skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some history

Kurzweil 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpoKYY1uy4

researchgate 2018 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Exponential-growth-in-so...

some 2024 data https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulfbrowning_exponential-pv-...

and on it goes at about 25% per year. That would have it covering all our needs in about 15 years.

For comparison with Hinkley C the UKs new nuclear reactor the site was selected in 2010 and the latest is "£41.6–47.9 billion in 2024 prices, with Unit 1 planned to become operational in 2029 to 2031."
Happy to answer any questions about getting Deno running in Varnish.
The keyword here is "can". I'm just saying it's definitely possible that a 10MB memory reduction in a critical spot results in significant performance gains. I agree 100% that any optimization should be backed up by solid benchmarks.
I have nuthatches that peck and bore large holes in my cedar siding in the spring to nest. They showed up about two weeks ago and they’ll be here through summer.

The sound is obnoxious and they’ve basically destroyed my house. I’ve tried everything to keep them away but they are tenacious. We’re currently saving up to reside the house with Hardie Board; I think that’s the only solution.
https://ai-2027.com/ postulates that a good enough LLM will rewrite itself using rules and facts... sci-fi, but so is chatting with a matrix multiplication.
Or just do like me and switch to grapefruit juice. Awesome without drinking pure liquid sugar.
I'm a big fan of avoiding those dangerous tools. Sometimes they are essential, but often times there are alternatives.

I prefer to find repeatable solutions that don't make me or anyone else the single point of failure.

I always hear people saying "It's perfectly safe if you know what you're doing" and think "Yeah, but what happens when my hand slips?"
> I never even defended them. Just pointed out your ignorance and racism. Cheers. Nice edit btw.

This refers to the edit that the sibling comment made from:

> Thank you for finally bringing your silly antics to a conclusion.

To adding four more sentences (ending with “We have decades ...”). Which seemed weird given that the first sentence was thanking OP here for bringing the “antics” to an end.

And apparently OP then made an edit in kind.
I'm specifically sympathetic to kids who are not ( in the US ) given coffee or tea or alcohol and still get scolded about having anything but water. I've been there, it gets dull.
Granted, most markets are bifurcated.

Those who can afford, buy unbiased.

Those who cannot, accept biased free services.

I suppose that's Google's hope for how future search turns out.
> it seems like youve internalized the query syntax of search engines

If by syntax you mean "words related to what I want to find" then I suppose.

> youre fine with erroneous results.

Because AI is famously correct all the time. And there are no "erroneous" results in my method, only ones not closely enough related to what I wanted, so that's feedback my search terms should be refined.

Any answer I get from AI I’m going to have to verify anyway so I just skip the AI step.
I'm not really following what your point is. The context in this case is pretty clearly geared towards connecting people across age generations. In that context, I merely observed that doing that for women would also be interesting. I don't see why you're branching off into random stuff like dogs.

I am equally interested in whether other non-Japanese cultures could do this too, although I suppose its popularity might not generalize across cultures. I don't know. Be interesting to try though, right?

Or is merely suggesting that deserving of some sort of criticism? The whole thing just made me think "why not share a neat thing with other groups". Dunno why that's such a big deal.
I've been using apache echarts for a while. It is excellent. As you dig deep, some of the examples and libraries are in Chinese, which can be challenging.

The only real drawback that I've discovered is that it uses canvas to generate the charts. So, when you UI changes to dark mode, you need to reload your charts to update the color scheme ... which in the grand scheme of things is really minor.
Venmo is apparently having trouble, too, at least according to DownDetector and Ebay.

edit: apparently a lot of stuff got a big spike of down-ness. Super weird:

https://downdetector.com/
Antarctica?

I'm wondering if science has much of a future in the US itself. An awful lot of scientists are leaving.
These guys are trying to combine symbolic reasoning with LLMs somehow: https://www.symbolica.ai/
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613190
Discernment in the Digital Age
They dunk on it because the author didn't see the the benefit of the product over using FTP. And it's hard to say the usage of "quite trivially" isn't "belittling" in some form, although I don't think using a loaded word is useful here. Even the followup response shows the same issue with the commenter's thinking:

>You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece of functionality for Windows users. The Windows shortcomings that you point out are certainly problems, and I think that your software does a good job of overcoming that. (emphasis added.)

They still fail to understand that this is not a Windows or Linux issue but a reliability and ease of use issue. Not to mention the fact that the desktop Linux marketshare was probably less than 1% and therefore irrelevant in this context to begin with.
The cell providers also get really opinionated about how much / how often your IoT device talks to the cell towers when they seek to approve your device.
> You would then be relying on ...

More likely trade secrets, NDAs, non-competes, and increasingly invasive DRM. In addition to the direct financial incentive, part of the logic behind IP law is to foster a more open market because that should be to the benefit of society at large in multiple ways.

Patents, for example, ensure that at least some minimal description of the process gets published for others to take inspiration from.
I mostly use Phind and Brave Search.
> Many species of bird also use this advanced ability to keep track of who knows what for food. They’ll hide a stash for winter and find it all later. But it’s easier to remember where your friend hid theirs than to get your own. So a whole arms race of deception developed.

This reminds me of a backyard squirrel anecdote from a decade ago.

A squirrel would laboriously dig a hole and hide a nut in it, cover it with soil, and tamp down the soil -- until it noticed another squirrel watching it from the top of a fence, at which point it immediately proceeded to dig up the nut and carry it away.
GPt models have a people-pleasing bias and positivity bias. If you want factual information, you have to modify your prompt. I imagine you would get very different results if you asked "are Jeeps more reliable than Toyotas", or "how do Jeeps compare to the median car in terms of reliability"

My impression is that different llms are more or less people pleasing. I found grok is more willing to tell me something is a bad idea.
It's mentioned quite a bit in the LLM related subreddits.
$33m/year burn accelerating to $50m+/year

Profitability and exit math just got harder

I love the service and am rooting for them - I just don’t get this cash outlay

I can’t wait to learn what I’m missing here
The demo is seriously impressive! I haven’t heard of this library before, will definitely consider using it
Well, even small kids here are allowed by their parents to drink caffe latte, which is milk with varying amounts of coffee. Then of course, some juices are OK although it's so easy to drink much more than the rda (and I'm quite sure I drank a shitton more of the recommend dose of juice, the few times I drank juice)
My cleverest one-liners will block me when I come back to them unless I write a few paragraphs of explanation as well.
CSS is your friend
>It's a really bad concept in any space.

I struggle with this because it feels like so many 'rules' in the world where the important half remains unsaid. That unsaid portion is then mediated by goodharts law.

If the other half is 'then slow down and learn something' its really not that bad, nothing is sacred, we try we fail we learn we (critical) don't repeat the mistake. Thats human learning - we don't learn from mistakes we learn from reflecting on mistakes.

But if learning isn't part of the loop - if its a self justifying defense for fuckups, if the unsaid remains unsaid, its a disaster waiting to happen.

The difference is usually in what you reward. If you reward ship, you get the defensive version - and you will ship crap. If you reward institutional knowledge building you don't. Engineers are often taught that 'good, fast, or cheap pick 2'. The reality is its usually closer to 1 or 1.5. If you pick fast...you get fast.
Yes now you've corrected the terms, in your previous comment you claimed the motte was calls for genocide. Regardless, I'm defending what you're calling the bailey as it's easily defensible based on observable current events.

Care to explain how Kristallnacht is in any way different from an intifada? They are literally the same thing, a disorganized mob raping, murdering and attacking innocent civilians. The Arabs have done two intifadas, both resulted in countless dead and injured Jews who were attacked solely for being "el-yahud" aka "yuden" aka Jews.

As I said above, there is no motte and bailey fallacy here. You're the one making false claims about harassment of hamas supporters.
PayPal confirmed.

https://www.paypal-status.com/incident/production

Affected Products:
Account
Crypto
Xoom
Hyperwallet
Venmo

Affected APIs:
REST APIs > Payments

Initial Notification:
Affected Regions: Global

We are experiencing a system issue that may be impacting Multiple Products in our Production Environment.

Our technical teams are actively working towards resolving the issue.
Full source bootstrapping meaning you build with 100% human auditable source code or machine code. The only path to do this today I am aware of is via hex0 building up to Mes and tinycc on up to a modern c compiler: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...

As far as I know Gentoo, even from their "stage0" still assumes you bring your own bootstrap compiler toolchain, and thus is not self bootstrapping.
I’ve been doing this manually for years using non-breaking spaces and zero-width joins. Glad WebKit is finally catching up.
> But heaven forbid someone obtains an inapproximability result for your problem, then you're really in trouble.

This is not (necessarily) true:

For example, there exists a great approximation algorithm (Goemans-Williamson algorithm) for MAXCUT in graphs with non-negative edge weights.

On the other hand, when negative weights do occur, one can show (unless P=NP) that there exists no polynomial-time approximation algorithm for which the approximation guarantee is a constant factor times the optimal solution.

But since the Goemans-Williamson algorithm is a great algorithm (if the Unique Games Conjecture holds, and P != NP, it has the best approximation guarantee that any approximation algorithm for MAXCUT with non-negative weights can get in polynomial time) nobody "forbids" you to use it in situations where also negative edge weights can occur. You will loose the approximation goodness guarentee, but in practice, this algorithm nevertheless gives good results in this situation, just not certified good results.
can you run us through the math on this 30k? how much labour is in the price of a smartphone? doesn't appear to me to be heavy or large. Cobalt won't mine itself, granted, but do I assume you didn't include digging a hole from Virginia to Congo in your evaluation?
Hmmm, he would have had to first realize it. Not sure he's that smart.
Good article, I think this succinctly says what I've struggled to explain to my own relatives:

> The vast majority of people do not know what a Kubernetes is; 99% my skills and knowledge are completely unnecessary to be Good At Computers. Turn it off and on, click suspicious UI button, plug in cable, open Google – these are the only requirements of the job.

However, the bits about Tensorflow and nmap makes me lean a tad towards https://xkcd.com/2501/. I think it's hard to tell exactly where the line between Good and Bad At Computers is.
Show HN: Rustdoc-style linking in mdBook (with the help of Rust-analyzer)
[rustdoc], Rust's API documentation generator, supports linking to Rust APIs by names,
which is great DX because you don't have to hard-code URLs in docs, and it guarantees
the links are correct. The same feature can be found in Javadoc, Go Doc, etc.

[mdBook] is another documentation/static-site generator written in Rust and widely used
in the Rust community. It generates sites from Markdown (so like Docusaurus, VitePress,
etc.)

Unlike rustdoc, mdBook doesn't have the same "linking by name" capability, which I find
a bit lacking — so I made this program!

mdbook-rustdoc-link is an mdBook preprocessor that you can plug into your book projects.
Using [rust-analyzer], it converts Rust API names to docs.rs permalinks, just like
rustdoc does. It can link to APIs in your own crate and in your dependencies, without
you having to manually search for and copy and paste URLs into your Markdown pages.

[rustdoc]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/what-is-rustdoc.html

[mdBook]: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

[rust-analyzer]: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/
150 million users migrating to what? What messaging platform has this capacity of absorption, taking that many signups at once?
sorry, I didn't see it in their featured demo video, unless it was shown supper quick.
'“Under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists — be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewher — it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints,” McFadden wrote.'

So, where is the limit then? Surely if a group of journalists had some very extreme viewpoints on race or religions that would be more of an issue for McFadden?
AFAICT ChatGPT is mostly useless and can't be trusted to answer questions accurately. So no, mostly all search engines. To be honesty I'm surprised anybody uses it for anything other than trivial uses.
Oh, I see. I interpreted that as being a description of who they didn't want, but I'm realizing now that that's not the case.
sure but the bigger models don’t make these trivial mistakes, and I’m not sure if translating the LLM english sentences into LISP and trying to check them is going to be more accurate than just training the models better
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get an interview with Netflix.

> employees that all they needed to do is deliver what the company wanted

How did this work out in practice and across teams?
My experience at Meta within my team was that it would be almost impossible to determine what the company actually wanted from our team in a year. Goals kept changing and the existing incentive system works against this since other teams are trying to come up with their own solutions to things which may impact your team.

> an employee did their job and didn't move up

Does Netflix cull employees if they haven't reached a certain IC level? I know at Meta SWEs need to reach IC5 after a while or risk being culled.
It's a miracle, but it's all thanks to the post-training. When you think of it, for so-called "next token predictors", LLMs talk in a way that almost no one actually talks, with perfect spelling and use of punctuation. The post-training somehow is able to get them to predict something along the lines of what a reasonably intelligent assistant with perfect grammar would say. LLMs are probably smarter than is exposed through their chat interface, since it's unlikely the post-training process is able to get them to impersonate the smartest character they'd be capable of impersonating.
I use search for things where factual accuracy is critical (i.e. the address of a specific store, a speech by a specific person, the lyrics of a song).

I use LLMs for things where an explanation where accuracy ranging between 0% to 100% is not a problem. When I need to get a feel for something, a pointer to some resource
Yeah, we got these red-bellied wodpeckers here, knocking on the metal top of the poles of the electricity lines. Since the main inlet is connect to a wall in our bed room, they wake us up early in the morning by their drumming, resonationg through the electricity lines from near and far.

It have spent hours, half aslep, pondering what that sound could be, it took quite a while before I found the origin!
AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley
Major economic crisis? 4 years growing >= 3% doesn't look like a crisis to me.
Yes, if I need (relatively) accurate answers (with the sources / urls / web pages), I'd use keyword search on Google.

Still have a trust issue with LLM/ChatGPT for facts. Maybe in a couple years my mindset will shift and trust LLM/chatgpt more.
We may. LLMs are capable, even arguably at times inventive, but lack the ability to test against ground truth; ontological reasoners can never exceed the implications of the ground truth they're given, but within that scope reason perfectly. These seem like obviously complementary strengths.
> It provides no actionable information, its just an "attaboy" to the state.

There is actionable information: state governments and election officials cooperated more closely in the 2024 election than in previous elections, should not expect the need for cooperation to decrease, and should train officers to handle election-related threats. The article is in part a warning about avoiding the false sense of security encouraged by media framings of a "smooth" or "boring" 2024 election, or attitudes like `probably just another bomb hoax`.

Also, the article is not an "attaboy":

> Election officials and at least one governor were quick to praise law enforcement for their work. Congratulations are certainly in order, but the work is not done. Election security, like cybersecurity, is a race without an end. While both communities made important strides ahead of the 2024 election, without ongoing investment these gains may be quickly lost.
I expect it would require significantly more human labor to train (ie no longer fully unsupervised). I imagine that this constraint would lead to significant additional research to improve the efficiency of the training process, and that novel approaches would be developed.

In other words I think it would suck up a lot of money over a few years and then we would arrive back pretty much where we are now.
Leaked messages expose trade secrets of prolific Black Basta ransomware group
AFAIK US has enough prisoners in slave labor to produce the iPhone.
A16Z should rebrand as a ballistics company with the rate they've been shooting themselves in the foot recently.
What about Vega?
It's a misnomer - the VP left. Yann is the Chief Scientist, which I imagine most would agree would be the 'head' of a research division.
This is neat. I've been using three.js on and off for a few years and been following along as they've been adding more webgpu support. The biggest hurdle for 3D right now is that still some devices don't support it. I believe it's up to 70% or so though so I can see a lot more 3D showing up on the web soon.

I made a fox - https://viewer.aircada.com/0zrdVsTSF
vanilla ice completely copied queen's baseline, not just the queen style. (not to mention that it never went to court)
Yup.

Not kidding. These folks are serious control freaks. They are the most anal people I've ever met, when it comes to image Quality.
In the first half of 2024 SEPA Instant CT accounted for 15% of the total number of credit transfer transactions processed by euro area retail payment systems: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/stats/paysec/html/ecb.pis202...

With the harmonisation and almost free nature of ECB TIPS, becoming mandatory for all European payment service providers by the end of 2025, that figure will keep growing: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/intro/events/shared/pdf/fs22...
Rescale (YC W12) raises $115M for 1,000x faster physics – Bezos, Altman, Nvidia
We pronounce it t-uh-f, as in "tough" without the o.
The question can be turned around: what is the limit to the WH's ability to ban journalists for their speech if they can ban a journalist for this speech?

> Surely if a group of journalists had some very extreme viewpoints on race or religions that would be more of an issue for McFadden?

I do not see a reason to believe this.
Elon Musk's Secret Weapon: the US Marshals Service
Hope this means headscale involvement doesn’t get 86’d.

As I recall, a few tailscale folks contribute to this open source implementation of the “coordination server”. Apparently tailscale management approved it. So this means management at any time can revoke it, and possibly kill off self hosting of the coordination server as the open source clients become incompatible.
Ask HN: What is one AI startup idea that's solving a real problem?
I see lots of new AI apps. Many just help with things like making a calendar or writing down what was said in a meeting. That’s fine, but I want to hear about better ideas.

I’m looking for smart tools that do real work. Like:

-Helping small shops with hard rules (compliance)

-Filling out forms for the government

-Helping people like plumbers, lawyers, or house sellers

What’s one AI-driven startup you’ve seen (or are building) that’s actually solving a real, overlooked problem.

Extra happy if it saves time, money, or stops stress.
BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
I should have re-tested prior to posting. It is fixed now. I just tried posting a comment with the link and it was not [removed by reddit].

It was a really strange situation that lasted for months. Posts or comments with a direct link were removed like they were the worst of the worst.

I tried posting to r/bugs and it was downvoted immediately. I eventually contacted he lmarena folks, so maybe they resolved it with reddit.
That's a good question, and I'm culturally ignorant. When I lived in Texas, my impression was that "tea" was unsweetened iced tea, to which people added their own sweetener. Then when I visited Virginia, "tea" was heavily sweetened.

My friend told me that drinking coffee with a meal instantly identified me as a Midwesterner.
Age correlates with wisdom. It’s not a fallacy. I don’t claim that every person is wiser than all people younger than him.
The one without that clause was still fun to think about, so no harm done!
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gulf-mexico-america-ap-firs...

Has a nice explainer for how the WH press pool works.
Thanks for the clarification! I am sorry for the confusion.

I am glad you found the demos interesting. I’d be interested what made them attractive from your point of view.
Lest we forget, TeX is almost 50 years old now, so what constitutes "serious CPU cycles" has to be understood in the context of hardware available at the time.
Presumably not.

The First Amendment is specifically intended for this -- because who decides what is an extreme viewpoint? Imagine if a newspaper endorsed the President's opponent in the next election -- could they then be barred from all official events?

They could not be granted access in the first place, but once they are, the government cannot use that access to retaliate.
Interview with Skyper of TESO/THC [video]
>Had we moved this candidate forward, I have no doubt that they would have been able to use AI to pass the take home project with flying colors.

Yes, developers use AI in 2025 and this will only increase as the technology gets better. Shaming the use of AI is like taking away a plumber's toolbox because you'd prefer they work with thier hands alone. Developers at all levels have a use for AI, and given two developers with the same skill level why wouldn't you prefer one who could use AI as a tool.

If you are already hiring an engineer on their output over their comprehension, rate the output that they give you