Swift is Open Source https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10669891

Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10685407

Introducing OpenAI https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10720176

The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10744206

SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video] https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10774865

At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10799261

An extension of this would be to grade people on the accuracy of the comments they upvote, and use that to weight their upvotes more in ranking. I would love to read a version of HN where the only upvotes that matter are from people who agree with opinions that turn out to be correct. Of course, only HN could implement this since upvotes are private.

Kidding aside, the comments it picks out for us are a little random. For instance, this was an A+ predictive thread (it appears to be rating threads and not individual comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703512

But there's just 11 comments, only 1 for me, and it's like a 1-sentence comment.

I do love that my unaccredited-access-to-startup-shares take is on that leaderboard, though.

My original goal was to prune the account deleting all the useless things and keeping just the unique, personal, valuable communications -- but the other day, an insight has me convinced that the safer / smarter thing to do in the current landscape is the opposite: remove any personal, valuable, memorable items, and leave google (and whomever else is scraping these repositories) with useless flotsam of newsletters, updates, subscription receipts, etc.

If an LLM were acting as a kind of historian revisiting today’s debates with future context, I’d bet it would see the same pattern again and again: the sober, incremental claims quietly hold up, while the hyperconfident ones collapse.

Something like "Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to $108/kWh" is classic cost-curve progress. Boring, steady, and historically extremely reliable over long horizons. Probably one of the most likely headlines today to age correctly, even if it gets little attention.

On the flip side, stuff like "New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care" feels like high-risk framing. Benchmarks rotate constantly, and “struggle” headlines almost always age badly as models jump whole generations.

I bet theres many "boring but right" takes we overlook today and I wondr if there's a practical way to surface them before hindsight does

> (Copying my comment here from Reddit /r/rust:) Just to repeat, because this was somewhat buried in the article: Servo is now a multiprocess browser, using the gaol crate for sandboxing. This adds (a) an extra layer of defense against remote code execution vulnerabilities beyond that which the Rust safety features provide; (b) a safety net in case Servo code is tricked into performing insecure actions. There are still plenty of bugs to shake out, but this is a major milestone in the project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654216

The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber "accurate account of LeMay stripping turrets and shifting to incendiary area bombing; matches mainstream history"

It gave a good grade to user cstross but to my reading of the comment, cstross just recounted a bit of old history. The evaluation gave cstross for just giving a history lesson or no?

I begrudgingly accept my poor grade.

Looking at the comment reviews on the actual website, the LLM seems to have mostly judged whether it agreed with the takes, not whether they came true, and it seems to have an incredibly poor grasp of it's actual task of accessing whether the comments were predictive or not.

The LLM's comment reviews are of often statements like "correctly characterized [program language] as [opinion]."

This dynamic means the website mostly grades people on having the most confirmist take (the take most likely to dominate the training data, and be selected for in the LLM RL tuning process of pleasing the average user).

I would grade this article B-, but then again, nobody wrote it... ;)

It would be very interesting to see this applied year after year to see if people get better or worse over time in the accuracy of their judgments.

It would also be interesting to correlate accuracy to scores, but I kind of doubt that can be done. Between just expressing popular sentiment and the first to the post people getting more votes for the same comment than people who come later it probably wouldn’t be very useful data.

Seriously, while I find this cool and interesting, I also fear how these sorts of things will work out for us all.

If you dig in, there are substantial flaws in the project's analysis and framing, such as the definition of a prediction, assessing comments, data quality overall, and more. Go spelunking through the comments here and notice people asking about methodology and checking the results.

Social science research isn't easy; it requires training, effort, and patience. I would be very happy if Karpathy added a Big Flashing Red Sign to this effect. It would raise awareness and focus community attention on what I think are the hardest and most important aspects of this kind of project: methodology, rigor, criticism, feedback, and correction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTSmbMm7MDg

And scroll down to the bottom.

The EU may give LLM surveillance an F at some point.

Your past thoughts have been dredged up and judged.

For each $TOPIC, you have been awarded a grade by GPT-5.1 Thinking.

Your grade is based on OpenAI's aligned worldview and what OpenAI's blob of weights considers Truth in 2025.

Did you think well, netizen?

Are you an Alpha or a Delta-Minus?

Where will the dragnet grading of your online history happen next?

I'd expect de-biasing would deflate grades for well known users.

It might also be interesting to use a search-grounded model that provides citations for its grading claims. Gemini models have access to this via their API, for example.

That said, I understand the concept and love what you did here. By this being exposed to the best disinfectant, I hope it will raise awareness and show how people and corporations should be careful about its usage. Now this tech is accessible to anyone, not only big techs, in a couple of hours.

It also shows how we should take with a grain of salt the result of any analysis of such scale by a LLM. Our private channels now and messages on software like Teams and Slack can be analyzed to hell by our AI overlords. I'm probably going to remove a lot of things from cloud drives just in case. Perhaps online discourse will deteriorate to more inane / LinkedIn style content.

Also, I like that your prompt itself has some purposefully leaked bias, which shows other risks—¹for instance, "fsflover: F", which may align the LLM to grade worse the handles that are related to free software and open source).

As a meta concept of this, I wonder how I'll be graded by our AI overlords in the future now that I have posted something dismissive of it.

¹Alt+0151

I wonder why ChatGPT refused to analyze it?

The HN article was "Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage" but the page says "No analysis available".

* ignore comments that do not speculate on something that was unknown or had not achieved consensus as of the date of yyyy-mm-dd

* at the same time, exclude speculations for which there still isn’t a definitive answer or consensus today

* ignore comments that speculate on minor details or are stating a preference/opinion on a subjective matter

* it is ok to generate an empty list of users for a thread if there are no comments meeting the speculation requirements laid out above

* etc

The company has changed and it seems the mission has as well.

1. https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-08/index.html#article-...

A non trivial amount of people get laid off, likely due to a finanical crisis which is used as an excuse for companies scale up use of AI. Good chance the financial crisis was partly caused by AI companies, which ironically makes AI cheaper as infra is bought up on the cheap (so there is a consolidation, but the bountiful infra keeps things cheap). That results in increased usage (over a longer period of time). and even when the economy starts coming back the jobs numbers stay abismal.

Politics are divided into 2 main groups, those who are employed, and those who are retired. The retired group is VERY large, and has alot of power. They mostly care about entitlements. The employed age people focus on AI which is making the job market quite tough. There are 3 large political forces (but 2 parties). The Left, the Right, and the Tech Elite. The left and the right both hate AI, but the tech elite though a minority has outsized power in their tie breaker role. The age distributions would surprise most. Most older people are now on the left, and most younger people are split by gender. The right focuses on limiting entitlements, and the left focuses on growing them by taxing the tech elite. The right maintains power by not threatening the tech elite.

Unlike the 20th century America is a more focused global agenda. We're not policing everyone, just those core trading powers. We have not gone to war with China, China has not taken over Taiwan.

Physical robotics is becoming a pretty big thing, space travel is becoming cheaper. We have at least one robot on an astroid mining it. The yield is trivial, but we all thought it was neat.

Energy is much much greener, and you wouln't have guessed it... but it was the data centers that got us there. The Tech elite needed it quickly, and used the political connections to cut red tape and build really quickly.

I scrolled to the bottom of the hall of fame/shame and saw that entry #1505 and 3 F's and a D, with an average grade of D+ (1.46).

No grade better than a D shouldn't average to a D+, I'd expect it to be closer to a 0.25.

That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought that a decent generic forward future predictor would be possible.

They were right, Duolingo.

I've found the opposite, since these models still fail pretty wildly at nuance. I think it's a conceptual "needle in the haystack sort of problem.

A good test is to find some thread where there's a disagreement and have it try to analyze the discussion. It will usually strongly misrepresent what was being said, by each side, and strongly align with one user, missing the actual divide that's causing the disagreement (a needle).

This seems to be the result of the exercise? No evaluation?

My concern is that, even if the exercise is only an amusing curiosity, many people will take the results more seriously than they should, and be inspired to apply the same methods to products and initiatives that adversely affect people's lives in real ways.

  > I was reminded again of my tweets that said "Be good, future LLMs are watching". You can take that in many directions, but here I want to focus on the idea that future LLMs are watching. Everything we do today might be scrutinized in great detail in the future because doing so will be "free". A lot of the ways people behave currently I think make an implicit "security by obscurity" assumption. But if intelligence really does become too cheap to meter, it will become possible to do a perfect reconstruction and synthesis of everything. LLMs are watching (or humans using them might be). Best to be good.

We are doing something very *very* wrong if we are operating under the belief that this future is unavoidable. That future is simply unacceptable.

reading from the end isn't really useful, y'know :)

Now let's make a Chrome extension that subtly highlights these users' comments when browsing HN.

Shades of Roko's Basilisk!

it's great that this was produced in 1h with 60$. This is amazing to create small utilities, explore your curiosity, etc.

But the site is also quite confusing and messy. OK for a vibe coded experiment, sure, but wouldn't be for a final product. But I fear we're gonna see more and more of this. Big companies downsizing their tech departments and embracing vibe coded. Comparing to inflation, shrinkflation and skimpflation/ enshittification , will we soon adopt some word for this? AIflation? LLMflation?

And how will this comment score in a couple of years? :)

s/"free"/stolen/

The bit about college courses for future prediction was just silly, I'm afraid: reminds me of how Conan Doyle has Sherlock not knowing Earth revolves around the Sun. Almost all serious study concerns itself with predicting, modelling and influence over the future behaviour of some system; the problem is only that people don't fucking listen to the predictions of experts. They aren't going to value refined, academic general-purpose futurology any more than they have in the past; it's not even a new area of study.

I took the narcissistic approach of searching for myself. Here's a grade of one of my comments[1]:

>slg: B- (accurate characterization of PH’s “networking & facade” feel, but implicitly underestimates how long that model can persist)

And here's the actual comment I made[2]:

>And maybe it is the cynical contrarian in me, but I think the "real world" aspect of Product Hunt it what turned me off of the site before these issues even came to the forefront. It always seemed like an echo chamber were everyone was putting up a facade. Users seemed more concerned with the people behind products and networking with them than actually offering opinions of what was posted.

>I find the more internet-like communities more natural. Sure, the top comment on a Show HN is often a critique. However I find that more interesting than the usual "Wow, another great product from John Developer. Signing up now." or the "Wow, great product. Here is why you should use the competing product that I work on." that you usually see on Product Hunt.

I did not say nor imply anything about "how long that model can persist", I just said I personally don't like using the site. It's a total hallucination to claim I was implying doom for "that model" and you would only know that if you actually took the time to dig into the details of what was actually said, but the summary seems plausible enough that most people never would.

The LLM processed and analyzed a huge amount of data in a way that no human could, but the single in-depth look I took at that analysis was somewhere between misleading and flat out wrong. As I said, a perfect example of what LLMs do.

And yes, I do recognize the funny coincidence that I'm now doing the exact thing I described as the typical HN comment a decade ago. I guess there is a reason old me said "I find that more interesting".

[1] - https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-18/index.html#article-...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761980

Compared to what happens next? Does tptacek's commentary become market signal equivalent to the Fed Chair or the BLS labor and inflation reports?

For instance, one of the unfortunate aspects of social media that has become so unsustainable and destructive to modern society is how it exposes us to so many more people and hot takes than we have ability to adequately judge. We're overwhelmed. This has led to conversation being dominated by really shitty takes and really shitty people, who rarely if ever suffer reputational consequence.

If we build our mediums of discourse with more reputational awareness using approaches like this, we can better explore the frontier of sustainable positive-sum conversation at scale.

Implementation-wise, the key question is how do we grade the grader and ensure it is predictable and accurate?

It does seem better than just upvotes and downvotes though.

I cannot believe this is just put out there unexamined of any level of "maybe we shouldn't help this happen". This is complete moral abdication. And to be clear, being "good" is no defense. Being good often means being unaligned with the powerful, so being good is often the very thing that puts you in danger.

* Nvidia GPUs will see heavy competition and most chat-like use-cases switching to cheaper models and inference-specific-silicon but will be still used on the high end for critical applications and frontier science

* Most Software and UIs will be primarily AI-generated. There will be no 'App Stores' as we know them.

* ICE Cars will become niche and will be largely been replaced with EVs, Solar will be widely deployed and will be the dominate source of power

* Climate Change will be widely recognized due to escalating consequences and there will be lots of efforts in mitigations (e.g, Climate Engineering, Climate-resistant crops, etc).