MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by djoldman | 2025-09-06 13:23:47+00:00
> The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews.

From the discussion:

> Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories

> ... This says to me that github will soon start allowing github users to submit issues which they did not write themselves and were machine-generated. I would consider these issues/PRs to be both a waste of my time and a violation of my projects' code of conduct¹.

> Note: Because it appears that both issues and PRs written this way are posted by the "copilot" bot, a straightforward way to implement this would be if users could simply block the "copilot" bot. In my testing, it appears that you have special-cased "copilot" so that it is exempt from the block feature.

How does one see that a user, e.g. "chickenpants" submitted an issue or PR that was generated by "Copilot"? Isn't there only one creator?
by reaperducer | 2025-09-06 13:23:58+00:00
How on earth did anyone believe Microsoft was different this time?

There's a whole generation on HN who came up after Microsoft's worst phase, and have spent the last five years defending MS on this very forum.

They're convinced that any bad thing Microsoft does is a "boomer" grudge, and will defend MS to the end.

I hope I'm never so weak-minded that I tie my identity and allegiance to a trillion-dollar company. Or any company that I haven't founded, for that matter.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-09-06 13:24:16+00:00
The very easy and obvious answer is the people who are responsible. If there is a committee then the obvious answer is the people who voted for it. It's not hard. It's like saying what if I break the law but I do it with three other people, who goes to jail? The obvious answer is everyone who broke the law goes to jail. If a fifth person did not participate and said you should not break the law, the very obvious answer is the person who did not participate and who did not break the law does not go to jail. It's not complicated at all.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-06 13:24:23+00:00
The law says that banks need to do AML/KYC, a blockchain is not a bank, it's decentralized. Besides, being able to break a law can be good, when such laws have little to do with crime prevention, and more about feeding an industrial complex that earns from those frictions. And buying a car is not illegal as far as I know.

The main proponent that dictates the regulations, the FATF, is a shady, unregulated body that is used for political and economical repression.
by jasode | 2025-09-06 13:24:40+00:00
>This is as if you started explaining how an ICE car works by diving into chemical properties of petrol.

But wouldn't explaining the chemistry actually be acceptable if the title was, "The chemistry you need to start understanding Internal Combustion Engines"

That's analogous to what the author did. The title was "The maths ..." -- and then the body of the article fulfills the title by explaining the math relevant to LLMs.

It seems like you wished the author wrote a different article that doesn't match the title.
by oefrha | 2025-09-06 13:25:22+00:00
Yeah, as a maintainer with fairly popular projects (at least more popular than any project from the linked issue reporters, I’ve checked), I’ve gotten exactly zero Copilot issue or PR. As for useless review comments, lol, nothing beats useless comments from users (+1, entitled complaints, random driveby review approvals serving god knows what purpose, etc.), you probably shouldn’t be doing open source if you’re annoyed by useless comments.

And good luck stopping people from pasting from ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever. Those are free, unlike Copilot agent PRs which cost money, which is part of why I don’t see any.

I guess some people just have too much time and will happily waste on useless complaints.
by echelon | 2025-09-06 13:25:27+00:00
This is really impressive.

If we can get this down to a single Raspberry Pi, then we have crazy embedded toys and tools. Locally, at the edge, with no internet connection.

Kids will be growing up with toys that talk to them and remember their stories.

We're living in the sci-fi future. This was unthinkable ten years ago.
by tombert | 2025-09-06 13:25:34+00:00
I am very partial to msgpack. It has routinely met or exceeded my performance needs and doesn’t depend on weird code generation, and is super easy to set up.

Something that I don’t see talked about much with msgpack, but I think is cool: if your project doesn’t span across multiple languages, you can actually embed those language semantics into your encoder with extensions.

For example, in Clojure’s port of msgpack out of the box, you can use Clojure keywords out of the box and it will parse correctly without issue. You also can have it work with sets.

Obviously you could define some kind of mapping yourself and use any binary format to do this, ultimately the [en|de]coder is just using regular msgpack constructs behind the scenes, but i have always had to do that manually while with msgpack it seems like the libraries readily embrace it.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-06 13:26:01+00:00
Are self-hosted relay servers a new feature? I don't remember seeing those when I first looked into Mentra. How difficult is it to set up?

I get the trade off. Glasses may some not simply have enough space for hardware. I briefly debated attaching a relay ( some of the processing for what I had in mind could be done with a simple raspberry ).
by yunwal | 2025-09-06 13:26:46+00:00
Ok, so at the very least we can both agree that what stripe is doing here is sketchy, since it’s not permissionless at all.

The second question is, once you take away anything that’s not permissionless, what’s left in crypto?

- Buying a physical good? You’re trusting the person manufacturing it, storing it, shipping it. If it comes to your door and it’s defective, they’ve already got your money, and it turns out your trustless system actually makes this impossible to resolve.

- Buying some skin for a game or something? Unless the game is also run in a decentralized fashion, they can just choose not to render that particular skin.

So, like, can you give me an example of a single transaction that is rendered trust-less because of cryptocurrency? It seems to me like whenever anyone actually tries to do anything useful with crypto, it ends up being what you would describe as an obvious scam.
by arduanika | 2025-09-06 13:27:05+00:00
Let us not forget that this one is the good, ethical AI company. The one founded by splinter AI safety cultists who thought that OpenAI wasn't deep enough in the safety cult for their liking. And here they are, keeping the humans safe. By robbing them.

Because it turns out that nobody in the whole safety cult cares a whit for the human mind, the human experience, human art. Maybe for something they call "human values" in some abstract thought experiment, but never for any human decency. No, the human mind is just ones and zeros, just like a computer, no soul and no spark, to people in the cult. The cult thinks that an LLM reading a book is just the same mechanically as a human reading it.

Your brain is just emergence, your honor. Fair use. Blah blah Dennett Hofstadter Yudkowsky.

Do you feel safe?
by hyperman1 | 2025-09-06 13:27:11+00:00
After a colleague asked about this, my interest was primed on quantum computing. I found wikipedia hard to follow and the textbooks were really expensive. Then I stumbled on this course by IBM:

https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/learning/en/courses/basics-of-...

It has prereqs in complex numbers and linear algebra, but is quite easy to follow if you have these.

I like how it first uses quantum notations to describe the non quantum world, so you get used to the reasoning. Then it adds the actual quantum stuff on top of the now understandable reasoning.
by fatchan | 2025-09-06 13:27:26+00:00
Github is my push --mirror location, nothing more. Main is a popular Gitlab instance gitgud.io, and I host my own secondary mirror.

Gitlab is of course adding more AI and corpo garbage, and once they prevent disabling these "features" on community editions we'll see a fork of gitlab, probably.

The assertion that github is some bustling hub of opportunity is a strange one. At best you get people more likely to contribute because they already signed up, and a contribution from somebody not willing to sign up to another free service or simply email you an issue report is a contribution worth missing.
by tho2342o349423 | 2025-09-06 13:27:56+00:00
At this point, pretty much all of the US markets (and the USD) is hinging on "unlimited upside" promised by techbros and their magic AGIs & robots. They probably get orders from all the way up the food chain to keep the show going.

Wonder what'll happen to JPY once the Yen-carry unwinds from this massive hype-cycle - will probably hit 70 JPY to the dollar! Currently Sony Bank in Japan offers USD time-deposits at 8% pa. - that's just insanely high for what is supposed to be a stable developed economy.
by AlexeyBrin | 2025-09-06 13:28:12+00:00
The conclusion of the original study https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5... contradict the title of the article linked here:

Influenza vaccination may reduce the risk of MACE and ACS among older adults. Aligned with the World Health Organization guidelines, our findings further support influenza vaccination as an effective public health strategy for potentially reducing cardiovascular disease burden.
by 3np | 2025-09-06 13:28:36+00:00
> Not sure why this is getting down votes

Guessing unrelated to the comment itself, prolly got a minor downvote army on my back after a different recent comment on Gaza matters.

Downvotes are just a noisy signal in general and I wouldn't read that much into a few here and there, it comes with the territory.

Oh and yeah, this meta makes for tedious threads so site guidelines and all that.
by frm88 | 2025-09-06 13:29:59+00:00
https://windowsforum.com/threads/european-governments-shift-...

Directly from the Windows Forum.

https://www.slashgear.com/1888658/microsoft-office-alternati...

Government's in Denmark, Germany, Spain (on the state level )

A couple more links for companies, but I trust the above is enough? The trend is definitely there and picking up speed.

Edit: a couple of days ago there was a post on HN about SAP spending 20b on cloud https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sap_sovereign_cloud/
by greenbit | 2025-09-06 13:30:02+00:00
The photons created in the core are some seriously energetic gama rays. Sure, gama rays are very penetrating, but the solar core is dense, and it's about half a million miles to the surface, so these mostly get absorbed right there in the core, making stupendous amounts of heat. At any given depth that means that matter is going to re-emit photons, but never any more energetic than the original ones that are absorbed, but that radiation will be reabsorbed as well. That process of emission and reabsorption means that energy travels to the surface a lot slower than light in a vacuum, and sure, it takes a long time for that energy to reach the surface, but the photons that reach the earth are only the ones created close enough to the 'surface' to escape into space.
by dijit | 2025-09-06 13:30:25+00:00
I agree, if you’ll allow me to diatribe my thoughts about why this could be (without thinking that these are my actual firm opinions);

Since right now there is an aire of competition, I would guess that these companies believe its winner-take-all, and are doing their “one monopoly to aid another” to get this market before theres another verb-leader (like chatgpt for llm, or google for search).

It could also be that they think that people won’t know how good they are until they try it, that it has to be seen to be believed. So getting people to touch it is important to them.

But, I think I agree with you, its so heavy handed that it makes me want to abandon the tools that force it on me.
by simne | 2025-09-06 13:31:00+00:00
Always, when read about "functional language usage in simulation", I check if OpenGL binding used. Other important things are physics engine and collision engine, because these are more than 90% of all code.

Unfortunately, just as I suspected, this project use OpenGL (nearly all implementations are C++), and C++ collision/physics engine.

So, looks like, in this project, Clojure is used just as high level script to orchestrate all C++ parts, may be later we hear about some game scripting, but for simulators they are not as need as for example for RPGs.

I agree, Clojure is better than C++ for orchestrate, but I have seen so tiny number of art persons familiar with functional paradigm, so this looks like beautiful dead end.

Again, this is really beautiful and respectful achievement for author, but people I seen working in gamedev will not accept such approach.
by kortilla | 2025-09-06 13:31:33+00:00
>But even rich people need to shield them from ceo killers, use incredibly bad infrastructure, etc.

CEO killers are not a result of inequality. The only recent example of a CEO killer was a result of being the head of a health insurance company and the motivation was not his comp.

Bad infrastructure is also not a good example. That’s just a result of gov choices on spending.

At least in the US, pulling levers on taxing the middle and upper middle class produces far more revenue than hitting the 0.1%. This is why Democrats nor Republicans will ever provide meaningful cuts for people making $90k-$500k/year.

Inequality causes issues, but infrastructure failures is not one of them.
by dcminter | 2025-09-06 13:31:55+00:00
Well, OPERA was 700ish km, but had Cern at one end. If one has this as the sole goal and wanted to do it real-time over 12,000km is it "engineering-possible" vs "theoretically-possible" ? My guess is that it depends how much money stands to be made ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPERA_experiment
by PeterStuer | 2025-09-06 13:32:14+00:00
These days you just blindsight a project's community by instating a process heavy (you want the technical people to self-opt-out) 'board of governance', then put in place a draconian Orwellian regime in the name of 'safety', revoking project access from all that do not support the coup, or worse, still dare to speak out againt you.
by lazide | 2025-09-06 13:32:22+00:00
He was an appeasement to the populists. Which is why he got a 3rd term.

The capitalists barely were able to hold their nose to what he did to stop the rich from being eaten alive, but they knew what the alternative looked like.

Because of this, the socialists and communists, et. al. couldn’t get enough momentum to ‘win’ an argument form a coherent group and mostly just fought among themselves, and FDR was able to salve the hurt lower classes with enough give aways they mostly lost steam.

But the business groups got totally reamed in the process.
by e3bc54b2 | 2025-09-06 13:32:26+00:00
Hallucination is all an LLM does. That is their nature, to hallucinate.

We just happen to find some of these hallucinations useful.

Let's not pretend that hallucination is a byproduct. The usefulness is the byproduct. That is what surprised the original researchers on transformer performance, and that is why the 'attention is all you need' paper remains such a phenomenon.
by hodgesrm | 2025-09-06 13:33:13+00:00
Well there is strong anecdotal evidence of exactly this happening.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .”And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?” [0]

[0] Thompson, Hunter S., „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“
by InCom-0 | 2025-09-06 13:33:54+00:00
Being curious is good ... nothing wrong with that. What I took issue with above is (what I see as) attempt to derail people into low level math when that is not the crux of the question at all.

Also: nobody who wants to run LLMs will write their own matrix multiplications. Nobody doing ML / AI comes close to that stuff ... its all abstracted and not something anyone actually thinks about (except the few people who actually write the underlying libraries ie. at Nvidia).
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-06 13:34:22+00:00
This is always the thing to look for; "What are the alternatives?", and/why aren't there better ones.

I don't understand most use cases of protobufs, including ones that informed their design. I use it for ESP-hosted, to communicate between two MCUs. It is the highest-friction serialization protocol I've seen, and is not very byte-efficient.

Maybe something like the specialized serialization libraries (bincode, postcard etc) would be easier? But I suspect I'm missing something about the abstraction that applies to networked systems, beyond serialization.
by walterbell | 2025-09-06 13:34:32+00:00
We need more knowledge sharing on the topic of negotiating with VCs. Charles Ferguson's book was good, followed by the Venture Hacks blog from AngelList, https://www.amazon.com/High-Stakes-No-Prisoners-Internet/dp/...

What we have here is a rare thing - an unvarnished account by an insider of what it took to make a deal with the VC sharks during the dawn of the Internet Age and come out of it with something you could take to the bank. You wont find many other tech business books giving such a detailed account from start to finish. Though it is lacking on the technical side, the view from the 'money guys' is pretty detailed. It is pretty amazing to realize the whole arc of the story is only about two years.. To then leverage his proceeds into some constructive social documentaries like 'Inside Job' is a great second act..
by viraptor | 2025-09-06 13:35:11+00:00
> Any reason for this?

They're not trained for that. And there's no good reason to improve it if you can instead rerun the paragraph saying "make this slightly shorter".

> If a basic online word count tool can do this

It's an entirely different technology and not comparable at all. If you want to involve an actual word counter, this is not hard to integrate, with a basic loop that measures the output and feeds back the result so that the LLM can shorten/lengthen the text automatically before returning to you.
by UltraSane | 2025-09-06 13:35:40+00:00
Camera only might work better if you used regular digital cameras along with more advanced cameras like event based cameras that send pixels as soon as they change brightness and have microsecond latency and\or Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensors which can detect single photons. Having the same footage from all 3 of these would enable some fascinating training options.

But Tesla didn't do this.
by skydhash | 2025-09-06 13:35:48+00:00
I think it’s mostly people around the JS/Go/Rust ecosystems that tend to be vocal about GitHub being a community. For a lot of projects I couldn’t care less if it was just cgit or gitea.

It’s quite easy to setup git to send patch via email. And you can always use a pastebin to host the diff if you’re sharing ideas. Bit I guess that’s not as visible as the GitHub dashboard.
by panny | 2025-09-06 13:36:27+00:00
Dishonest? Here, look at picture #33 in this listing. It's the bathroom of a $2,300,000 house. This is the best of the best in America. This is how virtually all American houses are. This is your best case scenario for your typical American home.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/317-Wolf-Run-Dr-Whitefish...?

That home was built in 1996.

Now look at this house, built in 1993. Similar age, but a much more modest home. About $234,000 at today's exchange rate.

https://www.athome.co.jp/kodate/6983847649/

Look at the bath in picture 6. Notice how the bath is a full wet room. You can't tell in the picture, but that tub is so deep, the bottom is below the floor level, which is typical in Japan. Notice how you don't see a shower head inside the bath, it's outside it. You wash yourself clean before getting into the tub, so you aren't sitting in a pool of dirty soapy grey water.

Now look at the toilet in picture 10. Notice the attached controls for bidet and seat heater. Notice the space efficiency of the toilet, the sink in the top. Each flush runs the water right when you need to wash your hands? Make use of it. Harmony.

Notice how the bath and the toilet are in separate rooms. Because why would you defecate in a room where you're supposed to be getting yourself clean? The smell alone should tell you this doesn't make sense. Yet in every American bath, you'll find a toilet. This is not hygenic, and every American lives this way.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-06 13:37:22+00:00
AI loves waterfall because every time you insert yourself in the agentic coding loop you reduce the velocity of the system, and if the system blocks on your input the reduction can be pretty epic. Beyond that, AI has myopia, and if you tell it to implement something without a larger framework it understands how to slot it into, it'll put it somewhere that makes no sense, duplicate code, make incompatible interfaces, etc. It's much more efficient to just have the system outlined clearly from the get-go, and this also helps because you can generate E2E tests for validation up front to ensure the features really are valid and working.
by api | 2025-09-06 13:37:32+00:00
What is the actual rationale behind some companies literally shoving AI down people’s throats?

It’s fascinating stuff and can be very useful. Why does it have to be rammed so hard? I’ve never quite seen anything like this.

Or maybe I have. It reminds me a little of the obviously astroturfed effort to ram crypto down people’s throats. But crypto was something most people didn’t have any actual utility for. A magic tireless junior intern who had memorized the entire Internet is actually useful.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-09-06 13:37:37+00:00
> If outages [...] stop whole companies in their tracks

They should fucking learn how to code because no one in their right mind would depend on such an external service that can be easily replaced by cloning repos locally or using proxies like Artifactory. Even worse when you know that Microsoft is behind it.

Yes, most companies don't have good practices and suck at maintaining a basic infrastructure, but it doesn't mean GitHub is the center of the internet. It's only a stupid git server with PRs.
by dborovikov | 2025-09-06 13:37:40+00:00
I got tired of scrolling through poorly organized Go methods, so I built gomsort - a tool that automatically sorts methods within types using call graph analysis.

The Problem: Methods in Go structs are often randomly ordered, making code hard to follow. You end up with public entry points scattered between private helpers.

The Solution: gomsort analyzes your call graphs and sorts methods by: 1. Public methods first 2. Entry points (low call depth) before helpers 3. Shared utilities (high in-degree) at the bottom

Example transformation:

// Before - random order func (s *Server) helper() string { return "help" } func (s *Server) Start() error { return s.connect() } func (s *Server) connect() error { s.helper(); return nil } func (s *Server) Stop() error { return nil } // After - logical flow func (s *Server) Start() error { return s.connect() } func (s *Server) Stop() error { return nil } func (s *Server) connect() error { s.helper(); return nil } func (s *Server) helper() string { return "help" }

Features: - Works like go fmt - recursive by default - Integrates with golangci-lint - Preserves comments and semantics - Configurable via .msort.json

Install: go install github.com/borovikovd/gomsort@latest

Repo: https://github.com/borovikovd/gomsort

What do you think? Would this help your codebases?