MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nothrabannosir | 2025-08-14 17:54:58+00:00
By any chance did you manage to get branch protection rules working neatly in this paradigm? Ideally I’d like any CI to be re-run as necessary and the branch to be automatically merged if review was approved and its base became master, but I never got a completely hands free setup working. Maybe a skill issue though.

Basically if I have five stacked PRs, and the newest four get an approval, I want everything to stay in place no merges. Then when the base (oldest) PR gets approved, I’d like the PRs to all get merged, separately , one after the other, without further interaction from me.

Does GitHub’s merge queue implementation support that?
by mhitza | 2025-08-14 17:55:06+00:00
This sounds to be in the same area as their post on the OCaml forum last year https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/a-next-generation-ide-for-ocaml/... , though it seems they are going for a natural language approach instead of something like AST editing (which is what I had in mind when reading their original outreach message).
by lern_too_spel | 2025-08-14 17:55:16+00:00
Your "extensive" Pew analysis has error bars of +/- 10% for the Asian groups and certainly doesn't show "over 40%" but something that rounds to 40%. Other exit polls all show less than 40%.

It's great that you haven't experienced racial discrimination. This hasn't been the experience of people applying for housing at Trump properties.

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/117470/documents/...

> In practice, the people who draw attention to my skin color in embarrassing and demeaning ways are white liberals.

Explain to me how putting up Confederate monuments is so we don't "erase history" but removing historical notes about Native Americans, not mentioning a holiday celebrating freedom for all Americans except to disparage it, and removing information about Trump's impeachment is not. I'd like to understand any other explanation than that Trump and his supporters don't see Native Americans or black Americans as "real" Americans, which is what people mean when they use the word "dehumanizing." Is there any other way to explain it than by using skin color? That is why "white liberals" (why are you bringing their skin color into it) bring it up — the only reasonable explanation involves skin color. Nobody in this thread is suggesting that anybody build an identity around it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-restoring-confederate-nam...

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5444429-racist-monu...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juneteenth-trump-too-many-non-w...

https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monum...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/smit...
by jklein11 | 2025-08-14 17:55:29+00:00
You're right that stagflation shows the Fed can’t fix supply shocks with interest rates alone, but calling it “Reagan stagflation” and blaming austerity doesn't quite pass muster to me. The 1970s mess was mostly caused by oil shocks and entrenched inflation. The Volcker rate hikes (and Reagan’s early years) were the painful cleanup, not the cause.
by gilbetron | 2025-08-14 17:55:30+00:00
I agree 100% with you. I'm most excited about LLMs because they seem to capture at least some aspect of intelligence, and that's amazing given how much long it took to get here. It's exciting that we don't just understand it.

I see people say, "LLMs aren't human intelligence", but instead, I really feel that it shows that many people, and much of what we do, probably is like an LLM. Most people just hallucinate their way through a conversation, they certainly don't reason. Reasoning is incredibly rare.
by simonw | 2025-08-14 17:55:49+00:00
Good call, I'm trying that one just now in LM Studio (by clicking "Use this model -> LM Studio" on https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it-GGUF and selecting the F16 one).

(It did not do noticeably better at my pelican test).

Actually it's worse than that, several of my attempts resulted in infinite loops spitting out the same text. Maybe that GGUF is a bit broken?
by ummonk | 2025-08-14 17:56:03+00:00
You mean like UConn Stamford?

Deepki was created in 2015. Deepkit was created in 2018.

Deepki is an ESG company that has nothing to do with Typescript server frameworks (i.e. Deepkit).

There's no confusion when searching the names, and there's no confusion when pronouncing them either - "Deepki" ends in a long ee sound while "Deepkit" uses the short i sound followed by a t.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-14 17:56:18+00:00
This primate spends plenty of time in the digital darkroom, more than I spend at the actual events whether I am looking at the best 10% or 1%. I color grade everything and almost always make local adjustments -- I find color graded flower photos are hugely crowd pleasing and for sports a lot of student athletes have the beauty of youth but also really bad acne not just on their face but on their legs and for every event I develop a LUT which handles issues like that not too mention everything from neon-colored sports gear and green foliage that can be too saturated if not entirely out-of-gamut while still keeping the jersey colors recognizable.

My last 3 years of photography really started when I got a "free" inkjet printer and realized it would dry out if I didn't use it regularly and challenged myself to make a print every day and realized it couldn't just be anime girls from danbooru so that program was hungry for images and dragged me kicking and screaming into photography

https://www.behance.net/gallery/232344867/Life-is-Better-Wit...

and as much as people like to bitch about the ink mafia, the performance of digital inkjet printing for the price is off the chart, my materials cost for 13x19 prints is well under $2 a page.
by olkingcole | 2025-08-14 17:56:19+00:00
Fundamentally tying the OS to the cloud and AI makes me think this is really a pretense to move windows to a subscription model, and likely to end data privacy on windows as we know it, paving the way for ad supported OS. Two huge wins for their shareholders and upper execs. I think whether these features a good idea for users, are wanted by anyone, or if they will even work remotely like they are pitching it, is all incidental to achieving the two goals above. Just my guess though.
by _swfb | 2025-08-14 17:56:33+00:00
As it stands I don't really think I'm putting on an act during interviews. I am a very bad liar and if I lie people can tell almost immediately so generally I tend to be pretty brutally honest, and my personality more or less shines through there.

I don't really want to put on an act, I guess I'm asking for more "how do you present forward the more positive parts of your personality and quiet the bad parts during an interview?"

I acknowledge there is still some dishonesty in that, my personality is a package deal, good and bad, but I do think that most of my coworkers end up liking me after they get to know me.
by bitwize | 2025-08-14 17:56:40+00:00
I remember a couple of (grayhat? oops, colored hats have "social history" and are verboten to speak of, like the "master" branch in git[0]) security researchers who developed a Scheme runtime and VM for malware payloads called Wasp. The skeevy 2000s adware company Direct Revenue also used TinyScheme.

[0] https://www.aswf.io/blog/inclusive-language/
by rayiner | 2025-08-14 17:56:50+00:00
> I definitely see your point around a lot of people trying to be so inclusive, they end up being somewhat racist.

But it’s not inclusiveness at all, it’s a caste system. In academic liberal spaces, non-whites are not “included” on the same terms as whites. We are bucketed into a separate caste subject to different standards and expectations. And that caste system plays out in routine social interactions, because white people afraid of being called “racist” will not treat you the same.

Calling it “heritage” instead of identity doesn’t change anything. Your average second-generation non-white American has weak ties to any non-american society. My kids have no meaningful ties to Bangladeshi society, only superficial ones. They can’t, and they wouldn’t even like it if they did. So the only outcome of talking to them about their “heritage” would be to encourage them to see themselves differently from their peers based on connections that are at best superficial.

As to your point about “banning”—we’re not banning the book club. This law is about school libraries. People are voting for what kind of ideas their children are socialized into, which is one of the fundamental rights as a parent.
by laurencerowe | 2025-08-14 17:57:05+00:00
Though like AmigaOS, Windows 95/98/ME still lacked memory protection. It wasn't until Windows 2000 brought NT to the mainstream that memory protection became common, and probably Windows XP until it became ubiquitous after 98/ME stopped being shipped on lower spec home PCs.

Interesting to wonder what an alternative timeline would have looked like where Acorn used QNX instead of trying to build ARX (the Mach microkernel based system abandoned for Arthur.)

ARM had memory management from the outset, but memory was too expensive to consider anything like unix for the base systems (the alternative RISC iX BSD derived OS required 4MB.) And the context switching overhead would probably have made the desktop experience worse even if they could afford the memory.
by bnewbold | 2025-08-14 17:57:06+00:00
hundreds (thousands?) of users have signed up for Bluesky Social, then moved their accounts to independent hosts. folks can use https://zeppelin.social/ as a totally free-standing bluesky posting experience that interoperates with the full network.

Bluesky Social still clearly dominates the ecosystem, but there is no single component of the system that does not have a open/alternative option for exit.

Do you disagree? Is there a specific centralized component you take issue with?
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-08-14 17:57:27+00:00
>Empathize with what?

Empathize with someone having the same degree of passion towards what they do at work and what they do outside of work.

>Replace all of this job-passion with the fantasy of winning enough millions in the lottery to retire and yeah, there you go. People already fantasize about that.

This is the exact opposite sentiment. People desire endless amount of free time (e.g. retirement) specifically because it lets them spend all of their time pursuing passions that no employer is willing to pay for. Their job is not one of those passions, and it is hard for them to imagine a world in which that could possibly be the case.

While most of my passions would not make for a very lucrative career, one of my passions happens to be solving scientific computing problems I find cool, and I have been very lucky that several employers have been willing to pay good sums of money for me to pursue that passion.
by threecheese | 2025-08-14 17:57:30+00:00
Reviewing the prompts, looks like you are using this CAS tool as a global context data manager, supporting primarily a code use case. There are a number of extant MCP-capable code understanding tools (Serena and others), but what I am lacking in my CLI toolchain is non-code memory. You even called this out in another thread, mentioning task management- I find that the type of memory I need is not scoped to a code module, but an agent session - specifically to the orchestration of many agent sessions. What we have today are techniques, using a bunch of hacked together context files for sessions (tasks.md, changes.md), for agents (roles.md), for tech (architecture.md), etc etc, hoping that our prompts guide the agent to use them, and this is IMO a natural place for some abstraction over memory that can provide rigor.

I am observing in my professional (non-Claude Max) life that context is a real limiter, from both the “too much is confusing the agent” and “I’m hitting limits doing basic shit” perspectives (looking at you, Bedrock and Github), and having a tool that will help me give an agent only what it needs would be really valuable. I could do more with the tools, spend less time trying to manually intervene, and spend less of my token budget.
by klipklop | 2025-08-14 17:57:31+00:00
I don’t buy what this article is selling. For the average person in the US you are not “free” from having to work until you have a 100% paid off home.

Older Americans are not leaving their paid off 3/2bed in the burbs in exchange for a condo that has rent costs go up 10% every year. Every single older person I know with a paid off house won’t move because it will be dramatically more expensive than what they pay now for way less housing.
by dathinab | 2025-08-14 17:57:32+00:00
> I can’t imagine anyone at Meta, a company full of smart people in the bay area, actually wanted to work with people like that?

You mean except their boss which has a long history with having problematic idea and just learned to not say it publicly?

I have been staying away from Meta because I think of Zuck as a dangerous ideologist with money since ~10+ years (through not anit-LBTGQ specific). I'm not surprised at all.
by Paul_Clayton | 2025-08-14 17:57:42+00:00
Most parts of the liturgy are teaching. Scripture readings might compare with text book reading; the Lord's Prayer and other formulaic recitations are often taken from Scripture.

The eucharist is more "ritual" than "overt teaching" but it is meant to call to mind one loaf -> one body and the cost of forgiveness.

The earlier poster's point was more "with similar goals in mind" (i.e., "to create a shared understanding of the world, a nation") rather than emphasizing the mechanism (I think). "Marketable skills" is different from social/civic skills/responsibility.
by quantified | 2025-08-14 17:57:44+00:00
Just like LLM coding has massive problems with code security and general bugginess, LLM legal analysis and synthesis is (and will be) plagued with BS: incorrect findings, hallucinated citations, and so on. The client will bear the court's wrath when the contract is invalidated or pleadings are dicovered to be BS. There is no legal sanction for crap software. There is for crap legalese.

It's tempting to go after the law, but for anything important, you need an actual human brain. Fallible as it is, it's not just a pattern-predictor, it has a world model and understands people.

Could shake out rather like coding, where senior attorneys review and debug LLM output while junior positions wither.

I say that with no love for, or contempt for, the legal profession.
by Sesse__ | 2025-08-14 17:57:46+00:00
The fastest way of doing a heap I've found is generally: Don't. For many of the relevant operations (graph search, merging streams, etc.), you can do just as well with a winner-tree; it can usually be updated branch-free with min/max operations, whereas with a heap you'll usually have completely unpredictable branches for every single operation.

A winner-tree, or its counterpart the loser-tree (for min instead of max), is a very simple binary tree: Bottom layer is all your values (2^N of them). The layer above that is the highest of pairs of values. The layer above that is the highest of pairs of pairs. And so on, until you get to the top of the tree, which contains the largest value. Updating a value is trivial; you overwrite the relevant one at the bottom, and then run exactly log2(n) max operations upwards until the you hit the root. Inserting and deleting may, of course, be more complicated.
by astrange | 2025-08-14 17:57:47+00:00
What is "value" here?

If you value being able to purchase a specific good X, and they stop making it, then you now don't have currency capable of buying it. Doesn't matter what kind of currency it is.

If you're using value in dollar value, that asset has the price behavior it does because we live in a stable economy with central banks, 2% inflation targeting and so on. You haven't seen the alternative because you'd be on the street.

What you want is TIPS bonds.
by sharathr | 2025-08-14 17:58:24+00:00
Palisade works by utilizing dozens of specialized research backed security validators that work together to validate models across different formats (GGUF, SafeTensors, Pickle etc.,) and model families (BERT, Llama etc.,) for things like backdoor detection, supply chain vulnerabilities in the model files and model metadata. Any hidden embedded tool-calling logic can be activated by specific triggers which can be detected through a combination of static scan, schema analysis, trigger & instruction detection in models.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-14 17:58:24+00:00
I mean, true independent journalism started off as a blue collar job.

The journalists who drove the Muckraker movement [0] were a mix of self taught and state school grads who worked for newspapers like McClure and the World which were founded by hardscrabble immigrants [1][2] who were educated in a nontraditional background.

Fundamentally, journalism back in the day was a calling that could only be learned by doing, and the modern "BA-to-MA-to-Local-to-National" pipeline is an aberration.

Ironically, the more charged, polarized, and independent news blogs are closer to "original" Muckraker journalism than centralized institutions like a NYT or a CNN.

Imo, an apprentice driven model coupled with part-time college would probably help solve the journalism pipeline issue.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._McClure

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer
by adonovan | 2025-08-14 17:59:11+00:00
LLMs are writing <1% of my code. I find it demoralizing to hear Google VPs endlessly boosting the end of programming as a job when the products fall so very far short of the extraordinary claims. It’s frankly insulting, and it must be terrifying for junior engineers.

I expect a massive bubble burst and recession in the next year or so, but honestly I cannot wait. I fear it will be quite a while before hiring picks up again, unfortunately.

I keep thinking of a friend in finance in pre-crash 2008 who could see the emperor had no clothes but was derided by his enthusiastic coworkers every time he opened his mouth.
by cco | 2025-08-14 17:59:59+00:00
Just tried it out, interesting product!

I can foresee it being useful when I write documentation, e.g. given an existing repo and my new guide, can the AI agent implement said feature? Does it fumble?

I only got one run it looks like for free and it was successful so I can't see what would happen if it failed. Curious what sort of feedback it provides on failure.
Show HN: Added visuals to my 1-second neural network generator
by briancr | 2025-08-14 18:00:00+00:00
This website is for newbies to machine learning, and I’ve found the graphics really help to demystify what exactly the model is doing. I’m considering applying this to helping high school robotics teams incorporate ML into their programming.

This URL does supervised training, but there’s also a page for unsupervised training:

https://cdeeply.com/tabular_encoding.html

Any feedback would be most welcome! (URL -> Generate Random Data -> Submit to try it out).
by biophysboy | 2025-08-14 18:00:06+00:00
>Robby Starbuck, a former music video director turned failed congressional candidate and MAGA Republican pundit, is the face of the right’s anti-DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) movement in its self-imposed ‘War on Woke’.

Trillion to one odds that "bias advisor" will be his third career failure. What's he going to do, look at every token? Rubber stamp the RL-HF?
by troad | 2025-08-14 18:00:07+00:00
By your logic, the 1950s should then have been a high point of human freedom and flourishing, no? Yup, those famously progressive *checks notes* nineteen-fifties.

In reality, the ECHR was effectively toothless before the 1990s. It's no coincidence you single out dates in the 1990s in both this and your earlier post. It's no coincidence virtually every major bit of leading European human rights jurisprudence is dated from the 90s onwards. It's no coincidence that there was a marked growth in state- and quasi-state institutions in the 1990s. There is an obvious pre-90s and 90s-onwards era of European human rights jurisprudence.

But you already knew this. You yourself correctly singled out the 1990s! You're just trying to hand-wave points you don't like with an argument to authority (and a very strange one, given the authority appears to be... children? And their understanding of the periodisation of human rights jurisprudence? Maybe we should consult European toddlers for their take on the œuvre of Montesquieu, just to make sure we're not missing anything?)

It's kind of striking to observe you reject my point that the human rights narrative is just a story that Europeans tell themselves, on the apparent grounds that that criticism doesn't jibe with the story that Europeans tell their children about Europe. This kind of makes my point.

So long as Europeans cling to fictitious narratives about their having transcended history into some kind of human rights nirvana, they will remain unable to push back on the actual, real decay of their freedoms and societies. Which is the desired outcome as far as elite institutions are concerned, so expect that narrative to be roundly enforced within Europe.

Hashtag celebrating seventy years of the ECHR! So much freedom - insert face here, thank you!
by hinkley | 2025-08-14 18:01:20+00:00
Vernor Vinge has a story line where humans build their own portable chess computers and utilize them as assistants in human chess matches.

I still think this would be kinda cool. I could see a tournament providing the power source in addition to the chess clock. Then gamesmanship where you play moves you hope are expensive for the opponent but not for your own AI.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-14 18:01:31+00:00
All of this.

I shoot more film today than digital. I like the process more. The shots cost real $, so I'm more thoughtful about what I capture. The cameras[1] are mechanical art and feel good to use. I look forward to the delayed satisfaction due to off-site processing. The results might not be "pixel perfect" but photography rarely is... I prefer the slightly less perfect aesthetic - the grain, the slight miss on color, etc.

But, I also shoot Polaroid, so I might just be a hipster who lacks self-awareness. ;)

1 - Olympus 35DC, Olympus 35RD, and Canon Demi EE-17 for film. Olympus E-M5 and Pen E-P5 for mirrorless. Polaroid Go for instant.
Show HN: Gave Cursor "Vision" with MCP
by yelarys | 2025-08-14 18:01:56+00:00
I built an MCP server that connects Browserbase’s Stagehand with Cursor, automated by Playwright, running inside Chromium — all from within the IDE.

Why it’s interesting:

-Cursor can see the UI it just created

-It can run automated checks instantly

-The AI feedback loop is nearly instant

Demo: https://x.com/yelaryss/status/1956045560131051856
by _swfb | 2025-08-14 18:01:59+00:00
This company doesn't have fifteen employees so I don't think I'd have much recourse regardless, but it was over the phone and it wasn't recorded. It would be my word against theirs. I did end up reporting them to the NYC Department of Labor, though.

Of course, they were just the ones stupid enough to be honest about it. I have no idea how many jobs I've been declined for where they just gave me a generic form letter.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-14 18:02:07+00:00
> Twitter/X is just like every other social network - follow the topics that interest you and you will get good content.

Can’t agree here. I barely use Xitter any more because even when being selective about topics it’s still unsettlingly common to see blue checks showing up in the top of the replies posting some of the most vile things I’ve seen on the publicly accepted internet without the slightest hint of irony.