skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting. Is there some quantitative way to know that a modern 27b model is equal to an older 400b model?
Discussion (58 points, 10 hours ago, 65 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422965
Re: Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?
Welp. I can’t delete this apparently.
Bigscreen Beyond 2 review (107gm VR headset)
I suppose they do/did, but quite an unfamiliar practice out here in Phoenix.

Rome today: https://wdtprs.com/2024/04/rome-24-3-day-13-14-easter-tuesda...

Any public liturgy around here is fixed to civil time so that normal laypeople can join.
What are you even trying to say? There’s no point in saying anything past “her treatment was unjustifiable.” The rest doesn’t matter if you care about ethical treatment in the slightest.
https://archive.is/l4I6u
Very nice tool Jon!

Do you know about bela.live? I learned that it also creates C4 diagrams from code using AI.

I'm building a tool to help developers understand legacy code by identifying with AI the features implemented in the code, and then displaying these features on a map along with their hierarchy and traceability to code. It's a visual feature-first approach to document software.

Link: https://product-map.ai/

I would love to hear your thoughts about it!
Regarding reading all your chat interactions I'd find that a really tedious way to understand what the code will actually be doing. You might have "vibe coded" for 3 hours, resulting in a bunch of code I can read and understand in a half hour just as well. And I'm not interested in all the "in between" where you're correcting the LLM misunderstanding etc. I only care about the result and whether it does the right thing(s) and whether the code is readable.

If the use of an LLM results in hard to understand spaghetti code that hides intent then I think that's a really bad thing and is why the code should still go through code review. If you, with or without the help of an LLM create bad code, that's still bad code. And without the code and just the chat history we have no idea what we even actually get in the end.
Off-topic:
Mistral already had web search enabled for a while on there free tier.

Caveat: Mistral reasoning model on free tier is super slow(2-5 token/sec).
That's a great way to use it!
We had an insulation upgrade recently when we ripped out our gas furnace and put in a heat pump. The biggest improvement was from spraying foam into the space below the first floor, where it rests on the outer basement walls. There had been too much air leakage there. There was also attic insulation upgrading. No walls had to be penetrated.

The house (built just a decade ago) feels much better insulated now.
Every online community starts with promise, high-quality discussions, engaged members, real connections. But as they grow, most turn into notification nightmares, endless channels, and surface-level engagement.

We’ve been power users of Slack, Discord, Reddit, and every other community tool out there, and we kept running into the same problem: scale kills depth.

So we built Integral, a personalized community platform where quality beats quantity. No 99+ notifications. No algorithmic doomscrolling. Just the right conversations, with the right people, at the right time.

We’re launching early access next week and would love feedback from the Hacker News crowd. What’s the best online community you’ve ever been a part of... and why did it work?
Another somewhat famous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Astronaut_Riding_a_Horse_...
I've always been an IC.
This has not been my experience. Which models are you using? The AI's all seem to lose the plot eventually.
French researcher denied entry to US for 'expressing personal opinion' on Trump
In the original Marxist meaning, the working class is anybody who exchanges their labor (physical or otherwise) for a wage (hourly or salaried). This is defined in opposition to the bourgeoisie, who control the means of production and earn money from the labor of others.
Testing AI Software Isn't Like Testing Plain Old Software
For no js solution, I think some sort of using optical illusion as captcha could works, especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye or something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw which could cleverly hide captcha answer within animated noise mess.

However these methods are not really accessibility-friendly tho.
In the sense that no real subject is being harmed, this makes sense. Same reason why animated depictions of such content is protected in the US.

Seems like a microscopically thin line, though. If an LLM gets too close to recreating a recognizable subject, it's all hell from there on where to draw he line.
I think this issue will slow down as LLMs become more prominent. I find myself being naturally dissuaded from the "shiny, new thing" because it means my LLM won't have a deep set of materials to draw from.

Writing in Bevy was really hard because it was a niche language that has breaking changes every three months.

Writing in Svelte has been decent/good, but LLMs constantly prefer using v4's syntax rather than v5's runes -- even with Cursor rules and reminders.

At some point I think the tools will become so overwhelmingly part of my workflow that I'll prefer sticking with the old rather than moving to the new and losing access to well-written LLM code code.
What about pedestrians?

There is a reason why modern cars aren’t that stiff.
I fully agree, _but_ it's not just frontend, it's the entire NPM ecosystem. Meaning it's not much better in NodeJS (or Deno/Bun/whathaveyou)
Make is definitely just my personal preference. If using bash scripts, Just, Taskfile or something similar works better for you then by all means use it.

The main argument I wanted to make is that it works very well to just use GitHub actions to execute your tool of choice.
I found Mistral Small 3.1, which released slightly after Gemma 3, much better.

Much fewer refusals, more accurate, less babbling, generally better, but especially at coding.
>This sounds very much like an edge case.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux%20radeon%20audio...

> Why didn't you use Windows or MacOS on the mini PC instead? Was it because you were unable to do so?

Because despite what you might assume from reading what I've written here today, I'm not against or opposed to open source and open protocol stuff. Everything I personally write I release open source. I push my own company to publish as much as we can as open protocols. I've been running some form of linux in one form or another since I first pulled down the MkLinux CDs over a 33.6 modem. I don't hate open systems. But I recognize that open systems have their own disadvantages and that a system being open doesn't inherently mean it's going to be a better experience or solution.

> The EU would only be interested in regulating this if it were an OS init controlled by a monopoly abusing their position.

And so as I've asked before in other places, what monopoly are they regulating here? If the other comments in this discussion are to be believed, iOS represents < 50% of the EU market. Not only that, but iOS represents a single os and a single hardware vendor. The only way to run iOS is to buy Apple hardware, and the only OS you can run on the Apple hardware is iOS. Meanwhile the entire rest of the cellphone market exists, has a fully open OS just like people want, and supposedly has an equal or superior experience to iPhone/iOS. Apple doesn't do anything to prevent retailers from selling non-Apple devices, they don't require app developers to sign exclusivity agreements, they don't require accessory vendors to sign exclusivity agreements. They don't require retailers to buy iOS licenses even for hardware sold without iOS. The only way one can construe Apple to have a monopoly is to say that they have a monopoly on the hardware that they manufacture. Which is a tautology. Sony has a monopoly on their TVs, Bose has a monopoly on their stereos, and Nintendo has a monopoly on their consoles. This is not a useful definition of a "market"
Yeah, xeriscaping helps. In terms of municipal uses though, watering is a significant chunk in the city I live in. Not much compared to ag or actual waste, but it's a number the city is happy to push down - and has been.
No we don't. We have too many people who -- even despite having respectable jobs -- can't afford the basic necessities for the month, let alone save for their future and family. The problem they're facing is the lack of the guaranteed basic income, not the lack of a job to collect it.
Sharing Hackathon experience (emotions tracking)
Kagi Ultimate user here. Assuming you meant typing it into their search (and not e.g. Assistant), here's what I get on top of the result page:

Quick Answer

To choose the best rice cooker, consider these factors:

Capacity: Rice cookers range from small (1-2 cups) to large (6-8 cups or even 10-cup models) [1][2]. Keep in mind that one cup of uncooked rice yields about two cups cooked [2].

Budget: Basic one-button models can be found for under $50, mid-range options around $100-$200, and high-end cookers can cost more [3].

Features: Many rice cookers include a steaming insert [4]. Some have settings for different types of rice [5][1].

Brand Recommendations:

Zojirushi: Often considered the best brand, but pricier [6][7]. The Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker is considered best overall [8].

Cuckoo & Tiger: These are the next best brands after Zojirushi [6].

Aroma: Considered the best budget brand [6]. The Aroma ARC-914SBD Digital Rice Cooker is a good option [9].

Toshiba: The Toshiba Small Rice Cooker stands out for innovative features that cater to a variety of cooking needs [5].

References

[1] Five Best Rice Cookers In 2023. More than half of the... | Medium medium.com

[2] Which Rice Cooker Should You Buy? - HomeCookingTech.com www.homecookingtech.com

[3] Do You Really Need A Rice Cooker? (The Answer Is Yes.) - HuffPost www.huffpost.com

[4] The 8 Best Rice Cookers of 2025, Tested and Approved www.thespruceeats.com

[5] The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Perfect Rice Cooker | Medium medium.com

[6] What is the best rice cooker brand ? : r/Cooking - Reddit www.reddit.com

[7] What are actually good rice cookers? I feel like all the ... - Reddit www.reddit.com

[8] 6 Best Rice Cookers of 2025, Tested and Reviewed - Food Network www.foodnetwork.com

[9] 9 Best Rice Cookers | The Strategist - New York Magazine nymag.com
Yeah, GP is shortsighted. "No need for unions - things are good right now!"
Idiomatic React is different (it now uses hooks and functional components), but the old style of class based components with methods still works, and can be mixed and matched with the newer style so gradual migration is possible. There have been some deprecations over 10 years, but there are automated code migration tools for those.
that tinfoil hat theory, just as basically all of them, can only be produced by people that have absolutely zero understanding of the topic. The amount of challenges that industry has faced during the relatively fast progress through nodes is just non skippable, as there were so many things to be discovered through very expensive and long brute force (just one example: high k dielectrics)
> Some fair points.

Thanks.

> Though if the scientist's claims that he was denied entry because he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy, then it certainly violates the spirit of the First Amendment, and much of what the government claims it stands for.

That's an "if". We don't know what the CBP agent saw. But let's assume it's harmless, then I agree that it's damaging to the Administration's brand, but I also wouldn't agree (yet) that it happened because of Trump's orders.

> Is it legal? Perhaps.

Current law gives the executive branch the power to turn away foreigners for almost any reason.

> Will it cause long-standing damage to US soft-power and the ability of US organizations to recruit world-class scientists? Quite possibly.

Almost certainly, especially if neither CBP makes a more useful statement nor the WH comes out and clears things up. It's entirely possible that the WH will not take notice and that CBP doesn't want to engage the public on this.

Some years ago the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission started going into convention venues in Texas and arresting anyone they could argue was publicly intoxicated. That led to a spate of conventions boycotting the state until the TABC backed down.
I would like to double check some units.

2-3 wafers per minute would be 120-18 wafers per hour - did you mean wafers per hour for both?
This sounds like it could also be a terrible thing: LLMs freezing progress in languages.

It’s kind of analogous to how the entire web became a slave to SEO.
Sounds like steps in the right direction, but not entirely what I'm looking for.

I want AI that can scrape shop websites for attributes that people commonly search for, such as size and color, etc., but also shipping methods, shipping costs, etc. I think this would be trivial for an LLM. For me the scope should be bigger than just used clothes. I prefer new clothes (but I wear them until the end). And the system should be web-wide, not just selected shops.

And then I want a basic filtering system that allows me to quickly find what I need by checking some boxes.

It sounds so simple ...
That sounds like a hit-or-miss concept to me. Without logic that teaches the AI why a child and an adult look the way they do it would maybe sometimes get it right by chance and other times not. I do not see how one could guarantee an outcome with the logic of the generation models unless it understands biology or was trained on real people which advertisements have no shortage of. Advertisements lack nudity and would leave out details like a hymen.
> covered the earth's surface

In any discussion of far-future considerations like this we need to remember that thermodynamics requires all energy used for work to become heat. Covering the Earth's surface in solar panels is one thing, but by the time we're covering every inch in fusion power plants, we've turned the Earth's surface to lava from all the waste heat. There's a physical upper bound on energy usage within the Earth's biosphere that prevents useful energy production from scaling to infinity, and as a result we'll find ourselves optimizing for economics rather than being limited by energy production per unit of area.

As for industry, yes, it seems likely that industry will still represent a large and relatively centralized consumer of power which may benefit from a large dedicated installation. But I'm not convinced that fusion will ever be more economical than even traditional nuclear fission energy (just because your fuel is relatively cheap doesn't mean a thing if the plant itself is essentially disposable because of the energies involved).

As for space, maybe, though considerations of space exploration aren't driven by economics, so whether or not anybody ever figures out a viable fusion reactor design for a spaceship could have as little relevance to civilian power generation as your classic RTG did.
It feels a lot like a rehash of things like the prosperity gospel which serve as a post hoc justification for what they wanted to do anyway. It’s conspicuous that everyone cited seems to be involved in right-wing politics, ignoring the long tradition of other views which didn’t get pushback, and the views which tended to get the most social friction were things like demonizing gay people or immigrants (about whom Christ said nothing and implored his followers to help, respectively). It’s quite hard to reconcile many of the names listed with Luke 16, 18, etc. when several of them could individually make transformative changes in millions of lives with no impact on their lifestyle or comfort.
> bloody recipe.

How apropos and now I'm curious how many English speakers don’t really consider how a “mildly profane” adjective had its start as a blasphemous slur against the Eucharist and a certain Queen?
This would be true if it was doing it with essentials like food, healthcare, housing, transit, but it's not.
If you ignore history and reality you can come up with some great fiction, sure.
Thanks for the correction. I hadn't considered bulk memory operations to be part of SIMD operation but it makes sense -- they operate on a larger grain than word-size so they can do the same operation with less micro-ops overhead.
Oh man, they have the "Sky" voice, and it seems to be the same one that OpenAI had but then removed? Not sure how that's possible, but I'm very happy about it.
I wonder whether you could extrapolate off other industries.

IE things like sports or music where the top 1% make f*k-you money and the rest either get by or struggle. Do they have to do the occasional public performance to build hype?

Or maybe it's more like a tradie. I always thought Leon:The Professional was a story about an apprenticeship, not that movies are a source of truth on real life.
You do realize that this is immensely privileged and something that 99% of working devs can't do right? Especially the bit about making calls and instantly getting a job, that's something even famous engineers can't get too.
I agree. I'm concerned with the implications, too.
glad you like it :) would you use it for your own inbox though :)
yes? pretty sure state-sponsored healthcare is going to be much better, both for individual and population, than the current mess that US has.

You should not require unions just to get help with your health problems.
Probably not coincidentally, 2016 was the year that I decided I was done with front-end after about decade of focus.
You can have artist draw art with the differences. And then you can get it via style transfer. But there are already many images of children with noses.
From my experience the tailwatcher and (not) suprisingly related HAM communities are magical in their ability to just trust their community and rarely get burned.

Only 4 active connections allowed per site on a popular HAM webring? Never hogged by bots.

Site that allows minimally authenticated posting of aircraft ACARS messages? Never seen it hijacked for ads.

Physics-limited space for nearly untracable HF radio transmissions that can span half the US? Handfull of trolls that voluntarily relegate themselves to the 'troll freqs'.

It's no surprise the site allows unauthenticated JSON; in the rest of the hobby the FCC makes most types of security outright illegal.
right now, no. if i have a little more time next week i may enable it though. i run getinboxzero.com so it wouldn't be a tonne of work to add, but want to make sure it's done right
And yet, that's what we do with CoderPad, Leetcode, Karat, etc.

Yes, of course you should still interview them afterwards, I'm sure that's what credentialed professions do as well. My point is just to have the Leetcode portion be done once rather than for every company's interview.
If evolution has worked out that having specifically optimized pathways for specific actions it doesn't seem terrible that human designed machines are similar.
a lot better...we can excite these atoms in a lab and simply measure what comes out. often times don't even need a model because spectroscopy can be fully empirical for many transitions
Going with the F-35 was a bet that sadly went wrong. The assumption was that it'd be paying protection money to US to help us against Russia if SHTF.

In hindsight, Gripen or Rafale would've been a much better option. But few saw how different US foreign policy would soon get.
I don't think this has that much to do with AI interests outside of determining that AI generated images fall closer to "animated" laws than "real subject" ones.
Understandable. Other countries seem to have education figured out, but now it's time to let America try out what it excells at, a free market implementation. I've seen a lot of good ideas on this forum for how it could work so I'm curious to see the results.
I had a Yamaha that had a dtsx firmware addition upgrade after it shipped. Not sure if it wasnt ready at product ship, or some way to avoid licensing fees, but I dont know how they would track who upgraded as it wasnt network enabled.

Sennheiser Max has a full computer and os running inside, they can upgrade it quite a bit. Biggest limitation on the device is HDMI 2.0 preventing 20gbps video passthrough of hdmi 2.1, however they should be able to add new audio codecs.
What are you talking about? I don't want to change anything. You are the one advocating that social media should require any comments being identifiable via id...
The most high tech tape...in the world.
> Of course, there's no need to "demand" something that is already given. We have free speech rights here, no matter what Vance or Musk say.

People in Europe, and especially the UK, are absolutely being imprisoned for speech that in the U.S. is protected speech. You can argue about degrees of free speech if you like, but the fact remains that we have a great deal more legal protections for political (and other) speech in the U.S. than in Europe.
And even if you want to work onsite- ever notice that the near-universal distaste for open offices? Yet that's a trend in tech that refuses to die? There's an anti-open office layout story on HN every month, or used to be. For all of the power that software engineers think they have as an occupation, why can't they overcome being stuck in a bullpen, sometimes even in a floating desk setup?

Maybe all of the cushy perks are just what management is willing to bestow, and something as simple as getting cubicles or team cubes is beyond the reach for most staff engineers.

Would a labor union be overkill for getting such a concession? Perhaps. But in the absence of any sort of professional representation to push back or push for things, all you can do is blog stories that get upvoted on HN, and not much else.
Just to confirm, is it this sample under Connection details? https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime?text-genera...
The paper they quote doesn't contain all the images they're showing. Be wary.
We can get more certainty by testing combinations of those concepts with a whole bunch of other ones. Naked skateboarder. Child construction worker. It has a lot more variety for both of those concepts than with wine glasses.

We can also check models that have very highly vetted input sets.
I recommend this reading about where the valley heading. If you are not squeezed for work, you will be. Developers are becoming more disposable. Maybe you are not feeling but it's happening.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-industry-amazon-microso...
Because Docker/OCI/etc got the most important part right (or at least much better than the alternatives): distribution.

All you need to start running a Docker container is a location and tag (or hash). To update, all you do is bump the tag (or hash). If a little more complicated setup is necessary (environment variables, volumes, ports, etc) - this can all be easily represented in common formats like Docker compose or Kubernetes manifests.

How do you start running a system-nspawn container? Well first, you bootstrap an entire OS, then deal with that OS's package manager to install the application. You have to manage updates with the package manager yourself (which likely aren't immutable). There's no easy declarative config - you'll probably end up writing a shell script or using a third party tool like Ansible.

There have been many container/chroot concepts in the past. Docker's idea was not novel, but they did building and distribution far better than any alternative when it first released, and it still holds up well today.