MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjcm | 2025-08-08 18:33:23+00:00
It's honestly wild that a sitting US president is calling out specific company CEOs. The fact that it was done in a tweet-esque post is even more concerning. I'd expect that something like this would have been accompanied by a proper investigation and writeup stating the administration's perspective on why, but instead it's just "he's highly CONFLICTED".

I don't debate his history at Cadence Design is concerning from a national security point of view, but the approach the administration took really shows how we're in a different era of politics.
by mat0 | 2025-08-08 18:33:24+00:00
Not the person you were responding to but, if a company provides a service, they want you to use it instead of their competitors. No company is going to say “use ours unless you want to use the best, then use our competitor’s”. so even though I agree with you that they are not explicitly saying “this is the best model in the world”, they are definitely saying “hey this is the best we got, use it”.
Show HN: The calendar that schedules everything for you
by georgeslz | 2025-08-08 18:33:37+00:00
I'm building Rhythm—an AI calendar that intelligently schedules your tasks for you. All you need to do is type your tasks in natural language, and Rhythm will schedule them, including breaks, your preferred working time, etc. Fully customizable and intelligent. Syncs with your Google Calendar.

Curious - would this be something you'd find useful? Would love any feedback
by SequoiaHope | 2025-08-08 18:33:48+00:00
Beautiful design! I want to say as a maybe helpful review point that I see overlapping silk in a few spots. Ideally it would be nice to clean that up, possibly removing all designators which for my personal preference would work, but some people might like to see those. Also I would choose a more playful font for the back text but I like playful. This is an excellent project, nicely done! I’m doing a lot of RP2350 LED work right now, I’ll have to see if I can run your code on the pendant I am designing.
by j_timberlake | 2025-08-08 18:34:10+00:00
I know, you wanted to vent about the USA and abandon the thread topic, and I countered your argument without even leaving the topic.

Like how I can say that the future of USA's AI is probably going to obliterate your local job market regardless of which country you're in, and regardless of whether you think there's "no identified use-case" for AI. Like a steamroller vs a rubber chicken. But probably Google's AI rather than OpenAI's, I think Gemini 3 is going to be a much bigger upgrade, and Google doesn't have cashflow problems. And if any single country out there is actually preparing for this, I haven't heard about it.
by cnst | 2025-08-08 18:34:13+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/

> An AWS spokesperson told The Register: "We always strive to work with customers to resolve account issues and provided advance warning of the potential account suspension. The account was suspended as part of AWS's standard security protocols for accounts that fail the required verification, and it is incorrect to claim this was because of a system error or accident."

Note that this deletion — without the supposedly standard 90d grace period — was NOT an error (up until the time it's been reinstated, apparently).
by tossandthrow | 2025-08-08 18:35:16+00:00
In that vain health insurance is never insurance.

Getting a kid is not an accident for most modern people, and should never be seen as an event that could bankrupt anybody.

Hence, deferring to the definition of insurance is futile.

Then again - the US is the only country I know of that insists that health is something you insure.
by a_squirrel | 2025-08-08 18:35:31+00:00
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by qualeed | 2025-08-08 18:35:52+00:00
There is partial mitigation for RAPTOR: Counter-RAPTOR from 2017 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=795...) with mostly the same authors.

I haven't kept up with the space much since then, so am unaware if there is more recent work.

In any case, there are valid threat models where you want to mitigate website fingerprinting but aren't necessarily concerned with AS-level adversaries.
by dvrp | 2025-08-08 18:36:03+00:00
Hi there! Thank you for the glowing review! I'm the cofounder of Krea and I'm glad you liked Sangwu's blog post. The team is reading it.

You'll probably get a lot of replies around how this model is a just a fine-tune and a potential disregard for LoRAs, as if we didn't know about them. While the reality is that we have thousands of them running in our platform. Sadly there's simply so much a LoRA and a fine-tune can do before you run into issues that can't be solved until you apply more advanced techniques such as curated post-training runs (including reinforcement learning-based techniques such as Diffusion-PPO[1]), or even large-scale pre-training.

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[1]: https://diffusion-ppo.github.io
by glhaynes | 2025-08-08 18:36:15+00:00
>Obviously you'll still review every line before merging, but that takes an order of magnitude less time than wrestling with it in the first place.

Just speculating here, but I wouldn't be surprised if the truth of both parts of this sentence vary quite a bit amongst users of AI coding tools and their various applications; and, if so, if that explains a lot of the discrepancy amongst reports of success/enthusiasm levels.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-08 18:36:21+00:00
I currently somewhat wish CSharpier could also install (or modify, if we are wishing for ponies) an .editorconfig that matches its settings enough that someone with a habit of existing `dotnet format` or who hasn't yet installed CSharpier's own IDE extensions doesn't have a "bad time" or accidentally create a lot of commit churn.

Prettier was relatively easy to adopt because most styles at the time were just eslint configurations and auto-formatters were scarce before Prettier. .NET has a long history of auto-formatters and most of them speak .editorconfig, so some interop would be handy, even if the goal isn't "perfect" interop. Just enough to build a pit of success for someone's first or second PR in a project before they get to that part of the Readme that says "install this thing in VS or Rider" or actually start to pay attention to the Workspace-recommended extensions in VS Code.
by heipei | 2025-08-08 18:36:44+00:00
I agree, and I don't get where the claims that ES is hard to operate originate from. Yeah, if you allow arbitrary aggregations that exceed the heap space, or if you allow expensive queries that effectively iterate over everything you're gonna have a bad time. But apart from those, as long as you understand your data model, your searches and how data is indexed, ES is absolutely rock-solid, scales and performs like a beast. We run a 35-node cluster with ~ 240TB of disk, 4.5TB of RAM, and about 100TB of documents and are able to serve hundreds of queries. The whole thing does not require any maintenance apart from replacing nodes that failed from unrelated causes (hardware, hosting). Version upgrades are smooth as well.

The only bigger issue we had was when we initially added 10 nodes to double the initial capacity of the cluster. Performance tanked as a result, and it took us about half a day until we finally figured out that the new nodes were using dmraid (Linux RAID0) and as a result the block devices had a really high default read-ahead value (8192) compared to the existing nodes, which resulted in heavy read amplification. The ES manual specifically documents this, but since we hadn't run into this issue ourselves it took us a while to realise what was at fault.
by finnjohnsen2 | 2025-08-08 18:37:09+00:00
Norwegian here. Not a young one. Ive seen my share of the northern lights and Ive also seen a lot of photos of it. The photos are attractive, but they are never like seen by the photographer with the naked eye.

I blame that dark/night photography is an impossible task. The tricks like long exposure, ISO boost and noise cleanup, saturation, hdr or whatever you throw at it, just wont be like your eyes. Photographers gets carried away in post and boost too much, and I understand why.

Northern lights - are awesome. I encourage you to see it if you havent. Go this winter! And take photos and you’ll know what I meen. The colors wont pop like these popular photos, but standing outside on a freezing winter night holding back your frost breath from blocking the view of the green lights moving like firely beams of across the sky. Hopefully you’re somewhere quiet with no light pollution. There is nothing like it - watching the reflections of the armor of the valkyrene as they march on valhal
by csours | 2025-08-08 18:37:11+00:00
Speaking for myself: the human mind does not seek truth or goodness, it primarily seeks satisfaction. That satisfaction happens in a context, and ever context is at least a little bit different.

The scary part: It is very easy for LLMs to pick up someone's satisfaction context and feed it back to them. That can distort the original satisfaction context, and it may provide improper satisfaction (if a human did this, it might be called "joining a cult" or "emotional abuse" or "co-dependence").

You may also hear this expressed as "wire-heading"
by gruez | 2025-08-08 18:37:48+00:00
>I fully agree. Additionally, stock price is driven also by expectations of further growth, which in order to keep happening, something's gotta give so it must chip away at quality of the final product too (cheaper materials, cheaper manufacturing, etc) with a consequent enshittification.

???

You're omitting some steps here. While "enshittification" probably happens to some extent, it's unhinged to suggest that's the only explanation for growth, as opposed to more mundane explanations like "better technology".

>My parents, who live in Italy, could afford a stone house from the 1800s in their thirties. I live in Canada and everything's made of wood and snot and and costs a fortune.

Seems like a stretch to blame this on "enshittification" when North American houses have been made of wood for centuries.
by dannyobrien | 2025-08-08 18:37:50+00:00
It's a really good book! I was on the very edges of this scene for a chunk of the time described, and I thought it managed to catch a lot of the complexities without picking one possible narrative over another.

Plus I learned a lot -- it came out of some academic research that pursued a unique angle: finding and talking to the Tor exit node operators about their experiences, rather than just say the developers, the executives, or the funders.
by Swizec | 2025-08-08 18:38:46+00:00
The actually sad part is that when you split data by race, white American health outcomes are pretty great and in some areas significantly ahead of other countries (if you have a rare cancer, America is the place to be) whereas not-white American health outcomes are ... not great.

> AIAN (67.9 years) and Black (72.8 years) people had a shorter life expectancy compared to White people (77.5 years) as of 2022, and AIAN, Hispanic, and Black people experienced larger declines in life expectancy than White people between 2019 and 2022

https://www.kff.org/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-ra...
by toshinoriyagi | 2025-08-08 18:38:58+00:00
I'm not too sure what "MCP-based methodology" is, but Jan-nano-128k is a small model specifically designed to be able to answer in-depth questions accurately via tool-use (researching in a provided document or searching the web).

It outperforms those other models, which are not using tools, thanks to the tool use and specificity.

Because it is only 4B parameters, it is naturally terrible at other things I believe-it's not designed for them and doesn't have enough parameters.

In hindsight, "MCP-based methodology" likely refers to its tool-use.
by carlob | 2025-08-08 18:39:11+00:00
The point is not whether or not it makes sense. The point is that it is fairly natural for a capitalist system to have r>g and that causes concentration of wealth. If you look historically the increasing concentration of wealth only really gets reversed by wars or revolutions. So what Piketty is arguing for is a more gentle way of redistributing wealth, because typically when one gets to 1914 levels of inequality, well… we know what happens.
by thibaultamartin | 2025-08-08 18:39:22+00:00
Author here, indeed I didn't install a UPS. I've tried to keep my setup fairly minimal, and I'm consciously accepting that if there's a power outage my services will be down. I self-host exclusively for myself, not for others.

What I don't want though is a power outage putting my server offline while I'm on holidays, and not be able to access my services at all.

My ISP-provided router supports Wireguard, so I can use that to connect to my KVM and send the Wake on LAN packages.
by jtfrench | 2025-08-08 18:39:26+00:00
This article was a bit confusing for me. It starts off by describing what "doing it wrong" looks like (okay). It then goes on to talk about Agents. Perhaps it's just that my human brain needs a firmware update, but I was expecting the "what doing it wrong looks like" section to be followed by a "what doing it right looks like" section. Instead, the next paragraph just begins with "Agents".

Sure, one could surmise that perhaps "doing it right" means "using Agents", but that's not even how the article reads:

> "To make AI development work for you, you’ll need to provide your AI assistant with two things: the proper context and specific instructions (prompts) on how to behave under certain circumstances."

This, to me, doesn't necessitate the usage of agents, so to then enter a section of agents seems to be skipping over a potentially-implied logical connection between the problem in the "doing it wrong" section and how that is solved in the "Agents" section.

Copying code snippets into web UIs and testing manually is slow and clunky, but Agents are essentially just automations around these same core actions. I feel this article could've made a stronger point by getting at the core of what it means to do it wrong.

• Is "doing it wrong" indicated by the time wasted by not using an agentic mechanism vs manual manipulation?

• Is "doing it wrong" indicated by manually switching between tools instead of using MCP to automate tool delegation?

Having written several non-trivial agents myself using Gemini and OpenAI's APIs, the main difference between handing off a task to an agent and manually copy/pasting into chat UIs is efficiency — I usually first do a task manually using chat UIs, but once I have a pattern established, or have identified a set of tools to validate responses, I can then "agentify" it if it's something I need to do repeatedly. But the quality of both approaches is still dependent on the same core principles: adequate context (no more nor less than what keeps the LLM's attention on the task at hand) and adequate instructions for the task (often with a handful of examples). In this regard, I agree with the author, as correct context + instructions are the key ingredients to a useful response. The agentic element is an efficiency layer on top of those key ingredients which frees up the dev from having to manually orchestrate, and potentially avoids human error (and potentially introduces LLM error).

Am I missing something here?
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-08 18:39:40+00:00
> For networking, I expected more out of the Thunderbolt / USB4 ports, but could only get 10 Gbps.

I really wish we saw more testing of USB subsystems! With PCIe being so limited, there's such allure to having two USB4 ports! But will they work?

IIRC we saw similar very low bandwidth on Apple's ARM chips too. This was during M1 or so; dunno if things got better with that chip or future ones! Presumably so or I feel like we'd be hearing about it, but also, these things can just go so hidden!

It was really cool back in Ryzen 1 era seeing their CPU get some USB on the cpu itself, not have to go through the IO/peripheral Hub (southbridge?), with its limited connection to the CPU. There's a great up breakout chart here, showing both the 1800x and the various chipsets available: relishable data. https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/ryzen-7-1800x.c1879

I feel like there's been some recent improvements to USB4/thunderbolt in the kernel, to really insure all lanes get used. But I'm struggling to find a reference/link. What kernel was this tested against? If nothing else, it's be great to poke around at debugfs, to make sure it's getting all the lanes configured. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-USB-Changes
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by wildzzz | 2025-08-08 18:40:44+00:00
Unless you're inside a place with special flight rules (like the Washington DC area), you can just fly your plane whenever you want and don't have to file a flight plan or tell anyone. Small airports often don't have ATC so all communications are on a single frequency that all pilots trying to take off or land are tuned into. It's like being at a four way stop sign, there's "right of way" protocol to follow so you don't need to do much other than just announce your intentions to anyone that cares to hear them.

Really the only way to handle this is to put your plane in a locked hanger or chain it to the ground with a lock and then pay for whatever flight tracker that will alert you whenever a specific tail number is in the air. Follow it and then call whatever local police when it lands.
by nafizh | 2025-08-08 18:41:10+00:00
I still haven't got access to GPT-5 (plus user in US), and I am not really super looking forward to it given I would lose access to o3. o3 is a great reasoning and planning model (better than Claude Opus in planning IMO and cheaper) that I use in the UI as well as through API. I don't think OpenAI should force users to an advanced model if there is not a noticeable difference in capability. But I guess it saves them money? Someone posted on X how giving access to only GPT-5 and GPT-5 thinking reduces a plus user's overall weekly request rate.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-08 18:41:53+00:00
From host to container: docker cp ./local/file.txt container:/app/

It's cruel to use the word container in a "cheatsheet" when it's actually a placeholder. Using ${container_id_or_name}:/app would make it more obvious and would actually error out if the user attempts to copy-paste

In the spirit of being helpful, this is also good fun (but I think it does require a copy of /bin/tar in the image):

tar -cf - my-dir my/file.txt | docker cp - ${container_id}:/my/dest/

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the "-e" also has two different syntaxes, depending on if one needs to rename the variable as it goes into the container:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID docker run -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID my.image # versus docker run -e AWS_KEY=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID my.image
by perlgeek | 2025-08-08 18:42:00+00:00
GPT-5 simply sucks at some things. The very first thing I asked it to do was to give me an image of knife with spiral damascus pattern, it gave me an image of such a knife, but with two handles at a right angle: https://chatgpt.com/share/689506a7-ada0-8012-a88f-fa5aa03474...

Then I asked it to give me the same image but with only one handle; as a result, it removed one of the pins from a handle, but the knife had still had two handles.

It's not surprising that a new version of such a versatile tool has edge cases where it's worse than a previous version (though if it failed at the very first task I gave it, I wonder how edge that case really was). Which is why you shouldn't just switch over everybody without grace period nor any choice.

The old chatgpt didn't have a problem with that prompt.

For something so complicated it doesn't surprise that a major new version has some worse behaviors, which is why I wouldn't deprecate all the old models so quickly.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-08 18:42:05+00:00
> AI is impressive

Ok, but Google's result summary got the answer wrong. So did Gemini, when I tried it (Lion, Sierra Leone). And so did ChatGPT when I tried it (Lion, Sri Lanka).

So... it's impressive, sure, because the author is correct that a search engine can't answer that question in a single query. But it's also wildly wrong.

I also vaguely agree with the author that Google Drive sucks, but I wish they'd mentioned that the solution to their problem - using search! - also fucking sucks in Google Drive.