MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mchiang | 2025-08-06 06:54:23+00:00
I can say trying many inference tools after the launch, many do not have the models implemented well, and especially OpenAI’s harmony.

Why does this matter? For this specific release, we benchmarked against OpenAI’s reference implementation to make sure Ollama is on par. We also spent a significant amount of time getting harmony implemented the way intended.

I know vLLM also worked hard to implement against the reference and have shared their benchmarks publicly.
Ask HN: Is traditional startup hiring advice outdated?
by gemeral | 2025-08-06 06:54:30+00:00
For context, I work in one of the hot AI startups, so this is not generally applicable to everyone, but...

Traditional startup hiring advice, before I left my cushy big tech job, was: 1. Startup equity is worth zero/should be valued at zero 2. You will have to wait 5-10 years before you can access liquidity 3. 99% of startups fail

But in my experience, joining at the right time can limit your downside, many are offering liquidity events now, and idk, telling everyone to value their equity at zero seems a bit...premature, or excessive? If you do that, then why would anyone ever work at a startup? [I sometimes jokingly wonder if it's a psyop spread by big tech companies to retain talent :)]

The startup field has changed a lot in the past years, so I'm wondering if that traditional advice was perhaps more accurate in a time when unicorns were actually unicorns, or when startups really were paying less in base, equity, and bonus. What's some more nuanced, up-to-date advice you'd give?
Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
by kiselitza | 2025-08-06 06:54:33+00:00
Just thinking out loud.

If not for a gazillion other reasons, a recent outage from Postman should remind us again why proper design decisions matter in devtools.

API workflows shouldn’t live in the cloud. A LOT of devtools shouldn’t live in the cloud. Some tools can’t work without it, all good. But a whole lot of them are there just because of some poor design choices.

Yet…

- No cloud? No outage.

- No cloud? No sync issues.

- No cloud? No data security gaps.

So why keep forcing it where it doesn’t belong?

And it’s not even just the cloud. Cloud is awesome for some stuff. SaaS-like designs are dragging devtools into the same trap.

As a matter of fact, devtools in general shouldn’t feel like SaaS platforms. Unless we’re going through app usage dashboards - tabs, and mouse actions are not built for devs.

Devtools should prioritize developer control, not just pay-per-seat subscriptions.

P.S. No need to send me Postman alternatives. I already work on building an awesome one, but chose not to promote it in the post.
by rashempandit48 | 2025-08-06 06:54:51+00:00
Most task planners treat time as the only variable. But anyone who’s tried to force deep work into a 3 pm energy slump knows: time is not enough.

Traditional planning apps assume that productivity is linear throughout the day—but in reality, our energy, focus, and creativity fluctuate in cycles. Planning without considering these personal rhythms leads to burnout, procrastination, or shallow work.

I'm building Peak Flow, an energy-based task planning app powered by AI. It learns your unique daily focus and energy patterns and automatically schedules your tasks—whether it's deep work, creative projects, admin, or meetings—at the times when you're naturally best suited to tackle them.

The goal is to help people get more done without pushing harder—by working with their energy, not against it.

If this sounds interesting, then you can sign up for an early access here: https://80148b5ef306.ngrok-free.app/early-access

This will also help me with understanding the demand of this product.
by tallanvor | 2025-08-06 06:55:29+00:00
Saying "you just need to want to learn it" is oversimplifying.

It's not just learning how to secure it once, it's constantly watching for announcements regarding new vulnerabilities and being able to patch at short notice or being able to pull the infrastructure offline if you can't patch right away.

The world is a different place now with what virtually amounts to criminal companies trying to find every vulnerability that allows them to get into your system and either holding your data for ransom, extracting it for their own uses, or both. Even if you really do want to employ someone solely to stay on top of patching and watching for vulnerabilities, it's safer and often cheaper to let one of the big companies host your data.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-08-06 06:56:22+00:00
I wondered if it could be a question of definition of "rely on", maybe they're just talking about for their product but yeah I agree probably if you count everything that the company is using, I doubt it is as low as 74% who is not relying on Windows operating system or Microsoft email or Google email and so on. I think it's probably much much higher but it might be what they define as rely on for the core service, their product, but they're not counting on the accounting staff doing their financial of projections in Excel.
by energy123 | 2025-08-06 06:57:24+00:00
Instead of the binary of traditional games vs AI, it's worth thinking more about hybrids.

You could have a stripped down traditional game engine, but without any rendering, that gives a richer set of actions to the neural net. Along with some asset hints, story, a database (player/environment state) the AI can interact with, etc. The engine also provides bounds and constraints.

Basically, we need to work out the new boundary between engine and AI. Right now it's "upsample and interpolate frames", but as AI gets better, what does that boundary become?
by laurencerowe | 2025-08-06 06:57:31+00:00
At 4-way stops I find myself incredibly frustrated at the lack of roundabouts in the US since the traffic moves so much more slowly. But for high traffic intersections traffic lights are just more efficient since they let more cars through on average.

I think much of the issue is that by solving it at one intersection you simply move the problem to the next intersection. I'm pretty sure putting a roundabout at the 280/Page Mill Road intersection would improve throughput but nobody would get to work any quicker since the choke point is the next intersection along.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-06 06:58:17+00:00
> I'm also not suggesting it's easy, but we should acknowledge that many people do successfully control and modulate their weight through dietary and habit changes.

For example: weightlifters. It’s standard operating procedure to “bulk up” - periods where lifters overeat to promote muscle growth - and then diet to “cut” weight to drop the fat gained during the bulking period while keeping the muscle. They tend to be extremely motivated individuals though.
Show HN: Arwayda – Transform text documents into professional visuals
by codachris | 2025-08-06 06:58:19+00:00
Hi HN! I built Arwayda to solve a frustrating problem I kept seeing especially among product managers - important business documents (value props, product specs, strategy docs) buried in walls of text that nobody actually reads.

This tool analyzes uploaded documents, extracts key information, and automatically generates clean visual representations that can be used in documentation. Currently focused on value proposition visualizations with plans to expand to competitive analysis, roadmaps, etc.

Tech stack: Python/FastAPI backend, spaCy for document processing, custom visualization engine

Current status: Beta, looking for feedback on accuracy and which visual types to tackle next

Link: https://arwayda.replit.app/

Would love to hear thoughts on the approach and what other business document types would be most valuable to visualize!
by ryao | 2025-08-06 06:58:35+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Flash is meant for things that have a higher tolerance for mistakes as long as the costs are low and responses are quick. Claude Sonnet is similar, although the trade off it makes between mistake tolerance and cost/speed is more in favor of fewer mistakes.

Lately, I have been using Grok 4 and I have had very good results from it.
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-06 06:58:39+00:00
> Because the middleman is faster and practically never lies/hallucinates for simple queries

How do you KNOW it doesn't lie/hallucinate? In order to know that, you have to verify what it says. And in order to verify what it says, you need to check other outside sources, like Wikipedia. So what I'm saying is: Why bother wasting time with the middle man? 'Vague queries' can be distilled into simple keyword searches: If I want to know what a 'Tsunami' is I can simply just plug that keyword into a Wikipedia search and skim through the page or ctrl-f for the information I want instantly.

If you assume that it doesn't lie/hallucinate because it was right on previous requests then you fall into the exact trap that blows your foot off eventually, because sometimes it can and will hallucinate over even benign things.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-06 06:58:54+00:00
> The big AI data centers would all end up in China, owned and managed by subsidiaries and leased back to the parent.

Well does it matter where industry & technology are located (and who controls them) or doesn't it? The anti-protectionism crowd thinks no, it makes no difference if we make something locally, or import it. A stance not shared by any of the countries currently leading the semiconductor industry - or in the case of China, rapidly catching up.
by rapsey | 2025-08-06 06:59:02+00:00
What these things fail to take into account is the growth in the amount of money going into the stock market.

Simplifying an economic activity down to a single short formula leaves out a lot of important parameters and these kinds of things tend to hold some truth for the time they are invented and often break at some point in the near future after they are created. This is because of changes in money flows in the economy as a result of tax, regulation and technology changes.

Like the yield curve inversions and the Sahm rule and so on.
by xelxebar | 2025-08-06 06:59:28+00:00
> Do you mean that repeated measurements on different systems might not be independent because they come from the same source?

More that the measurement settings could be correlated somehow. So called "cosmic Bell tests" try to push back how far said correlations would have to be, though, by determining measurement settings from distant antipodal astronomical objects, e.g. see the famous Rauch paper [0].

On the surface it seems a bit absurd to consider conspiracies from 7 billion years ago, but that's the whole deal with conservation laws, which introduce correlations between otherwise free parameters and constrain the state space to some submanifold.

[0]:https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
by dehrmann | 2025-08-06 07:01:09+00:00
> ...resets the prices to some multiple of dividends

But wouldn't you want to pay more for a company that has a history of revenue and income growth than one in a declining industry? And you have to look at assets on the company's books; you're not just buying a company, you're buying a share of what it owns. What if it has no income, but you think there's a 10% chance it'll be printing money in 5 years?

That's why prices won't naively reset to a multiple of ~~dividends~~ income (see the dividend irrelevance theory) across the board. Someone will always put a company's income in context.
by joegibbs | 2025-08-06 07:01:54+00:00
I think don’t worry too much about trying to avoid it. Think 5-10 years ahead max, rather than 20.

In 20-30 years there’s a good chance that what you’ve written will be obsolete regardless - even if programs from 1995 ran perfectly on modern systems they’d have very few users because of changing tastes. A word processor wouldn’t have networked collaborative editing (fine for GRRM though), an image editor wouldn’t have PNG support, and they wouldn’t be optimised for modern hardware (who would foresee 4K screens and GPUs back then - who knows how we’ll use computers in 2055).

There are also always containers if the system needs those old versions.
by miki123211 | 2025-08-06 07:02:37+00:00
SAM and the way it works is not what people typically associate with the term "formant synthesizer."

DECtalk[1,2] would be a much better example, that's as formant as you get.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtalk [2] https://webspeak.terminal.ink
by praptak | 2025-08-06 07:02:42+00:00
> Your recourse is the legal system. Crypto isn't mutually exclusive with working with trusted, legally registered corporations whom you can sue.

I agree with this. The problem is the way from "isn't mutually exclusive" (which I also agree with) to "actually integrated with the legal system". The latter part is nonexistent and likely constitutes 99% of the moat of the current payment providers.
by N19PEDL2 | 2025-08-06 07:02:48+00:00
> making Google Play store a requirement for banking should not be allowed by the authorities

How would banks distribute their apps and make sure they are up to date then? F-Droid only accepts open-source software.

> Maybe something like an EU-based perplexity/anthropic competitor would be great.

Maybe it would be even better to have a EU-based app store that must be pre-installed on every Android/iOS/iPadOS device that is sold in the EU, so as to break the monopoly of Google and Apple in the app distribution.
by pbmonster | 2025-08-06 07:02:59+00:00
I think the EU would be very happy with every major company running their own FOSS stack instead of handing their money/control to US tech firms.

Sure, this doesn't mean the EU would have control over the FOSS stack, but it would keep the data/money/soft power away from the US. And the EU would have a much easier time enforcing its security/privacy laws on those EU companies running FOSS on hardware inside the EU.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-08-06 07:03:10+00:00
A bit of morbid curiosity has me wondering who that was. Back when I contributed some stuff to KDE I pulled a bunch of petulant kid shit (although what you described is not and was never my style). My recollection is that it was a pretty diverse and accepting group of freaks and geeks that would likely get shunned these days as the pendulum swings right… including a certain Tool aficionado that comments on HN occasionally.

Telling someone to kill themselves is wildly inappropriate and shouldn't have happened to you.
by theologic | 2025-08-06 07:03:46+00:00
By the way it's always nice when somebody actually tries to double check somebody else's research especially when you hear numbers that seemingly just sound crazy. Maybe another factoid, GDP or GNP for all practical purposes wasn't rigorously done by the government until about 1944. I believe a large part of our viewpoints on what happened in the 1800s is primarily based upon census data. But obviously if you're trying to measure a 7 year event Using census that happens every 10 years, there's going to be a lot of gap in the whisker chart.
by djtango | 2025-08-06 07:04:05+00:00
Most the nonpharmaceuticals I could list from memory, I had to google the medication

Nonpharmaceuticals

- microplastics

- bisphenol A

- asbestos

- nicotine

- DDT

- fungicides like HCB

- PFAS

Pharmaceutical

- benzodiazepines

- Terfenadine

- Benfluorex

Of the 528 new drugs approved over the period of interest, a total of 22 (4.2%) were eventually withdrawn. Between 3.9% and 4.4% of the drugs approved in each 5-year period were eventually withdrawn (χ2 = 0.04, p = 0.99 for difference among 5-year periods). The median time between approval and withdrawal was 1271 days (interquartile range 706–2876).[0]

By some estimates 7% of US have used semaglutides. That is 24.5M people. That could be 24.5M people who have benefitted but if it turns out that there are long term consequences, that's a lot of people who are now all in that ship together when at least some of those users could have chosen lifestyle intervention rather than chemical intervention. If we take the 4.2% recall rate that gives an EV of 980k people in the US who will suffer adverse effects from semaglutides

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4085091/?utm_source...
by epolanski | 2025-08-06 07:04:28+00:00
> I'm interested in the apparent contradiction between the "tens of thousands of citations" credential for your evidently competent labmate who caught the fraud, and the "only high impact numbers get citations, only citations get you a chance to progress in the academia pyramid" indictment of the evidently mediocre fraudster.

Not every paper out there is fake and Yella Aswani [1], was an excellent PhD in Switzerland before becoming a full time professor in India.

[1] https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=PHS1UAcAAAAJ&hl=en&...

That being said, some of her colleagues might have felt desperate to publish something meaningful before ending their PhD and cooked the numbers by that 8/10% that makes it impressive. Either that or they took an outlier result that overperformed for some reason (poor instrument calibration e.g.) and never investigated and just published.

In any case, the numbers didn't match up.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-08-06 07:05:28+00:00
Fair, but my experience was that automating FreeBSD installs is somewhere between tedious and impossible. And that was a big part in me moving on after so many years.

not a religious dogma where those who don't agree must be cast out of the community

That's a fair assessment save for the fact that FreeBSD's been an extremely opinionated project since its inception.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-06 07:05:56+00:00
You can't remove ads that are part of a site's native HTML either - well, not easily, not without an AI determining what is an ad based on the content itself. The few ads I see despite uBlock are like that - something the website author themself included, and not by pulling it in from a different domain.

And those ads don't spy. They tend to be a jpg that functions as a link. That's why I mentioned spying.
by piva00 | 2025-08-06 07:06:00+00:00
They can brute force their way out of it by sheer political will, the transformation to electrify China's traffic, the hyperscaling of PV production, the rollout of high-speed trains were all accomplished in timelines the USA won't ever see in our lifetime since it lacks any political will to do big things anymore.

They are installing more solar than the rest of the world combined, other renewables as well. China doesn't have oil, they don't want to depend on oil or fossil fuels, and the CCP needs to keep some kind of social cohesion by showing off to their citizens that "things are being done".

Air quality over Chinese big cities has improved massively the past 10-15 years, they will only continue doing so, it was popular.

> https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count...

Well, well, well: https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-consumption-by-country...

You probably have never visited China to be able to compare how it was in the 2010s to now, right?
by cess11 | 2025-08-06 07:06:31+00:00
Here's the oldest article I can find on Leonid Schneider's blog, from 2015.

https://forbetterscience.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-poten...

It's about a group of journals optimised for sleazy publishing. The author claims he left research due to rampant fraud and went into cartoons and insulting the perpetrators instead.

In 2021 the Wikipedia page on paper mills was created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_paper_mi...

Macchiarini has been at it since, what, 2005?

Basically, one might as well go as far back as WWII and Ghislaine Maxwell's dad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnmFTvlrsOo
by rusk | 2025-08-06 07:06:38+00:00
> alternative is to teach programming to every office worker

Programming in business environments is becoming ever more popular using languages like Python and R

It’s nowhere near as pervasive as Excel but I could see AI playing a big part here. Most Excel domain projects don’t require a high degree of technical understanding so autogenerated Python code that is “good enough” can be easily generated. Hell AI alone could take over most of the basic data crunching usecases.
by devoutsalsa | 2025-08-06 07:07:14+00:00
(I accidentally replied to the parent comment, reposting here)

A single high-resolution pathology slide can be 20 GB. A busy pathologist can read up to 300 slides per day. That's 6 TB a day to download.

If you're next question is why would a busy pathologist live in a rural area, I have no idea.
by teddyh | 2025-08-06 07:07:15+00:00
This may or may not be a real thing, but most or all the actual examples the article gives are terrible. Disagreeing over food quality, pointing out obvious PR stunts, and revealing to a friend that they were duped into overpaying for what they thought was “vintage” but actually wasn’t, is not being contrary just for the sake of being contrary.

I have no problem with the general idea of the article; I would not be surprised if there was a general common problem with some people being overly critical or trying to put down anything you say, but the actual examples they give are all terrible.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-06 07:07:23+00:00
Because then the government just votes laws "everyone who wears shoes or breathes goes to prison for 10 years" and as long as they control the prosecutor general, they just imprison anyone they want.

In other words, if you don't have fair and honest application of law (ie. the prosecutor going after every case they know about), NOT having law at all is actually preferable.
by nemanja_codes | 2025-08-06 07:07:28+00:00
Location: Serbia, GMT +2 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Astro, TailwindCSS, Jest, Cypress, Prisma, PostrgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, C#/.NET Resume/CV: Available on request GitHub: https://github.com/nemanjam Website: https://nemanjamitic.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nemanja-mitic Email: nemanja.mitic.elfak [at] hotmail.com

I am a full stack developer with a Master's degree in Computer Science and 4.5 years of professional experience with JavaScript. My top skills are React/Next.js and I am also good with Node.js backends. I have decent experience with C# and .NET but currently it is not my main focus. I have a decent understanding of DevOps technologies (Linux, containers, IaC, automation) for a developer. I also have an interest in Python and FastAPI.

Here are some of my projects:

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by inferiorhuman | 2025-08-06 07:07:37+00:00
the one key point was that the EdgeRouters had hardware acceleration

The EdgeRouter Lite used a Cavium SoC, the EdgeRouter X family used a 32-bit MediaTek SoC. Hardware acceleration was buggy on both and is/was known to cause packet corruption.

The main problem with the EdgeRouters was that Ubiquiti was basically just assembling off the shelf stuff. They didn't have the ability to fix SoC issues (or motivate the manufacturers to fix them). For years they didn't have the ability to do much Linux dev work either so the ER families languished on an end-of-lifed'd version of Debian. That experience and realization only motivated me to avoid future Ubiquiti products.