MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MattDamonSpace | 2025-09-11 21:03:46+00:00
No consideration for trade-offs involved here, it’s naive at best

It’s enormously difficult to ship any interesting feature that integrates hardware and software. The EU wants Apple to happily accept a burden that makes it harder to produce the products that made it popular in the first place.

I’m disappointed the EU won’t be getting these features (at least not quickly) but I’m hoping the citizenry realizes who’s to blame here
by threecheese | 2025-09-11 21:04:08+00:00
What are the barriers to external memory stores (assuming similar implementations), used via tool calling or MCP? Are the providers RL’ing their way into making their memory implementations better, cementing their usage, similar to what I understand is done wrt tool calling? (“training in” specific tool impls)

I am coming from a data privacy perspective; while I know the LLM is getting it anyway, during inference, I’d prefer to not just spell it out for them. “Interests: MacOS, bondage, discipline, Baseball”
by xienze | 2025-09-11 21:04:12+00:00
> The size difference between the smallest and largest districts—RI district 2 and Montana’s at large district—is 1:2 in population.

Come again? MT and RI have the same approximate population (1.1M) and the same number of representatives (2). I’m talking about the state level here.

> all Congressional powers either require both houses in concert

Right, they act as checks and balances upon one another. Equal-sized representation to give smaller states a way to avoid being steamrolled by the will of the largest states — why would states want to stay in a union where they have no hope of representation? Methinks if Alabama and Mississippi kept everything about themselves politically the same yet were both the size of California and New York you’d probably be of a different mind about the importance of the senate.
by michelpp | 2025-09-11 21:04:24+00:00
Yep, for any decent sized graph, sparse is an absolute necessity, since a dense matrix will grow with the square of the node size, sparse matrices and sparse matrix multiplication is complex and there are multiple kernel approaches depending on density and other factors. SuiteSparse [1] handles these cases, has a kernel JIT compiler for different scenarios and graph operations, and supports CUDA as well. Worth checking out if you're into algebraic graph theory.

Using SuiteSparse and the standard GAP benchmarks, I've loaded graphs with 6 billion edges into 256GB of RAM, and can BFS that graph in under a second. [2]

[1] https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/GraphBLAS

[2] https://onesparse.com/
by glial | 2025-09-11 21:04:29+00:00
Interesting, will check it out.

A persistent issue I have with Cursor et al. is that they hallucinate function arguments when using a function or method from a library. It seems like automatically pulling the library's documentation into the context would be helpful, but I haven't found any tool that does this automatically. Is there any chance that Runner does this?

It doesn't seem like this was the problem you were trying to solve, but reliable use of libraries and APIs is a critical problem to solve if you want LLM-generated code to work.
by filchermcurr | 2025-09-11 21:04:57+00:00
It was a thing, yeah. The schools around here didn't care. Kids were all on their phones during class, walking through the halls, during lunch, etc. Teachers gave up telling them to put them away because the students ignored them and teachers have no authority anymore. They can ask nicely and that's the extent of their power (at least in my district).

It was quite the shock when the statewide ban happened. Parents and students alike are still complaining about it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-11 21:05:20+00:00
If anyone reads this and think it's not the fault of the politicians, or at least the boomers for "not wanting to help their children/grandchildren", it's pretty clear that their goal wasn't to solve the fertility crisis.

On top of that I don't even think most boomers need to be inconvininced. Increase capital taxes, remove the ceiling for SS taxes, give wokers a 4 day workweek, raise minimum wage, invest in 3rd places. A few steps give people the time and energy to meet and make families.

But it seems like we really will just go to civil war before we make sure rich people contribute to the nation.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-11 21:05:35+00:00
Calories in/out is the only reliable way (short of surgery or drugs anyway) to reliably change the size of your body in either direction. Genetics, where you are on the planet, hormones, and your average activity levels tweak things but this remains fundamentally true:

If you eat in a calorie deficit, you will lose weight.

If you eat in a calorie surplus, you will gain weight.

It's not hateful, it's math. If you have a hard time getting your intake down due to life circumstances, addictions, stress, whatever, you have my utmost sympathies and I would do anything I could to help, but I'm not going to bullshit you. If you want to weigh less, you must, over a long period of time, take in fewer calories than you burn in a day. That is how you lose weight in the most nuts-and-bolts way there is.
by coldtea | 2025-09-11 21:05:56+00:00
>They’re basically Markov chains on steroids. There is no intelligence in this, and in my opinion actual intelligence is a prerequisite for AGI.

This argument is circular.

A better argument should address (given the LLM successes in many types of reasoning, passing the turing test, and thus at producing results that previously required intelligence) why human intelligence might not also just be "Markov chains on even better steroids".
by card_zero | 2025-09-11 21:06:16+00:00
Yes, I was considering that just now, and I thought it's probably not Russians, anyway. There's been a series of actual Russian attempts to destabilize France, including one in the news currently, and they're crude and easily traced because they're carried out by hiring Serbians and Moldovans and Bulgarians to make a relatively short journey and do something relatively easy and low-risk, motivated by money.

The guy who shot Trump in the ear had (arguably) no particular ideology or goal, just an interest in assassinations and a possible depressive disorder.
by perching_aix | 2025-09-11 21:06:16+00:00
But they're experiencing their training data, their pseudo-randomness source, and your prompts?

Like, to put it in perspective. Suppose you're training a multimodal model. Training data on the terabyte scale. Training time on the weeks scale. Let's be optimistic and assume 10 TB in just a week: that is 16.5 MB/s of avg throughput.

Compare this to the human experience. VR headsets are aiming for what these days, 4K@120 per eye? 12 GB/s at SDR, and that's just vision.

We're so far from "realtime" with that optimistic 16.5 MB/s, it's not even funny. Of course the experiencing and understanding that results from this will be vastly different. It's a borderline miracle it's any human-aligned. Well, if we ignore lossy compression and aggressive image and video resizing, that is.
by giveita | 2025-09-11 21:06:23+00:00
> I’ve been deploying Rails applications to production since 2004

> I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different.

I feel this is the problem with frameworks, they have to keep evolving and growing and even people who have been doing it 20 years can get caught out.

But the architecture of the Web has basically not changed that much. We are collectively shooting ourselves in the foot.

Definitely not just a Rails thing.
by mothballed | 2025-09-11 21:07:25+00:00
I sincerely hope the great-grandparent comment is not a representation of this community, either. I will try and stay optimistic that there are higher quality comments, if nothing else, for something higher I can aspire to than comments calling others liar but in a nuanced enough way to reframe it as a someone dishonest.

It's pretty clear we're not going to have a "proper conversation" if it's not OK for a knee-jerk reaction, when I know little about a guy, and no one has offered compelling evidence to the contrary, to be passive aggressive about an insane comment that a husband and father of little kids is better off dead. Absolutely unconscionable to me, unless this guy is going around violently attacking people or something.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-11 21:07:52+00:00
The best benchmark is the community vibe in the weeks following a release.

Claude benchmarks poorly but vibes well. Gemini benchmarks well and vibes well. Grok benchmarks well but vibes poorly.

(yes I know you are gushing with anecdotes, the vibes are simply the approximate color of gray born from the countless black and white remarks.)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-11 21:08:43+00:00
There's understanding disagreeable viewpoints and the there's failing to adhere to the paradox of tolerance.

There's no reason to steelman "black people shouldn't exist in the US", as the most extreme example. I can steelman it, but what am I getting out of this? What am I professing to an audience to steelman this? Steelmans are used to build empathy and sh synthesize solutions taking multiple viewpoints into account. This is the opposite.
by dahauns | 2025-09-11 21:08:49+00:00
It's not really applicable here, though - being an official IETF/ICANN/IANA joint.

I mean, it has its own RFC called "Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database": https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6557

I'd say that's as far from "some random person in Nebraska" as you can get...

(And if you'd do a representative survey among developers having had to deal with time zone shenanigans, I'm fairly certain "thanklessly" won't hold either :) )
by fakedang | 2025-09-11 21:09:05+00:00
I haven't lived in the Bay Area ever, although I had plans to move there at the time (plans which were sidelined because I didn't get the H1B then), but the fire was pretty big news even halfway across the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire

It wasn't the community that sparked attention, but the shoddy living conditions and that people had to resort to living in a warehouse in the Bay Area because of unaffordable housing (and which indirectly led to the conditions for the fire to happen).

But again I wouldn't expect recent YC people who just moved to the Bay Area to know about it.
Ask HN: What editor for LaTeX notes do you use?
by quamserena | 2025-09-11 21:09:25+00:00
I am looking for a text editor to take LaTeX notes in. What do you all use? Here are my requirements:

1. Document is some plain text format with inline LaTeX support, e.g. Markdown with LaTeX or Org mode.

2. Editor provides a live, inline preview while you are typing, including LaTeX.

3. Plugin available for LaTeX shortcuts.

I am not a fan of side-by-side source and rendered PDF; on large documents it can be hard to find your place in the LaTeX soup. That's why I want the preview to be inline.

I have tried Obsidian, emacs org-mode, and Joplin.

Obsidian: - With the more complicated stuff, MathJax is limiting and not configurable (e.g. lack of diagrams or packages). This is the main reason I want to move away.

- Weird notion of vaults, for some reason Obsidian insists on being special. Why can't I open any file with Obsidian? The file explorer pane is garbage compared to what you'd find in VSCode.

- Latex Suite plugin is nice for custom LaTeX shortcuts.

- I have also had some serious papercuts where everything looked fine in the live preview and then has errors in the PDF export. New problem I've been having is that occasionally on export, some symbols are blank. Exporting again usually fixes it.

emacs org-mode:

- There is no live, inline LaTeX preview. Best I could find was emacs-webkit-katex-render[0], but it's basically creating a webkit widget and rendering KaTeX. It's a completely separate renderer from the rest of org-mode-latex. Again it's not configurable and won't support LaTeX packages. I'm not sure if AUCTeX is even amenable to live previews, might be too slow. org-fragtog hides the fragment while you're editing so no live preview through that plugin either.

- cdlatex looks nice for shortcuts. Probably more powerful and more polished than Latex Suite for Obsidian, but haven't explored it fully yet.

Joplin: - I moved to Obsidian from Joplin originally. I don't think Joplin supports live previews for LaTeX, but this might have changed since I last used it.

So far I haven't found a program that's the best at all 3. As much as I hate bloated Electron apps, it seems as though the web people are the only ones who have figured out how to do live LaTeX previews. Is there better software out there for LaTeX than Obsidian?

[0] https://github.com/fuxialexander/emacs-webkit-katex-render
by MediaSquirrel | 2025-09-11 21:09:35+00:00
I don't get what's so weird about MLX. Apple's focus is obviously on MLX / Metal going forward.

The only reason to use CoreML these days is to tap into the Neural Engine. When building for CoreML, if one layer of your model isn't compatible with the Neural Engine, it all falls back to the CPU. Ergot, CoreML is the only way to access the ANE, but it's a buggy all-or-nothing gambit.

Have you ever actually shipped a CoreML model or tried to use the ANE?
by Marsymars | 2025-09-11 21:10:21+00:00
Except e.g. the 7.6" Pixel Fold screen is still only a third of the area of a 13" MacBook (not to mention a desktop).

To people (like me) who want bigger screens, your comment reads akin to "Imagine that you need to grab your phone because you need a 6" screen, now instead you can just flip out a second screen from your Apple Watch and have a 2.5" screen."
by p_ing | 2025-09-11 21:10:29+00:00
There was a large effort either right before or after Server 2003 to harden the Windows codebase as a whole.

Certainly it hasn't been 100% rewritten, that'd make no sense. But I'm not going to guess how much of it /has/ been rewritten because like you guessing, it'd be an uneducated one.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-09-11 21:10:43+00:00
I can see a use for this. It would be nice to not have to write the typical indexing boilerplate when dealing with multidimensional data. One less area to make a mistake. Feels less kludgy.

I wonder if this has any benefit of row vs column memory access, which I always forget to bother with unless suddenly my performance crawls.
by wpollock | 2025-09-11 21:11:04+00:00
I'm certainly not knowledgeable about these algorithms, but I'm willing to look foolish.

In any regular polygon, you can fill it with a line of any thickness by starting at one vertex and spiraling inward until the shape is completely filled. The line can be as thin as required for any application.

The problem is now transformed into finding random points on a finite line. I don't have the mathematical chops to know, but I'd guess that finding the length of such a line and coverting to the 2d coordinates of any point on the line would be possible perhaps even practical. Does anyone here know if this is possible?
by nunobrito | 2025-09-11 21:11:28+00:00
Your opinion comes as security expert working for a group whose hardware leaked the data for 400 000 people just a few months ago: https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/127456/volkswagen-data...

Maybe your cars could use that tinfoil hat and avoid leaking personal data.

Now on a serious note: there are better odds of staying hidden between the noise of thousand cheap chinese manufacturers than willingly get yourself into the hardware of a very suspicious supplier.

You are correct that it is game over once there is physical access to your hardware, the thing we try to avoid here is guaranteed remote access from the comfort of some servers in Utah.
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by darkamaul | 2025-09-11 21:12:34+00:00
This is amazing. Not that long ago, even getting a model to reliably output the same character multiple times was a real challenge. Now we’re seeing this level of composition and consistency. The pace of progress in generative models is wild.

Huge thanks to the author (and the many contributors) as well for gathering so many examples; it’s incredibly useful to see them to better understand the possibilities of the tool.
by lucb1e | 2025-09-11 21:12:35+00:00
> Been working in the industry for 30 years and never once heard it?

obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1053/ Happy ten thousand day!

Others already answered but while I'm chiming in anyway, I'm not in the hosting industry but IT security (for like ten years, say) and for me it's a very normal term. Maybe precisely because of that niche though; many of us are paranoid
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-11 21:12:43+00:00
Maybe they're better off switching careers? At some point, your customers aren't going to pay you very much to do something that they've become able to do themselves.

There used to be a job people would do, where they'd go around in the morning and wake people up so they could get to work on time. They were called a "knocker-up". When the alarm clock was invented, these people lose their jobs to other knockers-up with alarm clocks, they lost their jobs to alarm clocks.
by tim333 | 2025-09-11 21:12:46+00:00
The problem is fuzzy language can make debate poor and about the definition of words rather than about reality. The answer I think it to avoid that and find things that you can be clear about. A famous example is the Turing test. Rather than debates on whether machines can think getting bogged down in endless variation of how people define thinking, Turing looked at if the machines could be told apart from humans which he discussed in his paper.
by seec | 2025-09-11 21:13:22+00:00
You should check your sources. Very often the reverse is actually true. The recent years are not really representative because a lot of reactors were put on hold waiting for repairs and improvement.

There is also the fact that France added millions of people while not building new nuclear capacities, so of course at some point there is going to be overload without renewed investment.

Bug people like seems to want to put more money on renewable so that we can import even more electricity from Germany's coal plants (that makes up to 40% of their electricity generation in the winter when the wind is nowhere to be found).

I'm very curious where you find your data, because it's not at all what I have been able to get. If there is some source that clearly shows renewable superiority in the winter, I would really like to see it.

To be self-sufficient without coal, Germany needs to install 150GW of wind power still, and at current rate it will take at least 10 years. But I'm very curious what is their solution for when they get no wind for weeks on end, like it has happened recently. So far it seems to be, fire up the coal plant and take the cheap nuclear from your neighbor while posturing and virtue signaling about your superiority of not using nuclear.
by layer8 | 2025-09-11 21:13:26+00:00
Google Pixel Buds and Samsung Galaxy Buds basically provide the same feature of realtime translation. Either Apple is withholding the feature without any real cause, or the cause lies in some aspect where Apple doesn’t allow third-party manufacturers to provide the same feature under iOS, while Android does. I don’t know which is the case, but both put Apple in a bad light, along with the fact that they don’t explain the exact reason for the limitation.
Personal AI Integrated with WhatsApp and Telegram
by mogusian | 2025-09-11 21:13:48+00:00
Hi all,

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on which has been super helpful to me already.

I’m the founder of a tech startup called Praxos, and over the past months I’ve started to struggle juggling all the different tasks and commitments falling on my plate. Often times I’ve caught myself spending most of my day chasing after personal life or mundane job work, only to realize that I couldn’t really (1) move the needle on things that mattered for my company’s success on that day; and that (2) I had a few hours left on my day but was too drained to do anything meaningful.

I am very organized and have a great memory, so I’ve never really used checklists or kept many things on the calendar. I understand that these things would’ve helped me prioritize better, but always felt that the hassle of putting things in place or keeping them updated outweighed the ease or just keeping them in my own memory. That said, I’ve had more and more “oh sh!t” moments lately with something important falling through the cracks.

Up until a month ago, the startup I co-founded with my best friend was in insurance. Our main bread and butter was being able to extract insurance data from anything and put it into anything. But as our systems got better, we started experimenting with using it for other things. For me, I realized that connecting the same email/calendar automations we built for insurance brokers, as well as the same capabilities to take my emails, documents, etc. and extract the data it needs to actually do stuff for me, can already make something that helps me.

Think about a simple WhatsApp or Telegram message that reminds me about lunch with a client, or that I have to run an errand, or having it find the blood pressure numbers I have somewhere my emails that the doctor keeps asking for to give me the refill and sending it to her already just made me feel less like I was balancing on a tight rope.

This was kind of a big moment for me, because we realized that having something which for us, ourselves, would be usable is so much more exciting that building a product in insurance. So we spent the past month taking what we had, and building it into exactly what we wanted to see.

For me, just the fact of knowing I can send it a random voice note on WhatsApp before bed, and having it immediately start coordinating with a client over email a time to meet next week has been a godsend.

So today, I’m sharing what I built here, hoping that people benefit from it.

We’re still actively fleshing it out, and we’re very open to hearing ideas, or things that people need. The goal’s to build a version of Siri / Android Assistant that can both (1) remember everything about you, and (2) do work for you. All of this one text / voice msg away.

If you’d like to check it out, here’s our site: https://mypraxos.com.
by efreak | 2025-09-11 21:13:53+00:00
Unless they've changed something, I know at least at the very beginning Zelle had no fraud protection.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/zelle-users-are-finding-ou...

It appears they still have issues with (more advanced forms of) fraud:

https://thecyberexpress.com/zelle-lawsuit-2025-scam-hit-us-f... (this page won't stop reloading, but I think it's my adblock configuration) https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20241221198/mor...