MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaicianflone | 2025-09-26 13:47:35+00:00
$200 a month for data cards is insanity. It sounds like virtue-signaling or bs features for VC's. Idk why this wasn't pushed to the consumer plus level.

Here's an excerpt from ChatGPT on why this could be a "bubble" feature:

By sticking Pulse behind the $200 Pro tier, OpenAI is signaling it’s for:

VCs, consultants, analysts → people who can expense it as “deal flow intel.”

Enterprise & finance people who live in dashboards and daily reports.

Folks who don’t blink at $200/month because they already burn way more on data feeds, research subscriptions, or Bloomberg terminals.

In other words, it feels less like a consumer feature and more like a “bubble luxury” signal — “If you need Pulse, you’re in the club that can afford Pro.”

The irony is, Pulse itself isn’t really a $200/mo product — it’s basically automated research cards. But bundling it at that tier lets OpenAI:

Frame it as exclusive (“you’re not missing out, you’re just not at the level yet”).

Keep the Plus plan sticky for the masses.

Extract max revenue from people in finance/AI hype cycles who will pay.

It’s like how Bloomberg charges $2k/month for terminals when most of the raw data is public — you’re paying for the packaging, speed, and exclusivity.

I think you’re right: Pulse at $200 screams “this is a bubble feature” — it’s monetizing the hype while the hype lasts.
by JunkDNA | 2025-09-26 13:47:49+00:00
I have fond memories of playing the original Falcon on my Amiga 500. It felt like magic after years of playing F15 Strike Eagle on the Apple IIc. Hearing real sound effects kicking in the afterburner and getting too close to the ground ("Pull Up! Pull Up!") were all so satisfying.

I remember being so excited when Falcon 3.0 came out. But it just felt like a let down. The graphics were amazing for the time and it seemed so realistic, but for me the realism is what killed all the fun. As a kid, I didn't actually want to BE an expert F16 pilot. I just wanted to feel like I was. I didn't want to have to learn all the systems and controls.
by jfengel | 2025-09-26 13:48:32+00:00
I'd be curious to know how that compares to other war zones. Wars always have civilian victims; is this worse?

Wikipedia's article on WW II casualties begins: "Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

That's about 2:1. The article cites estimates in Gaza of 15:1.

The two conflicts are very different, so I don't know if that's really an apples-to-apples comparison. But that's what my research turned up.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-09-26 13:48:36+00:00
> As well as just promoting good practioners, it feels like discourse about software architecture has really fallen off.

My observations of 20+ years in tech is that tech, collectively, chases the easiest thing to do, then complains it doesn't work without the self-reflection to realize that the very pursuit of doing/understanding as little as possible dooms the result from the beginning.

They spend years of often-needless/excessive effort to avoid weeks of studying that would move them forward.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-26 13:48:48+00:00
No. My thesis is that we can reduce total healthcare spending by having a single-payer system that covers everyone.

It's not additional tax money, it's money that doesn't need to go to corporate jets and huge pay packages for the C-Suite and large dividends for the shareholders of insurance companies, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment manufacturers.

And the tens to hundreds of billions we save on that can pay for that 22 year old.

But we can't have that, now can we? Better to Brian Kilmeade 'em, eh?
by rmarquis | 2025-09-26 13:49:44+00:00
Hello,

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We selected suitable tools to minimize friction within established workflows and teams, with a particular focus on SMEs by using simple, small components. Our goal is to provide a practical, step-by-step guide to MLOps.

This guide is entirely open source on GitHub and might be of interest to some of you. It is used both to teach students and to train companies in Western Switzerland.
by NoGravitas | 2025-09-26 13:50:09+00:00
Honestly, "only useful for crime" is the only part of blockchain that I like. What I don't like is the energy use of PoW, the centralization tendencies of PoS, and the general unusability of any existing coins as either a medium of exchange or a store of value. I'd love an anonymous digital cash that didn't boil the oceans, enrich oligarchs, or encourage speculation. It's just that blockchain cryptocurrencies are not that.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-26 13:50:10+00:00
Yeah - though that's a problem with every metric that's mostly motivated by "feels good" or "sounds good" politics or PR. A "crackdown on crime" police chief can arrest "the usual suspects" over and over. "Independent" auditors can overvalue carbon projects.

And as you note, poor implementations soon sour people on their stated goals.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-26 13:50:33+00:00
That's an argument from authority, essentially saying that it is not possible for such a group to have released nonsense data. One can believe the data was gathered according to strict principles but still believe that the data gathered is nonsense due to errors in self-reporting.

I might report higher happiness right after lunch than right before lunch. I might be happier right after getting a kind text from a friend than before. Or after having sex. Or after watching a funny video. Or after petting my cat. Need I go on?

Any one of those and more could be the singular reason for a 7 instead of a 3 in a given report. There are too many confounding factors to draw any meaningful conclusions from the reports.
by firefax | 2025-09-26 13:51:22+00:00
I am not a Facenbook fan -- I deleted my account in 2016 and when I tried to come back recently and give Zuck a second chance, my account was summarily banned for being "inauthentic" (completely with a link to the policy, which 404'd).

I'd been prepared to have to upload a DL to prove I was me, but never got that chance.

Anyway, I think this is fine. A lot of rhetoric about social networks is swayed by teenagers and young adults with either zero ability to make online purchases or limited means.

But many of the harms around social media are things like being served beauty ads when you have body dysmorphia -- dastardly stuff preying on people's weaknesses to serve ads.

Remove that perverse incentive, and maybe Mark will make better decisions. Some of remember the early Facebook, with robust granular privacy controls.

Then the wall came and it all came tumbling down... that could change.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-26 13:52:05+00:00
>the USAID budget was about $20bn. Half a million extra dead so far from those cuts. So we can start there?

Saving $40k/person[0] is wonderful savings! Let's save even more! Boo yah! USA! USA! USA!

[0] I mean it's not like they're Americans. And they're most likely not white either. In which case, unless they're mowing my lawn or picking my cotton, they're worth essentially zero.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-26 13:52:26+00:00
IMO What makes online games and social media different from LLM chat bots is what’s (supposed to be) on the other end: people. Some people seem to feel it more than others, but human connection is one of the most fundamental facets of human existence. It’s compelling because there’s another human being you’re sharing an experience with, not because there’s a method of generating the text that would result from that. Even when people interact with bots in those other online realms, most of them are only doing so because they think it’s a person.

Meta removed the ai accounts from Instagram because most of the people that even gave the feature a second thought, were just mad because they couldn’t block them. I’ll bet they were NOT cheap to implement, and they were not some nascent bing chat era blunder— it was 2025. I think that’s a harbinger of future ‘socialize with LLMs’ feature adoption.
by nis0s | 2025-09-26 13:52:26+00:00
There’s an interesting point in OP, that leaders should appear neutral, or at least open minded so that they encourage different perspectives to emerge. I think that’s a reasonable assumption for places with democratic cultural traditions, extending to company culture or FOSS organizations.

I think it’s important to be opinionated because otherwise people will bulldozer you with any number of nonsense arguments, but also I think it’s important to be judicious about what one says/posts in a given period of time because the rate of information we receive is beyond a normal person’s rate of information synthesis for a given topic, unless they’re already an expert on the subject and know the nuances.

There needs to be a middle ground for democratic cultures where we can ask questions or share opinions in good faith without being literally killed, or introducing drama into our lives, and I think that’s “polite” anonymous posting. But it’s true that some things you’d have to say would be so against someone else’s sensitivities or cultural values that they would consider you biased or uncivil.

People lost the taste for anonymous posting because of the increase in uncivil behavior under those conditions, and because political extremists were bent on canceling their foes. So posting with your real identity bypasses the drama of the identify reveal, which distracts from the issues being discussed, imo. Facebook and other social media also encouraged real name posting on the internet.

TBH democratic cultures shouldn’t need anonymous posting because there’s an implied assumption of civility, but the internet is not just people educated, culturally or otherwise, in the same way as you, and neither is the internet only composed of good faith agents, so a lot of incendiary material comes from political agents trying to increase forces of destabilization.

There’s also the problem that when the majority wins in a democracy, it believes itself to be the cultural king forever instead of a temporary leader for the times. Just because you won one or two elections, does not mean that your ideas are meritorious or valid for time immemorial. As people are exposed to more nuances about a given way of thinking, it’s normal and expected that they should change some ideas, and vote accordingly. That’s democracy in action, and political extremists hate it.

So I think anonymous civil posting for certain topics helps all types of politics in a democratic culture, and it would help leaders maintain an open minded and neutral persona that I think is vital for encouraging different perspectives in an organization.

When you force people into giving up a socially safe (physical, emotional or otherwise) way to share their perspectives, they get entrenched and get pushed further to an extreme. Democracies cannot exist for a population whose members believe they’re morally superior, just and beyond reproach. That said, there are cultures that do things better than other cultures, and it’s important to take the good parts from those, while not getting bulldozered by propaganda from aggrieved agents.
by Joker_vD | 2025-09-26 13:52:30+00:00
An array index can be signed with no problem. If you're worried about the address calculations, well, the address of an array doesn't have to be the address to its initial element, does it? It can be the address of the element with index 0 (even if an array does not have such an index at all):

arr: array[-2..10] of integer; pointer(@arr) == pointer(@arr[0])

Or you can use descriptors (dope vectors), but that involves quite an overhead. The books on compilers from the 70s (e.g. Gries's "Compiler construction for digital computers") have rather extensive discussions on both approaches.
by fennecbutt | 2025-09-26 13:52:48+00:00
Yeah I unsubscribed a while ago. Noticed immediately whenever I ordered anything from amazon that it's always like "free shipping" - it's a lie, ofc it's free shipping by signing up to prime. But at checkout they show a "free shipping" option with very small subtext that it's a prime membership.

Whats the point of fining them? It's not gonna change the system of endless growth for the shareholders, multi million dollar executive salaries for executives who don't know anything about what their business does and have zero forward planning or responsibility.
by bardsore | 2025-09-26 13:54:50+00:00
I tried niri this spring and had several issues trying to get copy-pasting between Wayland and X (Xwayland) working. Think I had some other problems as well that were a dealbreaker that I can't recall at the moment. Anyway, have you had an issues like this? I assume Gnome does a lot of work to make it seamless, maybe Quickshell does something similar?
by sjw987 | 2025-09-26 13:55:09+00:00
The implementation bothers me.

They've announced it'll take the form of an app on a smartphone. What do non-smartphone users do? They don't even know yet.

I'm fine with a unifying ID, even a digital one. But why must it be on my phone? Am I going to need to carry my phone with me everywhere I go? I know some people already live like this, but I don't, and I don't want to have to.

At the moment it's just for right to work, but in the end I'm sure it'll be linked to more things. Eventually not carrying a smartphone around with you (and all the internet connected sensors that it holds) is going to make you suspicious, when really that should be the norm or baseline.
by colechristensen | 2025-09-26 13:55:23+00:00
Math or engineering people do not have problems with short symbol names, that's it. Also our formulas are complex. If you wrote out many of our formulas with long descriptive variable names the structure and relation between the variables would no longer be readable, there would be many more mistakes.

We were educated doing these things on paper with pages and pages of math with these symbols.

20 years later I can still read just this fortran code and guess most of what's going on with no context needed.

I have problems reading "developer code" that boil down to "where the hell is the part of the code that actually does something?!" being perpetually lost in layer among layer of abstraction with the relevant connecting pieces far far apart.
by frenchman_in_ny | 2025-09-26 13:55:38+00:00
No - planes cannot "land themselves with zero human intervention" (...). A CAT III autoland on commercial airliners requires a ton of manual setting of systems and certificated aircraft and runways in order to "land themselves" [0][1].

I'm not fully up to speed on the Autonomi / Garmin Autoland implementation found today on Cirrus and other aircraft -- but it's not for "everyday" use for landings.

[0] https://pilotinstitute.com/can-an-airplane-land-itself/

[1] https://askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/
by danielcampos93 | 2025-09-26 13:55:50+00:00
It's pretty wild that Brave's terms of service state as much, considering their search API is entirely derived from storing the results of other search systems. https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh.... Aka Brave is blocking exactly what it does to Bing and Google.
by designorbit | 2025-09-26 13:55:56+00:00
Most AI “support chatbots” today are little more than search bars for your help docs. They forget everything you just told them, can’t reason over your own product’s data, and fall flat the moment a user asks a real question like:

“Which deals are at risk this week and why?”

“Has my account usage changed since last quarter?”

“What’s the one setting most customers miss before churn?”

The result: frustrated users, support tickets that don’t go away, and retention that never improves.

Why Current Chatbots Fail

Forget past chats → every conversation resets to zero

Only read static docs → blind to real-time product data

Can’t connect big-picture dots → no reasoning across events or accounts

Can’t explain “what matters most” → users don’t get actionable answers

This is where we saw the gap.

Recallio: A Reasoning + Memory Layer for AI

We built Recallio.ai as the missing context layer for AI assistants, copilots, and agents. Instead of duct-taping RAG pipelines and vector DBs, Recallio gives you scoped, compliant memory + live product data + knowledge base in one API.

Think of it as three layers fused into one:

Memory Layer – every conversation remembered, threaded, searchable, continuous

Live Data Layer – connects to account activity, preferences, real-time state

Knowledge Layer – docs, guides, expertise, all summarized and relevance-ranked

Your AI now answers with the full story, not a guess.

Three Ways to Use It

Upgrade your existing chatbot → add memory + product data reasoning in minutes

Drop-in AI support agent → one script, goes beyond docs, remembers history

Embed via API → scoped memory and recall features inside your product UI

Why It Matters

No repetition → users don’t need to re-explain

Full context → history + real-time product state combined

Smarter outcomes → personalized, proactive guidance

Retention boost → conversations feel continuous and human

And all of it is SOC2/GDPR/HIPAA-ready by default. Scoped memory per user/team/project, with TTL, audit logs, and right-to-forget controls.

What’s Different?

Most “AI memory” projects today stop at retrieval. Recallio adds reasoning.

Works with any LLM → drop-in with 2 API calls

Streamlined Memory → simple, secure, compliant

Graph Memory → uncover deep relationships across people, topics, events

Zero maintenance → no manual RAG tuning, no stale embeddings, no vector DB sprawl

Why We’re Sharing Here

We know HN readers have been burned by hypey chatbot startups. We’re not pitching “AGI assistants for everything.” We’re building a very specific missing piece: contextual, compliant memory + reasoning for SaaS teams shipping AI features fast.

It’s not perfect yet. We’d love to hear what you’d want from a memory/reasoning layer in your own product—especially if you’ve duct-taped your own RAG stack and felt the pain.

Recallio.ai
by eej71 | 2025-09-26 13:56:33+00:00
I can only tell you that when I was in high school decades ago, I shared a viewpoint that was similar to yours. But after watching history unfold in real time for the last 35+ years, my viewpoint has had to shift. And shift a lot it has. I have had to begin accept some uncomfortable truths that were not yet reaching me. I see them now.

Considering that your view point is bolstered by a vast ecosystem, I do wonder what propaganda are you thinking of that is responsible for my change in views? Like what do you think I tune into that promotes the viewpoint I hold? I'm asking because I'd love to know what is so that I can listen to more of it! Mine is very hard to find. So if you know where it is - please tell me.
by sigseg1v | 2025-09-26 13:57:03+00:00
This sounds unattainable to me. For code bases in the 2 million or more lines range, something as simple as refactoring the name of a poorly named base class can hit 5000 lines. It also was not a mistake with the original name it had, but you'd still like to change it to make it more readable given the evolution of the codebase. You would not split that up into multiple commits because that would be a mess and it would not compile unless done in one commit.

How is this a mistake?
by alphawhisky | 2025-09-26 13:57:08+00:00
I feel it's worth noting that while the outcome of these changes to teaching reading is a huge win for childhood education, this does not mean that Mississippi has a great education system. They are still in the bottom 10 states annually for ACT scores and although they have improved learning outcomes for students the issues of equity within their schools still exist. It's also worth noting that the state is a net consumer of federal tax dollars year after year, using $2.34 in federal aid for every dollar they give in taxes. I'll give MS it's props when they deal with the hate crime in their colleges and set up a good free meal program that their state can fund on its own.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-26 13:57:51+00:00
Every component takes work. You have to upgrade it, something goes wrong with tuning, you have to debug it, etc. It went wrong about once a month, somehow. I'm sure it was fixable, but time is a commodity, and not having it any more gives us more time to work on other things.

We can't get rid of Postgres, but since we run Postgres on GCP we really never even think about it.
by zahllos | 2025-09-26 13:58:15+00:00
I guess we'll have to wait for specifics. Unfortunately "it will have inclusion at its core" doesn't really say much.

They are considering enabling its use for more than just work, so what happens when my grandma forgets to charge her phone before her doctors' appointment?

What happens if you want to give teenagers a dumb phone because you as a parent decide a smartphone isn't appropriate, but they need the ID for the NHS too?
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-26 13:58:50+00:00
You can probably safely assume the 3-letter agencies are snooping on this data. It is and has always been very hard to resist government pressure. Happens all around the world, China, Russia, EU; all the geopolitical players find various means of eavesdropping where they can.

Also likely part of why ECH is taking such incredibly long time to see widespread adoption and why it's still quite a shit solution to SNI. As it stands, anyone with network level access can see which websites you are visiting, despite HTTPS.
Ask HN: Are there any non-SPA front end developers left?
by karolinepauls | 2025-09-26 13:58:58+00:00
Back in "my days" we would get an in-house web designer to create assets, styles, and a demo HTML document demonstrating all necessary components to implement the planned content.

We would then break down the demo HTML into templates, which we would render in the backend, and work from there.

There would be JS for interactive components - first Knockout (viewmodels, terrible idea), then React (which would let you separate the state from presentation).

Backend templates + React frontend components was IMO the optimum, as long as your POST handling logic was sensible and data-oriented rather than some OO nightmare (https://wtforms.readthedocs.io/en/3.2.x/fields/#the-field-base-class).

You didn't have to implement the API separately from the frontend to later discover that your frontend developer worked really... fast. And implemented their own understanding of the problem domain. These days, if you're super unlucky, you discover that your frontend has been blessed with some non-standard component wrappers, which wrap components, which wrap components, which wrap... And somehow types in TS docs still have no links, so good luck finding what they mean by TData, especially if TData comes from a different codebase.

tl;dr: The tldr is in the title. I want sanity back :D
by davidw | 2025-09-26 13:59:07+00:00
This is the emoluments clause:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.[5]

And the reason they put that there is the obvious one: this is as corrupt as corrupt gets.
by cheeseomlit | 2025-09-26 13:59:44+00:00
"Moving rivets around" is how I might describe the recent SS2 remaster from nightdive, it was pretty good. This DX remaster is more like "let's have the cheapest contractors we can find run this venerated classic through an AI upscaler and charge 30 bucks for it". Notice the sign on the wall in the unatco break room that says "Stratigies" in the remaster trailer. DX deserves far better than that