MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-14 16:13:17+00:00
There's prior research that finds a connection between model depth and "reasoning" ability - https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03961

A depth of 4 is very small. It is very much a toy model. It's ok to research this, and maybe someone will try it out on larger models, but it's totally not ok to lead with the conclusion, based on this toy model, IMO.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-14 16:13:20+00:00
I think pub in Britain, tapas bar in Spain, beer hall in Germany are all similar to izakaya in Japan. In the USA though, the USA arguably doesn't have an analog to those. The USA has sports bars. Sports bars have 12 to 50 TVs up to watch sports. It's not the same vibe at all. Sports bars have very bad food, unlike izayaka (and maybe tapas bars).

In the USA you also generally have to drive which limits the drinking. I don't know about Germany/Spain/Britain in general but certainly places like Berlin/Barcelona/London it's easy to go out drinking without having to drive.
Show HN: Modelence – Supabase for MongoDB
by artahian | 2025-08-14 16:13:29+00:00
Hi all, Aram and Eduard here - authors of Modelence (https://github.com/modelence/modelence), an all-in-one backend platform for teams that love TypeScript + MongoDB. Think Supabase, but for MongoDB: auth, cron jobs, email, monitoring, without glue code before you can ship.

As Karpathy (and many of us) noted, getting from prototype to production is mostly painful integration work. The pieces exist, but stitching them together reliably is the hard part: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1905051558783418370. YC AI Startup School talk about this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&t=1940&v=LCEmiR...

We intend to fill those gaps! What you get out of the box:

- Authentication / user management

- Database

- Email integration (3rd party, but things like user verification emails work out of the box)

- AI integration

- Cron jobs

- Monitoring / Telemetry

- Configs & secrets

- Analytics (coming soon)

- File uploads (coming soon)

How it runs: A Node.js backend with MongoDB. It's frontend-agnostic, so you can use our minimal Vite + React starter or drop Modelence behind an existing Next.js (or any) frontend.

We're also building a managed cloud, similar to what Vercel is for Next.js, except Modelence focuses on the backend instead of the frontend (Vercel is great for content sites like landing pages, blogs, etc, but things like persistent connections and complex backend logic outgrow it quickly). You can find a quick demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4f22FyPpI8

We're looking for early users (especially TS teams on MongoDB). Tell us what's missing, what's confusing, and what you'd want before trusting this in prod. Happy to answer anything!
by cyphar | 2025-08-14 16:13:31+00:00
Go only "got this right" after a decade of kicking and screaming about how it wasn't necessary. Dealing with the vendor and go.mod transitions was incredibly painful. There wasn't even a mechanism for hiding packages from everyone in the world from importing until Go 1.4!

I'm still not convinced that the built-in vendor support added in Go 1.5 wasn't intentionally made incompatible with the community-developed solutions out of some weird kind of spite. Why didn't they just use "./vendor/src" like all of the existing tools were using? (Remember that Go was written by plan9 folks, so making a "src" symlink didn't work. In fact, the Go compiler dislikes symlinks in most places -- pre-modules the unholy things you had to do with GOPATH were awful.)
by disqard | 2025-08-14 16:14:00+00:00
You forgot:

4. If the POTUS does it, it's not a crime.

and

5. It's for National Security -- surely you don't want us giving our AI technology away to China without extracting something in return?

There are many ways to handle this -- just watch Faux News, if this ever rises above the threshold of the ambient craziness and becomes "newsworthy".
by ryandrake | 2025-08-14 16:14:05+00:00
If FB is going to use the data, then it should have the responsibility to check whether they can legally use it. Having their supplier say "It's not sensitive health data, bro, and if it is, it's consented. Trust us" should not be enough.

To use an extreme example, if someone posts CSAM through Facebook and says "It's not CSAM, trust me bro" and Facebook publishes it, then both the poster and Facebook have done wrong and should be in trouble.
by ddingus | 2025-08-14 16:14:06+00:00
I'm glad you like it. I've used that term for years because I don't know what to call a chip like the 6809.

It certainly can punch well above its weight class, at least when compared with 6502 z80 and some others.

I really can't call it 16 bit, because of the small address space, and the fact that the ALU is 8-bit. But you can't always go by the ALU because I believe the z80 and 8080 have four bit ALUs. And I don't think there's anyone that would call those chips four bit.

Motorola seemed to design things in a specific way that people really liked, and this pushing the limits of what is an expert design seems to be one of those because even going back to the 6800, the one index register was 16 bit.

And lastly the 68k is an exemplary design, but in the same design language is 32 bit curious.
by canyon289 | 2025-08-14 16:14:07+00:00
Hi all, I built these models with a great team. They're available for download across the open model ecosystem so give them a try! I built these models with a great team and am thrilled to get them out to you.

From our side we designed these models to be strong for their size out of the box, and with the goal you'll all finetune it for your use case. With the small size it'll fit on a wide range of hardware and cost much less to finetune. You can try finetuning them yourself in a free colab in under 5 minutes

For picking a Gemma size this is a video I recorded for the 1b to 27b sizes earlier this year, 270m being the newest addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjrduz_YS8

Hacker News Disclaimer I really like working at Google so with that; All my opinions here are my own, I'm a researcher so I'll largely focus on technical questions, and I'll share what I can.
by layer8 | 2025-08-14 16:14:30+00:00
The article explicitly calls out that that’s what they are looking for in a competent software engineer. That incompetent developers exist, and that junior developers tend to not be very competent yet, doesn’t change anything about that. The problem with LLMs is that they’re already the final product of training/learning, not the starting point. The (in)ability of an LLM to form stable mental models is fixed in its architecture, and isn’t anything you can teach them.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-14 16:14:41+00:00
Reasonably high quality coffee machines are very widespread. Or you can do pour-over. I don’t think the cost of a machine is a limiting factor for many people, it is just convenience.

Maybe an analogy could be made to espresso, nice espresso machines get costlier. But, you can still get quite good results out of a manual machine like a Flair.

I think this is why the suggestion to rent a machine is not to helpful. In this analogy we’re on BaristaNews, we all know about the industrial machines, lots of folks use them at work. But, the topic of what sort of things you can do on your manual machine at home has come up.
by dlivingston | 2025-08-14 16:14:47+00:00
> Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

That's from 2021 [0]. If you go to their mission statement today [1], it reads:

> Build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but -- at a time when there is a loneliness epidemic, when people are more isolated and divided than ever, when people are segmented into their little bubbles (both online and IRL) -- Meta is not only abdicating their responsibility to help connect humanity, but actively making the problem worse.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/government-nonprofits/blog/connecti...

[1]: https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-08-14 16:14:55+00:00
The problem with passion jobs is that you may get a dose of disillusionment. I worked for 2 years at a startup which had an interesting product and great people. Busted my ass for below market pay but when the company got sold, the deal was structured in a way that rank and file employees got nothing while the founders and top managers walked with multi-millions. Since then I am very cynical about "passion". It often seems to be a tool for exploiting gullible people. Same in a lot of non-profits.

Low rank work for little money while the top guys make good money and fly around the world to meet in luxury hotels.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-14 16:15:05+00:00
Libraries are already engaging in viewpoint discrimination though. That’s what this change to policy is trying to correct (whether it is effective at that or not). Librarians and their activist organizations are choosing to disproportionately stock and feature books aligned to progressive ideology, to bolster their personal political goals. This isn’t an accidental conspiracy - it’s literally what the ALA pushes libraries and librarians to do. They just label it in ways that make it sound academic, like “critical pedagogy”.
by notatallshaw | 2025-08-14 16:15:20+00:00
> No. This something people tell each other, that it's a lack of resources,

Well uv, as an OSS project, has come along with around 2 orders of magnitude more manpower than pip and has solved a lot of problems

> but in reality almost all OSS projects with long standing flaws don't have a resources problem. They have a prioritization problem, where they actively ignore and refuse to work on things that affect users every single day of usage.

I wasn't making a statement about OSS projects in general, but I agree that pip has prioritization problems but I would argue that it stems from the lack of resources.

The people who do donate their spare time are in fact only likely to donate that time on things that interest them. If there were resources to have someone act like a project manager, and other to follow their lead, then the prioritization problems could be fixed, but there aren't those resources.

> No more bullshit excuses

Then contribute your full time hours to pip, or other OSS that needs fixing, rather than arm chair commenting on hacker news.
by fragmede | 2025-08-14 16:15:29+00:00
As an honest person, that makes sense. Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who are not. If I have to give my money to Alice to give it to Bob because Alice is the only person with a way to get it to Bob, I'm trusting Alice to just do that. But Alice is a business woman and is doing this for lots of people. One day, Alice just disappears with everybody's money. All of the people that relied on Alice to get money to Bob just got screwed. So then they make a bunch of rules and regulations so that doesn't happen again.

MTLs, money transmission licenses exist to say you can’t legally handle other people’s money without proving you’re trustworthy, solvent, and compliant with anti-crime laws.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-14 16:15:46+00:00
I dunno, I've tried it and I think I will stick with Git for a while longer at least. I really don't like the fact that it automatically commits changes in the working tree. Apparently you can turn it off but.. yeah I dunno.

I may change my mind. Especially if they provide a less shit alternative to submodules and LFS. (And I agree this guy is just being contrarian - jj definitely does fix some Git annoyances.)
by sarchertech | 2025-08-14 16:15:48+00:00
> the developers and users fully embracing it are experiencing productivity boosts unseen previously

This is the kind of thing that I disagree with. Over the last 75 years we’ve seen enormous productivity gains.

You think that LLMs are a bigger productivity boost than moving from physically rewiring computers to using punch cards, from running programs as batch processes with printed output to getting immediate output, from programming in assembly to higher level languages, or even just moving from enterprise Java to Rails?
by gs17 | 2025-08-14 16:16:00+00:00
Really, your response should be that the video game use case is easier to detect going off track. It's a lot more feasible to detect when Random Peasant #2154 in Skyrim is breaking the fourth wall than a generic chatbot.

The exact same scenario as the article could happen with an NPC in a game if there's no/poor guardrails. An LLM-powered NPC could definitely start insisting that it's a real person that's in love with you, with a real address you should come visit right now, because there's not necessarily an inherent difference in capability when the same chatbot is in a video game context.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-14 16:16:04+00:00
> but it is funny how up until the 1950s christmas was deemed a pagan religious holiday and was even listed this way in encyclopedias from that time

Deemed by whom and in what encyclopedias? There are certainly religious groups who are historically recent offshoots of Western Christianity that viewed it that way in the 1950s, but the same groups do so today, nothing substantial has changed on that front since the 1950s. For the rest of Christianity, well, it was adopted as a Christian feast in the 4th century and has been treated as one since pretty consistently by most of Christianity. Certainly so in the largest branches of Christian in the US in the 1950s, which constituted between them the great majority of the population.
by cluckindan | 2025-08-14 16:16:23+00:00
Someone like media executives amplifying the news in a negative light.

It does reek of market manipulation.

Edit: the short volume on 2025-08-12 was ten times that of 2025-08-11: https://fintel.io/ssv/us/kodk

So that happened the same day the news articles went public, when the SEC filing was published already on the 11th.

Someone might be looking to buy the company.
by m0llusk | 2025-08-14 16:16:28+00:00
I never do this. If I am hired then my personality comes along as part of the package. If the potential employer and coworkers reject my personality then the position is not a good match.

For what it is worth in my recent experience most interviewers have commented about how pleasant and likable I am before they reject me, usually for some perceived technical flaw such as not realizing the essence of software quality is embracing their favorite fuzzing solution.
by porphyra | 2025-08-14 16:16:31+00:00
I wonder what the actual strategies are that Kodak can use to turn around their business? I think currently their revenue streams are:

* Commercial printing and imaging. They are one of the main suppliers for equipment and consumables for large-scale offset printing used in books, magazines, and stuff.

* Advanced materials and chemicals. They even have an FDA-registered pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

* Film and industrial film production.

* Brand licensing and partnerships.

I think that while film has a bit of a comeback due to its nostalgia factor, it's always going to be relegated to a handful of niche applications. Meanwhile, I don't see Kodak getting back into consumer photography, much as I love photography, since it's a low margin and increasingly niche business. Also, they sold off their medical imaging division in 2007.

I miss those Kodak CCDs.
by overgard | 2025-08-14 16:16:52+00:00
The studies I've seen for AI actually improving productivity are a lot more modest than what the hype would have you believe. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk

Skepticism isn't the same thing as fighting the future.

I will call something AGI when it can reliably solve novel problems it hasn't been pre-trained on. That's my goal post and I haven't moved it.
by gpm | 2025-08-14 16:17:09+00:00
At the time of [1 (your footnote)] the only defendant listed in the matter was Flo, not Facebook, per the cover page of [1], so it is unsurprising that that complaint does not include allegations against Facebook.

The amended complaint, [3], includes the allegations against Facebook as at that time Facebook was added as a defendant to the case.

Amongst other things the amended complaint points out that Facebook's behavior lasted for years (into 2021) after it was publicly disclosed that this was happening (2019), and then even after Flo was forced to cease the practice by the FTC, and congressional investigations were launched (2021) it refused to review and destroy the data that had previously been improperly collected.

I'd also be surprised if discovery didn't provide further proof that Facebook was aware of the sort of data they were gathering here...

[3] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.37...
by 12_throw_away | 2025-08-14 16:17:21+00:00
Thanks for asking! Also on the front page today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898934

From that article:

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards. [...] The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.”
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-14 16:17:25+00:00
I'm sorry, but what kind of fantasy is this? Here's how it works in reality:

- Customers: Hey Company X, this feature provided by libY is broken. - Company X: This makes us lose money, but it's complicated. Tell Mr. Z. - Customers: We don't care who Mr. Z is or who is responsible. If your company does not fix the problem we are going to fucking murder you.

No paying customer will ever accept that a company tries to shift the blame to somebody else. So Mr. Z is free to ignore anything that company asks from him, reputation intact.
by rgerhards | 2025-08-14 16:17:37+00:00
We've been tackling a massive documentation restructuring for rsyslog and are sharing the workflow we've designed. Our approach is "responsible AI in OSS," using a three-stage, human-in-the-loop system. We codify our rules in a prompt, use an AI to generate the changes, and then validate them with another AI and CI.

We'd love to hear your opinions and concerns about this process. How do we ensure human oversight remains effective? What are the biggest risks you see in a workflow like this?
by tossandthrow | 2025-08-14 16:17:44+00:00
There are some huge misunderstanding here:

You might have been paid in bit coins, but the value of these bitcoins has to be declared at the day of transfer so you can pay taxes in your local fiat currency.

Nobody are disputing that it is a really bad idea to hold cash above an emergency fund. Everyone is highly discouraging you from doing it. Buy ETFs, stocks, houses, cars, cyrpto whatever you need - just don't hold large amounts of cash.

All in all, it makes a very little difference what you are paid in - just that you have extra hoops to pay your taxes now that you are paid in bitcoins.
Show HN: I made a tool that turns niche research into daily marketing tasks
by LeoGoverG | 2025-08-14 16:17:45+00:00
I made a simple marketing starter for first-time founders with zero audience and small budgets.

Input: answer 4 questions about your product, goal, and budget.

Output: a 30-day checklist with daily 30-minute tasks and exact scripts. We also research your niche (Reddit/Facebook/X/LinkedIn/forums) so you know where to go and what to say.

It’s intentionally simple since complex plans failed for me and for beginners I worked with. Would love feedback/roasts; live demo in link.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-14 16:17:47+00:00
The film business is increasingly niche.

I can’t get over how much better performing 35mm full frame mirrorless cameras are than the old film cameras. To get a shot like this

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114401857009398302

with film I would have needed a medium format camera and tripod, today it is an easy handheld shot you can do spontaneously with a travel lens that goes from 28-200mm. I can go to a soccer or basketball game and shoot bursts, come back with 3000 photos and catch things like two guys tries to head the ball at the same time

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113240678816336189

… and I can afford to do it!
by didibear | 2025-08-14 16:18:11+00:00
As an technical interviewer in a startup (50 people with like 20 devs), I think the culture fit and communication skills are more important than the pure technical skills.

Multiple times we rejected strong senior devs because of that. It could be things like: - language issues eg. we have to repeat questions multiple times - bad team players eg. they feel close minded, they seem judgemental

On the other hand, we recruited juniors who were not great technically but who had a positive mindset and the potential to grow. And I think they were the best people we hired.
by evklein | 2025-08-14 16:18:17+00:00
There's a subset of sleepaway camps for adults that are quite popular for musicians - they typically consist of sleeping in cabins at night and attending lessons and workshops throughout the day. I went to one a few years ago, and even though I was a full standard deviation off from the mean in terms of age I still had a good time. This seems like a cool idea too.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-14 16:18:26+00:00
For retirees, this should be a simple choice between:

Paying taxes and insurance on your current McMansion Downsizing to pay less taxes and insurance Renting

For someone who owns their home, I can't imagine that renting is the most cost effective option. The only way renting might be better/cheaper is if you're stuck with a sizeable mortgage that won't be paid off any time soon. But even in this case, moving to something more affordable would still likely beat renting. You'll still have to move in either case.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-14 16:18:38+00:00
They are common to all Abrahamic religions, in spirit if not word-for-word. Hinduism also has its 5 principles and 10 disciplines which are broadly similar.

Perhaps "secular" is not the best description, but for anyone faithful to any of the major religions, these are going to be broadly shared principles, in addition to being the basis for most of our laws and social norms regarding individual behavior (don't kill, don't steal, etc.)

It's kind of like having "In God We Trust" printed on our currency. It's not a specific (i.e. Christian) God, at least that is the justification, and it's not seen as "respecting an establishment of religion" in the Constitutional sense.
by opendomain | 2025-08-14 16:18:40+00:00
That is awesome!

We have registered as a non-profit as “AntiFascist Foundation” and should finalize our paperwork this week.

Please note that since the goal is social activism, we are a 501c4 and donations may not be tax deductible.

We also would love any help on the design or messaging - any help would be greatly appreciated. Contact me and you can be part of the project
by bell-cot | 2025-08-14 16:18:45+00:00
More substantial (if older) coverage:

https://www.twz.com/sea/mysterious-naval-vessel-spotted-in-w...

Most obvious issues: DoS-able control & data channels, pwn2own, and removing the very last clever-monkey-with-tools from anything of serious mechanical complexity always seems to 100X the downtime.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-08-14 16:18:46+00:00
I've been using Fastmail the past few years and I'm a great fan. Not alone does it allow me to generate up to 600 random email addresses using domains owned by Fastmail, it also supports catch-all email addresses using my own domains. Ever since I switched to Fastmail I've been able to use a unique email address for each online service that I sign up for.