MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thejash | 2025-09-30 17:33:15+00:00
Replying to each piece:

> What if my application is not dockerized?

Then claude runs in a container created from our default image, and any code it executes will run in that container as well.

> Can Claude Code execute tests by itself in the context of the container when not paired?

Yup! It can do whatever you tell it. The "pairing" is purely optional -- it's just there in case you want to directly edit the agent's code from your IDE.

> Do they all share the same database?

We support custom docker containers, so you should be able to configure it however you want (eg, to have separate databases, or to share a database, depending on what you want)

> Running full containerized applications with many versions of Postgres at the same time sounds very heavy for a dev laptop

Yeah -- it's not quite as bad if you run a single containerized Postgres and they each connect to a different database within that instance, but it's still a good point.

One of the features on our roadmap (that I'm very excited about) is the ability to use fully remote containers (which definitely gets rid of this "heaviness", though it can get a bit expensive if you're not careful)

> the feature I was most looking forward to is a mobile integration to check the agent status while away from keyboard, from my phone.

That's definitely on the roadmap!
by accrual | 2025-09-30 17:33:46+00:00
> DNAT (Destination Network Address Translation)

Yes! This is easy to do on OpenBSD as well, though it's called "redirect" instead of "DNAT":

pass in quick on $int_if inet proto udp to any port 53 rdr-to $dns_server port 53 pass in quick on $int_if inet proto tcp to any port 53 rdr-to $dns_server port 53
by criddell | 2025-09-30 17:33:57+00:00
I bought an M4 iPad Pro and ended up returning it because I just don't like the magic keyboard. My current iPad is from 2018 and I use the Smart Keyboard Folio and (for me) it's just about perfect. Small, lightweight, not too expensive, easy to clean, and works great.

I've been hoping there were enough people like me that a third party would make a replacement but that never happened.

I know my current iPad Pro won't last forever so I suppose I'll end up with a Magic Keyboard setup eventually.
by zkmon | 2025-09-30 17:33:59+00:00
There is a more fundamental problem here. The news feeds are going in this direction for a reason. I don't think you addressed that reason.

You have defined the desirable news as "pure, essential information". What's that again? How do you know what's pure and essential info for any user? The traditional news media had started there, with that pure news, and ended up here where they are today.

Ultimately, you will realize that your content need to grab attention enough so that people consume your feed. People's attention goes to where things look weird, exciting, sensational, emotional, trivia, gossip etc. You can't do away with all that and just dish out the pure and essential info. It didn't work. People tried it.
by trjordan | 2025-09-30 17:34:09+00:00
It really seems like all the next big leaps in AI are going to be fine-tuning fit-for-purpose models.

Everything past GPT5 has been ... fine. It's better at chat (sort of, depending on your tone preferenc) and way better at coding/tool use. In our product (plan out a migration with AI), they've gotten worse, because they want to chat or code. I'd have expected the coding knowledge to generalize, but no! Especially Claude really wants to change our code or explain the existing plan to me.

We're getting around it with examples and dynamic prompts, but it's pretty clear that fine-tuning is in our future. I suspect most of the broad-based AI success is going to look like that in the next couple years.
Show HN: Open-source alternative to XBOW
by ahmedallam2 | 2025-09-30 17:34:11+00:00
Hey HN - this is Allam, creator of Strix.

Strix is a fully open-source penetration testing agent. It finds real vulnerabilities in real apps, validates them, and generates detailed reports with PoCs.

Recently, companies like XBOW and others have claimed to build “the best AI hacking agents.” But so far, none are open, transparent, or usable - mostly marketing, benchmarks, and waitlists.

We launched Strix just a month ago. Since then, it’s grown to ~2,000 stars on GitHub and ~8,000 downloads.

Today, Strix is already being used by security engineers at Fortune 500s, top 1% bug bounty hunters on HackerOne, and major auditing/compliance firms - finding 100s of critical vulnerabilities in production systems and OSS projects.

We built Strix because we believe security should be open, accessible, and trusted - not hidden behind closed tools for only the biggest enterprises.

We’re excited to bring an open framework that lets anyone automate their pentesting in hours, not weeks, to enable continuous security testing instead of once-a-year point-in-time audits.

In the last few weeks, we shipped updates that added more capabilities to the agents, support for local models, and other major improvements.

Strix is Apache-2.0 licensed and fully open source.

We’d love to hear the HN community’s thoughts!
by EricRLawson | 2025-09-30 17:34:26+00:00
Over the past decade, I've been developing a framework for auditable, traceable, and composable reasoning—intended to scale across domains like law, science, and strategy. It's not within the LLM paradigm, but complementary: a principles-first approach focused on explainability through generated proof objects called Reasoning DNA Units (RDUs).

The manifesto introduces the theory behind RDUs, the requirement of a a domain-specific language to express them, and open-source prototypes. I’m proposing a communal effort to build this into a shared substrate for trustworthy reasoning systems.

Manifesto: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17180040

Prototype: https://github.com/Eric-Robert-Lawson/OrganismCore
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-09-30 17:34:30+00:00
Of course you still can, the apps just need to be updated to the latest HomeKit SDK version. The v2 update has been in the wild for years now.

And this does nothing to the hub support for third party devices. They'll work on V2 just the same as V1. All V2 does is update how the iCloud specific data is synced between devices and it's format to support larger homes better.
by pfitzsimmons | 2025-09-30 17:34:44+00:00
I remember flipping through the Sear's Wish Book as child, coveting all the toys. You can still find old copies online: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/

What's actually happening is that China's manufacturing revolution has given us incredible access to cheap manufactured goods. So for instance, in the 1991 Sear's catalog an electric toothbrush costs $80 ( https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1991%20S... ). There are only brand name options. In terms of prevailing wages, that is about $200 in today's dollar. Now on Amazon you can get that same brand name toothbrush for $50, one quarter the price, or a nonsense-brand-name one for $10, 1/20th the price! One man's race-to-the-bottom is another's man paradise of inexpensive and abundant goods...

When China started making stuff so cheap, nobody wanted to buy a much more expensive brand-name Japanese or American or European made product. So even the brand names decided to move their production to China. But then gradually people learn there is no longer any brand name quality boost, and the Chinese manufacturers learn to sell direct to consumers, and so then you get the all the weird brand names, and consumers just buy those for cheaper since the brand names don't mean anything anymore anyways. And even if you wanted to introduce a higher quality version, there simply is no way to reliably educate the consumer and credibly prove to the consumer that your product is four times the durability at twice the price.

Thus the equilibrium is that for most products less than $100 its all going to be Chinese made, the product will be good enough that the consumer won't immediately return it, but other than that the quality is going to be mediocre, because there is no incentive to develop a brand name that stands for high quality products in that price range.

With more expensive goods, there are still are brands that pride themselves on high quality, durable products, eg, Toyota for cars, Bosch for appliances, Milwaukee for tools, Redwing for boots. But you have to do your research to know which brands are working to keep their reputation, and which brands are selling out.
by brudgers | 2025-09-30 17:34:52+00:00
I have an inkjet (Cannon Pro100) where the original cartridges are resetable (refillable) and I use 3rd party inks. I've spent about $200 on ink over the past six years and another $200 on a replacement head assembly. I've printed color limited run photo-zines, B-size photo enlargements, and dummies/proofs/etc without thinking about cost.

Regular use is the key to avoiding problems with inkjets. And affordable ink is the key to regular use. Of course "affordable" is a function of time and money that varies from case to case. I mean I do spend time refilling cartridges in exchange for the cost of original Canon cartridges. And the ink in Canon cartridges is technically a better ink...but I print much much much more.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-30 17:35:02+00:00
In fairness, even offline they don’t have warrants. They just say, “reasonable suspicion”. I don’t know what the solution is, but trying to hide behind legal niceties is not going to get us very far. At least it hasn’t gotten US citizens very far in the past.

That said, if it makes you feel better, Palantir already likely has, or can infer/calculate, your geolocation in any case. So this isn’t necessarily giving anything new away. All it does is highlight the creeping trampling of our privacy rights.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-30 17:35:16+00:00
Sam Altman is a businessman. His job is to say whatever assuages his market, and that includes gaslighting you when you're disgusted by AI.

If you never expected Altman to be the figurehead of principled philosophy, none of this should surprise you. Of course the startup alumni guy is going to project maligned expectations in the hopes of being a multi-trillion dollar company. The shareholders love that shit, Altman is applying the same lessons he learned at Worldcoin to a more successful business.

There was never any question why Altman was removed, in my mind. OpenAI outgrew it's need for grifters, but the grifter hadn't yet outgrown his need for OpenAI.
by Tiberium | 2025-09-30 17:35:27+00:00
> You can sign up in-app for a push notification when access opens for your account.

You need to be in the US/Canada and wait for this notification, and when you get an invite you can start using it in the app and on sora.com. And apparently you get 4 more invite codes that you can share with anyone, e.g. Android users:

> Android users will be able to access Sora 2 via http://sora.com once you have an invite code from someone who already has access
by observationist | 2025-09-30 17:35:33+00:00
... how dare you, sir. That is entirely unacceptable and you will be reported to the ministry of proper living!

Regardless of the slop, some people will learn to use it well. You have stuff like NeuralViz - quite the sight! - and other creators will follow suit, and figure out how to use the new tools to produce content that's worth engaging with. Bigfoot vlogs and dinosaur chase scenes, all that stuff is mostly just fun.

People like to play. Let them play. This stuff looks fun, and beats Sora 1 by a long shot.

Hopefully it catalyzes
by array_key_first | 2025-09-30 17:35:59+00:00
> That's a very temporary solution since in a very near future everybody will have their pictures taken all the time and not necessarily in the wavelengths that stop at clothing for one simple reason, technology exists.

What? No.

You can't hand wave away absolutionism. You can't just say "well thing X will definitely happen!"

That's not an argument, that's a belief. You've just told me your religion. Not an argument.

There's absolutely zero fucking reason why we need cameras everywhere taking naked pictures of people. That isn't just inevitable - you literally just made that up.

This "slow March towards tech gods" thing I see pisses me off beyond belief.

Because people act like it's an argument or a style of logic. No. Its a religion. You're a scientologist. You don't need me, or hackernews, you need a fucking therapist.

I mean, do you even hear yourself? You're saying we should be allowed to take as many pictures of nude women and girls as we want because you believe, some day, some Angelic tech will appear that will be omnipotent.

Dude, you sound insane. Like legitimately insane.

Also, the whole "well technology exists!!1" mindset is just so obviously fucking wrong and stupid.

You know what other technology exists right now? Today? Guns.

Does that mean I can shoot you in the face? Well the technology exists! Making murder illegal is a temporary solution! The real solution is teleporting to an alternate reality where evil does not exist!

Come on.
by _7acn | 2025-09-30 17:36:29+00:00
I own 4 Fujifilm cameras and personally, I'd recommend being VERY careful and thinking hard about this purchase. This isn't the same Fujifilm as it used to be. The company was once known for its "Kaizen" approach, which has long since disappeared. Prices are now inflated because they're riding on popularity. Autofocus in Fuji is simply weak.

The question is whether you actually need such a camera for anything. With a new smartphone that has multiple lenses, out-of-the-box photos will turn out MUCH NICER than from a camera, because initial processing is built into the software. Digital cameras don't have this. You need to take RAW and work pretty hard on it to make the photo look as good as what a smartphone delivers right away.

In tourist destinations, you can often find middle-aged guys running around with huge cameras when in reality most of their photos are quite poor. Because they don't realize that with a regular phone, their pictures would be much nicer.
by munificent | 2025-09-30 17:36:49+00:00
> The other part of the story is that a lot of formerly respectable quality brands now sell much poorer quality goods.

I've observed this too.

Somewhere, some marketing genius realized that brand reception is sticky, but changes to manufacturing processes can be rapid. There is thus an arbitrage opportunity. You start with a high-quality product with a beloved brand. You quickly change the factory to cheaply produce garbage instead. For some window of time, you can get people to buy these shitty products at a price commensurate with their brand perception and take a huge profit.

Of course, brand perception is sticky but not infinitely so and eventually information catches up with reality. Then you've permanently destroyed a brand's reputation. But for a brief moment in time, you can create a lot of shareholder value at the minor expense of making crappy products and disappointing people.
by Animats | 2025-09-30 17:37:12+00:00
> The sticker price might look cheap, but what I've heard from people actually looking to buy (even in large quantities) is that by the time you assemble the hardware and the tooling and the dev kit, the cost is $80-100k per robot.

I know. You don't get the GPU for AI in the base model, for example. Do you get the articulated hands?

A robot package with all those custom parts, motors, and motor controllers, along with cameras and a short range LIDAR. for only $22K is pretty good.[1] As this technology starts to work, it's apparently not going to be insanely expensive.

[1] https://robostore.com/products/unitree-g1-robotic-humanoid
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 17:37:33+00:00
See

https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Matrix-Gil-Eyal/dp/074564399X

One issue is that special ed has taken all the air out of the room for kids who are not thriving in school but don’t have a diagnosis. I went to a PTA meeting where the superintendent completely dismissed any concerns I had about the school but gushed over how the mother of a “special” kid was a partner in his education. (Other parents and teachers did show some sympathy)

If you want to have some rights as a parent you are practically forced to get your child a diagnosis: if they are in the bottom 25% of readers that have ‘Dyslexia’ which similarly seems to have distinct enough subtypes that an honest definition is ‘bottom 25% of readers’

So autism went from being a disabling condition to something that applies to many people who really ought to have “no apparent distress” in their chart because you can’t be different without some reification of the difference.
by righthand | 2025-09-30 17:37:46+00:00
Sure. Apples never made lemons if you completely ignore all their failures. What instantly springs to mind is the keyboard saga. Those laptops were lemons. Here are some more product failures, arguably listed there are plenty of lemons:

https://qz.com/apples-12-worst-product-failures-of-all-time-...

Not listed but I would absolutely list the screen nub a usability failure and I consider my work laptop and work phone a lemon because of it.

I’d also consider large phones a usability failure. My work phone is a Iphone 13 Mini.

Brand capture is powerful but maybe only if you’re willing to eat the propaganda.
by al_borland | 2025-09-30 17:38:40+00:00
Social media also tends to highlight the best parts of people’s lives, creating unrealistic expectations and views for those consuming it and looking at their real life. Now social media won’t even be a highlight reel, but completely fabricated.

I have to imagine there will be a rebellion against all of this at some point, when people simply can’t take the false realities anymore. What is the alternative? Ready Player One? The Matrix? Wall-E?
by sailingparrot | 2025-09-30 17:38:44+00:00
> But the line between "just cutting a few corners" and prosecutable criminality isn't nearly as bright as we in the peanut gallery like to think

The line maybe isn't bright, but faking data to a potential buyer to make it appear like you have 15x your actual number of users is clearly way past the line you cannot see.

That would be like saying it's hard to know if noon is during the day or night because the exact moment that qualify as "dawn" is hard to discern.
by cobbal | 2025-09-30 17:38:45+00:00
There are 4 important components to describing a compiler. The source language, the target language, and the meaning (semantics in compiler-speak) of both those languages.

We call a C->asm compiler "correct" if the meaning of every valid C program turns into an assembly program with equivalent meaning.

The reason LLMs don't work like other compilers is not that they're non-deterministic, it's that the source language is ambiguous.

LLMs can never be "correct" compilers, because there's no definite meaning assigned to english. Even if english had precise meaning, LLMs will never be able to accurately turn any arbitary english description into a C program.

Imagine how painful development would be if compilers produced incorrect assembly for 1% of all inputs.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-30 17:39:26+00:00
Yes this was my understanding too.

Like I wanted this from a year or two ago to just lets say have a model which lets say is genuinely really really good at sveltekit as an example instead of a model which is good at a lot of different things of sorts yknow

A model for sveltekit, A model for react and for coding general purpose too and preferably we can have a website which can make it easy to find these models/run them, ollama comes to my mind right now but it has really enshittened a little bit from the time when I was thinking about this but so maybe now a little competition on that side wouldn't hurt I suppose.
by AznHisoka | 2025-09-30 17:39:32+00:00
>> The safest, smartest path is also the most mundane: keep the main thing the main thing. Outcomes matter, but output literally comes first. Outputs are the business to everyone outside it—what customers see, buy, and use.

I dont understand how this overcomes the problem. How do you then stand out as a candidate in a saturated lemon market of candidates for instance?

How you then stand out as an authoritiative website if the search results are lemon?
by LeFantome | 2025-09-30 17:40:24+00:00
> this project sorely needs more than one person involved.

I hold out some hope that somebody else will get involved in bcachefs and that the new person will be able to resubmit bcachefs to the mainline.

My impression is that many people respect the technology and would be happy to have it back--they just cannot work with Kent.

But that is the reasons this will probably not happen. It does not appear that anybody wants to work with Kent.
by brudgers | 2025-09-30 17:40:36+00:00
Printers are notoriously hard...to the point that there is the moat that makes people hopeful this is the time Charlie Brown kicks the ball.

But the physical properties of paper and the physics of spraying liquids and the chemistry of inkjet inks hasn't changed...and hardware is still hard.

Inkjet printers are one of those "how hard could it be?" tarpits.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-30 17:40:53+00:00
> At some point it will just be AI talking against itself to another AI chatbot.

And then something like this [0] will happen, creating a weird wasteful meta-game about the model(s) used by each company.

It makes intuitive sense: If you outsourced "generate awesome assertions" to a contractor, then someone else hired the same contractor to "judge the awesomeness of these assertions", they are more likely to get lots of "awesome" results—whether they're warranted or not. The difference might even come down to quirks of word-choice and formatting which a careful human inspector would judge irrelevant.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/ai_hiring_biased/
by simonw | 2025-09-30 17:40:53+00:00
Anyone with access able to confirm if you can start this with a still image and a prompt?

The recent Google Veo 3 paper "Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners" made a fascinating argument for video generation models as multi-purpose computer vision tools in the same way that LLMs are multi-purpose NLP tools. https://video-zero-shot.github.io/

It includes a bunch of interesting prompting examples in the appendix, it would be interesting to see how those work against Sora 2.

I wrote some notes on that paper here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/video-models-are-zero-...
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2025-09-30 17:40:58+00:00
I think the most important self-driving car company is Waymo, apparently founded as the Stanford Self-Driving Car Team in 2004, somehow became the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, the renamed Waymo in 2016.

All that is pretty long ago now and doesn't really have much connection to the SV "startup community" (Google ceased being meaningfully described as a "startup" a long, long time ago).

And anyway, I don't care about self-driving cars. Don't have one, don't particularly want one.

The direct benefits to me of OpenAI are nearly negligible. I use it (and others) now and then for various things but if it disappeared tomorrow, my life and work would not be meaningfully impacted.
by jcynix | 2025-09-30 17:41:17+00:00
These forum discussions seem unconnected to reality IMO. Sometimes funny, more often strange, like audiophile discussions about oxygen free copper cables. Why?

The Fuji X-T4 and X-S20 here produce images of 6240x4160 pixels, but I almost never look at images in 1:1. My 4K monitors, mostly set to 2K, display 2560 x 1440 pixels. And even when switch them to their full 4K resolution I don't view my images in 1:1 obviously. And the tablet l'm typing this comment on offers "meager" 1800 × 2880 pixels. Most family members look at images on their "smart" devices nowadays, where 2K or 4K aren't present. So even decompressed images are fine for them.

I have my cameras configured to take both JPEG (fine) + RAW (lossless) of course. Fuji JPEGs (and Canon ... etc too) are fine for most casual viewers. And if I want to crop certain parts, or adjust certain details (esp exposure), I have my RAW images as a fallback.

Storage? My SD cards are 256GB and my disks are definitely not a problem either.