MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-07-22 12:26:53+00:00
Anecdote is not the plural of data.

Every poll shows all these things are wildly unpopular among the general public, and very unpopular among Republicans.

It's nearly impossible to define "Trump's base" with any rigor, so no statistics are ever going to directly address that.

The sites you read are either dominated by a few loud minority voices, or are just echo chamber bubbles disconnected from the broader reality of how people feel.

...Well, actually, there's another possible explanation: the people on those sites may feel they need to continue to signal their allegiance to Trump, or lose support/connection from the other people there.

Regardless, your personal experience does not outweigh numerous polls conducted by institutions across the political spectrum.
by ElisaChemy | 2025-07-22 12:27:10+00:00
“Brazil back in 2020 it introduced Pix, a digital payment system run by the central bank. As I understand it, Pix is sort of like a publicly run version of Zelle, the payment system operated by a consortium of U.S. private banks. But Pix is much easier to use. And while Zelle is big, Pix has become simply huge, used by a reported 93 percent of Brazilian adults.” I was unaware of how popular and widespread Pix’s adoption was. Similar ideas were planned and implemented in other parts of the world long before PIX, so they did have a good reference like the RIX payment system in Sweden and FAST in Singapore. It’s good that the Brazilian Central Bank took a proactive approach.
by TXTOS | 2025-07-22 12:27:10+00:00
I've been working on something that directly targets this problem: WFGY — a reasoning engine built for RAG on large-scale PDF/Word documents, especially when you're doing deep research, not just shallow QA.

Instead of just chunking text and throwing it into an embedding model, WFGY builds a persistent semantic resonance layer — meaning it tracks context through formatting breaks, footnotes, diagram captions, even corrupted OCR sections.

The engine applies multiple self-correcting pathways (we call them BBMC and BBPF) so even when parsing is incomplete or wrong, reasoning still holds. That’s crucial if your source materials are academic papers, messy reports, or 1000+ page archives.

It’s open source. No tuning. Works with any LLM. No tricks.

Backed by the creator of tesseract.js (36k) — who gets why document mess is the real challenge.

Check it out: https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY
by notmywalrus | 2025-07-22 12:27:50+00:00
I would call `jj absorb` a new feature (new if coming from git, I believe the idea was taken from hg). It moves diffs into the closest ancestor that touched those files/lines. Very useful for addressing reviews, then just `jj absorb` and watch them get squashed into the correct location.

This gets even better with octopus merges (known in the jj community as "megamerges"): open up 5 branches at the same time, address minor tweaks in any number of them, and `jj absorb` the content into the right parent branch.
by voxleone | 2025-07-22 12:27:51+00:00
PIX was developed entirely by the Central Bank of Brazil, an autonomous federal agency linked to the Ministry of the Economy. It’s widely hailed as one of the most important public technology innovations in recent years, now integrated into the everyday lives of millions of Brazilians.

But here's the problem: PIX’s source code is not public.

No external institution—be it a citizen, a researcher, a company, or even another government agency—can audit how PIX operates under the hood. This directly contradicts both the letter and the spirit of Article 16 of Law 14.063/2021.

https://d1gesto.blogspot.com/2025/06/brazils-pix-system-face...
by yipbub | 2025-07-22 12:28:17+00:00
Don't confuse liberal capitalists, libertarians, etcs with leftists. It's free market liberals and right wing libertarians that espouse this kind of free market stuff.

The people most commonly calling nazis nazis(with some rare hyperbole) are leftists and they definitely didn't vote for this. They want market regulation.

Also, if you were complaining about immigrants when you got called a nazi, please consider that the skilled immigrants taking tech jobs would be buying at your local businesses and paying taxes in Australia if you let them in. Now your corporate overlords will pay them to spend in India.
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-22 12:28:59+00:00
Clone? No. Spontaneously entangled duplicate? Maybe something strange.

If there were a “stargate” that worm holes you to another location there’s a little dirty secret, the destination side is actually a fully entangled duplicate (matter does not transfer only “information” and complete entanglement). If the original is not incinerated (by design) there will be two.

Your barbaric man animal mind will unlikely be more than momentarily disoriented. With special training and development you can absolutely still perceive your other. Without being maintained the link would fade to decoherence.

If you had this skill you would not need the “stargate” to travel among and perceive the minds of others through entanglement.
by shahzaibmushtaq | 2025-07-22 12:29:02+00:00
You missed the other part of that equation.

One viral product ReplyGuy would have sold for in the $300,000-$500,000 range (my guess) is equivalent to 4 years of salary of a senior developer.

But the level of experience he has now cannot be achieved while having a full-time job and learning on the side.
by odyssey7 | 2025-07-22 12:29:14+00:00
I would reframe this and ask whether psychiatrists should be spending a lot more time understanding the patient’s immune system history and other factors. Brain fogs and other symptoms are understood by many patients to be modulated by other health processes, and physical fitness is considered a treatment by some practitioners, yet psychiatry is recovering from a legacy of medical dogma in which the brain and the immune system are completely separate, due to the idea of the blood-brain barrier. I would recommend to look more comprehensively at patients’ clinically relevant information, which I believe would produce deeper, systems-level understanding and treatments in more than enough cases to be worthwhile.
by TXTOS | 2025-07-22 12:29:35+00:00
Honestly, the most disturbing moment for me wasn’t an answer gone wrong — it was realizing why it went wrong.

Most generative AI hallucinations aren’t just data errors. They happen because the language model hits a semantic dead-end — a kind of “collapse” where it can't reconcile competing meanings and defaults to whatever sounds fluent.

We’re building WFGY, a reasoning system that catches these failure points before they explode. It tracks meaning across documents and across time, even when formatting, structure, or logic goes off the rails.

The scariest part? Language never promised to stay consistent. Most models assume it does. We don’t.

Backed by the creator of tesseract.js (36k) More info: https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY
by alganet | 2025-07-22 12:30:14+00:00
Perhaps you are right. I took the vaccines and was pretty lucky to not suffer any major consequences.

What I said could be read as offensive and some kind of "your own fault" to laymen. However, that is not the idea.

I have psychological issues of my own and I completely understand when someone tries to say "it's all my own fault", so I'm empathetic to your critic.
by akhdanfadh | 2025-07-22 12:30:20+00:00
Firefox was my main browser after Chrome MV3 stuff, but now I'm moving to Orion by Kagi. I found, on my Macbook M1, Firefox hog the battery a lot seen from the energy impact on Mac's activity monitor (average 12hr power >1000 compared to Orion ~350). Don't expect extensions to work well on Orion, though, but I can live with it for now.
by amoshebb | 2025-07-22 12:30:25+00:00
“Typology optimization” is probably what you’re thinking of. All current versions of it result in this similar blobby-spider-web vaguely alien and somewhat organic structures.

Looking at things like bicycles designed this way leaves me suspicious that it doesn’t actually have the power to derive interesting insights about material properties. I suspect future versions may end up starting to look more mechanical as it discovers that, for example, something under tension should be a straight line.
by 627467 | 2025-07-22 12:30:34+00:00
Hmmm feels like an argument in the vein of:

"Knowing who you have in contact/follow list and who has you as contact/follow is not a huge privacy risk"

Which is true, given how willing we are at sharing this information (and even display it for vanity metrics).

But obviously how much a risk this is depends on who you are and your circumstances
by agentcoops | 2025-07-22 12:31:02+00:00
For the record, I wasn't justifying the world that has created these incentives. In order to understand (maybe even someday change) the rottenness of the world, it's important to avoid the sort of reasoning that the OP critiques, which sees everything as just a sort of arbitrary maliciousness, rather than understanding the very concrete institutional mechanisms by which it has perversely become 'rational' to view everything outside a few profit centers as a 'liquid asset.' If a firm doesn't generate free-cash-flow, which is very very difficult outside the software industry, it will not receive significant capital investment and will be dependent on debt/profits. This impacts not just the life of employees, but limits what endeavors are funded at all, i.e. in part why it is that "software is eating the world." How to change those incentives is a much more difficult, but real problem.
by TXTOS | 2025-07-22 12:31:13+00:00
Honestly, the real danger isn’t just that AI models might train on your content — it’s that they’re training on your semantic patterns.

It’s not just what you wrote. It’s how you resolve ambiguity, how you build tension, how you collapse meaning in hard zones. That’s what large models are extracting — not your sentence, but your semantic signature.

We built WFGY as a defense and an alternative: A semantic engine that can track, explain, and even reverse-engineer those collapse points, making hallucinations traceable — or avoidable.

If the current wave of LLMs are grabbing surface text, WFGY is trying to understand what's buried underneath.

Backed by the creator of tesseract.js (36k) More info: https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY
Show HN: ToSay v2.0 – Added Expression and Context modes, upgraded AI model
by harperhuang | 2025-07-22 12:31:18+00:00
Today I made some major updates to the site:

1. Added "Expression Mode" and "Context Mode": Expression mode for learning natural usage, Context mode for understanding situational responses

2. To improve speed and AI quality, limited language selection from 20 to 6. Also added character limits: Expression and Context modes max 200 characters, Translation mode max 500 characters.

3. Upgraded the LLM model - much better comprehension and translation quality, with improved speed too.

Try it out: https://howtosay.cc
by benreesman | 2025-07-22 12:31:40+00:00
Sure, there are use cases. Extensions to e.g. Python are a perfectly reasonable usecase for `dlopen` (hooking DNS on all modern Linux is...probably not for our benefit).

There are use cases for dynamic linking. It's just user-hostile as a mandatory default for a bunch of boring and banal reasons: KitWare doesn't want `pkg-config` to work because who would use CMake if they had straightforward alternatives. The Docker Industrial complex has no reason to exist in a world where Linus has been holding the line of ABI compatibility for 30 years.

Dynamic linking is fine as an option, I think it's very reasonable to ship a `.so` alongside `.a` and other artifacts.

Forcing it on everyone by keeping `pkg-config` and `musl` broken is a more costly own goal for computing that Tony Hoare's famous billion dollar mistake.
by dangus | 2025-07-22 12:31:46+00:00
> I think there's still room between "build your own email system" and "pay $200+/month for enterprise features you don't need."

I don’t mean to beat the subject down but I think there is a lot less room than you are giving it credit for. I’ve already laid out how there are ample choices in the “cheaper than MailChimp” space (and I wouldn’t even consider MailChimp to be particularly “enterprise.”)

If you’ve outgrown basic tools you probably can afford MailChimp or some other sub-enterprise offering. By definition a business that outgrows basic tools is making decent money and can probably throw $200 a month at MailChimp.
by beanjuiceII | 2025-07-22 12:31:52+00:00
yea i am really confused by all these issues people are saying they have myself..stashing merging etc...and what is crazy is we migrated large teams of programmers who's only experience with version control before git was microsoft TFS and and everyone is easily and happily chugging along. Now most of these people use gui tooling for managing git, but so what everyone gets it done with no issues or complaints with many projects big and small. we even have non-devs using it. I get jj might have some life improvements for some niche groups of people but i really have to wonder if they are the type of people who purposely make their life more complex
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-22 12:33:24+00:00
I tried Orion after reading this, but other than uBlock Origin I haven't had much luck with getting extensions to work. I guess the extensions I use don't really overlap with the 70% they do support. If they've been working hard on this for years, I have to wonder what will happen first, actual mobile extension support on iOS through Kagi or a Firefox release for iOS.

The entire Orion browser feels like a beta product to me. But at least I've got uBlock on my work phone now, so that's cool I guess.
by burntsushi | 2025-07-22 12:33:35+00:00
My standard of evidence here is existence. There are many greps written in a "GC language," and none of them have a broad performance profile in the same category as ripgrep (or other greps written in C and C++).

> This is no different in concept than Python libraries implemented in native languages.

If that's true, then why isn't there a fast grep written in Python? IMO, it's for the same reason that tools like csvkit are slow. Once you get to the boundary between GC and non-GC, some kind of cost gets paid. Now maybe Python is paying higher costs here than your hypothetical language, but who knows. Without actual existence, I find this sort of hypothetical to be very uncompelling. It's too broad of a stroke.
by nxtbl | 2025-07-22 12:34:15+00:00
.. and then there are panorama extensions, which ease handling a lot of tabs immensely. No other browser seems to have anything alike. No, the grouping of tabs into tabs does nothing compared to this.

https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...
by anon-3988 | 2025-07-22 12:34:40+00:00
The problem, as I see, is the moment DNA becomes USEFUL. Once DNA becomes USEFUL and ubiquitous, then it becomes necessary. If everyone that provided DNA is able to avoid all the potential diseases then you would simply get out-competed by people that do. OTOH, this knowledge can also be used against you in your insurance claims or whatever.

So basically the upside and downside get jacked up and effectively "nothing really changes". They will always make up excuses to genocide a group, or deny your insurance claims.

This is the same thing with privacy. If Microsoft's Recall is indeed useful as advertised, that is extremely powerful. People that truly don't have anything to hide, is happy to see ads etc, would be extremely empowered by this tool.
by vel0city | 2025-07-22 12:34:54+00:00
> I've never been able to properly work on a Word document together with a colleague. Not even once

Many millions of others seem to do it all the time without issue. I've done it practically every day for many years now and haven't run into sync issues for a long time.

It's not made to sync if two people are trying to open the file off a NAS, it's made for people editing files stored in OneDrive/SharePoint.

But as both examples show, you need to have your document editing and document storage closely working together for multi-user live editing to work. That's something that so far practically only integrated editors/storage platforms offer.
by BoredPositron | 2025-07-22 12:35:45+00:00
We are pretty much plateauing in base model performance since gpt4. It's mostly tooling and integration now. The target is also AGI so no matter your product you will get measured on your progress towards it. With new "sota" models popping up left and right you also have no good way of user retention because the user is mostly interested in the models performance not the funny meme generator you added. looking at you openai...

"They called me bubble boy..." - some dude at Deutsche.
by dangus | 2025-07-22 12:35:59+00:00
Hey guys, AI by 2027 is going to be superhuman AGI Agentic mega-intelligence, you better fire all your employees and get ready for AI to take your job and embrace your spouse at a Coldplay concert.

Big data. Machine learning. Blockchain. Artificial intelligence. Digital manufacturing. Big data analysis. Quantum communication and…Internet of things.

This time the hype cycle won’t be a massive exaggerated disappointment, for real this time.
by qareena | 2025-07-22 12:36:13+00:00
India’s Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) is an ambitious digital framework introduced under the NEP 2020. It allows students to earn, store, and transfer academic credits across institutions — promoting flexible learning, multidisciplinary courses, and lifelong education.

This blog breaks down how ABC works, its core features, implementation challenges, and future impact on the Indian education system. A helpful primer for anyone interested in the intersection of policy, edtech, and higher education reform.
by sixhobbits | 2025-07-22 12:36:35+00:00
This is pretty similar to my set up but I'm ready to quit Firefox because what feels like every few weeks they somehow manage to add new auto-enabled spyware.

I regularly have to turn stuff off in

"Firefox Data Collection and Use"

and

"Website Advertising Preferences"

Recently I also started seeing ads in my address bar when typing stuff and saw they've added:

"Suggestions from sponsors Support Firefox with occasional sponsored suggestions."

of course, enabled by default.

Firefox is a great product but unfortunately slowly being milked/destroyed by its non-technical management team.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-22 12:36:54+00:00
The sad thing is that the trend is towards homogeneity and cutting costs. Local pubs in the UK have been rolled up by a few large chain operators. Likewise in this story small family grocery stores and being replaced by chain supermarkets.

It's not just a matter of being "behind the times", I think in the future we will regret having killed individuality in favor of convenience.
by jon-wood | 2025-07-22 12:37:24+00:00
While I agree with you on most points, security is never the number one priority. If it were we'd all destroy our computers, never write anything down, and simply accept the collapse of society. Security is always weighed against many other priorities such as authorised users being able to access data, and ease of use. A unique 128 character password for each document would have high security, but be widely considered unacceptable even in a system handling classified material.
by sorenjan | 2025-07-22 12:37:46+00:00
I have a shortcut that starts a separate profile like this:

<path to firefox.exe> -profile <path to profile folder> -no-remote

Separate bookmarks, separate search engines, separate history, etc. I've been using it for years, I usually have a Firefox window for each profile open on separate desktops, there's no problems running them at the same time.
Show HN: Try Traffic Road – Free, Fast-Paced Car Dodging Game in the Browser
by zhaoyaozu | 2025-07-22 12:37:51+00:00
Need a quick escape? Traffic Road is a free browser game where you weave through endless traffic, testing your reflexes and focus. No downloads, no sign-ups—just pure, addictive fun. See how far you can go before the next crash!
by incomingpain | 2025-07-22 12:38:01+00:00
>Every part of the chain currently pay fees unless they are paying with cash.

I literally said cash as the 4th word typed.

>Governments can print money physically as well. Also, most money in circulation never needs to be printed because it never leaves the banking system.

Printing money back in the 1930s had to be done physically; and was at the consequence of gold.

Subsequent bad US presidents, roosevelt and nixon wrecked the usa ultimately; and they are paying for it now.

>Do you think banks would resist to giving the government your transaction history?

How do the banks know how i spent my cash?
by bobschrag | 2025-07-22 12:39:12+00:00
New here, no karma (?) to reply directly. Just became aware of this.

Re the first comment questioning context management, see in the README:

Knowledge base and predicate transform contexts Bind assertions and/or predicate-transforms, per their doc strings, to set up contexts for different knowledge bases and/or transform definitions.

https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog?tab=readme-ov-file#knowl...
by qsort | 2025-07-22 12:39:15+00:00
See, the problem when making predictions is that the timeframe is effectively the prediction. I don't know what will happen. When I saw GPT-3 I thought it was hot garbage and never took it seriously. As a result I now have large error bars about what the future holds.

What we got from the Internet was some version of the original promises, on a significantly longer timescale, mostly enabled by technology that didn't exist at the time those promises were made. "Directionally correct" is a euphemism for "wrong".
by lupusreal | 2025-07-22 12:39:45+00:00
Also, it being a theory about a conspiracy doesn't necessarily make it wrong. Rich and powerful people often do conspire against labor. This even happens in the tech industry, where industry leaders across ostensibly competing corporations conspire with each other in anti-poaching schemes to suppress wages. Industrialists like Elon Musk flagrantly try to buy politicians for the obvious purpose of importing cheaper and easily coerced H1B workers, to again suppress wages. Elon Musk has no tack and subtly so he doesn't bother to hide it, but what he's doing is the norm from his economic class. Conspiracy against common workers is a recurring theme throughout history and into the present. Dismissing out of hand the possibility of such a conspiracy happening in Canada, even as unprecedented levels of ethnic replacement with servile and desperate workers from an impoverished third work country is underway is simply absurd.
by rbanffy | 2025-07-22 12:40:28+00:00
It could be possible for a couple routes where launch and final approaches could be done over water. It'd need some shallow seas, so platforms could be anchored to the bottom, as well as some high-speed rail and some veeeeery long rail bridges connecting the spaceport to land.

A quick look at ocean depth maps points to friendly continental platforms around the East US, China, a lot of Australia and New Zealand, and most of South America.

It'd be a massive effort, but not completely impossible. To get to Brazil to see my family, I'd probably need to first go to Southwest Ireland before boarding a suborbital flight to Rio, so it'd be 2 hours of rail, then 20 or so minutes of suborbital, then another hour flying to São Paulo (which is not on the coast). Still beats flying through Lisbon, Amsterdam or Paris.