skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wiki article you link cites some "critics" but I don’t see proofs. How would you "prove" the future of humanity anyway? Moreover that idea has taken different forms between time and individual formulating it, we can’t reject all of them because some includes fallacies.

> Despite use of the term "Malthusian catastrophe" by detractors such as economist Julian Simon (1932–1998), Malthus himself did not write that mankind faced an inevitable future catastrophe. Rather, he offered an evolutionary social theory […]

1. subsistence severely limits population-level

2. when the means of subsistence increases, population increases

3. population-pressures stimulate increases in productivity

4. increases in productivity stimulate further population-growth

5. because productivity increases cannot maintain the potential rate of population growth, population requires strong checks to keep parity with the carrying-capacity

6. individual cost/benefit decisions regarding sex, work, and children determine the expansion or contraction of population and production

7. checks will come into operation as population exceeds subsistence-level

8. the nature of these checks will have significant effect on the larger sociocultural system—Malthus points specifically to misery, vice, and poverty
Why would it take a week?

Is this because you want it to continuously watch for live data that could match your need?
Or rather, "the case of a buggy lazy-init function which reinitialized the critical section every time"
all analogies are bad to some extent.
In defense of the author: nobody reads your article if the name is boring (that is my experience at least), which it would've been if they titled it more accurately. That gives incentive to authors to use click-bait titles.
Code on something I really want to. Probably a game, whilst noodling with the ideas I have for agi.
Not sure why that is in any way relevant, but thanks.
Define 'magic'.
The usual answer in Android is "you can't do that". The primary difference from my perspective is that developers for those platforms design with the limitations in mind. Stuff on linux often just breaks and requires involved workarounds if it wasn't intended by the developer to be stuffed into a flatpak. (And might not even compile under nix without half a dozen monkey patches to the build system, let alone run once built.)
This looks like a chicken and egg problem to me. You can't sandbox things properly because things don't specify their required privileges properly. Things don't specify their privileges properly because things aren't sandboxed so there's no need to think about that.

As a user, I quite like the iOS approach, of apps "sharing" their ressources with other apps or asking for permission to access this or that collection of ressources. This can probably be improved and adapted to a non-touch model, but I think the concept is nice.

But, of course, apps have to be built for this kind of environment, so I think there will unfortunately be some janky transition period, with the customary competing, incompatible implementations.
People losing their jobs due to AI being used, couldn't care less about the quality level.
The Institute for Propaganda Analysis was set up almost 100 years ago to teach the American public about propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analy...

It was abolished because the Americans wanted to use propaganda themselves.

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

"The Institute for Propaganda Analysis was founded in 1937, when Nazi propaganda was at its noisiest and most effective. Under its auspices analyses of non-rational propaganda were made and several texts for the instruction of high school and university students were prepared. Then came the war — a total war on all the fronts, the mental no less than the physical. With all the Allied governments engaging in "psychological warfare," an insistence upon the desirability of analyzing propaganda seemed a bit tactless."

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Today we see "nudging" being used to manipulate. All our governments (and corporations and charities) seek to control our behaviour against our conscious wills. They won't easily give up their toolbox of tricks.

It's revealing that the article frames the discussion around "persuading" which a method how disinformaiton is spread. another kind of manipulation. Now, I don't think the article actually suggests that we should persuade people to believe what we want them to believe as it ends by recommending critical thinking, but it falls short of the mark. It fails to see how the methods and routes of propaganda are wrapped up in it.

What the Institute for Propaganda Analysis almost 100 years ago recommended was different; it was to first educate people on the methods and means that we get persuaded and manipulated and then give them tools to think around this to think critically. It respected people and viewed them as intelligent, capable, thinking rational people. Today, it appears that political institutions and many educated people (as seen in hundreds of HN comments) think "the masses" are malleable, thoughtless and brainless sub humans. If we persist in viewing our neighbour as a one of these "ignorant masses" we a) are more likely to consent to their degradation and b) more likely to be viewed that way by others and be manipulated and persuaded with the methods and ways they approve.
Looks cool, could be great for self hosting on a raspberry pi or similar and dropping for offline use during some parties.

But I can't find the opensource part on the website. Can you share sources?
RSS/Atom: https://simonw.github.io/ollama-models-atom-feed/atom.xml

@Simon: you should really fix the number of entries: now it's over 160 (from a ~100kb XML), but "ollama newest" updates on average every 4 days, so the window of the RSS should be much shorter (10 entries per XML is enough for many weeks)...

Ideally, you could have a "full" XML (full set) that you will download once for your local reader, and the "proper" XML feed (reasonable window) that will replace the first one locally after first use to only download the updates.

(Edit: nitpicking, but since I noticed it: the "pulls" value in the "proper" feed - to check for new models - makes no sense ;) )
In my comment I was questioning the certainty that those fundamental flaws will be fixed. I'm one of those people who don't believe that iterating over LLM will make that giant leap.

You can call it an implementation detail but it's like both a wheel and a wing can take your over some distance but the difference between them is staggering. Wheel will never send you flying (normally)
i see someone didn't enjoy the trip to venice.
It was 12 days after 3.5 was released. A lot has changed since then.

The point being take anything in with a view of the times, just like if I were to show you quotes from people 60 years ago saying computers are useless and no one will use them.
Same thing I just did :)
> pretending it's accessibility software

That should be a privileged status. If you manage to trick the user into installing malicious software followed by granting it elevated privileges then you likely didn't need such a roundabout method in the first place.
Norway is nonetheless part of the EU legislative system.

But my use of Norway was simply because it is familiar to me and shows that precedent is important in at least some statute law countries.
The banana was indeed observably unrealistic. With speed above a certain level it could ghost through the opponent without harming them because the collision detection only checked subsequent positions, not the whole line segment between them.

A real banana would not do that.
> That's an Inkscape (plugin?) bug plain and simple. GUI apps should be using the appropriate xdg portals

We can state what they "should" be doing until we're blue in the face, but if they "aren't" doing that then it doesn't help.

> Which client is this?

The Matrix one is from a long time ago. It could have been Element? Or Riot? Were they the same thing? Don't know. I only used it briefly.
Welcome on hackernews, where thousands years old philosophical problems are solved through plain assertions!
I agree with your added info, but even with that context, the headline is correct.
Show HN: MagnetManager – Turn YouTube videos into lead magnets that convert
Hey HN,

I’ve been making Ruby on Rails tutorials on YouTube for a while, and realized I was getting views, but not building any kind of audience. No real way to connect with viewers. I also run a small SaaS that funds my bootstrapping efforts.

After trying (and getting frustrated with) a bunch of lead magnet tools, I built my own. It's called MagnetManager.

You drop in a topic or a YouTube link, pick a template (listicle, guide, summary, etc), and it creates a clean lead magnet you can share and collect emails from. PDFs are hosted for you. You get a link. That’s it.

Built with:

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Stimulus + Hotwire

It’s made for solo creators, educators, and small content-driven businesses.

You can try it for free at https://magnetmanager.com (14-day trial, no credit card required).

Would love feedback — UX, feature gaps, use cases you think I missed. Also curious if anyone else here has dealt with this “content with no capture” problem.

Thanks for reading. Happy to answer anything.

Phil
To say this book is way over my head would be a huge understatement.

What subjects of math would I even need to create the firm foundation needed
if I am coming to math with close to zero knowledge.

Can anyone recommend good beginner learning sources.
I wonder how much it applies to Guix.
Yeah in practice this will let people see the structure of admin pages they wouldn’t normally get to see. But not any data.
GP is not assessing who did or did not, he's expressing valid scepticism about proportion of people that give the issue much though being any high.

You being a sample of one doesn't give you any position either, but I won't be suggesting reserving your enthusiasm.
By the way: I am intrigued by that «I built the scraper by pasting example HTML into Claude» - Simon picked Claude for this specific task.

Is anyone maintaining benchmarked or informal (anecdotal, empirical) lists of what are the strong abilities (and maybe weak ones) per LLM?
> Should Meta buy a physical or electronic copy of every book they want to use for training?

Yes, and probably, if training in parallel, multiple copies, just as multiple people will need multiple books.

Multiply this by the amount of GPUs and AI model providers, and the revenue impact is not zero.
Checking if a recommendation system is actually good in practice is kind of tough to do without owning a whole internet media platform as well. At best, you'll get the table scraps from these corporations (in the form of toy datasets/models made available), and you still will struggle to make your dev loop productive enough without throwing similar amounts of compute that the ~FAANGs do so as to validate whether that 0.2% improvement you got really meant anything or not. Oh, and also, the nature of recommendations is that they get very stale very quickly, so be prepared to check that your method still works when you do yet another huge training run on a weekly/daily cadence.
1. Train to become a competitive ultra marathoner.

2. Research and write about what I call the first person problem. The more experienced I become in my software career the more it appears this is the greatest single limiting factor in software employment. It’s the inclination of thinking only in terms of one’s self, like narcissism. It’s so much more ubiquitous and prevalent than just a personality deficit of a few participants, particularly compared to most other segments of employment.
No spoilers!
Cursor does have a loop with Claude which fixes lint & type issues which is nice
Ok, so I'm thinking here that.. hmm... maybe.. just maybe... there is something that, kind of, steers the rest of the thought process into a, you know.. more open process? What do you think? What do I think?

As opposed to the more literary authoritative prose from textbooks and papers where the model output from the get-go has to commit to a chain of thought. Some interesting relatively new results are that time spent on output tokens more or less linearly correspond to better inference quality so I guess this is a way to just achieve that.

The tokens are inserted artificially in some inference models, so when the model wants to end the sentence, you switch over the end token with "hmmmm" and it will happily now continue.
Can you give some examples where “architect, no coders” is here already? Asking, because I’d rather try and adjust to the new world, than pretend it’s not happening!
The reason is a bit funny - the NixOS bootstrap downloads it's source code which is a xz compressed tarball.
That it was a long time ago.
Lol what? Since when is asserting "finite resources will eventually be unable to sustain exponential growth" disproven by observing that "Yeah, well, they haven't yet"?

100 years is virtually no time at all, I'm having a hard time believing you're not making a joke with your optimism being that you think we have at least that long.
Author clearly mentions Operation Flashpoint and how games like it do things differently.
Qualia might still be magic. Maybe we have souls or something, I don't know.

I'm comfortable with saying that this way of answering the question doesn't work, because the argument is simply, "How can it be false if I believe it's true?"
> I could tell GPT to add in an anomaly for the 1970s - like the girl looking at Billy’s Instagram - and it would introduce it into the text without a comment about being anomalous

Wrong. I tried it. it wrote it as "instagram". Then i asked it to explain this instagram:

In Timmy’s mind, it was simple. First, he’d snap a Polaroid of some passing dog or a field of sunflowers. Next, he’d run home, sit at his rickety desk, and carefully slip the Polaroid into a school notebook he called his “feed.” He’d scribble a title at the top—something he swore was called a “caption”—and pretend he was beaming the image across some invisible network into the hands of friends he’d never actually met.

Awesome to me
Can someone explain what the advantages of this technique is? The article only says it's cheaper, without explaining why.
I think there is a difference between comparing strings and so on, versus actually semantically processing the text. Spam/Phishing detection already feels invasive to me (although there is no way I would leave that to most users), and this is just one step further.
Cool you have more than the one canard from IBM for five computers that became triple the amount?
It's worth pointing out that even with the largest models out there, coherence drops fast over length. In a local home ML setup, until somebody radically improves long-term coherence, models with < x memory may be a diametrically opposed constraint to something that still says the right thing after > y minutes of search.
> the government is at a better scale to provide

But it's not. Never has been.

They're firing federal workers because of the deficit, national debt, Deep State issues, crumbling empire typical issues, man.

The only ‘volunteers’ the government provides are military forces! I have never once met anyone at church who says that Uncle Sam conscripted them into a ministry! Good God, can you imagine a bishop conscripting priests and colluding with the military to make them chaplains?

The State has always relied on Subsidiarity to provide charity or welfare. The federal level is a last resort, an emergency safety net when Subsidiarity and every other non-profit and religion fails to fill the gap.

The New Deal and all the social service programs here in USA and UK as well have arisen in a secular context just to ensure that churches wouldn’t get too powerful and conversely, that citizens wouldn’t feel obligated or beholden to faith-based charities who were providing many of their basic needs.

But c’mon. No state is realistically capable of doing charity at scale. Basically impossible. Therefore we re-invent church tax. Just look at the shitty situation of health care as the Secular West wrests it from Christian hegemony and literally needs to eviscerate Hippocrates.

Many places with established religions just have the government funding that religion, and it’s not a tangled web like what we’re weaving in 2025.

Disestablishmentarianism simply means “we’ll eventually need to reinvent religion in some form.”
Cregit-Linux: how code gets into the kernel
> methane doesn't persist in the atmosphere nearly as long as CO2 does

Technically correct, but very very misleading. Yes, methan degrades quickly, but it degrates to CO₂.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Atmospheric_methane_an...
Stream data from Kafka to relational database
For clarity, could you say exactly what model you are using? The very best ChatGPT model would be a very expensive way to perform that sort of task.
> the release tarball being different than the source is

> the maintainer provided tarball was honestly generated from the original source code.

How, then? What about differing versions, etc. or has it been mentioned and I just missed it?

Just make sure the generated tarball can be generated from the source code itself, do not exclude anything, git add & commit everything. Can't we do that? We would still have to look at commit history in this case, I believe, and again, he said it himself, it was harmless to the naked eye, so even then, how could we verify? Maybe I don't understand what he meant by verification, but if maintained tarballs are generated from the owner's source code and is not on GitHub (or anywhere else, just a git repo), that is a problem in itself.

Of course there was more to it than just pushing poisoned test files, but still. I do not see how Nix would have prevented it, if the git repo has those test files and with seemingly harmless code (and is reproducible).

Perhaps what we can do is: if an (in)famous project has changed its main lead, then pay closer attention to the commits and check who it is? I don't know, TBH.

Did I misunderstand the article, or am I missing something?
Yes, I was doing a bit of overstatement
Wait, we are not mapping things we see in sattelite images, we are mapping things that have ground truth.

Please do not contribute anything ai-fantasized
> At the very least it changes the attack from "yeah noone's discovering this code change" to "let's hope no random weirdo happens to click into this commit".

There's also value in leaving a trail to make auditing easier in the event that an attack is noticed or even if there is merely suspicion that something might be wrong. More visibility into internal processes and easier UX to sort through the details can easily make the difference between discovery versus overlooking an exploit.
Hang on a sec... the qualia research institute might take umbrage at that first bit.
Whatever you think of Musk or where your political leanings are, this move is so anti-democratic and a clear abuse of power by means of this social network, that it should now be painfully clear to any legitimate company, government or institution that still has an account there, that it is time to move to alternative social media channels entirely. If there was any shred left in the first place, X now lost all its credibility and reputation. Move away, people.
Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly
or it keeps monitoring the web and notify me whenever something that matches my interests shows up -- like a more sophisticated Google alert. I really would love that.
I wonder if CDN server applications could use something like this, if every core had a hardware TCP/TLS stack and there was a built-in IP router to balance the load, or something like that.
AI is useless, but it is our best bet for the future
yeah like ask them to use tailwindcss.

most llm's actually fail that task, even in agent modes and there is a really simple reason for that.
because tailwindcss changed their packages / syntax.

and this is basically a test that should be focused on. change things and see if the llm can find a solutions on its own. (...it can't)
Father of AI: AI Needs Physics to Evolve – Prof. Yann LeCun
The linked site contains a token-based (rather than line-based) git "blame" annotation view for Linux kernel releases, i.e. it allows you to discover which commit added a particular token--where "a token is what the C syntax considers a token".

An advantage of a per-token commit attribution view is you don't need to transit through the history of an entire line.

Cregit is the tool used to produce the per-token view: https://github.com/cregit/cregit

I encountered Cregit recently while doing some "code history spelunking/archaeology" and thought it seemed pretty nifty.

Decided to share the link as there have been a couple of recent HN threads which included discussion about the poor granularity of line-based git "blame" functionality.

The most recent kernel version on the site is v6.13: https://cregit.linuxsources.org/code/6.13/

Unfortunately, the tool itself seems not to be under active development, the most recently modified branch is from 2 years ago & the main branch was last modified 6 years ago: https://github.com/cregit/cregit/tree/newinter
Are you also willing to work for OpenAI for free then? Have you contacted them with such an offer?
> dependent on the sun's position

Check your geocentrism

The Sun’s relative, apparent position.

Sunrise and sunset are wholly dependent on the observer’s position because “night” is a cultural construct referring to being within the Earth’s shadow rather than a dragon devouring the Sun, yes?
Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people.

What's robotic ink?
Why 'should'? Just because it's the law of the land, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
"vtuber" as a term describes both the avatar used by the person and the person themselves, so it's fairly specific. Avatar is much more general
You could just run a local LLM over every document and ask it "is this related to this query". I don't think you actually want to wait a week (and holding all the documents you might ever want to search would run to petabytes).

(the reasonable way is embedding search, which runs much faster with some precomputation, but you still have to store things)
Then the title is misleading (although not surprising).

So what are the major differences between the two anyways? Just to be sure.
So you’re saying you can automate the coding part by… writing the code (in an inferior language)
Well, so should it work?

You're telling me there's another reason, then... Can't guess which one.

Hmmm...
It's just WYSWIG with extra steps. The benefits are the same. The pitfalls ditto.
Are there any reviews of how the actual game plays? This sounds right up my street, but I'd need some idea of what I'm getting before I get my friends to invest their time in playing it.
Show HN: LLM-Tournament – Have 4 Frontier Models Duke It Out over 5 Rounds
I had this idea earlier today and wrote this article:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_multi_round_coding_...

In the process, I decided to automate the entire method, which is what the linked project here does.
A Decision Maker's Guide to Typed Functional Languages by Evan Czaplicki
Another amazing post from Eugene
Not if the inconsistency means the protection never really applied to you but the protection for others acted as hindrance to amending the system to providing a consistent protection.
Essentials of Programming Languages 1st ed. is special
I subscribe to the ‘qualia is atoms in a trenchcoat’ school of philosophy personally, but I understand that it might be hard to accept and even harder to not be depressed about it.
You give me your take on, quote, Trump banning voice of America, unquote?
I strongly associate mindfulness with marketing and corporate bullshit. Surely we can find a better term.

Anyway it's a bit of a misnomer if the whole point is to not think.
Joy and Curiosity #32