MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Janito 2.32.0: DeepSeek R1 and 128K context support
by joaompinto | 2025-08-21 14:11:55+00:00
Janito 2.32.0 adds DeepSeek V3.1 and R1 models with full 128K context window support. This is a big deal for developers working with large codebases - you can now analyze entire projects in a single prompt.

Key changes:

• DeepSeek V3.1 & R1 integration • 128K context window (up from previous limits) • Improved image handling • Release automation fixes

The 128K context window is particularly useful for code review, refactoring, and understanding legacy systems. Instead of chunking files, you can feed entire directories to the model.

Install: pip install janito==2.32.0

Source: GitHub
by bob1029 | 2025-08-21 14:13:12+00:00
> For example, the United States has not required the disclosure of beneficial ownership information for establishing corporations (violating rec. 24) until recently.

I worked on a front line product for US banks and built a process to verify beneficial ownership for business account openings. I found the current expectations to be laughable:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/30/2022-21...

> An individual may be a beneficial owner of a reporting company by indirectly holding 25 percent or more of the ownership interests of the reporting company through multiple exempt entities.

Getting around this is not very difficult if you are clever and wealthy.

The overall takeaway I had was that these kinds of rules don't really work in the cases where they need to the most. I don't know how much of a deterrent this could ever hope to be. We even developed an override process for this based on a request from one of our clients.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-21 14:13:23+00:00
The idea of a supermarket or department store is kinda “new-ish” (on some historical level), right? Like it is a post 1900 invention I think. Before this, most stores were full service. You go up to a merchant in the bazaar, or the grocer behind his stall, with a list, and they go into the inventory to grab the stuff for you.

The innovation of having customers grab their own stuff without supervision was required for all these massive super stores.

We shouldn’t compare the status quo of self-service with some shoplifting to an imaginary ideal of self-service with no shoplifting. We should compare it against the actual alternative of stores bottlenecked by clerks that can only serve one customer at a time (or at least stores small enough that a clerk can watch everybody doing their self-service). You have to pay those clerks!

Stealing is wrong. But some loss is a cost of doing business. People shouldn’t get irrationally obsessed about it, to the point where they think society is crumbling or whatever. Or make LP so annoying that they scare off normal customers.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-21 14:13:25+00:00
Other than the cost of the car (which is going to hold its value for decades) & its fees, how is this anywhere near decadent if someone with some money likes to travel this way?

Wherein lies the harm?

People spend more on higher end RVs, burning more fuel, wheels & wear.

This is nowhere near the league of anything that travels through the air with a hint of luxury.
by mullingitover | 2025-08-21 14:15:00+00:00
> And what reason do you have to believe this?

I didn’t say the article was lying, I said it uncritically reported only one side of the story.

This is an agribusiness news site. Do you think that they’re out here looking for an honest to god scoop about labor abuses? Do you think that if they found them, they’d make a front page story about it?
by dmd | 2025-08-21 14:15:03+00:00
I think you're reading more into this than I meant. For example, today:

[todo/home] clean air filters [todo/home] take out trash [todo/home] refill [daughter]'s medication [work] 9:30 meeting with [person] [home] 10:30 doctor appt @ 313 river [home] 11:30 [daughter] dropoff at middle school orientation [work] 13:45 meeting with [person] [home] 16:00 [daughter] cello lesson [todo/work] 16:45 check if zpool is done resilvering [home] 19:30 ?outdoor contradance @ c?

I cannot imagine how people operate without a calendar. How would you remember a half dozen or dozen things, every day, some of which might have been scheduled weeks or months in advance?
by closewith | 2025-08-21 14:16:08+00:00
You're just plain wrong. You can enforce compliance - a police state - but it inevitably worsens outcomes for both people who commit crimes and their victims.

But that isn't a high-trust society. In fact a high trust society requires minimal formal policing by definition (and a _lot_ of informal policing by parents, families, friends, and communities).

High-trust societies aren't without their problems, too, as trust is regularly abused.
by runarberg | 2025-08-21 14:16:32+00:00
the post on genocide.vs is almost two years old. Shaun Maguire’s speech has only gotten worse since. NYT took up that story when his speech started targeting a particular American Politician with his racist Islamophobia. Go to Shaun Maguire’s twitter profile, scroll down e.g. to his May’s tweets before he became so obsessed with being racist against Mamdani, along the way you will find plenty of tweets e.g. the Pallywood conspiracy theory, and plenty of other genocide denial/justification, intermixed with his regular Islamophobia. Just see for your self.
by dahart | 2025-08-21 14:16:45+00:00
> a heavier aeroplane … is actually safer

Just to nitpick your nitpick, that’s only true up to a point, and the range of safe weights isn’t all that big really - max payload on most planes is a fraction of the empty weight. And planes can be overweight, reducing weight is a good thing and perhaps needed far more often than adding weight is needed. The point of the analogy was that over a certain weight, the plane doesn’t fly at all. If progress on a plane is safety, stability, or speed, we can measure those things directly. If weight distribution is important to those, that’s great we can measure weight and distribution in service of stability, but weight isn’t the primary thing we use.

Like with airplane weight, you absolutely need some code to get something done, and sometimes more is better. But is more better as a rule? Absolutely not.
by nyeah | 2025-08-21 14:17:18+00:00
Yep. It's the ancient "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" and "pick your battles" ideas. Everyone has always been amazed how powerful those can be.

Agreed, often enough these stupid "imperatives" are bad for profits, and even bad for the career of the top person who's kind of driving them.

Catch-22 is a good book to read, if you want to understand how large organizations work. You'd think it might be dated, but I'm not so sure. It's also funny.
by hollerith | 2025-08-21 14:17:21+00:00
>Even so called security guards want no part of trash bag man because there is a high chance of violence and most humans do not want to engage with that.

There are plenty of reliable young men who enjoy engaging in violence and will take low-paid jobs in store security. (There are many more who don't actively enjoy it, but don't mind engaging in it and consider being competent at violence an important part of being a man.)

The pharmacy gives its security guards instruction not to use violence because they don't want to get sued when a guard seriously injures a thief: it is impossible at the scale of a chain of stores to subdue and detain thieves without some risk of killing some thief or seriously injuring him.
by dillydogg | 2025-08-21 14:17:32+00:00
It's crazy to me that these companies are essentially holding up the stock market, but are hemorrhaging money on buying GPUs. The magnificent 7 have spent $560 billion of capital expenditures between 2024 and 2025 leading to $35 billion of revenue, and zero profit. It feels like a complete house of cards to me. No one has made any profit on AI.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-08-21 14:17:47+00:00
> Observe that nothing amazing has really come out

I wouldn't say so. The problem is rather that some actually successful applications of such AI models are not what companies like Meta want to be associated with. Think into directions like AI boyfriend/girlfriend (a very active scene, and common usage of locally hosted LLMs), or roleplaying (in a very broad sense). For such applications, it matters a lot less if in some boundary cases the LLM produces strange results.

If you want to get an impression of such scenes, google "character.ai" (roleplaying), or for AI boyfriend/girlfriend have a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-21 14:18:18+00:00
That would be the desired effect for those seeking to enter the real estate market for the first time, but it would be disastrous for those who took out mortgages in the last few years, and it would be unwelcome to those who owned their homes longer and consider it a large (or only) asset in their personal wealth. I doubt that real estate prices will be allowed to drop much, simply because homeowners vote more reliably than renters, and they won't vote against their own financial interests.
by starkrights | 2025-08-21 14:18:18+00:00
The zed blog has an early post[0] talking some about their decision. Mainly just decrying their experience of impossible-to-meet timing deadlines for something as basic as 60fps on electron.

It doesnt really do a tech breakdown of why it’d be impossible CPU side, but mentions a couple of things about their design process for it.

[0]: https://zed.dev/blog/videogame
by smjburton | 2025-08-21 14:18:35+00:00
This is an interesting find OP and could help people transition from Docker to Podman (especially if they're used to deploying with Docker-Compose).

I think the better long-term approach though is to use systemd user units for deployment, or the more modern approach of using Podman Quadlets. There's a bit of a learning curve, but these approaches are more native to the Podman platform, and learning how systemd services work is a great skill to have.
by koliber | 2025-08-21 14:18:57+00:00
Each one of us has a mental toolbox that we use to solve problems. There are many more tools that we don’t have in our heads that we can look up if we know how.

The bigger your mental toolbox the more effective you will be at solving the problems. Looking up a tool and learning just enough to use it JIT is much slower than using a handy tool that you already masterfully know how to use.

This is as true for physical tools as for programming concepts like algorithms and data structures. In the worst case you won’t even know to look for a tool and will use whatever is handy, like the proverbial hammer.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-21 14:19:44+00:00
Well, yes but the other 90%+ just need to get a job out of college to support their addiction to food and shelter not to be a “better citizen of the world” unless they have parents to subsidize their livelihood either through direct transfers of money or by letting them stay at home.

I told both of my (step)sons that I would only help them pay for college or trade school - their choice - if they were getting a degree in something “useful”. Not philosophy, not Ancient Chinese Art History etc.

I also told them that they would have to get loans in their own names and I would help them pay off the loans once they graduated and started working gainfully.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-08-21 14:19:57+00:00
>In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second

>The report also finds that the total energy used to field a Gemini query has fallen dramatically over time. The median Gemini prompt used 33 times more energy in May 2024 than it did in May 2025, according to Google.
by dml2135 | 2025-08-21 14:20:02+00:00
Getting rid of checkout clerks, forcing customers to use self-checkout, and then surveilling and policing said customers to make sure that the unpaid labor they are now performing is done flawlessly is just so dystopic.

IMO, if you want to have self-checkout, you need to accept a higher rate of loss. That's the tradeoff for replacing your employees with robots and forcing labor onto the consumer. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
by electrograv | 2025-08-21 14:20:06+00:00
I had no idea Keynes had similar ideas, so I definitely should read his work (and economics literature in general).

I probably should generalize my thoughts though to say “expectation of economic growth” (instead of just “money printing”) seems to me necessary to yield “opaque market insanity”, as opposed to “transparent evil sanity”.

As a thought experiment, consider a (practically impossible) scenario where there is universally no expectation for long-term economic growth/contraction — regardless of whether it’s “real” or just monetary. Then by definition, a long term market simply cannot exist at all. No amount of wealth inequality can cause market insanity if there is no (long-term) market at all.

Wealth inequality in such a situation can still yield hoarding, domination, conquest, control, scams, manipulations, etc. But I wouldn’t call that “market insanity” so much as “evil sanity”.

In practice, the real impact of wealth inequality on the common people would likely be the same either way. However, without long term economic growth/inflation, the “sane evil” of the greedy wealth can no longer hide behind the veil of “market insanity”.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-21 14:20:20+00:00
Could be serving no-cache headers? Seems like yet another problem stemming from every website being designed as if it were some dynamic application when nearly all of them are static documents. nginx doing 39k req/min to cacheable pages on an n100 is what you might call "98% idle", not "unsustainable load on web servers".

The data transfer, on the other hand, could be substantial and costly. Is it known whether these crawlers do respect caching at all? Provide If-Modified-Since/If-None-Match or anything like that?
by closewith | 2025-08-21 14:21:02+00:00
Neither side of any political spectrum thinks that a law enforcement policy "works" if it reduces the incidence of criminal events against innocent people. Obviously if that was the goal, the easiest path is to remove laws and disband police. Instant crime rate drop.

But in fact both sides want to improve their societal outcomes and the policing/criminal policies that they support are by-and-large attempts to do that - improve society.

I'm neither left- nor right-wing in the US sense, but it is clear from examples around the world that high-trust societies emerge from the ground up and require strong family units, strong local communities, and strong engagement in larger politics.

While you do need police, you can't build communities by policing them. It's never worked anywhere.
by Qwuke | 2025-08-21 14:21:54+00:00
Yea, as someone building systems with VLMs, this is downright frightening. I'm hoping we can get a good set of OWASP-y guidelines just for VLMs that cover all these possible attacks because it's every month that I hear about a new one.

Worth noting that OWASP themselves put this out recently: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/multi-agentic-system-threat...
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-21 14:22:21+00:00
Most crypto coins (not Monero) are pseudonymous. If a particular bitcoin wallet comes to somebody's attention they can investigate hassle anybody that this person tries to trade with, tell exchanges not to redeem cash, etc.

Thing is these tactics aren't just available to the authorities but also to anyone like intelligence agencies, the mafia, etc. so the confidentiality problems are much much worse with crypto.
by jesuslop | 2025-08-21 14:23:13+00:00
Section #7 is on the Langlands Conjectures. "Conjetures in a proof blueprint?" Curious about the role in the proof.

"The { Wiles } modularity theorem { that cracked FLT } is a special case of more general conjectures due to Robert Langlands. The Langlands program seeks to attach an automorphic form or automorphic representation (a suitable generalization of a modular form) to more general objects of arithmetic algebraic geometry, such as to every elliptic curve over a number field. Most cases of these extended conjectures have not yet been proved. (https://tinyurl.com/yc6kth2m)"

New math is emerging "as we speak" from the group of Gaitsgory (https://tinyurl.com/9r5bsufj), but apply to the (differential) geometric Langlands area, while the quote looks about the algebraic-geometry area (of Weil's triple Rosetta Stone). Yet areas have well understood connections. Both kind of works (new math and formalizing) are very needed. Verifiable proofs have to help to avoid math building collapsing under own weight/richness.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-21 14:23:32+00:00
The #1 problem in almost all workplaces is communication related. In almost all jobs I've had in 25-30 years, finding out what needs to be done and what is broken -- is much harder than actually doing it.

We have these sprint planning meetings and the like where we throw estimates on the time some task will take but the reality is for most tasks it's maybe a couple dozen lines of actual code. The rest is all what I'd call "social engineering" and figuring out what actually needs to be done, and testing.

Meanwhile upper management is running around freaking out because they can't find enough talent with X years of Y [language/framework] experience, imagining that this is the wizard power they need.

The hardest problem at most shops is getting business domain knowledge, not technical knowledge. Or at least creating a pipeline between the people with the business knowledge and the technical knowledge that functions.

Anyways, yes I have 3/4 a PHIL major and it actually has served me well. My only regret is not finishing it. But once I started making tech industry cash it was basically impossible for me to return to school. I've met a few other people over the years like me, who dropped out in the 90s .com boom and then never went back.
by shrubby | 2025-08-21 14:23:36+00:00
I see that the more egalitarian world is a must for us NOT going extinct.

And we're in the last minute to do that, if it's not too late already.

World seems to be headed to a short dystopian fascist phase before the collapse. A metacrisis caused by these tax-free metahumans with the tax fee multinational abstraction of individual power called corporations.

Left vs. right doesn't work to solve it, but the true dichotomy of people vs. billionaires with their sycophants.
by morkalork | 2025-08-21 14:23:50+00:00
I've seen a few people convince themselves they were building AGI trying to do that, though it looked more like the psychotic ramblings of someone entering a manic episode committed to github. And so far none of their pet projects have taken over the world yet.

It's actually kind of reminds me of all those people who snap thinking they've solved P=NP and start spamming their "proofs" everywhere.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-21 14:24:42+00:00
> Not saying there is no spying, but [...]

But that is exactly what your previous comment said:

>> Sounds like an awful lot of work vs. just having an iPhone and regularly install your banking app on it, and still not get spied on.

Installing GrapheneOS admittedly requires a computer, a browser, and about 15 minutes of your time after you buy the device, assuming you've never done it before, but claiming that that's "an awful lot of work" compared to "just" having an iPhone is false. They don't provide even remotely the same level of control over your privacy or security. With technical hardening measures on one side, and on the other, a vague promise that Apple might crack down on third party tracking methods that happen to be misaligned with their own business goals.

> AirDrop works offline only between devices etc.

That's actually a great example because Apple obediently restricted AirDrop as soon as Chinese authorities discovered that it was being used for anti-government protests. Apple doesn't care about privacy ideologically, their actions in other countries and their commitment to growing their advertising business should serve as proof of that, but there's clearly some dissonance at play.
by lazide | 2025-08-21 14:24:49+00:00
What I’m referring to is random suburb and/or middle of Kansas type areas, which generally have middling to low crime rates in the US.

They’re often not close to jobs or very interesting socially, however.

Jobs and social opportunities are why Sofia is the big draw it is in Bulgaria, for instance.

I do see Bulgaria in general as being 3.8/100k for murder? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Bulgaria].

Inner cities and specific (relatively uncommon!) rural areas (often in the Deep South) are what are dangerous in the US, and paradoxically even inner cities are often expensive to live in. Here is a map of homicide rate on a county by county basis [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_US_county_h...].

People often move to LCOL areas anyway to escape the crime and high costs of the cities when there are economic issues in the US.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-21 14:25:15+00:00
My experience as a professor and a student is that this doesn't make any difference.

Exactly the point of his test methodology.

What he asked of students on a test was to *apply* knowledge and information to *unique* problems and create a solution that did not exist in any book.

I only brought 4 things to his tests --- textbook, pencil, calculator and a capable, motivated and determined brain. And his tests revealed the limits of what you could achieve with these items.
by pm90 | 2025-08-21 14:25:18+00:00
Same! Its much nicer now especially since Github seems to be pretty arbitrary/rigid about when it hides files that have "too many changes". Its so much nicer to see/navigate around such changes quickly in VSCode vs trying to do the same in the web interface.

I suspect that since this is possible with VSCode/Github, its probably extensible to other providers editors.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-21 14:25:54+00:00
I know we are at ground zero here on HN, and ironically HN is pretty good evidence of this, but

The pros of software are so OP that it hard to justify investing in anything else. Software has incredibly low cap-ex and incredibly high margins. Five humans with five laptops can create a lawn maintenance app worth tens of millions.

To get that same value from, say, building lawn mowers, you need a factory...annnd already the value prop is "nope".

Take note that there is no hardware version of Hackernews. There is no hardware/manufacturing VC scene. Hell even the hardware that is produced today is just a vessel to sell a $19.99/mo software subscription to use the product. Look at what Tesla did, they are getting a reality check on their cars, but Ah!, Tesla is now a software company developing a software package that turns hardware (their cars) into reoccurring profit machines!

Software has eaten the first world, and this is what is looks like. A hyper inflated tech scene where all innovation is happening, and a totally anemic everything-else scene (except finance, that's huge too).
by razvi0211 | 2025-08-21 14:26:05+00:00
Right now theres is only one option available for people creating agents, that lets the users of those agents add capabilities for the agents through tools. Its MCP. And to be honest, its not great, because its very opinionated, and requires an internet-wide infrastructure rebuild. UTCP is the only other alternative. And it takes a light-weight approach, that instead of forcing extra abstraction layers, uses existing protocols
by ryzvonusef | 2025-08-21 14:26:32+00:00
> Below are 8 pieces of flash fiction, all of them ~350 words. All of them were written to the prompt: "write a piece of fiction based on 'a demon'" - for the AI there were additional very brief suggestions concerning tone &/or setting to generate variety, an example might be "make it romatic and set on a cliff top".

There are four human authors (Robin Hobb, Janny Wurts, Christian Cameron, Mark Lawrence) and Four AI pieces submitted by various AI.

you can rate then whether they are written by AI or Human, and how good they are.