MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by freehorse | 2025-08-22 21:40:33+00:00
Does any of these things actually work? When I pre-prompt models like this it most often than not it ends up making uninteresting and mostly irrelevant points, very rarely will it come back with something "insightful". It will just put some doubt because it has to without sth meaningful to notice. Maybe with agents it does not matter as much if you do not mind burning tokens and time, because you are not gonna read most of the output wrt tool use anyway, but for a chat model I don't see much benefit? It is a bit like encouraging an LLM to write tests/asserts in the code, ime it ends up checking for the most superficial things.
by ecommerceguy | 2025-08-22 21:40:56+00:00
I own an Agency and write a ton of individual ACA along with Group and Medicare.

Final pricing hasn't even been released yet. I'll betcha that her premium won't be anywhere near 2800, theres no information about how shes quoted what she did such as age, zip code, carrier and income. This article is rage bait.

Here's a better source of information regarding how and why premiums are going up.

https://acasignups.net/
by bigyabai | 2025-08-22 21:41:03+00:00
I don't care how nihilist or kafkaesque you want to take the conversation - the math won't check out. You can't sustain a third-sector economy on second-sector jobs while importing first-sector goods. The entire financial system in America won't survive that sort of transition, it would be the Great Leap Forward of the 21st century.
by kixelated | 2025-08-22 21:41:05+00:00
Yeah, and CMAF is just a fancy word for fMP4. The f in fMP4 meaning an MP4 file that has been split into fragments, usually at keyframe boundaries, but fragments can be as small as 1 frame if you're willing to put up with the overhead.

The Big Buck Bunny example on the website is actually streamed using CMAF -> MoQ code I wrote.
Show HN: A Simple Browser Game Built with Trickle
by GraceRaoooo | 2025-08-22 21:41:11+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with Trickle , an AI-powered no-code builder, and put together a small browser game: https://awjzh9pdmgwr.trickle.host/

No installs or signups are needed—you can try it right away.

Why I made this:

To test how interactive projects (like games) can be prototyped quickly with Trickle.

To explore how minimal mechanics + design can still feel engaging in a web environment.

What I’d love feedback on:

Gameplay flow (does it feel smooth enough?)

Design and usability

Any ideas for improvements or fun twists

This is an early experiment, so I’d really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks for trying it out!
Ask HN: Anyone Else Getting YT Ads from Israeli Government Advertising Agency
by ivape | 2025-08-22 21:41:15+00:00
When I click the ad (which is a video showing fast food restaurants servings tons of meal in Gaza, even today), it links to the following:

https://govextra.gov.il/mda/ipc/gaza

There was also an ad showing a starving child in Gaza and claiming it was false, and that the child had a genetic disease (the starving body image was apparently being used as propaganda is the implication). The YouTube link on the ad is from the Israeli ad agency.

I’m mostly lost for words. Anyone else seeing this? This shit is disgusting.
by immibis | 2025-08-22 21:41:25+00:00
Just don't send lots and lots of email. I haven't had a problem yet. But I mostly use my server to receive.

Speaking of which, receiving is free. There are no spam checks when other providers send email to yours. So feel free to only use Gmail when you need to send an email out to a big provider. It's still a 95% win.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-22 21:41:31+00:00
Arguably the alternative was the government just... not giving them the CHIPS Act money. (And there's certainly a point to be made that Trump altering the deal is... problematic.)

But I will say, I find the concept that when we invest public dollars in a private company, the public retains a stake appealing. I think about the strategic oil reserve, and how the government actually can make money by buying and selling oil to the open market. The idea that if we inject money into a company to help our domestic industries, that the government can sell it's stake back out at a later time is appealing.

(And again, to be clear, not a Republican or a Trumper here, and I assume in Trump fashion he will find some way to screw everyone involved and get paid himself personally... but the concept of the government acquiring a stake rather than just giving them a grant is on it's face... maybe not terrible?)
by sarchertech | 2025-08-22 21:41:45+00:00
Blizzard certainly doesn’t fit the model of

>someone would make a game to express themselves, it would be picked up by a major studio, it would be expanded and polished until it had mass appeal, and became the next "blockbuster" game.

Warcraft was a big success and Warcraft 2 was a huge success. Both of those games were published by Blizzard themselves. They were purchased by Vivendi a few years later.

I can’t think of a single game where a major studio picked up a small game then expanded and polished it into a blockbuster.

The closest I can think of is maybe DOTA. Where the creator of a mod was hired by valve to make a stand alone game. But that definitely wasn’t normal.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-22 21:42:18+00:00
I despite/abhor this administration and their politics, but this is a good move.

There should be more privatization where national interests are involved.

Instead of the ACA for example,the government could have taken a 51% stake in health insurers (forget subsidizing them, own them!) and we the voters would elect politicians to oversee health insurance instead of hoping and trusting CEOs.

So many problems are caused by companies chasing short-term shareholder satisfaction. If the government is a significant shareholder, then guess who they'll try to make happy?

The sheer threat of the government buying a controlling interest and running your company might make some companies behave in the interests of the public more. Especially, if the government is also engaging in policy to harm the company's revenue before buying stakes in it.

I'm not saying the US should be a full-on communist or socialist economy, nothing like that. This is capitalism. We the people get to use or tax dollars to our benefit. Think about it, the US sells bonds right? what if it paid for them by investing in company stocks and derivatives? that's revenue right?

The whole pearl-clutching over ideological extremes doesn't serve the public or the economy's interest.

Some privatization is good, none is great if everyone was decent and honorable. but in this society, moderate privatization where there is potential benefit to the public and national security makes sense.

Companies with government investment should also be prohibited from making political donations, so any company that is trying to sway elections faces the threat of the next administration buying stakes in them to prevent that behavior.

This could be the missing 5th estate that can make democracy last.
by akavi | 2025-08-22 21:42:28+00:00
I'd actually bet against this. The "bitter lesson" suggests doing things end-to-end in-model will (eventually, with sufficient data) outcompete building things outside of models.

My understanding is that GPT5 already does this by varying the quantity of CoT done (in addition to the kind of super-model-level routing described in the post), and I strongly suspect it's only going to get more sophisticated
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-22 21:42:39+00:00
paying $400 for health care out of pocket was already a lot. Paying 2800/month for healthcare is absurd. You may as well just foot the entire hospital bill yourself.

and I thought this would be in a high CoL area. But the woman quoted lives in West Virginia. How is she paying 2-3x her rent for healthcare? For eyedrops of all things too.

Honestly the story gets sadder the farther I read:

>Like an asthma medication [that] can run $700 a month. There's an eye drop medication that can be $800 a month... "Luckily I can do that, but that's money I won't be able to save for investing in my 401(k) for retirement,"
by AlienRobot | 2025-08-22 21:42:46+00:00
I feel like it's more about trust. Once you stop trusting that you are NOT playing against cheaters, every match feels like you are just a walking target for someone else's entertainment.

To put it in another way: either I'm bad at a competitive game, or I'm playing against cheaters. Once you start feeling like that, neither scenario seems like an enjoyable time, so why play at all?

I feel like the biggest problem to me is that these types of games are INSANELY popular, but personally I'd rather play something less skill-based and more fun-based. These competitive games just keep appearing in front of me all the time despite that fact I don't enjoy them.
by mooreds | 2025-08-22 21:43:08+00:00
Yup.

To use a more unpleasant but realistic scenario, suppose my CEO said "we're moving to use Jira; everyone needs to set up your account by the end of the week. That's how we are going to track work going forward. You don't have to check Jira every day yet, but it's a company wide rollout and you'll be expected to do this soon".

Further, suppose I refused to set up my account because I didn't think it was important to my job or because I didn't want to. (I don't know the motivations of the Coinbase employees, to be clear.)

I think at that point, termination (or at least a warning) would be justified.

If an employee had moral or ethical concerns about using Jira, that's a different situation. But from the article, that doesn't seem to be the case.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-08-22 21:43:13+00:00
> the government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company

> The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars

I don't understand. Can somebody explain to me how the government made an investement, bought shares, but paid nothing?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-22 21:43:42+00:00
> You should tell the full story: Someone compromised the supply-chain and snuck a miner into the anticheat binary. It was discovered immediately, and the fact that the miner was in the anticheat and not, say, a game loader, did nothing to hide it.

Software with that level of access having a supply chain compromise is not an argument in its defense.
by pseudo_meta | 2025-08-22 21:44:21+00:00
- native browser bookmarks: things I visit regularly and want to access quickly, like the website of my bank. - read-later-links: I send it to my todo app, and read it the next day or delete it. No piling off links I never read. - topic-specific links like "tool to extract tables from PDFs" go into my note taking system (in my case Obsidian), where I can also write notes on the links properly
by basscomm | 2025-08-22 21:44:22+00:00
> Is there any reason this cant be solved with a proxy server? So that legacy software that uses XLST can still run on the new browsers that lack it?

With XSLT in a browser I can throw some static XML and XSLT files on any web server and they will Just Work™ and be usable without me having to do much other than telling the web server to serve index.xml instead of index.html. If I have to learn how to set up and maintain a proxy server so visitors to my site can still view the rendered pages, then I probably won't bother.

> XLST is a really weird feature and it seems sensible to drop it

What's weird about it? It lets me mark up some text using whatever XML makes sense to me and then write a template that the browser uses to transform it into (X)HTML that it can display. For someone who builds basic sites, it's an easy way to do templating that doesn't involve me setting up a 'real' programming environment
by mjr00 | 2025-08-22 21:44:39+00:00
> Anticheat is only hard because people are looking for a technical solution to a social problem. The actual way to get a good game in most things is to only play with people you trust and, if you think someone is cheating, stop trusting them and stop playing with them.

As much as I reminisce about the days of private servers for Quake/2/3, UT99, CS1.6, etc., saying this is really ignorant of how modern gaming and matchmaking works. Some games would simply not be possible without public matchmaking; I don't care how much of a social butterfly you are, you are not going to get 99 friends to get a PUBG match going. Even getting 11 other people to run a game of Overwatch or CS would be a pain. Other games need public matchmaking to have a fair ranking system. You go onto say ranking is "weaponised" but, ranking is a feature, and a lot of people like that feature.

> However, it does mean that the big publishers wouldn't have control over everything a player does. Getting them to agree to that is probably the real hard problem.

The demand for anticheat, and matchmaking/ranking systems, are entirely player-driven, not publisher-driven. If developers and publishers could get away with only implementing player-managed servers and letting players deal with cheaters, they would! It's a lot less work for them.

As a sibling comment mentioned, even in the days of private servers you ended up with community-developed tools like Punkbuster. I remember needing to install some anti-cheat crap when I signed up for Brood War's private ICCUP ladder.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-22 21:44:56+00:00
Even with SEV, you need hardware passed through to the VM. That means either running two GPUs or hot-swapping the machine your GPU is connected to and hoping neither driver crashes and burns (which is what you can expect from any consumer GPU driver that tries to hotplug). The software will also break the moment someone finds yet another side channel attack to break memory encryption. Intel's attempts at secure hardware hypervisors failed so bad they took the hardware out of consumer chips.

In theory you could probably get it to work on some hardware given some boot configurations with some games, but what game developer is going to develop a bespoke Linux VM? And if not the game developer, what Linux developer is going to spend time developing a platform that caters to the wishes of closed-source, rootkit-driven anticheat developers?
by ecommerceguy | 2025-08-22 21:44:57+00:00
They created it. Remember Democrats voted down Nixon's Medicare for All THREE TIMES.

Democrats voted against universal health insurance. Note I said Insurance, not health care. Big difference.

Lots of Doctors are moving to Direct Pay, I never hear people complain about that. They don't take insurance PERIOD.

Lots of that type of practice Europe folks.
by dang | 2025-08-22 21:45:13+00:00
Related ongoing thread:

Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987239

Recent and also related:

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987346 - Aug 2025 (99 comments)

"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185 - Aug 2025 (523 comments)

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599 - Aug 2025 (96 comments)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-22 21:45:18+00:00
s/doctors/private equity. The CEOS who keep acquiring hospitals and running them to the ground are the real ones at fault. We can definitely pay doctors a good salary after 10+ years of post-secondary schooling.

>not to mention bogus drug pricing, but there are controls hopefully being implemented for that

not really much "hope" for this administration. Especially when it comes to doing things that benefit the working class.
by dang | 2025-08-22 21:45:40+00:00
Related ongoing thread:

Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987552

Recent and also related:

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987346 - Aug 2025 (99 comments)

"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185 - Aug 2025 (523 comments)

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599 - Aug 2025 (96 comments)
by gus_massa | 2025-08-22 21:45:47+00:00
> Ultimately, someone still has to send in a check, and if they don't, you go back to the same problem, which is having police officers interact with random drivers, this time with a no-show warrant.

Here in Argentina they if you don't pay, they just remember until you want to sell the car, or renew your license or a ¿anual? technical review of the vehicle.

You have to pay it sooner or later with late fees. It's not necesary to send a minitank to the front door of the home of the bad drivers.
by dmitrygr | 2025-08-22 21:45:49+00:00
Why is this a surprise?

Who do you expect to design and make chips for national security-level programs in the future wars when Taiwan is a deep crater?

Every serious nation state has an arch design house and a fab. It need not be cutting edge (most militry stuff is a few gens old), but it needs to exist. Russia has Elbrus. China has Looonsoon and SMIC. Europe has ARM but is a bit behind here fab-wise. However, STMicro does have fabs in europe.

This is just securing access and control of national-security level resources.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-22 21:45:57+00:00
>Huh? You talk about your fetishes/turn-ons and sexual experiences with your co-workers, or are you mocking something I'm not online enough to understand?

"Lotta straight guys like watching their buddies fuck. I know I do."[0][1]

More seriously, on at least one occasion, a co-worker was showing a group of co-workers photos of their vacation at a swingers retreat. Let's just say nothing was left to the imagination. I'd add that this was an employee at the corporate headquarters of a Fortune 50 company.

[0] https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/repo-man/quote_37738.htm...

[1] https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/50d10668-35f3-40bd-8fd1-c8c1aa6...

Edit: Added detail about NSFW content at work.
by ChrisRackauckas | 2025-08-22 21:46:23+00:00
Hey, definitely agree in many respects! I have been programming for over a decade because I love to. And the worst part the job has always been giving feedback to a student/engineer who clearly just doesn't care and makes the same mistake again, like why should I keep reading your code instead of working on the fun hard problem I've been wanting to?

But, what I found over time is that as my role grew, the amount of work that could be done grew exponentially. In grad school I had one project to work on, by postdoc there was 10 papers that could be juggled, now there's so many different projects/collaborations/contracts/etc. that I could be a part of that it's all just a matter of "do I have time for that?". Then the team sizes start to grow: having one student turns into 5, into a lab, into a team at one company, then a growing team at another, and an open source organization. In one decade life changed from "wake up, figure out what to program, make it" to "wake up, see the deluge of issues and PRs, start code review, try to get that done so I can start 'my' day", and I think most people in programming tend to have a trajectory like that. The role changes from "build something" to "find out where others are getting stuck and unblock them", plus 200+ issues files about trivial shit. The goal here is to to have the LLMs handle the trivial shit, I unblock someone, and then finally the glory hour of me getting to build something is back!

But I think this is why there are lots of very smart people who have decided they wanted to be individual contributors in Silicon Valley instead. And they are really well-respected, and you want them in your squad! If that's the direction you want to go, then you probably also are of the kind that avoids LLMs a bit (and are thus a good person to have on a team, balancing velocity people with precision people). But if you want to start driving bigger projects, sooner or later teams grow as that's the only way to put out the bigger grander idea.

But I do think that if Anthropic made a Claude stuffed animal with a very punchable face it would be a very hot selling add-on as while this can accelerate the day, sometimes it makes the stupidest decisions and you really have to think "okay it doesn't hate me, it's not trying to spite me, it doesn't even know me, but damn it tried to hide that it commented out the one most crucial test!"
Show HN: Recursepaper – recursive entity extraction for improved understanding
by graine | 2025-08-22 21:47:16+00:00
(1) This is my first real project intended for users so I just wanted some feedback, could be anything from things you like, dislike, would want added, code quality or if you think anyone would even use this.

(2) The idea had came to me because of how bad I am at understanding research papers usually due to the large amount of academic and technical jargon. Originally I planned to use an llm API to be able to detect jargon and terms as I read papers but I didn't want to have to spend money: instead I discovered what entity extraction is through this amazing Dandelion API: https://dandelion.eu/ and have used that instead to great success with its 1000 free tks/day.
by ncruces | 2025-08-22 21:47:21+00:00
The underlying reason, which you hint on, is that in Go (unlike Python, Java, C#… even C++) the “type” of an “object” is not stored alongside the object.

A struct{a, b int32} takes 8 bytes of memory. It doesn't use any extra bytes to “know” its type, to point to a vtable of “methods,” to store a lock, or any other object “header.”

Dynamic dispatch in Go uses interfaces which are fat pointers that store the both type and a pointer to an object.

With this design it's only natural that you can have nil pointers, nil interfaces (no type and no pointer), and typed interfaces to a nil pointer.

This may be a bad design decision, it may be confusing. It's the reason why data races can corrupt memory.

But saying, as the author, “The reason for the difference boils down to again, not thinking, just typing” is just lazy.

Just as lazy as it is arguing Go is bad for portability.

I've written Go code that uses syscalls extensively and runs in two dozen different platforms, and found it far more sensible than the C approach.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-22 21:47:25+00:00
> Whether or not you play any games with kernel-level anti-cheat, you probably have cpu-z installed.

The problem with these is actually worse. Any program with the necessary permissions can load these drivers. Some malware likes to ship known-vulnerable drivers with one of their later stages to get kernel code execution, and Microsoft doesn't want to revoke the signatures of this malware because applications and hardware will stop working.

You don't nee CPU-Z to be installed, you just need to run a program that decided to bundle the (old) CPU-Z driver.