MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OgsyedIE | 2025-09-26 11:13:19+00:00
If the writing style exhibited here where each paragraph has a different variation of the GPT's "a but b" standby such as "It's a, but this time, b.", "Nothing says a like b." and "This isn't speculation, it's a, but b." really is your organic writing style going back to the 2010s, you should write an article about being the guy that naturally wrote in GPT voice, all the time, before GPT was a thing.

There is a huge profit opportunity in marketing yourself as a unique example for linguists to pin down and dissect.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-26 11:14:00+00:00
Yeah, I know that angle as well. "Free speech absolutists" or "unrestricted speech", the edge case that perhaps can redeem the fragile position one inhabits. It isn't convincing either.

Conservatives, as unlikely as it would have sounded if you know their classical position, saw this opportunity. Are they convincing or trustworthy? Not at all. But enough in the political arena to take away topic around civil liberties.

> We have always known the problems of unrestricted speech

Sure, we have always been at war with Eastasia.

But sure, there are edge cases. Edge cases some almost purely political factions used to justify deplatforming people not falling in line.

> The points that the article makes have nothing to do with the current situation.

I disagree, it absolutely does because people did not forget. It wasn't egregious libel that was deplatformed, it was opinions that "caused offense" or something in that sense.

Bottom line is simple: People do not believe that current liberal political forces are very interested in hearing diverging opinion to a degree they prefer to silence critics. It isn't a Musk or Trump problem. They have nothing to do with it. Some positions just switched political factions.
by Olivia8 | 2025-09-26 11:14:00+00:00
I don't think so, if you figured out how to use AI for work automation for example, it already makes you smart, doesn't it? Life in near future will require our strong efforts in reskilling and lifelong learning. When AI does repetitive and time consuming tasks for you, AI calling agents making cold calls and replying to clients' enquires, for instance, it saves time, which could be spent for learning.
by Bender | 2025-09-26 11:14:16+00:00
Me personally, I will use chained encoding because technically and legally that is not encryption. I am fine with drawing attention. If my adversaries wish to spend a gazillian mega-bucks to try to win the arms race of decoding my chained encoding to see my mid-wit comments and pictures of a moose then I am doing a good job. When they change the laws to prevent encoding then we move on to another technique. There are nearly infinite ways to limit communication to a group of people and evade fuzzy scans.
by okwhateverdude | 2025-09-26 11:14:22+00:00
I work for a fintech. We're currently building agents to manage basic human labor tasks that are time consuming (think: initial credit analysis, initial web research for AML, etc.). Chatbots are a waste of the actual power behind engineering with LLMs. With tool usage, and detailed instructions, we're easily able to direct the agents to do very useful work. While it has been possible to build these kinds of automations previously, the costs (time and opportunity) would have been astronomical to capture and encode the reasoning in a programming language. Now we can simply ask the robot in plain language to do the task. It won't reduce our headcount, but it will enable scaling the business with way less hands. And the cost to develop is very minimal. The first MVP for the credit analysis robot was vibe coded in an afternoon using an off-the-shelf lib. Doing the actual engineering is trivial context management and tool integration. The challenge is having the kinds of problems we do where these kinds of solutions make sense. In finance and insurance, there are tons of these manual human tasks that could benefit from the robots. I expect this space to explode in the next couple of years.
by andrewgleave | 2025-09-26 11:15:47+00:00
Not cosmological but yesterday Apple released an interesting protein folding model with 3B param transformer-based arch which runs on M-series hardware and is competitive with state-of-the art models. [1] Code [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18480 [2] https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold
by seesthruya | 2025-09-26 11:15:59+00:00
As a working diagnostic radiologist in a busy private practice serving several hospitals, this has been my experience as well.

We have some excellent ER physicians, and several who are very good at looking at their own xrays. They also have the benefit of directly examining the patient, "it hurts HERE", while I am in my basement. Several times a year they catch something I miss!

But when it comes to the hard stuff, and particularly cross-sectional imaging, they are simply not trained for it.
by Yeul | 2025-09-26 11:16:02+00:00
This mode of operation is completely the reverse of my country the Netherlands.

In Dutch society it doesn't really matter who the current ruling party is the big machine keeps rolling on. The names change frequently- governments keep tumbling down- but every day like clockwork people get up in the morning, go to work and follow their programming. Prime minister A is replaced by prime minister B.

In some ways having a personality cult is less scary. You can kill a man but how do you destroy a collective?
by mwcz | 2025-09-26 11:16:30+00:00
I'll probably be switching over too, from sway, once Cosmic is out of beta. I love tiling, and the only thing I miss while using sway is the lack of a single integrated settings application. It's possible to couple together individual apps to manage Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and Monitors and everything else, but a single settings app is much better than babysitting a dozen separate ones.
by exit | 2025-09-26 11:16:43+00:00
I am sorry, but the sameness will be quantified and dealt with algorithmically, as and if desired.

Dial up the temperature, launch however many parallel threads to research and avoid precedent, et cetera, ad infinitum.

I am sorry, but all of human creativity, including originality, is ultimately also just a mechanical phenomenon, and so it cannot resist mechanization.

Resistance is futile.
by dpassens | 2025-09-26 11:17:15+00:00
> So what to do? Go to nearest coffee shop. You’re lucky if they don’t play tasteless trendy music. You’re lucky if a waiter doesn’t keep asking if you need anything, isn’t intrusive, and doesn’t subtly let you know when it’s time to leave by checking on you constantly . You’re lucky if no teenagers talking loudly about their-whatever-teens-talk-about-these-days. Oh, by the way, pay a lot of money to be here and to drink a nice cup of burnt coffe.

Astonishingly entitled. The point of a coffee shop isn't to provide you with a nice space to work but to sell coffee.
by m000 | 2025-09-26 11:17:30+00:00
It seems you're right. I vaguely remember using simcga on a friend's PC (where we also played PoP) but I can't recall for which game.

Given that the PC version of PoP was launched in 1990 and CGA simulators existed since 1986, I would guess that even embedding the simulator to the game, so that it works out of the box, would have been a viable option.
by hopelite | 2025-09-26 11:17:38+00:00
I don’t even think an airgun could really have an effect, but for anyone contemplating this kind of thing, please at least deconstruct the device and put it into something different looking. There is no point in getting offed with impunity by some Idiocracy goon because he saw a finger gun.

Better use of one’s efforts could be to support legal challenges of this clearly unconstitutional mass surveillance by the government through its corporate, or in this case, YC cutouts.
by dvcoolarun | 2025-09-26 11:19:00+00:00
I don’t think this is the world we were envisioning, where leading companies are suggesting content, tracking our history, and feeding us more socially optimized streams just to keep us hooked and give us dopamine hits.

What I’d prefer is something like dailyflow (I saw it on HN yesterday): a local LLM that tracks my history and how I’m spending my time, then gives me hints when I’m off track — more aligned with what I actually want to see and where I want to go.
by caleb-allen | 2025-09-26 11:19:18+00:00
Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.

It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.
by toofy | 2025-09-26 11:20:00+00:00
i think it could be argued that sure, 20 Googles would be better for US power, yes. why wouldn’t it be? it would drive more innovation which likely would only increase our influence on multiple levels.

there could be more reason to argue it would absolutely be more secure—if any of these tech giants or one of the people inside were to sell us out it could be very very bad. if one or two out of twenty were to sell us out, the damage is much much less severe.

not to mention we’re significantly stronger as a country when we have diversity of ideas leading to diversity in innovation which the dominance from a tiny few just entirely undermines.
by drysart | 2025-09-26 11:20:14+00:00
That's what I got from reading the article; the takeaway is that all its doing to solve the types of problems V8 has is by shifting the complications beneath another layer. All the problems and challenges and potential for mistakes still exist, they're just within GraalVM now.

Which is not without real benefit, of course; it's a lot easier to build and secure one genericized VM runtime toolkit than it is to rebuild everything from scratch for every single language runtime like V8 that might need to exist. It's far better to competently solve the difficult problem once than to try to competently solve it over and over and over.
by baobun | 2025-09-26 11:21:07+00:00
oh. Still hard to figure out exactly what your goal and problem are between "using the barrel jack side" and ATX supplies... If you already have 12v3a and that's what you want can't you just wire a normal 12v3a charger straight to the usb...? maybe this helps?

https://www.pretzellogix.net/2016/11/14/a-review-of-four-swi...
by rvillanueva | 2025-09-26 11:21:36+00:00
I worked at a company that did interactive retail signage and wrote the platform to remotely deploy software to the screens. Can confirm it was a giant pain in the ass. A couple random thoughts:

1) Internet access was extremely unreliable on site, as was our ability to get useful assistance from retail staff. Queueing inbound and outbound signals was key, as was locally storing any content.

2) Our primary customer was non-technical marketing/creative folks. They bought us because it allowed them to deploy novel signage formats without knowing how to code. (In case that’s a useful pain point to pursue.)

Hope that’s helpful!
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-26 11:22:28+00:00
This is a plan so we shall see what happens...

This is widely unpopular because the idea of ID cards is unpopular in general in the UK and the people also clearly understand that the argument that this would combat illegal immigration is total rubbish. Even the comments on The Guardian's website are overwhelmingly negative, which should really tell the government something.

The proposal is also drastic because it would be de facto mandatory for all residents. It's hilarious and pathetic to see the government argue that it wouldn't be mandatory, just only needed to get a job (which probably means also mandatory to rent and to study)...

An unpopular government trying to out-do itself.
by c0balt | 2025-09-26 11:23:15+00:00
You might be interested in the following discussions on this topic [0].

In general, the complexity ime is at least,

1. It can make builds non-deterministic (meaning potentially unreproducible, which is table stakes for most "release" builds today)

2. It can make Link time code optimization (LTO) hard(er)

3. It requires tracking of changes (to know when to relink), that means either some external system or integration with the compiler

At least 3. introduces a good chunk of complexity. There is also the minor issue that modern linkers are fast enough-ish without incremental linking.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13672120
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-26 11:23:20+00:00
Hey you’re right!

And do you know the insane way “they” are “right”?

It starts with that old CIA occult Power “The Stargate” program that trains the mainstream government assets to trust that the “universe” has an holographic emote interface (like you’ve said), and then there are those who actually have Power (the voices in our heads that crazy white America has been human sacrificing over for the last decades.) All the while normal polite society doesn’t know what either of us are talking about who think truth is insane and thus comfortable lies are better off. So the question is, are you denying the influence of the “occult”?

People are hearing the voices in their head (which are real) and think they are Jesus (which they are not.) Those are struggling for power, and ordinary people don’t even think feel or believe anything unusual is happening.

As for Theil, as far as the AI summary is concerned, it sounds weird though he sort of has a point.
by _heimdall | 2025-09-26 11:23:57+00:00
I don't care what religion or political views they have. Its a workplace, if either person can't check it at the door then that's the problem to deal with.

Honestly its pretty insulting to both of the people involved for you to assume so strongly that they couldn't be professional that (a) you never give them the chance and (b) you chose to hire only the one who you agree with (or disagree with the least).
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-26 11:24:31+00:00
That, plus the quoted text basically says the model homed in on the monomyth (Hero's journey) structure; while the pattern was identified and named by a 20th century American writer, the pattern itself is common and as ancient as it gets. Wouldn't really call it anglo-american bias.

The monomyth is also writing 101 these days, and considered the default structure you can and should use if you have little experience writing stories, so naturally it'll be a high-probability result of an LLM prompted to write a story - especially prompted in a way that implies the user is inexperienced at writing and needs a result suitable for an inexperienced writer.
by TrueSlacker0 | 2025-09-26 11:24:38+00:00
"Right now if you have a full screen app on your main screen you can't even see what time it is."

This drives me crazy. I'm in a flow, distraction free via the full screen and break it to see what date or time it is. Even on a multi monitor setup. Which usually ends up meaning I get pulled out of that flow because I see a new notification on some other app or because I grabbed my phone to check that info.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-26 11:24:40+00:00
> Higher R&D expenditures can only be financed by more consumer spend.

You are sliding into irrelevancy, having more H1bs won't benefit consumers as, as I have stated before the marginal cost is zero and the price is set to the level that maximises revenue, since it maximizes profit at the same time. If you don't understand what I mean, read a introductory book on microeconomics.

> Because the immigrant pays taxes. The robot does not.

Companies owning robots pay taxes, and a robot doing a physical job decreases marginal cost, which does in this case benefit the consumer. And it's amusing how left-wing activists only care about "tax" - culture, homogeneity, ethnicity, and so on, do not seem to exist in their mind. You can see the clear path toward communism.

Robots are not perfect replacements for humans, so they are a different issue than immigration. And more supply of labor doesn't increase productivity, this is plainly false. Capital increases productivity. More supply of labor decreases the average wage.

Just open an microecon book.
Show HN: Sockudo – Pusher-compatible WebSocket server in Rust
by radooku | 2025-09-26 11:24:45+00:00
I built a WebSocket server in Rust that implements the Pusher protocol. It's designed to be a self-hosted alternative to Pusher, Laravel Reverb, or Soketi. What it does: Sockudo speaks the Pusher protocol, so if you're already using Pusher client libraries (like Laravel Echo), you can point them at Sockudo without changing your frontend code. It handles the usual WebSocket stuff - public/private/presence channels, client events, authentication, webhooks. Why Rust: The main reason was performance and resource efficiency. It runs with Tokio for async, uses fastwebsockets for the WebSocket implementation, and the whole thing is pretty lean on memory. You can run it in Docker with minimal resources. Architecture highlights:

Modular adapters for horizontal scaling (Redis, Redis Cluster, NATS, or local) Multiple backends for app config storage (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or in-memory) Queue systems for webhooks (Memory, Redis, SQS) Rate limiting with configurable backends Prometheus metrics built in

Getting started is straightforward:

docker run -d -p 6001:6001 sockudo/sockudo:latest

Or install from crates.io:

cargo install sockudo

Current status: The project has comprehensive Prometheus metrics, supports SSL/TLS, has CORS configuration, and includes both REST API and WebSocket endpoints. There's a Grafana dashboard for monitoring, health check endpoints, and it works with Kubernetes deployments. The docs cover most deployment scenarios - Docker, K8s, AWS, GCP, Azure. There's a Makefile with shortcuts for common operations and a test suite. What it doesn't have yet: I'm working on OpenTelemetry support and SurrealDB support for app managing. The benchmarking setup exists but I haven't published official performance numbers because I want to do proper testing across different scenarios first. Why I'm sharing: If you need a self-hosted WebSocket solution that's Pusher-compatible, this might be useful. The codebase is MIT licensed and contributions are welcome. I built it to solve a problem I had, and figured others might have the same issue.

GitHub: https://github.com/RustNSparks/sockudo

Docs: https://sockudo.app

Crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/sockudo

Happy to answer questions about the implementation, deployment, or architecture decisions.
by p_l | 2025-09-26 11:25:09+00:00
x86 is closer to RISC designs than "respectable CISC" of the era that defined the split between RISC and CISC. It's why huge chunk of instructions on modern x86 can execute in essentially one cycle - the encoding is not all that complex, the instructions are also not all that complex, and majority of "complex addressing" can be pipelined into having an extra stage capable of doing "LEA" instruction on it's own, unlike either VAX or 68k

At the point Alpha got killed, it was the fastest option, and then HP had to resurrect it anyway because the supposed Alpha killer (Itanium) was slower in practice. That said, the killing was done by Compaq, not HP - and done fully on politics/vibes not actual thorough thinking. A lot of late Alpha design ended up being "inherited" in ways by later x86 cores - Athlon reused chunks of EV6 architecture which also enabled cheap Alpha motherboards (but made Athlon-MP extra expensive, unfortunately). K8 heavily drank from experience of the team members who worked on EV7 which exhibited the same fabric structure.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-26 11:25:25+00:00
>No, no one is entitled to the labor of others, not in this scenario where they are 3rd party to the damages. That doesn't even remotely make sense no matter how bad of a sob story you attach to it.

Absolutely! We should just Brian Kilmeade[0] those folks too, since they're just a burden on society, right?

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/17/...
by splix | 2025-09-26 11:26:02+00:00
AFAIK the recommended way is to open a bank account through smaller banks (aka neobanks). They just send you a card to address specified and once you activated it you (first) get a bank account for payments and (second) can use it to prove address for others. Also, if you legally rent then you get the council tax documents, though it takes roughly a month for them to send. This is another proof of address. And the bills of course, but again it takes a month or so to receive the first letter.

So it's unclear how a digital ID solves anything in regarding the proof of address.
by writebetterc | 2025-09-26 11:26:39+00:00
Why should we care about the COSMIC Desktop Environment?

Edit: I've now gotten 2 downvotes in 4 minutes. I do not understand what's so controversial about this comment. Why should we care about having a third DE? Does this matter to users at all? I've watched several videos show casing it, and there seems to be no point to it except organizational (Pop OS wants to break free from GNOME).
by jech | 2025-09-26 11:26:51+00:00
I only know of one project which is reserved for free software, it's NGI0 <https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/>, which is going to be cut in 2027 <https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-cuts-funding-s...>.

However, most other EU programmes do allow and even claim to encourage free software companies to apply.
by fragmede | 2025-09-26 11:27:06+00:00
Have you ever listened to a bad interview? Like, really bad? Conversely, have you ever listened to a really good interview? Maybe even one of the same subject? The phrase "prompt engineering" is a bit much, but there's still some skill to it. We know this is true, because every thread there's people saying "it doesn't work for me!" while others are saying it's the second coming.

So maybe while it makes you feel smart because you're a stoichastic parrot that can repeat LLM generated!111 like you're a model with a million parameters, every time you see an emdash, it's a lazy dismissal and tramples curiosity.
by _heimdall | 2025-09-26 11:27:20+00:00
I can't say that I have seen any party documents floating around, but I'll take your word for it here. A person having those views or beliefs still isn't a crime, acting on them is.

A person in a workplace can have whatever views they want. Holding a view in no way prevents them from being able to do the work well. Its a different story if they cause a problem at work, but that is viewpoint agnostic - anyone starting political fights or worse at work is a problem.
by celticninja | 2025-09-26 11:27:58+00:00
I don't think this is on a par with the online safety act. That was fundamentally flawed. This isn't a huge issue and the benefits for ease of access to government services is a positive step. One thing that users of government services face is the need to provide documentation that supports their request. This can be an impediment to users accessing services that they are entitled to in a timely manner.

The biggest risk is from a data breach and this information being accessed by unauthorized parties, but that is something all online services are at risk from. The absolute worst way to implement this will be to contract it out to a third party. If it is built and maintained by civil servant developers who have already proved their mettle with a variety of govuk services then I would have confidence in it. If it is farmed out to Fujitsu or some other 3rd party then it will be an shithshow and an expensive one at that.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-09-26 11:28:44+00:00
In theory, constitutional rights would be the ideal tool of choice on your second point. Of course that requires a civil suit against the state and really expensive attorneys.

To add to your point, it’s naive to believe that those protections are effective for anyone who isn’t incredibly wealthy at this point. The issue is most people can’t afford to take a case all the way, let alone start one.