents, which is what I use Paperless for.

Because of that I'm stuck with crappy vision on Ollama (Thanks to AMDs crappy ROCm support for Vllm)
Some 12yos think Jesus is just like Santa. They think this amazing analogy exposes all of society to be idiots. Everyone else is indoctrinated. But not them.
Ohhh. Gonna test it out with some 100+ year old scribbles :)
https://archive.ph/zNv9g
It was always a stiff ride, but maybe the Fast & Furious generation only saw the cars and didn't drive the R-34 and R-33.

All good though, GT-R deserves the love for the fun it has, like the time it was banned from a racing series for winning too much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Australian_Touring_Car_se...
What if AI could rapidly develop hypersonic interception technology?

That doesn't seem unreasonable.
1. There’s no simple page / sandbox to upload images and try it. Fine, I’ll code it up.

2. “Explore the Mistral AI APIs” (https://docs.mistral.ai) links to all apis except OCR.

3. The docs on the api params refer to document chunking and image chunking but no details on how their chunking works?

So much unnecessary friction smh.
Absolutely. Information can no longer be retrieved via internet search. Discord and Slack are effectively silos.
I think that's an eternal mystery, if there was in fact an unidentified co-conspirator. Elohim City is a convenient place for conspiracies to coalesce, but there's a lack of hard evidence as opposed to "well, it would make sense."
> Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent...

That is true. Especially these days, even in London.

But England completely dominates the politics of the UK.

FWIIW this sounds English to me. They bought us the Magna Carta that made Kings subject to law, but they have never been free.
If it only works per-client, then it almost doesn't exist. That's one of Discord's strengths.
> Obviously I'm not including the original cost of the equipment and installation

The costs of this equipment get amortized for the duration of the equipment's useful life, so you can't just throw that away. Even if we do though, $10 is still too low of an estimate. For sake of argument, let's assume there was one guy running the entire network, part time, for half an hour per day. He will at minimum be making $30 an hour, add another %25 on top of that to account for overhead costs, so $37.50. $37.50 / 2 = $18.75. We're already over your threshold.

If other estimates that this equipment is in the realm of $200,000 per node to set up (that's presumably not just the cost of the server and other equipment but also the cost of delivering the equipment and standing it all up in the embassy), assuming 100 nodes you're talking about a $200,000,000 program just in capital costs. Amortized over a 10 year life span, assuming linear depreciation, the amortization costs alone are $3,650 per day, and that isn't including maintenance.
Most makes have a leading model that exemplifies a lot of the qualities that the other vehicles are inspired by. Doesn't have to be high volume to be successful.
Or worse, “UK government requires the App Store version to be backdoored”.
LLM based OCR is a disaster, great potential for hallucinations and no estimate of confidence. Results might seem promising but you’ll always be wondering.
Is something that's just wrong the same as a joke?

Anyway London accents don't go "oi". This is a Birmingham accent. London accents go "ah".
It also could be engineered maintenance.
Does it have persistent voice channels with simple app/game streaming for free?
I did it because the original title was too long. However, it’s not unusual for news headlines to omit conjunctions, articles, etc. It can definitely sound odd if you’re not a native speaker.
Exercise goes a long way to keep up energy levels after work.
It's likely that the production car will be called ID.1.
You'll be happier finding a replacement meter that has an interface to monitor it directly or a second meter. An old phone and OCR will be very brittle.
When I'm reading an article like this (and the follow-up), I need to remind myself that (Free)BSD cannot be blamed for its most rabid "evangelists".
Indeed ISDN was amazing for its time but Ma Bell and her successor ILECs were way too proud of it so in the end it went nowhere and never made them all that much money.

If they had gotten out of their own way when the internet came around they could have charged a small monthly fee to upgrade to a "digital phone line". Lots of people would have switched.
Lots of great black and white options in laser printing. Even Laser LED printers (okidata, etc) are good bang for the buck.
50 Years in Filesystems: 1984
Interesting. But no mistral on it yet?
>he was informant to cover his ass, and run to attempts to play all sides.

I mean, it's not as though other mafiosi turn informant because they yearn for justice...
People do. Americans come out well ahead on disposable income.

You keep comparing the US to Switzerland, which is a giant outlier in Europe and probably the most like the US in many ways (as you pointed out), when you should be comparing it to France, Germany, and all the other larger EU states with a stagnant economy and populations that have gotten substantially poorer relative to the US over the last 20+ years.

Also, because healthcare in the US is such a disaster, we do pay about what many other countries pay for socialized medicine via taxes, and then basically everyone under 65 (aka the people who cost way less to insure) have to pay for it again in the private sector.

If we could get that under control, there would be no competition economically.
When you are building a product or tool, it is very important to start with the vision of how users should interact with it first, and then figure out backwards how to achieve that vision. You don't have to treat it like magic, but learning how it works should be a bonus and not a requirement.
It's annoying UX, but unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that the alternative is worse. When channels are opt-in, it makes discoverability effectively infeasible in practice. This is what the Element clients that I've seen do (following the IRC convention), and it just means that everyone clusters in the default channel and the others all wither on the vine.

That said, maybe there's a middle ground. If a server could mark, say up to 20 channels as default/opt-out, and the rest as backrooms/opt-in, that might suffice for 80% of servers while avoiding the long-tail worst-case UX of manually muting 100 channels in a server because there's only one you care about.
I would pick Rust for 9/10 of problems today.
Discord's UX is a testament to the fact that people will learn complex systems if they believe all parts of the system are valuable. This is the same truth as, for example, spreadsheet software.

The only thing "bad UX" means anymore is that you have parts of your app that people don't find valuable, and you're showing it to them anyway.
What you classify as a problem is exactly why Discord was a smashing success.
The banks treated the dollar coin purchases as cash orders after being made aware of them (and the U.S. Mint soon changed to recording the purchases as cash advances themselves so it wasn't dependent on the banks). So, while the original story may have been that the guy thought he got away with an essentially free bunch of airline miles, in reality he got stuck with cash advance fees for several hundred thousand dollars of cash advances (assuming that part was true).

Plus, depositing several hundred thousands of dollars of cash with the bank would have triggered all sorts of mandatory reporting of the kind that usually ends up with the DEA getting involved. Kind of weird that nobody mentioned having to deal with a absolute shit ton of extra paperwork to make this "hack" viable.

But the little guy not getting away with the exploit doesn't make for a great story. It's like the infamous Hot Coffee story; people only share part of the story because they want to believe it but reality paints a very different picture. (In the Hot Coffee case, it's generally described as a the reason that tort reform is needed, but the reality is that the plaintiff suffered 3rd degree burns and only asked for $20k to cover her medical damages; McDs was the one that fought back and their own lawyers were responsible for accidentally proving that her damages were significantly higher than the amount she had asked for.)
I've turned the title into a question so it can be consistent with the information in the comments.

(Submitted title was "Tell HN: DuckDuckGo shares users IP with Microsoft")
I think healthy criticism is ultimately beneficial, whereas blind denial is not.
> It takes images and PDFs as input

If you are working with PDF, I would suggest a hybrid process.

It is feasible to extract information with 100% accuracy from PDFs that were generated using the mappable acrofields approach. In many domains, you have a fixed set of forms you need to process and this can be leveraged to build a custom tool for extracting the data.

Only if the PDFs are unknown or were created by way of a cellphone camera, multifunction office device, etc should you need to reach for OCR.

The moment you need to use this kind of technology you are in a completely different regime of what the business will (should) tolerate.
I would like to see how it performs with massively warped and skewed scanned text images, basically a scanned image where the text lines are wavy as opposed as straight horizontal, where the letters are elongated. One where the line widths are different depending on the position on the scanned image. I once had to deal with such a task that somebody gave me with OCR software, Acrobat, and other tools could not decode the mess so I had to recreate the 30 pages myself, manually. Not a fun thing to do but that is a real use case.
Not true! Look at toyota, yaris, corolla! Even rumors of celica and mr2 making a come back
I don't necessarily agree that better products sell the best. Better marketing, better sales, that's the capitalism I know, and European companies would do well to cash in on this generational marketing opportunity.
> Has anyone tried this on specialized domains like medical or legal documents?

I’ll try it on a whole bunch of scientific papers ASAP. Quite excited about this.
The hard ones are things like contracts, leases, and financial documents which 1) don’t have a common format 2) are filled with numbers proper nouns and addresses which it’s really important not to mess up 3) cannot be inferred from context.

Typical OCR pipeline would be to pass the doc through a character-level OCR system then correct errors with a statistical model like an LLM. An LLM can help correct “crodit card” to “credit card” but it cannot correct names or numbers. It’s really bad if it replaces a 7 with a 2.
The real loss for the internet is the puritan approach to federation and decentralization. It's either that or app-centric solutions like matrix. Even forums weren't discoverable easily. I'll say this, matrix really has the right idea, it just does too much too fast. An SRV DNS record indicating your matrix server should be enough, then browsers should auto-discover the 'matrix' for the website, and via matrix you can comment on a site, leave reviews, chat with visitors, post forum-style,etc..

But as I mentioned in another comment, what's more important is how easy it is to administer and setup. The experience for site/community owners is the critical factor for adaption.
What do you mean by "free"? Using the OpenAI vision API, for example, for OCR is quite a bit more expensive than $1/1k pages.
If it’s a video, sharing a few frames can help as well
It's probably the Salesforce approach, which is letting product sellers drive architecture, which is always "This one customer needs this thing exactly like this" => now there's n+1 flavors of the product.
I think some humans will be doing it well enough to keep themselves afloat the rest of our lifetime, and some will get fabulously rich building products as a one-man operation leveraging AIs. But there will be far more people failing at it. It will be like Youtube creators or Instagram influencers where there are few winners who take virtually all the rewards.
Perusing the web site, it's depressing how much behind Mistral is on basic "how can I make this a compelling hook for customers" for the page.

The notebook link? An ACL'd doc

The examples don't even include a small text-to-markdown sample.

The before/after slider is cute, but useless - SxS is a much better way to compare.

Trying it in "Le Chat" requires a login.

It's like an example of "how can we implement maximum loss across our entire funnel". (I have no doubt the underlying tech does well, but... damn, why do you make it so hard to actually see it, Mistral?)

If anybody tried it and has shareable examples - can you post a link? Also, anybody tried it with handwriting yet?
What if it fails to mention a critically important piece of info? Would your company be liable or would I as a physician have be liable for its mistake?
This article looks like being generated with the LLM model.
> So you have the chance to redesign Discord and you decide to stick with design that appeals to normal humans rather than turbonerds? Interesting.
So, VW had the eGolf and the eUp. They looked so similar to their petrol siblings that most people ended up thinking that the id.3/4 was VW's first electric car. Meanwhile, everyone knew about, say, the BMW i3 and the Nissan Leaf and the gratuitously weird Hyundai Iconiqs.

At least slightly weird-looking electric cars seems to be what the market _wants_.
hence my comment about privacy and need for legislation :)

It isn't the tech that's the problem but the people that will abuse it.
I couldn't say. Note that the WRP kind of renders in an actual old browser on the local system, so latency will be different there.
What was life in Chicago like in 2000?
Discord search won't even surface partial word matches or typos or matches in URLs (eg you share a facebook.com link then later on you search for "facebook", it won't show you that post).

Maybe there are some secret incantations I don't know about, but Discord search is positively useless most of the time and I have to manually scroll up until I find what I want (or give up).
Is this burying the lede? OCR is a solved problem, but structuring document data from scans isn't.
and a license to program a computer
Show HNs are for things that can be tried out, not for signup forms.
I have many years of professional experience building source control systems. I almost certainly know more about Git's internals than you do.

Git exposes a great deal of unnecessary complexity. Any honest appraisal would recognize that.

Look at Jujutsu. That is a tool that is truly designed putting the user first, rather than just exposing the internals as the user interface and calling it a day.
Has anyone tried it for handwriting?

So far Gemini is the only model I can get decent output from for a particular hard handwriting task
Also interesting to see that parts of the training infrastructure to create frontier models is itself being monetized.
The Star Trek future does seem out of reach. On the other hand canonically they only got to fully automated luxury space communism after fighting a global nuclear war against eugenisists.
Yet, that isn't engagement at all.

Here's a likely bad parallel (well, maybe not so).

The "safety" on a Glock pistol is a little lever on the trigger itself. You squeeze and it unlocks, squeeze some more and it fires. In other words, it has no safety. A five year old can accidentally fire a Glock. On a normal firearm it's a little lever on the side that you have to rotate. Without that, the trigger does nothing.

This idea that users are "engaging" on FBM is just as fake as Glock saying they have a safety.

Weird parallel, I know. It's what came to mind because that's one of my all-time favorite stupid designs to point out.
The best kind for reading on that conference call you have no idea why you were invited to! I mean yeah, I agree.
the stegotech, a mythical beast that, unlike the BOFH, will not bite the hand that submits a support ticket
Excellent. I am looking forward to it.
No (nor is it open-weights).
Cognitive Behavior Therapy can help with a wide range of issues. If there are worries that are not productive for you, that you can't get out of your head, a therapist can teach you how to use some basic tools to control that. And you'll probably only need a few visits. You can also read books, but given what you've stated I think you should start with a human.

My son went to a few sessions and completely got his OCD under control. He doesn't have to go anymore. I used similar technique to quit smoking 30 years ago after at least a half-dozen serious tries by other means failed. Still off them. It applies to all kinds of issues though, its also very effective for depression. According to the literature studies I did twenty years ago, it was the only technique that actually showed sustained benefit for depression other than medication.
They use it because Discord works well and simply, with a rich feature set, that's largely free. And yeah, there aren't FOSS alternatives that actually match up.
Yeah, all these things are possible today, but getting them well polished and integrated is another story. Imagine all this being supported by "HTML6" lol. When apple gets around to making this part of safari, then we know it's ready.
But all the objective bullshit still existed when we were younger! And it didn't bother us as much then.
maybe the FF or GTC4Luso?
I tried with both PDFs and PNGs in Le Chat and the results were the worst I've ever seen when compared to any other model (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini).

So bad that I think I need to enable the OCR function somehow, but couldn't find it.
Yes, almost all post 2000 houses will have 20 amps in kitchen but in many areas the other circuits will be 15 amp.
I'm sure I found the same sources you just did. USR101 is surely not a ROM by this [0] schematic because the speaker audio goes directly to one of the pins on it - that doesn't seem right.

I guess enough signal makes it through T1 to let it work on dry lines. That sort of thing isn't unheard of [1]. I used to mess around with obsolete dial up modems as a kid and I could definitely get them to connect with just wires - sometimes. It didn't always work, and some modems would not work with other ones, etc.

The weird thing here is the 1670's second long pulses. Maybe it would do something else if connected to a real phone line? I'd surely try it myself but I only have a 1660 modem on hand.

0 - https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/schematics/misc/1670...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-powered_telephone
Making Transformers the same cost as CNN's (which are used in character-level ocr, as opposed to image-patch-level) is a good thing. The problem with CNN based character-level OCR is not the recognition models but the detection models. In a former life, I found a way to increase detection accuracy, and, therefore, overall OCR accuracy, and used that as an enhancement on top of Amazon and Google OCR. It worked really well. But the transformer approach is more powerful and if it can be done for $1 per 1000 pages, that is a game changer, IMO, at least of incumbents offering traditional character-level OCR.
It's dead; the id.3 was the replacement. Priced similarly to the id.3, but it didn't sell well compared to other comparable EVs AIUI. My theory is that at least a decent subset of people who want to buy an EV want an EV which looks like an EV, ie weird. Hence the id.3, which is _vastly_ more successful than the eGolf.
Now that I think about it, I may indeed be biased by personal experience.
Trailer: https://itsquieterfilm.com/trailer
No one is saying it doesn't happen so I don't see what the point in your statement is.
Cenote?

C Note?

$100?

Really?
I actually think you're onto something there. The "MicroLLMs Architecture" could mirror how microservices revolutionized web architecture.

Instead of one massive model trying to do everything, you'd have specialized models for OCR, code generation, image understanding, etc. Then a "router LLM" would direct queries to the appropriate specialized model and synthesize responses.

The efficiency gains could be substantial - why run a 1T parameter model when your query just needs a lightweight OCR specialist? You could dynamically load only what you need.

The challenge would be in the communication protocol between models and managing the complexity. We'd need something like a "prompt bus" for inter-model communication with standardized inputs/outputs.

Has anyone here started building infrastructure for this kind of model orchestration yet? This feels like it could be the Kubernetes moment for AI systems.