MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potatoman22 | 2025-08-19 15:25:56+00:00
This is cool, but I’m a little skeptical. If Parachute uses AI agents to evaluate other models, who’s evaluating the AI agents? It’s hard to imagine it’s safe to entrust model validation and bias assessments to an automated system, especially in healthcare. Validating clinical AI is pretty complex between finding the right data, ensure event timings are accurate, simulating the model, etc. That’s why I’m guessing Parachute is a little less automated than the landing page makes it out to be, which is maybe a good thing. Regardless, this is cool. Hope you make AI in healthcare more safe.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-08-19 15:26:27+00:00
Sycophancy is noticeably higher and a couple tests on domains where I can assess output quality from my expertise (outlay a parts buyer workflow given some proprietary details, explain why measures can't distinguish between two given countable subsets of the transcendentals, write a contrarian defense of Thrasymachus, show how the SEC phase of UEFI boot changed from pre-8 to 8 to 10 and 11) gave no difference in quality.

I'm gonna stick with v3-0324 and I recommend that others do the same.
by WASDAai | 2025-08-19 15:26:46+00:00
A lot of people dismiss CRUD apps because they only picture a simple todo list or blog engine. But the moment you actually try to build something production grade you run into all the things you listed: concurrency, caching, type safety across layers, indexing strategies, keyset pagination, auth tradeoffs, UI ergonomics, etc. The funny part is most businesses still run on what boil down to CRUD apps. Accounting systems, ERPs, logistics dashboards, CRMs they are “just CRUD,” but they move billions of dollars. AI can help with parts of this (maybe codegen for boilerplate or smarter query planning), but it does not erase the problem space. If anything it makes consistency, reliability, and security even more critical. To me the interesting angle isn’t “AI replaces CRUD,” it’s “CRUD is the substrate that everything, including AI apps, has to sit on.”
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-19 15:27:05+00:00
That expresses it well. For the code output to be good, my specifications have to be very detailed and thoroughly reviewed by multiple LLMs. Even so, I still have to make some changes manually, both before and after the code generation. It could be possible to add broad refactoring steps with vibe coding, but I remain skeptical. I think the frontier of how far one can get with vibe coding will keep pushing forward, but it's not that far yet, especially when security and performance are on the line.
by mrbig0 | 2025-08-19 15:27:44+00:00
Among all the offline transcription apps I've tried, my favorite remains https://whispernotes.app. High accuracy, one-time purchase, and genuinely offline. I love its clean UI.

Honestly, I'm getting tired of subscription-based apps. If it's truly offline, shouldn't it support a one-time purchase model? The whole point of local-first is that you're not dependent on ongoing cloud services, so why structure pricing like you are?

That said, will definitely give Whispering a try - always happy to see more open source alternatives in this space, especially with the local whisper.cpp integration that just landed.
by pizzathyme | 2025-08-19 15:27:51+00:00
This is exactly the type of company that I like to see: - Sounds very complicated/thorny to navigate (regulatory, medical, compliance) - Not super "sexy", which keeps competition lower - Clear pain points (fines) for customers that can and are willing to pay (hospitals)

Next up is just great execution by you all!

That list of logos you all have - are those paying customers today?

Best of luck!
by TechPlasma | 2025-08-19 15:28:27+00:00
This is my main complaint for Bases. It forces you to split your data into many many small files.

I don't need entire files for each individual book/movie/task I want to manage.

They'll have maybe 4-5 properties at most with not much content in them.

File system, and syncing operations will take a massive hit if I have to manage that many files.
Ask HN: Bay Area biotech and life science tools. Who wants to meet?
by rubidium | 2025-08-19 15:28:32+00:00
I’m living in the main hub of biotech tools and HN for a year.

My college roommate was my early HN / YC introduction, so I’ve wandered about this digital space since 2004? or so. But never lived in the bay area til now. A work opportunity arose to place me here.

I’d like to spend the next year making some good connections IRL, particularly focused on biotech /life science tools (eg software and hardware). Any recommendations? Any local meetups that are worthwhile?
by inkyoto | 2025-08-19 15:29:12+00:00
I respectfully disagree.

Consider a leaf commit (or a leaf which is a subtree of commits). I am a person with nefarious intentions, and I delete the leaf commit, forcefully expire the reflogs, or force garbage collect them. At that point, there is no longer remaining evidence in git that the commit ever existed. If git were to be used to record a history of criminal offences, I would be able to single-handedly delete the last offence by running «git reflog expire --expire=now --all» followed by «git gc --aggressive --prune=now».

Ledger databases, on the other hand, do not have the «delete» operation. The «update» operation does not factually update the document/record and creates a new revision instead (just as git does), whilst retaining a full history of updates to the document/record. This is the fundamental difference.
by pc86 | 2025-08-19 15:29:12+00:00
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that you need a purpose-built LLM to generate usable UI code. There are ways to use LLMs to increase efficiency and velocity without sacrificing quality, but they're all at the API/backend/service/whatever-you-want-to-call-it level, or in the initial planning stages.

I basically use LLMs to plan work, then to do the backend work with close supervision, then I do all the UX stuff completely on my own.
by _fat_santa | 2025-08-19 15:29:54+00:00
Personally I don't think China is a good comparison in this case. Yes China has the great firewall but they also a highly top-down government whereas the UK us much more like the US.

Beyond straight government control, there's also the politics of all of it. China being a one party system doesn't really care if something is popular with the public but with the UK's parliamentary system, one wrong move and your party gets voted out of power.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-19 15:29:56+00:00
I had approximately the same comment in a thread under a submission about a new CPU <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201707> and the replies highlighted my understanding of exactly how slow using sticks of RAM versus on-die VRAM. I'd still enjoy trying it, but I have not yet loaded enough of the FPGA ecosystem in my head to know how many hours I am away from watching the bits flow
by bluGill | 2025-08-19 15:30:03+00:00
> Obviously there were native Americans here long before European settlement, but evidence of their presence has been so thoroughly erased

Most of what the native Americans built would be erased by now anyway. They mostly didn't build with stone or metals, but with wood that rots. Most European castles were built out of wood and there is not trace remaining other than town archives (if that) even though no deliberate effort was made to erase them.

Not to excuse the deliberate eraser of history, it happened and is bad. However don't get the wrong impression either, most wasn't deliberate history erasing. Most of it was natural decay, followed by this useless bit is in the way of progress - the natives did exactly the same thing to their old worn out structures.
by genewitch | 2025-08-19 15:30:37+00:00
before i even bother opening that github: does it work on windows? so far, all of the whisper "clones" run poorly, if at all, on windows. I do have a 3060 and a 1070ti i could use just for whisper on linux, but i have this 3090 on my windows desktop that works "fine" for whisper, TTS, SD, LLM.

Whisper on windows, the openai-whisper, doesn't have these q8_0 models, it has like 8 models, and i always get an error about triton cores (something about timeptamping i guess), which windows doesn't have. I've transcribed >1000 hours of audio with this setup, so i'm used to the workflow.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-19 15:31:17+00:00
> "if God undeniably existed, then faith would no longer be applicable."

I kind of see both sides of that.

On the "agree" side, I saw a quote somewhere that said, "that's why it's called 'faith' instead of 'reading comprehension'." If it were that cut and dried, then it would just be a matter of objectively evaluating the evidence, without even any "probably".

On the "disagree" side, the point of faith isn't really the existence of God. Yes, that's the starting point. But much further than that, the point is that we need God's forgiveness - a forgiveness that is completely unreasonable. Faith is "you have, I need, please give" (contrast with love, which is "I have, you need, I give"). The difference between those two postures is why it is faith, rather than love, that is the fundamental bottom line in dealing with God. Knowledge - even certainty - that God exists doesn't remove the need for a faith that goes beyond mere knowledge.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-19 15:31:21+00:00
> Those rules would only apply to VPN providers in the UK, so the whole mechanism would be pointless.

Did you miss the part where every VPN port is blocked, and all other ports have heuristics in place to detect and throttle VPN-like patterns (e.g. 99%+ of traffic going to less endpoints than you can count on one hand), unless you're specifically whitelisted?
by dlubarov | 2025-08-19 15:33:14+00:00
It's because of an agenda which goes beyond the politics the present conflict. For example, just in the last 24 hours, there were at least two submissions here about Jewish/Israeli sexual violence. Both were old articles (so not news) about crimes that occur in every population. We don't see this sort of interest in digging up dirt on other small minority groups.

(Not that any particular submitter is to blame; the issue is systematic.)
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-19 15:33:25+00:00
> With what money? Doesn't matter, just buy it bro!

Work in Germany, set aside money, go back to Croatia. Land and construction costs are really cheap compared to Germany. It's a common thing in Croatia.

> Yes I'm sure building a house today is like in the 1950s. Same rules and regulations. I buy a small piece of land in the city and can just start laying bricks after work and then live in them

You still can do that today and extend an existing structure after the initial permit/inspection. All you need is the lower stories be solid enough statically, and you can't use that to get around zoning limitation on building height/story count. And yes, you can even do that in the motherhood of bureaucracy that's colloquially called Germany.
by allengmorgenson | 2025-08-19 15:33:49+00:00
If there ever was a place on HN for someone to say “try christianity” with a small and easy to scroll past comment, it would be in the thread where the OP says “I feel empty. Does anyone have advice?” Sure, christianity might not be the answer, but what we want in this situation is for as many people as possible to give their ideas, and then maybe one will appeal to the OP. I’ve bumped into a lot of christians, and a lot of them seem happy. If it works for some people, and helps them feel less empty inside, maybe it will work for other people too.

If someone said “buying a big plot of land and mowing the lawn every week has filled the empty place in my soul, you could try that” and I had a very different experience with lawn mowers, then I would relate my experience and add to the conversation. I would explain the fact that lawn mowers are extremely dangerous and I have lost multiple toes to them perhaps. But I wouldn’t say “Did you mention lawn mowing on HN? Get out of here with that.”
by JimDabell | 2025-08-19 15:33:53+00:00
Previously:

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? – 4 days ago (89 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web – 27th June 2025 (328 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393817
by AstroBen | 2025-08-19 15:34:08+00:00
Can you define vibe coding? I'm seeing it used for anything from not even looking at the code to writing long detailed specs for the LLM and then heavily reviewing its output

If it's a non-programmer trying to build a non-trivial software product with AI I haven't heard of anyone successfully doing that and I'm very confident in saying theres no chance it'll happen with todays AI
by jaberjaber23 | 2025-08-19 15:36:16+00:00
I’ve spent years manually tuning CUDA kernels, and it’s exhausting. Recently, I experimented with real-time profiling to see bottlenecks instantly. The results were surprising—small tweaks yielded huge performance gains.

This got me thinking: we spend so much time iterating manually when profiling could guide optimizations automatically. Curious if others have tried this approach, or if there are better ways to tackle kernel tuning at scale.
by hypeatei | 2025-08-19 15:36:21+00:00
This proposal seems to be aimed at removing native support in favor of a WASM-based polyfill (like PDF.js, I guess) which seems reasonable?

Google definitely throws its weight around too much w.r.t. to web standards, but this doesn't seem too bad. Web specifications are huge and complex so trying to size down a little bit while maintaining support for existing sites is okay IMO.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-19 15:36:55+00:00
Agree, but the publisher of content A is also the supplier of content B. They are sourced differently on delivery but they are legally delivered as a single piece of "original work" (as this is a law for PC-software, all included libraries in some app are also part of the "original work")

Maybe a case can be made that the work is not shipped in entirety but needs to be assembled at the consumer...?
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 15:37:10+00:00
Thanks for shouting out some other great alternatives! The UI looks really clean.

Right now, the pricing is entirely free, and we are trying to expand our local model support to make it truly free. Subscriptions are up to the user right now.

Thanks for giving us a shot, and no pressure on using it! At the end of the day, I just want to build something that is open source and trustworthy, and hopefully will fit into the Epicenter ecosystem, the data layer that I talked about earlier in my post.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-08-19 15:37:12+00:00
My comment is more about what to expect in the next 12 months.

I've been using VSCode's Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4 and find it to be terrifyingly competent running 8 hours a day costing ~$10.

I am developing techniques to keep it moving forward producing code and fast. First, prompt engineering like "write clean, simple, and elegant code." Second, I use TypeScript very strictly which helps. Third, the models are amazing at producing very simple test units which will be important in the fifth. Fourth, I use techniques like "look for opportunities to refactor pure functions in the file and put them at the top of file" or "look for opportunities to refactor pure function and put them in shared utils.ts file." Fifth, every hour or so, I will have the agent simplify and clean the code and with complete test coverage both unit and integration as longs as they all pass .... good to go.

This is a process and it is the same every time. So now I'm thinking about how do I write code to automate these steps into an automated process. For example, I keep using the same pattern of steps to solve hard debugging problems which I'm going to leave out of this conversation now. If I can create a process in code, I'd be one step closer to complete automation coding.

The patterns are emerging. I strongly believe in 12 months these systems are going to be able to write extremely complicated programs with very little input from the human in the loop.
by robenkleene | 2025-08-19 15:37:41+00:00
It sounds like you're treating "a shared folder" as a synonym to "all user files"? Those aren't the same thing? E.g., a shared folder can be a far smaller subset of all a user's files?

(Also, Apple's sandboxing supports access to a single files, reference https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/accessing... so not sure if any of this is important anyway.)
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-19 15:37:48+00:00
The framing here is a bit off. As far as I can see, they don’t link to anyone actually saying something like “poverty is cured by direct cash transfers.” I don’t know who believes that. I browsed through the Denver study and while some metrics didn’t significantly improve, many of them did. I think the author overplays their hand somewhat.

Some NGOs that help unhoused people did shift to direct cash transfers because 1) they still help improve material conditions (even the author agrees with this), and 2) it’s politically easier than trying to convince locals to actually build affordable housing.

Of course a holistic approach is probably going to improve conditions better, but no one with actual political power is interested in doing that.
by stuaxo | 2025-08-19 15:38:01+00:00
So annoying, XSLT is very powerful but browsers let it languish at 1.0

XSLT 1.0 is still useful though, and absolutely shouldn't be removed.

Them: "community feedback" Also them: <marks everything as off topic>

This came about after the maintainer of libxml2 found giving free support to all these downstream projects (from billionaire and trillionaire companies) too much.

Instead of just funding him, they have the gall to say they don't have the money.

While this may be true in a micocosm of that project, the devs should look at the broader context and who they are actually working for.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-19 15:38:02+00:00
No. The official statement from Brian was “I received a couple of personal e-mails from some credible people who stated that their data belonged to them, so we (I) decided to make it opt-in” (paraphrased).

I spent days in that thread. That uproar was “a bunch of noisy minority which doesn’t worth listening” for them.
by nottorp | 2025-08-19 15:38:18+00:00
Oh funny. They started the recovery process then wanted me to add a phone number so they can send a recovery code. In spite of them first sending a recovery code to the email that I do control and me entering it.

I pressed 'try another way' and they told me they don't have enough information to prove the account is mine.

Fuck off Google basically. They could at least be honest and state that a phone number is required, instead of pretending that it's for verification.
by riedel | 2025-08-19 15:38:26+00:00
I guess that is a bit of a misunderstanding of the separation of powers. This court is the highest civil/criminal court which only decides precisely on the text of the law. It has IMHO less interpretation freedom than Germanys supreme Court. Also as far I understand it only sends back the decision to the next lower court because it did not weight the argument that HTML might be code. Copyright on software in Germany is btw strangely different from artistic copyright in many parts. I can imagine that police or the the BSI would share the FBI's opinion. However, I doubt that even if this goes through, politicians will see a need to chance the law or make it more precise in this case. Actually much worse is Germany's hacker law, which endangers pretty much every security research. Although many people acknowledge the problem and there were ridiculous legal cases, there has been so little movement to abandon it.
by xrd | 2025-08-19 15:39:11+00:00
I have a grandfather who shared Scottish ancestry. In the "woods" of suburban Los Angeles he found some porn in the alleyway, and then stashed it under the "davenport" couch. My grandmother found it while cleaning in anticipation of our departure. I'll never forget the look on his face as he tried to extricate himself from that mess.

"Bush Porn" is a funny term. If you invented it, nice work.
by coldpie | 2025-08-19 15:39:15+00:00
I have no opinion on this, just sharing my one-and-only XSLT story.

My first job in software was as a software test development intern at a ~500 employee non-profit, in about 2008 when I was about 19 or 20 years old. Writing software to test software. One of my tasks during the 2 years I worked there was to write documentation for their XML test data format. The test data was written in XML documents, then run through a test runner for validation. I somehow found out about XSLT and it seemed like the perfect solution. So I wrote up XML schemas for the XML test data, in XSD of course. The documentation lived in the schema, alongside the type definitions. Then I wrote an XSLT document, to take in those XML schemas and output HTML pages, which is also basically XML.

So in effect what I wrote was an XML program, which took XML as input, and outputted XML, all entirely in the browser at document-view time.

And it actually worked and I felt super proud of it. I definitely remember it worked in our official browser (Internet Explorer 7, natch). I recall testing it in my preferred browser, Firefox (version 3, check out that new AwesomeBar, baby), and I think I got it working there, too, with some effort.

I always wonder what happened with that XML nightmare I created. I wonder if anyone ever actually used it or maybe even maintained it for some time. I guess it most likely just got thrown away wholesale during an inevitable rewrite. But I still think fondly back on that XSLT "program" even today.
by gruez | 2025-08-19 15:39:19+00:00
>Beyond straight government control, there's also the politics of all of it. China being a one party system doesn't really care if something is popular with the public but with the UK's parliamentary system, one wrong move and your party gets voted out of power.

But apparently that wasn't enough to stop the online safety act from being implemented in the first place? If voters okay with sites requiring intrusive id/face scans to access 18+ sites, they're probably also fine with ISPs requiring 18+ verification to use VPNs.
by alnwlsn | 2025-08-19 15:39:32+00:00
To continue this tangent, legend has it that some of those battery powered tea candle lights actually reuse the chip from cheap music playing trinkets. If you replace the yellow LED with a speaker, you might hear beepy christmas music or happy birthday.

I've never found one myself (most of them have a better candle simulation chip than that), but they are apparently out there.
by rconti | 2025-08-19 15:39:44+00:00
I just don't understand the appeal of reels for the average user posting them (eg, not a "creator"). All comments come through as DMs which feels weird/creepy. The social/engagement is out the window; your friends can't comment on your content and reply to each other. It's just an effing weird one-way broadcast medium that's painful to deal with (might randomly play sound, might show photos for too long/too short, video with no easily usable scrubber, etc). The only "advantage" I see is that it's limited to 24h so you don't feel like you're making as permanent a record of your content. I'm sure some "younger" folks (who are probably 35 now) thought this was a good antidote to the generation before them being embarrassed by their old FB content, but man. I just hate reels.

Thankfully I don't doomscroll or otherwise sucked into the content generated by randos; I mostly only see stuff my friends post, but man, I would pay good money to never have to see a "suggested" anything again.