MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rpdillon | 2025-08-01 14:39:47+00:00
I've attempted to make this point to proponents of the walled gardens as a real benefit they are losing. There are app developers that just want to make useful stuff and share it. But Play (and the App Store) are completely designed around developers that are trying to make a living there (because that's how Google/Apple make money off the store). As such, the stores are quite hostile to community built software that changes rarely. This is a real loss, as I think that software is often the best available for a given purpose due to simplicity, privacy, and longevity.

So glad I have F-Droid!
by yncytt | 2025-08-01 14:39:53+00:00
> There's no way that Python written by LLMs will survive contact with Haskell written by LLMs in a standup competition.

That's likely true for formal correctness.

But what about the disparity between python's large and mature ecosystem compared the skimpiness of Haskell's libraries? How is an LLM going to compensate for Haskell's lack of math, AI/ML, graphics, web, and other key infrastructures?

An LLM writing Haskell must produce new code where production-grade libraries don't exist, and that Haskell app will be bigger than python's. That Haskell app will be relatively unverified compared to an LLM-written python app, simply because all that missing library code is brand new and hasn't proven itself the real world.

What about the disparity in LLM training data across many application domains? Given little Haskell training data, an LLM will be more likely to hallucinate and will require more human iterations before producing a production-ready app.

> One imagines the scope for this sort of thing goes very high in formality.

Haskell's type system is great, but only as far as it goes.
by benmmurphy | 2025-08-01 14:40:15+00:00
I assume because there was no actual hacking. I'm guessing users consented to this. As a user I should be able to view all traffic from my device and also give other third parties permission to view all traffic on my device. If I can't do this, is it really my device? It's not too much different from what Nielsen was doing when they installed boxes in people's homes to record what TV shows they were watching.
by runamuck | 2025-08-01 14:40:23+00:00
Just this week I interviewed a candidate for a Data Engineering role. I gave him four simple SQL statements and he got it instantly. He read the instructions out loud and typed the solutions immediately with no hesitation, perfect syntax. The last one increased the difficulty slightly and he hit a snag. I asked him to "check his work" and he got baffled and defensive and kept repeating "what?" I said "check the table" and he repeated "What?" I finally said "just dump the first five lines of your table" and he couldn't. He then started yammering and giving excuses. Then he pasted some SQL that included [redacted].ai in the output. I suspect he read the instructions into an AI for the first problems. When I asked him to "show the work" he did not understand how to prompt the AI to do that. I'm so glad I gave him that tech challenge, otherwise I would not have caught the cheating.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 14:40:51+00:00
This adds little to the debate.

A really interesting question would be to ask Aylo -- the world's largest pornographer -- why they are complying with the UK law and working with the regulator (population ~70M), but blocking whole states in response to the French law (population ~70M also) and Texas (population ~30M).

Because there obviously is some nuance and realpolitik here, when Aylo could very easily just block the UK too.

Has anyone done this journalism?
by irthomasthomas | 2025-08-01 14:40:52+00:00
You can spin up a version of this at home using simonw's LLM cli with the llm-consortium plugin.

Bonus 1: Use any combination of models. Mix n match models from any lab.

Bonus 2: Serve your custom consortium on a local API from a single command using the llm-model-gateway plugin and use it in your apps and coding assistants.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1870692546969735361

> uv tool install llm llm install llm-consortium llm consortium save gthink-n5 -m gemini-pro -n 5 --arbiter gemini-flash --confidence-threshold 99 --max-iterations 4 llm serve --host 0.0.0.0 curl http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions \ -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "gthink-n5", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "find a polynomial algorithm for graph-isomorphism"}] }'

You can also build a consortium of consortiums like so:

llm consortium save gem-squared -m gthink-n5 -n 2 --arbiter gem-flash

Or even make the arbiter a consortium:

llm consortium save gem-cubed -m gthink-n5 -n 2 --arbiter gthink-n5 --max-iteration 2

or go openweights only:

llm consortium save open-council -m qwen3:2 -m kimi-k2:2 -m glm-4.5:2 -m mistral:2 --arbiter minimax-m1 --min-iterations 2 --confidence-threshold 95

https://GitHub.com/irthomasthomas/llm-consortium
by gruez | 2025-08-01 14:41:07+00:00
>I don't think the "veil" is even relevant here. We have the smoking-gun proof that Mark Z. personally ordered people to illegally spy on other apps' data.

No, Zuckerberg said to "get reliable analytics" and that maybe they need to "do panels or write custom software". The subsequent emails of "hey I made an app that does MITM on snapchat" did not involve Zuckerberg.
by taeric | 2025-08-01 14:41:15+00:00
Phone reps, of course, have the difficulty of not being in physical contact with you. The others, though, my grandparents actually would tip house cleaners. Would get annoyed if we left out cash in the hotel, as "you should only do that if you are wanting the help staff to have it. And then, you should do it in an obvious way so that they don't feel like they are stealing." I distinctly remember them writing notes and leaving them with a tip on the desk.
by domrdy | 2025-08-01 14:41:23+00:00
I agree with you. I’ve failed many live-coding interviews because I start focusing on how the interviewer perceives me instead of the task at hand haha. Hiring managers still want to hear the candidate talk through a technical problem. I built a way for candidates to screen-record their take-home solution using only their microphone and screen share, with as many takes as they want. This lets hiring managers hear how candidates communicate and explain their technical implementations, a skill that matters on teams. But it means managers have to watch those videos. Many of our customers use it and candidates like it, but it still takes extra effort on the candidate’s and hiring managers part, with no guarantee that it will "pay off".
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-01 14:41:40+00:00
> I believe this model's output is noticeably superior

Sure, but at the same time Qwen3-30B-A3-2507 is also doing much better than most older models, even the bigger — and more capable — so I don't know how much is due to actual progress and how much is a new version of benchmaxxing.
by whodidntante | 2025-08-01 14:41:41+00:00
+1

For me, it goes even deeper than this. I prefer the person to write pseudo code on a whiteboard. It removes the stress of syntax, speeds things up, and shows if the person can think in computer logic.

The other advantage, for me as an interviewer, is this is how I like to work with others - whiteboard sessions to discuss and exchange ideas.
by LargeWu | 2025-08-01 14:42:08+00:00
The main reasons that international cash comes in is either speculation or offshoring money.

If the housing supply actually matched demand, the housing market becomes unattractive for speculation.

If foreigners are buying houses just to park their money, building more housing to meet the demand helps to alleviate that. This situation feels like a case where regulations designed to prevent housing supply from sitting empty can make sense but I have no evidence or story on how would need to be implemented to achieve that goal without negative unintended consequences.
by thevillagechief | 2025-08-01 14:42:10+00:00
I thought it was sarcasm, then got confused because people seemed to take it seriously. So I decided to try the prompt on Gemini 2.5: Pro just says it can't generate an SVG, Flash generates a petty great one. Whatever copilot is using is also good. So I just assume even the image generated is a joke? People are starting to make me doubt my abilities to identify sarcasm.
by mhb | 2025-08-01 14:42:34+00:00
Excerpts:

I-55. White Supremacy Culture “Educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege.”

I-63. Educational Reparations “The National Education Association believes that, in order to achieve racial and social justice for descendants of formerly enslaved peoples, educational reparations must be made.”
by sceptic123 | 2025-08-01 14:42:36+00:00
I'm pretty sure that's part of what stage manager is for — you can drag windows in the same stage and they operate how you want — but there's too much manual setup required for me to realistically suggest it as an alternative.

There are a bunch of third party tools you can use though, [AltTab](1) is free and tries to replicate windows experience on Mac. [Raycast](2) has a Switch Windows command which also allows direct access to any window via the keyboard (bind to alt+tab if you like) amongst many other features.

[1] https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ [2] https://www.raycast.com/
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-01 14:42:37+00:00
The underlying assumption is that of capitalism, that is, that things should be profitable or at least self-sustaining. But if you do that, things like the USPS donkey train [0] would be stripped, the US military would / should be reduced to a fraction of its current size or down to nothing, etc.

Independent news should be completely free from capitalist interests.

[0] https://facts.usps.com/8-mile-mule-train-delivery/
Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Modal
by pancakeguy | 2025-08-01 14:43:01+00:00
Hi all, we're Jake, Jack and Joe, and we're building the open-source alternative to modal labs.

We think Modal's great, and wanted to use it at our previous places of work, but weren't allowed to because it was too expensive, and our data couldn't leave our cloud.

This is why we built Burla, the open-source alternative to modal.

Burla can run any python function on 1000 computers in around 1 second. It works with any container, any hardware, and can be installed with one command (currently only compatible with Google Cloud).

Would love to hear any thoughts or suggestions! We're open to chatting: https://cal.com/jakez/burla
by v3lmx | 2025-08-01 14:43:07+00:00
1. I like the idea, but I would have two main concerns:

- on the reliability of the information, especially for very specific subjects

- on privacy, if you're using cloud LLMs, even if the data shared to the LLM is most likely not sensitive

2. I would expect a subscription for a service like this, but depending on the pricing of the LLM you use I don't know if you could turn a profit
by techjamie | 2025-08-01 14:43:10+00:00
The issue is, it's not feasible to enforce these sorts of bans because the internet is too vast. Yes, you can stop people from visiting PH or any of the big sites, but for every big porn sites, there will be thousands of fly by night ones looking to make a buck. Age verification laws create a market for such sites which can be ran out of jurisdictions that the law can't control.

So next, we better make the devices age gate their users with attestation and destroy people's ability to use open operating systems on the web. Maybe for good measure we tell ISPs to block any traffic to foreign sites unless the OS reports that attestation.

But people are using VPNs to bounce traffic to other countries anyway, so now we need to ban those. But people still send each other porn over encrypted channels so we need to make sure encrypted platforms implement our backdoor so we can read it all, on top of on-device scanning which further edges out any open source players left in the game.

At what point do we stop chasing the rabbit?
by pestat0m | 2025-08-01 14:43:17+00:00
i know it's included in the toot, but it feels like this thread should have the link to the act now site: https://chatcontrol.eu/

"The EU Commission proposes... ...Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence... ...network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world..."
by dangus | 2025-08-01 14:43:27+00:00
While I don’t disagree with you I find it to be a slippery slope to some extent.

Would you screen out Linus Torvalds because he hypothetically doesn’t want to come in to a physical office for an interview?

Hiring managers should think long and hard in a data-driven way about whether the office presence is so necessary that you are willing to miss out on the best candidates who have the luxury of being picky.

Is it true scientifically that an in-person interview day results in better candidate quality or is that just a vibe?

I think eliminating top talent who refuse to step foot in an office and are rare enough to be able to maintain that demand is a lot of quality people being left out of your talent pool. I thought during the pandemic we already proved by numerous studies that in-office workers are less productive.

My company philosophy would be more like, put the burden of identifying quality talent on the employer rather than the employee. Put the candidate through the minimum effort required to screen them and identify standout talent. Then when you find that standout talent you roll out the red carpet and focus on convincing them to work at your company.
by thimabi | 2025-08-01 14:43:51+00:00
> I find it astonishing that the same company providing free usage of their top models to everybody via AI Studio is nickel-and-diming their actual customers like that.

I agree that’s not a good posture, but it is entirely unsurprising.

Google is probably not profiting from AI Ultra customers either, and grabbing all that sweet usage data from the free tier of AI Studio is what matters most to improve their models.

Giving free access to the best models allows Google to capture market share among the most demanding users, which are precisely the ones that will be charged more in the future. In a certain sense, it’s a great way for Google to use its huge idle server capacity nowadays.
Show HN: Exploratory Policy – a policy simulation playground for complex systems
by jonas_kgomo | 2025-08-01 14:43:54+00:00
Hey HN. We’re the team behind Exploratory Policy—a causal-AI sandbox where policymakers, researchers, and curious citizens can test ideas before they ever hit the statute books.

What’s the problem? Traditional policy making is reactive. By the time lawmakers regulate a new tech wave, second- and third-order effects have already locked in. We end up with brittle rules that chase yesterday’s risks.

Live demos

- Causal Graph Analysis – tweak an edge weight and see the entire system re-equilibrate.

- Chain Reaction Simulator

- AI Policy Assistant – natural-language back-and-forth with citations to the underlying model

Looking for feedback:

- Which policy domains should we add next? (We’re eyeing housing, economic impact preparedness, and open-source AI).

- Any go-to datasets we should onboard quickly?

- How can we make the uncertainty bands more intuitive for non-quants?
by mattashii | 2025-08-01 14:44:00+00:00
The percentage of comments in line counts doesn't measure the quality of the comments, nor the quality of the codebase.

It's rather easy to get over 50% by putting a comment above each line of code, containing the output of an LLM that's asked "what does this line do" and supplied with exactly that line of code. It's much harder to make sure the comments make sense and actually add value.
by dlubarov | 2025-08-01 14:44:04+00:00
> Instead, he should have said over 12 months.

In addition to ~12 months turning into "48 hours", "children aged between six months and five years" turned in "babies", and "acute malnutrition" turned into "death".

When top UN officials are pushing blatant disinformation like this with no consequences, it's hard to know who to trust for unbiased information.

> B'tselem institute, who recently called the Israeli governments actions clearly genocidal

Considering that it's B'tselem, there was never really a possibility of them reaching a different position. I don't think they've ever pushed back on anti-Israeli propaganda, such as the UN statement above.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-01 14:44:16+00:00
> Amazoned

We have a data point.

I came from a world-class company, but it wasn't a MANGA, so I wasn't given the "implicit points" for coming from an environment with the right perfume. I was a radioactive 55-year-old. I almost never got to a second interview. As soon as someone figured out my age, the process stopped cold. I was usually ghosted.

As for coding interviews, I spend exactly zero time practicing. I've seldom practiced for tests, and have usually done well. I do pretty well, under stress. That's been my life, since I was 22, or so. I do suck at simple college tests, like balancing btrees, because I have never encountered one in my work. I do well at the stuff I encounter regularly.

As someone with no college degree, I found that absolutely no one has ever cut me slack, or given me the benefit of the doubt, so my entire career was having to prove myself, over and over again, with almost no room for error. I worked with top-shelf engineers and scientists, and they didn't really suffer fools.

Bit exhausting, frankly. But my entire adult life has been about getting high-Quality deliverables out the door, and being personally held to account for the work.

That doesn't really seem to be what today's companies want, though. Pissed me off, for a while, but it has ended up being a very good thing for me.
by dgb23 | 2025-08-01 14:45:07+00:00
There's some truth in that, and I support the idea of shifting the tax burden from work to wealth. But I also think this is too simplistic. Remember that Gary was a financial trader, so he has a zero sum game perspective.

The UK had a decades long phase where they built a ton of affordable housing (council housing). This program was largely dismantled under Thatcher. Also over time, building regulations became more restrictive in the wrong ways, which makes supply more expensive.

Regulation plays a large role. But the right keyword is "reform". The right outcomes don't just happen magically if you deregulate.

There are places where housing got drastically increased in recent years, like in Paris under Hidalgo (7000 units/year).
by Der_Einzige | 2025-08-01 14:45:11+00:00
"Some restaurants have tried this out, and it's backfired. "

Where I live, many restaurants have the "required 18% gratuity" thing and ask that you not tip beyond that. Maybe this is a PNW hippie specific thing, but a movement against tipping exists and is being ran by some good, successful, restaurants.
by mulletbum | 2025-08-01 14:45:45+00:00
How does something like this happening not make people immediately realize that the Republican party is not working for the people anymore? I don't think Dems are doing a bang up job, but this is something developed and deployed, 100% working, that only helps the American people navigate a complicated tax system. The only reason to get rid of it is to hurt the American people.
by walterbell | 2025-08-01 14:45:49+00:00
LLM, please create a techno-finance solution to this social problem, inspired by historical precedent for defending royalty and other high-value individuals against food poisoning.

> We can perform DNA and poison surveillance tests on delivered food. For statistical sampling, actual tips can be temporarily and randomly set to zero before delivery, which may or may not match the random deliveries that are chosen for screening. Positive test results will result in lifetime bans and proportionate penalty for system-wide discouragement of food tampering. An additional service fee will be imposed on every delivery to fund liability insurance for customer harm due to false negative results on tampered food delivery.

Non-technical solution: move to a location with high social trust, e.g. neighbors and workers know and support each other socially and economically.
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-01 14:46:06+00:00
I am currently interviewing candidates and so far about 50% of them used live GenAI to answer questions. I think so far it has been trivial to notice who was doing that. It takes very little to figure out if people know what they are talking about in a natural language conversation. Ironically, the last candidate I interviewed 2 days ago repeated all the questions back as well, and also needed 10-15 seconds to think after each and every question.

All of this to say, I don't think these tests are an optimal solution to this problem, since they also introduce new problems and cause good candidates to be discarded.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-01 14:46:19+00:00
Love it. There should be more longevity in software. I've worked at too many projects that was "just" a rewrite of something else, usually due to legacy issues / dropped support (e.g. no support for Flex on iOS, libraries/frameworks no longer being maintained, etc).

I'm a big fan of the Go programming language because of this, but also by extension of "boring technology" (https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology). It's hard to be able to make an impact in this regard in the B2C projects I usually have though.
by RamblingCTO | 2025-08-01 14:46:20+00:00
Hot take: it's the right decision. Why? I'm scoping my opinion on copyrighted material only. A state that is a lawful state follows its own laws. That includes copyright laws most of us don't like. So yes, I think that was the right decision for this court (as it's not the constitutional court of Belgium afaict) as it holds up the laws of Belgium and defends the rights of copyright holders (which can be individuals as well, not only evil corporation extortionists).

I know that there is a slippery slope here, but we need to change laws and make systems that are resilient against censorship. That's the only long term solution imho.

Let's be honest: it's piracy. They are not banning books. They're fighting illegal distribution. Just use a VPN and pirate the books. We gotta be honest to ourselves here.
by VikingMiner | 2025-08-01 14:46:55+00:00
The mistake you are making is that you are taking a LinkedIn post at face value. The LinkedIn post is rage/engagement bait.

The problems are usually harder e.g. write a Roman Numeral Converter in 25 minutes that satisfies these tests. Just setting up a test project in Visual Studio and then installing the Nuget packages can take few minutes (You will need to install XUnit/NUnit. So in reality you only have 20 minutes to do it).

One of the ones I had. I didn't understand. I sent the test to several other contractors I know after snapping a screenshot. I literally said "Am I being dumb?" to the group and all of them said said they didn't understand it either.

Sometimes the machine isn't setup the way you are used to, different version of the IDE, keyboard bindings are wrong. So you end up fighting the IDE setup or faffing with settings in the interview.

Then some of the reasons your code is rejected (especially TDD places) is because you didn't use some over-engineered language features e.g I had feedback on some code where I didn't use some Functional Enumerator Constructor thingy. Apparently using a foreach loop is too simple.

All of this adds to your stress level.