skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the guardrails, but the ham-fisted implementation.

Grok is supposed to be "uncensored", but there are very specific words you just can't use when asking it to generate images. It'll just flat out refuse or give an error message during generation.

But, again, if you go in a roundabout way and avoid the specific terms you can still get what you want. So why bother?

Is it about not wanting bad PR or avoiding litigation?
> "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"

Are you sure about that ? Do we have proof of that ? In happened all the time trought history of science that a lot of scientists were convinced of something and a model of reality up until someone discovers a new proof and or propose a new coherent model. That’s literally the history of science, disprove what we thought was an established model
Just think what the 19th century craftsmen were thinking! :D (i.e. they were right, but really good stuff is hard to make at scale)
it's like the antivax - we haven't had an outbreak of $x in $y years, why do we still need to be vaccinated?
New rule: you get to keep your belongings for 20 years and that's it. Then they are taken away. Every dollar you made twenty or more years ago, every asset you acquired, gone.

That oughtta be enough to incentivize people to work and build their wealth.

Anything more than that is unnecessary.
This is adorably cute, and deceptively fun to follow along with. I particularly like that it shows which monkey discovered a word first, making you want to visit back and see if your monkey found any new words.

One thing I'd like to see is a way to go back from the "Word view" (after you clicked to see details about a specific word) back to your monkey view with the list of words.
This is the guy who's been whining on X about not getting into elite colleges despite his essay being radioactively bad, right?
Devin 2.0: Cognition slashes price of AI software engineer to $20 per month
Abundance Network
Fresh tomatoes are cheap here, although I have to admit their taste has deteriorated over time. The canned ones are better to use as an ingredient due to this reason.
So fun to see other variations of this. I have for a while said

> You never need permission to do a good job.

But of course, it takes the experience to understand the nuances of what a good job is in the domain at hand, in the organisation and society at hand.
Interest rates, taxes, subsidies and reserves also affect currency value.

The US uses selective tariffs already, which is fine though not actually that helpful IMO, what is new is absurdly high punitive and blanket tariffs on everything. This will tank the stock market, raise prices, cause a recession and perhaps most importantly ruin the reputation of the US as a safe haven.

The absurd tariffs on trading partners that don’t matter like Laos are a perfect illustration of how much thought went into this.
Your Codebase Is the Prompt
As much as I am still sceptical about AI tools, the past month has been a revolution as a senior dev myself.

I'm blasting through tickets, leaving more time to tutor and help junior colleagues and do refactoring. Guiding them has then been a multiplier, and also a bit of an eye opener about how little real guidance they've been getting up until now. I didn't realise how resource constrained we'd been as a team leading to not enough time guiding and helping them.

I don't trust the tools with writing code very often but they are very good at architecture questions, outputting sample code etc. Supercharged google

As a generalist, I feel less overwhelmed

It's probably been the most enjoyable month at this job.
> The concept is simple: Take a picture of the food you are about to consume, and let the app log calories and macros for you.

> The result is an app that the creators say is 90% accurate, which appears to be good enough for many dieters.

It absolutely cannot be "90% accurate". But I'm sure it seems "90% plausible" to its millions of users.

Incredible that a product like this can exist. Do people just will the fiction into reality?

Incredibly, these are the types of app ideas you'd hear from non-tech "entrepreneurs" in 2012 looking for a co-founder. The problem being, the engineers knew it was impossible. You could fake it I guess by asking Google to search for "similar photos" and getting a plausible calorie count half the time. But the users wouldn't believe it.

We're now at the phase where any impossible idea can be fully marketable by slapping "AI" in the name. ChatGPT feels so magical that we now believe unicorns really do exist.
Agree, I’ve been searching for the latter for a long time
LLMs are also good at commenting on existing code.

It’s trivial to ask Claude via Cursor to add comments to illustrate how some code works. I’ve found this helpful with uncommented code I’m trying to follow.

I haven’t seen it hallucinate an incorrect comment yet, but sometimes it will comment a TODO that a section should be made more more clear. (Rude… haha)
a Tufts student had her visa cancelled and then was kidnapped by ICE for publishing an op Ed saying "hey, maybe genocide is bad"
> You're not wrong here, but there's a big difference in programming one-off tooling or prototype MVPs and programming things that need to be maintained for years and years.

Humans also worry about their jobs, especially in PIP-happy companies; they are very well known for writing intentionally over-complicated code that only they understand so that they are irreplaceable
The obvious problem with this is how can it tell how large your meal is or how much butter you put in? I can see it working for fast/junk food, though.

When I learnt machine learning one of the things was continually training the model. Like your spam filter. You show it what is spam and eventually it learns. Is this stuff continually trained on the user's BMI? That's the only way to tell if a diet is working. Or is it just making absolute claims based on universal training data?
I know how to swim yet a riptide can still pull me out to sea
Which huge corporation led by a sociopath? There's so many to choose from.
It would be more efficient to implement this with an FPGA. An FPGA will scale with more complex designs.
Important part is at the bottom (really lazy journalism):

> The measure defines a deepfake as any video or audio recording or image that appears to a reasonable person to realistically depict someone doing something they did not actually do.
> Art builds on art, and "stealing" is probably the most important part of the process[2].

> [2]: https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

Nice try ChatGPT stealing from studio ghibli and Scarlett Johansson are still two egregious examples of what can kill artist's motivations. Why create or publish if credit is not given?
Not sure if it made it to hn, but the founder recently got rejected from a number of top universities, despite clear talent:

https://x.com/zach_yadegari/status/1906859987105636667

https://x.com/zach_yadegari/status/1906888487292559531
As of 2025, it's no longer the case that older developers (like me at 57) are at a disadvantage just due to potentially lessened sheer brain power, as we had in our 20s. The reason is simple: We know what all the terminologies are, how to ask for things with proper and sufficient levels of detail and context, we know what the pitfalls and common error patterns are, and on and on, from decades of experience. Working with AI has similarities to management positions. You need to be a generalist. You need to know a little about everything, more so than a lot about one thing. All this can ONLY come with age, just like wisdom can only come thru experience.

I just hope that most hiring managers now realize this. With AI the productivity of younger developers has gone up by a factor of 10x, but the productivity of us "Seasoned" developers has gone up 100x. This now evens the playing field, I hope, where us experienced guys will be given a fair shake in the hiring process rather than what's been happening for decades where the 20-somethings pretend to be interviewing the older guys, because some boss told them to, but they never had any actual intentions of hiring anyone over 40, just on the bases of age alone, even if some older guy aces the interview.
Kudos to the coder and the poster. I'm involved in a browser project that runs on OpenSSL, and figured I'd have to dig through WireShark myself at some point to figure this stuff out. Well, I may still need to, but now have many points of reference. If the most common use of OpenSSL is Python, then in the age of Cloudflare, a Firefox TLS spoofing option isn't just a good idea, it's a necessity.
That is the general nature of reverse engineering efforts, but this one has been documented enough that you don't need to blindly trust completely random executables or code from strange places.

You can manually recreate the process of building a patch for the embedded controller instead of just following instructions: https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec. Here's the presentation by the author himself at linux.conf.au (what used to be the biggest local Linux conference for those of us in Australia and NZ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzmm87oVQ6c. This is of course not supported by Lenovo.

Unlocking the BIOS is definitely more like what you described. It's the price to pay for freely playing around with processor power limits, getting AES-NI instruction set support, etc. I have not checked since 2019, so there might be a clearer way.
Depends on what you mean specifically by the output. The actual neural network will produce deterministic outputs that could be interpreted as probability values for various tokens. But the interface you'll commonly see used in front of these models will then non-deterministiclaly choose a single next token to output based on those probabilities. Then, this single randomly chosen output is fed back into the network to produce another token, and this process repeats.

I would ultimately call the result non-deterministic. You could make it deterministic relatively easily by having a deterministic process for choosing a single token from all of the outputs of the NN (say, always pick the one with the highest weight, and if there are multiple with the same weight, pick the first one in token index order), but no one normally does this, because the results aren't that great per my understanding.
Doesn't that include Google Workspace though? Sure, a dollar is a dollar, but presumably a huge chunk of that money is Workspace, meaning it's not going towards raw compute.
>TANG: So nitrogenases are what allows you to make fertilizer.

Assuming beans are part of your diet

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%E2%80%93sulfur_protein
NSA Director and Deputy Fired
Yea I also like this system only problem I was facing with it was http read will lead to timeouts/lost connections. And task queues specifically have a 30 min execution limit. But I really like how it separates the queueing logic from the whole application/execution graph. Task queues are one of my favourite pieces of cloud infrastructure.
> Picture using these apps offline with automatic synchronization when you’re back online. This is the essence of local-first web development – a revolutionary approach that puts users in control of their digital experience.

I had to laugh very hard at the "revolutionary approach". How is it revolutionary, if software was developed "local-first" for decades?

Techbros really do come up with the oldest ideas and call them revolutionary.
This, there is a small subset of people who are good with directions and they just assume the reset of us are too lazy to figure it out instead of realizing that directions aren't actually intuitive to most people.
You're conflating trademark with copyright.

Regardless, it's not just copyright laws that are at issue here. This is reproducing human likenesses - like Harrison Ford's - and integrating them into new works.

So if I want to make an ad for a soap company, and I get an AI to reproduce a likeness of Harrison Ford, does that mean I can use that likeness in my soap commercials without paying him? I can imagine any court asking "how is this not simply laundering someone's likeness through a third party which claims to not have an image / filter / app / artist reproducing my client's likeness?"

All seemingly complicated scams come down to a very basic, obvious, even primitive grift. Someone somewhere in a regulatory capacity is either fooled or paid into accepting that no crime was committed. It's just that simple. This, however, is so glaring that even a child could understand the illegality of it. I'm looking forward to all of Hollywood joining the cause against the rampant abuse of IP by Silicon Valley. I think there are legal grounds here to force all of these models to be taken offline.

Additionally, "guardrails" that prevent 1:1 copies of film stills from being reprinted are clearly not only insufficient, they are evidence that the pirates in this case seek to obscure the nature of their piracy. They are the evidence that generative AI is not much more than a copyright laundering scheme, and the obsession with these guardrails is evidence of conspiracy, not some kind of public good.
I personally think Studio Ghibli, and by extension their artists and former artists, have created a beautiful art style. The fact that we call it Ghibli, when really, its the artists there (and former artists) is misleading.

The people leave, go to different studios, and make different art. This is not their only style, and Ghibli is not known to make many movies these days.

The only thing this is hurting, if anything, is Studio Ghibli, not the artists. Artists capable of drawing in this style can draw in any style.
wrap_long_lines shares those characteristics:

https://github.com/dx-tooling/platform-problem-monitoring-co...

Where things are placed in the project seems rather ad hoc too. Put everything in the same place kind of architecture. A better strategy might be to separate out the I and the O of IO. Maybe someone wants SMS or group chat notifications later on, instead of shifting the numbers in filenames step11_ onwards one could then add a directory in the O part and hook it into an actual application core.
This truly does add credence to the dead internet theory.

I suspect that many will be dragged into more pernicious mental health issues, while a lucky few will take it as a sign to disconnect more.
LLM’s can’t pass an unrestricted Touring test. LLM’s can mimic intelligence, but if you actually try and exploit their limitations the deception is still trivial to unmask.

Various chat bots have long been able to pass more limited versions of a Touring test. The most extreme constraint allows for simply replaying a canned conversation which with a helpful human assistant makes it indistinguishable from a human. But exploiting limitations on a testing format doesn’t have anything to do with testing for intelligence.
Nice brain storming.

I think the name of the Chinese company should be DeepBaba. Tencent is not competitive at LLM scene for now.
Yes actually, i've been ranting about this for a long time, sufficiently powerful corporations are a form of government. I'm not conservative though despite being anti-dei so make of that what you will, i think a lot of people on the left are being lumped in with people on the right because we oppose the types of discrimination and racism now popular with the "left".
Honestly this post seems like misplaced wisdom to me: your concern is the development of AGI displacing jobs and not the numerous reliability problems with the analytic use of AI tools in particular the overestimate of LLM capabilities because they're good at writing pretty prose?

If we were headed straight to the AGI era then hey, problem solved - intelligent general machines which can advance towards solutions in a coherent if not human like fashion is one thing but that's not what AI is today.

AI today is enormously unreliable and very limited in a dangerous way - namely it looks more capable then it is.
Ha this is a really good point! I worked with so many different kinds of observability approaches and always fell back to traced logs. This might be part of the reason.
The wickedest idea that social media run by sociopaths has implanted in the human psyche is the idea that anyone else would take advantage of immoral tactics if they had the means or could afford the payoffs.
Off-topic (maybe should ask elsewhere), but why is C3 using "fn", it could not be avoided?

Edit: Someone already asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43572190
> So you're comparing the problems with our current fiat system with some hypothetical perfect future crypto system and saying the crypto system is better

Well yes, I was attempting to refute:

> This is the only promise that cryptocurrency held

My claim is that there are other promises. I hear you say

> The current way that people are paying each other is not a problem that needs to be fixed.

...and I couldn't disagree more. Have you ever worked at a payment provider? Your code ends up with other payment providers in all directions and the user is nowhere to be found. It's just a big pile of parasites fighting over the money pipe. Outside of work I'd strike up a conversation with a merchant about how I'm familiar with their POS equipment, and there I'd learn that it's practically a hostage situation.

The liquor store near my house has two entirely separate POS systems pointing at two separate bank accounts and they just direct customers to whichever one happens to be enlisted in the least-objectionable shenanigans at the moment.

The needs of the people are not being served, especially if they're people who can't afford a lawyer.

I'm not proposing that anybody should have to use crypto. I'm saying that when crypto is ready, those who do use it will have a competitive advantage because they won't have to deal with the drag exerted by the existing system. The multiplicity of platforms won't be an issue because those two people--whoever they are--will agree on whichever one fits their use case (though I expect they will be fewer by then).

> why not spend that innovation on specific improvements to specific problems with the fiat system instead?

Because the fiat system was not designed to solve any of the problems we're talking about. It was designed to feed the Roman war machine, and since then its primary purpose has been to ensure that power structures established by varying forms of violence remain in effect without the need to trot out that violence again.

It's not the kind of thing you can incrementally improve on. It has the problems it does because the people who maintain it want it to have those problems.

Take credit card companies for example. There's a lot they could do to prevent fraud--there are many ways to build a system where payments happen without leaving secrets like credit card numbers out in the open. But they don't want to solve that problem because it's a problem that puts them in a privileged position--they get to be the money-censors, which is a powerful position that they frequently abuse.

Or consider health insurance claims. They could absolutely provide a price to the patient within a minute or two--fast enough for the patient to factor it into whether or not they get the procedure. But having the bill come six months later and full of surprises is a feature for them, not a bug.

We have a lot of harmful middlemen. Improving the fiat system would just to improve their capacity to do harm.

It may be in a pretty embarrassing state right now, which I hope it snaps out of, but crypto is at least compatible with the idea that we could put control over the system in the hands of its users. Fiat is not.
> Everything we have, everything we're permitted to do, is at the pleasure and permission of our governments.

Wrong! The people are ultimately responsible for reigning-in their governments and are the ultimate source of any rules or rights that the governments end up enforcing.

If you think that the ultimate authority is with the government, then you have justified every authoritarian regime out there.
"Even if there’s a 1% chance I continue my rate of success, wouldn’t they want to take the risk of being able to use my name in the future?"

lol
Symbols can help, https://www.weather.gov/images/safety/rip/Rip_Currents_Sign4...
"Of course you can argue that Rust recently adopted language specification, but if you take a second to learn more about it you’ll find out that it comes essentially from outside."

It is worth noting that the Ferrocene specification is made for the certification of the Ferrocene compiler as its sole purpose. It is neither intended nor suitable to implement a compiler based on it.
The real tension isn't just about copyright, it's about what creativity means when models are trained to synthesize the most statistically probable output from past art.
I disagree, I think it's absolutely astounding that they've gotten this good in such a short time, and I think we'll get better models in the near future.

By the way, prompting models properly helps a lot for generating good code. They get lazy if you don't explicitly ask for well-written code (or put that in the system prompt).

It also helps immensely to have two contexts, one that generates the code and one that reviews it (and has a different system prompt).
I would appreciate a comparison to cloud tasks in your docs.
> I have noticed many more errors are detected in AI-generated Rust code than in any other language.

Is that because the Rust compiler is just a very strong guardrail? Sounds like it could work well for Swift too. If only xcodebuild were less of a pain for big projects.
Seems contradictory that there's a market for this since it requires the same individual to simultaneously be concerned about precisely measuring calories yet willing to pay for a method of doing so that's (probably) wildly inaccurate.
> degree holders used to be a minority in white collar work.

That's still nearly true, if not true. 60% of jobs are white collar. 40% of the workforce has a degree. Data quality starts to decline somewhat here, but it is expected that 20% of degree holders work in trades or manual labour jobs. So, degree holders only just barely make up a majority on that basis. And maybe not even that as blue collar is usually considered to be more than just trades and manual labour, not to mention that we haven't even delved into other collars (e.g. pink collar) that further take from the degree holding population.
I prefer lack of "fun" and "fn", to me it is easier to parse C-style. :( This is one of the things (albeit minor) that put me off of C alternatives, I like to keep things as simple as possible, but I understand it has "macro" as well, so might as well have "fn", for the reasons already mentioned.

That said, I will still try C3.
Plaud Note: ultra slick voice recorder
> In reality I don’t think people’s political opinions change very much and they are just mad that their children individuated.

That seems to be missing the elephant in the room - they sent kids in their most formative intellectual years to immerse themselves in a culture where there is a very high child:adult ratio. Then the kids come back with this wild culture that would make a lot of sense to a bunch of teenagers and young adults. It isn't just that the kids individuating, it is dumping them into one of the most elitist, authoritarian and artificial subcultures society maintains - populated mostly by near-juveniles I repeat - giving them independence to form themselves and discovering that dislocates them from their parents subculture.

It should be obvious that will happen but parents tend to be pretty dumb. No real training course for parenting I suppose.