MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pxc | 2025-09-01 18:41:56+00:00
> As far as I understand it, the stance of the 'Open Source' crowd is that if Amazon can't...

Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the software for any purpose. You can't deny users this freedom "for their own good", or to spite big corporations, and still be free software.

Subtler issues of power and dependency won't be resolved through licensing alone, and certainly not by compromising on basic software freedom for users.
by Arubis | 2025-09-01 18:42:13+00:00
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by magicalhippo | 2025-09-01 18:42:27+00:00
Norway has had two small experimental nuclear reactors since the 50s or so, and they're getting decommissioned. Turns out that's expensive. Very expensive. Current estimates have ballooned to 56 billion NOK ($5.6b).

So what does SMR decommissioning look like?

At least this project has skipped the huge NIMBY issue by putting them on ships. And if anything goes wrong I'm sure nobody would mind glow-in-the-dark sushi...
by willhslade | 2025-09-01 18:42:47+00:00
I know this is late to the party but I think, given that this topic comes up.every day, we should start including statistics in our posts to get a better sense of how AI is working or not for us. I imagine a years of experience / primary language used / tool used / AI positive or negative as a percentile estimate.

Personally for me it's 20 years of experience / Python / Copilot / 85% positive experience.
by nicce | 2025-09-01 18:42:49+00:00
Just 2 days ago Gemini 2.5 Pro tried to recommend me tax evasion based on non-existing laws and court decisions. The model was so charming and convincing, that even after I brought all the logic flaws and said that this is plain wrong, I started to doubt myself, because it is so good at pleasing, arguing and using words.

And most would have accept the recommendation because the model sold it as less common tactic, while sounding very logical.
by thaeli | 2025-09-01 18:43:00+00:00
For emissions related components, EPA rules do kick in though. While the current administration appears to have paused enforcement, their position for many years has been that running anything except factory approved firmware on an ECU or other emissions related computer constitutes a “defeat device” and is illegal for an on road vehicle subject to emissions controls. (Granted, in practice 99% of the reason anyone installs new firmware on their ECU, or switches to an aftermarket ECU, is for a “tune” that does affect emissions. I’m sure there is some edge case exception, but it’s very rare in on road engines.)

The alternative, and there are a very few tunes that have done this, is to prove to regulators that the tune does not negatively affect emissions in any way. In practice this is done by getting a CARB exception since they’re the ones actually checking for tunes.
Show HN: Neuron – Cognitive Multi-Agent Architecture for Reasoning
by machinemusic | 2025-09-01 18:43:06+00:00
Most orchestration frameworks today still behave like fragile chains — they break when faced with contradictions, long-term memory, or dynamic routing.

Neuron is a cognitive multi-agent architecture that thinks in circuits instead of chains. Multiple agents collaborate in parallel, adapt their pathways in real time, and keep persistent context across extended interactions.

Key components

Agents: Intake, Reasoning, Response, Memory

Circuits: Dynamic routing instead of linear chaining

Memory: Episodic + contextual persistence

Monitoring: Full reasoning traces for observability

Why it matters

Handles contradictory inputs without collapsing

Maintains state across extended sessions

Parallel coordination for complex reasoning tasks

Transparent logs for debugging & trust

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ShaliniAnandaPhD/Neuron

Evaluation Notebook: https://www.notion.so/shalini-ananda-phd/Neuron-Evaluation-N...

Tutorial Series: https://www.notion.so/shalini-ananda-phd/Neuron-Framework-Tu...

About me / context: https://www.notion.so/shalini-ananda-phd/Shalini-Ananda-PhD-...

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially if you’ve run into the same breakdown points with traditional tools.
by prof-dr-ir | 2025-09-01 18:43:11+00:00
> the collapse of publicly funded science

This is preposterous. You are completely forgetting that there are actual groups of humans, people who know and respect each other, coming together and discussing the proposals.

Being involved in ranking grant applications is already a thankless job, and many scientists still do it, for the greater good if you want. They will therefore also critically look at any AI reviews, and eliminate them as soon as they are not convincing.

(I am, of course, not saying that the grant review process is without flaws - that is a different discussion.)
by xur17 | 2025-09-01 18:44:18+00:00
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by lenkite | 2025-09-01 18:44:24+00:00
It depends on which Indian state you were from. South Indian states like Travancore were allied with the British Empire and signed a treaty that brought it under British influence. Travancore was facing extinction from Islamic conquerors - Tippu Sultan.

Travancore and British forces defeated Tippu Sultan which resulted in the Treaty of Seringapatam (1792).

Travancore was extremely prosperous under the Britsh Empire and was given special status. The same could not be said of the Northern Indian states which faced heavy subjugation and exploitation by the East India Company.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-01 18:44:38+00:00
I posted evidence: there was a Wall-Street Journal editorial calling Prasad a liberal

That answer doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because I was asking you about a reaction to someone else's claim.

That's the weirdest way of saying "you defend your argument" that I think I've ever seen. Thanks?

It's not a compliment. Axe-grinding doesn't make for good discussion, and you seem far more reliant on rhetoric than would be needed if you just explained your point of view up front. It's getting into sealioning territory.
by Aachen | 2025-09-01 18:44:40+00:00
> The difference is I bought the device so I don’t care if you feel restricted as a developer.

I don't see how that logically follows. I bought my device, too. How does that consequence developer-me not being allowed to make software?

If you think I'm behind one of these obnoxious corporations, no sir the 180° opposite. I haven't made a mobile app in my life that I haven't also published the source code of, nor made a dime off of them, salaried or otherwise. Desktop or mobile is all the same ethos, if I'm reading correctly that you seem to expect the worst just because I code things up for my own device and whoever else wants to use it?
by robomex | 2025-09-01 18:44:45+00:00
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by nativeit | 2025-09-01 18:44:52+00:00
I use it for re-mixes, snapshots, and live performance configurations. Basically anything that requires making changes to Main that are either ephemeral (in which case, branches are deleted when no long required), or otherwise specific to a purpose (in which case branches persist for as long as they are useful).

Edit: I suppose those are not generally collaborative, so from the context of merging branches from other contributors, I would probably agree that it becomes a little messy when most of the contributors are not also fluent (or even passingly familiar with) git.
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by cxr | 2025-09-01 18:45:13+00:00
To underscore the point here: the FSF

1) hasn't/doesn't publish a free software definition that describes copyleft as a precondition to free software

2) hasn't/doesn't claim in any of their non-normative commentary that the definition has that precondition

3) readily and regularly refers to projects published under permissive licenses like the BSD, MIT/X11, and Apache licenses as "free software", despite not being copyleft licenses

4) themselves publish/maintain/govern software projects that are licensed under permissive licenses like the aforementioned non-copyleft licenses

The claim that "'free software' means 'copyleft'" is a pernicious, bizarrely recurring but wildly misinformed claim that only shows up on message boards by people who can't ever have actually read primary sources that explain the positions of the organization they purport to describe, and have instead just, like, decided they understand the topic (through, I dunno, osmosis or something, I guess).
by layer8 | 2025-09-01 18:45:23+00:00
If you have to deploy or test with CRLF files, you can’t force LF for all files. This isn’t about editors, but about files to be deployed on customer systems, and/or to be used in tests, where the interfacing software has other requirements. You also have to use .gitattributes to reliably define which files to treat as text files in the first place. And you’d have to define your hooks and CI checks to be consistent with that. Note that Git always converts CRLF to LF upon check-in for defined-to-be-text files, even on Unix.

I agree that the default on Windows is wrong. “Input” isn’t much better.
by jibal | 2025-09-01 18:45:24+00:00
The 6 foot distancing suggestions came in March. Recommendations for face coverings for the general public were recommended by the CDC on April 2, a few days after Trump suggested scarves. Claims that there was a 12 month gap between the distancing guidelines and recommendations for N95 or other masks is ludicrous.

And if we're going to talk about Fauci's noble lies in the interests of public health, we ought to say something about the loon with a dead worm in his brain who sincerely believes, promotes, and enforces all sorts of nonsense that is going to result in a lot of illness and death.
by thenaturalist | 2025-09-01 18:46:58+00:00
Yelobird isn't even the target company?

This would probably be Peec AI.

As it can be seen via OP's own website Arbeitnow: https://www.arbeitnow.com/jobs/companies/yelobird/senior-ful...

But then, OP does not seem to either represent Peec AI nor Yelobird in any public capacity, which makes this post even weirder?

Is this some weird revenue sharing for a hire to Peec AI through Yelobird & Arbeitnow?
by rglover | 2025-09-01 18:47:06+00:00
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by natch | 2025-09-01 18:47:08+00:00
Thanks for the actual reply! I was pleasantly surprised. You are really all in on Kalman filtering! I don’t doubt you, but I think we all should be cheering for Elon, since unlike legacy auto, he’s leading the charge to give less money to the likes of MBS. If his team can figure out FSD (maybe with your help!) that will be a very good thing.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-01 18:47:22+00:00
Exactly. That, plus we have to pretend that we have a clear planning for several years and make a Gantt chart of what we will be researching each year. Which I guess in some areas with very structured processes or long studies (medicine with its clinical studies where you follow patients for years, I guess) may make sense, but in mine (CS) is impossible because each research step is rather short and subsequent steps depend on the result of previous steps. So we write pipe dreams about discovering an algorithm using technique X to solve problem A on year 1, then finding a faster version on year 2, extending it to a larger coverage on year 3, etc.; when in reality technique X fails (which is legitimate, if it were obvious that it would succeed it wouldn't be cutting-edge research) and you end up using technique Y, and maybe solving problem A' instead. Which of course also has to be justified in reports about how everyting went different from planned but results are still awesome, again taking a huge amount of time.

LLMs are a godsend for writing these formulaic things and since the starting point is a situation with useless processes where everyone wastes inordinate amounts of time, I can't imagine them being harmful overall for the grant process. The bar is just very low.
by durhamg | 2025-09-01 18:47:22+00:00
I made a planetoid Minecraft demo back in the day, but I left the planet as a cube. Each cube had a defined gravity direction, so you could rig it so that no matter what face you were on, gravity pointed "down". Having gravity be a customizable per cube allowed for cool things like having the center of the planet have reversed gravity, so if you dug too deep you'd find a cavern and could walk on the inner surface of the planet , effectively upside down. Or you could have two planets near each other and build upwards until you entered the others gravity well. I also added portals, so you could even jump through a portal fast enough to get thrown up to a neighbouring planet.

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by lucideer | 2025-09-01 18:48:12+00:00
No, boycotting them is entirely orthogonal to the issue. Passkeys have no role in ensuring that we do or don't rely on remote attestation - they're two totally separate considerations.

Passkeys have many benefits over current alternatives for auth, & the inclusion of remote attestation doesn't make them worse than current auth because all current auth can be coupled to remote attestation.

Continue to oppose remote attestation but do use Passkeys. They're a massive improvement.
by godelski | 2025-09-01 18:48:19+00:00
Yeah it was surprising to me too. But I guess not surprising that government doesn't have enough money. But it also made a lot of sense about how lobbyists were so effective. How it looked like things could be justified as not nefarious but can quickly go that way.

I am going mostly off of what this guy told me but I have no good reason to distrust him. (It felt like talking nerd to nerd, not with a politician)
by reneherse | 2025-09-01 18:48:41+00:00
That bug burned me a couple times before I switched to using 24-hour time exclusively on my devices.

For something that people use everyday, the iOS vertically-scrolling, fake-dial UI is just horrible in terms of usability and aesthetics, and I was glad when they added the ability to summon a numeric keypad with a single tap on the center dial.

The keypad input and interaction is extremely well thought out and efficient for setting the time.
by tylerflick | 2025-09-01 18:48:56+00:00
> I've often wondered how (in)expensive you could make something with a better built-in screen, the ability to play VP9/AV1 video and opus samples and Bluetooth to connect to mouse / keyboard and PC as a net and storage device.

I’ve been doing this, and the answer if you have a 3d printer is $10 US(pi zero 2 w) + the cost of whatever display you want to use. This won’t do AV1 but it’s good enough for my use cases. I’m slightly cheating on the cost as I have plethora of LiPo batteries in reserve.
by pxc | 2025-09-01 18:48:57+00:00
This is completely false and ahistorical. The first license associated with the term "open-source" was the MPL, which is a copyleft license.

Open-source never attempted to distinguish itself from free software in terms of licensing or content, and "free software" has always included permissive licenses.

You can find lots of free software licenses which are not copyleft listed on the FSF website, with links to longer commentaries on them. The FSF clearly identifies them as free software licenses, and always has.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

this page is linked to from FSF.org here:

https://www.fsf.org/licensing/

Take a few minutes reading the publications of the organizations and movements you're misrepresenting. Take a look at the OSI's Open-Source definition as well.
by tbrownaw | 2025-09-01 18:49:06+00:00
This paper is available on sci-hub.

It's based on three surveys:

> Study 1

> The study participants were 178 university students (127 female, 51 male) who were 18 to 42 years of age (M = 20.8 years, SD = 3.0). Participants who owned a vehicle completed the survey for extra credit in a 200-level Psycho- logical Methods course. The extra credit was equal to less than 1% of their total grades, with approximately 90% of students participating.

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> Study 2

> The study participants were 203 students (119 female, 84 male) who were enrolled in an introductory psychology class and who owned a vehicle. The students completed the study as part of a course research requirement. Participants ranged in age from 17 to 43 years (M = 18.7 years, SD = 2.0). Participants were predominantly Caucasian (88.7%). Other ethnicities included Native American/Alaska Native (0.5%), African American (2.0%), Asian (4.4%), and Latino (4.4%). All vehicles were manufactured between 1966 and 2005 (Mdn = 1996; mode = 2002), and length of ownership ranged from 2 weeks to 15 years (M = 26.8 months, SD = 22.0).

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> Study 3

> Study participants were 69 students (38 female, 31 male) who participated in the study in partial fulfillment of a research requirement for an introduc- tory psychology class. The participants were all between the ages of 18 and 22 years (M = 18.8, SD = 1.2). All students owned their own vehicles. The vehicles were all manufactured between 1978 and 2004 (Mdn = 1997; mode = 2002). Time of ownership ranged from 2 months to 13.3 years (M = 26.2 months, SD = 22.2). As with the other studies—and characteristic of this university—the sample was pre- dominantly Caucasian (87.0%). Other ethnicities included Latino (5.8%) and Asian (7.2%).