skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how what the book talks about… is exactly what’s happening. Kind of meta.

The author doesn’t exist. The whole essay is fake—or a “philosophical experiment”[1], according to Andrea Colamedici, the real italian author behind it, who was supposedly just the translator. And those words aren’t his either. They came from two AI platforms (still unnamed).

It’s been a scandal in publishing, and in all the universities and newspapers that praised it as a fresh way to understand the present.

Now, of course, intellectuals and journalists are justifying “the intellectual debate the book sparked”, asking if these new “philosophical entities” are the start of a new wave of “hybrid works...” and so on.

Well. They’ve basically discovered "vibe philosophizing": feeling deep truths without knowing where they come from or why they sound right.

[1] More: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-04-07/jianwei-xun...
“I don’t know how you can be that stupid. How do you get to be president and then you’re stupid?”

- Donald Trump (actual quote)
> it’s too specialized to justify making a company out of it

How do you know? Did you try?
Speed limits for towing smaller trailers mostly derive from safety concerns about overloaded or imbalanced trailers being unstable at high speeds. A battery-only trailer with little or no cargo space, designed and certified in conjunction with specific tow vehicles, could easily be safe enough to operate at highway speeds.

I think the main reason why we don't see anyone seriously pursuing the battery trailer idea is that it would be an expensive niche product. It would have to be mostly a rental-only product, and offer few advantages over simply renting a more suitable vehicle.
And fame.
You don't have to look that hard—there have been several independent groups who have noted different ways in which the algorithm is skewed pro-CCP:

https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-Report_-...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/artic...
It's just a meet up man.

You go there, meet some people, have some conversations. Sharing information is the quintessential non zero sum game humans play.
Wow, I have never seen one of those before, and now I need one.

It would have to be a very specific environment, more specific I think than the standard shovel configuration. I think loose dirt, and shifting it or lifting into a wheel barrow. but under those conditions, it would kick ass.

On the subject of shovel mechanical disadvantage, the reason for that is to gain higher velocity so you can fling dirt(or coal or whatever you are flinging) further. And perhaps more importantly to give you mechanical advantage when prying dirt loose when digging a trench.
Probably “SVG Animations” available through O’Reilly. It is from 2017. While many of the frameworks used have come and gone; there are a few stable concepts. If you can get it on sale, I’d recommend. Full price is a hard sell.
Not just permanent residents, either. I have legally owned numerous firearms while on L1 and H1B visas in US.
Yeah to be more specific I mean I'm sure I'm not unique, there's a whole class of people who can create something easily but who don't have the personality or wherewithal or desire to sell it or pretend it could be a unicorn or seek out a formal co-founder.

But who'd be happier tending to the day to day of keeping their own service growing and running well than other kinds of employment.
Yup. That's what it looks like to me as well
We stuck with Yup and ignored Joi, Zod and god knows what else has come down the pipeline since. Rather than wasting time upgrading, we've instead built useful features.

That said, we are slowly phasing out our React frontend for one of our apps page by page and replacing it with what we use over the rest of apps: Phoenix + Liveview. The changeset system for validations has proven itself time and time again to both be fast but also to handle many of the curly validation problems we might have. It also has barely changed since its release.

If you have a disciplined frontend team then you might be able to make it work. They have to be able to ignore the latest shiny thing that has come along, but if you don't then you'll have a team that is busy constantly upgrading to the latest shiny library rather than getting anything done.
I hear you. But consider this: substitute “LLM” in what you said above with “coworker” or “direct report”.

Does having a coworker automatically make a person dumb and no longer willing or able to grow? Does an engineer who becomes a manager instantly lose their ability to work or grow or learn? Sometimes, yes I know, but it’s not a foregone conclusion.

Agents are a new tool in our arsenal and we get to choose how we use them and what it will do for us, and what it will do to us, each as individuals.
I'm not convinced by reducing this to a single dimension. There are differences in both 'what can be expressed' and 'what validation can be done' which are somewhat independent of each other
Even universal tariffs with no exceptions is a problem.

Many things cross US/Canada/Mexico border in the process being manufactured. And tariffs will stack up.

Many advanced products (tech/chip, etc) are not entirely made in any single place. Some stuff is imported, and some is exported again, and tariffing the world, will also make the world tariff you.

I think this is all around bad. Best case scenario the US has elected a president who decided to burn all political capital, alliances and credibility in search of a slightly better deal.

Doing this sort maximum pressure economic extortion style policies, *might* getter you a slightly better deal. But at what cost?

Can EU countries buy US military equipment, when it turns out that the US will withhold support for equipment we've bought and paid for, in order to pressure a democracy, fighting for its existence, into surrender.

Trump may get a win in the headlines, because everyone thinks he'll go away if he get a win.
Is there an open source Android app with all these complications?
not a suicide, it's more of a nice bonfire and someone keeps throwing in chemistry projects they found at a wholesale market
Just look at the work to date as a portfolio for your resume and go get a job with someone that will pay you and perhaps give you some small amount of equity. You don’t have the skills to sell. Move on
The trick is in the « materially ».

The inability to demonstrate incrementality in advertising is going to come in very handy to dodge this rule.
> Keep an eye out for what Apple and nvidia might have agreed to give.

Well we know Nvidia did give a million dollars already:

"A $1M-per-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago is how you get AI chips to China" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652504
That sounds absolutely absurd.

Are you using a lot of deeply nested objects + unions/intersections?
Companies will never pay an American worker what an American worker needs to survive or live. This is going nowhere because unlike China where street food is had for pennies, American street food is BK, McD's and Taco Bell for $$$. Cost of living? Americans want homes, they don't want to live with their families, they want cars not bikes. Manufacturing in America will take a century. IMO
Sabine also have wasn't the only physicist that thinks FCC would be dead on arrival.
Tracking-free link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIALTQjMKma
Yikes, the parallax distortion is severe, especially when the camera pans. The metal wheel doesn't even look round. Unfortunately, the person shooting this video with their phone didn't zoom out to extreme wide angle to show what's going on in most of the field of view. The video looks like maybe a 60-70 degree slice out of the 165 degree Sphere screen. Of course, we already know the answer has to be: nothing. Nothing is going on in most of the screen.
"Fake" like calling the "special military operation" a war of aggression?
There is a _hope_ that there's new physics there. But so far, nothing indicates that the next collider will find something.

There is definitely new physics to be discovered, but it might need a collider the size of the Solar system for the discovery.
Not sure who you are and why would your opinion matter here but I'll take you on your comment. Looking forward to your write up.
I am annoyed that correct use of punctuation is now considered a red flag.
Trump is determined to be remembered by history for his bold moves and "greatness". There is no 4D chess here. There is no such thing as 4D chess.

At best, he's using these tariffs as a temporary means to exert pressure and watching how others respond to them, almost like acting like the crazy man with a gun to make people a little more willing to negotiate terms more favorable for the gunman. At least as a matter of intent, anyway. The actual effect is another matter.
Macros are not comments.
Every once in a while Google won't find what I'm looking for -- but when I cut-and-paste the same search terms into Bing it finds it on the first try.
Not right now. CSP in a Datastar context is mostly a red herring. If an enterprise wants it to check a box then please reach out.
Not really thinking discretionary goods are going to see a boon from tariffs. People buy a lot of things primarily because they are cheap/affordable which is why outsourcing and global/trade has benefits for consumers. There's a lot of stuff people will just go without, like overpriced backyard stoves....
People win streak gold stake Balatro, A20H slay the spire, unfair slice and dice, and plenty of other games in this category. Nothing wrong with playing a game for 10 hours and being done with it but calling them rng fiestas just because you can’t beat the game on the hardest difficulty every time after 10 hours is a bit dismissive of the level of effort that is put in to getting these games as tightly tuned as they are.
You implied: Having your phone ring several times per hour is something desirable.
Looks like a cool paper. It's really puzzling to me why llama turned out to be so bad, yet they're releasing great research. Especially considering the amount of GPUs, llama really seems unexcusable when compared to Loma from much smaller teams with a lot less resources
> Don't waste time on discussions within a level.

I disagree with this. YAML has too many footguns (boolean conversions being the first among them) not to mention it is a superset of JSON. Plain old JSON or TOML are much simpler.
That’s a good breakdown.

In practice configuration systems that reach level 4 or 5 start to look complex and the whole thing ends up with a new rewrite into a level 2 or 3. After a while it expands, because it needs comments, include files, templating, for loops, etc., until it becomes a total mess and gets thrown out and we cycle back to level 3.
That's what German industrialists were hoping to achieve through Hitler, but they didn't end up with anything like it.
Yes, goroutines are preemptive, too. And they took a lot of inspiration from Erlang and the BEAM when they designed goroutines and channels.

In Go you manage your goroutines and channels explicitly, while the BEAM runs all processes for you, and I've seen Robert Virding run an infinite loop in one Erlang process while the rest were serving requests, the core with the loop stayed at 100% but 0 requests were dropped and the latency and throughput was more or less the same, pretty crazy capabilities.

You can do the same in Go but it's a lot more manual.
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It's not that they are managing it badly that I'm talking about.

It's that they manage it in a way to maximize their personal profits, with an absolute disregard of the ordinary folks.

Tariffs are one example - none of it makes sense, but companies still pay millions for a 'dinner at Mar-a-Lago' to get a favorable treatment.

What's hapening with law firms is even more disgusting.

I get the feeling that a lot of Democrats and 'real' Republicans thinks that he will get what he wants and then they just wait out 4 years. It's an almost 80 years narcissist, who doesn't care about people nor law, and who dreams about becoming a King. It only gets worse from here, not better.
Mast Bumping – Causes and Prevention [video]
https://projectsam.com/libraries/the-free-orchestra play around with something like this, and you'll be surprised with what you can come up with. Modern DAW's have given me a ton of freedom to create all types of music.
I dunno, man. Re-read your comment but change one assumption:

> They still won in court based on the profits they determined the "theft" cost them, and the settlements were absurdly high.

Such court determinations are wrong. At least hopefully you can see how perhaps there is not so much wrong with the reasoning, even if you ultimately disagree.

> They're training them on the actual images artists create with skills honed over decades of work.

This is very similar to a human studying different artists and practicing; it’s pretty inarguable that art generated by such humans is not the product of copyright infringement, unless the image copies an artist’s style. Studio Ghibli-style AI images come to mind, to be fair, which should be a liability to whoever is running the AI because they’re distributing the image after producing it.

If one doesn’t think that it’s wrong for, e.g., Meta to torrent everything they can, as I do not, then it is not inconsistent to think their ML training and LLM deployment is simply something that happened and changed market conditions.
RSS = Resident Set Size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_set_size
Hmm yeah I guess I wasn't completely aware of that term and its implications. That seems like a pretty weird qualifier for such a law. Now it kind of makes it sound like the law wants to prevent people using AI in a way that makes your grandma transfer her life savings to them.

Clearly, most LLMs would work in small increments with compounding effects.
Tried it on a 800mb file. Single request.
Made a small silly game recently just for fun, using mostly CSS animated SVG tiles for rendering: https://pipeline-panic.vercel.app/
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Most of Russian opposition does support this theory. Many people do, in general. It's hard to call it a conspiracy theory when they literally caught a couple of FSB guys loading bags of explosives into an apartment building. The official version is that this was a "security training", but c'mon.
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> The trend, hinted by stuff like GPT-4o and proven by MetaQuery, looks modular.

Could you make this more explicit? What modularity is hinted at by 4o? The OpenAI blog post you cite (and anything else I've casually heard about it) seems to only imply the opposite.
74,749,891 v 77,168,458 for Trump. Last time I checked, thats winning the popular vote
Seems as noisy as a standard helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=22&v=9-Vr_Kd1W0E
"Trump to investors: My policies will never change" - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-investors-my-policies...
It wasn't AI generated. If a correct description for you means that it was written by AI, I'm flattered
About 20 or so years ago, I have come across a configuration pattern that could be arguably called "Level 0". It was configuration by file existence. The file itself would be typically empty. So no parsing, syntax, or schema involved. For example, if the file /opt/foo/foo.txt exists, the software does one thing but if it is missing the software does another thing. So effectively, the existence of the file serves as a boolean configuration flag.
They probably promoted me to lead because I am a field grade military officer in my part time job. It certainly wasn’t because I was working hard. Nearly all my promotions in both the corporate world and military have been involuntary, now that I think about it.

Things that also helped:

* superior writing skills. It’s the ability to supply superior precision in the fewest number of words.

* getting shit done. It’s the ability to accomplish all the things assigned to you urgently and without error. My goal is to clear my plate of all currently assigned tasks so that I can space out.

* taking care of people and managing operations. There is a lot to this but I have more than 20 years experience in management from the military side so it’s just second nature for me now.
US debt grows not linearly. Kind of exponentially or something like that. Economy growth does not match that.
They just spouted two different justifications, jobs will come back to America, and robots will do the jobs. I guess the most generous explanation is jobs for people making robots in America by combining the two separate statements, but that's not even close to what they said.
You can edit your previous comments on HN. At least for a certain amount of time, and then they become un-editable.
It really says all there is to say about this 'platform'. The creators don't care enough to put even the barest of minimum effort into promoting it, why would anyone else care?
It was always about more than GPUs since even when the original llama came out, the community released fine tunes that would bench higher than the base model. And with the Deepseek distilled models it turned out you could fine tune some reasoning into a base model and make it perform better.
Show HN: Made a webcam-controlled Theremin called ÆTHERWAVES [video]
I've been a nerd about the Theremin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin) from when I found it as a wiki entry a LONG time ago. Over the years I've tried to make my version of it in various ways, and this one's my newest take on it.

It lets you create music by tracking your hand movements to control pitch, volume, and timbre.

Try it here: https://aether.layogtima.com/

How to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AtV0r8mlt4&feature=youtu.be

It's 100% open-source and under GPLv3 if you'd like to contribute/fork it: https://github.com/layogtima/aetherwaves

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If you play with this, would love a video to see how you do it! Also, would really appreciate feedback and pull requests; I do not understand music theory natively, so all mistakes are ignorance on my part.

NOTE: Collaborated with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro for various parts of coding this (LLMs don't do spatial reasoning btw, found out the hard way!)
Level 4 is turing complete.

There's two parts that I was talking about. Things that are not quite that and the fact that configuration can have that capability in a fairly useless context.

When I'm dealing with personal things or stuff that few people use I will often make the configuration just something I eval/source.

So it in theory has the same functionality as the underlying programming language, but in practice you're just supposed to use it like an INI.

Here's a fairly large personal project where I use that

https://github.com/kristopolous/music-explorer

It actually allowed me to change the behavior on whether I'm running my program from my office or home. So invoking the full fidelity of the underlying language actually has its benefits at times.
Imagine a mob trying to extort you while also stabbing himself and having a beef with the whole city at the same time.
Not massacring civilians by the hundreds would be a good start.
And the purpose is "gamifying" the whole chatbot hunt, not fact-checking or red-flagging AI-generating content btw
This is awesome, bundle size has been my number one issue preventing me from trying out Zod as v3 shipped with validations that were unnecessary for frontend use but weren't able to be treeshaken.
One of the most surprising things about this announcement is that it didn't happen during business hours where the insiders could buy call options before hand.
As opposed to his public army, which he actually does control as President of the United States. I’m alarmed of that.
This kind of stock marketing script tends not to fly on HN. If you want general interest you need to go deeper than this.
Nothing about the tariffs make any sense. The want to use the tariffs to negotiate with countries but also say they want to use tariffs to bring back manufacturing. If you are using tariffs to negotiate then once the country gives you what you want, you have to lift the tariff thus the free market keeping manufacturing overseas. If you want to bring back manufacturing then you can't use the tariff to negotiate.

I am genuinely at a loss at how his supporters don't understand this.
Cool! We can build a direct democratic simulated multiverse (the real superintelligence has everything in it, it's not an agent but a place)
You're right about these most serious adverse outcomes, but don't forget what could happen if you (say) randomly get your Big Tech account locked/suspended/banned for some reason that was ultimately erroneously flagged by an AI, and then cheerfully executed at scale.

The examples you provided are more fundamental and I won't trivialize them, but making you lose your "keys to your own digital space" is a very real power they have over you.
Yeah... I wish there were laws that would require disclosure of such behavior. Might be tricky to implement though, and probably contradicts the interests of politicians.
The existence of some users desiring stability does not in any way contradict the claim that maintainers get hate for not immediately integrating upstream changes. In particular, distros have more than 2 users -- they can do different things.
Why are you doing numerical code in single precision? If no one in your group did a numerical analysis course at college it’s time you moved on to think about some other problem more suited to your experience set.
Lisp code is represented in the same data structure it manipulates. This homoiconicity makes Lisp code be a great config data especially in a Lisp program. In comparison, you can't represent JS code in JSON.
I suspect that trade policy is one of the core competences of the EU.

And countries arguing for particular tariff policies and getting cutouts is widespread EU past time.
It's pretty easy to store custom instructions in plain SVG files and interpret them in with your reader. For example I have a multi-purpose laser-cutter / plotter and I use opacity for laser power, stroke weight for movement speed, green channel for number of passes, blue channel for z-axis height and red channel for lowering the pen or turning of the laser etc.
I have no idea what a "chatbot hunt" is and why there would be economic value in hunting them.