MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-09-09 23:05:44+00:00
If nothing else, parental involvement correlates with higher test scores and being enrolled in a non-default school correlates with parent involvement. So it's no surprise that being enrolled in a non-default school correlates with higher test scores.

IMHO, we always hear about such and such school (system) has X% kids proficient with $Y/year per pupil. But what I would really want to know about a school is how does a year change at the school change the proficiency of the class. If the class of 3rd graders starts the year at 20% proficient at 2nd grade level, and ends at 22% proficient at 3rd grade level, that might be a good school, even though a single point in time check says 22% proficient. But the numbers we get aren't really useful for that; a cohort analysis would be better; there's real privacy implications, but that doesn't make the numbers we get useful. :P
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-09 23:06:08+00:00
The answer here is two-fold --

1) that the tools become more Socratic and interactive and educational and walk the engineer through what they're doing

2) juniors pair with a senior who is using the tool and see the process and the decisions being made.

I know the industry wants these things to replace us, but in fact it's more like a power drill than a spinning jenny. It augments and lets the existing craftsmen work better faster, but does not replace / automate really.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 23:06:13+00:00
> Just out of curiosity, how much compensation would people be willing to leave on the table in lieu of "Remote" work? (this is different to, how much would you ASK to go from remote to a new in-office job). 10%, 25%, 50%?

~$250k, ~50% of potential day gig comp.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094928

(remote 10+ years, I'll retire before I go back to an office, I want more time and quality of life, not more money)
by joshjob42 | 2025-09-09 23:06:24+00:00
I don't want/need the whole thing to be flat but I do prefer it to be stable. For instance if the plateau were a bit thicker so that the camera lens was flush with the surface (even just an extra bar sort of inside the plateau) it would mean that when I put it down it would never rock back and forth when I'm tapping at it on a table.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-09 23:06:27+00:00
Who said anything about defamation? My n=1 experience at BigTech is that they won’t say anything about why an employee left and you don’t even talk to a human to confirm dates of employment. They redirect you to TheWorkNumber (a real website).

I was Amazoned in 2023 and in none of the five interviews I had within the next two weeks did they ever ask why I left Amazon. I did get LinkedIn recommendations from my former managers there - ie not my then current one.

And we are talking about well paid Microsoft employees who are asked to come into the office. Cry me a river these aren’t “vulnerable” low paid wage slaves.

Yes I work remotely and if I had still been working at Amazon when they announced their “field by design” roles were being forced into RTO six months before it happened, I would have been interviewing and taken the pay cut.
by strcat | 2025-09-09 23:06:40+00:00
> Apple and Google have access to similar or more information than you do, they just don't publish it for similar reasons.

If that's the case, then many of their public statements about this are extraordinarily dishonest. There are widespread exploits targeting Safari, Chrome, iOS and Android. These are not only rare attacks targeting people heavily sought out by governments, etc. They do not have nearly as much visibility into it as they make it seem.
by krapp | 2025-09-09 23:07:08+00:00
>This isn't the world of BBSes where everyone had a corner or two that they hung out on.

Yes it is. It literally is. If we want to do that we can just do that. The internet is not a zero-sum game. We don't have to play to "win."

>I don't think another decen-HN is likely to take off or break into other self organizing segments even though this is easy to attempt with some Mastodon servers.

The only reason HN is popular is its connections to Silicon Valley and startup culture. It didn't really carve out a niche so much as succesfully create and market an image. Without that it isn't anything remarkable, and there are already tons of technically-focused communities on the fediverse.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-09 23:07:13+00:00
You would think so, but in general the kind of attitude to security that results in these kinds of products actively encourages increasing the number of entities that have very highly privileged access to your system. 'Supply chain attacks' and 'attack surface' don't really register in this area, but 'buy this and you will be more secure' sales pitches very much do, especially with a dose of FOMO from 'industry standard' rhetoric.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-09 23:07:19+00:00
I think the nature of the scene changed and exploits and jailbreaks are kept to small groups, individuals or are sold.

For example, I might know of an unrelated exploit I'm sitting on because I don't want it fixed and so far it hasn't been.

I think the climate has become one of those "don't correct your adversary when they make mistakes" types of things versus an older culture of release clout.
by tptacek | 2025-09-09 23:07:21+00:00
I think you have to read "widespread malware attack" in Apple lit as a term of art; it's a part of the corporate identity dating back to the inception of the iPhone and (I think maybe) ties into some policy stuff that is very salient to them right now. I think SEAR is extremely aware of what real-world exploitation of iPhones looks like. You were never going to get their unfiltered take in a public blog post like this, though.
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-09 23:08:32+00:00
In Japan and China, high-stakes entrance exams come earlier and play a stronger role than in the U.S. In China, the zhongkao (high school entrance exam, around age 15) and gaokao (college entrance exam, age 18) largely determine access to selective schools and universities. In Japan, competitive entrance exams for high schools (age 15) and universities (age 18).
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-09 23:09:01+00:00
If society collapses then the people w/ gold vouchers & certificates will have to figure out how to get their gold out of the vaults that are owned & operated by the people who sold them those vouchers & certificates. I don't buy the collapse narrative, I think it's fake & people are buying gold for the same reason they buy other kinds of speculative assets, they think they will be able to sell the vouchers for a higher price at a later date. Which might be true given how bad inflation is getting but that doesn't mean their dollars are going to have any better purchasing power at the newly inflated prices.
by zestyping | 2025-09-09 23:09:20+00:00
Interesting. According to https://www.wiz.io/blog/s1ngularity-supply-chain-attack the initial entry point was a "flawed GitHub Actions workflow that allowed code injection through unsanitized pull request titles" — which was detected and mitigated on August 29.

That was more than ten days ago, and yet major packages were compromised yesterday. How?
by tptacek | 2025-09-09 23:09:21+00:00
You'd know better than I would; I'm a bystander on this whole area of development. I was really just responding to the notion that these countermeasures fall to attackers who get multiple bites at the apple --- those attackers are explicitly part of the threat model. I think I have realistic expectations about what this revision of MIE is going to do (raise costs, maybe over time wash out a lower tier of exploit developers on the platform).
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-09 23:09:34+00:00
> I remain baffled by executives' obsession with RTO

same reason some people think "professionalism" is about wearing smart shoes. While these sorts will never admit it to themselves, you are there to make them feel important. What you actually do is secondary, which is why they pay more attention to bullshit like presenteeism, than they do your work.

Man, if I could get the same level of attention on my PRs over the course of my career as I do about being occasionally late, then that'd be great.
by lordnacho | 2025-09-09 23:09:38+00:00
Assuming the current way to become senior is the only way?

I could still see a select few being given a foot in the door and leaping over the "argh why doesn't it compile" stage, past the "argh, I need a whole new architecture" stage to become senior in a few years. Every cohort has a few unicorns.

Alternatively, coding goes the way of the calculator. By that I mean, the people that used to be part of the engineering team, doing arithmetic. You just hire domain experts and give them the AI hoping the domain expertise is all you need to get you through the day.

Finance has historically had a lot of people who thought they could code, now perhaps they will get better. Big risk of it becoming a mess larger than back when they got VBA.
by SilasX | 2025-09-09 23:09:38+00:00
Be careful what you wish for.

While I'm sure it feels good and validating to have this called copyright infringement, and be compensated, it's a mixed blessing at best. Remember, this also means that your works will owe compensation to anyone you "trained" off of. Once we accept that simply "learning from previous copyrighted works to make new ones" is "infringement", then the onus is on you to establish a clean creation chain, because you'll be vulnerable to the exact same argument, and you will owe compensation to anyone whose work you looked at in learning your craft.

This point was made earlier in this blog post:

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/04/03/why-training-ai-can...

HN discussion of the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663941
by phoenixhaber | 2025-09-09 23:09:39+00:00
I will say this and I feel it's true. Dealing with JSON in Go is a pain. You should be able to write json and not have to care about the marshalling and the unmarshalling. It's the way that serde rust behaves and more or less every other language I've had to deal with and it makes managing this behavior when there's multiple writers complicated.
by paulpauper | 2025-09-09 23:09:44+00:00
How about:

Doing something about the excessive use of automated filters. On many popular subs, it's close to impossible to prevent your posts from being filtered. What is the point of having mods when the actual job of moderation is outsourced to algos?

Second, allowing an option for users who are banned from subreddits rejoin even if the ban is permanent. Many mods abuse this power to prevent people from ever participating , even for no justifiable reason.

A decade ago, you could just create a new account, but the loophole was closed and will get your accounts all banned at once.

This is how it was in the 'old' days of V-Bulletin or AOL: you would just reset the modem/router, get a new IP, and be careful to not be banned again. It was implicitly understood some previously banned people would reenter on good behavior, which was a good compromise.

Third, for many niches, often there is a single dominant subreddit, and getting banned means no good alternatives. This a further argument for changing how bans are handled to allow users to reenter later even if the ban was permanent.
Ask HN: How high is the bar for AGI? what problems are "AGI-complete"?
by adinhitlore | 2025-09-09 23:10:16+00:00
I guess the nomenclature behind "AGI" and "ASI" is still debatable and i just watched an interview with Sundar Pichai (on Lex Fridman) where he brilliantly almost mocked the term, essentially describing it as a recent invention, neologism mostly used to mean "our ai will soon be very advanced".

Even so my question is: what problems as of 2025 September are impossible for even the best AI? I can think of many, though since they are currently unsolved, they may as well be impossible regardless for any human or human tool anyway:

*here are some problems ordered randomly, "on top of my head":

1. P =|!= NP; 2.Unification of gen. relativity+quantum mechanics; 3. prove/disprove the Riemann hypothesis; 4. "lonely runner conjecture" proof/disproof; 5. cure for 4th stage cancer that works most of the time; 6. orders of magnitudes colder fusion; 7. reactionless drive - proof/disproof; 8. prove(show)/disprove 'quantum supremacy'; 9. install user-friendly main purpose OS on quantum computer; 10. humanoid defeats ufc fighter in a fight; 11. humanoid performs parkour better than Storror; 12. AI designs orders of magnitude faster textgen/mediagen algorithms than transformers without sacrificing quality (or 5-10% worse deviation); 13. AI builds self-replicating robots that build city on Mars (i stole this idea from Grok month ago or so...); 14. discovers way to make cheap invitro meat; 15. synthesizes ununennium; 16. correct interpretation of quantum mechanics; 17. solve the 'problem of time'; 18. make glueballs; 19. prove/reject the Collatz conjecture;

and many more...what in your opinion are agi-like problems?

I know my phrasing of the problems above isn't perfect, for example "cheap" as in invitro meat is open to interpretation and 1 million degrees fusion is still ~2 'orders of magnitude' colder but likely useless to have impact on mainstream fusion etc. But it's an internet forum after all not Ph.d thesis, regardless any of the problems if solved despite the horrible wording will signal an immense paradigma shift in AI or whatever it "signals" someone/some people will be doing something very right surpassing even Demis Hassabis, or even Einstein, Da Vinci, Tesla, Ada and the likes.

I'm curious what many people want to see from AI, since the IQ of this forum is high, I guess it won't be a beavis-and-butthead level of answers like "photorealistic fps" or "teslas that sound like shelby" or "tastier burgers", "badass jetpacks" , "fully immersive VR where you can interview andrew tate", "cabrio boeing", etc etc.
by giantg2 | 2025-09-09 23:10:44+00:00
I generally agree. However, I don't think most parents are neglectful for using a screen. The ones that can't be bothered would just be drinking, reading gossip magazines, going to bars, or whatever else they felt like if screens simply stopped existing.

Admittedly my kids get more screen time than I'd like, but we try to make it educational. An observation that I made that is on topic for this thread, is that there are very few modern US shows that seem to fit our criteria of being educational and not over-stimularing. It seemes there are many more international shows that are better.
by duffyjp | 2025-09-09 23:11:36+00:00
I’ve had a bunch of Moto G phones, I love them. This round I decided to try their upper midrange Edge line.

I found a deal on a Moto Edge 2024 and it’s fantastic. It’s so light and compact vs the Moto G Power, and still can go two full days no problem. The camera is excellent as well, which was my only real gripe with the G phones.

It can plug into my USB-C monitor and act like a Chromebook (more or less). I play Minecraft with my kids this way.
by jongjong | 2025-09-09 23:12:05+00:00
Maybe their goal was just surviving, not getting rich.

Also, you underestimate how trivial this 'one-in-a-million opportunity' is; it's definitely not a one-in-a-million! Almost anybody with basic coding ability and a few thousand dollars could pull off this hack. There are thousands of libraries which are essentially worthless with millions of downloads and the author who maintains is basically broke and barely uses their npm account anymore. Anybody could just buy those npm accounts under false pretenses for a couple of thousands and then do whatever they want with tens of thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of compromised servers. The library author is legally within their rights to sell their digital assets and it's not their business what the acquirer does with them.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-09 23:12:13+00:00
we already have - every time you get in a car you're elevating the chance of death considerably from before you hopped in. (seriously it's like 1000000x more dangerous than just sitting on a sofa)

Granted it's a low chance, but it's also similarly low that your bank account will be drained to zero because you codex --yolo'd it. If that DOES happen to someone then yeah, I'd consider changing my behavior.

For example there's no fucking way I would FSD in a Tesla.
Show HN: LibPolyCall – Zero-Trust Polyglot FFI with Perfect State Reproduction
by obinexus | 2025-09-09 23:12:34+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Nnamdi from OBINexus Computing. I've been working on LibPolyCall, a program-first protocol that eliminates language barriers in distributed systems. The Problem: Every API needs separate implementations for Python, Node.js, Java, etc. This creates duplicate code, maintenance nightmares, and debugging hell across microservices. Our Solution: LibPolyCall provides:

Single API definition → automatic polyglot implementations Zero-trust security at the protocol level Cryptographically-seeded GUIDs for perfect bug reproduction Silent telemetry capturing every interaction Hot-swappable adapters without downtime

Key Innovation: We've moved from "binding-first" to "program-first" architecture. Instead of writing language-specific bindings, you define your API once and LibPolyCall handles the translation. Real Metrics:

Reduced integration time by 75% in pilot deployments Zero-overhead FFI calls through direct memory mapping 100% state reproducibility for debugging Supports Python, Node.js, Rust, Go (more coming)

Use Cases:

Legacy COBOL systems talking to modern microservices Cross-language microservice communication Unified telemetry across polyglot systems Hot-swapping components without downtime

Currently in v1trial. Looking for feedback from teams dealing with polyglot complexity. GitHub: https://github.com/obinexus/libpolycall Docs: github.com/obinexus /libpolycall/docs Video Demo: ionhttps://youtube.com/@obinexus/playlists (search libpolycall) Happy to answer questions about the architecture, zero-trust implementation, or our approach to solving the polyglot problem!
by Izikiel43 | 2025-09-09 23:13:04+00:00
> If not, now you've put every taxpayer on the hook for 24k+admin_expenses per child per year. That is an immediate blow to everyone except those benefiting more than their increased tax burden.

Sure, you have that short term impact, but it seems NM society has chosen to take on the burden for this.

Long term impact for this measure however is worth it, as the state children will be better educated, and will commit less crimes, at least that's what research says. So long term you will have more taxpayers, and maybe hopefully have to spend less in security.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-09 23:13:45+00:00
what a roller coaster. i was with you mostly until the end of your rant. climate change is a real problem; one, in fact, that many of the elites you speak of are actively working to exacerbate for short-term gain. that felt kinda out of left field for someone who's essentially espousing leftwing ideology, which more or less entirely embraces climate change as a major concern.
by perrygeo | 2025-09-09 23:13:46+00:00
Looking at this from a different perspective, what is the evolutionary advantage of even "seeing" blue in the first place? Considering the vast range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, consider that we can only "see" a small fraction of the EM spectrum we encounter (380-700 nanometer wavelength).

There is something special about this wavelength; it's not a coincidence! It would be very surprising if the evolution of ALL life honed in on this critical range of the EM spectrum but left human perceptions open to wide interpretation. IOW interpreting "blue" is probably hard wired trait into most evolved life because we share a sun and the earth's atmosphere.
by sharikous | 2025-09-09 23:13:58+00:00
China is decades behind the West in EUV technology. The attempt to create an independent supply chain is also a forced choice since all the EUV supply chain and knowledge pool are heavily protected by the West and are so complex and big that China cannot sidestep it even with a lot of resources.

Those numbers are realistic. EUV is the most complex machine ever built by humans
by gooseus | 2025-09-09 23:14:51+00:00
January 6th was in 2021, 4 years ago today Trump was 9 months out from having perpetrated the Big Lie about the 2020 having been stolen, attempted to alter the results through spurious legal means, and incited a mob to storm the capitol in order to prevent the official electoral vote count.

In my book, if people took liberal democracy serious, he should have been persona-non-grata in the eyes of every politician and political party.

Instead he was saved from impeachment by McConnel rehabilitated by McCarthy, and people increasing memory-holed the event, equivocated about George Floyd protests (not even remotely comparable), or were supporters of the "heroes of J6"... now we are where we are, well-cooked frogs in a pot that's about the boil over.
by apple1417 | 2025-09-09 23:15:24+00:00
I once got a "log into phishing training" email which spoofed the company address. No one even saw the email, it instantly hit the spam filter.

Our infra guy then had to argue with them for quite a while to just email from their own domain, and that no, we're weren't going to add their cert to our DNS, and let a third party spoof us (or however that works, idk). Absolutely shocking lack of self awareness.
Show HN: Rift (Flexible Translator) – Build Languages in Days, Not Years
by obinexus | 2025-09-09 23:15:46+00:00
Text: Hi HN! I'm Nnamdi from OBINexus Computing. RIFT stands for "RIFT Is a Flexible Translator" – a compiler toolchain that's a direct competitor to YACC, but designed for rapid language development. The Problem: YACC takes 6 months to learn and 6 months to build a prototype. That's a year just to start. It's not compile-time safe, and it's painful to work with. RIFT's Solution:

Configuration-based language building (not code generation) Compile-time safety through token triplets (type, memory, value) Stage-bound execution pipeline (0-6 stages) R-syntax for inline regex without escape hell Build a working language prototype in days

Key Innovation: The token triplet system ensures compile-time safety: ctypedef struct { token_type; // identifier, keyword, constant token_memory; // static, dynamic, fluid token_value; // immediate, deferred, computed } rift_token_t; Real Usage: I'm using RIFT to build GosiLang – a polyglot language that talks to any programming language (interpreted or compiled). What took a year with YACC now takes weeks. Technical Details:

Written in C (migrating to Rust for R-syntax support) Stage-bound configuration: .riftrc.N files Error zones: 0-3 (OK), 3-6 (Warning), 6-9 (Critical), 9-12 (Panic) Detach mode for full language independence

Currently building the community around RIFT philosophy. Looking for "RIFTers" who want to build languages without the traditional pain. GitHub: https://github.com/obinexus/rift Video walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLkzHF7LXUA (28min technical deep dive) Ecosystem: https://github.com/stars/obinexus/lists/the-rift-ecosystem
by strcat | 2025-09-09 23:15:46+00:00
> I think you have to read "widespread malware attack" in Apple lit as a term of art

There's widespread exploitation of Apple devices around the world by many governments, companies, etc. Apple and Google downplay it. The attacks are often not at all targeted but rather you visit a web page involving a specific political movement such as Catalan independence and get exploited via Safari or Chrome. That's not a highly targeted attack and is a typical example of how those exploits get deployed. The idea that they're solely used against specific individuals targeted by governments is simply not true. Apple and Google know that's the case but lead people to believe otherwise to promote their products as more safe than they are.

> I think SEAR is extremely aware of what real-world exploitation of iPhones looks like.

Doesn't seem that way based on their interactions with Citizen Lab and others.