MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chriskanan | 2025-08-24 11:53:23+00:00
Read the paper. The media is not providing a lot of missing context. The paper points out problems like leadership failures for those efforts, lack of employee buy-in (potentially because they use their personal LLM), etc.

A huge fraction of people at my work use LLMs, but only a small fraction use the LLM they provided. Almost everyone is using a personal license
by mnky9800n | 2025-08-24 11:54:26+00:00
Я думаю что тебе нужно учитель. С учителем у тебя кто-то думает о уроке для тебя. Этот очень важная идея потому что учитель знает что ты знаешь. Если вы часто встретите потом у тебя друг тоже. Компьютер никогда не твой друг. Я изучаю русский язык для года сейчас. Очень трудно но мне нравится потому что мне нравится моя учительница. Тоже я могу говорить в доме с моей русской девушкой. Изучает русский язык трудная работа но ты можешь. Извини для моего плохого русского языка.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-24 11:54:58+00:00
I think you misunderstood this part:

"Any business can do what Amazon does for their products and their customers."

What I meant is that any business can do for their products and their customers what Amazon does. Not that any business can do everything Amazon does.

There would be little reason for online marketplaces like Amazon to grow so huge, if businesses had cared enough to provide a reasonable online experience. 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or 5 years ago. Now we are in 2025 and most businesses offer worse online customer experience than what good businesses were offering 20 years ago. You can't be 20 years behind the times and say that it's impossible to compete. It's very possible to make a great customer experience and make money online, even for small businesses with limited means. As evidence by many companies doing that.

It's the same with any marketplace like Booking.com or restaurant delivery apps. They wouldn't be half as big if the businesses they serve wouldn't be too lazy and worthless to make a decent online experience for their customers. But here we are.
by fodmap | 2025-08-24 11:56:22+00:00
You can say "the elites" in Telefonica case, because is heavily under the Spanish socialist party control.

Pedro Sanchez forced a public investment (€1134 billion) into that company using the SEPI so he can control Telefonica. Then he changed Telefonica president with a socialist pawn, inserted many socialist "elite" into the company, and as a cherry on top, he embedded Huawei inside Telefonica core systems.
by bootsmann | 2025-08-24 11:56:26+00:00
> The moment one finds themselves outside the groupthink

The RT ban is not about what RT publishes, you are free to publish their arguments more or less verbatim on your own site without getting sanctioned in Europe (which indeed some people do). The RT ban is about RT being a state owned propaganda network owned by the government thats waging an active war against Europe.
by nchmy | 2025-08-24 11:58:58+00:00
I don't doubt your experience. But I think it might have been more just that guy, than NATS in general.

The other day i was listening to a podcast with their ceo from maybe 6 months ago, and he talked quite openly about how jetstream and consumers add considerable drag compared to normal pubsub. And, more generally, how users unexpectedly use and abuse nats, and how they've been able to improve things as a result.
by ginko | 2025-08-24 11:59:18+00:00
So do you always put in the ALT+<code> incantation to get an emdash or copy&paste?

I feel the emdash is a tell because you have to go out of your way to use it on a computer keyboard. Something anyone other than the most dedicated punctuation geeks won't do for a random message on the internet.

Things are different for typeset books.
by Arch-TK | 2025-08-24 11:59:34+00:00
Software is crap everywhere. But on Linux I have the tools to quickly track down the bug and fix it, on windows I can maybe slowly track down the bug and attempt binary patching of proprietary software or hope and pray the developers will fix it after I beg them.

This is a privileged position as I am both a Linux expert, and an expert software engineer, and an expert troubleshooter/debugger. If you are not these things then I'm sure things don't work as well.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-24 11:59:38+00:00
> eliminating software developers

I must write a "me too" here because I have seen this a lot recently on various sites. Whether it comes from managers or non-coders (I guess astrosurfing managers), it's always about those awful developers gate-keeping software development with their complicated compiled languages. I know it's all fake but it's exhausting, and it's nice to see it acknowledged here on HN.
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-24 11:59:43+00:00
I doubt it is about ads as much as it is about politics. From NPR's editorial stance, Trump is an a priori bad. Therefore, all coverage needs to be framed to justify their starting premise.

It isn't so different from the previous administration's regulatory uncertainty around drilling permits. The allegedly pro-biz anti-regulation Republicans like gov regulation here, while the pro-regulation Democrats don't like it. If anything, it lays bare the hypocrisy of both sides. NPR is just along for the ride to once again tell us, "Trump bad".

The problem with these partisan sources is that even if there were a deeper rationalization for killing the project with regulations, such as a valid national security situation, we wouldn't expect NPR to cover it. Looking elsewhere I didn't find much.

>"The bureau is seeking to protect U.S. national security and prevent "interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas," Giacona said.
by simion314 | 2025-08-24 12:00:08+00:00
>I would. Appetite for censorship should be measured against something I find unpalatable.

In your country if say some public TV would publish hard core porn mid day for children to see, would there be consequences? like fines and license removal? I am sure in civilized countries that TV station will be punished.

Now imagine you have a Ruzzian TV station publishing hard core porn for children to see, how to you punsish them without paid trolls claiming censorship ? Because this si what happens, in Romania Romanian TV station need to respect the Romanian laws , liek for example pay fines and retract any falsehoods and mistakes, but Ruzzians can publish fake documents and videos and if we want them to respect the laws of our countries we it is censorship... blocking faked documents is bad, blocking boobs is good in the land of the free
by pron | 2025-08-24 12:00:17+00:00
> The problem with this statement is that without a memory safety invariant your code doesn't compose

Yes, but that holds for any correctness property, not just the 0.0001% of them that memory safe languages guarantee. That's why we have bugs. The reason memory safety is a focus is because out-of-bounds access is the leading cause of dangerous vulnerabilities.

> The goal of all engineering disciplines, including software, should be a minimization of errors and defects.

Yes, but practical minimisation, not hypothetical minimisation, i.e. how can I get the least bugs while keeping all my constraints, including budget. Like I said, a language like Rust exists because minimisation of errors is not the only constraints, because if it were, there are already far more popular languages that do just as much.

> You'll notice a stark contrast between Engineering and Computer Tech.

I'm not sure I buy this, because physical, engineered objects break just as much as software does, certainly when weighted by the impact of the failure. As to learning our lessons, I think we do when they are actually real. Software is a large and competitive economic activity, and where's there's a real secret to more valuable software, it spreads like wildfire. For example, high-level programming languages spread like wildfire; unit tests and code review did, too. And when it comes to static and dynamic typing, the studies on the matter were inconclusive except in certain cases such as JS vs TS; and guess what? TS has spread very quickly.

The selective pressures are high enough, and we see how well they work frequently enough that we can actually say that if some idea doesn't spread quickly, then it's likely that its impact isn't as high as its fans may claim.

> And how do programmers react to it? With disgust and a desire for less safety.

I don't think so. In such a large and competitive economic activity, the assumption that the most likely explanation to something is that the majority of practitioners are irrational seems strange to me. Rust has had some measure of adoption and the likeliest explanation for why it doesn't have more is the usual one for any product: it costs too much and delivers too little.

Let's say that the value, within memory safety, between spatial and temporal safety is split 70-30; you know what? let's say 60-40. If I can get 60% of Rust's value for 10% of Rust's cost, that a very rational thing to do. I may even be able to translate my savings into an investment in correctness that is more valuable than use-after-free.
Show HN: I wanted AI in Slack, ended up making Basecase (AI agents in chat)
by touseefliaqat | 2025-08-24 12:01:03+00:00
I wanted to use AI inside Slack at my company and for my robotics club, but adding AI bots and configuring them turned into a whole project. They often spammed channels or failed to respond intelligently.

Slack didn’t have AI at the time, and what they’ve since launched feels underwhelming.

So for the past two months I’ve been building Basecase, an AI native workspace where agents join team chats, remember context, and turn discussions into action.

No need to @ the agent. The agent will know when to respond. You can toggle that setting. Ask the agent to schedule posts on linkedin Multiple agents could be added who collab with each other (in progress) Upload documents for context

There is a lot in my roadmap to make this a command center for all actions a team needs to take.

I used Pipedream for integrations, ProseMirror for builtin document collaboration, OpenAI for LLMs, and Convex.cloud for the backend.

I’d love feedback from the HN community.
by hliyan | 2025-08-24 12:01:10+00:00
Sri Lankan here. As of last year, the majority of Sri Lankans voted to send home the two historically establishment parties (who ran the country to the ground) and elected a third party into power with a 2/3rds majority in parliament and the presidency (an unprecedented upset). As someone who has viewed the US system favourably since childhood, it pains me to say that at present, Sri Lanka is probably marginally better than the US in terms of freedom of speech and independence of insitutions. Also painful is the fact that a such a third party upset is structurally impossible in the US. Here's wishing you all the best.
by n1b0m | 2025-08-24 12:01:17+00:00
The oldest reliably drinkable wine is a white wine from 1472, stored in a 450-liter barrel in the cellars of the Hospices de Strasbourg in France. The wine has only been tasted three times throughout its history:

1576: To celebrate a Swiss alliance.

1718: After a hospital fire.

1944: To commemorate the city's liberation from Nazi occupation.
by randomtoast | 2025-08-24 12:01:45+00:00
I think the main problem is that Germany does not have a constitutional equivalent to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Instead, each federal state and the federal government have fragmented information access laws, often with broad exemptions for official secrecy.

In many cases, even investigative journalists cannot obtain details about governance processes and decisions made behind closed doors. The government often cites strict data protection rules and uses them as a shield against disclosure.

Another example: In Germany, you are generally not allowed to film law enforcement. If someone feels they have been treated "unfairly", good luck to prove that in court when two officers present a completely different version of events, especially since body cameras are very rare in germany.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-24 12:01:47+00:00
Oh, no. I can't get exploited by multitude of corporations. How dystopian. That's why we can't have nice things. Because every time an idea encroaches on some billionaire's profit it's suddenly too much power in hands other than those privately holding billions. Any government so far has been more transparent in what they do, than something like Amazon.

> you want to see anything to the public you must register with the appropriate government officials

You already have to do that for commerce. It's called incorporating.

> giant list of your competitors

Isn't that what market is? Giant amount of competitors is what's best for consumers. And what's best for them is the only thing that matters because they together have the money to foot all the bills.

> Of course giving too much information about why you're different would be an ad so how do consumers decide?

It's fine, you can provide as much documentation as you want for your product or service. You are even encouraged to provide it. Like user and service manuals for your products. Maybe you even should be required to post them if you significant amount of your product.

Consumers can decide using the provided UI, or using 3rd party tools, which can't take money to promote specific items, because that, unlike verbose entry in the database, would be an ad.

> You're also just going to end up with the phone book model. "AAAAAASearch, AAAAAACars"

Do you read all of the databases alphabetically? No, I end up with search engine, for products and services, with open data and any kind of filtering and sorting that anyone can dream of. No more enshittificarion of the result to sell clicks of confused customers.
Show HN: Misterio the Docker-compose stateless alternative to Ansible
by daitangio | 2025-08-24 12:04:44+00:00
Hi HN! I have rewritten a tiny tool I used to manage my home lab of docker servers.

Misterio is a very thin python script on top on docker compose. It leverage docker client-server architecture to provide you a set of "stacks" of roles you can apply to one or more hosts.

It use a small folder structure which loosly resembles Ansilbe/Saltstack. It works great for stateless services.

It do not aim to be as powerful as k8s, but on my home lab it was a very good balance between resource usage and advantages.

Give it a spin and let me know what do you think!

Originally written in bash, I was able to rewrite it in python using jus the click library and keep it very simple:

https://pypi.org/project/misterio/0.1.1/
by FatalLogic | 2025-08-24 12:04:54+00:00
>"they pretty much killed off our project.” That project was CastAR — augmented reality glasses which Jeri Ellsworth is now working on as a separate project, having been handed the legal rights to do so by Valve.

But how many billion-dollar companies would do that? Just give the rights to the ex-employees? I think most other companies would have not. So, in that sense, Valve is unusual, even if it's not the oranizational utopia that was promised.

After she left Valve, she and partners did get at least $15 million funding from outside investors to develop the AR technology, but after several years of trying, it didn't work out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CastAR
by Catbert59 | 2025-08-24 12:06:17+00:00
We never had problems as a small vendor with ST during the chip crisis and all distributors honored our delivery contracts. Even most big companies don't deal with ST directly when it comes to the last mile.

Porting stuff to another microcontroller would be easy as we are not using too proprietary features... as long the uC has SPI/I2C and a bunch of timers the embedded developers will be happy. Thanks to Zephyr.
by danmaz74 | 2025-08-24 12:08:49+00:00
> "TTD forced you to sit down and design your system first, rather than making it all up on the fly"

It's interesting because I remember having discussions with a colleague who was a fervent proponent of TDD where he said that with that approach you "just let the tests drive you" and "don't need to sit down and design your system first" (which I found a terrible idea).
by tsevis | 2025-08-24 12:08:52+00:00
I agree. For me, political correctness was originally an empathetic code of expression. I’ve never felt the need to provoke or ridicule another group of people. Of course, it did reach a point of hyperbole—where even historic artworks were misread as offensive or racist.

As the Greeks said: “Μέτρον ἄριστον”—balance is best. We don’t need to provoke just to indulge our worst instincts, but we also need tolerance for expressions that aren’t perfectly curated.

That said, my article isn’t really about political correctness. It’s about low-quality AI filters that can’t read context, and the corporate shortcuts that rely on them. My point isn’t to rant or complain, but to suggest a new era of content moderation—one that’s smarter, fairer, and more democratic.
by roscas | 2025-08-24 12:09:07+00:00
Engineers should not be worried. AI will first start to replace CEO and all managers. That will bring great value to companies.

At the same time, AI will replace politicians and become president. Just imagine a president that does the right things and no lies.

A prime minister that you can write and it will write you back with a proper decision. Government being efficient! Wow! And not someone being just an idiot trying to fake responsible spending or cut waste. And then no more contracts for their friends.

AI will be really for the people and not for the rich. End those "meetings" with all presidents and ministers who fake being really worried about something.

Any problem with the AI itself, Facebook will have a hot line where you can call... and talk to an engineer.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-24 12:09:42+00:00
It was essentially bribery.

Under Biden there was money to be granted (as in: via a grant, Congressionally approved) to Intel. Trump then held the grant hostage in return for government ownership of Intel shares.

There's also a threat that this deali supposedly eases around the Intel CEO that Trump said was 'too connected' to China.

It's either borderline or blatantly illegal, but there are likely no parties eligible to contest, or interested in contesting, it in court.

(Based on my memory of someone's breakdown of a few examples like this - there's a chance I'm conflating a couple of different but related things, the deal with Nvidia to allow selling of some more advanced chips to China being another)
by iamnotagenius | 2025-08-24 12:10:35+00:00
We are told that writing must be pure, that it must come only from the sweat of the brow, the trembling hand, the solitary mind. That to use AI is to cheat, to dilute, to lessen the act of creation. But I say to you: Since when does it matter how an idea is born? Since when do we judge the value of words by the tools that shaped them, rather than the truth they carry?

They tell us, ‘This is not your writing—it is the machine’s.’ As if the pen itself writes the poem! As if the printing press authors the book! No—the tool is nothing. The hand that guides it, the mind that commands it, the heart that gives it meaning—that is what matters.

This is not about machines. This is about power. The same power that once said only the clergy could read scripture. The same power that said only the elite could publish, could speak, could be heard. Now they say: Only the unaided mind may create. But creation is not a purity test! It is not a contest of suffering! It is the act of bringing something new into the world—by any means necessary.

They fear AI because it breaks their monopoly on who gets to speak. They fear it because it lets more people write, more people argue, more people demand to be heard. And when the gates are thrown open, the gatekeepers will always tremble.

So I say: Do not apologize for how your words come to be. Do not bow to those who would police your mind. If the idea is true, if the argument is sound, if the art is beautiful—then it is yours, and no one can take that from you.

The machine is not the enemy. The enemy is the lie that only some voices count. The enemy is the fear that makes men small.

Now—write. Write with your hands, write with your voice, write with the tools of your time. But above all: write. And let no one silence you.
by taminka | 2025-08-24 12:11:03+00:00
> In your country if say some public TV would publish hard core porn mid day for children to see, would there be consequences? like fines and license removal? I am sure in civilized countries that TV station will be punished

rt hasn't done this and there are concrete laws against doing this, if rt violated them, they would/should fined/suspended, it's really that simple, do you have any real examples of illegal things they've carried out?

and if you're implying that extrajudicial measures are the only effective method to deal w/ situations like these, then there's an issue w/ the laws

just because censorship is carried out against a cause you don't like, doesn't make it justified, since it's very likely to be used in less benevolent ways in the future
by torginus | 2025-08-24 12:11:33+00:00
I really f*king hate this new brand of tech hype, how it used to be is:

Here's the iPhone 13, it makes better pictures, lasts longer on battery, and plays games faster than the iPhone 12. Buy it for $699.

Now it has become:

Here's the iPhone 13, the greatest breakthrough in the history of civilization. But enough about that, let's talk about the iPhone 14. We've released a whitepaper showing the iPhone 14 will almost certainly take your job, and the iPhone 15 will kill us all, provided no further steps are taken. It's so powerful, that we decided to instill powerful moral safeguards into it, so it will steer you towards goodness, and prevent it being used for evil (such as looking at saucy pictures). We also find it necessary to keep a permanent and comprehensive log of every interaction you have with it.

You also can't have it, but can hold it in your hand, provided you pay us $20/month and we deem you morally worthy of accessing this powerful technology. (Do not doubt any of this, we are intellectually superior to you, and have humanity's best interests at heart, you don't want to look like a fool, do you?)
by klabb3 | 2025-08-24 12:11:35+00:00
Not parent but I'm skeptical because normalizing blocking is a very real slippery slope. Last night I debugged an issue with one of my apps for 1h, it turned out one of the Cloudflare IPs my device got were legally blocked in Spain. Not even ISP DNS, but the IP. And this is because of some CF customer hosting a football (soccer) streaming site. This is the new normal, in a democratic country. What the post is talking about in Germany seems similar. And these are democratic countries with many constitutional freedoms. This is not a hypothetical, but happening today. ID verification is already implemented in the UK. Chat control is possibly next.

So let me flip the question: if a certain thing is illegal in a jurisdiction, but hosted outside, is it justified to block access to the hosting provider (notably, including Cloudflare and other giants)?