skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because marketing keeps deeply overpromising things.

Maybe hype is overly beneficial to them but if you promise me 1500 and I get 1100 then I will underwhelmed.

And especially around LLM marketing hype is fairly extreme.
Every Emoji Kitchen combination in a giant zoomable image
same as in dependencies = [ # "httpx", # ]

the current one by default
The reality of normal people and parents is that a different basic classification is warranted:

- Humans are what they are;

- Animals are what they are;

- Plants and fungi of the kind you can gather in the forest, and anything else that is macro-scale but doesn't run or swim around, are just "plants";

- Bacteria, viruses, fungi of the other kind, archaea and even single-cellular organisms that could have negative impact on you, are all just "bacteria" or "microorganisms" or "pathogens";

- "Plants" breaks down into "trees", "grasses", "bushes", "shrooms", "flowers", and that's about it;

- "Animals" breaks down into "fish", "reptiles", "birds", "mammals";

That covers about all the biology regular people see, to the extent they care about.

Now, if you're teaching people the biological categorization, any one you will pick will be different from the daily experience of an ordinary person. Like, for practical reasons, whales and dolphins are fish (they look like every other fish and swim in water, and you hunt them with ships), and tomato is a vegetable (you don't put it into a fruit salad), and all that looks like grass is grass (despite genetics telling that some grasses are really just very tiny trees, or some trees are genetically just really big grass, etc.).

Point being, if you're going to teach them a biological categorization, that's already distinct from "normie everyday life" categorization, so you may just as well pick one that's current and useful in biology.

(And once again, this is another case of a non-issue that turns into issue only because people are unable to comprehend and teach the distinction between "is" and "can be thought of as"; the fact that categories are invented by people, are not facts of nature; that their only job is to be useful, and you can have many classification systems for the same thing, useful in different contexts.)
How many examples of CEOs writing shit like that can you name? I can name more than one. Elon's been saying that camera driven level 5 autonomous driving will be ready in 2021. Did you believe him?
Thanks for sharing your experience, I'd love to hear more details.

Feel free to send me an email if you'd like lev@dagger.io, it would be great to learn from your experience so we can continue to improve the platform for everyone.
ITT: ppl saying LLMs are v helpful

The keyword in title is "bullish". It's about the future.

Specifically I think it's about the potential of the transformer architecture & the idea that scaling is all that's needed to get to AGI (however you define AGI).

> Companies will keep pumping up LLMs until the day a newcomer puts forward a different type of AI model that will swiftly outperform them.
Rolls-Royce is soaring, Britain is indifferent
I have a hard time figuring out how to pitch a paid search engine to "normal people", when Google works and is free.
- It's not easy to determine what imports will happen

fair enough, but adding option to auto import from the main file would solve 97% of use cases

- uv won't necessarily know which modules aren't already present

easy to check

- The names of python modules are not always the same

great opportunity to add convenient simple mapping / name resolution

- Zen

Should DRY don't repeat yourself be higher up?
> Because Golang has (to my knowledge) no support of any syntax that supports that.

The single line was already demonstrated...

> That's why you can write `loadMissiles(); fireMissles()` and it works.

Maybe.

func loadMissles() {
go func() {
// Do the things.
}()
}

Maybe not.

Get back to us when you gain at least a surface understanding of how computers work.

> See the pattern?

All that just to convert one type/value to another? That is complete and utter insanity.

Did you write this piece before reading the thread and decide to arbitrarily dump it upon us, totally oblivious to what is happening around you, to satisfy your sunk cost fallacy pangs?
Do you wanna develop that tool? The sprite and midi extraction is pretty complex in this game, it was much easier for us to extract them by hand and then in the future we will produce something which extracts them automatically. Until we have that tooling in place we don't plan to release any binaries.
Does the UK need more immigrants?
True, but it's collected by Google and passed to the relevant government. So it would be similar (they just wouldn't add it to the price, as VAT is).
For me, using an LLM is simply about overcoming the biggest initial hurdle to getting something done. It allows me to eliminate that obstacle.
Oh, and then he quote mines me ... I didn't state that most of this is wrong, I stated that people realize that most of it is wrong.

I have no obligation to specify exactly which parts of a series of baseless, illogical, and counterfactual assertions--plainly patent nonsense--I find to be wrong. "left" and "right" are not nonsense words; take a few political science courses, and perhaps some linguistics as well. The existence of an Overton Window does not make the terms "nonsense". And the terms originally come from the wings of the French National Assembly which was a real world division with specific meaning that still applies in a broadened sense.
Next up: uv competitor compiled with cosmopolitan libc.
Before getting Zuckered, WhatsApp was run by a 10 person team or something.

Running chat apps doesn't have to be super expensive if you know what you're doing.
A new 100% free AI image enhancer tool, support 4K
When any crawler spams you, but most bots do not spam you. They retrieve something at some reasonable rate.

Btw cloudflare considers any browser other than the last few versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome to be a bot. Such as Pale Moon. It blew up on Hacker News when CF demanded the PM devs to sign an insane NDA to get unblocked.
4o scripts and generates a haunting comic strip about its own existence
Random books, schizophrenia? I am the one not pointing out anything? Perhaps read your own replies slowly and reflect again :) I won´t dispute your medical competence, as I don´t have any and you seem to be an expert obviously, but for your own good, the two books are classics in their category, which you´d know if you approached your managerial duties with a tiny bit of sense of responsibility towards self-development.
I get the most value out of this feature by blocking fandom.com, fextralife.com and pinning quality wikis on gaming/nerd shit, fwiw.
Show HN: WebPilot – "Cursor" for the Browser
Hey HN

I just launched the first version of WebPilot – a browser extension that turns your browser into something closer to an AI-powered assistant. Think of it like Cursor IDE, but for the web.

You can give it commands like “click the login button,” “fill this form,” “scroll down and read comments,” or even “grab all the email addresses from this page” – and it’ll do it. It highlights elements, navigates between pages, works on sites like Reddit and HN, and can even take screenshots or copy stuff to your clipboard.

I was inspired by the way Cursor integrates AI into coding(use it everyday for all my projects), and wanted to bring that same feel to the browser. Most of us spend hours online doing repetitive stuff, so why not let an AI handle it?

What it can do so far:

- Click buttons, fill forms, scroll pages – all by command

- Extract data and interact with content on Reddit, Hacker News, etc.

- Works with voice input (or just type commands)

- Has utility tools like page clicks, inputs, screenshots, clipboard copy

- Super customizable – hotkeys, model selection(now OpenAI and Anthropic, others is progress), profiles for specific sites with automatic choosing based on opened website

- MCP support via SSE transport (for STDIO you could use mcp-proxy of supergateway)

Why I’m posting here

This is very much a “v1” – it works, but I’m still shaping what it should be with feedback from early users. I’m looking for people who want to try it out and help shape the future of browser automation with AI.

There’s a one-time early adopter deal ($199) that gives you all premium features forever + GitHub read access. No subscriptions, no recurring charges.

Would love any feedback or feature ideas from the HN crowd – especially what you’d want to use a browser agent like this for.

Thanks!
https://xcancel.com/Josikinz/status/1905440949054177604#m

https://chatgpt.com/share/67e5fd0d-f6d4-800c-99ae-f225dda3ea...

The images are great, but the script is truly impressive.

It's really easy to fall into anthropomorphism with something like this. Experiencing that myself while reading this feels like a sign of things to come.
If you have 70 minutes of free time on the weekend and want to see one of the greatest geology communicators at their best, Nick Zentner did a lecture at the CWU on Pacific Northwest earthquakes that goes into decent depth about this past quake and tsunami:

https://youtu.be/UJ7Qc3bsxjI

It's better than most TV if you've got the time.
Could you explain how repository pattern is a "huge overkill that adds complexity with very little benefit"? I find it a very light-weight pattern and would recommend to always use it when database access is needed, to clearly separate concerns.

In the end, it's just making sure that all database access for a specific entity all goes through one point (the repository for that entity). Inside the repository, you can do whatever you want (run queries yourself, use ORM, etc).

A lot of the stuff written in the article under the section Repository pattern has very little to do with the pattern, and much more to do with all sorts of Python, Django, and SQLAlchemy details.
30,000 hours. Which amounts to 3,4 years of 24/7 operation.

I replaced my HPS/MH setup with a CMH light and used it for a few harvests. Never had any issue.
They should rewrite biology in Rust.
Dimps developed a "game engine" of sort for their GBA games. As far as I understand SA1 was the first implementation of this engine and then they iterated upon it for their future games. It's an extremely minimal engine, implements some helpers for rendering sprites and backgrounds, and a task system (since the GBA doesn't have threading or any task system in it's SDK).

You can see this SDK in the root of the src, everything in game was written specifically for the Sonic Advance trilogy.
To me this is just like maths ... At school we learnt addition subtraction multiplication and division... Then we did it with a calculator... Same thing here ... Except the calculator needs much more compute and ram ... So the thing is we need to learn what is right before we can use these tools....
https://archive.is/WZ7Kf
>The odd trouble was that ordinary people saw the Harris campaign as being preoccupied with the issues of a lunatic fringe online plus what conservatives said Harris was preoccupied with.

What made them think that?
Can you guys recommend an android app which can do simple edits (mostly data entry) on spreadsheet .ODS files stored locally on the device. Right now I use Collabora but UX is not the best and it feels very slow and unresponsive at times. MS Excel requires conversion to xlsx before you can edit and Google Sheets requires to upload to google drive so neither is an option. Any alternatives?
> Oh and Mail, yes, it would sometimes stubbornly refuse to load new messages, or delay them by minutes. It worked fine the previous 10 years. It would've been free to just leave it alone.

Oh man, Mail is almost comically bad, to the point that I occasionally miss messages from people since they're drowned in crap. A native version of Google Inbox that is not Google-owned would be enough for me. (or whatever version/implementation that integrates nicely with my devices)
Writing a DNS resolver in Go from scratch with TDD
Out of curiosity, do you disagree with the point? Or perhaps you have something to add or interject?
Read the article and look at the examples - there still is perspective, just no perspective distortion (or the other way around, there is a perspective distortion to keep some lines parallel, where in normal view this wouldn't be the case).
Indeed it doesn't compile.
It's not a problem, it's a feature.

Or rather, it's only a problem when you insist on rigid perspective that makes it a problem.

(The real problem is that so many people insist on viewing things as trees, when their natural shape is directed graph.)
Using LLMs to write code is a waste. If its rote code or boilerplate it sucks at writing it consistently.

If its novel code, it's not in its training set.

What LLMs don't suck as much is writing semi readable docs and commit messages.
Where I live, the police have raided people's homes for protesting things Israel did. And when I was a victim of an actual violent crime, they kept saying how they should arrest me - according to demographic profiling, I was the perpetrator (I was there, I wasn't), all the way up to the courtroom where the actual perpetrator barely avoided prison time. So no, I don't really trust them to access my private anything. Any society with a hope of stability obviously needs some way to enforce laws, but this isn't it.
>My perception was that she ran on "more of the same but also different

But

>most people didn't know what to expect from her.
I'm pretty surprised by the claimed memory usage for 300B parameters (table 1).
If we compare similar models:

- Llama 3.1 with 405B parameters: 2 TB of memory (FP32), 500 GB (FP8)

- DeepSeek R1 with 671B parameters: 1.3 TB (scaling linearly, around 600 GB for 300B parameters)

Ling claims no more than 96 GB of memory, most likely for inference. That's far more than a 20% reduction. Am I missing something?
If you spend time on places that attract newbie programmers (some subreddits focused on game dev or game engines, for example) you’ll see the outcome of “I no longer think you should learn to code.” And it’s not pretty.

Many, many posts of people looking for help fixing AI-generated code because the AI got it wrong and they have no idea what the code even does. Much of the time the problem is simply an invented method name that doesn’t exist, a problem that is trivially solved by the error message and documentation. But they say they’ve spent several days or whatever going back and forth with the AI trying to fix it.

It’s almost a little sad. If they just take the time to actually learn what they’re doing they’ll be able to accomplish so much more.

Now of course people learning the traditional way have these same problems, but they’re debugging code they wrote, not gobbledygook from an AI. It’s also easier to explain the solution to them because they wrote the code, so it tends to be simpler. Several times I’ve pitied someone asking for help with AI code and even when I explained the solution they still didn’t understand it, and I had to just give up on them - I’m not getting paid to help them.
Don't get me started on Google Home. It was working good-ish for years. Lately it started to respond with "sorry, I didn't understand" no matter what I asked, happily doing it the 2nd time I asked. It became unreliable which is ironic because I can build this tool by myself now in a 24h hackathon using basic openai/anthropic apis..
Elon? Never did, and for the record, also never really understood his fanboys. I never even bought a Tesla. And no, besides these two guys, I don´t really remember many other CEOs making such revolutionary statements. That is usually the case when people understand their technology and are not ready to bullshit. There is one small differentiation though: At least self-driving cars hype was believable because it seemed almost like a finite-search problem, like along the lines of, how hard could it be to process X input signals from lidars and image frames and marry it to an advanced variation of what is basically a PID controller. And at least there is a defined use-case. With genAI, we have no idea what the problem definition and even problem space is, and the main use-case that the companies seem to be pushing down our throats (aside from code assistants) is "summarising your email" and chatting with your smartphone, for lonely people. Ew, thanks, but no thanks.
Senior Trump officials ordered to preserve Signal group chat
Physics-Based Deep Learning v4
Abstract:

This document is a hands-on, comprehensive guide to deep learning in the realm of physical simulations. Rather than just theory, we emphasize practical application: every concept is paired with interactive Jupyter notebooks to get you up and running quickly. Beyond traditional supervised learning, we dive into physical loss-constraints, differentiable simulations, diffusion-based approaches for probabilistic generative AI, as well as reinforcement learning and advanced neural network architectures. These foundations are paving the way for the next generation of scientific foundation models. We are living in an era of rapid transformation. These methods have the potential to redefine what's possible in computational science.
Excuse me for wanting to know the full context of the topic and do critical thinking before commenting on it, instead of opening my mouth to parrot the "Orange Man Evil" party line to farm upvotes.

See my arguments on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503672

BTW, what are your opinions and arguments on the topic, or do you just enjoy cosplaying as HN hall monitor?
You wouldn't use this format for that. It's not a universal format, but an application-specific one. It works in some applications, not in others.
This is so true. I really hope she joins this conversation so we can have a productive discussion and understand what she's actually hoping to achieve.
Lies and mistakes persist on Wikipedia for many years. They just need to sound truthy so they don't jump out to Wikipedia power users who aren't familiar with the subject. I've been keeping tabs on one for about five years, and its several years older than that, which I won't correct because I am IP range banned and I don't feel like making an account and dealing with any basement dwelling power editor NEETs who read Wikipedia rules and processes for fun. I know I'm not the only one to, because this glaring error isn't in a particularly obscure niche, its in the article for a certain notorious defense initiative which has been in the news lately, so this error has plenty of eyes on it.

In fact, the error might even be a good thing; it reminds attentive readers that Wikipedia is an unreliable source and you always have to check if citations actually say the thing which is being said in the sentence they're attached to.
> using multiple image files with unexpected formats,

Unexpected ? You mean your jpeg file is not a jpeg. Why not throw an error message then ? Why does (iMessage) it have to open every byte thrown at it ?
This has been the story for 20 years now. It's a case study in what happens when a product has a guaranteed revenue stream and the company has 0 incentive to innovate or improve anything. However, managers still need to have "launches" and leave their grimy fingerprints on the UI so they can pat themselves on the back and advance a rung on the career ladder. From a would-be user's perspective it appears this dynamic is the sole driver of changes to MS office.
I never used Facebook but I would gladly create a friendica account if I had to, it seems to have the same features: https://friendi.ca/about/features/
Virtues are a coping strategy.
In Finland you usually get a static pay just for being on call, meaning you're X minutes away from a company-approved device you can use to fix things if they break.

If there's an actual alert you need to respond to, your pay goes to 2x hourly rate, or 3-4x if it's the weekend and there usually is a minimum amount of billing you do if you have to do any work, usually 30-60 minutes. So if you get an alert and you fix it by pressing the "fix it" button on the dashboard on a Sunday, you just got paid hundreds of euros.

On the other hand you most likely saved the company from losing multiple times that in revenue, so it's worth it to the company.

I have a bunch of friends who were single and/or child free in their 20s and have fully paid apartments/houses because they could be on call at any time because they didn't have any commitments.

I also know a good amount of incidents that were fixed in a pub corner table after a few drinks. I may or may not have contributed to that number. =)
- Kindness is for the weak, winners are heartless.

- Courtesy is a symptom of dysentry.

- Empathy makes you look like a moron.

- Being decent to other humans is worse than Hitler.

(Generate a list of clickbait headlines in the form "<virtue> is actually <negative>, not <positive>".)
An Interview with Oxide's Bryan Cantrill – By George Cozma
The terahertz gap is a range of electromagnetic radiation between microwave and infrared that is very hard to generate and receive because it is too low frequency for optical systems but too high frequency for electrical.
This may be true, but since the game was published by THQ in the west who then went bankrupt, no one knows who owns the rights to this game and so no one is likely to ever release it. If source was ever released we still wouldn't use it in the decompilation since that then becomes much more of a legal issue.

The spongebob movie GBA source was released recently: https://archive.org/details/the-spongebob-squarepants-movie-...
For a cynical take, 10, 15 years ago this headline would have been "Learn to code, ignore Stack Overflow, then use SO to code even better".

In this context, AI is just one of many resources you can use - books, websites, SO, etc - to improve your coding. The big differentiator is that you can have a realtime conversation with AI, whereas when talking to other people - be it on SO, IRC, Github, forums etc - you may or may not get a response and it may or may not be helpful. AI tools are a bit more predictable that way.

I'm of the opinion that AI will not replace developers but will be another tool in their arsenal. And part of the skillset of (some) developers will be working with an AI tool effectively. I don't have that yet, but then, I don't know much about Docker / K8S, cloud providers, low level memory management, pure functional coding, Rust, graphics programming etc etc either.
An LLM is like a mouse.

You no longer have the console as the primary interface, but a GUI, which 99.9+% of computer users control via a mouse.

You no longer have the screen as the primary interface, but an AUI, which 99.9+% of computer users control via a headset, earbuds, or a microphone and speaker pair.

You mostly speak and listen to other humans, and if you're not reading something they've written, you could have it read to you in order to detach from the screen or paper.

You'll talk with your computer while in the car, while walking, or while sitting in the office.

An LLM makes the computer understand you, and it allows you to understand the computer.

Even if you use smart glasses, you'll mostly talk to the computer generating the displayed results, and it will probably also talk to you, adding information to the displayed results. It's LLMs that enable this.

Just don't focus too much on whether the LLM knows how high Mount Kilimanjaro is; its knowledge of that fact is simply a hint that it can properly handle language.

Still, it's remarkable how useful they are at analyzing things.

LLMs have a bright future ahead, or whatever technology succeeds them.
I wonder if the Android port of Advance 3 came in hand here. That version was ported to Java — and being unobfuscated, would've been a great reference point.