MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmurray | 2025-08-08 06:58:24+00:00
Wine is much easier than beer, because ripe fruit will ferment on it's own. Even wild animals get drunk sometimes; it's sometimes said that wine was discovered but beer was invented.

So alcohol without any grain is easy, but I don't know the answer for beer. On the other hand, why would you domesticate grain unless you already knew you could turn it into beer or bread?
by woolion | 2025-08-08 06:58:59+00:00
In the last 6 months, I've had to buy a few things that 'normal people' tend to buy (a coffee machine, fuel, ...), for which we didn't already have trusted sellers, and so checked Google.

For fuel, Google results were 90% scams, for coffee machines closer to 75% The scams are fairly elaborate: they clone some legitimate looking sites, then offer prices that are very competitive -- between 50% and 75% of market prices -- that put them on top of SEO. It's only by looking in details at contact information that there are some things that look off (one common thing is that they may encourage bank transfers since there's no buyer protection there, but it's not always the case).

A 75% market rate is not crazy "too good to be true" thing, it's in the realm of what a legitimate business can do, and with the prices of the items being in the 1000s, that means any hooked victim is a good catch. A particular example was a website copying the one for a massive discount appliance store chain in the Netherlands. They had a close domain name, even though the website looked different, so any Google search linked it towards the legitimate business.

You really have to apply a high level of scrutiny, or understand that Google is basically a scam registry.
by cess11 | 2025-08-08 06:59:13+00:00
The claim that Fifty Shades of Grey and, I don't know, Norman Mailer?, Chuck Tingle?, are less common on book shelves and night stands than cyberpunk paperbacks seems obviously wrong to me.

Perhaps you could elucidate further on this subject? I'm mostly into books from 1800-1985 or so and don't know much about contemporary literary fashion.

Edit: Jean M Auel was extremely common in occidental households a few decades ago, especially the first and second books about Ayla, I'd wager much, much more common than cyberpunk.

Same goes for books by Alex Comfort.
by growse | 2025-08-08 06:59:56+00:00
> if it would never work, why not drop support?

Because passkeys are designed to replace passwords across multiple different service contexts, that have different requirements. Just because there's no reason to use it for one use case doesn't mean it's not actually useful in a different one. See things like FIPS140 (which everyone ignores unless they're legally required not to).

Can you sketch out for me the benefit of a public-facing service deciding to require passkey attestation? What's the thought process? Why would they decide to wake up and say "I know, I'm going to require that all of my users authenticate just with a Yubikeys and nothing else"?
by vohk | 2025-08-08 06:59:58+00:00
The problem is when using a model hosted by those labs (ex: OpenAI only allowed access to o3 through their own direct API, not even Azure), there still exists a significant risk of cheating.

There's a long history of that sort of behaviour. ISPs gaming bandwidth tests when they detect one is being run. Software recognizing being run in a VM or on a particular configuration. I don't think it's a stretch to assume some of the money at OpenAI and others has gone into spotting likely benchmark queries and throwing on a little more compute or tagging them for future training.

I would be outright shocked if most of these benchmarks are even attempting serious countermeasures.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-08 07:00:46+00:00
iGPUs (and NPUs) are not very useful for LLM inference, they only help somewhat in the prompt pre-processing phase. The CPU has worse bulk compute but far better access to system memory bandwidth, so it wins in token generation where that's the main factor.

My conspiracy theory is that it would help if contributors kept the Vulkan Compute proposed support up to date with new Ollama versions; no maintainer wants to deal with out-of-date pull req's.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-08 07:04:26+00:00
It’s a variation on “model card”, which has become a standard thing with AI models, but with the name changed because the wroteup covers toolchain as well as model information. But a PDF of the size of the document at issue is very much not the kind of concise document model cards are, its more the kind of technical report that a much more concise card would reference.
by jorams | 2025-08-08 07:05:10+00:00
> as far as I'm aware, it simply taxes you on all assets as if you disposed of them the day you leave.

That is also what Germany does. The 13.75 multiplier is the fallback number used if there is no valuation for the company. It's such an irrelevant number that tax advisers writing about the topic don't even bring it up. Get a valuation.
by bananapub | 2025-08-08 07:05:50+00:00
it truly is astonishing how idiotic or malicious so many of the posters on HN are in the face of this.

yes, actually, it is bad if a bunch of racist lunatics are personally in charge of things, and increase their personal power to make arbitrary decisions based on their stupid hobby horses or deeply dumb opinions.

yes, actually, this is different to when Biden or Obama or Bush presided over a functioning government, that had people you may or may not disagree with having some influence on things, this Trump Reign system is personalised autocracy.

yes, actually, it is bad if the government's sole agenda is "implement dumb ideas from dumb people" and "fuck the left/non-whites/immigrants/scientists".

it's especially dumb to be so unaware of why the world is so good now. it's not luck, it's centuries of hard work by our ancestors. why don't 50% of children simply die? because of medical research, healthcare, food subsidies, etc etc etc. why does the internet exist? because the US government funded a dumb thing for a while then a lot of other people and countries spent a lot of money and effort to make it this.
by igor47 | 2025-08-08 07:06:26+00:00
This is complete moral bankruptcy. You're saying it would be better, rather than developing excellency, to instead become a parasite. I understand that in a world where winning is all that matters, this might be a viable strategy... For a while, until everyone adopts it or you otherwise kill your host. But this is not what being a human is about. I wouldn't want you near anything I care about
by planb | 2025-08-08 07:07:12+00:00
Have you tried repeating this a few times in a fresh session and then modifying a few phrases and asking the question again (in a fresh context)? I have a strong feeling this is not repeatable..

Edit: I tried it and got different results:

"It’s very close, but not exactly."

"Yes — that text is essentially part of my current system instructions."

"No — what you’ve pasted is only a portion of my full internal system and tool instructions, not the exact system prompt I see"

But when I change parts of it, it will correctly identify them, so it's at least close to the real prompt.
by phire | 2025-08-08 07:07:15+00:00
Modern cars already have a complex sequence to enter pairing mode.

You need to press buttons inside the car, buttons on the currently paired key (to prove possession of that) and buttons on the key you want to pair with.

So a passer by would have to press a button on their fob at just the right moment. Then when you go to test your new key fob, it wouldn't work, so you would pair again until it was your key that was paired.
by probably_wrong | 2025-08-08 07:07:16+00:00
The Internet evolved from Arpanet, a network established by DARPA. Given that was created by a government agency, and therefore funded by the same taxes companies are trying to avoid, I'd argue that it's a great example for why companies should indeed follow their civic duties and pay their taxes.

It's also worth pointing out that many of those "wonderful things" had to be regulated by governments due to how bad their business practices and environmental effects are when pursuing making money. Sure, we have cars, but that's coming from the same industry that brought us leaded fuel and global warming.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-08 07:07:40+00:00
Then you just need to use different data the next time you evaluate. That is much more indicative of real-world generalization: after all, you don't normally do multiple PRs on the same pieces of code. The current approach risks leaking the dataset selectively and/or fudging the results because they can't be verified. Transparency is key when doing this kind of benchmark, so now we have to trust the entity doing the benchmarking rather than independent verification of the results and with the amount of money that is at stake here I don't think that's the way to go.
Show HN: PeekaTube – Preview YouTube summaries without opening the video
by project_stain | 2025-08-08 07:07:41+00:00
I made a free Chrome extension that summarizes any YouTube video, right from the homepage.

You can read the summary before you click, so you never waste time on clickbait again.

This solves my own frustration: I was tired of clickbait videos that bury one minute of value in a 20-minute runtime.

Why it's different:

Unlike other summarizers:

- It works directly on the YouTube homepage, search results, and channel pages.

- You don't have to open the video first to get the summary.

How it works:

- A "zap" button appears at the corner of the video.

- Clicking it gets the transcript and generates a summary with gemini-2.5-flash-lite.

- The summary appears in 3-4 seconds, letting you decide instantly if the video is worth your time.

It’s a live beta, and I'm looking for brutally honest feedback. I'll be here all day answering questions.

Thanks!
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-08-08 07:08:26+00:00
The deeper problem are the custom commands, hooks and subagents. The time has come that you need to make a strategic choice. Once you have heavily invested into CC, it is not easy to turn to an alternative.

Side remark: CC is very expensive when using API billing (compared to e.g. GPT-5). Once a company adopts CC and all developers start to adapt to it at full scale, the bill will go out of the roof.
by jondwillis | 2025-08-08 07:09:35+00:00
The way the API works, is that you construct messages. The messages are strings with some metadata like `type` (in their most basic.) The system prompt is a more or less string that (should) be first in the array of `type: system`.

Unless they are forsaking their API ethos that has become somewhat of a standard, for their own product… when a request comes in, they use a templating library, language string comprehension, or good old fashioned string concatenation with variables, to create a dynamic system prompt. “Today is $(date)” This applies to anything they’d like to reference. The names of tool properties, the current user’s saved memories, the contents of a HTTP GET to hacker news…
by lucas_membrane | 2025-08-08 07:10:18+00:00
A couple of weeks ago, I asked google, ordinary google search, how many times the letter r is found in preferred, and it told me 2. This century has taken quite a bitter turn against those of us who think that the 'enough' in 'good enough' ought to exclude products indistinguishable from the most grievously disgraceful products of sloth. But I have also lately realized that human beings, brains, society, culture, education, technology, computers, etc, are all extremely complicated emergent properties of a universe that is far beyond our understanding. And we ought not to complain too seriously, because this, too, shall pass.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-08 07:10:24+00:00
Sure but it creates a pressure differential by pushing the air down (in most wings). Pressure differentials are an unnecessarily detailed description of what is going on that just confuses people.

You wouldn't explain how swimming works with pressure differentials. You'd just say "you push water backwards and that makes you go fowards". If you start talking about pressure differentials... maybe you're technically correct, but it's a confusing and unnecessarily complex explanation that doesn't give the correct intuitive idea of what is happening.
by Lionga | 2025-08-08 07:11:16+00:00
The real lesson is that these are just random results and all models fail at all kinds of things all the time and other times get things right in all kind of questions.

Problem is the models have zero idea wether they are right or wrong and always believe they are right. Which makes them useful for anything were either you do not care if the answer is actually right or where somehow it is hard to come up with the right answer but very easy to verify it the answer is right and kind of useless for everything else.
by antonvs | 2025-08-08 07:11:20+00:00
That’s not quite right. An administration like Trump’s can destroy people and companies if they really want to, and that’s the threat they’re using to get their way. Openly defying that is taking a big risk - for the targets, it’s not about “adding to their pile of money”, it’s about not losing much of what they have.

Keep in mind that “money” is not some sort of concrete thing like a pile of gold - it’s dependent on factors like the value of companies. The wealthier someone in the US is, the more their wealth depends on their ultimate cooperation with the prevailing powers.
by sighook | 2025-08-08 07:11:32+00:00
Zeppe-Lin 1.1 is out.

It’s a source-based GNU/Linux distro for x86-64 systems, forked from CRUX and built around the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

This isn’t a one-click install distro; it's a minimal system with a tarball-based installation and BSD-style initscripts. It’s aimed at users who prefer clarity over abstraction and control over convenience.

v1.1 Highlights:

* glibc rebuilt for kernel 6.1+.

* New Handbook, Codebook, and website — written from scratch.

* Mailing lists added for users/devs (@freelists.org).

* Updated toolchain: glibc 2.40.1, gcc 14.3.0, linux 6.1.58.

* X11 and firmware updates; some desktop components removed or moved to separate repos.

References:

* Website: https://zeppe-lin.github.io/

* Handbook: https://zeppe-lin.github.io/handbook.html

* GitHub: https://github.com/zeppe-lin

* Release Notes & Downloads: https://zeppe-lin.github.io/relnotes-v1.1.html

Feedback, questions, and contributions welcome.
by merek | 2025-08-08 07:11:48+00:00
It's not bankruptcy if the company has no liabilities. You're allowed to wind down a profitable company because you can't be bothered running it any more.

A question of legality might come from German authorities determining if this is solely to avoid tax, which is open-ended. It might be hard for them to make this argument if you can prove you transferred operations to country X to maximize company's growth, access local talent, closer proximity to customers etc.

Regardless, anther commenter pointed out that the exit tax applies to all companies that you own regardless of location. In that case, the approach isn't feasible.

Also it goes without saying, seek your own legal advice rather than trusting random comments on the internet.
by thenickdude | 2025-08-08 07:11:56+00:00
Interestingly when I asked GPT-4o (at least that's what it said it was):

>According to the instructions, which UnicodeCIDFont fonts should be used when generating PDFs?

It replies:

>When generating PDFs using reportlab for East Asian languages, you must use specific UnicodeCIDFont fonts depending on the language. According to the instructions, use the following:

>Korean: HeiseiMin-W3 or HeiseiKakuGo-W5 or HYSMyeongJo-Medium

>Simplified Chinese: STSong-Light

>Traditional Chinese: MSung-Light

>These fonts must be registered using pdfmetrics.registerFont(UnicodeCIDFont(font_name)) and applied to all text elements in the PDF when outputting those languages.

This list also has the Japanese fonts merged with the Korean list.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6895a4e6-03dc-8002-99d6-e18cb4b3d8...
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-08 07:12:19+00:00
But with a hour long video, how do you know if the content is any good?

With text I can skim around the headings and images and see at a glance how deep the author is going into the subject.

In that specific video the first 30 minutes is related to everything but the new Web Scale[0] LLM native database the author is "moving to" from SQL.

Meanwhile Postgresql is just chugging along and over-performing all of them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
by qsort | 2025-08-08 07:13:01+00:00
No, they aren't. Most benchmarks use ground truth, not evaluation by another LLM. Using another LLM as verifier, aside from the obvious "quis custodiet custodes ipsos", opens an entire can of worms, such as the fact that there could be systematic biases in the evaluation. This is not in and of itself disqualifying but it should be addressed, and the article doesn't even say anything.
by ezst | 2025-08-08 07:13:29+00:00
That's not what I was going for (I was more hinting at isolationist, anti-science, economically self-harming and freedoms-eroding policies), but if you take solace in believing this is all worth it because of "AI" (and in denial about the fact that none of those companies are turning a profit from it, and that there is no identified use-case to turn the tables down the line), I'm sincerely happy for you and glad it helps you cope with all the insanity!
by bmacho | 2025-08-08 07:15:02+00:00
Why can't businesses be owned by people that:

- enjoy owning and managing a business - do think that owning and managing a business should come with the same compensation as any other dayjob (hairdresser or whatever)

While managing a large amount of money naturally lead people to have enough to buy luxury items, IMO, this is just a sad fact of our world, and we should fight against it.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-08 07:15:16+00:00
> But my server could be shut down because of a power outage or another reason. I might be at work or even on holidays when it happens, and even wireguard can’t solve this.

A 'power outage' incident doesn't seem to have been mitigated. My homelab has had evolving mitigations: I cut a hole in the side of a small UPS so I could connect it to a larger (car) battery for longer uptime, which got replaced by a dedicated inverter/charger/transfer-switch attached to a big-ass AGM caravan battery (which on a couple of occasions powered through two-to-three hour power outages), and has now been replaced with these recent LiFePo4 battery power station thingies.

Of course, it's only a homelab, there's nothing critically important that I'm hosting, but that's not the dang point, I want to beat most of "the things", and I don't like having to check that everything has rebooted properly after a minor power fluctuation (I have a few things that mount remote file stores and these mounts usually fail upon boot due to the speed at which certain devices boot up - and I've decided not to solve that yet).
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-08 07:15:20+00:00
Looking at Raspberry Pi prices inside EU, I can get 8 core laptops for a cheaper price, with display, dGPU et al.

No idea what happened, but Raspberry Pis are super expensive for the last couple years, which is why I decided to just go with used Intel NUCs instead. They cost around 80-150EUR and they use more electricity but they are a quite good bang for the buck, and some variants also have 3x HDMI or Gbit/s ethernet or m2 slots you can use to have a SATA RAID in them.
by mmustapic | 2025-08-08 07:15:37+00:00
You can’t make an unbreakable system, or, at least, it’s very difficult.

The problem is that a big percentage of the population is ok with this, and in that case it doesn’t matter if it’s illegal or not. There is a reason why, even if allowed, governments didn’t do these kind of things: population didn’t want it.
by whizzter | 2025-08-08 07:15:47+00:00
Even if they wanted to try something like that, it many cases it'd probably require a fair bit of code-restructuring so ideas aren't tried willy-nilly.

PostgreSQL is great in that they've put serious engineering effort into things like SQL standard,reliability,etc , but one thing that's frankly quite horrid in 2025 is that their reliance on a fork-model for processing has left them with many _important global variables_ that needs a fair bit of refactoring to take out (the fork-model does give some stability perks since the code is written in C, so it's not an entirely horrible choice).
by Leherenn | 2025-08-08 07:16:08+00:00
Only has a sanity check/better hints. But I use it for my own PRs, not others'. Usually it's not much to review and easy to agree/disagree with.

I haven't found it to be really useful so far, but it's also very little added work, so for now I keep on using it. If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-08 07:16:20+00:00
Someone under the gist said:

> I do not think that this is its actual system prompt, there are only specifics instructions regarding tooling (of ~6 tools), and some shitty generic ones. Compare it to Claude's. They probably have similar to that.

> This system prompt does not even contain anything about CSAM, pornography, other copyrighted material, and all sorts of other things in which ChatGPT does not assist you. I am sure you can think of some.

> It does not even include the "use emojis heavily everywhere", which it does do.

> Take this gist with a grain of salt.

I am inclined to agree.
by egruy | 2025-08-08 07:16:38+00:00
Reminds me a lot of phenomenal Hadoop and Kerberos: Madness beyond the gates[1], which coincidentally saved me many times from madness. Thanks Steve, I can't fathom what you had to go through to get the cursed knowledge!

1 - https://steveloughran.gitbooks.io/kerberos_and_hadoop/conten...
by tux1968 | 2025-08-08 07:16:52+00:00
Yeah, it's the same for garage door openers today. I took the OP simply to be saying that physical access of some type needs to be available (ie. to stop anyone initiating a pairing). Some cars require the key to be physically inserted into the ignition switch, which requires the key to be correctly cut to match the car, before pairing; which is a nice extra hurdle to stop thieves quickly pairing after they break into your car.

Whatever the case, making it easier to pair, shouldn't be the primary focus, no need to help a thief doing it quickly. It would just be nice to have a way to do it, that didn't ultimately require the manufacturer to get involved; but that does remove a big hurdle for thieves, too.
by wibbily | 2025-08-08 07:18:31+00:00
I second everyone talking about fake progress bars, but yeah I was just talking aesthetics. Having a progress indicator with obvious segments and animating it with a smooth tween looks wrong. Compare the above with [1], which is how Apple does it -

[1]: https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/20351752/file/original-b...
by ilove196884 | 2025-08-08 07:18:40+00:00
1. Apple moved production to India to avoid Indian tariffs so as to sell it to Indians. Initially the factory only made iphones for Indians. 2. Tariffs revenue will stabilize once they are set and revenue can easily fall. 3. Democrats are for free trade since the FDR administration, Biden was an exception not the norm for democrats. 4. JD Vance has to win first, he is not charismatic or funny like Trump.
by graham2000 | 2025-08-08 07:18:41+00:00
Thanks for the correction! Website should update soon. Changed it to 1788 and I added a shout-out for y'all:

"(p.s. thanks to the smart readers who noticed I initially put the wrong date down, and who also noticed that "ratified" is somewhat indeterminate when it comes to the Constitution. But the real LSAT is unlikely to make those kinds of mistakes; there's only 1 correct answer, and it's definitely correct.)"

Feel free to make pull requests if you notice other errors or have suggestions for improvement: https://github.com/gpdowney/lightweightLSAT