MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bko | 2025-09-22 13:09:35+00:00
I noticed that as well, it's a bit frustrating. I personally think if you're allowed to do something legally, you should be allowed to do it using technology.

It's seems silly to me that you can have a human being eyeball someone and claim it's so and so, but you can't use incredibly accurate technology to streamline that process.

I personally don't like the decay of polite society. I don't like asking a worker for a key to buy some deodorant. Rather than treat everyone like a criminal, why don't we just treat criminals like criminals. It's a tiny percentage of people that abuse polite society and we pretend like it's a huge problem that can only be attacked by erecting huge inconveniences for everyone. No, just punish criminals and build systems to target criminals rather than everyone. If you look at arrests, you'll see that among persons admitted to state prison 77% had five or more prior arrests. When do you say enough is enough and we can back off this surveillance state because we're too afraid to just lock up people that don't want to live in society.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/acceptance-of-crime-is-a...
by cgearhart | 2025-09-22 13:09:36+00:00
I keep talking to people who say stuff like “Claude wrote it all for me in a day”, but when I look at the code (or try it myself) it’s just so much useless code.

I recently asked for Python code to parse some data into a Pandas dataframe and got 1k lines plus tests. Whatever—I’m just importing it, so let’s YOLO and see what happens. Worked like a charm in my local environment. But I wanted to share this in a Jupyter notebook and for semi-complicated reasons I couldn’t import any project-local modules in the target environment. So I asked a much more targeted question like “give me a pandas one-liner to…” and it spit out 3 lines of code that produced the same end result.

The rest of that 1k lines was decomposing the problem into a bunch of auxiliary/utility functions to handle every imaginable edge case and adding comments to almost every line. It seems the current default settings for these tools is approximately the “enterprise-grade fizzbuzz” repo.

Sure, I’ll get better at prompting and whatever else to reduce this problem over time, but this is not viable when the costs are being pushed onto other people in the process today.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-22 13:10:04+00:00
I think the point is that if it's his money he's pissing away, then any other projects the money would have been spent on would have been equally dubious in any case. He's not going to, all of a sudden, become wise simply because he doesn't spend money on what he's spending money on.

Did we give him wayyy too much free money via subsidies? Yes. But that was our mistake. And if we hadn't given it to him, we would have given it to some other scam artists somewhere or other. So even in the case of the counterfactual, we could expect a similar outcome. Just different scumbags.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-22 13:10:10+00:00
That's the main advantage self-driving has over humans now.

A self-driving car of today still underperforms the top of the line human driver - but it sure outperforms the "0.1% worst case": the dumbest most inebriated sleep deprived and distracted reckless driver that's responsible for the vast majority of severe road accidents.

Statistics show it plain and clear: self-driving cars already get into less accidents than humans, and the accidents they get into are much less severe too. Their performance is consistently mediocre. Being unable to drink and drive is a big part of where their safety edge comes from.
by dotwaffle | 2025-09-22 13:10:13+00:00
If you download 2 separate files over HTTP, you'd expect each to get roughly 1/2 of the available bandwidth at the bottleneck.

With 1 HTTP connection downloading a file and 100 BitTorrent connections trying to download a file, all trying to compete, you'll find the HTTP throughput significantly reduced. It's how congestion control algorithms are designed: rough fairness per connection. That's why the first edition of BBR that Google released was unpopular, it stomped on other traffic.
by darylteo | 2025-09-22 13:10:13+00:00
The main judgement here seems to be: not everyone was there to get a refund, therefore, just entering the store is not an opt-in consent to biometric scans.

As a counter-example: Australian clubbing venues use facial recognition and id verification to identify banned individuals and detect fake documentation. This is required on condition of entry (therefore, opt-in), and this information is shared across all partner venues.

https://scantek.com/facial-biometric-matching-technology-sca...
by Bengalilol | 2025-09-22 13:10:13+00:00
Yes. Everything that is/has a volume gets detected. The problem with the camera thing is that the debris doesn't move, is quite small and is dark. I suspect it overran it because of maybe a fix/patch on this behavior: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1kwrc7p/23_my_wit...
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-22 13:10:19+00:00
> You can also record it to show them later, but for various reasons it doesn't resonate quite as strongly when it's not live.

Yeah, because it's wasting my time having to watch people who literally have never heard of something as basic as keyboard shortcuts. It's fine if I actually have the time to explain to some Gen Z kid how Ctrl+X/C/V works, but being forced to sit around and watch someone with that level of non-understanding of how a computer works when I got a full backlog of shit to do is just agonizing.

With a video recording, I can at least go forward and see where they actually have problems with stuff that is in my influence and skip over the utterly boring moments that are just wasting my already limited time.
by intended | 2025-09-22 13:12:11+00:00
The forces that created today, are deeper - to the point that they used 9/11, as opposed to being defined by 9/11.

The crux of the issue today is fundament information economy on the right, that can support any narrative, even if it contradicts anything that came was said before, or has no basis in reality.

Trump has a 92% approval rating amongst republicans from a recent Fox poll. Other polls have him at 80%+.

It is a party truly running on faith, and had no need to traffic in facts.

This is the fountainhead of all the power that allows the situation to continue.
by dist-epoch | 2025-09-22 13:12:32+00:00
> AI is just another product motion toward comfort maximizing over all things, as cognitive engagement is difficult and not always pleasant. In a nutshell, it is another instant gratification product from tech.

For me is the exact opposite. When not using AI, while coding you notice various things that could be improved, you can think about the architecture and what features you want next.

But AI codes so fast, that it's a real struggle keeping up to it. I feel like I need to focus 10 times harder to be able to think about features/architecture in a way that AI doesn't wait after me most of the time.
by mort96 | 2025-09-22 13:13:28+00:00
No, it hasn't. Even where people were just submitting reports from an automated vulnerability scanner, they had to write the English prose themselves and present the results in some way (either in an honest way, "I ran vulnerability scanner tool X and it reported that ...", or dishonestly, "I discovered that ..."). This world where people literally just act as a mechanical intermediary between an English chat bot and the Hacker One discussion section is new.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-22 13:13:42+00:00
They were real though. How many ALU were there on say FX-8350? 8 ALUs. How many FPUs were there? 8 FPU each 128 bit wide. What alternative definition of core whis doesn't satisfy? CPU was underperforming at that time and Intel fans were trying to equate their Hyperthreading with AMDs core organization, but they were always real cores.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-22 13:13:49+00:00
> This makes a lot of sense

I don't think it does, because it is completely unverifiable. It's like allowing people to buy drugs, but not to use them.

I'm not worried about people collecting IPs, I'm worried about people who collect IPs being able to send those IPs out and get them associated with names, and send those names out and be supplied with dossiers.

When they start putting collecting IPs in the same bag as the rest of this, it's because they're just trying to legitimize this entire process. Collecting dossiers becomes traffic shaping, and of course people should be allowed to traffic shape - you could be getting DDOSed by terrorists!

edit: I'm not sure this comment was quite clear - it's 1) the selling of private, incidentally collected information by service providers, and 2) the accumulation, buying, and selling of dossiers on normal people whom one has no business relationship that is the problem. IPs are just temporary identifiers, unless you can resolve them through what are essentially civilian intelligence organizations.
by piva00 | 2025-09-22 13:13:55+00:00
> The computer is allowed to make mistakes that a human wouldn't, if in reverse the computer makes a lot less mistakes in situations where humans would.

This subverts all of the accumulated experience of other users on the road about what a car will do, everyone is used to potential issues caused by humans, on top of that other road users will have to learn the quirks of FSD to keep an eye for abnormalities in behaviour?

That's just unrealistic, not only people will have to deal with what other drivers can throw at them (e.g.: veering off lane due to inattention) but also be careful around Teslas which can phantom brake out of nowhere, not avoid debris (shooting it on unpredictable paths), etc.

I don't think we should accept new failure modes on the road for FSD, requiring everyone else to learn them to be on alert, it's just a lot more cognitive load...
by bitwize | 2025-09-22 13:14:06+00:00
The Swiss Military Museum maintains an exhibit with a 1970s tank simulator that guests can try out. It consists of a tank cockpit in a hydraulically mounted chamber that can pitch and roll with the changing terrain. The operator drives a little camera around a large diorama providing a first-person view of simulated terrain; a "foot" on the camera senses the terrain which is then translated into movements of the chamber. Apparently all of the equipment is original except the computer; as computer parts became harder to replace, eventually they just used a Raspberry Pi.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-22 13:14:10+00:00
> Apple Silicon is built upon ARM64 which is apparently core to such great battery life.

Not really, actually. ARM isn’t terribly more efficient to decode than x86, and both are converted into micro-operations that are internal to the CPU.

The real strength is Apple’s custom ARM cores; as evidenced by the failure of Qualcomm and MediaTek to make anything quite like it, even with the same manufacturing nodes.
Show HN: AI provides real-time advice for offline two-person negotiations
by Myuuico | 2025-09-22 13:14:34+00:00
I made an AI as Mediator, providing real-time advice for offline two-person negotiations.

Microphone voice input, text output.

What surprises will this new AI interaction model bring? I want to see for myself. When AI serves not just one person, but two, how does it perform as a third party, especially in potentially conflicting negotiation scenarios?

Of course, implementing it on the web might not be optimal, but at least it will be faster to develop, and the AI's suggestions will be more intuitive.

We'd love to hear feedback from the community: Do you think this interaction method makes sense? Is AI currently capable of handling this scenario? What services would you like AI to provide in this scenario?

website: https://negowiz.com

video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88jeoXRWzw&t=3s
Show HN: The missing manual for ingredient substitutions
by cookingguru | 2025-09-22 13:14:48+00:00
I’m new to cooking, and one of the things that frustrated me right away was how often a recipe calls for something I don’t have: arrowroot, Aleppo peppers, or some random spice that isn’t in my pantry.

I ended up putting together a simple site that catalogs ingredient substitutions in plain English: ingredientsubstitutes.com.

It’s not fancy, but it’s been surprisingly useful for me (and hopefully others). Curious: how do you all normally handle substitutions?
by moi2388 | 2025-09-22 13:14:53+00:00
“Or maybe s and t represent possible states of some computer system, and Hom(s,t) is the type of processes that, when executed in state s, will result in state t. We definitely want to allow these processes to be irreversible”

Why? Irreversibility is what prevents computers from theoretically not requiring energy for their computation.

I’d rather truly have reversible computation ;)
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-22 13:14:54+00:00
> Usually you look for code examples or a guide for learning how those work

... which in practice means, particularly for stuff that recently changed, that you go to StackOverflow only to find out that the majority of posts are horribly outdated and don't even compile any more.

The other side are code examples that technically work and show, say, the syntax on how to use a programming language's or framework's shiny new feature... but manage to dumb the code example down so far that one has a very hard time wrapping around one's head on how to use this feature in a real world application.
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-22 13:14:56+00:00
This is spot on, and can apply to anyone branching out into a new area. I will add this concrete piece of advice that can simplify things:

Don't ask the user to install tools or use ones that are not core to the topic. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the 2 Scoops of Django tutorial after getting stuck installing VirtualBox, Chef, and Vagrant. The solution was to just not use them, because they don't have anything to do with Python, Django, or making a web server.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-22 13:15:17+00:00
>Literally how floating works.

Yes, ignoring momentum. Do parachutes just get stuck in the air halfway down? When do you inflate it? If you inflate it, can you even deorbit? Do those pop when you deorbit? Do you cover the balloon with big heavy heat shield tiles?

I'm not claiming I understand this at all, but you seem to have some child's grasp of "how floating works".

> By launching your rocket from the ballon city and returning to orbit.

Launching from the solid ground shakes it (the ground) like a leaf. But you're going to launch a rocket from the balloon, and you can't quite see where there might be a problem.

>Why is this unique to Venus versus anywhere else in space?

If I can't get the materials to repair my building in a hurry, I go outside and I wait. Or I stay inside and I wait. And if I can't do that for my Venusian balloon city, I slowly sink into a zone that melts lead and bakes me alive. And if I get the materials after it has stared sinking, repairing it won't reinflate the balloon and have it rise again, because some significant fraction of the air has leaked out.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-22 13:15:37+00:00
>the servers that run HN are surprisingly modest: just two machines with quad-core Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4 CPUs, running FreeBSD

Very nice. I used FreeBSD on my server until Version 9, I think I left for 2 reasons. The server experience heat death (my fault) and its Laptop support.

I heard v15 became alpha + its Laptop support has improved a lot. I will keep an eye on v15 and give it a try when released.

FWIW, I had to replace the power supply on the server and I forgot to plug in the CPU fan, doh. The machine was over 10 years old at the time.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-22 13:15:43+00:00
That's not the right read in my experience.

Most companies began opening offices abroad with P/L and roadmap ownership responsibilities during the initial Covid layoffs, because the first employees cut were those on work visas. Despite the stereotypes on this forum, this included a lot of PMs, EMs, and Principal Engineers.

When companies began rehiring during the COVID recovery, they began rehiring these former employees, but giving them a significant salary premium while allowing them to open and manage entire offices abroad. On top of that, CEE, Israel, and India all give massive subsidizes and roll the red carpet for companies to open high headcount offices which made it easier to do this move.

Now in 2025, you can see the 75th percentile of TCs in India and Romania in the $50k-60k mark and the 90th percentile breaking the $75k-85k mark, so it's not only cheap back office work.
by palmotea | 2025-09-22 13:15:50+00:00
> If you're using AI, you need to be that human, because as soon as you create a PR / hackerone report, it should stop being the AI's PR/report, it should be yours. That means the responsibility for parsing and validating it is on you.

And then add to that the pressure to majorly increase velocity and productivity with LLMs, that becomes less practical. Humans get squeezed and reduced to being fall guys for when the LLM screws up.

Also, Humans are just not suited to be the monitoring/sanity check layer for automation. It doesn't work for self-driving cars (because no one has that level of vigilance for passive monitoring), and it doesn't work well for many other kinds of output like code (because often it's a lot harder to reverse-engineer understanding from a review than to do it yourself).
by motbus3 | 2025-09-22 13:16:21+00:00
Even if it was the case, which by merely impression of being there for few days recently, but even if it was, are the folks he referring slaughtering white people? attacking them? Curbing their right for their beliefs? Taking all the jobs deeming a class, race or group segregated?

I don't think so. If anything, i don't think "native Brits" as he called, not wanting to do any of the low-end jobs.

I get why people are frustrated, but it feels like anger's just being used for political gains. There is no easy answers to the current economic problems.

This is exactly the same Brexit maneuver, done by the exact same people trying to rise a political party that has no true solution rather than blame people.

After the EU nothing has improved in the UK. There was no money for the NHS anyway. It is just a political trick IMO
by timpera | 2025-09-22 13:17:28+00:00
I wish Framework offered a laptop with an ARM64 processor.

I have a Surface Laptop 7 with a Snapdragon CPU on Windows 11 and it's been awesome so far. Insane battery life, especially in standby. I can reopen it after 48 hours and it only lost 3% of battery, while it stayed connected to WiFi and received notifications all along.
by cardanome | 2025-09-22 13:18:00+00:00
As a Linux user I feel you.

The Mac Desktop is vastly inferior to the Linux world (for power users) but the hardware is so, so good.

For me it is about having a completely silent setup. It is so, so hard to go back to noisy fans.

I really hope Asahi Linux keep going so I can have the best of both worlds.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-22 13:18:04+00:00
> I've also had a 45 minute "by the book" DSM-based session where boxes were being ticked... and the questions were f---ing terrible

The DSM isn’t the source of those question inventories. There are different question sets for different conditions that each have their own source, often a set of researchers or an institution that has put in some work to study and test them. Some of the more obscure question inventories are even paid material that clinicians (or their offices, more accurately) are supposed to license.

I caution against the clinicians who do rapid-fire diagnostics and slap a label on the patient within minutes of talking to them. Some patients like this when the diagnosis matches what they already self-diagnosed or they want to hear, but in these cases some clinicians are just picking up on the hints the patient gave and mirroring it back to them.

This rapid diagnostic method is an easy way to improve your patient satisfaction scores (important for performance measures at some clinics, especially when PE or corporate gets involved) and it’s an obvious way to free up some time in a clinician’s busy day.

There is a growing problem of lazy providers who try to speedrun the diagnosis and send patients on their way with a prescription for something and a request for a follow up appointment. During COVID when controlled substance prescribing rules were loosened for remote appointments there were even pill mills that would advertise for specific diagnoses on TikTok and then incentivize the providers to see as many patients per day and prescribe them all Adderall because it turned them into repeat customers for the recurring prescriptions. There was a whistleblower who revealed that they were measured on their rates of prescribing controlled substances and discouraged from prescribing alternatives with lower abuse/addiction potential even when patients admitted to having drug abuse problems. This is an extreme example but don’t discount the incentive for your provider to shorten your appointment for selfish reasons, not because the patient’s condition is obvious and easy to diagnose accurately within minutes.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-09-22 13:18:05+00:00
I’d disagree. :/

It’s a huge chuck metal well over a foot long in the middle of a lane. The center of a lane is usually higher than sides and an uneven patch of road can cause a slight bounce before it, further reducing clearance. I’d worry about my RAV4 (8 inches) clearing it safely.

At first, I thought it was possibly a tire tread, which tend to curl up.
by somat | 2025-09-22 13:18:24+00:00
Slightly related: the ultimate move prop laptop was from "Twister" where they had sgi laptops. Note that sgi never made a laptop.

However what is even cooler is that someone actually circuit bent a sgi O2 into laptop form factor. Unfortunately the link to the project page is dead, my disappointment is immeasurable.

https://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/
by sporkxrocket | 2025-09-22 13:18:57+00:00
Biden started the genocide, there would be nothing to take further if he hadn't done that. Biden also killed more people if you've been keeping track. I'm sure Trump is just as bad, but that's the point, they're both as bad as it can possibly get and both would kill Palestinians faster if they could. Not voting gives neither a mandate to do that though. It's one element that needs to be paired with direct action.
by detaro | 2025-09-22 13:18:58+00:00
I don't think "less restricted" is a good framing. How you are using it is the core, and you get to collect and store what's necessary for your legal uses, and use it for those uses. You don't get to have access logs because there is no restriction on logging IPs, you get them because you argue a justified use of them, and thus you can have them to use them for it (and not for anything else).
by flkiwi | 2025-09-22 13:19:12+00:00
This sounds like the so-called "modern standby" (S0 vs S3, if I remember correctly). I bought a thinkpad a while back with "modern standby" and the thing wouldn't last the night suspended, and would often wake me up with its fans howling and end up being very, very hot while suspended. I disabled "modern standby" in the BIOS and it was back to sleeping for weeks without losing charge. I have no idea if that's what's going on with Framework laptops, but "modern standby" is one of the dumbest changes I've ever seen in PC hardware. To my understanding it's to make laptops behave more like phones, but I've never experienced any meaningful difference in resume behavior between S0 and S3 suspend.