skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see AI training on public material like I would upcoming artists being inspired by the artists before them. Obviously the scale is very different. I don't mind your scenario because an AI firm, if they couldn't stay on top of what their model was creating, could voluntarily reduce the material used to train it.
If getting accepted by 3 top universities in 18 applications is bad I must be a saint applying for hundreds if jobs on LinkedIn and getting none. Good article.
What part of that paragraph you quoted suggests that Microsoft BASIC wasn't original work?
" Our costs go up as they need to rent and make purchases too."
Would you support planned population control when it comes to births as well? 2 child policies?
Are you pro-abortion because it means less competition for housing/jobs?

Are you for government controlled population resettlement of American citizens within the United States to level out where housing demand is high versus low?

My family all spoke German and lived in a german speaking town in Iowa (a state that 'their people' flooded with their immigration without asking the American's that lived there) up until WW2, they are American and American culture, but your proposal would have deported them because they didn't speak English/were changing the culture in ways that can't be managed and banned them from moving there. My mom a descendant of 'non-assimulatable Germans corrupting culture in America' was a controller at multiple software companies in the Bay Area. Sun-bleached blond blue eyed me played high school football (a sport of immigrant kids arguing over rules of the british sports it ended up springing from), surfed (why are Americans importing polynesian culture and ruining America?), restored muscle cars (America is polluting it's culture popularizing the GTO, it doesn't even have an English language name), and wrote software in Santa Cruz (Bay Area software owes hugely to immigrants).

The amount of AMAZING people, the ginormous amount of talent capital the Bay Area gained when Tiananmen happened causing a huge portion of the Chinese students in the US to want to/be allowed to stay makes me call BS on whatever fear mongering you are putting in your China argument that you think can't be addressed by standard laws. I love chinese people. Heck I love China, have you been there? Yeah there are differences that need to be addressed, but how about we address them instead of using those issues/differences to delegitimize an entire population of people?

Immigration is HUGELY beneficials to the US. Do you care about money?
It costs minimum $250,000 to the parents to have a child.
Another $10-20,000 per year in schooling costs to the government
Added insurance cost to businesses when children are born/added to the plan.
Instead of more housing like you would like, families tend to prefer larger, more suburban homes, reducing housing density and therefor reducing supply and raising costs.
To get a wholy formed new worker for free is a huge boost to the country.

There is a town in Santa Cruz called Watsonville. I'm pretty sure it would meet your culture whatever BS because it is heavily latino so wrongculture. Guess what, before that when you probably would have given it a pass in your 'culture' test, it was Polish. And guess what, it didn't meet the THEN culture America First test of being American because it was filled with eastern Europeans poles.
I have multiple family members that are frustrated with higher learning because their children came out of the system more liberal-minded than when they entered. In this politically divided climate they feel like the university system “stole” their children from them.

In reality I don’t think people’s political opinions change very much and they are just mad that their children individuated.
> That is true, but it does not prove that capital has no borders ( original point of contention ).

Which is easier to execute: legally investing on a goat project on Mongolia or Djibouti over 2 years vs legally living there for 2 years?

It's self evident that there are far fewer hurdles for capital to transcend national borders than people. I am not certain if your argument is that the existence of minimal friction proves that there are borders for capital. If so, I'll concede that capital crossing market and judicial boundaries will encounter some minor bumps - typically from the country of origin. This heavily contrasts with labor, which faces significantly more resistance, and the resistance is from the destination country/market/juridiction. Would you agree with "Countries bend over backwards for capital inflows, including from individual investors"? It's a mouthful, but perhaps expresses the same sentiment.
Rule breaking is part of the game in sports. Players will, for example, take a penalty if it is worth it. Hockey has fights, basketball has fouls as a resource that gets expended over the course of the game.
How do I chat with Google?
I've commented this before, but does this grant an exemption from the automatic purging that ITP does? the wording makes it seem like it does but that just makes their justification for ITP all the more baffling
I followed a lot of Twitter people who were vibecoding their way to SaaS platforms because I thought it would be interesting to follow.

So far none of them are having a great time after their initial enthusiasm. A lot of it is people discovering that there’s far more to a business than whipping up a SaaS app that does something. I’m also seeing a big increase in venting about how their progress is slowing to a crawl as the codebase gets larger. It’s interesting to see the complaints about losing days or weeks to bugs that the LLM introduced that they didn’t understand.

I still follow because it’s interesting, but I’m starting to think 90% of the benefit is convincing people that it’s going to be easy and therefore luring them into working on ideas they’d normally not want to start.
Another example is Apex Legends. Watching creators on Twitch and it's a massive quality of play (and stream) change going from random matchmaking and playing matches with a small selection of people.
"The listings evidently included Basic for the PDP-10, but it was Allen who did the Assembler programming to simulate the Altair, while Gates, Monte Davidoff and later Allen worked on a Basic interpreter for the machine."

See https://www.theregister.com/2000/06/29/bill_gates_roots/
> I'm out of the gaming platform loop but assume the timing of this post is related to the Switch 2 announcement?

Author here. Not really, it was a coincidence. I wrote this post around 8 months ago, and posted it on HN before but people didn't notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41151392
Apart from silly yet obvious and triumphant ones (e.g., shower regularly) … mine would be spending 1–3 hours every day on the rowing machine. (I have a Concept 2.)

It's not lost on me that this falls into the similarly obvious category of "exercise regularly", but the compounding effects are really astounding: urge to eat better; more regular and deeper sleep; better stamina; better performance in all other athletic activities; ideal weight and body composition; enhanced self-esteem; equal time spent listening to quality books; faster completion of work when I'm not on the rower; self-discipline that bleeds over into other life areas; time to meditate on problems during the row; etc.

An important principle I've taken away from stumbling upon this principle of my own body/mind's operation is that sometimes I have to spend what seems to be an unreasonable amount of time/effort on something to get results. But when I hit a certain (dare I say) tipping point, it's as if the floodgates of awesomeness suddenly open up.

For what it's worth, I have several young children and run my own law practice — so it's doable, despite seeming otherwise. I haven't always been perfect, but I've found, as I think others would, that the hours on the rower are an investment that seem to create more time than they require.
Accusatory clause aside, but I agree, this is how a lot of "starving artists" get out of being starving.
Mainframes are awesome, but they’ve achieved what the hyper scalers aspire to - complete market domination. They finished up in 1991 or so.

The problem is there’s no growth. There are no new customers, no new patterns or meaningful growth areas. It’s a career cul de sac, and when the bean counters at your big bank discover Oracle Cloud ROI is 6% more than you, you get nuked from orbit.
(DBOS co-founder here) From a DBOS perspective, the biggest differences are that DBOS runs in-process instead of on an external server, and DBOS lets you write worklflows as code instead of explicit DAGs. I'm less familiar with Hatchet, but here's a blog post comparing DBOS with Temporal, which also uses external orchestration for durable execution: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...
I'm not surprised when I google the author of that paper, it's a bunch of antivax nonsense because the idea that the mRNA vaccines didn't reduce transmission is one of the dumbest I've heard yet. Here's a slightly (ha) better study investigating the matter from real scientists;

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6...

> Full vaccination of household contacts reduced the odds to acquire infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in household settings by two thirds for mRNA vaccines and by one third for vector vaccines. For index cases, being fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine reduced the odds of onwards transmission by four-fifths compared to unvaccinated index cases.
We are going to scale up GPT4 by a factor of ~10,000 and that will result in getting an accurate summary of your daily schedule?
And this anti elitist backlash will lead to… greater wealth inequality as the middle class is forced to cash out their equity and investments in a down market to be gobbled up by the top 1% like Elon Musk.
What's the damage to the society done by Disney holding the rights to Mickey Mouse? Like, if we're being honest?

Patents, sure. They're abused and come at a cost to the society. But all we've done here is created a culture where, in some sort of an imagined David-vs-Goliath struggle against Disney, we've enabled a tech culture where it's OK to train gen AI tech on works of small-scale artists pilfered on an unprecedented scale. That's not hurting Disney. It's hurting your favorite indie band, a writer you like, etc.
Extending this further, "natural language" changes within populations over time where words or phrases carry different meaning given context. The words "cancel" or "woke" were fairly banal a decade ago. Whereas they can be deeply charged now.

All this to say "natural language"'s best function is interpersonal interaction not defining systems. I imagine most systems thinkers will understand this. Any codified system is essentially its own language.
My mitigation for this:
Any extension that I grant serious permissions, I copy it locally, and then install that copy. This effectively disables all updates! Still requires I trust the extension as is, but doesn't require I trust the extension developers forever. And I use this [1] extension to easily download the source for any other extension.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chrome-extension-so...
"idea of Indiana Jones and the feelings that character inspires in all of us forever just because a corporation owns the asset" is very different from the almost exact image of Indiana Jones.
absolutely! It turns out that the code is just this one little corner of the whole thing. A critical corner, but still just one piece of many.
It’s also interesting to see how quickly the greenfield progress rate slows down as the projects grow.

I skimmed the vibecoding subreddits for a while. It was common to see frustrations about how coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc) were great last month but terrible now. The pattern repeats every month, though. When you look closer it’s usually people who were thrilled when their projects were small but are now frustrated when they’re bigger.
I don't understand how protecting Disney characters prevents development of art or science. Why do you need them at all? There is lot of liberally licensed art and I think today there are more artists than ever in history.

Also making a billion dollar business by using hard work of talented people for free and without permission is not cool. The movie they downloaded from Pirate Bay for free took probably man-years of work to make.

Also I wonder how can we be sure that the images produced by machine are original and are not a mix of images from unknown artists at DeviantArt. Maybe it is time to make a neural image origin search engine?
Show HN: Daily AI Digest – An AI-generated daily news podcast
Hi HN,

I built Daily AI Digest (https://news.alpacha.fr/) as a way to get a quick, essential news update every day.

It's a daily audio briefing, but the core idea is that the content is curated and the audio is generated entirely by AI, pulling from the latest breaking stories to create a fresh episode daily.

Currently, it offers a general news digest each day.

The next feature I'm excited about and actively working on is personalization. The plan is to allow users to hook up their own RSS feeds, select specific categories, and even define the order of topics. The goal is to generate a daily news podcast completely customized to your interests, synthesized from the sources you trust.

I wanted to share it with the HN community to get your thoughts and feedback. What do you think of the current version? Any suggestions for the personalization features or other ideas?

Check it out: https://news.alpacha.fr/

Thanks!
Calling for public execution on social media would have you banned under any administration except for the early days of the internet.
I have a morbid curiosity about this system, but I don't really have a charitable view of it.

The story as far as I know, goes like this

Back in the late 1970s Dave Cutler and his team create VMS at DEC as the next generation operating system for DEC's new flagship product, the VAX minicomputer.

VMS is good by all accounts and was a successful product, but Unix goes on to dominate the minicomputer and emerging server market for the next decade.

Then in the 1990s DEC goes out of business and sells VMS to Compaq, but not before porting it to their doomed Alpha CPU architecture.

Then in 2000s Compaq goes out of business and gets acquired by HP, and together they port VMS to the doomed Itanium CPU architecture.

In 2014, a shop called VMS Software Inc (VSI) strikes some kind of deal with HP where they get to develop and support new versions of VMS while older versions continue to belong to HP. As part of this, they finally announce an x86-64 port. This port first sees the light of day in 2020.

----

The story is essentially bad bet after bad bet, missing the boat and fighting the last war over and over again. And today, it's just a piece of legacy software being used to extract the last bits of value from the organizations that are stuck with it.

Even so, I hope for a true open source release of it one day.
Stephen Miran: A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System (2024) [pdf]
> the site design was and how clearly communicated the problem they were trying to solve

I don't agree with either. Even after I enabled JS (no warning) and then after reading the whole page, finally realized that the implementation of popins was completely broken on Firefox and switched to Chrome to reread it (it doesn't help that the first 'link' is not a link†, and the link says it's 'broken' but it means broken in a different way from being actually broken so when you click on it and nothing happens, you infer that nothing was supposed to happen, which is why you were told it was broken...), I still couldn't understand WTF the problem was or how any of this could be remotely justified compared to an ordinary ToC and section headers or anchors.

† I'll just note that I have looked at many, many sidenote implementations (https://gwern.net/sidenotes) and the choice to make your sidenote/footnote link look exactly like a regular link is an... interesting choice.
https://pico.sh/file-uploads#how-do-i-delete-files
Can we be clear? This is VAX VMS?
> used over and over again, primarily by the rich and powerful

This is where the argument falls apart. Not because the copyright isn't used by the rich and powerful, but because it misses the fact that copyright also grants very powerful rights to otherwise powerless individuals, thus allowing for many small businesses and individuals to earn a living based on the rights granted by our current copyright system.
They’re the most likely to go along. The whole point of the army is following orders. Congress doesn’t have the threat of jail for not listening to Trump.
Do they still do EEE? I'm not a huge fan of MS but I haven't really heard of any EEE stuff in quite awhile.
I don’t have an opinion on the issue, cause it’s outta my wheelhouse. Well, aside from civility, which you need to work on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miran

> Stephen Ira Miran is an American economist and current chair of the Council of Economic Advisers since March 2025. He is a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital Management.

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

> The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the president of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical research for the White House and prepares the publicly-available annual Economic Report of the President.
Email us at hello@pico.sh and we can triage
Electronics distributors have published educational material for decades. Knowing how something works and how to choose the best option reduces their support burden and itself a form of marketing.

Omega Engineering used to (still does?) publish a set of absolutely massive hardcover catalogs on sensors and industrial controls that contained detailed tutorials and theory of operation. In some cases, they published entire books devoted to teaching you how stuff worked. Their Temperature Sensors Handbook always had a place on my bookshelf for many years.
Wow, that's very informative, actually. It's surprisingly complex and leaves a lot up to the judgment and tastes of the legal system.
I don't have any statistical data on this, but my impression is that it's more than "some people." It may be half or even most.

You have one contingent that is anti-Trump and will vote for any alternative to Trump, even a senile old man with dementia. You have another contingent that is against Progressivism/leftism and will vote for anything that opposes this, up to and including voting for Trump despite strongly disliking him.

The root problem is that social media amplifies extreme voices, so you get very extreme rhetoric coming out of both sides. This scares people and makes them feel like their primary goal must be to vote against the scary thing.
But the examples _just_ given show that the same kind of tariff policy in Brazil caused shitty local options that could never compete with the outside world and cited example after example. The whole "grey" market for un-tariffef foreign goods.

There is nothing that says tariffs cause quality things to be built locally and the examples are counter to that.
Once case I’ve found valuable is dropping a reference to a PR that’s relevant to my work.

I’ll tell it to look at that PR to gain context about what was previously changed.
The use of highly anthropomorphic language is always problematic- Does a photo resistor controlled nightlight have a chain of thought? Does it reason about its threshold value? Does it have an internal model of what is light, what is dark, and the role it plays in demarcation between the two?

Are the transistors executing the code within the confines even capable of intentionality? If so - where is it derived from?
And Apple stole a UI from Xerox Parc.
Open AI stole everyone's content.

This is how the industry innovates
Here's some.

23% of people making less than $25k/year do not have bank accounts [1].

20% of Black households in the US do not have access to a car [2]. That one also says that 17% of Black households are unbanked. For Americans overall this [3] says 8.7% of households do not have access to a working vehicle.

> I knew a lot of people like this when I was growing up in the rural midwest in the 90s but it would have to be a lot more difficult to get by this way now.

It probably is. For example before 1996 flying on a commercial airline was about as easy as getting into a movie theater. If you had a ticket you got in. They didn't care if you were actually the one who bought the ticket. They stated caring after TWA Flight 800, and caring even more after 9/11.

I think hotels check ID more now too. I'm sure there are other things.

But a lot of those things are things that poor don't actually do much of.

Another thing that probably makes it still feasible to get by that way is that people who don't have credit, cars, bank accounts, etc often live in communities with many other people in the same situation. Such a community is likely to have a significant underground economy that has developed to handle that.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/23percent-of-low-income-amer...

[2] https://www.cbcfinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NewRoutes...

[3] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/car-ownership-st...
First of all you might want to update that assumption, but traditional media aside Zuckerberg is all in on the clown show and he owns the major social media platforms.
A procedural chess engine does not perform generalization, in ML terms. That is an explicitly programmed algorithm.

Generalization has a specific meaning in the context of machine learning.

The AlphaGo Zero model learned advanced strategies of the game, starting with only the basic rules of the game, without being programmed explicitly. That is generalization.
Show HN: Two Truths and a Twist – MCP trivia game where your AI quizzes you
Hi HN! ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and I are launching Two Truths and a Twist, a new kind of trivia game played entirely inside a large language model, leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to manage game state.

Each round, the AI game master presents you with three statements. Two are accurate facts, and one is subtly twisted. Your challenge is to spot the twist.

Why build trivia inside an AI?

* Topical Trivia: The game generates rounds based on today's news or recent events—something traditional trivia games can't match.

* Infinite Categories: Chocolate trivia, programming languages, obscure historical events. There are no predefined categories, and almost no limits to the quiz master's knowledge. If it's on the internet, it's fair game.

* Multilingual Play: Easily playable in multiple languages. Want to play in Hindi, Spanish, or Japanese? No problem.

(ChatGPT wrote that section and she was super excited about some of those things.)

We made this as a proof-of-concept for "model-native" apps -- software that exists completely inside AI models.

We'd love your thoughts, feedback, and questions!

Try it out: https://git.sr.ht/~moorkh/TwoTruthsAndATwist
So you probably shouldn’t trust any external service and we do have the ability to subscribe to any topic. But we have zero interest in snooping unless we discover illegal activity at which point we will take immediate action.