MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-24 19:39:32+00:00
>"if I could not resist, it means that anyone else of my station or below could also not resist"

"All ten of my friends gladly confess this crime of having been Germans in Germany." —p164

Related quote, with the teacher and the taylor (opposite ends of "Nazi spectrum") in agreement that the pro-Nazi mentality was pervasive.

>"Adolf Hitler was good for Germany—in my [ten] friends' view—up until 1943, 1941, or 1939, depending upon the individual" –p69
by backflippinbozo | 2025-09-24 19:40:20+00:00
Looks just like our post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132898

Which we're presenting on tomorrow at 9am PST https://calendar.app.google/3soCpuHupRr96UaF8

Difference is we've put this out months ago: https://x.com/smellslikeml/status/1958495101153357835

About to get PR #908 merged so anyone can use one of the nearly 1K Docker images we've already built: https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-browse/pull/908

We've been publishing about this all Summer on Substack and Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1loj134/arxiv2d...
by garbthetill | 2025-09-24 19:40:34+00:00
There is a category called incremental reading,you can find more elegant techniques if you look into it.

My method is more primitive, I first get a simple overview of the topic (LLMs are great at this). Once I have a feel , i flick through the material book/paper highlight important info that stands out or info that I want to remember and personally for me, Im not trying to understand things as I highlight, once I'm done a chapter or a big section, I pull out my anki and start making questions against the highlighted parts.

When Im making questions, usually I make one questions that corresponds directly and I use the highlighted part as the answer with minimum change expect for readability and then I make several other questions that takes different parts of the highlighted answer, so that I can have an almost lego like breakdown of questions that can help me recall the "bigger question", also I make sure the questions arent to direct and force my brain to think and retrieve the answer

I hope this helps, this is the article that inspired me to read this way: https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-24 19:40:34+00:00
> It's been 5 years since an airline has lost checked luggage for me.

It hasn't even been two weeks for me, although my luggage arrived the next day. I remember on Slashdot hearing the advice of always packing a firearm (even a starter pistol) in checked luggage when traveling domestically—not only is it legal, but the BATFE gets involved if the airline loses your luggage, so the airline is very careful not to lose your luggage.
by Lerc | 2025-09-24 19:41:36+00:00
I think there is a bit of disconnect between people knowing what is possible and what people fear might be doable.

It's entirely possible that there are good non technical reasons for believing who was behind this while being technically incorrect about what it was that they intended to do.

Some of the more fanciful notions might be unlikely. Some of the evidence is only relevent in context. The distance from the UN is not terribly compelling on its own, the significance of the area of potential impact containing the UN is only because of the timing.

A state action might be for what might seem to be quite mundane reasons. One possible scenario would be if a nation feared an action suddenly called for by other states and they just want to cause a disrupting delay to give them time to twist some arms. Disruptions to buy time like this are relatively common in politics, the unusual aspect would be taking a technical approach.
by serbuvlad | 2025-09-24 19:42:03+00:00
I recently started using Codex (OpenAI's Claude Code) and it has a VSCode extension that works like a charm. I tried out Windsurf a while ago. And the Codex extension simply does everything that Windsurf did. I guess it doesn't show changes at well, (it shows diffs in it's own window instead of in the file), but I can just check a git diff graphically (current state vs. HEAD) if I really wanted that.

I am really tempted to buy ChatGPT Pro, and probably would have if I lived in a richer country (unfortunetley purchase power parity doesn't equalize for tech products). The problem with Windsurf (and presumably Cursor and others) is that you buy the IDE subscription and then still have to worry about usage costs. With Codex/Claude Code etc., yeah, it's expensive, but, as long as you're within the usage limits, which are hopefully reasonable for the most expensive prices, you don't have to worry about it. AND you get the web and phone apps with GPT 5 Pro, etc.
by Ifkaluva | 2025-09-24 19:42:19+00:00
I guess it’s worse in the sense of providing health benefits, but it’s better in the sense that more people would freely choose it if given the choice.

It’s the same as junk food, people will freely choose it over healthier options.

Basically, products on the free market optimize for what people prefer to buy, and people’s preferences are shaped by evolution to a world in which physical rest and high-calorie foods were scarce. This makes us mismatched to the modern landscape.
by overfeed | 2025-09-24 19:42:30+00:00
> legitimate interconnect in the US is stupid cheap

This is a to take advantage of "free calls to North America" provided by MVNOs, and free < cheap. Twilio starts at $0.01/min; 1 cent/minute x 200 lines results in a delta of $2.8k per day. I'm assuming a 20% utilization rate[1] on a device that holds 1000 SIMs

Further, it's a way to bypass STIR/SHAKEN requirements for a less-than-legitimate VOIP termination operations, which can attract paying customers that want to evade detection, typically criminal endeavors.

1. 20% utilization is pretty generous, but even if its 2%, not using Twilio is profitable at scale.
by seevee | 2025-09-24 19:42:35+00:00
Gardening. Just being outside and getting my hands in the soil keeps the happy chemicals flowing.

Lots of opportunity for tech integration as well - between weather/temp/moisture sensing, plant identification, irrigation timing, and season planning, I'm generating loads of data and making better choices over time as a result.

It's so important to have hobbies for personal fulfillment. PSA for past me and future others: not everything needs to be a side hustle!
by baby | 2025-09-24 19:42:41+00:00
I loved these books so much I wrote part of my book's first chapter[1] in the same style. Here's an excerpt:

> In all the years I’ve spent studying and working with cryptography, I’ve never noticed a single pattern in which a cryptographic primitive ends up being used in real-world applications. Things are pretty chaotic. Before a theoretical primitive gets to be adopted, there’s a long list of people who get to handle the primitive and shape it into something consumable and sometimes safer for the public at large. How can I even explain that to you?

> Have you heard of Choose Your Own Adventure? It’s an old book series where you got to pick how you want to step through the story. The principle was simple: you read the first section of the book; at the end of the section, the book lets you decide on the path forward by giving you different options. Each option was associated with a different section number that you could skip directly to if you so chose. So, I did the same here! Start by reading the next paragraph and follow the direction it gives you.

> Where it all begins. Who are you? Are you Alice, a cryptographer? Are you David, working in the private industry and in need of a solution to your problems? Or are you Eve, working in a government branch and preoccupied by cryptography?

> You’re Alice, go to step 1.

> You’re David, go to step 2.

> You’re Eve, go to step 3.

> ...

(you can read that for free I believe)

[1]: https://livebook.manning.com/book/real-world-cryptography/ch...
by bob1029 | 2025-09-24 19:42:58+00:00
> Across the board, execs seem more efficiency-focused, financialized, and less mission-driven

The last point is what I've been experiencing the most.

I walked away from a job because it became clear that the other leaders in the organization were hopelessly lost with regard to mission. The wild part is they weren't even chasing money, efficiency, etc. They were chasing some kind of weird internal management/org chart tribalism with zero value-add. All for a 10~20 person company. None of this was a problem before 2020. We were aggressively customer oriented and very agile with the product stack.

I think covid got a lot of people trapped in really bad "lifestyle choices" that are effectively impossible to get away from. The consequences of these things extend far beyond the person who engages with them. The more employees and capital you are responsible for the worse all of this gets. I wish our culture was more open to the idea of being honest about all of this and getting help. Imagine how beneficial it could be for other employees in the same company to know their CEO isnt some inhuman freak by way of a frank and honest internal email. To know that the last 3 years of your life wasnt you taking crazy pills, it was literally them taking crazy pills. The other employees might even be compelled to seek out similar help under this kind of leadership.
by skybrian | 2025-09-24 19:42:58+00:00
That would be an interesting court case. I'm doubtful that companies will be held to agreements that they didn't even see and even their bots didn't explicitly agree to?

This isn't even like a shrinkwrap license where the bot would have to press the "I agree" button.

Cloudflare's other initiative where they help websites to block bots seems more likely to work.

On the other hand if an LLM sees this then maybe it will be confused by it.
by mnemotronic | 2025-09-24 19:43:00+00:00
I'm a little vague on how this works.

So the "bad guys" have loads of SIM cards installed into machines that can make calls or send SMS text messages, right? Doesn't each SIM card require an account with a cell phone provider in order to access "the phone network"? If not then are they getting free cell service and how do I sign up with that (ahem) provider? If so then how were those sim cards paid for? Can we follow the money?
by skayvr | 2025-09-24 19:43:08+00:00
Funnily enough, I saw this too. Yesterday I upgraded from ghostty 1.0.0 to 1.2.0 and was hit with startup delay. 1.0.0 didn't have it. My delay was around 5s on a fresh reboot. However, after I opened a few ghostty windows, the delay went away. I'll be keeping my eye on it.
by kronicum2025 | 2025-09-24 19:43:29+00:00
In such cases, you do need to switch between methods. If you already know how to deal with origin, then getting to origin can be done with a normal stepper. Decide how low you are okay with your step to go. Set that as your target `t_target` which would typically be a very small number. Approach that number with normal stepping methods and then once you are there, start your series solve.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-09-24 19:44:34+00:00
well, and let's be honest - most CEOs and boards get the same advice from the same advisors and peers. and the advice since Elon took over Twitter (not that I can say he "started it" but it was around that time I started hearing C-suites say he was right to let everyone go) has been to implement more draconic policies at your software companies.

that interest rates have been higher and liquidity in general has been tight created a perfect storm of bias that these policies are working or could be beneficial. in better times, a company with good funding and a healthy customer base would come through and eat everyone's lunch if their competitors were treating their devs like that. but because of the temporary complete collapse in competition as we've known it, especially amongst startups, this has gone on far longer than it typically would.

it'll get better soon but we've lost an entire generation of technical leadership now (due to burnout and other factors) so it'll be a slow and turbulent recovery.
Show HN: I built a pocket dimension for notes and context in LLM-space
by shredprez | 2025-09-24 19:44:57+00:00
I've been building a bunch of little apps with AI tools for the last few months and find myself constantly passing research, plans, and working frameworks between tools and projects. At this point it's become one of the more time-consuming parts of my creative process and gets in the way of the parts I enjoy, so I built a tool to make it easier.

It's up where anyone can use it and it's free — if people find it useful and want more than the basic level of daily usage I can afford to cover myself, I'll think about offering a paid tier.

Here's how it works:

1. You sign up and get your own notes space (using github for ID, not code access) 2. You connect your tools (this is one-click for Cursor and VS Code, copy-paste for Claude Code, and a couple of clicks for Claude) 3. Use your tools as usual, letting them know when and what to store in your space 4. Any of your connected tools can then look for relevant notes while they work (or you can tell them to reference specific notes anytime)

It's pretty flexible, so I'm still exploring what it's best for. Right now I'm using it to store and retrieve .rules files and commands I re-use regularly, pass project plans between the Claude (where I brainstorm throughout the day) and Cursor on my laptop (where I write and generate code), and have llms working in separate codebases store shared knowledge they both need.

The stack for the service includes... - Supabase for auth + storage - Next.js + shadcn for the web app - A MCP server to handle LLM<->DB communication

Happy to answer any questions folks have and would love to hear what anyone who gives it a try thinks (good and bad)
by k310 | 2025-09-24 19:45:04+00:00
What that locked (private) data entails.

> What makes this vast private data uniquely valuable is its quality and real-world grounding. This data includes electronic health records, financial transactions, industrial sensor readings, proprietary research data, customer/population databases, supply chain information, and other structured, verified datasets that organizations use for operational decisions and to gain competitive advantages. Unlike web-scraped data, these datasets are continuously validated for accuracy because organizations depend on them, creating natural quality controls that make even a small fraction of this massive pool extraordinarily valuable for specialized AI applications.

Will there be a data exchange where one can buy and sell data, or even commododata markets, where one can hedge/speculate on futures?

Asking for a friend.
by staplers | 2025-09-24 19:45:18+00:00
Definitely plays a huge part in expectations and burnout when the roadmap flips halfway through a quarter because suddenly we need to court VCs or trim staff or whatever the fed/gov decides.

The snip-snapping is wreaking havoc on products and you see it everywhere from price hikes to low-quality ux and bug-filled code as teams adjust and pivot constantly.

Even worse this leads to less enthusiasm and focus as teams expect it more so they buy-in less.
by lapcat | 2025-09-24 19:45:47+00:00
> The argument apparently being that any change at all, if it was first made on iOS, must inherently be a sign that the two platforms are merging

You know, it's frustrating when people just flippantly assume that someone who has been a professional Mac developer for 19 years could be so stupid. I'm not stupid.

Did you notice when I said in the blog post, "as we've seen repeatedly [emphasis added] since then" and "Apple is continuing [emphasis added] to merge iOS and macOS"? Also when I said, referring to the embedded video, "This rhetorical question was presumably in response to widespread criticism." So the impression that Apple was merging iOS and macOS was already out there years ago.

My criticism should be understood in the context, which is that Apple has been merging iOS and macOS for years, in many different ways, and this is just the latest example. I couldn't even enumerate all of the examples, because there have been so many. So no, the argument does not hang on this one example. It's an argument I've been making since at least Mac OS X Lion, 14 years ago.

I don't expect you to know my full history. However, I expect comments to follow the HN guidelines, which say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

> I'd assume that any logic that holds for it being a good idea when applied on iOS would apply just as well on macOS.

Why would you assume this? The two platforms are very different in physical characteristics.

This is a principal objection to merging the platforms, especially merging the user interfaces. What makes sense for a tiny touch screen doesn't necessarily make sense for a much larger screen with keyboard and mouse input.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-24 19:46:19+00:00
Right, I've had train companies put me in a taxi, and just eat the price of a taxi to wherever because if you want to sell tickets to travel to X, and then oops you can't get me to X well, I didn't buy your "regret" that you can't do that - I bought travel to X, so if that's still possible you'd better make it happen and too bad if that's not profitable.
by duxup | 2025-09-24 19:46:25+00:00
>The streamer would not elaborate on the reasons for the last-minute change but The Savant’s subject matter is believed to be behind it, with the storyline about preventing extremist attacks and some of the imagery considered possibly triggering following the Sept. 10 assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk. The series includes a sniper in action and the bombing of a government building among other acts of violence.

So uh ... I guess that reason.

Not really sure without seeing the show how on the nose the events in the show are, or are not.
by panzi | 2025-09-24 19:46:27+00:00
On the web you can most of the time select text. You can at least inspect the element and copy the text that way. But in GUI programs very often you cant. There are these labels that cant be selected or copied. Especially frustrating for error messages. In e.g. KDE you actually can copy error messages! So that is great! I was told that under Windows you can do it simply by pressing Ctrl+C when the message box is open. That isn't very discoverable. Anyone know if that was always possible in Windows? Last I used was XP.

Also reminds me of that Jonathan Blow video where he fights the Visual Studio debugger and can't copy a value.
by pnathan | 2025-09-24 19:46:29+00:00
I would concur. It's my observation from 20 years of watching and participating - the volunteers are the retired, the wealthy, the underemployed, and the stay at home parent. "Normal" working people are not volunteering and handling the complexity of doing these things, they are at their work. I can only imagine that prior generations had the working parent participate through the free time freed up by the stay at home parent.

It suggests to me that there is a long running flaw. I believe Bowling Alone pegs the inflection point in the late 50s or early 60s, ('57?) and the substantative issues came about with the generation hitting the workforce in something like 1960. So the kids born in the 1935-1945 era had something in their culture materially different than prior eras that kept on spreading.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-24 19:46:37+00:00
> If you really need to translate ONE WORD, it's not that onerous to type it.

I just spent several weeks traveling in a country where I have no ability to either type or name any of the characters in the alphabet. Yes, it'd be onerous.

Some of the websites I had to deal with also prevented text selection, or presented text as images.
by syrusakbary | 2025-09-24 19:48:06+00:00
We are actually going on another direction.

Philosophically speaking I believe we should not require a special version of pip to install packages, nor a "lite" version of Jupyter to run in WebAssembly.

We should be able to run Jupyter fully within the Wasmer ecosystem without requiring any changes on the package (to run either in the browser or the server).
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-24 19:48:18+00:00
I used to print paper tickets so I could get into a show if my phone died / got broken / etc. That doesn't happen often, to be sure, but I also don't want phone bullshit to keep me out of a show that, in the case of this recent one, I have >$500 in tickets for. One less dependency is a good thing.

More to the point, the app isn't for my convenience. It doesn't do anything to make my experience better.
by hmokiguess | 2025-09-24 19:48:31+00:00
Yeah exactly this! I get they want to stay in the game and follow the market, but I’m sad they’re not being more aggressive on that original vision. I still think there could be a huge payoff for them if they invested more on their brand and aesthetics of a more polished and comfy editor.

The way I see it, we’re sort of living in a world where UX is king. (Looking at you Cursor)

I feel like there’s a general sentiment where folks just want a sense of home with their tools more than anything. Yes they need to work, but they also need to work for you in your way. Cursor reinvented autocomplete with AI and that felt like home for most, what’s next? I see so much focus on Agents but to me personally that feels more like it should live on the CI/CD layer of things. Editors are built for humans, something isn’t quite there yet, excited to see how it unfolds.
by wiradikusuma | 2025-09-24 19:49:32+00:00
Launching is hard. I put my own side project on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345623 a few days ago and it got exactly zero traction. At first it stung, but then I checked https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew and realized: someone launches something literally every few minutes. The odds are just stacked.

Whether it's Product Hunt, HN, or even LinkedIn (I actually saw better response there lol), it feels like everyone's throwing spaghetti at the same wall at the same time. Pre-internet, that spaghetti was launch parties and press releases. Same energy, same lottery odds.

What seems to work better is launching to people who already know you (e.g. your list), who have the problem you're solving, and are actually waiting for your product. Everything else is just noise.
by dsr_ | 2025-09-24 19:49:39+00:00
Ah, but "sugarpimpdorsey" says that "echo chambers like lobsters and cesspools of the deranged like BlueSky" ban him.

Is it your contention that lobsters and bluesky are run by the same or allied cliques? Perhaps it is more likely that someone who chooses that username might repeatedly act in ways which confirm to them that everyone else is a jerk?
by chaseadam17 | 2025-09-24 19:49:44+00:00
Yes, one $100M loan in isolation is risky (I was just giving an example), but my point was that a portfolio of a small number of large loans to big businesses is much more profitable than a portfolio of many more smaller loans to small businesses. Large companies are much less likely to go bankrupt and the overhead of making the loan relative to the profit from interest is much lower. 50% of small businesses go bankrupt in the first 5 years. It's simply less profitable to lend to them...
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-09-24 19:49:54+00:00
Big data's no true scotsman problem:

> Despite what their name might suggest, so-called “large language models” (LLMs) are trained on relatively small datasets.1 2 3 For starters, all the aforementioned measurements are described in terms of terabytes (TBs), which is not typically a unit of measurement one uses when referring to “big data.” Big data is measured in petabytes (1,000 times larger than a terabyte), exabytes (1,000,000 times larger), and sometimes zettabytes (1,000,000,000 times larger).