MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cbeach | 2025-09-23 16:52:32+00:00
Trump doesn't pass the fascism test, I'm afraid:

* Dictatorial leader - Trump ceded power at the end of his last term, and the opposition had a term. That doesn't happen in a dictatorship.

* Centralised autocracy - Trump has maintained the US political system with its checks and balances.

* Militarism - As with his previous term, Trump is more interested in creating peace treaties (e.g. the Abraham Accords) than participating in wars.

* Forcible suppression of opposition - Democrats have not been suppressed

* Belief in a natural social hierarchy - Trump believes in meritocracy, not any other order.

* Subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy - Trump is the archetypal capitalist - he believes all people should strive to produce with free enterprise, and have an ownership stake in the means of production via the free market. Fascist regimes, on the other hand, have a top-down regimentation of the economy akin to socialism (which is no surprise, as Musollini and Hitler were both socialists before they developed fascism).
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-23 16:52:43+00:00
> it's a universal tradeoff, that is: Safety is less ergonomic.

I'm not sure that that tradeoff is quite so universal. GC'd languages (or even GC'd implementations like Fil-C) are equally or even more memory-safe than Rust but aren't necessarily any less ergonomic. If anything, it's not an uncommon position that GC'd languages are more ergonomic since they don't forbid some useful patterns that are difficult or impossible to express in safe Rust.
by seec | 2025-09-23 16:52:44+00:00
I wouldn't bother arguing with him.

He is an anti-nuclear troll, randomly posting nonsense about nuclear everywhere he goes. It's always emotionally driven bullshit, crafted to create a reaction.

Just google his pseudo. I wouldn't be surprised if he was sponsored by a foreign agency to destabilize political discourse. Considering he is from Sweden, the potential of Russian influence isn't negligible.

In any case, whatever he says, is at best, extremely idealistic and based on wishful thinking about the true capabilities of renewables (we are still waiting on reliable and cost-effective storage, if that's even possible at scale for European weather patterns).
by tptacek | 2025-09-23 16:52:45+00:00
I actively dislike Zig's memory safety story, but this isn't a real argument until you can start showing real vulnerabilities --- not models --- that exploit the gap in rigor between the two languages. Both Zig and Rust are a step function in safety past C; it is not a given that Rust is that from Zig, or that that next step matters in practice the way the one from C does.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-23 16:52:58+00:00
> keeps repeating "violence is never the answer" while forgetting meaningful change almost always requires it.

It's a bit paradoxical, but almost all real change is done by the threat of violence, and almost none of it is achieved by applying violence.

But you are right that as people more radically reject violence, democracy dies and changes stop. Even though violence almost never achieves anything.
Show HN: A personalized HN feed that learns from your favorites
by tullie | 2025-09-23 16:53:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been a daily user here for almost 15 years. Over that time, my interests have shifted. I find I'm now more interested in deep-dive technical posts and personal blogs than the big tech announcements that often dominate the front page. The "top" feed was starting to feel stale, and I was spending more time digging through "new".

So, I decided to build what I wanted: a personalized "For You" feed.

Link: https://hn.shaped.ai

It's a simple concept: you log in with your normal HN credentials, and as you favorite stories, it learns what you're interested in and re-ranks the feed to show you more of that content.

How it was built (a 2-day hackathon):

The Client: I used an AI coding assistant (lovable.dev) to generate the initial React/Next.js client. It was surprisingly effective at getting a functional baseline up and running quickly. The Backend: Since HN's official API is read-only, I set up a lightweight Supabase backend. It uses edge functions to proxy login/voting requests to HN's unofficial API and a Postgres DB to cache posts and user events (favorites, etc.). The Personalization: The ranking is powered by my own company's platform, Shaped. It ingests the posts and your favorite events in real-time.

The core of the ranking logic is a configurable formula. It's essentially the classic HN algorithm with a personalization term multiplied in:

(item.score / score_penalty + content_similarity) / (time_decay)

The content_similarity is calculated by comparing a post's text embedding to an embedding of your recent favorites. The best part is that you can actually play with the score_penalty in the UI to make the personalization stronger or weaker.

This is very much a v1. I'd love to get your feedback. Does the personalization feel right? Any bugs? What's missing that would make you use it daily?

Next on my list are things like collaborative filtering (once there's enough data!), semantic search, and a "similar stories" feature. Here's also a more detailed write-up about how it was built: https://www.shaped.ai/blog/building-a-hackernews-for-you-fee...

Thanks for checking it out!
by fennecbutt | 2025-09-23 16:53:32+00:00
Homophobic trope because it's acceptable to joke about prison rape specifically, when the victim involved is a man.

Why don't you see people openly joke about regular rape on HN? Why is a joke about regular rape not a phrase acceptable on here? In the same vein as the 2000s gaming "oh man I'm getting raped over here". Oh yes, because it's considered disgusting and offensive.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-23 16:54:12+00:00
> The article doesn't make this clear... is sharing a house illegal

Sharing a house with too many people is illegal in many jurisdictions, yes. E.g., https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/urban-development/sf-housing...

(Note that this focusses on a rule on the number of legally-unrelated people that can legally live in a unit, but it also mentions in passing a separate restriction on the total number of people who can live in a unit irrespective of family relationships.)
by roxolotl | 2025-09-23 16:54:12+00:00
I think the most compelling arguments are:

LLMs aren’t AI. These are language processing tools which are highly effective and it turns out language is a large component of intelligence but they aren’t AI alone.

Intelligence isn’t the solution or bottleneck to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Famines are political. We know how to deploy clean energy.

Now that doesn’t quite answer your question but I think it says two things. First that the time horizon to real AI is still way longer than sama is currently considering. Second that AI won’t be as useful as many believe.
by marklubi | 2025-09-23 16:54:12+00:00
I can confirm this. Have a relative that works for Apple. Made the mistake of complaining in front of her about their take on sales (they make six-figures annually from my app). She went off on how much they give us (including Xcode) for the privilege of having an app on their phones.

Still don't have a contact there. Would have thought I would at least get someone there to talk with if issues come up.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-23 16:54:15+00:00
My understanding of odin was that its good for data oriented.

I haven't really looked into odin except joining their discord and asking them some questions.

it seems that aside from some normal syntax, it is sort of different from golang under the hood as compared to V-lang which is massively inspired by golang

After reading the HN post of sqlite which recommended using sqlite as a odt or some alternative which I agreed. I thought of creating an app in flutter similar to localsend except flutter only supports C esq and it would've been weird to take golang pass it through C and then through flutter or smth and I gave up...

I thought that odin could compile to C and I can use that but it turns out that Odin doesn't really compile to C as compared to nim and v-lang which do compile to C.

I think that nim and v-lang are the best ways to write some app like that though with flutter and I am now somewhat curious as to what you guys think would be the best way of writing highly portable apps with something personally dev-ex being similar to golang..

I have actually thought about using something like godot for this project too and seeing if godot supports something like golang or typescript or anything really. Idk I was just messing around and having a bit of fun lol i think.
by timschmidt | 2025-09-23 16:54:35+00:00
> NVIDIA think it's dead already

Perhaps that's what Jensen says publicly, but Nvidia's next generation chip contains more transistors than the last. And the one after that will too.

Let me know when they align their $Trillions behind smaller less complex designs, then I'll believe that they think Moore's law is out of juice.

Until then, they can sit with the group of people who've been vocally wrong about moore's law's end for the last 50 years.

Our chips are still overwhelmingly 2D in design, just a few dozen layers thick but billions of transistors wide. We have quite a ways to go based on a first principles analysis alone. And indeed, that's what chip engineers like Jim Keller say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c01BlUDIlK4

So ask yourself how it benefits Jensen to convince you otherwise.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-23 16:54:45+00:00
"On average across worker pairs, spectators implemented a Gini coefficient of 0.56 and redistributed $1.30 of the winner’s earnings to the loser. "

"In the efficiency cost treatment, the winner was determined by a coin flip and redistribution incurs an “adjustment cost” that reduces the total earnings available to participants. For every $1.00 reduction in the winner’s earnings, the loser’s earnings increase by only $0.50"

So out of $6, the average MBA of the 271 sampled redistributed $1.30 to the loser who was not obligated to receive any of it. So 22% redistribution. Less if the redistribution has costs. Seems fair?
by imoverclocked | 2025-09-23 16:55:06+00:00
We have lived in a period without significant fascism in power. Fascism doesn’t start with concentration camps and gas chambers, it builds up to them. It’s easy to dismiss because we were taught about just how bad it got but surely it’s not that bad _here_. The problem is, it’s only getting worse and ignoring it is how it got so bad in the past.

Fascists are continuing to rise right now. Googling “Hallmarks of fascism” gives us an AI overview:

Key hallmarks of fascism include fervent nationalism, authoritarian leadership, the suppression of opposition, and the use of violence to achieve national rejuvenation. …

We blatantly have all of those things from the current administration.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-23 16:55:16+00:00
Ideally neither Zig nor Rust would matter.

Languages like Modula-3 or Oberon would have taken over the world of systems programming.

Unfortunately there are too many non-believers for systems programming languages with automatic resource management to take off as they should.

Despite everything, kudos to Apple for pushing Swift no matter what, as it seems to be only way for adoption.
by MountDoom | 2025-09-23 16:55:22+00:00
Ubiquity doesn't depend on the AI getting much better as much as it depends on the computational cost going down (i.e., better hardware + software optimizations). When you can put a ChatGPT-class model locally on every desktop or phone, people will use it even if the accuracy or safety isn't quite there.

Just look at how people are using Grok on Twitter, or how they're pasting ChatGPT output to win online arguments, or how they're trusting Google AI snippets. This is only gonna escalate.

That said, this is probably not the future Sam Altman is talking about. His vision for the future must justify the sky-high valuations of OpenAI, and cheap ubiquity of this non-proprietary tech runs counter to that. So his "ubiquity" is some sort of special, qualified ubiquity that is 100% dependent on his company.
by heymijo | 2025-09-23 16:55:29+00:00
There's an old Drucker quote "there's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

If you're in the wrong market or building for the wrong customers you can execute brilliantly on everything you mentioned and it won't matter. The only thing that matters is product market fit or finding it if you don't have it. That's what I see as unsaid in your parent's comment about "execute what though?"
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 16:55:46+00:00
I did some research out of curiosity, and this medication is not the same as a high-dose folic acid supplement that many people are familiar with.

I can't find the connection between this medication and better outcomes for patients with autism. Even the press release today seems to focus on autism-like symptoms when diagnosed with CFD, not autism. I wonder if this is smoke and mirrors to distract from all the scandals and failures of this administration?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348963#45349230
by typpilol | 2025-09-23 16:56:07+00:00
This seems like a way to squeeze money from users who forgot about their sub with unsuspecting payments.

If the service is declined and they use it, they would just resubscribe.

This is just basically a tool for businesses to scam unsuspecting customers?

Also - do the customers agree for you to charge their other payment method? If not, how is that legal? It's also seems like it would be against stripes terms of service

I reported this to stripe to see what they have to say
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-23 16:56:17+00:00
A bit of a contrarian take: the effect of many of the aphorisms and much of the wisdom in this document is to empower bad people and allow bad things to happen unimpeded. All at the expense of the greater good, or at least your own.

He quotes Spinoza: "A man strong in character hates no one, is angry with no one... is indignant with no one, scorns no one..." What I'm reading is that Spinoza never met a Donald Trump, even though I know very well he encountered even worse in his life. I'd need to be not just a buddha, but the capital-B Buddha himself, to find relevance in this advice. If I somehow managed to do so, and if everyone else followed my enlightened example in a Kantian sense, things would really suck.

Sometimes we need to hate. Otherwise we wouldn't have the capacity.
by kmacdough | 2025-09-23 16:56:17+00:00
She could well have written in third person. She was watching herself dying slowly, separating further and further from her life. If it felt like I was already dead towards the end, I might just run with it when writing my life story. Just leave a few fill-in-the-blanks for details like the date and ceremony details for hubby to fill in.

The title is close enough. Censored, missed a comma and skipped the secondary title. Very human choices and mistakes. Not sure why we'd expect a dying loving woman to be hyper focused on getting the title of her book right.
by wirehack | 2025-09-23 16:56:19+00:00
That's the critical question. The key is that Strata never exposes all tools to the agent at once. Our progressive guidance acts as a dynamic allowlist, so that the agent only "sees" the specific tools relevant to its immediate task. This fundamentally reduces the blast radius at each step. We do provide a comprehensive audit trails for every action, giving a CISO a centralized control plane to manage and monitor agent capabilities, rather than an exponential risk. If you are interested, come talk to us!
by dismalaf | 2025-09-23 16:56:38+00:00
Except Matz is aligned with DHH, Tobi and others. I think lots of people confuse "nice" with "supporting every weird American left-wing cause pushed by certain corporations". Keep in mind most of the people who actually run the Ruby ecosystem and drive it forward aren't American, and it's mostly Americans whining about it.

Also, people opposing it (Sidekiq, the guys starting "rv", etc...) have a vested financial interest in opposing Rails and rubygems...
by unconed | 2025-09-23 16:56:48+00:00
TOML is basically a formalization of the old INI format, which only existed in ad-hoc implementations. It's not really a "language", just a config data syntax like JSON. It doesn't have major footguns because it doesn't have a lot of surface area.

The various features it has for nesting and arrays make it convenient to write, but can make it harder to read. There is no canonical serialization of a TOML document, as far as I can tell, you could do it any number of ways.

So while TOML has its use for small config files you edit by hand, it doesn't really make sense for interchange, and it doesn't see much use outside of Rust afaik.
by mattwilsonn888 | 2025-09-23 16:56:55+00:00
This is true for every language. Logic bugs exist. I'll take good OS process isolation over 'written-in-Rust' though I wouldn't mind both.

That being said, you've missed the point if you can't understand that safety comes at a real cost, not an abstract or 'by any means necessary' cost, but a cost as real as the safety issues.
by darkbatman | 2025-09-23 16:57:07+00:00
We kinda use https://github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox but for databases looking forward if klavis provide more or general solution.

Ideally when we are writing agents we need mcp to support auth, custom headers because by design when deploying for saas we need to pass around client params to be able to isolate client connections.

We do token optimisation and other smart stuff to save token money. Looking forward to try this as well if this solves similar problems as well
by SamuelAdams | 2025-09-23 16:57:21+00:00
> We are creating young people that have a very limited attention span, have no incentive to think about things, and have very pleasing metrics on the dora scale. When asked what their code is doing, they just don’t know. They can’t event explain the choices they made.

This has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with a bad hire. If the developer is that bad with code, how did they get hired in the first place? If AI is making them lazier, and they refuse to improve, maybe they ought to be replaced by a better developer?
by general1465 | 2025-09-23 16:57:24+00:00
How would such civilization even survive to discover a wheel if it can't recognize lie or misinformation. Even animals are able to lie - that's what mimicry and camouflage is all about.

Imagination is also form of a lie. You are making stuff up in your head. Without imagination you don't have innovation. Without innovation you are stuck in cave scavenging whatever you can find.
by woopsn | 2025-09-23 16:57:24+00:00
The fundamental driver of the economy will be people, as always, because only people define "value".

Word generating machine will not "figure out how to cure cancer" but it could help, obviously. AI is extremely valuable tool but it does not work on my behalf, except in same sense a coin sorter does. It's a tool. I still see this thing confuse left and right (no exaggeration), which would be fine - tools aren't perfect - except for all bullshit from VCs. That is where the danger lies, not with the tool but idolatry.

I am concerned the system encourages suicide, delusional thinking etc. They need to work that out immediately. Must be held to at least the standard of a lawn mower or couch with regard to safety. Probably should make it safe before hooking it up to 10GW power plant. Does not help perception that author of this blog saying how awesome future will be is also building a hideaway bunker for himself.

This is all on you at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Twitter etc. Whatever happens.
by reenorap | 2025-09-23 16:57:47+00:00
He didn't call them subhuman. That's just propaganda taken out of context to try to diminish him. I'm sorry that it has convinced some people that the smear is true. It's weird that on one hand, you think he thinks autistic people are subhuman, and yet he's provably the only person in government in a position of power fighting for families suffering from autism.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-23 16:57:47+00:00
Sorry guys but this is why I dont want to see many finance related posts here, because very few know what they are talking about.

Buybacks are the preferred method of RETURNING CASH to shareholders, because dividends historically have been sticky. Buybacks are flexible.

Buybacks are also done to optimise the debt ratio, to minimise the firms cost of capital and thereby maximizing firm value.
by konfekt | 2025-09-23 16:57:50+00:00
The classic z [0] is a shell script and thus doesn't require any installation other than loading this script in your shell's rc file. I found Navita [1] an improvement over it that works more reliably on different shells such as Bash and ZSH, though.

0: https://github.com/rupa/z 1: https://github.com/CodesOfRishi/navita/
by jlokier | 2025-09-23 16:58:16+00:00
> Voters, in aggregate, want rents to fall and prices to rise, roughly divided by renters vs owners

I assure you, a lot of people in the UK want house prices to fall too. There are too many renters who don't want to be renting, and the proportion is increasing. They wish they could buy instead, but can't either because of price, inability to save enough for a down-payment as fast as prices rise (while large rent rises impede their saving or even drain it, and incomes rise more slowly than prices), or inability to obtain a mortgage despite a history of consistently paying more than a mortgage in rent. For the latter category, who can afford a mortgage but can't get one, and are already paying more in rent, their main problem isn't income or price, it's the tighter restrictions on mortgage availability since the 2008 financial crises. But they would still like lower prices.
Show HN: Production Deployable Prediction Market Platform, SocialPredict v0.0.4
by wwwpatdelcom | 2025-09-23 16:58:23+00:00
Finally made it to v0.0.4 after over a year of hobby work.

There are known problems, but it works if you wanted to put it on a VPS.

Please submit any issues here.

Looking for help with the position settlement math and locking initial bets in a more elegant way if anyone has a math background and wants to pitch in.
by sys32768 | 2025-09-23 16:58:31+00:00
For the non-partisans who actually care more about autism in children than they do throwing ideological jabs, there are numerous interesting anecdotal reports from parents of children who have been trying leucovorin in the past year or so:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Autism_Parenting/search/?q=leucovor...

My hope is that this does lead to breakthroughs in understanding the mechanism for some types of autism, and perhaps even a "miracle" drug akin to how stimulants can radically transform the brains of many with ADHD.
by YC945879834759 | 2025-09-23 16:58:52+00:00
Tell me why Putin hasn't used nuclear weapons on Ukraine, a vulnerable non-nuclear nation that they are at war with? Is there something uniquely dangerous about Muslims in possession of nuclear weapons that you'd like to tell the class?

To be clear: Pakistan is a military dictatorship with Sharia Law and Sharia courts in effect for decades, and Islam as their state religion (something that isn't even true of Iran, a country of great religious diversity that's not reflected in Western propaganda). They are as much a theocracy as Saudi Arabia, yet their nuclear weapons aren't an issue because they play patty-cake with Western interests and have no oil reserves for Exxonmobil to salivate over.