MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kccqzy | 2025-09-26 18:01:15+00:00
As for the second avenue subway, you should take a look at the stations built. They are large, cathedral-like with full-length mezzanines full of grandeur. I'm not saying it's money well spent, but it's definitely a case where aesthetics is prioritized. In comparison most other subway stations are just overly utilitarian. Or take a look at the WTC Oculus station; that station alone cost $4 billion to build and is now so pleasing to look at that it's a tourist attraction on its own.
by igor47 | 2025-09-26 18:01:18+00:00
I have my own site. But the people love engagement - it motivates a lot of content creation. Back in the day we had web log rings and WordPress comments, but that stuff is dead on the modern web, it's too adversarial an environment. My blog has no meaningful engagement, I don't even know if anyone ever reads it. It works for me since I write primarily for myself, but this is just not the case for most people
by chrisvenum | 2025-09-26 18:01:43+00:00
While I like using AI for assisting with repetitive programming, I can’t help but feel sorry for my producer and illustrator friends who are now having to compete with generated tools.

Is it snobby of me to look down upon art that is created using these tools as lesser because the human did not make every tiny decision going into a peice? That a persons taste and talent is no longer fully used to produce something and for someone reason to me what is what makes the art impressive and meaningful?

Something about art with imperfections still feels exciting, maybe even more so than if I see something that is perfect but if I see an AI gen picture with 6 fingers, I just write it all off as slop.

I am happy to allow my generated code to come from “training data” but I see the use of AI in art, writing and music as using stolen artists hard work.

I feel like as time goes on, I feel even more conflicted about it all.
by hinkley | 2025-09-26 18:01:47+00:00
I was merged onto a team because we decided to put more wood behind fewer arrows. So I was the Outsider but with seniority and pull (people loved my project and thought we did great, we just couldn’t sell it.)

One of the first big problems I solved was almost by accident. We had a backend and a frontend team and we kept missing deadlines because they would work separately on features and the two wouldn’t mate up so we’d have to do another couple iterations to make everything work and “work” belonged in air quotes because things were hammered to fit.

The biggest of the problems encountered here was data dependencies in the inputs resulting in loops in the APIs where you couldn’t get one piece of data without another, and vice versa. So we started drawing data dependency diagrams during the planning meetings as an experiment, instead of diagramming the data structures, and the problem went away basically overnight.
by philipkglass | 2025-09-26 18:02:00+00:00
I think you may be right. It's hard for me to find then-contemporary benchmarks from 20 years ago, but this snarky Register article mentions it indirectly:

https://www.theregister.com/2004/01/27/have_a_reality_check_...

SPECjbb2000 (an important enterprise server benchmark): Itanic holds a slim (under 3%) lead over AMD64 at the 4-processor node size and another slim (under 4%) lead over POWER4+ at the 32-processor node size - hardly 'destroying' the competition, once again.

It was slightly faster than contemporary high-performance processors on Java. It was also really good at floating point performance. It was also significantly more expensive than AMD64 for server applications if you could scale your servers horizontally instead of vertically.
by scosman | 2025-09-26 18:02:03+00:00
If anyone's interested in synthetic data generation, we've built a fully interactive visual tool for SDG. It supports generating hierarchical topic trees like other tools, but we do two things others don't:

First: fully interactive UI. This might sound unnecessary, but synthetic data is a creative and iterative process. It helps to review each step as you go, tweaking prompts. Are the topics right? Are the inputs realistic? Are the outputs reasonable? Once your prompts are dialed in, you can scale up the volume, but there's a creative iterative process to get there.

Second: we have many templates for common synthetic data gen use cases. For fine-tuning you want to focus on the breadth of realistic inputs. For "bug" evals you want to trigger specific error cases based on a description of the issue. For measuring evaluators/LLM judges you need a topic tree mixing passing and failing data. We also provide templates for common use cases: bias, maliciousness, toxicity, jailbreaking, etc. These are good to bootstrap the creative process above, but you can edit each to meet your needs.

It's a free app on GitHub. Docs and videos: https://docs.kiln.tech/docs/synthetic-data-generation
by card_zero | 2025-09-26 18:02:33+00:00
Lies, or bullshit? I mean, a guessing game like "how many marbles" is a context that allows for easy lying, but "I wasn't even in town on the night of the murder" is harder work. It sounds like you're refering to some study of the marbles variety, and not a test of smooth-talking, the LLM forte.
by recursive | 2025-09-26 18:02:49+00:00
You can. We know the properties of materials based on experimentation. In the same way, we can statistically quantify the results that come out of any kind of spaghetti box, based on repeated trials. Just like it's done in many other fields. Science is based on repeated testing of hypotheses. You rarely get black and white answers, just results that suggest things. Like the tensile strength of some particular steel alloy or something.
by PeterStuer | 2025-09-26 18:02:56+00:00
It is always possible. Even if you do not need any permissions to access the AndroidID, nobody forces you, the app seller, to use it.

I have worked as an enterprise integratation architect in highly regulated environments. Sometimes you reuse interfaces that give you tons of info you are not supposed to have access to. You sign contracts that you will never look at this (dump it at the interface layer). This is acceptible in compliance.

Chances that in this case the app does not hover up all it can? 0%
by acomjean | 2025-09-26 18:03:18+00:00
I can’t say much about fedora But pop os is not bleeding edge or glitzy. It’s kind of a workhorse distribution. I like Pop!os, despite its strange name.

I’ve used it pre installed at work/ home and installed on a work machine to get the nvidia card working after being unable with the original Ubuntu OS. Pop is basically Ubuntu so software that works on Ubuntu works on pop. It’s pretty bullet proof.

The “pop shop” (oddly named installer program where you don’t spend money) has a lot of the open source applications with one click install.

I think both Fedora and Popos can be run via usb stick if you want to try them out.
by mwala-zm | 2025-09-26 18:03:23+00:00
Katara is a reverse job board that puts developers in control. Instead of applying to jobs, developers create a profile and let companies come to them. Whether you're actively looking or simply open to hearing from interesting teams, Katara helps you get discovered by businesses that value your work.

Why we built Katara

Most job platforms were designed for employers. Developers end up sending many applications and rarely hear back. It’s inefficient, frustrating, and often leads to missed opportunities. We built Katara to flip that model. Instead of chasing jobs, web developers can showcase their skills, experience, and preferences — and let opportunities come to them. Companies reach out directly, knowing what you’re interested in and what matters to you.

Features

Developers are give a showcase section where their projects can be displayed, cos resume's can be full of lies and are a shitty way to explain how you are the right person for the job.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-26 18:03:33+00:00
> as you have to keep adjusting the index to the algorithm and/or what is actually going on underneath.

Yeah, that's mixing both of them. Wouldn't it work as well if they all used 1-based indexing or 0-based indexing? Sounds like the issue was that algorithms/stuff underneath wasn't 1-based.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-26 18:03:40+00:00
we spent decades dying to "measured improvements". I don't like what my peers did about the fact that they're angry or what in particular they demanded but I don't begrudge them being angry or demanding something. You can only bullshit people about their basic living conditions for so long and long ago our political class gave up on the idea of working for people as their raison d'etre and decided instead that their job was to give us as little as it takes in order to get our votes and then use the power we give them to funnel money back to their donors. The mistake wasn't in realzing that the "left" wasn't on their side, it was in thinking that the right was just because they were the ones who pointed out how feckless, entitled and self-absorbed the center-right elitists that pass themselves off as the left had become.
by UltraSane | 2025-09-26 18:04:10+00:00
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tesla-autopilot-crash-t...

Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash

The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-09-26 18:04:46+00:00
We also don't know much about these so called purchasing contracts either.

For example. do they contain sustainment services, maintenance equipment, storage facilities, or other sourcing requirements?

When using federal funds, you're generally required to purchase all American products, I remember trying to furnish an office with just two desks and four chairs (nothing fancy), and the initial cost estimates were over six thousand dollars. When we acquired private funding, we were able to get everything under two thousand, you can see the same pricing with Zoom hardware as a service leasing prices as well, they're leasing some equipment almost at twice the cost due (as far as I know) to all American sourcing.

I'm not questioning the sourcing restrictions, but trying to point out that it's a little more than the education level of the staff only.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-09-26 18:04:49+00:00
Seriously, topic like this are either commented as:

1. This is an inevitable problem that is being handled in a sensible manner by competent engineers.

2. X company is stupid and their engineers are stupid only someone as smart as I would be capable of doing it right

It tells a lot about the mental maturity of each participant. Not a single comment is "Maybe I don't know enough about this to voice an informed opinion", although that's probably a good indiucator.
by cyberax | 2025-09-26 18:05:05+00:00
I worked in Linux kernel-level land.

Calling it "optimized" is a stretch. A veeeery big one. The low-level code in some paths is highly optimized, but the overall kernel architecture still bears the scars of C.

The most popular data structure in the kernel land is linked list. AKA the most inefficient structure for the modern CPUs. It's so popular because it's the only data structure that is easy to use in C.

The most egregious example is the very core of Linux: the page struct. The kernel operates on the level of individual pages. And this is a problem in case you need _a_ _lot_ of pages.

For example, when you hibernate the machine, the hibernation code just has a loop that keeps grabbing swap-backed pages one by one and writing the memory to them. There is no easy way to ask: "give me a list of contiguous free page blocks". Mostly because these kinds of APIs are just awkward to express in C, so developers didn't bother.

There is a huge ongoing project to fix it (folios). It's been going for 5 years and counting.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-09-26 18:05:07+00:00
Could this level of incompetence be more easily explained by malice? Maybe the robots were meant to be exploited at a future time. The PRC subsidizes the robots, every US family buys one, a plausibly deniable exploit results in the robots subduing their owners with Kung Fu. America is vanquished in a bloodless coup. A 1000 year global Chinese imperium ensues. Forks and spoons hardest hit.

It’s just silly enough to be real.
by bschne | 2025-09-26 18:05:33+00:00
> Inbound marketing is pretty explicitly about creating high quality content that builds a business's credibility, making prospects more likely to want to engage and buy from said business

Well, yeah, I agree and would probably pursue it like this if I was running a business. However I get the impression that is not what happened at many places that adopted the approach, including one I've previously worked for.
by gprok | 2025-09-26 18:05:46+00:00
Hey there!

Thanks for the kind words on the design!

Right now, the grid layout and preview size is kind of fixed. But you're right that there isn't an option to manually configure it to a specific layout like "five columns of eight icons."

Making the preview size or the grid customisable is definitely on the roadmap. I've already been playing around with options during development, and it will likely come in a future version :)
Show HN: Pablo, Use Nano Banana in Photoshop
by Fraaaank | 2025-09-26 18:05:50+00:00
We built Pablo, a Photoshop plugin that lets you use Nano Banana (aka Gemini Flash 2.5 image) directly inside Photoshop

There’s been a lot of chatter online that, because of AI, “Photoshop is dead.” We disagree. It's true that AI editing makes photo editing more accessible, however, we believe these tools are most powerful when used by professionals inside professional workflows. Pablo is our way of bridging that gap.

There's a demo video on trypablo.com. We’ll be adding support for new models in the coming days, but we wanted to share early and get feedback from the HN community!
by logifail | 2025-09-26 18:05:53+00:00
> about half your costs are the bus driver

(Genuine question) is this true around the globe, or is that US-specific?

We were in Portugal over the summer and travelled with Flixbus (for the first time ever) to get from Porto to Lisbon. Were impressed by the high-quality service and great value for money. Wonder how much the driver makes per hour?
by Tobs40 | 2025-09-26 18:06:09+00:00
Author here.

The position is White to move, so even if the b2 pawn was not pinned by a white queen to the black king, it could not move. The b2 pawn is necessary to shield the black king from checks as this position is White to move - otherwise it would be illegal.

Also, rest assured, I checked everything thoroughly. There is indeed no way to squeeze out more than 218 legal moves for White here, but it's fun to try and I'm glad that people actually care about my article, didn't expect that, haha ^^
by ruszki | 2025-09-26 18:06:29+00:00
With your logic, everything can be used, or change to be used in a bad way, so nothing should be changed. There is never a guarantee. Seriously, is there anything which cannot be changed to be shit, in the best case to be a worthless money pit?

Edit: btw this proposal already has something which can be criticised: ID on mobile phones… so probably they’d lock everybody into a duopoly.
by superkuh | 2025-09-26 18:07:31+00:00
Wow! Does this mean that Firefox can re-enable self-signed certs for it's HTTP/3 stack since it's using a custom implementation and not someone elses big QUIC lib and default build flags anymore? That'd be a huge win for human people and their typical LAN use cases. Even if the corporate use cases don't want it for 'security' reasons.
by danabramov | 2025-09-26 18:07:43+00:00
Right, which is why the article makes the point that it’s invisible to the end user several times.

That’s also why it frames the benefits in the concrete way that shows up in the products — like products being able to riff on each other’s data.

My audience for this article is slightly technical so I put some focus on the technical parts. I don’t try to avoid mentioning the “protocol” for the same reason why teaching to make websites involves mentioning HTTP.

I 100% agree with you though and that’s important for broader communication. What people care about are good products.
by ta12653421 | 2025-09-26 18:07:53+00:00
Congrats, this is actually a very HUGE achievement, and by far already on a production level that nearly no projects of 17yo reach, really impressive!!! (When i was 17 we tried to build a game as a sideproject for years, eventually all the source was destroyed due to some malware attack and had no backups :-D)

You should grow this larger and then just sell it to one of the bigger providers , they can integrate it as a function for their customers (or you do somme whitelabeling for it towards some bigger providers)

Great!
by fasbiner | 2025-09-26 18:08:07+00:00
You're being downvoted because that's not a slippery slope argument familiar to the mostly US-based readership and it's hard to tell if you're crazy or not.

Ie, the US identifies very strongly with three wars (revolutionary, civil, and ww2) where military force was a necessary but not sufficient condition. Ie, the US lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan despite having a far more favorable balance of military forces because they could never find a political solution. If you were taught that wars are won by force alone, you were miseducated.
by Tobs40 | 2025-09-26 18:09:56+00:00
Author here!

Did you read the entire article?

It's 271.666... moves, not 271.0 :) This bound comes from model where whole decisions (0 or 1) are relaxed to continuous ones (0.0 to 1.0 and anything in between), e.g. a piece can only be 0.23 there and only be 0.843 able to make a particular move. The advantage of this black magic is that it is way faster to compute and only overestimates the number of moves - hence we can use that to prove away bad partial solutions. Without a technique of this kind, searching the solution space would be absolutely intractable!
by menaerus | 2025-09-26 18:10:10+00:00
> That sentiment will be the same for doctors, lawyers, etc., and personally, I won't put my life in the hands of any LLMs when it comes to finances, health, or personal well-being, for that matter.

I mean, did you try it for those purposes?

I have personally submitted an appeal to court for an issue I was having for which I would otherwise have to search almost indefinitely for a lawyer to be even interested into it.

I also debugged health opportunities from different angles using the AI and was quite successful at it.

I also experimented with the well-being topic and it gave me pretty convincing and mind opening suggestions.

So, all I can say is that it worked out pretty good in my case. I believe its already transformative in a ways we wouldn't be able even to envision couple years ago.
by archagon | 2025-09-26 18:10:21+00:00
Wow, I didn’t realize that DHH had gone off the rails* into full-on white nationalism: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

It’s fucked how normalized this sort of “Britain/US for Whites” rhetoric has become over the last few years. London is and always will be a global city. And praising Tommy Robinson as some sort of hero surely involves a degree of brain damage.
by TuxSH | 2025-09-26 18:10:30+00:00
That's because Rust doesn't have constructors/assignment operators, is it not? Because of that, all objects are trivially relocatable (sort of, because Rust allows destructors for these objects, I guess).

And strict aliasing is not a concern due to Rust's aliasing models, thus the combination of the two makes it safe to type-pun like that. But Rust's models has its downsides/is a tradeoff, so...

I don't particularly mind the C++ object model (since C++20), it makes sense after all: construct your object if it needs to, or materalize it through memcpy/bit_cast. std::start_lifetime_as should fix the last remaining usability issue about the model.
by toast0 | 2025-09-26 18:10:32+00:00
> If we needed the existing NA producers to build military busses it sounds like we’d be screwed!

I only really skimmed the article, and didn't even load the underlying paper. But it seems like a big issue was custom orders. If we need wartime vehicle production, like in WWII, there would most likely be a single or small number of designs that a facility would produce. I would expect a lot more coordination between ordering, production, and supply chain as well --- if we need mass production, tradeoffs change.

> If the Chinese want to subsidize our mass transit buildout, why not let them? Are busses really critical national security concerns?

Busses are likely not really the national security concern, the concern would be having large vehicle manufacturing. It may be easier to retool a bus factory line to build large military vehicles than a compact car factory.

I'd imagine this is something like the Jones Act, where if it works, we keep the doors open for rapid changeover to military production. That's not really working for ships... the market has chosen alternate transportation rather than building large vessels for domestic transport, and so we don't really have large shipyards that could be pressed into building military vessels if needed --- the shipyards that can are the ones that build them in peace time and they don't have much excess capacity.
by bccdee | 2025-09-26 18:10:35+00:00
And then when people put comments on your commits and you force-push new ones, does it link the updated version of each commit to its previous self, giving a clear timeline of comments and changes? I don't think so. But if people write comments at the MR level and you fix them in new commits, then the throughline is clear.

I think a workflow like this for atomic commits would be nice. tangled.sh supports it for jujutsu¹, and it looks really neat. But the existing code review interface is clearly designed for code review to take place at the MR level.

[1]: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking
by jjangkke | 2025-09-26 18:11:19+00:00
What's special about Suno 5 is that the songs are actually good to listen to in place of professionally produced songs. For example, my favorite genre is new jack swing and there is a very limited number of this genre as it was briefly popular during the 90s. Now I have an endless supply of it and you can't tell that its AI produced anymore. Sure to an expert they might be able to detect it but for consumers its just as good as spotify playlist.

This is the first time I'm actually paying for generated AI content because the value I get is immense. I really think we are headed towards and over supply of content where there will be more stuff to read, watch, listen with very real value in all of them.

This spells out the inevitable change in the labor market for content creators. There will always be value for human created content and some will make more money but it will always have the AI generated content generation competing with it to the point where it will be hard to stay ahead and eventually people will stop caring.

Case in point, I see some comments being snarkish towards Suno but for as a consumer I could care less if you put your soul and years into producing art vs the one I can get a lot of today and now especially when there is virtually no difference in quality.

Truly an amazing accomplishment from Suno team, and probably the first time I've subbed to a music service after decades of downloading mp3s, hunting down new songs to listen to on Youtube. Suno 'steamified" this process and while I will use youtube to discover new genre, I am spending now most of my time in Suno, listening to endless amount of the exact sound I am looking for.