skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried LLMs for generating shell snippets. Mixed bag for me. It seems to have a hard time making portable awk/sed commands. It also really overcomplicates things; you really don't need to break out awk for most simple file renaming tasks. Lesser used utilities, all bets are off.

Yesterday Gemini 2.5 Pro suggested running "ps aux | grep filename.exe" to find a Wine process (pgrep is the much better way to go for that, but it's still wrong here) and get the PID, then pass that into "winedbg --attach" which is wrong in two different ways, because there is no --attach argument and the PID you pass into winedbg needs to be the Win32 one not the UNIX one. Not an impressive showing. (I already knew how to do all of this, but I was curious if it had any insights I didn't.)

For people with less experience I can see how getting e.g. tailored FFmpeg commands generated is immensely useful. On the other hand, I spent a decent amount of effort learning how to use a lot of these tools and for most of the ways I use them it would be horrific overkill to ask an LLM for something that I don't even need to look anything up to write myself.

Will people in the future simply not learn to write CLI commands? Very possible. However, I've come to a different, related conclusion: I think that these areas where LLMs really succeed in are examples of areas where we're doing a lot of needless work and requiring too much arcane knowledge. This counts for CLI usage and web development for sure. What we actually want to do should be significantly less complex to do. The LLM actually sort of solves this problem to the extent that it works, but it's a horrible kludge solution. Literally converting video files and performing basic operations on them should not require Googling reference material and Q&A websites for fifteen minutes. We've built a vastly overly complicated computing environment and there is a real chance that the primary user of many of the interfaces will eventually not even be humans. If the interface for the computer becomes the LLM, it's mostly going to be wasted if we keep using the same crappy underlying interfaces that got us into the "how do I extract tar file" problem in the first place.
FTC Tells Staff to Stop Calling the Agency 'Independent' in Complaints
When I first started reading appeals court cases, my mind was blown at things like this.

A guy wasn't appealing the facts and crime, just the inclusion on the sex offender list. And the judges were like "oh wow, you're right, this isn't even a listed reason to be included on the list, the prosecutor erred in demanding that"

like... what!? so everyone that took a plea deal or ran out of money or inspiration on how to challenge anything is just has this curse on them.
Although I’m generally not a fan of companies getting involved in international politics, working for Cuba (or whatever actually happened, it’s not clear) seems like a pretty stupid thing to do
DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi
I get a kick out of how the link in this story is "twitter.com" instead of "x.com".

Personally, I think everyone should just continue to say "Twitter."
If diseases manifest differently for different races and genders, the obvious solution is to train multiple LLMs, based on separate datasets for those different groups. Not to mutter darkly about bias and discrimination.
Awww the criminals in the largest gang of the USA might get upset?

Tough fucking luck.
YouTube's Weird World of Fake Movie Trailers
The problem is that without image captions or subtitles, you lose accessibility for anyone with a screen reader.
if this didn’t happen, how much more would TSLA have to drop for the $12B debt to get margin called given it is collateralized by TSLA? IIUC what has happened here is the debt has been repaid by selling xAI equity? Wasn’t xAI constructed in the first place to poof some magic money from thin air to give to unhappy Twitter investors and keep them happy?
Yes same setup as when Tesla bought Solar city .. one playbook he pours out of.
So, what does this actually mean?
It bails out Elon and means his Tesla shares (borrowed against to purchase Twitter) won’t be liquidated as Tesla’s share price continues to decline, using xAI investor funds. He uses hype and sentiment (inflating valuations) in the capital markets to always stay slightly ahead of consequences.
Proper medical research
> the first sentence should have the who, what, when, where

I utterly despise modern long form journalism which does not establish any of these things until 1/3 through the article. It’s infuriating.
sorry i dont want to get shot
I also use the iWork suite because that's what I have, and I despise Numbers

Pages and Keynote are fine but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do anything with Numbers. It looks beautiful and I want to like it but as you say it's (too) different from Excel, at least for me.
Yes exactly. And that's precisely why I use Continue. The day you start force your own products/models on us is the day I leave.
Ah yes. Now we know why those articles about X's valuation resurgence have been coming out lately. He "rescued the value" by selling it to another company he owns.

Look, maybe the Twitter dataset and control over the algorithm is worth $45 billion. But I've seen the state of ads on Twitter these days and it is clearly not worth anything close to that from advertising income.
> But how likely is it that you can learn to not be a pedophile?

States have experimented with many ways to deal with that, all of which can be evaluated independently on their own merits.

So this defeatist idea is very antiquated.
https://pdf.wondershare.com/accounting/linux-accounting-soft...
Trust the experts:

"The investigation found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government’s 2016 election interference."

"However, "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities"."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_special_counsel_inve...
Elon Musk says xAI acquired X
Who is behind this and how does it work?

Why is this information not present on the front page?

And why does somebody who thinks people would start using and relying on it not immediately understand that that's important information?
> Sure, they lost their jobs. But they weren't creators. They were rent seekers. Rent seeking on an arbitrary mechanical skill.

Labor is not rent-seeking. That is not what this term means. Vilifying skilled laborers that lost their career due to automation, while glorifying the factory owners who coopted the entirety of this economic surplus for themselves, is capitalist propaganda.
I think Hackernews changes the link to twitter.com after submission to avoid duplicates.
I have a hard time taking that kind of worry seriously. In ten years, how many bridges will have collapsed because of LLMs? How many people will have died? Meanwhile, how many will have died from fentanyl or cars or air pollution or smoking. Why do people care so much about the hypothetical bad effects from new technology and so little about the things we already know are harmful
If you factor in the cost of any government managed trash cleanup, it might. Basically require producers to cover all of the costs required to get the trash disposed of properly. Filtering micro-plastics out of the ocean? Add it to the plastic tax. Health costs from birth defects caused by certain plastic exposure? Add it to the tax for those plastics.

I think the market works amazingly as long as there's government to line the incentives up right.
Is he really saying anything new here with this concept? I've read a few of his books, and I can't think of one original or incisive idea or framework that is genuinely interesting or provocative. Eg, he talks about us today being aspirational subjects in a neoliberal world. I do agree, but this is not exactly illuminating .

I don't mean to dump on him, but he's mentioned so often now when subjects like this are brought up.
This may be the correct attitude towards school-age kids, but is plainly wrong when dealing with toddlers. For one thing, very young children are usually unable to empathize. So they are unable to understand why it's bad to seize their cousin's toy, they are unable to understand why it's bad to leave a mess for someone else to clean up - they can be taught a set of rules of behavior, but they won't really get the principle underlying those rules until their brain grows more and develops the ability to imagine themselves in other people's shoes.
For those unfamiliar with Unseen Japan's work, he's a known engagement farmer on gaijin twitter. Grain of salt encouraged
I think Avalon’s is most interesting from a pure technology perspective so suits here! They are all great though
You have a few options:

- Dagger supports opentelemetry natively: it emits traces, metrics and logs that you can send to your favorite observability tool, or to our commercial product Dagger Cloud (which has a free tier) which lets you drill down into the trace. See https://docs.dagger.io/features/visualization

- The Dagger CLI also renders the otel traces, and you can browse them as well. Press escape, then navigate with up, down, enter, escape. Same drill-down functionality but straight from the CLI

- You can call dagger with the --interactive flag. If you do, in case of an error you will get an interactive shell to inspect the state at time of failure.

- You can also call the `Container.terminal()` function from your code, to force an interactive terminal to appear for the user at that stage. Sort of like a "debug printf" but with an interactive terminal
That and the data that is a part of X can be used by the xAI team. I expect it will be in the TOS if it isn't there already.

"xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent."
In short, yes.

https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/capital-raisi...
The SEC DOGE was in today?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-securities-exchange-comm...
Actual source (source of source of source):

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1782

More research from Takuzo Aida, which is quite impressive to read how they got there:

https://www.science.org/authored-by/Aida/Takuzo
My take is that its super obvious X is a rapidly failing social media platform that is reportedly very dangerously leveraged with Tesla stock value... but xAI still has that Zombo.com magic where anything is possible and the unattainable is unknown.
Different factories in different countries on the tags which seems like a reasonable explanation.
Thanks for the reply. I’ll get in touch via email in the next few days.

I don’t think the goals of “human in the loop” and “fast and decent” are mutually exclusive, or really even at odds with each other.

I just think that most autorouters I’ve tried seem to have been written by CS people who thought PCB layout was an interesting problem to solve - without a particularly deep understanding of what working EEs care about in terms of how you route the board.

Case in point: plenty of autorouters seem to work on the paradigm of “all tracks routed? Great. I’m done.” Never mind that everything is two layers of spaghetti: no ground plane, no power planes, no regard for SI or EMC compliance. In other words: pure hell to test and certify.

Not trying to be crotchety EE by saying this - I can give a good example of what I mean in real time. I also feel like I’m a bit of the exception in the EE community in that I think this is a solvable problem. I just don’t think many CS people have really bothered to consult any real working EEs about their workflows and the downstream portion of test and certification.
What's your experience developing a package manager for one of the world's most popular Linux distributions?

Maybe they know something you don't ?????
Hey, Mumbai folks will fight you for supremacy on bad scenery. Course we concede the actual crown to our dearest friends in Delhi.
Well, it's not as if this is the first free alternative. Here is a wonderful, incredibly powerful tool, not written in Java, but in Free Pascal, which is probably too often underestimated: Xidel[1]. Just have a look at the features and check its Github page[2]. I've often been amazed at its capabilities and, apart from web scraping, I mainly use it for XQuery executions - so far the latest version 0.9.9 has also implemented XPath/XQuery 3.1 perfectly for my requirements. Another insider tip is that XPath/XQuery 3.1 can also be used to transform JSON wonderfully - JSONiq is therefore obsolete.

[1] https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

[2] https://github.com/benibela/xidel
Re xslt based web applications - a team at my employer did the same circa 2004. It worked beautifully except for one issue: inefficiency. The qps that the app could serve was laughable because each page request went through the xslt engine more than once. No amount of tuning could fix this design flaw, and the project was killed.

Names withheld to protect the guilty. :)
Goes without saying that the token secret is not stored in plaintext in the db.
To me it appears to be a way to pay his lenders without liquidating or collateralizing more Tesla stock.
I do and I always will. I refuse to play along with corporate rebrands, be it Twitter, Facebook, Comcast, Charter or anything else.
Musk threatens to sic the government on people 'pushing' Tesla 'propaganda'
There is a setting (opt-out outside of EU, opt-in inside EU I think) that allows/forbids data sharing with X since Grok was released.
And Facebook instead of Meta, although if I think of it, I'd rather not say any of those in any context.
I went to school in Minnesota and we had to go to a certain music store and ask a specific employee for the book. I believe it was $50. It was basically required to play jazz.
There are a lot of APIs out there that are still XML-based, especially from enterprise suppliers.

Equifax and Experian’s APis immediately come to mind as documents that generate complex results that people often want to turn into some type of visual representation with XSLT.
He has done this move before with Tesla buying Solar City. When you do a deal with yourself you can assign any value you want to assets, it isn’t a competitive process. In the previous case Solar City was dying but its acquisition by Tesla was pitched as a great synergy.

https://www.businessinsider.com/solarcity-tesla-energy-belea...

There were a few lawsuits from Tesla shareholders about the acquisition regarding self dealing but they didn’t succeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity
Weren't they already doing that? I recall before I bailed from X/Twitter they already added an AI training consent toggle, which silently defaulted to "I consent" for all existing users of course.
US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff
With sex offenders, the crimes are typically. listed, at least at a high level. If someones record says for viable penetration of a minor under 13, I really don't need to know more to turn down their offer to babysit

Breathalyzer is standard, but gives a poor indication of actual incapacitation.
> so long as they manage their risks appropriately.

How is this part enforced? Self review?
Guessing it means Linda Yaccarino doesn't get to pretend to be CEO anymore.
"the prototype is still evolving."
Doesn’t the Point Spread Function already achieve this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function
Can we speculate if X's CTO didn't like the reorg? 3 days ago "X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470613
Notes on Gemini 2.5 Pro: The new coding SOTA
Google has finally arrived

Some observations on the model

- Gemini 2.5 pro is absolutely a beast in coding, perhaps the best model right now
- They spent all the computing resources on training it on coding data and forgot to give it a distinct personality.
- It doesn’t do well on reasoning as well as Grok 3 (think) and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)
- On par with 03-mini-high in general mathematics

If you’re a coder, you’ll love it, or else you will be fine with other frontier reasoning models (Deepseek r1, if you ask me)
Don't forget Blackwater!
Show HN: I made mind mapping fun again
> whisper through fungal cables

the wood wide web isn't real
Yes. He did it with Solarcity already.
As a Wayland user with an oled screen I very much appreciate the coming wayland support. I haven’t found any good lock screen solution that doesn’t risk burn-in for wayland yet.
I kind of wonder if something like the sea change from before-phone to after-phone will happen again in a couple years. What if people switch to subvocalizing with their AI instead of interacting with a screen?
> which obviously happen either way.

No? If you don’t drill then the carbon emissions from that drilling don’t happen.

I think that fact opens a loophole for carbon credits, actually.
>The only reason anyone uses Windows anymore is for gaming

We've been hearing that for 5? 10? 15? 20? years?

Windows is really decent, even for developers since WSL2 is there.
Song selection comes from hours of listening to music in the style you will be playing. Eventually, you will hear a riff from one song and it will make you think of another song. Those will be interesting to mix together. You might hear one song with a bass line that you really like with a melody line that is on the lighter side. You might then come across a song with a strong melody, but a bass line that could be punched up. Combine the two with some appropriate EQing, and make your own mix. After mixing for awhile, you will learn to listen in a different way than just someone listening to music.

Using a tool to beat match has always been considered "cheating", but it is obvious why it is a tool. Beat matching is probably the most technically challenging aspect. Eventually, you'll even get a feel for songs that are close in tempo--most music in a genre will be pretty close by default. Learning to ride this bike with training wheels is just an option I did not have. Being able to manually adjust the pitch/tempo (depending on equipment) without the auto tools becomes quite satisfying.

Some DJs talk about knowing what key a song is in, and if it will mix into another song. If you then have to adjust the pitch for beat matching, how does that affect the key of the song and how it now mixes? I've never claimed to do this, but after playing in school band I can at least hear the wahwahwah from something being out of tune (or was that the nitrous??). Maybe if you're mixing some prog-trance with sustained chords you might hear that, but I'd suggest finding a different place in the track to be mixing.

The physical controller is precisely why I love vinyl.
You can still live comfortably without depending on private (I meant large private) entities in Kerala. Also there are supermarket chains but they haven't overtaken normal non-chain grocery supermarkets. Not even close. Of the top of my head I can list three chains near me and most of my household lives without needing to buy from them and just going to regular stores.

Edit: To add to it. In Italy, you eat pasta for lunch. To buy cheap pasta you go to Pam/Conad/Carrefour/Aldi/Lidl supermarket chain and buy Pam/Conad/Adli/Lidl branded ones as usually they are the cheapest buy vary in quality. But here getting cheap Rice, for lunch, is different. In Italy, to buy basic milk you do the same and probably the cheap whole fat one is branded by the supermarket. Here, you go to the diary, which gets from a collection of local farmers. To buy eggs, you don't go buy supermarket branded eggs, you could pay someone in your neighborhood with animals to supply. I've never seen supermarket branded eggs until I reached the west to be honest.
You built this? Would you like to comment what your future plans are?

Your self-description is "entrepreneur love for automation". Is it fair to assume that if this takes off then you are planning to introduce paid plans (perhaps with some revenue sharing with the signal folks to lift rate limits for you)?
> have to guarantee that multiple rename operations are executed in a transaction. Which you can't. Unless you have really fancy filesystem

Not strictly. You have to guarantee that after reboot you rollback any partial package operations. This is what a filesystem journal does anyways. So it would be one fsync() per package and not one per every file in the package. The failure mode implies a reboot must occur.

> It's called being correct and reliable.

There are multiple ways to achieve this. There are different requirements among different systems which is the whole point of this post. And your version of "correct and reliable" depends on /when/ I pull the plug. So you're paying a huge price to shift the problem from one side of the line to the other in what is not clearly a useful or pragmatic way.
Get involved, tell and show them you know better. They have a bug tracker, mailing list etc
AI Art Is Bittersweet
> best case scenario, the new youth leadership of UKD actually wins and does some work

Trust me. You don't want that. Ussi najuwane nu khadi pata ni hege (Kangri but translate to your equivalent)
The Supreme court ruling has absolutely no bearing on this.

What statistics, what well documented patterns? You mean biased selection of footage from Reddit?
Maybe he's just not for you. This is actually really unfair to anyone writing philosophy these days. That the dude has to revolutionize the way we think with some deep and original insight otherwise his work is worthless. Is that really the only value taken from philosophy? How about hermeneutics or social communication? I believe Han excels in the latter and is bringing more and more thinkers from different fields to think about the fundamental problems of society, people with technical and scientific backgrounds that would otherwise not join the debate and help design a better society.
Show HN: I made a better SaaS problem finder
So I recently added a new feature making it easier to find problems that people have, that can be turned into products with a predefined user base. I made the selection of subreddits easier by using an AI to do this based on a category. Tell me what you think.
I think any LLM that’s not trained on X data comes out ahead.
> In fact, I think the current LLM rampage of sorts acted as a flood to fill the drought of incremental innovation that would have otherwise occurred.

We’ve been running on the remnants of research from the 50s - 70s for awhile now. Businesses have slow rolled the tech as long as they could, but the truth is, we’re at the end of the research that’s been accomplished. Given that and the exodus of researchers to go do things like optimize ads, I think the tech landscape will be fairly flat for the foreseeable future. Humans sailed for thousands of years before the steamship was realized. Our level of advancement over the past 100 years has been impressive, and there’s a lot we can do with it, if we don’t wipe ourselves out, but I expect this to be humanity’s current limit for the foreseeable future. I believe the next big breakthrough that is needed to realize a technical breakthrough is a societal one. We need to value education, research, and stop fighting with one another over every single thing that exists. Whatever form of society that looks like, will be when humanity finally breaks free of its limits.
To be honest the breathalyzer is a bit hypocritical as well. The limit is usually set so low that it becomes a tool of selective enforcement.

Either we are willing to say that the limit is 0 with a de minimis exception and otherwise any alcohol in your blood is DUI or you're effectively having the officer decide.

It has happened to me a couple times; I was stopped and the officer just let me go because I was obviously fine, but I'd have failed a "scientific" test.