MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-09-02 23:10:21+00:00
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by corimaith | 2025-09-02 23:10:21+00:00
>But the underlying objection was that you shouldn't need to go into debt to get access to higher education in the first place, ie college should not be insanely expensive and you should be able to manage the academic and financial demands with a part time job.

But we're conflating social credit with credit scores are we? A highly contentious normative claim has little to do with OP's argument and is obviously not a basis for a rebuttal for distinctiying the two systems. Which I would imagine there is a certain intentionality in reaching for highly contrived arguments based on literal hypotheticals rather than accurate description of reality.
by wilg | 2025-09-02 23:11:17+00:00
Maybe. Is it a public or a private school? Is this something they could or should have reasonably known? What is their duty to accommodate you? Is OP accurately describing the situation?

Let's say they let you fill it out with pen and paper, but you have a moral objection to using pen and paper. Perhaps you don't like the environmental cost of paper or the policies of all the existing pen companies. Is this reasonable? Where is the line on what should be accommodated? The government really only has an obligation here under ADA. Private firms have no real obligation. Not wanting to use a certain technology is not a disability, it is a preference. If you want your preference to become the law, there is a mechanism to do it, but it involves convincing a large number of people that you are correct.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-02 23:11:20+00:00
Yeah it's def gonna be hard. So much of engineering is an amalgam of contexts, restrictions, intentions, best practice, and what you can get away with. An agent honed by a team of experts to keep all those things in mind (and force the user to answer important questions) would be invaluable.

Might be good to train multiple "personalities": one's a startup codebro that will tell you the easiest way to do anything; another will only give you the best practice and won't let you cheat yourself. Let the user decide who they want advice from.

Going further: input the business's requirements first, let that help decide? Just today I was on a call where somebody wants to manually deploy a single EC2 instance to run a big service. My first question is, if it goes down and it takes 2+ days to bring it back, is the business okay with that? That'll change my advice.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-02 23:12:44+00:00
One of the most interesting statistics about Waymo is how few of them there are. The only service area with what you could call a large number of vehicles is the Bay Area. The news reports I've seen about it say under 1000 there and fewer than 3000 nationally. Uber's CEO was quoted as saying that a Waymo completes more rides than 99% of Uber drivers. It's a pity he didn't make a comparison against the median Uber driver. But it's plausible that a Waymo could replace 10 Uber drivers or more. That ratio flows through to revenue.
by utyop22 | 2025-09-02 23:13:01+00:00
I'm finding what's happening right now kinda bizarre.

The funny thing is - we need less. Less of everything. But an up-tick in quality.

This seems to happen with humans with everything - the gates get opened, enabling a flood of producers to come in. But this causes a mountain of slop to form, and overtime the tastes of folks get eroded away.

Engineers don't need to write more lines of code / faster - they need to get better at interfacing with other folks in the business organisation and get better at project selection and making better choices over how to allocate their time. Writing lines of code is a tiny part of what it takes to get great products to market and to grow/sustain market share etc.

But hey, good luck with that - ones thinking power is diminished overtime by interacing with LLMs etc.
by RedComet | 2025-09-02 23:13:03+00:00
It was an analogy. You're moving the goalposts and ignored the latter point.

And I'm not a foss advocate, I just want to be able to run software of my choosing and without spyware, as has been the case since the advent of personal computing.

As a side note, legality seems irrelevant to your position. What if a world government mandated optional sideloading + unlocking? Wouldn't you then argue against that law?
by rlpb | 2025-09-02 23:13:27+00:00
> people generally don't SSH into hosts they're not somehow affiliated with

git remote add ... git+ssh://user@github.com/... comes to mind as a counterexample, although I admit there aren't many of these examples and GitHub also supports authenticated https:// with git. GitHub don't publish SSHFP DNS records either it seems, but the feature is there in the client.
by skrtskrt | 2025-09-02 23:14:02+00:00
It's also a political tool.

About a year ago when the NYTimes wrote an article called liked "Who really gets to declare if there is famine in Gaza?", the conclusions of the article were that "well boy it sure is complicated but Gaza is not officially in famine". I found the conclusion and wording suspect.

I went looking to see if they would like to the actual UN and World Food Program reports. The official conclusions were that significant portions of Gaza were already officially in famine, but that not all of Gaza was. The rest of Gaza was just one or two levels below famine, but those levels are called like "Food Emergency" or whatever.

Essentially those lower levels were what any lay person would probably call a famine, but the Times did not mention the other levels or that parts were in the famine level - just that "Gaza is not in famine".

To get to the actual report took 5 or 6 hard-to-find backlinks through other NYTimes articles. Each article loaded with further NYTimes links making it unlikely you'd ever find the real one.
by _mlbt | 2025-09-02 23:14:13+00:00
Sorry, I worded that poorly. Advocating is not the infringement, implementation of what they advocate for would be a major infringement.

I think we’re just continuing to talk past each other though. I’ve explained how WEF’s flavor of authoritarianism differs from MAGA’s to the best of my ability, but I understand if my explanations are insufficient.
Show HN: slack-explorer-mcp – Let AI find historical context in Slack
by shibayu36 | 2025-09-02 23:14:31+00:00
I built an MCP server that lets AI tools search Slack history to answer “why did we do X?” It reads messages and threads with your Slack user token, so agents like Claude Code/Desktop, VS Code and Cursor can pull context that isn’t in code or PRs.

Features: * Search by channel, user, date range, reactions, has:file, etc. * Get full thread replies. * Look up users by ID or display name.

Example uses: * “Why is foo_summary BigQuery table a materialized view?” * “Summarize this week’s topics in #random.”

More details in the blog post: https://dev.to/shibayu36/making-historical-context-easily-di...
by hex4def6 | 2025-09-02 23:15:14+00:00
It takes a refined form of cynical misanthropy and tanky statism to believe that on balance, people are undeserving of even having the option of their private affairs being unexamined by the authorities, and that to even attempt to hide something from their eyes is to become a criminal.

There is already a tenuous balance in terms of power and consent between the governing and the governed. On balance, more harm is done to me by those in political / financial power than by the average criminal.

I'm not convinced handing governments omniscient surveillance is worth the price it exacts.
by tulir | 2025-09-02 23:15:26+00:00
The bridges made for Beeper are all open source (https://github.com/mautrix/), so you can set up your own Matrix server with bridges and use any open source Matrix client (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/).

Besides Beeper, the only consumer bridge hosting service I'm aware of is Element One, but it's only barely maintained, so I'd definitely recommend self-hosting over that.
by corimaith | 2025-09-02 23:15:27+00:00
So you believe there is no difference between what Trump is doing today and what Kamala/Biden might have been doing?

Democracy is about balancing different interests. So yeah, it is hard when the change you want isn't neccessairly what others believe in. You do need to compromise with other groups. Which means that large, coaliation parties that emerge will naturally regress to the mean. But ironically, that also is the suremost sign of plurality that things very much are different from authoritarianism where it pretty is just one interest group trampling over all the others. Well, some here might prefer that, but they are almost definetly not going to be the ones in charge.
by panarchy | 2025-09-02 23:15:36+00:00
I was referencing Canada where they implemented a carbon tax with a rebate. Facts didn't matter because the majority conservative media landscape just uncritically blasted out "carbon tax bad" for months/years on end. Most people were making money off of it but the perception that it was making things expensive (things were expensive from covid-era inflation) won out. It also didn't immediately solve global climate change so it was apparently bad policy too.
by godelski | 2025-09-02 23:16:22+00:00
LOL to be honest I'm more scared of the people that it doesn't happen to. At first I feared them because I thought they knew so much more and it meant I was so far behind. But later I feared them because I recognized we were at not too dissimilar levels and the main difference was recognizing how far left we have to go.

I don't fear the man who knows more than me, I admire them and only have something to gain by admitting my ignorance to them. But I do fear the man who believes he knows more while in reality he doesn't. Nothing productive comes from them as they don't even recognize the journey we are both on.
by jMyles | 2025-09-02 23:16:49+00:00
Love y'all and love matrix. Thanks for the free matrix.org server. But maybe now is the time to research setting up a home server for mission critical stuff?

I don't immediately see an official doc on this; is it right under my nose?

Is this doc good? https://www.redpill-linpro.com/techblog/2025/04/08/matrix-ba...
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-09-02 23:17:29+00:00
Anyone who has mentored as part of a junior engineer internship program AND has attempted to use current gen ai tooling will notice the parallels immediately. There are key differences though that are worth highlighting.

The main difference is that with the current batch of genai tools, the AI's context resets after use, whereas a (good) intern truly learns from prior behavior.

Additionally, as you point out, the language and frameworks need to be part of the training set since AI isn't really "learning" it's just prepolulating a context window for its pre-existing knowledge (token prediction), so ymmv depending on hidden variables from the secret (to you, the consumers) training data and weights. I use Ruby primarily these days, which is solidly in the "boring tech" camp and most AIs fail to produce useful output that isn't rails boilerplate.

If I did all my IC contributions via directed intern commits I'd leave the industry out of frustration. Using only AI outputs for producing code changes would be akin to torture (personally.)

Edit: To clarify I'm not against AI use, I'm just stating that with the current generation of tools it is a pretty lackluster experience when it comes to net new code generation. It excells at one off throwaway scripts and making large tedious redactors less drudgerly. I wouldn't pivot to it being my primary method of code generation until some of the more blatant productiviy losses are addressed.
by reactordev | 2025-09-02 23:17:52+00:00
Unlocking/jailbreaking/installing your own software should be legal. I own the device, I should be able to do with it as I please without breaking cybersecurity laws. The issue is this covers IP/Platform Code and covers jailbreaking as that’s a form of reverse engineering in violation of the agreement you signed when you bought the device. It fucking sucks.
by dang | 2025-09-02 23:18:04+00:00
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by ahartmetz | 2025-09-02 23:18:30+00:00
Yes. I've been to China, daily life for regular people is mostly fine (bad work-life balance notwithstanding, as in other Asian countries). Nothing like the old stories from Russia (written by Russians, mind you) or even the relative material comfort but heavy-handed state control like in the GDR.

Daily life can also be fine in fascism if you don't belong to any "unpopular" groups and don't care about any. Until the customary war starts, that is...
by nikcub | 2025-09-02 23:18:37+00:00
> budget for $1000-1500/month for a senior engineer going all-in on AI development.

Is this another case of someone using API keys and not knowing about the claude MAX plans? It's $100 or $200 a month, if you're not pure yolo brute-force vibe coding $100 plan works.

https://www.anthropic.com/max
by o11c | 2025-09-02 23:18:42+00:00
I suggest using triangles in pairs, since diamonds form a grid nicely.

5 large strips (with 4 macro-triangles each) can form an icosahedron in a fairly sane way.

But IMO the biggest mistake people make is trying to make everything fit on a single square; multi-tile objects are very useful. And at that point, why not make everything take several tiles?

Abandoning tiles entirely in favor of node adjacency can cut memory a lot but requires more thought.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-02 23:18:46+00:00
> I am not too familiar with antitrust precedent, but to what extent does the judge rule on how specific the data sharing need to be (what types of data, for what time span, how anonymized, etc. etc.) or appoint a special master? Why is that up to the judge versus the FTC or whoever to propose?

The judge doesn't propose, he rules on what the parties propose, and that can be an iterative process in complex cases. E.g.. in this case, he has set some parameters in this ruling, and set a date by which the parties need to meet on the details within those parameters.
by jow13_12 | 2025-09-02 23:18:56+00:00
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by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-02 23:19:07+00:00
Heh. I will make a quick prediction. If you think generic HN-crowd opinion of Google was low today, I can now basically guarantee you that it will be much, much lower a year from now based on nothing other than Google's behavior prior to this ruling ( effectively barring side loading for most users ). Now all bets are off. So is it great news? For investors? Yes. For everyone else, mmmmmm, nop.

Edit: I am ignoring your point, because I honestly can't take it seriously.
by thanhhaimai | 2025-09-02 23:19:09+00:00
Disclaimer: opinions are my own.

I'm using the Pixel Fold at the moment, and it's the best phone I've used to date. It's something I didn't know I want until I have it.

Quick review:

- The phone construction feels good on hand and in the pocket. The screen is beautiful.

- When folded, functionality-wise it's like previous Pixel (beside looking better with the metal edge). I spent about 75% of my phone time in this mode. Also no notch!

- When unfolded, you have access to much more screen real estate. I didn't realize how this dramatically improve reading documents / browsing the web. Things that were unusable (like opening Google Sheet) is now much more comfortable. You can also do split screen, where you keep 2 apps on at the same time (todo list + message)

- The weight feels solid. The fold mechanism is solid. Battery ~50% per day with no battery saving. Camera is good as usual.

Software:

- I've mentioned before on HN, the Spam Screening feature singlehanded keeps me in the Pixel ecosystem. No spam call at all.

- Android Auto is solid

- Gemini is a gentle surprise, especially with how it's easy to interact with the "current phone screen".

Review caveats:

- I don't game on the phone or any CPU intensive tasks. It's plenty fast for me so far.

- I don't use the speaker (only use bluetooth headphones)
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-02 23:19:14+00:00
I don't agree that ChatGPT gives an overall better experience than Google, let alone an actual good search engine like Kagi. It's very rare that I need to ask something in plain English because I just don't know what the keywords are, so the one edge the LLM might have is moot. Meanwhile, because it bullshits a lot (not just sometimes, a lot), I can't trust anything it tells me. At least with a search engine I can figure out if a given site is reliable or not, with the LLM I have no idea.

People say all the time that LLMs are so much better for finding information, but to me it's completely at odds with my own user experience.
by epolanski | 2025-09-02 23:19:18+00:00
Look, I like AI coding but we're already way past the need for parallelism.

LLMs write so much code in such a short time that the bottleneck is already the human having to review, correct, rewrite.

Parallel agents working on different parts of the application just compound this problem worse, it's impossible to catch up.

The only far fetched use case I can see is swarming hundreds of solutions against a properly designed test case and spec documents and having an agent selecting the best solutions.

Still, I'm quite convinced humans would be the bottleneck.
Show HN: CompareGPT – Making LLMs More Trustworthy by Reducing Hallucinations
by tinatina_AI | 2025-09-02 23:20:59+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Tina Over the past months I’ve been frustrated with how often LLMs hallucinate — they generate answers with high confidence, but sometimes the information simply doesn’t exist. For teams relying on AI (content, research, finance, even legal), this can be a serious problem. So I’ve been working on CompareGPT, a tool designed to make LLM outputs more trustworthy. Key features: Confidence scoring → surfaces how reliable an answer is. Source validation → checks whether data can be backed by references. Side-by-side comparison → run the same query across multiple models and see consistency. You can try it here: https://test.comparegpt.io/home Right now it works best in knowledge-based queries (finance, law, science), and we’re still improving edge cases. I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or even brutal criticism from this community. Thanks for reading!
by jongjong | 2025-09-02 23:21:18+00:00
This is a great article. It reminds me of a discussion I had about Russia; in Russia (and China) you are essentially told what you are not allowed to discuss freely... In the west, you are told that you can discuss anything but, in reality, the consequences for discussing certain topics are significant... You only find out once you start using your so-called 'free speech'. In the west, 'free-speech' isn't free at all; it's actually very expensive... It's a cost that's increasingly difficult for honest people to avoid; you have to kind of guess where the boundaries are... While the circle of permissible speech keeps shrinking. The circle has shrunk to a point where a lot of honest topics find themselves outside of the circle.

It's difficult to be an intelligent, honest person in the west because of this.

It's like most people don't understand reality. Everything they believe just happens to fit within the circle of allowed beliefs. They are in alignment with the system and benefiting from it (often unwittingly). It's only when the circle of allowed beliefs shrinks that they start to notice what I described above.

I suspect a lot of people were 'awakened' after the most recent Israel/Palestine conflict because that shrunk the circle of allowed topics a lot. A lot of the people who were morally aligned with the ESG agenda before now found themselves partly outside the circle and you could see the agenda shift. Terms like 'diversity' which were originally conceived primarily as racial and gender-based started to drift towards 'neuro-diversity' as a response to the discomfort created by the shrinking circle having shrunk a little too fast...

If you're outside the circle, you can see it much more clearly. The worst part is that you didn't even get to choose your fate. Kind of ironic as the west prides itself on individual choice. The circle shrinks slowly until you suddenly find yourself caught well outside of it when the consequences have accumulated beyond a certain threshold.
by bialpio | 2025-09-02 23:21:44+00:00
> What's the tangible financial impact to someone who's been deemed undesirable by Google?

Depends how deep you got. I for one would lose access to my mobile phone (Google Fi) and email, so it would be very hard for me to get access to anything that uses my phone number for 2FA. Or the email address for any kind of account recovery. Huge nuisance but maybe no financial consequences, except maybe an involuntary trip to the bank's branch to access the account.
by theamk | 2025-09-02 23:21:53+00:00
What if I want:

(1) a camera with zoom and night shot capability comparable to my 2010 Sony Cybershot camera.

(2) An internet terminal with enough CPU/RAM to browse modern websites.

(3) A music player with a space for 150-300 GB of MP3's and nice-ish UI

(4) Online and offline map

(5) wireless charging (because I keep destroying charging ports in my devices)

(6) all of this should fit in my pocket. I've spent >5 years of my life carrying a separate camera on the belt, I am not doing this again.

All functional requirements, no "outward signalling or flex". What should I get?

(Genuine question, I've spent few days researching this recently and high-end smartphone aeems to be the only match. Weirdly, it's good camera and wireless charging that raises the price, not CPU)
by mercenario | 2025-09-02 23:22:14+00:00
I learned a lot this in competitive programming. I used to write code that were 3-5x the size of the intended solution. There are many reason why you could write a worse/bigger solution but sometimes when I compared both solutions one thing I could notice is that I could remove a lot of things from my solution until nothing could be removed anymore and the final solution would really seem like it were the essence of the problem.

But even if the intended solution seemed simpler, it could be much harder to discover it.