skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It should seem obvious that chain-of-thought does not actually represent a model's "thinking" when you look at it as an implementation detail, but given the misleading UX used for "thinking" it also shouldn't surprise us when users interpret it that way.
Really? Where? In the UK it's legal as long as it still passes MOT, but it should be declared to your insurer.
It's deeply frustrating that these companies keep gaslighting people into believing LLMs can think.
Leaked files raise fears over safety of Shell oil production fleet
Nah, the front end is just visible. And any errors that originate get surfaced in the front end. All you get to see as a use is "website said no".

It's only now, in the days of "vibe coding" that I would firmly put the sole blame on developers for bad application interfaces, because it's usually just one clueless person who is YOLOing code out into the wild. Everywhere else: hidden icebergs of complexity and you didn't know what led to the current state.
Agreed. It's tempting to make the tersest lang you can but in the end what matters is ease of reading.

For ex. parens-less calls (myfunc 42 "hello") are elegant but don't stand out and - for me - take more time to identify.

Also `fun foo(i:int)` is easier on the parser than C-style `void foo(int i)`
accountability sinks are all you need
This is 4chan worthy fan-fiction
Show HN: Owl, a Spaced Repetition App
Owl is built a spaced repetition app. We built it for ourselves mostly because we were unhappy with Anki from a UX perspective, and are now releasing it to everybody else.

It is super tiny, but - we think - also pretty good. You can add your own decks manually, or generate them from a PDF (think academic papers, which is how I use that feature) or a prompt. There are no emails except study reminders (when there are cards to study). You can also use our "AI tutor" to review cards conversationally.

Looking forward to your feedback!
Well, your read couldn't possibly be more wrong. I don't think my situation is anything better than anyone else's, so there's nothing to "show off". Your mindreading machine is broken.

But you think I'm a liar, so there's no point in talking about this any further. Thanks for your response.
I need a political/government theory and/or for the conversation to step away from a particular definition of obligation and similar semantics, to go forward at this point.
Competition and Survival in Modern Academia
The foundation cocktail place in SF has some art on the wall that changes every minute. I can't remember if by John Cage or someone else..
In modern browsers, Text fragments let you highlight specific portions of text on a page, be it at the bottom or anywhere. In Chrome, just highlight the text and right click -> Copy link to highlight.

I use it every day instead of anchors to highlight very specific parts of the text, to avoid referring to the whole section with an anchor. Some pages don't even have anchors

Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...
> The cryptsetup, cryptenroll, unified kernel images, kernel signing and systemd-boot work nicely together.

This has not been my experience across Debian and Arch
> even then the original code wouldn’t conform to the structure of the test.

yeah, this part should be central in this work: how well those tests are built, do they actually are catching data leakage, how this is measured, etc.
Somewhat shamefully, this is probably what like a good 60% of my use for my flipper zero has devolved into. If we're going to be surrounded by IR controllable devices, give us the ability to control the dang things!
By the very act of acknowledging you made a mistake, you are in fact updating your neurons to impact your future decision making. But that is flat out impossible the way LLMs currently run. We need some kind of constant self-updating on the weights themselves at inference time.
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Technologies: React, Typescript, Ruby/Rails, Node.js/express -- any modern web application framework is easily within my wheelhouse, especially in the LLM era.

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The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
Are you hiring full time only? I'm looking for part time 20 hours a week.
I'm also confused by that, but it could just be the model being agreeable. I've seen multiple examples posted online though where it's fairly clear that the COT output is not included in subsequent turns. I don't believe Anthropic is public about it (could be wrong), but I know that the Qwen team specifically recommend against including COT tokensfrom previous inferences.
Technically it's okay to be confused and wrong, but it is not really okay to be vocal about it. It just steals people's time. Maybe it is deliberate trolling, how should we know? Better to be moderated out
I just need you to know that I went and googled "John Cage 4'33" " and now I am quite upset with you for this comment!!!
The physical socket also introduces a new point of failure. In the olden days there was often "ram was bad but taking it out and reseating it in the socket fixed it", which can be avoided by just having it be on the same physical chip.
Just think about the delta of what the LLM does and what a human does, or why can’t the LLM replace the human, e.g. in a game studio.

If it can replace a teacher or an artist in 2027, you’re right and I’m wrong.
What kind of hardware setup would be needed to replicate the paper’s results?
Did you see this? https://c3-lang.org/language-common/cinterop/
About six months ago I went to a government auction site that required Internet Explorer. Yes, Internet Explorer. The site was active, too; the auction data was up-to-date. I added a user-agent extension in Chrome, switched to IE, retried and it worked; all functionality on the site was fine. So yeah, I was both sad and annoyed. My guess is this government office paid for a website 25 years ago and it hasn't been updated since.
For 2/3 — isn’t it just another api call to get the mappings [solving 6 as a side effect] then somehow wiring it up to the frontend like you already do?

The sidebar greying out the foreground now and not able to stay locked REALLY breaks flow. Fixing that slightly mitigates.

It’s amazing tho and I’ll subscribe soon enough.
> If f(paper) -> code is the weakest part of the chain, it makes sense to target that.

my point is that LLMs are already potentially seeing solution on github, so you can't use that benchmark as metric unless there is some explanation.
40 billion cash to OpenAI while others keep chasing butterflies.

Sad.
I think you're anthropomorphizing there. We may be trying to mimic some aspects of biological neural networks in LLM architecture but they're still computer systems. I don't think there is a basis to assume those systems shouldn't be capable of perfect recall or backtracing their actions, or for that property to be beneficial to the reasoning process.
> leadership of the two main political parties in the US have largely invested in messaging around the values that they represent

I'd say they invest in messaging around the values they want voters to believe they represent.

i.e., marketing and ensuing reality diverge regularly with politicians, regardless of affiliation.
I really think you should read Dan's post in full. Because you really did make the error him and Hillel discuss. I think it'll also help interpret my point and the gp to my comment. We're not thinking in a framework where CS and Eng are all that different.

Or skip to this part of Hillel's video[0]

I've been an aerospace engineer. Worked there before coming over to CS. And I can certainty tell you that yes, someone may ask you to split a floor in half. There's nothing really preventing you from doing this. There's buildings with more levels than there are ordered floors. It's a 15 floor building, but you label your floors 1-14. Such an area can be used for things like running conduit or even just as a fire break. Hell, there are even split level homes, you know those ones where you walk in the front door and either go up or down? There's also things like scissor flats.

So yeah, you are making the mistake because your example belies you. It illustrates that you aren't aware of the complexities and abstractions in the engineering job. It's okay to have only a rudimentary understanding of engineering, you've spent your time learning other things that are more valuable to you. But that doesn't mean you should assume things are simpler than they are.

The truth is that any job, has depth and far more complexity than appears at the surface. While in many jobs you can get away with only doing the simple part, there's still more depth than is actually being utilized. Likely for the same common error. You are right about cost being a big factor, but this is also a very different argument than the one about floor 8 and a half.

https://x.com/danluu/status/1484268111687663620

[0] https://youtu.be/3018ABlET1Y?t=920
One thing I like about 4′33″ is that it is very compressible, especially the studio version. The live version, a little less so.
Show HN: Build Your Own Security Lake – Open-Source OCSF Converters to S3
I have been following your product for a while now. Pdf editing is a hard problem, but good to see the progress you have made!
The question follows the discussion taking place. The specific subject was broached, but has been lacking in details. It would be inappropriate to state that it is independent of the topic. It is clearly not.

If you don't want to participate in the discussion, that's okay, but inventing nonsense to make that statement is, well, curious. I suggest not responding is the best way to communicate that you do not wish to participate, but to each their own, I suppose.
We're far from AI. There is no intelligence. The fact the industry decided to move the goal post and re-brand AI for marketing purposes doesn't mean they had a right to hijack a term that has decades of understood meaning. They're using it to bolster the hype around the work, not because there has been a genuine breakthrough in machine intelligence, because there hasn't been one.

Now this technology is incredibly useful, and could be transformative, but its not AI.

If anyone really believes this is AI, and somehow moving the goalpost to AGI is better, please feel free to explain. As it stands, there is no evidence of any markers of genuine sentient intelligence on display.
2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once
From what I've seen (briefly worked at a logistics company and would see companies POs), apparels seem to be more in the 5x to 10 range.
how am I supposed to take articles like this seriously when they say absolutely false bullshit like this

> the AIs can do everything taught by a CS degree

no, they fucking can't. not at all. not even close. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Does anyone really think this?

Why have I not seen -any- complete software created via vibe coding yet?
> It was easier to have non-threatening debates because everyone felt more secure. When people are stressed and afraid, the debates aren’t just intellectual exercises but things that could mean the loss of real opportunities in their lives.

You’re right that people feel less secure, but that doesn’t mean that they are correct when they feel that.

By pretty much any measure, I believe that people in 2025 are far more secure than they were in 1975, 1985 or 1995.
When I first heard that Android was based on Linux, I thought, "Great! I'll be able to use my phone the way I use my desktop, with shell scripts, cron tasks, etc."

The reality was quite a disappointment. I suppose I could do at least some of the things I'd like to do with it if I rooted it, but I don't want to become a full-on hobbyist; I just want to do basic things that I routinely do in seconds on a normal PC.
> It does not include cases like someone dying in a car crash who happened to be COVID-positive.

Maybe not, but it definitely includes millions of elderly or otherwise comorbid subjects who developed pneumonia and never recovered. Sad is it is, that happens year-in and year-out when the initial virus doesn't have a household name.

It also happens with the influenza virus ... except 2020 and 2021, where we had a miraculous reprieve from flu deaths.
AI CoT may work the same extremely flawed way that human introspection does, and that’s fine, the reason we may want to hold them to a higher standard is because someone proposed to use CoTs to monitor ethics and alignment.
Better than ever: the new Proton Drive 2.0 for macOS – Proton
The dual mandate makes plenty of sense when you realize that the Fed and monetary policy aren't intended to be the whole of economic policy, and that the actual main piece of economic policy is with Congress and fiscal policy.
No, for the same reason I don't try to manufacture my own car in my backyard or build my own house, or grow all of my own food, or ...

This is basic fucking common sense: I'm good at some things and other people are good at other things. We each specialize in the things we're best at, and everyone ends up better off.
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Tunnel CMS is the simplest markdown CMS. It parses markdown files and outputs html in real time whenever necessary.
I think that you can compose arbitrary images that way using an image-like font (using various Unicode chars and assigning to each a small tile of the full image)

Actually I am now curious of how much detail/size/colours/animations you can fit in a single letter.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson was a good book that goes into what happens when things change between the Earth and Moon.
Ask HN: Claude Pro vs. Claude via Kagi Ultimate
A subscription to Claude Pro gives access to Extended Thinking and the web (via Brave). A subscription to Kagi Ultimate gives Claude with Extended Thinking, as well as many other LLM models, access to the Kagi search engine.

On one hand, giving Claude access to Kagi should be superior to Brave. However, I don't know if the quality of Claude in Kagi is truly equivalent to Claude via a subscription through Anthropic.

Has anyone done a serious comparison of the two?

Thanks!
> the hubris of the conspiring board members is astounding.

???

How does a company board conspire? A board is a group of people that collaborates basically for the sole purpose of deciding whether or not to fire the CEO at any given time. Whether or not you think they made the right call, that is the express purpose of any company board.
This is exactly why I left Android. If you're going to become the iPhone and cost nearly as much, I'll just buy the real thing.
Are you guys hiring part time for Frontend? 20h a week
3D Printing: Saving weight and space at launch
The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters
Oh look, a Trump advisor who understands nothing.
This was sadly always going to be the outcome of the Internet going commercial.

There's too much lost revenue in open things for companies to embrace fully open technology anymore.
Ah, so that's why they don't drink much coffee in Utah. I thought it was because of some Broadway musical!
That graph shows a 130B monthly deficit. So maybe not 2B but still 1.5B on a yearly basis.
> What incentive does a company have to move a billion dollar facility to the USA when it will face reciprocal tariffs on any exported goods from the USA?

Access to the richest single market in the world ?
Yes the nature of employment is that you're paid to do whatever the guy paying you tells you to do. Roles and specializations are organizational tools - meaning, for the benefit of the organization, not you. There will never be an exact match between the "definition of a role" and "the work that needs to be done."
If it was a snake it would have bit me
I mean I know people who are still using 2010 MacBook Pro's with modern macOS versions. Just about any problem is fixable, it just depends on your skill level or how much money you wanna put into it. Another reminder to use whatever computer you want. All it has to be is the best for you.
Is it really necessary to highlight the heading at all?

I’m a passionate frontend engineer, but I do think we are often busy “asking if we could”, and ignore “if we should”.

Worth noticing, on mobile you can’t even read the conclusion in the “it’s beautiful” demo, because the navigation covers it.

I understand that it is just a demo, and that issue could be solved independently…

But I think it also points at the observation that when you try to do these kinds of unusual things, you open yourself to unintended consequences.

And while you can mitigate those consequences one by one, my experience is that you generally won’t have a chance nailing them all, unless you are also minimizing their number… by not getting too fancy.
> had to iterate with them for 4/5 times each. Gemini got it right but then used deprecated methods

How hard would it be to automate these iterations?

How hard would it be to automatically check and improve the code to avoid deprecated methods?

I agree that most products are still underwhelming, but that doesn't mean that the underlying tech is not already enough to deliver better LLM-based products. Lately I've been using LLMs more and more to get started with writing tests on components I'm not familiar with, it really helps.
https://youtu.be/DRTHMdNVtJ4?si=jcw5tFzR88zVSrw2
No, the CoT is not simply extra context the models are specifically trained to use CoT and that includes treating it as unspoken thought
nevermind, I hate this website :D
My understanding of the "purpose" of CoT, is to remove the wild variability yielded by prompt engineering, by "smoothing" out the prompt via the "thinking" output, and using that to give the final answer.

Thus you're more likely to get a standardized answer even if your query was insufficiently/excessively polite.
My comment was referencing the Framework 13, not the ThinkPad :)
> For the last 20 years at least, the leadership of the two main political parties in the US have largely invested in messaging around the values that they represent.

Except that the "values" each promotes are often inconsistent with other "values" they promote, sometimes to the point of absurd irrationality, e.g. marijuana vs tobacco or alcohol.

And other "values" are completely independent, but correlate so highly that "tribalism" is a much better explainer, e.g. abortion and guns.

> and into a world where the parties policies are aiming to realize fundamentally different visions of the world, based on fundamentally different values.

That's not new.

On a very high level, the two major parties do want everyone to be healthy, wealthy and wise -- the issue is that they disagree on what those words mean, and what should be sacrificed (and by whom) to achieve it, which means the two major parties have always had very different visions of the future.

> If you discover that someone has completely different values from you, then discussing policy isn't going to be useful anyway, because there's no way you'll agree on a single policy when you have different fundamental values.

And that right there is a call to tribalism: Don't bother with Those People, They Have Different Values, They Aren't Like Us.
Plus when I'm paying I know that I'm the customer, not the product.
> I had no issues installing Epic Games

Except Fortnite =(
I highly suspect that CoT tokens are at least partially working as register tokens. Have these big LLM trainers tried replacing CoT with a similar amount of register tokens and see if the improvements are similar?
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Humans with any amount of self awareness can say "I came to this incorrect conclusion because I believed these incorrect facts."
Oh, sorry to hear that you have to deal with that!

The way I'm getting a sense of the progress is using AI for what AI is currently good at, using my human brain to do the part AI is currently bad at, and comparing it to doing the same work without AI's help.

I feel like AI is pretty close to automating 60-80% of the work I would've had to do manually two years ago (as a full-stack web developer).

It doesn't mean that the remaining 20-40% will be automated very quickly, I'm just saying that I don't see the progress getting any slower.
While I agree that LLMs are hardly sapient, it's very hard to make this argument without being able to pinpoint what a model of intelligence actually is.

"Human brains lack any model of intelligence. It's just neurons firing in complicated patterns in response to inputs based on what statistically leads to reproductive success"
"""

• Instead of forming hypotheses, users asked the AI for ideas.

• Instead of validating sources, they assumed the AI had already done so.

• Instead of assessing multiple perspectives, they integrated and edited the AI’s summary and moved on.

This isn’t hypothetical. This is happening now, in real-world workflows.

"""

Amen, and OSINT is hardly unique in this respect.

And implicitly related, philosophically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561654
You typed a really long comment, but you're not talking about the same thing. Listening to an ad before a song starts is very obviously not part of the music, even if it's part of "the experience of listening to music (on a streaming service)." The ad before a song plays is not included in the song's official runtime.

You're essentially describing the time the audience sits waiting for the orchestra to walk onto the stage as being "part of the experience of going to the orchestra." Which is fine, but it's not considered part of the song (unless the composer's quirky and writes "walk onto the stage" at the beginning of the music sheets, which is basically what this guy did with the 17-month rest).

Moreover, nobody was actually sitting in that cathedral for 17 months listening to the first rest. If a 17-month rest is played in the middle of a forest and nobody hears it, was it really a 17-month rest? Who experienced that "experience?"
Slightly slower web frameworks by 2026. By 2030, a lot slower.
Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo
We built an open source remote MCP server that can automatically serve documentation from every Github project.
Simply replace github.com with gitmcp.io in the repo URL - and you get a remote MCP server that serves and searches the documentation from this repo (llms.txt, llms-full.txt, readme.md, etc). Works with github.io as well.
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Surely you're familiar with https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/ (2022)?

> I wonder who pays the bills of the authors. And your bills, for that matter.

Also, what a weirdly conspiratorial question. There's a prominent "Who are we?" button near the top of the page and it's not a secret what any of the authors did or do for a living.
Even with inheritance tax, 60% of the money would go to the children