skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you replace them with agentic AI, that doesn't mean that person has gone away or is now free to write poetry. It means they're out of an income and benefits.

That's capitalism for ye :/ Join us on the UBI train.

Say, have you ever read the book 'Bullshit Jobs'...
It won't. LLMs aren't magic, they're machines built to spec. And their spec is basically "copy-paste with a really good blur filter".
The "share which expires after one use" part requires the password either be visible to the server or encoded in the URL (also visible to to the server) unless you also want to share a password/key to access the password or, in which case the site doesn't make sense, or you want to require both folks are online at the same time to make a brokered WebRTC connection and share via that channel.

I think the intent is you have some crap messaging platform like email or SMS without and want to send a one time access link to the password. I'm not really sure how large the intersection of people who care enough about security to want that but not enough to want to avoid a 3rd party server and hoping first access of the link contents is by the intended target is though.
Technically speaking you could use DANE with mDNS. Nobody does it, browser don't implemented it, but you can follow the spec if you'd like.

Practically speaking, HTTPS on LAN is essentially useless, so I don't see the benefits. If anything, the current situation allows the user to apply TOFU to local devices by adding their unsigned certs to the trust store.
Your friend could benefit from a sleep study. I'm not saying they have sleep apnea or UARS, but people with those disorders often have those symptoms.
A real stretcher, you might say
will we ever see local, open source models? they are very important for accessibility reasons which this product can fit into, but wont because of it being cloud based (and proprietary).
The National Risk Register outlines the most serious risks facing the UK
Imagine what humanity could be capable of if we had the grace to ignore the title.
openssl rand -base64 12
if the AI transition really turns into an Artificial Labor revolution - if it really works and isn’t an illusion - then we’re going to have to have a major change in how we distribute wealth. The bad future is one where the owner class no longer has any use for human labor and the former-worker class has nothing
Any subdomain of .localhost works out-of-the-box on Linux, OpenBSD and plenty of other platforms.

Of note, it doesn't work on macOS. I recall having delivered a coding assignment for a job interview long ago, and the reviewer said it didn't work for them, although the code all seemed correct to them.

It turned out on macOS, you need to explicitly add any subdomains of .localhost to /etc/hosts.

I'm still surprised by this; I always thought that localhost was a highly standard thing covered in the RFC long long ago… apparently it isn't, and macOS still doesn't handle this TLD.
In what sense do you mean support? buck2 is afaik completely language agnostic, you can use it to drive any compilers/tools you want?
I'm glad to see someone else describe their experience this way too.

bazel has arrived at $WORK and it has been a non-trivial amount of work for even the passionate advocates of bazel. I know it was written by the Very Smart People at google. They are clearly smarter than me so I must be the dummy. Especially since I never passed their interview tests. :-)

Of course given all things google, by the time I'm fully onboard the train, the cool kids will be making a new train and then I'll have to hop onto that way to enjoy the rewards of the promised land that never quite seem to arrive.
You can listen to generic health insurance advertisement music maybe?
Most people have no idea what a travois is.

The headline could have been evidence of a 22000 year old wheelbarrow like vehicle but I guess that was a mouthful. “Vehicle” is fine.
It’s also one of the most alien feeling places I’ve been to. Cannot recommend a visit to the National Park enough and suspect it’s not more of a tourist destination just because it’s so remote.
What's crazy to me is it seems that we as a society have determined that it is far easier and more efficient to throw billions of dollars into a language token generating tool than teach people how to work with computers. It shows that most humans find it so psychologically painful to understand a system of rules and logical problem solving, that they choose to use an LLM, which in many instances is a far less efficient and salient solution.
This is what Matrix Bio wants to do, in fact! https://mitrix.bio/

"The goal is to produce bioreactor-grown mitochondria on an industrial scale, sufficient to supplement every person over the age of 55"

Although it might be preferential to get, say, properly genotyped mitochondria from champion horses!
> But it's becoming clear that within a few more years, computers will be far better at absolutely everything than human beings could ever be.

Comparative advantage. Even if that's true, AI can't possibly do _everything_. China is better at manufacturing pretty much anything than most countries on earth, but that doesn't mean China is the only country in the world that does manufacturing.
> what then are humans "for"?

Folding laundry
Around the same time people sometimes posted job openings in the html source of their websites. I never answered any, 'cause I wasn't looking for technical jobs at the time, but it always seemed clever to me.

Any, and only, nerds who were interested in web development incessantly "View Source"ed on every page that looked interesting. It was a major vector by which early-web frontend techniques spread themselves, and it was great: you could cut-and-paste the html, direct download the .css and other resources, and get an offline model of their site running for you to tinker with to learn their secrets. All the magic was out in the open (for those who cared to pull back the curtain), and the future seemed limitless.
A tiny wafer thin layer of life
Reverse Engineering Sierra AGI games (2017) [video]
>As someone who travels a lot, it’s also one of those things where statistically speaking, the chances of me being on a plane whenever some newsworthy event happens is higher than for the average person. I want my wife, friends, coworkers to know what flights I’m on and what cities I’m in. I’ve survived one terror attack, nearly dodged two others and a mass shooting. It’s one of those things where I want to make sure people who care about me can check in easily to see where I am.

It seems like the author has very different needs than you.
More than half the US agrees given the choice even after term and seeing his opponent serve as VP. Yes I'm suggesting that he is better and asserting that the histrionic response is divorced from reality.
> Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. ... In 2001, this taxonomy was revised, renaming and reordering the levels as Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. This domain focuses on intellectual skills and the development of critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. - Wikipedia

This context is important: this taxonomy did not emerge from artificial intelligence nor cognitive science. So its levels are unlikely to map to how ML/AI people assess the difficulty of various categories of tasks.

Generative models are, by design, fast (and often pretty good) at generation (creation), but this isn't the same standard that Bloom had in mind with his "creation" category. Bloom's taxonomy might be better described as a hierarchy: proper creation draws upon all the layers below it: understanding, application, analysis, and evaluation.
It certainly is liberating all our creative works from our possession...
More accurate conclusion is that the upper limit for efficient working hours is far less than the standard 40. This underlines how ridiculous the people who claim to work for even more than that already too high amount.
lol nobody outside of joe rogaine and tiktok take hancock seriously. dude is an absolute scam artist and liar.

hancock makes you stupid.
Show HN: Calculate confidence score for OpenAI JSON output
Very cool. I implemented something similar for personal use before.

At that time, LLMs weren't as proficient in coding as they are today. Nowadays, the decorator approach might even go further and not just wrap LLM calls but also write Python code based on the description in the Docstring.

This would incentivize writing unambiguous DocStrings, and guarantee (if the LLMs don't hallucinate) consistency between code and documentation.

It would bring us closer to the world that Jensen Huang described, i.e., natural language becoming a programming language.
Ultimately this is an economic argument. With about $10k you can buy a few dozen machine vision cameras [I would say "webcams" if I knew less about webcam compression], a PC with mobile modem, and a self-contained solar power supply. For $10M you can buy a thousand of these. A thousand of these evenly distributed within a few hundred kilometers of your country's borders are going to add dramatic capability to your air defense network compared to going from 5x $10M radar systems to 6x $10M radar systems. The key bit is that $10k costs far, far less than a single strike missile to take out one of these optical detection sites.

A full Patriot battery is $1100M, with the durable radar and command components being more like $400M.
Crossfading Photos with WebGL – Boston Bridge Project (2017)
AI is far closer to Asimov's vision of AI than anyone else's. The "Positronic Brain" is very close to what we ended up with.

The three laws of robotics seemed ridiculous until 2021, when it became clear that you could just give AI general firm guidelines and let them work out the details (and ways to evade the rules) from there.
And only the higher frequency radars are really useful for interception or weapons targeting. The lower frequency radars are good at long-range detection but they're far less precise.

Early stealth aircraft designs like the F-117 and B-2 were optimized for signature reduction in the frequency bands most typically used by air defense and fighter radar sets. Newer designs like the B-21 and F-47 supposedly have "broadband stealth" which reduces radar cross section across a broader range of radar bands but details are classified.
Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration
> The Star Trek computer from TNG is basically an LLM, really.

The Star Trek computer is not like LLMs: a) it provides reliable answers, b) it is capable of reasoning, c) it is capable of actually interacting with its environment in a rational manner, d) it is infallible unless someone messes with it. Each one of these points is far in the future of LLMs.
Which maintenance tasks, why does it require us to be unconscious, why can't we apply constant energy towards them? Lots of interesting questions to answer
> AI can't possibly do _everything_

Why not? There's the human bias of wanting to consume things created by humans - that's fine, I'm not questioning that - but objectively, if we get to human-threshold AGI and continue scaling, there's no reason why it couldn't do everything, and better.
I can't help but feel that this can be said for any country anywhere. Compare New Englanders to Southerners in the US. They are totally different, but they are still wayyy more similar than Southerners are to Cantonese.

It's easy to track differences between people around you, in your country, and very hard to track difference between people in other countries. This creates an illusion of "We are very different, and they are all the same".
In my mind, I was thinking of giving a set of fictional findings, not realizing that would technically make it.. fiction!

I think it's fine to have fictional notes. It's still a very different task than e.g. writing a fantasy novel, which these benchmarks roughly are about. Instead, the task would be to turn a given set of facts on a real-world topic into a high-quality, serious article.

> Then even writing what some might consider Pulitzer prize winning is a subjective task.

This applies to these benchmarks for "short fantasy story" tasks all the same.
Turns out most of the populous can be swayed by anything as long as it takes away some of the daily mental strain (mainly googling and looking at web results, it seems)
TBH this is already how the US got into the current mess.
it's a really amazing place. Definitely worth the trek out there if you have the time/desire. Really, the entire great basin/american SW is fascinating. There are a bunch of spots out there that will blow most people away.
Blackwater?
Asimov’s future was pretty dark. He didn’t come out and say it, but it was implied that we had a lot of big entities ruling everything. Many of the negative political people were painted as “populist” figures.

If you are a fan of the foundation books, recall that many of the leaders of various factions were a bunch of idiots little different than the carnival barkers we see today.
"Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08854-x :

> Abstract: [...] Here we introduce a photonic AI processor that executes advanced AI models, including ResNet [3] and BERT [20,21], along with the Atari deep reinforcement learning algorithm originally demonstrated by DeepMind [22]. This processor achieves near-electronic precision for many workloads, marking a notable entry for photonic computing into competition with established electronic AI accelerators [23] and an essential step towards developing post-transistor computing technologies.
Yes I’ve had that too. Linked to a blog of mine and saw traffic spike in the Cloudflare dashboard.

Talking about that, I have a great blog that…

Just kidding
In that case I would prefer naming as

<virtual>.<physical-host>.internal

So for example

phpbb.mtndew.internal

And I’d probably still add

phpbb.localhost

To /etc/hosts on that host like OP does
No one in Asia wants to visit nyc because of friends, sienfeld or sex and the city. These shows to them are mostly raw garbage. The reason is because these shows are culturally focused. Its catered exclusively to the type of American humor and values that most people in Asia do not give two shits about.

They want to visit Hollywood because they want to see the technology that built these blockbusters because internationally everyone understands heroism, sacrifice and special effects. Additionally these movies aren’t watered down. The writing and the effects have gone through years of development to get to that point. It just doesn’t cater to your sensibilities. The term is snobbish.

The writing for Seinfeld and friends and sex and the city took years to get where they are. These aren’t inborn cultural talents. You can easily compare stories from past American movies to see how cheesy and stupid they are. It takes development for stories to come to where they are today and it’s a back and forth between the audience and writers. As writers write more stories audience members learn and become more sophisticated and twists and humor that worked in the past become cliche. Why do you think you’re too snobbish to appreciate something like avengers? You think someone in the 50s wouldn’t appreciate it? Fuck honestly if the whole mcu up till end game came out in the 50s that whole thing would win a Nobel peace prize.

China is 100% going through this learning process right now. The audiences sophistication and the writers as a result are growing at a breakneck pace. I think movies from China that might appeal to who you are is crouching tiger hidden dragon or Hero as these movies share the more universally appreciated parts of Chinese culture and since that is what you’re interested in, I recommend them to you.
It beeps when Googlebot visits, too?
The RFC treats .localhost as a full TLD. I believe Windows does as well, as does Ubuntu (using default systemd-resolved), but macOS doesn't seem to resolve .localhost by default, necessitating the host file trickery.

Of course, in the early internet, the difference between a TLD and a host name weren't quite as clear as they are right now.
Here's a write-up I did on deriving the Y combinator from Lawvere's fixed-point theorem: https://emarzion.github.io/Y-Comb/
At night in Ukraine they use microphone arrays to track the drones:

https://www.twz.com/land/thousands-of-networked-microphones-...
"Hawley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said that Meta or Facebook tried "desperately to prevent" him from holding the hearing.

"They have threatened her with $50,000 in punitive damages every time she mentions Facebook in public ... even if the statements she is making are true," he said. "Facebook is attempting her total and complete financial ruin. They're attempting to destroy her personally, they're attempting to destroy her reputation and I think the question is, `Why?'"

"What is it they are so afraid of?" Hawley asked.""

Meta has a stellar reputation to protect. Honest people doing honest "work".
The difference between the 1980 version of my post and the 2025 version of my post is that in 1980 there was conceivably a future where the secretary could retrain to do other work (likely with the help of one of those new-fangled microcomputers) that would need human intelligence in order to be completed.

The 2025 equivalent of the secretary is potentially looking across a job market that is far smaller because the labor she was trained to do, or labor similar enough to it that she could have previously successfully been hired, is now handled by artificial intelligence.

There is, effectively, no where for her to go to earn a living with her labor.
It depends on what you are trying to get out of a novel. If you merely require repetitions on a theme in a comfortable format, Lester Dent style 'crank it out' writing has been dominant in the marketplace for >100 years already (https://myweb.uiowa.edu/jwolcott/Doc/pulp_plot.htm).

Can an AI novel add something new to the conversation of literature? That's less clear to me because it is so hard to get any model I work with to truly stand by its convictions.
> Might makes right with these people.

As though the entire Biden administration that precedes him doesn't play by this exact principle?

What is the alternative reality that the rest of the world or opposing parties in the US supposedly lives by? In what world does someone have to live at the behest of their opponents and professed haters and simply acquiesce and do whatever they say?
The earliest home computers had tiny amounts of memory: my TRS-80 Color Computer started out with 4K of RAM and BASIC in ROM although within a few years I had it filled out with 64K of RAM. There weren't a lot of languages that would fit in 4K, but they included BASIC, FORTH and assembler (like the actual assembler.) [1]

My FORTH experience with that was writing a subroutine-threaded FORTH for the 6809 under the OS-9 operating system in about 3000 lines of assembler. I wrote to the Forth Interest Group and they sent me a card which had a list of standard words in FIG FORTH, mine complied with that except that I used the Unix-like system calls from OS-9 for file I/O instead of the block scheme most FORTHs used.

[1] The popular 6502 (Apple ][, Atari 400/800, C-64, ...) was particularly weak in support for compiled languages because it had few registers and fewer addressing modes but it was easy to write a FORTH for too.
Oh that is pretty neat, I'm still failing to come up with any current use cases though. Most animations I'm use to are bone based which I think would still be smaller than this. I could see it for vertex based animations, but I'm not sure of any current cases where this is used. I'm sure there are good uses out there, I'm probably just missing it. I can at least think of potential future uses like vr movies, where if it's recorded and reconstructed into a 3d scene the bone information won't be there and most likely won't help even if it was.
I worked on the CalDAV client that’s in every Apple product.

I agree, the protocol sucks. But we also had a ton of trouble handling Exchange and Google’s non-compliant CalDAV server, which all the users blamed us for.

Now that I work at Google I can see that gCal apps use an entirely different protocol.
It looks like there are quite a few glitches in Apple's openrsync. Deletion of two files resulted in four deletion entries.

rsync -av --delete --dry-run a/ b/

Transfer starting: 2 files
folder1/file2: deleting
folder1/file1: deleting
./folder1/file2: deleting
./folder1/file1: deleting

Also, if a directory has extended attributes, `rsync -av --extended-attributes` resulted in `._` folders in the destination directory.

It is not an acceptable replacement for the original rsync.
If your argument is that, all that happened and it all turned out fine: Are you sure we (socioeconomically, on average) are better off today then we were in the 1980s?
Personally I think a bigger problem is the lack of discoverability of things in nixpkgs, which hits you as soon as you start writing anything remotely non-trivial. "Things" here means functions in 'lib', 'builtins', etc., as well as common idioms for solving various problems. I think this combines with the language's lack of types to make it hard to know what you can write, much less what you should write.

A language server with autocomplete and jump-to-definition would go a long way to making nix more accessible. As it stands, I generally have to clone nixpkgs locally and grep through it for definitions or examples of things related to what I'm doing, in order to figure out how they're used and to try to understand the idioms, even with 4 years of running NixOS under my belt and 3 years of using it for dev environments and packaging at work.
Zod 4 Beta
Worth noting that the poor performance of erb has been debunked[1] and it'd be helpful to add some caveat or clarification in the rendering solutions table.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550721
I’m not sure I get your point. Is it that you can’t make art with tools that produce average results?

If so I really disagree, achieving great results with average building blocks is both feasible and I’d say usual - you can perfectly imagine a greatly useful and successful app where any given individual block of code is nothing to write home about.

You can get a great solo of jazz piano over a generated battery filler, you can stitch two recordings by having AI generate the microseconds in the gap, you can produce a melody where AI adds human-like timing micro errors in the synth so doesn’t sound like a robotic rendition, you can rap and generate adlibs as a second voice…
It has to, how would it deliver the password to the URL’s recipient otherwise?

I suppose to keep it fully stateless you could encode the password in the URL itself somehow, but then that would defeat the purpose of not having the secret hang around in perpetuity.
> Every, single, time

No, it really doesn't.

The wisdom of the crowds has some domains where it's good, and others where it's bad.

Bandwagons, groupthink, whatever you want to call it, that effect is also real. If I pick a random person and ask them what they think the "basic truths" of COVID are, 20-40% of the stuff they will say will still be false today — it just doesn't matter any more that they're wrong.

I feel this should be easy to spot by having two large populations that hold mutually incompatible beliefs, such as the way Americans love the 2nd amendment while the UK bans not only guns but also knives in pubic without good reason.
A while ago I saw a video of a robot doing exactly that. Seems there is nothing left for us to do.
This is the typical US confusion of a license and an ID. Licenses were not originally intended to be ID.

Until someone decided that only people over 21 could drink, and that we needed strong controls over ID. And most people had drivers licenses, so that is what they said they would need for a document