skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word is just a 'pointer' to the underlying shared experience, so I don't think you could; the kid would come away thinking red is the same thing as the feeling of splinters or the warmth of a sunset, which isn't what red is, those are just feelings maybe associated with red. That said - I'm actually pretty confident we'll be able to have basic "conversations" made of basic snippets of information with dolphins and whales in my lifetime. Maybe not complex grammatical structure we identify with, but small stuff like: "I'm hungry". I'm not sure if dolphins could understand "fish or octopus for dinner?", because they might not have any idea of a logical 'OR', and perhaps they might don't even differentiate between fish/octopus.

We do share (presumably) experiences of hunger, pain, happiness, the perception of gradations of light and shape/form within them, some kind of dimensionally bound spatial medium they exist in as an individual and are moving through - though of course they might not conceive of these as "dimensions" or "space", they would surely have analogs for directional words - although given they aren't constrained to live on top of a 2D surface, these might not be "up", "down", "left", "right", but something in the vein of "lightward" or "darkward" as the two main directions, and then some complicated 3D rotational coordinate system for modeling direction. Who knows, maybe they even use quaternions!
If you can't distinguish "not what I intended" from "not what I wanted" then there is probably no reasoning with you. Luckily for the rest of us, making this distinction is a pre-requisite for becoming a judge or lawyer.
Ask HN: Has your YouTube homepage gotten suddenly generic and bad?
As of last week, my YouTube feed (i.e. the videos on the homepage) seems totally disconnected from my activity. All recommendations are generic videos, many of them 1-2 minutes or years old, like “racoon eating lettuce” or “chocolate fish.”

It seems like the algorithm was suddenly unplugged.

I’m still logged into the site and haven’t changed any privacy settings.

I’m geolocated in the UK… maybe some recent regulatory implementation has caused this?
This was the attack vector of a AI CTF hosted by Microsoft last year. I built an agent to assess, structure, and perform the attacks autonomously and found that even with some common guardrails in place the system was vulnerable to data exfiltration. My agent was able to successfully complete 18 of the challenges... Here is the write up after the finals.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/announcing-the-winne...
GPT-4.1 probably is a distilled version of GPT-4.5

I dont understand the constant complaining about naming conventions. The number system differentiates the models based on capability, any other method would not do that. After ten models with random names like "gemini", "nebula" you would have no idea which is which. Its a low IQ take. You dont name new versions of software as completely different software

Also, Yesterday, using v0, I replicated a full nextjs UI copying a major saas player. No backend integration, but the design and UX were stunning, and better than I could do if I tried. I have 15 years of backend experience at FAANG. Software will get automated, and it already is, people just havent figured it out yet
so we're going back... .4 of a gpt? make it make sense openai..
sure i am being dramatic but my point stands. if my company can’t be fluid and can’t react fast to market due to bs unions and backward laws of some land, that place is what i avoid.
Interesting. Ive never heard this before. Can you point to some peer reviewed research that supports this hypothesis?
The big change about this announcement is the 1M context window on all models.

But the price is what matters.
El Salvador means "the savior"...

simply put, not for him. this man did not get saved by this version of the savior... he got wrecked by El Salvador rather than saved
Can Hippos Swim?
Innocent person who was kidnapped
and trafficked by the US government*
vs. i can hire in canada/ukraine/india/pakistan/china for a more skilled person with no such bs restrictions.
This really is the end of everything. Troops deployed domestically. Citizens blackbagged and sent to gulags for the rest of their lives with no process. There is no more law one this position is reached.
Agreed. When Target pushed Starbucks-in-Target, it was pretty obvious how they were positioning.

And granted, their furniture design is pretty nice, compared to what their competitor big-boxes stock.
I do this. I have about a dozen Spotify playlists saved to my phone and laptop for offline use.

Often times, the tracks didn't match the style I selected, in my opinion. For example, if I select the Chill style, I don't want an energetic "4 on the floor" beat oriented track.

I think I'm just super picky and really don't like 75% of the track selections on the styles I tried.

Here's a couple (they are safe-for-work) I like a lot when coding:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3w2YAQaYubicd1Me32ZBrY

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YaENkqeE9CnQJYwztoxfX?si=...
Props to the author for the well-researched original article.

I disagree with the conclusion. In the current environment, OpenAI can raise money as if were water pouring from a faucet. If SoftBank can't meet its agreements then there are 50 others waiting to take their place. In the current environment, OpenAI's revenue and capital requirements are not meaningful given their ability to raise.

The environment can change quickly, look at early year 2000 vs late year 2000 funding for .com for example - money went from on-faucet to you're-not-getting-a-dime in a few months. So if the funding environment for AI suddenly shifts, yes, OpenAI is cooked, but so is the entire AI industrial complex, from the smallest barely-billion-dollar startup all the way up to Nvidia.

My conclusion is that OpenAI is not a systemic risk, it's not going to fall or take down a large portion of the tech industry on its own, it will fall if investors sour on the entire AI industry for some reason.
I've been using my own telegram -> ai bot and its very interesting to see what others do with the similar interface.

I have not thought about adding memory log of all current things and feeding it into the context I'll try it out.

Mine is a simple stateless thing that captures messages, voice memos and creates task entries in my org mode file with actionable items. I only feed current date to the context.

Its pretty amusing to see how it sometimes adds a little bit of its own personality to simple tasks, for example if one of my tasks are phrased as a question it will often try to answer the question in the task description.
The problem with the “knife is sharp” argument is that it’s too generic. It can be deployed against most safety improvements. The modern world is built on driving accident rates down to near-zero. That’s why we have specialized tools like safety razors. Figuring out what to do to reduce accident rates is what postmortems are for - we don’t just blame human error, we try to fix things systematically.

As usual, the question is what counts as a reasonable safety improvement, and to do that we would need to go into the details.

I’m wondering what you think of the CaMeL proposal?

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/#atom-everything
Honest question, what recourse does someone in this situation even have? Would the ICC take this case? Are there any penalties that would (in theory) apply to either country?
This reminds me of something Adam Smith said in The Wealth of Nations:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Ymmv, but I cannot image that this "innovation" will result in a better outcome for the general public.
I wish I shared your optimism. I think the process will be more like rebuilding from a pile of rubble than restarting a working system.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not claiming it's generally better in any objective sense, just that I prefer it.

I don't think mine loses a minute per week, but it isn't perfect. Noticing the watch is a minute or two behind once a month and quickly popping out the dial to roll it forward is not a meaningful hassle for me.

Relative to a battery watch, it's nice that the watch is a self-contained functional unit. It will "always" be functional, even if I've left it in a drawer for a few years (always in quotes because of course anything can break).

Part of it is also just that I like to think about the mechanical complexity and elegance of it. It gives me a little bit more joy than my battery watches (but I still have plenty of battery watches that I like!), and that's something I appreciate.
Gemini 2.5 Pro gets 64% on SWE-bench verified.
Sonnet 3.7 gets 70%

They are reporting that GPT-4.1 gets 55%.
We held an internal Vibe Code Hackathon
Last Friday, we hosted an internal Vibe Code Hackathon at the Fyresite office! A total of 11 team members participated, ranging from software engineers to folks from our marketing team.

The challenge? Build something cool in just 4 hours. After the time was up, everyone voted on their favorite projects. Prizes were awarded to the top three winners—1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

The main goal was to introduce the whole team to agentic coding in a fun and collaborative way. It turned out to be not only a great learning experience but also a lot of fun!

One of our engineers created a super simple (yet oddly addicting) game during the hackathon. I’ve dropped the link below if you’re curious and want to give it a try.
Yeah, but the reason I gave it up was that the world moved on, and it hasn't stopped since. I'm still considering maybe getting a beefed up version at some point; but there are so many options floating around out there, very confusing for someone who hasn't been in the loop for a while.
It seems that OpenAI is really differentiating itself in the AI market by developing the most incomprehensible product names in the history of software.
You can get it back by giving up tech and platforms . Join an Irc channel ..
> you should assume they are worthless.

I had this mindset at a startup and decided not to risk any of my money exercising my stock options. They eventually expired. Years later the company IPO'd and I would have made a lot of money had I exercised.

Waiting for more certainty before exercising means the fair market value will likely be higher then and you'll have to pay AMT.

I now approach a job with the mindset that stock options are probably worthless, but I'll risk what I can afford to by exercising as soon as I can.
Given that it was a "mistake" that they deported (kidnapped) him, will anyone be facing prison time for not remedying it?

Personally, I don't believe that he is still alive and they're just delaying matters so that they can bury that news and pin the blame on El Salvador.
architecture docs are scant, but it appears this horizontally scales channels by adding "broker" instances and horizontally scales consumers by adding "worker" instances? i.e. a broker only needs to ever broadcast a message to the maximum number of worker instances in the cluster.
I'd wager that's the case, I have US-tube and even with freetube it's been giving me some pretty on-point recommendations in the sidebar. (I don't use the homepage)

(though to be fair those videos seem pretty baller I love videos with 3 views of some dude melting plastic with a lens or the like)
Not to be blunt, but isn't this the end of habeas corpus, if the federal government can black bag anybody they want to without a trial, and then maintain they have no ability to obey judicial orders to return them?
CDC cruise inspectors laid off as ship arrives in Fla with norovirus outbreak
I guess I forgot to mention one fact - the particle speed is set and constant, and does not change.

The point overall is to demonstrate that ideas of time, space, and speed are all just sequences of events from which you derive those metrics, and relativity is the fact that those sequences change with all three.
They learned from the best: Microsoft
> Note that GPT‑4.1 will only be available via the API. In ChatGPT, many of the improvements in instruction following, coding, and intelligence have been gradually incorporated into the latest version (opens in a new window) of GPT‑4o, and we will continue to incorporate more with future releases.

The lack of availability in ChatGPT is disappointing, and they're playing on ambiguity here. They are framing this as if it were unnecessary to release 4.1 on ChatGPT, since 4o is apparently great, while simultaneously showing how much better 4.1 is relative to GPT-4o.

One wager is that the inference cost is significantly higher for 4.1 than for 4o, and that they expect most ChatGPT users not to notice a marginal difference in output quality. API users, however, will notice. Alternatively, 4o might have been aggressively tuned to be conversational while 4.1 is more "neutral"? I wonder.
When your local VC can't keep up with other investors, they make bold claims about intangible things like connections and advice that you can't easily verify. Safer to go with the money.
I've worked with several of them and yes I do occasionally find that they would be the best suited for the work.
My dream tool allows me to create snapshots from either mobile or desktop browser, then read and highlight on my Android eInk reader or phone, then export my highlights and notes into Logseq...all without collecting all my data and selling it to advertisers (which basically leaves me with FOSS tools).

Omnivore was as close as I've ever gotten to this dream, even though their Android app wasn't great and certainly didn't have an "eInk pagination" option, but Readeck is at least giving me some hope again once Omni sold out.
Yes, and that was the point all along.
> Yesterday, using v0, I replicated a full nextjs UI copying a major saas player. No backend integration, but the design and UX were stunning, and better than I could do if I tried.

Exactly. Those who do frontend or focus on pretty much anything Javascript are, how should I say it? Cooked?

> Software will get automated

The first to go are those that use JavaScript / TypeScript engineers have already been automated out of a job. It is all over for them.
imagine thinking qualia can be described and understood... with words! lol lmao
I liked that the original explained the value of the vacuum cleaner. It's not that it removes dirt and dust per se, it's that it makes spaces you walk on tidier.
It's a lot easier than you all make it out to be [0].

I'm not a 'programmer' like you all are, at best I can hack together code to get things done. I use git maybe once a year. I'm a biotech person that likes to hang out because y'all are mostly smart and the community is great here.

But man alive, this is not that difficult. Yes, it's hard to wrap your head around some nested dependancies. But it's a lot easier than any chain of protein/gene/neuron interactions. This stuff makes sense and you can edit it. My field can't really do that most of the time and it really doesn't make sense for decades (at best).

Like, I'm trying to follow along here and am mostly lost. But the few times I do know something about the code y'all are talking about, it's made out to be a lot more complicated than it needs to be.

I mean, yeah, keep that up though. Makes your bosses pay you more and lord knows those suits should be doing that and not spending the cash on rockets and shitty pick-ups.

But for real, y'all are making this out to be a lot harder than it is.

[0] this is supposed to an unpopular opinion, right?
I use my Kindle from 2012 every day. It still has weeks of battery life and can connect to WiFi when I need to download a book I purchase with One Click to Kindle.

It’s honestly amazing. It’s the most longevity I’ve ever gotten from an electronics purchase.
Seems to me that if your country is not spying on allies and enemies alike, someone is not doing their job properly. The US spies on the EU and its member countries, just like the EU and its member countries spy on the US as they can. That's what they're supposed to be doing. Every country is going to massage "the truth" when dealing with others, so it's good to know how much massaging is going on.

The big difference now is that the US (my own damn country) is not nearly as trustworthy as it was (for some value of trustworthy), nor is it nearly as competently led as it was (for some value of competence), nor is it behaving in rational and predictable ways (as compared to before). So, maybe we all just understand that it's in everyone else's best interest to keep a close eye on conditions in the US, because it's not going to get better any time soon. And we all should probably also understand that the US is just going to see enemies wherever it looks and that's not going to improve any time soon, either.
What happens when the US starts "deporting" US citizens to the custody of foreign strongmen? As is he is repeatedly saying he intends to do. Would anything change, or will it continue the same way—SCOTUS orders Trump to "facilitate" citizens' access to "due process"; foreign Trump affiliate says "no", and that's that. (?)

- "President Trump just said he was open to sending American citizens convicted of violent crimes to President Bukele’s prison in El Salvador. Trump had a similar response when Bukele first offered to jail convicted American criminals in February. “I’m all for it,” Trump said, adding that his attorney general was studying whether the idea was legally feasible. “If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem, no,” he said, adding: “I’m talking about violent people. I’m talking about really bad people.”"
I do believe it's a bad thing, for a number of general reasons. But as far as the US specifically is concerned, I think a society can pick one out of the following two:

(1) Define people's worth through labour.

(2) See labour as a cost center that should be eliminated wherever possible.

US politicians and technologists are trying to have it both ways: Oppose a social safety net out of principle as to "not encourage leechers", forcing people to work, but at the same time seek to reduce the opportunities for work as much as possible. AI is the latest and potentially most far-reaching implementation of that.

This is asking for trouble.
> using v0, I replicated a full nextjs UI copying a major saas player. No backend integration, but the design and UX were stunning

AI is amazing, now all you need to create a stunning UI is for someone else to make it first so an AI can rip it off. Not beating the "plagiarism machine" allegations here.
Not sure how well this article has held up to time but Scott Alexander had a pretty compelling analysis of the situation.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-y...

The tl;dr, as I recall it: it seems ivermectin really did work in some populations, in reducing COVID mortality. However, those populations were ones where one was much more likely to have worms, so the hypothesis is that indeed did work, but only because it worked as a dewormer and not having worms concurrently with COVID decreased the likelihood of mortality.
http://archive.today/7IfP5
I recall the President of El Salvador tweeting that this was being turned into what is essentially a labor camp ("zero idleness program") to pay back the costs of constructing and running CECOT.

Moreover, if I'm keeping track of the cases correctly, this person was specifically protected from being returned to El Salvador because of persecution. Disgusting.
exactly, as a startup founder i wouldn’t commit to a yearly reserved ec2 instance for a year let alone an employee.
Good to know FAANG is actively integrating AI into their workspace.

How does the integration of knowledge go? I'm really interested to know that so that I understand how many years of employment I get ahead.
I mostly agree with the sentiments in this article. I was once an extremely zealous FP acolyte but eventually I realized that there are a few lessons worth taking from FP and applying to more conventional programming:
1. Pure functions are great to use when you have the opportunity.
2. Recursion works great for certain problems and with pure functions.
3. Higher order functions can be a useful shorthand (but please only use them with pure functions).
Otherwise, I think simple, procedural programming is generally a better default paradigm.
+1, it's been a while since I interviewed with Google, but this brought me back to how annoying it was. I've never had a good interview experience with Google. I only interviewed during college for internship and then a full-time new-grad role and got a consistent "we're doing you a favour by even talking to you" attitude from them— the delays, the impersonality, the delays to the general vibe of the emails, etc.

They became significantly more attentive when I got an internship offer from a competing big-tech company, but as much as my recruiter seemed to try, the process just seem to be deficient beyond their capacity to do anything about it. It had to go through many steps, and be reviewed by many people who seemingly had better things to do.

Eventually they reached to the right people to tell me my decision before my other deadline. I _was_ going to get an offer. They couldn't get me the actual offer letter, or tell me if I had guaranteed host-matching though. I happened to know Google can send intern offers that don't guarantee you'll be matched to a team, and if you're not, the internship just doesn't happen. In my book that's not only as good as no offer really, it's also just disrespectful. I knew people who had this type of offers and didn't get teams.

I took the other offer. "You will get an offer, the details are just taking a while" is not enough to decide on, and the whole process didn't particularly warm me up to Google. For comparison, and to give credit where credit is due, the other company was Meta (then FB). My recruiter was very response, understanding, and personable, which is especially appreciated as an college student— you're nervous, unexperienced and have a lot going on beyond interviewing. They sent me pictures of their dog to lighten the mood. I had told them I'd appreciate quickness, and by the time I was eating dinner after my on-site, I had the offer letter in my inbox.
After getting 4 flats in 4 days on a bike trip, I had good luck with anti-puncture kevlar tire liner tape.
Well the simple answer is that humor is subjective and that the things which were considered novel, topical, subversive humor in 1970s might not hit the same for everyone today. I'm not even sure the "British Humor" aspect has that much to do with it, since I think Monty Python has a bigger following in the US than in the UK. It might just not be your brand of humor.

That being said, the good sketches from their show are still funny and memorable today. But as with any sketch show, there's a mixture of quality. Holy Grail has its intergenerational staying power among nerds and theatre kids for a reason, even if the quoting and references to it have become pretty trite in my view.

Life of Brian is probably the best thing they've done, and is definitely one of my favorite comedies ever.
I sincerely appreciate your admonition, my good sir/gentle person. You have gone above and beyond to teach me (a lowly peasant of the digital world) an invaluable lesson of humility and emotional intelligence. Your beautiful eloquence and articulation of the matter moved me beyond words. At the same time, my heart is saddened by the great loss for the world of Emacs; it would absolutely crumble without the wisdom of such an incredible scholar and keyboarding wizard. Nevertheless, I can promise you, expect your Medal of Gallantry to arrive at your mailbox in five to ten days. I wish you good luck in all your future endeavors. Cheers.
You could always run your own server locally if you have a decent gpu. Some of the smaller LLMs are getting pretty good.
Trump seems more genuinely mentally unstable or senile every day.