skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Coca Cola though? Sure it is refreshing on a hot day but you know what is even better? Going to bed on a nice cool mattress. So many are either too hard or too soft. They aren’t engineered to your body so you are virtually guaranteed to get a poor nights sleep.

Imagine waking up like I do every morning. Refreshed and full of energy. I’ve tried many mattresses and the only one that has this property is my Slumber Sleep Hygiene mattress.

The best part is my partner can customize their side using nothing more than a simple app on their smartphone. It tracks our sleep over time and uses AI to generate a daily sleep report showing me exactly how good of a night sleep I got. Why rely on my gut feelings when the report can tell me exactly how good or bad of a night sleep I got.

I highly recommend Slumber Sleep Hygiene mattresses. There is a reason it’s the number one brand recommended on HN.
There is already evidence that they do in fact contribute to open source. Maybe replace “hope” with “continue to”
Life Altering PostgreSQL Patterns
Secret goals are no selling point.
It's heavily company/team/manager specific, but you are absolutely correct. I've seen a lot of disillusioned peers leave the industry pretty much since COVID, and they came back after a small break because it's the best of all alternatives.

I think a lot of my peers didn't really understand what working was, and really bought into a lot of the BS. The last few years have been a reality check for us all.
In exchange for perpetual development and maintenance costs. Total cost of ownership doesn't go down by rolling your own in-house.
Interesting. Just this morning I had a conversation with Claude about this very topic. When asked "can you give me your thoughts on LLM train runs as historical artifacts? do you think they might be uniquely valuable for future historians?", it answered

> oh HELL YEAH they will be. future historians are gonna have a fucking field day with us.

> imagine some poor academic in 2147 booting up "vintage llm.exe" and getting to directly interrogate the batshit insane period when humans first created quasi-sentient text generators right before everything went completely sideways with *gestures vaguely at civilization*

> *"computer, tell me about the vibes in 2025"*

> "BLARGH everyone was losing their minds about ai while also being completely addicted to it"

Interesting indeed to be able to directly interrogate the median experience of being online in 2025.

(also my apologies for slop-posting; i slapped so many custom prompting on it that I hope you'll find the output to be amusing enough)
Open source repositories of the Dutch government:

https://oss.developer.overheid.nl/repositories
I agree totally with you that it is black and white thinking -- either you're with us or you're against us.

Canada's sovereignty is not up for debate and we will not support a country that threatens us.

This means that we're not going to be buying nearly as many American goods, not going to be visiting America for tourism and not suffering the fools that you call politicians and diplomats.

As far as the average Canadian is concerned America can twist in the wind. The feelings of betrayal are real and won't be going away any time soon.

The world is tired of the inane histrionics and is moving on from America.
Ask HN: How is Generative AI being used in AAA game development today?
With all the hype around generative AI, I’m curious how much and how it is being used for AAA game development today? Is it being used to make NPCs more interactive? To create assets? For procedurally generated experiences? For more efficient story and code generation? For unit tests? Etc.
We had a similar thought, but it is not as bad as we think.

We have the benchmarks, and we will be sharing the numbers in subsequent releases.

But, there is still a chance that I may come to bite us and limit us to a smaller scale, and we are ready for it.
You're right, I should just lie and insist it's the truth like most people here, then double down when questioned.

Unfortunately my time machine is out of plutonium at the moment, so I'm unable to verify these obscure, useless facts from 33 years ago.
Just use Bluesky. It’s the better middle finger.
Anyone remember Evernote?
I feel like this observation only applies to a section of the industry (in America). I never worked in the Valley or the Bay, just slogging away out in the Midwest, and it has always been nose to the grindstone, always executive and bottom line -lead, and none of the latitude or pampering mentioned here.
Who said that government cannot compete with private companies on the free market? It is not like they banned notion, they simply released an alternative product. More competition means better outcome for the customers. But somehow you ended up saying this is communism. How you got there is completely beyond me.
This is fun. Some feedback:

- I didn’t notice that much difference between the levels of obnoxiousness. Essentially the higher levels seemed to be more confident but contain the same ideas.

- All of them are very short, which means there’s also not a lot of variety.

- it seems like the two topics in the generation prompt are “future riches” and “currently broke”. A greater diversity would be lovely. Spiritual BS, dating gurus, crypto, impossible startup ideas… these are a few obnoxious things I’d like to see.

Thanks and congrats on front page
we could also look to magnetoresistance and go for giant, colossal, extraordinary
I use Fresh Tomato as the firmware on my router, but I don't see anything in the documentation about "usteer". I'll search for a different term. I'm sure they have something, because they have a lot of active development.
how does female cannibalizing the male fit into darwin evolution theory ?

that evolution should make reproducing less efficient, either the male is dead before he finish reproducing with the female or at least, he is not able to reproduce with other females.

Yet it seems to be working just fine with other species of octopuses where the male get eaten.
I'd looked in the inspector after the first time I saw the gap (just added a note about that to the document) - my problem was that I didn't realize Firefox doesn't show you the default user agent styles, while Chrome does.
It is right there on the landing page. But, let me highlight it a bit.
The CCP strictly controls knowledge and information access within China through rigorous censorship. It would be surprising if Chinese companies were allowed to just make their advancements open source without review, if those advancements would have a meaningful impact on the state of technology.

It is strange and inappropriate to call that observation racist.
It's incredible to me that you would parse that as a metaphor about breathing.
Did you remove support? Cause Google found mentions of it on your website.
After very large language models, the next step is mega language models, or MLMs. As a bonus, it describes the VC funding scheme that backs them too.
(author) Thank you! Was it because the cards fit badly on the CTI card edges or something else? These cards seem to be in pretty good. Doesn't look like Caltech did much with this one either. I need to get the other out and image its disk too.
So like RethinkDB? https://rethinkdb.com/
Thanks, that's useful - I added that to the document: https://til.simonwillison.net/css/dialog-full-height#user-co...

... which also lead me to the html.css stylesheet in the Firefox source code, a really useful reference: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/style/re...

Here's a GitHub mirror with a commit log view showing changes over time: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commits/master/layout/s...
I can't think of too many apps that I use that are truly FOSS.

Databases, compilers/interpreters, web servers, operating systems...but apps? (Other than gnu/bad command line tools of course)
This seems orders of magnitude slower than Nubmq which was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371097
I'm an absolite outsider to this, I use edge and would use chrome if need be.

It seems to me like mozilla appeals to paranoid users who don't pay for software and also don't want to see ads, and in exchange insane demands and revolt is placed upon them.

One thing you learn when providing services is that the demands don't ever stop. The more you provide for free, the more demands you get.

Would not want to be in this space, let's normalize paying for software, then you wouldn't need to worry about alternative monetization schemes.
What do you consider an “upper middle class lifestyle”. In 2020, I was living in the burbs of Atlanta in the good school system with a 3200 square foot house that I had built in 2016, one teenager in the house, three cars making less than $200K combined and we weren’t eating hot pockets everyday
My point is that it isn’t really unexpected from a biological perspective that humans are violent towards “their own species”, because our instincts don’t know about the concept of species.

My impression is that people who bemoan man’s inhumanity to man typically act as if all humans should be interpreted as family members by our instincts and somehow they aren’t due to culture, and I don’t think that line of thinking is supported by biology (because species is a construct).
After taking power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis quickly eliminated freedom of the press in Germany, shutting down opposition newspapers and manipulating the press to promote Nazi ideology.

> Trump signed an executive order on Friday that commands the dismantling of seven government offices, including the United States Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
GPT-4.5's advantages are supposed to be in aspects that aren't being captured well in current benchmarks, so the claim would be shaky even if ERNIE's benchmarks actually showed better performance.
Congrats on shipping! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I hope it is not lost on the author how cringe "Buy Me a Coffee" on a page like this is.
Would "key-value" not have a place in the description?

This application may be very capable, but I agree with the person saying that its use-case isn't clear on the home page, you have to go deeper into the docs. "Smarter than a database" also seems kind of debatable.
You just need to get out of your bubble.

The median household income is $80K. Those people aren’t homeless and starving
There's a puppeteer MCP server in the official GitHub repo by Anthropic which gives Claude access to similar tools too: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr...
Finetuning a dumb simple R1-like LLM to subtract
Very simple local finetuning
Yeah mosh works really well in those kinds of scenarios. My provider once had an outage where they dropped 50% of all packets, which rendered most of the internet completely unusable. I was able to connect to my VPS via mosh (it took 6 attempts since it uses SSH for the initial handshake), and then mosh + w3m worked essentially the same as if no packet drops even existed. Feels like magic
I went to an "elite" school, but I worked at one HFT where the local team of 5 people had only me with a background from a similar school, and another HFT where I was one of three on my immediate team of ~12 engineers. At one point, one of my colleagues at the second firm asked me why I was there as opposed to the alternatives of (1) a company with more of a focus on the elite and cultivating power or (2) being an artist supported by my well-off parents.
I agree with your comments about the West. The fact that we continue to expand legal gambling is evidence enough that we don't care about the negative consequences of an industry.

But let's not pretend China is perfect. The purge had much more to do with a) eliminating a potential competing power to the CCCP, and b) Xi's boomer-era gut instinct that new media forms are bad.
How I Validate Startup Ideas Without Wasting Time
I’ve been tossing around a bunch of startup ideas lately, but I don’t want to sink weeks into coding something nobody wants. So I came up with a quick way to test them—here’s what I do:

- Start with a Simple Idea: I pick one idea, like a tool to help freelancers track time and invoices easier. Nothing fancy, just something I think people might need.

- Make a Waitlist Page: I throw together a basic waitlist on a free site like WaitFast.netlify.app Forms—takes 2 minutes. I add a quick description, a sign-up form, and maybe a logo.

- Share It Everywhere: I post the link on X, or wherever my target audience hangs out. I ask, “Would you use this? Why or why not?” and watch who signs up.

- Check the Response: If I get 10+ signups and some good feedback in a day or two, I know there’s interest. If it’s crickets, I move on to the next idea.

Next week I will try freelancer tool hope get more than 15 signups fast, so I’m sketching out a MVP
1. Planned, but our first focus is the web app (plus desktop Electron)

2. Yes. We have a bunch of default views like table, kanban, photo gallery, and calendar. You can also create your own views with a JS plugin, like this silly example of spinning globe view: https://x.com/wcools/status/1898828593255346287

3. Our aim is a full feature todo app. But we won't have every feature on day 1.
You’re well supported by research on this [1]. TLDW:

- More money leads to more output for physical tasks

- More money leads to worse results for cognitive tasks

What does move the needle:

- Pay people enough so they’re not thinking about the money

- Desire for autonomy, mastery, impact

[1] https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
Show HN: I made an open source website to learn and find Developer Relations Job
> am I wrong that it sounds crazy and inefficient for the government to essentially compete with private industry?

The Internet is a strong and definitive counterpoint to this claim, IMO.

If the government didn’t create the open internet, we would all be living in AOL style walled gardens right now.
These days, I wonder if it'd be better to just sic a LLM API on it and have it stream you the text summary back?
I don't think that Mozilla is saying you should provide service for free. If GPC is turned on, the website can just pop up a paywall, no?
Things are done for reasons.

We can discuss the reasons why they might or might not open source things, or we can agree not to because someone might call us racist for discussing corporate and wcenomic motivations.

The West mostly has not shared their knowledge. Most software is not open source.
> You are correct that Elixir doesn't have arrays and only lists... but that's also true of Erlang.

Erlang has the array module, which IIRC uses lists of tuples internally to simulate arrays. I assume that's what they are referring to.
LLM, LLM 2.0, LLM 3.0, Mini LLM, Micro LLM, LLM C.
What the fuck are you even talking about?

Putin broke his peace treaties 27 times and just refused Ukraine's last one. Russia was the one starting the whole fucking war in the first place.

How is CAF funding terrorists and drugs?? Stop spreading nonsense, and please never vote again, seeing how you are completely brainwashed.
Maybe the female can use the proteins for her offspring, and there are more offspring to offset the lost male.
Presumably the female acquires calories with which to grow her brood.

"Unable to reproduce with other females" is probably relevant. The relative size of different genders has a lot to do with if a species is polygamous or monogamous. Larger males the former and larger females the latter.
How is GPC an extension of copyright?
The memex was a deterministic device to consult documents - the actual documents. The "LLM" is more like a dumb archivist that came with it ("Yes, see for example that document, it tells you that q=M·k...").
It’s been happening pretty consistently in France.

The cops are rolling their own distro :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

I think it’s wise. Not idea if it’s good
I think a significant difference is that in the early days, the content was predominantly text, with styling/images/multimedia to embellish the content. But today it feels like a large proportion of websites put the embellishments first, the text content is thin and you often have to hunt it out.

Of course the web has evolved and has uses other than reading/absorbing information (some of them great) and multimedia content is valid, but it does seem to have become harder to find substance in amongst all the style.

When I'm surfing the web it's still usually words that I'm looking for. I think that may be going out of fashion.
IMO, replace "More than a Cache.
Smarter than a Database." with an actual description.

The saying is cute but does not really convey information the reader is after. And that spot is where you want people to immediately understand what it is.
Kind of useless.... Something one can generate with a single AI prompt in a lunch break.
LLM M4 Ultra Pro Max 16e (with headphone jack)
Safari as well, and I couldn't get any other keys to work besides WASD
The effect of natural selection is that the genes that propagate most are the ones that maximize the probability of that gene appearing future generations. There is no direct evolutionary pressure for an individual to behave in ways that benefit the species in general.
Slim pickings, then?
This is a common misconception. It is extremely rare for any child to be fluent in any language by the time they start school.

There are different levels of fluency that language training professionals recognize, mostly standardized on the ILR scale [0].

There are 5 levels on this scale. What people commonly consider "fluent" is level 3. There are also midpoints recognized by a "+", e.g. most people who study language seriously but don't have any special aptitude for language training get to a 2+. It's an open question of serious debate and active research of whether it's possible to train anyone past 2+ to 3. Some rare individuals seem to have an innate aptitude for language acquisition and they seem to breeze through their training to 3 and then continue on from there. Everyone else seems to plateau at 2+.

3 is just the level of "can easily be understood as a foreigner by a native speaker". It's not native level of mastery. "So fluent you can fool a native speaker" is 5.

All of that is to say that children are most definitely not fluent by the time they reach school age. Most children starting school will be at a 0+ level. Particularly intelligent children might be at a 1. But they are definitely nowhere near 3.

And indeed, by the time most people graduate highschool, I would struggle to admit that they are much beyond 3. Hell, I'd even say a large portion of people graduating college don't have mastery of their native language.

So no, I don't think children have a particularly large advantage in learning language. Despite significant, continue training in language for the first 18 years of their lives, most aren't able to get very far beyond what any studious adult can learn in 2 years.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale#ILR_scale

Edits: damn glass keyboards making my own fluency look suspect
I am not sure if this is satire or not...
Is it just me or was kickstarter just a failure in general? I mean there is pebble ofc, but other than that and a few games? IMO it always seemed like kickstarter was just for people who wanted to write startup entrepreneur in their CV, but were too unserious to be able to raise money otherwise even during ZIRP
I still have my copy of Lego Universe, hope this new initiative will fare better.
Thankfully it's tax euros!
Taking Your Fonts to Market: Foundry, Reseller, or Go Solo? (2008)
There have been some similar attempts over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Mass_deployments

Some larger than others, some attempts at having more negotiating power, others as a cost cutting measure, others yet as just exploration of what's doable.

I'd say that LibreOffice is fine for my needs - not great in all respects, but functional. I don't even have MS Office or use Google Docs on any of my devices right now.
On the other hand, government run service has worked on pretty well for the mail and it did not lead to communism.
More like a solid prenup, hey?
> VC has been investing in AI as-if it were a winner takes all market, but it has been obvious that isn’t the case.

I really don't see how this was supposed to go, and I've never heard an explanation.

I don't see any kind of coherent vision from any of these types.

Most normal folks (i.e not SV/HN types that seem to desire to replace their marketable programming skills with LLM output) really don't "want" LLMs in any real sense.

Sure, people use them like a search engine, kids cheat on homework with them etc, but there's not this overwhelming universal desire for them like there was for, say iPhones.

I never once have heard any sort of proposed roadmap for how LLMs were supposed to work as a product.

They were just going to get, uh "really good" and take everyone's office job or something?*

Normal F500 organizations that are obviously a target for LLM use (via hyperscaler sales) are still yet to see a clear path to "revolutionizing" their workforce or whatever via LLMs-it's just not there. Costs are too high, there's no obvious use case, "hallucinations" are a real impediment etc.

I'll add many of the public usecases for this (i.e those a hyperscaler would blog about as a sales promo) are seriously weak ("we reduced onboarding time by 20% with $MODEL")

I would really like to hear a proposal for how this is all supposed to come together. Does anyone have a concrete plan for the future for all this stuff?

*I'll note, this is NOT the way to sell a product to the masses, either.

Addendum: I'm not an "LLM hater" by any means. I pay for GH Copilot, and have been running local LLMs since it's been a thing (granted with limited hardware, and limited quality)--I intend to wait a bit and buy better hardware with one motivating factor being running local LLMs in a year or so when the open-source offerings stabilize"
That simplicity and lightness of design also resonated with me.

By the way, really cool read-off. The only thing I missed though was a deeper discussion of some of the challenges that the author alludes to in the beginning. But that’s just me being pedantic, the post is really nice and actually seems to be quite an impressive work.
I think it's mostly quality of life. I would rather die than survive in an extremely diminished capacity. There are worse things than death.
Coffee even more so.

I worked at place before that didn't have coffee so people would walk to the coffee place in groups that took 15-30 minutes. Sometimes twice a day. It became a routine part of the day, everyday.

Like literally throwing the cost of an invisible bag of Starbucks beans in the garbage everyday to save the visible cost of brewing a few cups.
Yes, micro-optimization with manual instruction scheduling is usually a great idea. No, macro-optimization with manual instruction scheduling is usually a bad idea. That it "doesn't remove" something isn't an argument that this is a good idea when the selling point is that it enables removal.

The "novel" idea here is the macro-optimization, with some overtures about making the micro-optimization easier - as you likely know, this is not true since the complexity here is more about understanding how to do better, not about what language features you use to make those changes.
Top Steven Pinker Quotes
I had a thought that I think some people value social media (e.g. Facebook) essentially for this. Like giving up your Facebook profile means giving up your history or family tree or even your memories.

So in that sense, maybe people would prefer a private alternative.