MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by chatmasta | 2025-08-30 03:36:45+00:00
He should also be derided for terrible writing. It's not until the 24th paragraph (of 30 total) that we encounter something resembling a thesis.

> With all the pieces on the board, the key to Romania’s Olympiad success is three-fold: put the best students in the same classrooms, put the best teachers with the best students, and then incentivize schools, teachers, and students each to win Olympiads.

This could have been much shorter, but then the reader might notice the abject lack of supporting evidence for these central claims. I don't blame the author for burying them at the end.
by jMyles | 2025-08-30 03:37:39+00:00
Just found another guy doing some interesting tests - he compares the amount of trigger pull required in order for input on the slide to cause a discharge across the P320, G19, G26, and CZ P10.

https://www.youtube.com/@Thinkingman615

He's ostensibly defending Sig here, but it's obvious that the P10 in particular has a dramatically more robust construction and stands up to this scenario much better.

Obviously all of this comes in the context of nonzero input on the trigger, which is already a violation of basic gun safety. But it's interesting nonetheless.
by HaZeust | 2025-08-30 03:37:46+00:00
Brother man, Trump cares so much about LGBT rhetoric that it was one of the first executive orders he signed:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defe...

And it's been one of the ones he's been actively trying to enforce:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/health/trans-community-trump-...

https://19thnews.org/2025/03/trump-anti-trans-executive-orde...

Shit, here's an article from TODAY if you want to say these measures are no longer high-priority:

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/school-board-sues-tru...
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-30 03:38:00+00:00
Hmm. Crypto wealth in a typical form. Funny how the poker playing crypto savvy engineer is such a common archetype. I can personally imagine some of my friends who would perhaps be exactly this if they had 150mm instead of, I don't know 1.5 or 15 or whatever a well off smart software engineer has in their bank these days.

I don't think he's after marketing though, I think he's having his little poker power/money fantasy. Nothing I would look up to but more power to him I guess. Sounds like he's fairly decent at poker but still getting reamed by the top players, which is the part that I find a bit sad and desperate, since he's sort of trading humiliation for clout despite having, well, adequate crypto wealth. I definitely think the top players he is seeking out do see him as a fool.
by jerkstate | 2025-08-30 03:38:25+00:00
That's completely irrelevant to the original poster's point. The "Disinformation Governance Board" as referenced in the original post was not sponsored by phillip morris, and did not claim that smoking was healthy. Instead, it was sponsored by taxpayers, and was run by people with clear political goals for the suppression of what they considered "disinformation" "misinformation" and "malinformation"
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
by tkgally | 2025-08-30 03:40:23+00:00
The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.

Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933
by com2kid | 2025-08-30 03:42:34+00:00
The ratio changed after software engineering became a way to make a lot of money. It used to be there were a handful of well paying gigs and a bunch of "pretty good" jobs, but SE wasn't a huge outlier.

Once people flooded the field to make money, things changed. Used to be if I met another software engineer they'd 100% geek out over technology, CPU architectures, programming languages, etc. It wasn't ever just a job.

Or to put it another way, Microsoft used to be filled with people rocking back and forth in their chairs avoiding eye contact discussing cool tech things. When I went on my interview loop at MSFT I discussed the mornings Slashdot headlines with every person who interviewed me.
by real-hacker | 2025-08-30 03:42:49+00:00
AI is advancing faster than your manager’s LinkedIn posts, but is anyone at work actually using it? MIT’s latest report reveals a shocking truth: 95% of AI investments in business deliver zero ROI. Companies are piloting ChatGPT, Copilot, and fancy “enterprise AI tools,” but nothing really sticks. Why? Because maybe employees know how to be more productive with AI, they just don’t want to.
by saurik | 2025-08-30 03:43:31+00:00
This was actually studied at some point (at least 15-20 decades ago, as I remember learning about this in college): they gave the same programming problem to a bunch of developers and had some listen to music while they did the task while others worked in silence. There was no real difference between how long it took to do the task between the same group... but the people who listened to music were much much less likely to realize that the entire task was a red herring and the code reduced down to return 0;.
by jimbokun | 2025-08-30 03:45:05+00:00
When the domain is complex, it's even MORE important that the individual components be simple with clean interfaces between them. If everything is too intertwined, you lose the ability to make changes or add new functionality without accidentally breaking something else.

As for Chesterton's Fence, you have the causality backwards. You should not build a fence or gate before you have a need for it. However, when you encounter an existing fence or gate, assume there must have been a very good reason for building it in the first place.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-30 03:46:01+00:00
> HN is incapable of separating the product from the man.

It sounds unreasonable when phrased that way, but it isn't unreasonable at all for two reasons:

1) The man himself is tied intimately with this company, and he has a deep-seated political ideology. It's deeply rooted enough in him that he's already done things which cost the companies he runs millions upon millions of dollars. His top priority is not to you, the user, or even to his businesses, it is to his political agenda.

2) The man is drug user, who appears not to have been incredibly stable before the drugs. There is a non-zero chance that you will build complicated tooling around this only to have it disappear in a few months after Elon goes on a bender and tweets something bad enough to make even the his supporters hate him. That's a big risk.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-30 03:46:35+00:00
This is the line that is often repeated but it is simply not convincing except to people who are on that side (which is my side too if that matters). To me, it is obvious that a number of opinionated decisions are made in writing a Wikipedia article, and those decisions are consistently biased. In the last 10 years or so it has been REALLY bad and if you consume information from many different news sources, it is easy to spot the bias Wikipedia carries despite it trying to look like a factual and neutral source.
by sbrother | 2025-08-30 03:47:42+00:00
When I was most recently at Google (2021-ish) my team owned a bunch of SQL Pipelines that had fairly effective SQL tests. Not my favorite thing to work on, but it was a productive way to transform data. There are lots of open source versions of the same idea, but I have yet to see them accompanied with ergonomic testing. Any recommendations or pointers to open source SQL testing frameworks?
by BillyTheMage | 2025-08-30 03:49:00+00:00
I really don't like that phrase. It should be "reality has a progressive bias". Progressive is the opposite of conservative. "Liberal" is a specific ideology, and will end up in a position somewhere on the progressive-conservative spectrum based on how progressive or conservative it is.

Specifically it is the ideology of Capitalism, representative democracy, the rule of law, etc... basically the ideology of the enlightenment.

This misuse of Liberal is easy to track the etymology. The colloquial usage of "liberal" does sound like an opposite of conservative, it's basically a synonym for "lenient". But colloquial usage is often totally incorrect in certain contexts, like this one.

People who use "liberal" as an opposite of conservative are just bad at type theory.
by matesz | 2025-08-30 03:49:56+00:00
And then there is China - remember that IOI for instance accepts 4 people from each country.

After all it all comes down to individuals. In Poland, there is famous informatics high school teacher who is credited for producing most IOI/IOM medalist per high school pupil in the world I believe.

They have special training program there. Another thing is to actually find geniuses, obviously. And if you don’t believe in geniuses, meet Jake - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OR36jrx_L44

For example, Jakub Pachocki (director of engineering of OpenAI) who graduated this high school, actually was on the verge of getting F from maths in his previous high school, because of problems being to easy I believe. Then they made the transfer where he could finally thrive. Interestingly, he wanted to do phd in 2 years in University of Warsaw, but people there didn’t want to allow it just because so they lost him - he went to do his PhD at Carnegie Mellon.

To summarise, from what I understand formula would be something like genius + great, inspiring and allowing teacher(s) + special personalised teaching programs + supportive environment.

Also don’t assume that these outliers are testament to the level of education of general population.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-30 03:50:16+00:00
Browser makers trying to kill XSLT is not new: Chrome had intents to deprecate and remove XSLT in 2013 and 2015 (which both failed).

Each time so far, there’s been movement for a while, significant pushback, and the one who was championing removal realises it’s hard, and quietly drops it. Smaug from Mozilla bringing it up at a WHATNOT meeting a few months ago looked like it was heading the same way, a “yeah, we’d kinda like to do this, but… meh, see what happens”. Then a few months later Mason Freed of Google decided to try championing it. We’ll see where things go.
by Existenceblinks | 2025-08-30 03:51:04+00:00
These topic and mentioned tools always fail to demonstrate how sync engine works in multiple players modes. And mostly only for backend written in TS/JS, worse it's only for using with 3rd service (which you couldn't put your business logic in here). The first thing i scan in these tools' docs are how they handle write conflict whose conflict is semantic level, not data exchange format level.
by jibe | 2025-08-30 03:51:04+00:00
The P320 does have a firing pin block. There is a lever that physically blocks the striker from moving. When you pull the trigger, the trigger bar lifts the lever, allowing the striker to move if the sear is also disengaged.

None of this is a sear block, or has anything to do directly with the sear. It will prevent the gun from firing if the sear were to fail.

You can see the lever in green in this animation:

https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/dd_dev/origina...
by marvin-hansen | 2025-08-30 03:51:06+00:00
Complete frustration to use. Yes it’s a bit more considerate, that claim is 100% true. They just didn’t mention that Hermes has zero ability to add context. Meaning, instead of uploading a relevant PDF or text file you either cop paste into the chat box or explain it in dialogue for the next 3 hours. Thought process takes forever. Complete waste of time.
by svat | 2025-08-30 03:52:36+00:00
A fun fact surprisingly not mentioned in the article, and which I thought would be topical at this time, is that the Romanians apparently love their math olympiads so much that they recently elected as their president an International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) medalist. The current president Nicușor Dan had perfect scores at the IMO both times he participated (one of only 12 students so far with a perfect score in each of their ≥2 participations [1]). In fact at IMO 1988 he was one of only 11 students who solved the famous/notorious “Vieta jumping” problem [2], which eluded even Terence Tao (who, to be fair, was participating at only 13 years old!).

The Wikipedia section of “Notable [IMO] participants” has three sections: “Mathematicians”, “Computer scientists”, and “Other”, with Dan being the sole entry in the last one. :) [3]

[1]: http://imo-official.org/hall.aspx?column=perfectscores&order...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vieta_jumping&old...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Internati...
by culi | 2025-08-30 03:53:38+00:00
The current state of the art in AI poisoning is Nightshade from the University of Chicago. It's meant to eventually be an addon to their WebGlaze[1] which is an invite-only tool meant for artists to protect their art from AI mimicry

Nobody is dying because artists are protecting their art

[0] https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

[1] https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html
by com2kid | 2025-08-30 03:54:02+00:00
I had an interview at a big tech company last year where I had a verbal offer letter which then got rescinded when a VP went over my interview feedback and decided I didn't come across as enough of a team player!

That feedback occurred immediately after another interview where I failed because I didn't show enough individual drive, I had talked too much about working in my team.

The irony was a bit too much.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-08-30 03:54:12+00:00
Interestingly, legally, the Holy See and the Vatican City State are not the same thing.

The one which is the global seat of the Roman Catholic Church, which has existed since ancient times including for a time without any territory after the Papal States were lost, which is internationally sovereign, and the one to which ambassadors to the "Vatican" are accredited is the Holy See, not the Vatican City State.

The one that has .va is Vatican City State, which was created only in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the (then-)Kingdom of Italy. That treaty was signed to return a certain degree of independent territorial authority to the Holy See, including the Vatican City State where it has full sovereignty, to give financial compensation to the Church / the Holy See for the loss of the Papal States, and to address a few other matters.

Yes, the Vatican City State is under the governance of the Holy See as a sovereign entity, but it's the Holy See that's sovereign, not the Vatican City State - and the Holy See would remain legally intact if the Vatican City State were to be physically conquered by a foreign power.

ISO country codes which lead to ccTLD domain names like .va are often given more on the basis of internationally recognized/relevant territorial definition than on the basis of international recognized/relevant sovereignty where those two things diverge. After all, the British Indian Ocean Territory has never itself been sovereign under that name, and Taiwan's international sovereignty is a controversial question, but .io and .tw ccTLDs were still assigned and are universally recognized. it's for the same reason that .va goes with the territory and not with the global church.
by deckar01 | 2025-08-30 03:54:21+00:00
Consider how many of these injunctions have been ignored, challenged, and gone through a separate appeals process, only to be struck down by a SCOTUS shadow docket ruling. I suspect the reasoning is that a final SCOTUS ruling will be faster by not issuing an immediate injunction.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supr...
by culi | 2025-08-30 03:54:23+00:00
The current state of the art in AI poisoning is Nightshade from the University of Chicago. It's meant to eventually be an addon to their WebGlaze[1] which is an invite-only tool meant for artists to protect their art from AI mimicry

If these companies are adding extra code to bypass artists trying to protect their intellectual property from mimicry then that is an obvious and egregious copyright violation

More likely it will push these companies to actually pay content creators for the content they work on to be included in their models.

[0] https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

[1] https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html
by lunarmony | 2025-08-30 03:54:38+00:00
Researchers have discussed limitations of vector-based retrieval from a rank perspective in various forms for a few years. It's further been shown that better alternative exists; some low-rank approaches can theoretically approximate arbitrary high-rank distribution while permitting MIPS-level efficient inference (see e.g., Retrieval with Learned Similarities, https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15462). Such solutions are already being used in production at Meta and at LinkedIn.
by anonnon | 2025-08-30 03:55:44+00:00
So does every other open source XSLT implementation, along with XPath/XQuery 3x. Most of them at best support 2x or 1x with some 2x-compatible extensions, but I'm not aware of any that fully support the 3x variants, besides Xidel (XPath/XQuery 3.0). The proprietary Saxonica is the go-to at the moment.
by ewoodrich | 2025-08-30 03:56:42+00:00
And yet, despite this being a frequently recommended pro tip these days, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic seem to shy away from using "do not" / "does not" in their system prompts. By my quick count, 20+ negative commands in Anthropic's (official) Opus system prompt and 15+ in OpenAI's (purported) GPT-5 system prompt. Of course there are a lot of positive directions as well but OpenAI in particular still seems to rely on a lot of ALL CAPS and *emphasis*.

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PromptEngineering/comments/1mknun8/...
by jmspring | 2025-08-30 03:58:07+00:00
The funny thing, I went to five schools, 3 different districts across Bay Area cities. All had accommodations for different levels. High school, I ended up at UCSC my freshman year with enough credits from transfer in (from high school school) and my first quarter as a junior. Most were community college courses friends and I were interested in separate from school.

My step daughter, I hear her curriculum and shake my head (my BS was in computer engineering and computational chemistry), I could not help with the bs “common core” forced on her.

Thankfully she settled into the ability to have college courses in her last year.

It’s ridiculous how much of a push there is “standardizing” the skills of individuals. When their strengths should be encouraged.
by oefrha | 2025-08-30 04:00:35+00:00
Scientific and technological breakthroughs are created by the few. Always been, always will be. Fewer than 1 in 10,000 people are responsible for the current AI breakthroughs for instance, and I’m being conservative. You don’t need a fat right tail to completely change your country; of course, most of your tiny number of excellent individuals leaving for richer countries is a different problem altogether.
by paool | 2025-08-30 04:00:45+00:00
You can't trust everyone will be polite or follow "standards".

However, you can incentivize good behavior. Let's say there's a scraping agent, you could make a x402 compatible endpoint and offer them a discount or something.

Kinda like piracy; if you offer a good, simple, cheap service people will pay for it versus go through the hassle of pirating.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-30 04:00:45+00:00
This is an interesting read. One comment on this part:

> Japan, the first non-Western society to flood the world with tourists, became the first to retreat from that role. This signaled a deeper cultural shift from "we want to see the world" to "we are content with our own." Just as Japan predicted aging societies, debt crises, and solo culture, it may now be showing us tourism's future: not endless growth, but eventual contentment with home.

I think some of these issues are not because Japan got there “first” but because it has always rejected immigration and multiculturalism. People who immigrant to Japan are often socially isolated, and it can be difficult to make friends or connect with anyone beyond something superficial (like work). There is also still discriminatory anti-foreign bias all over (for example restaurants that will kick you out because you don’t look Japanese). I respect a lot about Japan, but it’s strange how their rampant anti-outsider bias isn’t a bigger part of their public image.

Regardless, immigration could have prevented many of the problems Japan has faced and continues to face. They could have a younger labor force that can help with the aging problem, they could attract a dynamic entrepreneurial sector, they could have become a bigger cultural exporter, and so on. But I think Japan also has a deep distrust of looking to outside help at potentially the cost of how their society and culture works today.

Already, we’re seeing the rise of fringe parties (Sanseitō) who are promoting “anti foreigner policies”. Their leader Sohei Kamiya seems unhinged and is apparently a fan of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but that hasn’t stopped them from showing surprising success in elections. To me that reveals the issues lying beneath, which are also part of the rejection of tourism and other trends.
by thayne | 2025-08-30 04:03:51+00:00
Well it's tricky. I don't really have a problem with google owning the .google TLD, because that is a pretty unique name, and is unlikely to be useful for anything besides unrelated to Google. Similarly for .walmart or .microsoft. But .apple is a problem, because it is a common English word, and it isn't unreasonable for say an apple orchard, or an apple cider company to want a .apple domain. Similarly for other brand names like target, zoom, uber, plaid, etc. Even .amazon fits here since it is also the name of a river, a rain forest, and mythological group of women.

But where do you draw the line? How do you decide if a company should be allowed to get a gTLD for their brand? Clearly, having a trademark is not sufficient, as it is possible to get a trademark on a common word, and it is possible for multiple companies to trademark the same word as long as there isn't a risk of confusing them. Is it fair to let google and microsoft get such TLDs for their brands, but not apple and amazon?