MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yibg | 2025-09-08 20:43:35+00:00
"bring manufacturing back to America" keeps getting thrown around and I'm genuinely curious how that would work. Let's say we do bring the bulk of manufacturing jobs back to America, what does the country look like in 10 years?

- Which manufacturing jobs? All of them? We'll have Americans sewing t-shirts and making every widget?

- How much would those jobs pay? More or less than China pays their workers now?

- If it's more, where does the extra money come from? If it's not more, who's going to do those jobs? If the answer is automation, then there aren't going to be a whole bunch of jobs created.

Also fundamentally, if American in general can work in positions higher up in the value chain. Shouldn't we be pushing for more jobs in healthcare, tech, finance etc vs low value manufacturing?
by mgerdts | 2025-09-08 20:43:50+00:00
fio is a mature widely used tool. It is the only tool that I’ve seen used in the disclosures for performance measurement in NVMe drive datasheets. I’ve used it regularly and see a strong correlation between what it reports and what I can see from other sources measuring the same load.

I categorize suggestions by new fio users that they found a bug in fio similarly to how I categorize claims by new C programmers that they found a bug in malloc.
by troupo | 2025-09-08 20:43:53+00:00
> Do you know there are

Yes, I know. Doesn't really disprove my point

> all that is needed is to have enough trial to prove desired effect

all that is needed lol. You mean multi-stage trials with baselines, control groups, testing against placebos etc.?

Compared to "yolo just believe me" of LLMs.

> The LLM output is yours to decide if it is relevant to your work or not, but it seems that your experience is consistently subpar with what others have reported.

Indeed, because all we have to do with those reports is have blind unquestionable faith. "Just one more prompt, and I swear it will be 100% more efficient with literally othing to judge efficiency by, no baselines, nothing".
by lukan | 2025-09-08 20:43:55+00:00
Thank you, I will be using this.

Not sure if there is actually data for the assumption to be twice as smart to debug than to write code, but it sounds about right.

And also, if you write the smartest code you can, while you are at your peak, you also won't be able to read it, when you are just a bit tired.

So yes, yes, yes. Just write simple code.

(I also was also initially messed up a bit by teachers filling me up with the idea to aim for clever code)
by amilios | 2025-09-08 20:44:10+00:00
What works for me, and this might not be palatable to everyone, is to intentionally downgrade my phone to a worse experience to add friction. I am currently using an SE 2020 on purpose. This thing overheats like hell, if I try to do anything too intensive with it it starts stuttering like crazy. But that's actually perfect, it's what I want. It naturally reduces my use time because it can get annoying to use.
by varenc | 2025-09-08 20:44:15+00:00
Agree with the sentiment, but I can understand why they don't offer this. Rational or not, people will feel less safe if all their messages can just be easily exported to plaintext. A few scenarios where this might matter like the 'evil maid attack' where someone briefly has access to your unlocked phone.

But I just use this project to export my signal messages to plaintext: https://github.com/tbvdm/sigtop

I have it auto run periodically and it's great. Makes for easy full text searching of my message history.
by recursive | 2025-09-08 20:44:31+00:00
> Do you think chatbots are trying to compete or compare themselves with us in any way?

No. If they were, I don't think they'd bother trying to convince us of anything.

For now, I'm thinking of things like the "AI boyfriend disaster" of the GPT-5 upgrade. I'm concerned with how these things are intentionally anthropomorphized, and how they're treated by other people.

In some years time, once they're sufficiently embedded into enough critical processes, I am concerned about various time-bomb attacks.

Whatever insecurity I'm feeling is not in a personal psychological dimension.
by anon84873628 | 2025-09-08 20:44:43+00:00
My mind also went to pharmaceuticals. And how "don't trust big companies" seems to be contributing to the "vaccine skepticism" phenomenon (or whatever you want to call it) and anti-medicine in general. RFK has brought them out of the woodwork.

I've seen acquaintances share fact sheets about times when drug makers were sued/fined for lying to the FDA, harming customers, manipulating prices, etc. All true! So people reasonably ask why they should be "forced" to have their products injected into them. And then they can get into all the reasons not to trust the FDA too...

Logically, just because a company has done some bad things doesn't mean their vaccines are unsafe. Or that the risks are worse than the disease. Or that sometimes mistakes just happen. And of course in their own lives people are hypocrites, break rules, do things like go back to cheating partners, etc.

I don't have a point here except to lament that things are complicated. Of course people are looking for justification of their beliefs. But maybe we should have held these companies to higher standards, and by allowing them to persist we were unwittingly eroding public trust to a tipping point that is now putting all of us at risk.
by neilv | 2025-09-08 20:44:54+00:00
At home, I built an OPNsense box to evaluate (using Sophos XG135 Rev 3 hardware, along with an OpenWrt nice Netgear WiFi AP on POE), but then went back to a plastic OpenWrt all-in-one box.

OPNsense (and pfSense) are neat, but I personally don't need an IDS/IPS right now, and I like to be able to run the router fanless.

One thing that OpenWrt could use immediately, for basic home WiFi router functionality, is easier ways to add guest-like VLANs from the Luci Web-based admin UI. (I currently have a guest VLAN config that I partly cargo-culted with numerous steps in Luci years ago, largely based on a blog post, and that would be a pain to reconstruct on a new install.)

For techies whose households include non-techies, a little IDS/IPS could help keep some nasty traffic off your home Internet pipe, and I suppose that could now run alongside OpenWrt on some of the more powerful plastic boxes, or on a PC with the right WiFi devices/APs. (In addition to use of VLANs and routing to minimize damage from all the malware-infested devices, and also thinking "zero trust" for the techie stuff you run.)
by sellmesoap | 2025-09-08 20:44:59+00:00
I see another problem with rules, that being the little rules that were put in place to solve some social issue at a time and are now out of place but waiting to be used as a stick on someone who's a burden on the establishment. It's hard to look forward when you're always looking over your shoulder. We need a github for law makers, the law needs PRs with documentation for the reason the law needs changing, and links to the research that brought a conclusion. And tests to make sure the law isn't unfairly impacting an unintended audience. Or just having a negative impact in general.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-09-08 20:45:23+00:00
That's true if you assume that any LLM-written code is not copyrightable by the entity using the LLM. Everything about reality currently suggests that this is a false assumption, and AFAIK no court has made a ruling saying that LLM-generated code isn't copyrightable. Also, there are patent and trademark considerations that are entirely separate from copyright.

My point above is just that this ("ChatGPT, make me a clone of Paint Shop Pro 4 but for modern Linux and in Rust. Here's a copy of the executable to get you started.") is a much more straightforward, old-fashioned kind of copyright infringement. I don't see why a court would treat it as different from "Let me decompile paintshoppro.exe to an IR and then recompile the IR for a Linux."
by tech_ken | 2025-09-08 20:45:26+00:00
> Socialism by definition is where the means of production cannot be individually owned

Possibly we're familiar with different strains, but my understanding is that it's less about what's individually/collectively owned and more about the relationship between the person doing the labor and the tools they're using to do that labor (ie. "do the workers own the factory or not?"). Social ownership of means of production is one proposal to achieve "workers owning the factory", but AFAIR there are alternatives.

Even granting that a central enforcement authority must exist, it's not clear to me why that enforcement implies planning. It seems to me that one could have a voluntary cooperative agreement with "town council" style enforcement of property relations (or even something like community-ownership with citizen equity), but still have unregulated trade and barter between cooperative members, or with entities outside the cooperative.

> socialist in a different context (as an ideology) may engender this in contradictory fashion.

I think it's important to also note that there isn't really a central socialist tradition; even at the outset of the movement there were disagreeing views on what properly constituted "socialism" or not. This does't mean that the internal belief systems of these traditions have some inherent contradiction, just that there are multiple paths one might take to similar conclusions, and that these don't always line up 100% when you zoom in on the details.
by amilios | 2025-09-08 20:45:47+00:00
Unfortunately some of us use Instagram specifically to keep in touch with people (IG DMs). and Meta does not seem to want to split off the messaging from the main app the same way they did with FB messenger for some reason (I would love it if they did). For Twitter, some of us need it for work as well (lots of interesting AI research published directly to Twitter). Reddit is definitely pure entertainment yeah. But there are nuances.
by SwamyM | 2025-09-08 20:45:58+00:00
While we are on the topic of Signal, does anyone know if it's possible to have a lock/PIN to open the Signal app itself that's different than your device lock/PIN?

Threema has this feature and it's reassuring to know that people can't open my chats when I hand my phone to someone. Or if I give the device lock/PIN to someone I trust for backup purposes but don't want them to have access to chats themselves.

Last I checked this was not possible with Signal (at least on Android).
by j45 | 2025-09-08 20:46:06+00:00
Also, if it's not encrypted, I'm not sure if AWS or others "synthesize" customer data by a cursory scrubbing of so called client identifying information, and then try to optimize and model for those scenarios at scale.

I do feel more and more some information in the corpus of AI models was done this way. A client's name and private identifiable information might not be in the model, but some patterns of how to do things sure seem to come up from such sources.
by anthk | 2025-09-08 20:46:07+00:00
- Install chromium

- Ublock origin instead of AdBlock

- git clone git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters

- either copy the chromium file to /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh under GNU/Linux/BSD and chmod +x it, or copy the --arguments array to the desktop launcher path under Windows, such as C:\foo\bar\chrome.exe" --huge-ass-list-of-arguments-copied-there.

Altough this is HN; so I would just suggest disabling JS under the UBo settings and enabling the advanced settings under Ubo. Now, click on the UBo origin and mark the 3rd party scripts and such in red; and leave out the 1st party images/requests and enabled. Then, starting accepting newspapers' domains and CDN's until it works. The CPU usage will plummet down.
by nine_k | 2025-09-08 20:46:13+00:00
Speaking of the Great Pyramid, the bulk of it is crudely cut, but the outer casing and the lining of the interior chambers has gaps well below 1 mm in width. These stones are about 2.5m long, much longer than a typical human, and weigh several tons. Not only had they to be cut to sub-millimeter precision, they also had to be installed equally precisely. This takes serious engineering chops, especially when you don't even have steel.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-09-08 20:46:25+00:00
I sorta mispoke. I use Bolt to create UI designs for entire features, but write the back-end code by hand (with Copilot as Autocomplete).

Honestly amazed at how good it is getting something going. I always had issues extrapolating on existing designs, so the ability to get EXACT screens built without having a designer yell at me for being stupid has been a godsend.
Show HN: Comparegpt.io – Spotting LLM hallucinations with multi-model comparison
by tinatina_AI | 2025-09-08 20:46:42+00:00
Hi HN I’m Tina. Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated by LLM hallucinations — outputs that sound perfectly confident but are fabricated. So I built CompareGPT.io, a tool that: Runs the same query across multiple LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, etc.) Shows results side by side so discrepancies (and hallucinations) are easier to catch Offers a unified API for easier integration We just opened a waitlist (with a half-price early offer + lifetime plan giveaway). I’d love feedback from this community: do you think multi-model consistency could become a standard way to reduce hallucinations in law, finance, or research? Thanks!
by jus3sixty | 2025-09-08 20:47:43+00:00
An awful lot of Monday morning quarterback CEOs are here running their mouths about what Tim Cook should do or what they would do. Chill out with the extremely confident ignorance. Tim Cook brought Apple to a billion dollars in free cash he doesn’t need to ride the hype train.

Also let’s not forget they are first and foremost designers of hardware and the arms race is only getting started.
by Sanzig | 2025-09-08 20:47:47+00:00
Assuming that the developer of Syncthing-Fork doesn't mind providing ID to Google, they shouldn't have an issue getting a signing key (we will see how this works in practice). They aren't doing anything objectionable to Google.

The bigger issue for third party apps will be things like Newpipe, where applying for a key will put the developers in danger of a lawsuit because it affects Google's business.

(The APK signing requirement is a fiasco, I'm not defending Google. Just pointing out that this app will probably not be as seriously impacted as others).
by 317070 | 2025-09-08 20:48:33+00:00
The antenna has a beam width of 0.3°. So it only needs to aim that accurately in the general direction of earth. In general, antennas don't need to aim more or less accurately as they get closer or further away, it is only in function of their beam width.

I'm pretty sure, at that distance, it doesn't even matter anymore whether it is pointing at earth, the moon or the sun.
by gobdovan | 2025-09-08 20:48:37+00:00
It's not about the system working or not, it's more about whether it's well calibrated. You'd expect performance to scale linearly with skill (f(skill) = job_quality * x), but the data look more like a sigmoid: overqualified people disengage and never hit their full potential. Underqualified folks aren't that far behind their peers, yet in a better-matched role, they'd perform better with less effort.

I find it kinda sad, honestly. But these are aggregated statistics, I still think people can overcome their perceived limitations, I'm certain some of the underqualified folks are the ones that drag that curve up a lot.
by jll29 | 2025-09-08 20:48:39+00:00
Depends how experienced you are. If you have no degree yet, here's the recipe I recommend if you have never held a programming job:

Ensure to get at least a B.Sc. in computer science (36 months).

Make some very good friends on the way (included in the time above).

In addition to working hard to build up solid knowledge in your studies, go to the occasional meetup (included in the time above).

If, on the other hand, you are experienced, it depends on whether you already have an idea or not. If yes, build a team, write a business plan, consider joining YCombinator or some other incubator scheme, validate your idea in the market (this can take various forms from talking to prospective customers to raising some funding to build a prototype). SF and Palo Alto has enough founders sitting around in cafes that you can meet and get some advice about practical matters (e.g. which bank to use for your business account). You also need to find a name, get a domain and Web site, incorporate a LLC.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-08 20:49:03+00:00
I wonder if some of Youtube's behavior was responsible for inflating the number of views.

For example, after searching on my phone, some of the videos in the search results would play silently without me selecting the video. Then, the video would show up in my history.

I also wonder if they aren't counting short (under 10 seconds) views of longer videos?
by teiferer | 2025-09-08 20:49:20+00:00
I don't know what you do for a living but it's very common when writing and releasing software to do it in phases. Earlier phases have a restricted feature set and feedback from the field/customers/users experiencing earlier phases informs choices in later phases.

Unless you have direct insights into their dev process, your claim that the restriction be "entitely unnecessary" seems overly strong.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-08 20:49:22+00:00
I used to learn abacus and had do it for 2 years..

I am not sure if its me but I could've easily done 2 digit calculations in literal seconds... using the abacus model

Then our classes of abacus were shut and the thing is, that now I found myself a slight degradation because with abacus there was an assured confidence but then after abacus I used to blunder tiny things like 6+7=15 and 7*6 and other things.

Maybe my personal experience with abacus was how it ended. I had it for 4 semesters and got 4 medals in abacus for getting full marks but I still believe that it made my common maths, which it meant to improve a little weaker because well now although I don't pull up an abacus in my mind, I still have all the learning of basic things like 6+7=13 and other stuff but for some utter magical reason, learning abacus made me confuse it.

Overall it was a great experience though, seeing my cousins surprised that I was doing 2 digit numbers like 42x 37 calculation in 10 seconds in my mind while playing pass ball at 5th grade, maybe that was one of my peak achievements as I guess I have forgotten abacus completely...

I also remember one of my cousin saying that abacus looks like a music instrument and he used to make a little music out of it. Maybe fun times indeed. I remember it was the same day that I discovered the badlands biome in minecraft, maybe I was in 4th grade. Gold is really common in badlands, I remmeber going into the cave if I am correct.

Edit: also I meant not any hate towards abacus or maybe its just skill issue from my side and I just felt like saying it. I don't know why but for the most part although I still do these mistakes, I used to do it on a much higher frequency after stopping abacus and then covid hit and although I was a strong math student logically, I used to do some mathematical blunders.., for the most part they happen rarely now but still they sometimes do exist when my brain gets into too much auto pilot mode and I usually just prefer to solve calculations in the end because of this in any question or whatever, and maybe only just simplify things at most in intermediate steps so that I do least amount of mistakes possible. I usually don't think about this too much but I used to think that damn I am bad at this and used to remember the abacus past but then I saw some comments on reddit etc. saying that there were whole calculus phd teachers who sometimes did silly mistakes and maybe it was okay... felt really better about myself.
by SLWW | 2025-09-08 20:49:43+00:00
The use of the word "emergent" is concerning to me. I believe this to be an... exaggeration of the observed effect. Depending on the perspective and the knowledge of the domain, this might seem to some ad emergent, however we saw equally interesting developments with more complex Markov chaining given the sheer lack of computational resources and time. What we are observing is just another step up that ladder, another angle to enumerate and pick the best token next in the sequence given the information revealed by the proceeding words. Linguistics is all about efficient, lossless data-transfer. While it's "cool" and very surprising.. I don't believe we should be treating it as somewhere between a spell-checker and a sentient being. People aren't simple heuristic models, and to imply these machines are remotely close is woefully inaccurate and will lead to further confusion and disappointment in the future.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-08 20:50:01+00:00
Well I graduated from elementary school the same way Ender Wiggin did so I tend to think that elementary school students are like the kids in Lord of the Flies and could use some authority.

If the people who have authority aren't willing to use it they will create people who 15-65 years later will be craving for authority because they won't have internalized it. (e.g. that lack of internalization is infectious but can have different consequences) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie.

But seriously, your pension is a trap. If stress in your job raises your blood pressure enough you won't live to collect it. It's not just a matter of what your pocketbook can afford but what your body can afford.
by DeepYogurt | 2025-09-08 20:50:11+00:00
Transmeta wasn't x86 internally but decoded x86 instructions. Retrobytes did a history of transmeta not too long ago and the idea was essentially to be able to be compatible with any cpu uarch. Alas by the time it shipped only x86 was relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2aQTJDJwd8
by empath75 | 2025-09-08 20:50:47+00:00
https://books.google.com/books?id=-fG_NOxltlEC&pg=PA25&dq=Co...

Computer's Aren't Pulling Their Weight (1991)

There were _so many_ articles in the late 80s and early 90s about how computers were a big waste of money. And again in the late 90s, about how the internet was a waste of money.

We aren't going to know the true consequences of AI until kids that are in high school now enter the work force. The vast majority of people are not capable of completely reordering how they work. Computers did not help Sally Secretary type faster in the 1980s. That doesn't mean they were a waste of money.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-08 20:51:04+00:00
If I were a product decision maker, I’d be ok with that. It’d have to be a very unusual niche to make it worth the engineering effort to support customers who only run decades-old hardware.

Employees: “We want to use new feature X.”

Boss: “Sorry, but that isn’t available for our wealthy customers who are stuck on Eee PCs.”

Nah.
by berryg | 2025-09-08 20:51:30+00:00
Driving in the UK can be quite a shock when you're used to the roads in the Netherlands. The speed at which people navigate roundabouts can feel terrifying, and the maximum speed in the countryside is something else. Going *60 mph* on narrow roads with limited visibility is just crazy. The locals just speed by. I guess it's just what you're used to.
by gsibble | 2025-09-08 20:51:49+00:00
I generally look for high IQ and work ethic more than anything else. I don't even care if they don't have experience in the framework I need for example because good programmers can figure out stuff quickly.

So 1: very willing 2: Very willing 3: I don't even look at stuff like that

I just hire people that are skilled and capable.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-09-08 20:52:02+00:00
It will all break in time.

These things that look like institutions, that look like bricks carved from granite, are just spinning plates that have been spinning for a few years.

When I fight glibc dependency hell across Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24, I sympathize with Firefox choosing to spin the 64-bit plates and not the 32-bit plates.