MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saubeidl | 2025-09-26 13:28:22+00:00
First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening.

The first is people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken. And the second is that, for reasons including a lack of effective leadership and an inability to imagine how to disrupt the status quo, people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation.
by gnulinux | 2025-09-26 13:28:25+00:00
What do you think is the "intended purpose"? The fascinating and beautiful thing about the library systems in US is that there is no reason to have a purpose, you can literally just sit down and look outside the window. Breakneck-speed-modern-life needs this. I want a place to stop, think, read, write, listen... just somewhere to be human without fees for a second.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-26 13:28:32+00:00
Exactly my point. Hypothetically, even if the level of propoganda stays the same, at least it will be promoting western interests that may be harmful to us or may not. With Chinese propoganda you can be fairly certain their interests are in strengthening their own position and weakening ours. Anyway the western propoganda machine to the extent it exists is far more fragmented and weaker then the Chinese.

In short i trust the West more then china and even if the gulf might be shrinking, it will stay that way for the foreseeable future.
by alexgotoi | 2025-09-26 13:28:45+00:00
I have been reading Hacker News since 2014. I like the discussions around difficult topics, and I like the disagreements. I don't like that I don't have time to be a daily active user as I used to be. Inspired by Hacker Newsletter—which became my main entry point to Hacker News during the weekends—I want to start a similar newsletter, but just for Artificial Intelligence, the topic I am most interested in now. I am already scanning Hacker News for such threads, so I just need to share them with those interested.

Any feedback is welcomed!
by cestith | 2025-09-26 13:28:49+00:00
I agree it’s dubious. In the US cases have happened in which onerous requirements in shrink-wrap agreements were thrown out. I have no idea about Spain, but I’m betting asking for that permission in the phone app and getting it approved by the user is legally sufficient to at least make the company comfortable doing so. It may be a bold legal stance they’ll regret later, but if I took a guess I’d say this will get controlled by legislation rather than a court unless the country just wants to slide further into corporate control.
by smjburton | 2025-09-26 13:28:52+00:00
> Since our landing page is isolated from core product code, the risk was minimal. That said, I was constantly sanity-checking what Claude was changing. If I ever “vibed” too hard and lost focus, Claude would sometimes change the wrong files.

> Still, I wouldn’t trust Claude, or any AI agent, to touch production code without close human oversight.

My experience has been similar, and it's why I prefer to keep LLMs separate from my code base. It may take longer than providing direct access, but I find it leads to less hidden/obscure bugs that can take hours (and result in a lot of frustration) to fix.
by lapcat | 2025-09-26 13:28:54+00:00
It's true of almost every public service that it wouldn't scale to handle everyone simultanously.

Suppose that literally everyone decided to check out books from the library: many libraries, especially smaller ones, would quickly become empty of books!

I work from home, and I could work at the library, but I prefer to work from home, because I prefer my home environment to the library environment. I did work from the library quite a bit when my internet was out for a week, and it was a great relief to have the library available. I don't think there's a danger of overcrowding, though, because there's nothing now stopping people from working at libraries, and it hasn't been a problem AFAICT.

The author is not revealing any hidden, top secret fact that nobody knew before.
by bombcar | 2025-09-26 13:29:31+00:00
I think it's a combination of gas stations realizing that they need to "upscale and branch out" because eventually at some point cars won't be going to them as often, and major advancements (e.g., getting cheaper) for robotic machines that can make coffee.

We're a long way from a five gallon jug of coffee that hasn't been cleaned out since 1982.
by yojo | 2025-09-26 13:29:41+00:00
Tell Claude to fix the scroll-blocker on the codeyam.com landing page.

This seems to be a bad practice LLMs have internalized; there should be some indication that there’s more content below the fold. Either a little bit of the next section peeking up, or a little down arrow control.

I vibe coded a marketing website and hit the same issue.
by gethly | 2025-09-26 13:29:53+00:00
I think that as long as you can provide physical address where you are able to receive mail under pseudonym, you can use nay service. The main point with these DNS testing services is to prevent them form linking your DNA with your identity. You could maybe even use your company's address or a friend or a family member. It should not matter much. Or try renting a Post Office Box. Or even using one of the mail forwarding services as they are usually able to forward your mail based on id on the recipient without then name of the recipient mattering at all.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-26 13:29:55+00:00
This will escalate - every new car on the road comes with a bevy of cheap cameras integrated

Back when DOGE was making headlines and a certain car salesman was using the Oval Office as daycare for his kid, there were a people on HN and elsewhere noting that every Tesla could easily be turned into a roving real-time government surveillance unit.
by zahlman | 2025-09-26 13:30:40+00:00
No.

Agreeing that words like DHH used are code for some kind of racist bigotry, has become a "left-coded" argument; while taking arguments e.g. about high rates of immigration from places with very different norms and culture at face value has become a "right-coded" argument. (Quotation marks because the slang still seems awkward to me.) This is glossing over the fact that everyone ITT has been linking examples of DHH's speech that seem to come from after people got upset with him.

You say "has been rebranded" as if this happened naturally. What I see happening is that it's left-wing political strategy to push that rebranding, and right-wing political strategy to ignore it and/or claim it's absurd.
by al_borland | 2025-09-26 13:30:44+00:00
I think it’s related to what is mentioned in this blog post.

https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha

> The official release of COSMIC DE will debut on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, which will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Running and testing on 24.04 gets us closer to a final, polished release.

It seems it’s because Cosmic development is being based on Ubuntu 24.04, so it’s more about that base than the date of the Pop_OS release.
by j1elo | 2025-09-26 13:31:30+00:00
> [in Gnome] if you have a full screen app on your main screen you can't even see what time it is.

I know in FOSS there's a ton of enthusiastic and just non professional work (nor there should be expectations of it), but still... I'd hope the user-facing interface for an OS (or any UI, really) should be designed by people with a background on design, which doesn't seem to be the case at all with this idea. It's another example of why most of us developers should not be even touching the world of laying stuff out visually :)
by janpio | 2025-09-26 13:31:42+00:00
> Why, then, do MCP interfaces have to "dumb it down"? Writing code and calling tools are almost the same thing, but it seems like LLMs can do one much better than the other?

> The answer is simple: LLMs have seen a lot of code. They have not seen a lot of "tool calls". In fact, the tool calls they have seen are probably limited to a contrived training set constructed by the LLM's own developers, in order to try to train it. Whereas they have seen real-world code from millions of open source projects.

I am curious: Is this a generally agreed upon fact or an assumption/conjecture?
by basilgohar | 2025-09-26 13:31:54+00:00
It's amazing how everything you say above is proveably false.

They are not the same people. Modern day Palestinians share more ethnic heritage with the land's original inhabitants than European Zionist settlers.

The religion of the region has been different throughout time. Judaism is one religion of that region, and not the only nor even the first.

The language is not the same. Modern Hebrew that is spoken in Israel diverges significantly from the original Hebrew, which is more closely spoke by Yemeni Jews, for example.

Everything else is in your list is done by fiat, as even the the UN and the vast, vast majority of the world do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital.

Israel is the last major European colony and it's an anachronism that will go down in history as the final failed attempt at Western Imperialism.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-26 13:32:01+00:00
> Avoid the impact from hospital closures by preventing them from opening in the first place?

Yes? That's the idea. I won't say it always works, but it's the idea; preventing the existing facilities from closing.

> They aren't devastating in an oversaturated market.

It certainly can be, if the oversaturation puts all of them on shaky financial grounds.
by giarc | 2025-09-26 13:32:04+00:00
I meant in your inbox, not notifications on the phone.

Gmail already does filter the noise through "Categories" (Social, Updates, Forums, Promotions). I've turned them off as I'm pretty good about unsubscribing from junk and don't get a ton of email. However, they could place an alert at the top of your inbox to your "daily report" or whatever. Just as they have started to put an alert on incoming deliveries (ex. Amazon orders). You can then just dismiss it, so perhaps it's not an email so much as a "message" or something.
by gethly | 2025-09-26 13:32:31+00:00
If you are a senior developer, forget about job hunting and instead use your personal network(ask anyone whom you know to put in a word with their boss - not HR as you want to go through the internal hiring process and not the public one), or look for companies that interest you and simply contact them.

To put it bluntly, job hunting via usual means is for suckers. You need to be proactive, assertive, and take direct action.
by sjw987 | 2025-09-26 13:32:35+00:00
I don't understand why this needs to be linked to a smartphone. No issue with a national ID, but should we really shackle everything to a phone? They're already lost on the questions coming in about those who don't have one.

Is this just going to be a cheeky kickback to Palantir given the investment last week: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-strategic-partnership...
by hvb2 | 2025-09-26 13:32:43+00:00
> At 10k RPS

You would've used local memory first. At which point I cannot see getting to those request levels anymore

> ElastiCache Serverless (Redis/Memcached): Typical latency is 300–500 microseconds (sub-millisecond response)

Sure

> DynamoDB On-Demand: Typical latency is single-digit milliseconds (usually between 1–10 milliseconds for standard requests)

I know very little use cases where that difference is meaningful. Unless you have to do this many times sequentially in which case optimizing that would be much more interesting than a single read being .5 ms versus the typical 3 to 4 for dynamo (that last number is based on experience)
by Spivak | 2025-09-26 13:33:12+00:00
Have we stoped celebrating laziness being a virtue in software development? Discipline doesn't and will never scale and the pressures of business mean that processes that processes that put up walls to shipping will always crumble.

Real example, we do PR reviews because they're required for our audit and I'm of the opinion that they're mostly theater. It's vanishingly rare that someone actually wants a review rather than hitting the approve button and will call it out specifically if they do. Cool. This means you can't count on code review to catch problems, discipline doesn't scale after all. So instead we rely on a suite of end to end tests that are developed independently by our QA team.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-26 13:34:50+00:00
> I don't believe that the FCC threatening ABC's broadcasting license has anything to do with free speech.

Even Ted Cruz is able to see it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kwzgrwdd0o

And Vance is trying to play it off as a joke now: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5521172-vance-fcc-carr-ki...

> we have a legal system designed to prevent such over-steps of power

That legal system recently immunized the President from the protections.
by righthand | 2025-09-26 13:35:01+00:00
I’m not disparaging it, just actualizing it and sharing that thought. If you don’t understand that most modern “tools” and “services” are gamified, then yes I suppose I seem like a huge jerk.

The author literally talks about managing a team of multiple agents and Llm services requiring purchase of “tokens” is similar to popping a token into an arcade machine.
by 9rx | 2025-09-26 13:35:26+00:00
> In fact the Wikipedia page explicitly says that’s not required so whether you agree with that concept or not it’s not a universal point.

It says that one guy who came up with his own AGI classification system says it might not be required. And despite it being his own system, he still was only able to land on "might not", meaning that he doesn't even understand his own system. He can safely be ignored. Outliers are always implied, of course.

> No! The key thing was that it was general intelligence rather than things like “bird classifier” or “chess bot”.

I suppose if you don't consider the wide range of human intelligence as the marker of general intelligence then a "bird classifier" plus a "chess bot" gives you general intelligence. We had nearly a millennia ago!

But usually general intelligence expects human-like intelligence, which would necessitate autonomy — the most notable feature of human intelligence. Humans would not be able to exist without the intelligence to perform autonomously.

But, regardless, you make a good point: A "language classifier" can be no more AGI than a "bird classifier". These are narrow systems, focused on a single task. A "bird classifier" doesn't become a general intelligence when it crosses some threshold of being able to classify n number of birds just as a "language classifier" wouldn't become a general intelligence when it is able to classify n number of language features, no matter how large n becomes.

Conceivably these classifiers could be used as part of a larger system to achieve general intelligence, but on their own, impossible.
by buccal | 2025-09-26 13:35:37+00:00
Yes it is not perfect. At least in Lithuania you can use government issued personal ID to sign PDFs that pass Adobe/Foxit checks of signature authenticity. Trusted timestamp is part of a valid signature as it allows to check validity of signee certificate at the time of signing.

Adobe says: Source of Trust obtained from European Union Trusted Lists (EUTL). This is a Qualified Electronic Signature according to EU Regulation 910/2014.

Foxit says: Source of Trust obtained from European Union Trusted Lists (EUTL). This is a Qualified Electronic Signature according to EU Regulation 910/2014.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-26 13:35:46+00:00
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I don't have problems restricting and regulating gambling companies and their practices. I do have a problem with the government preventing or banning gambling companies which is effectively preventing individuals from gambling in groups. The government should absolutely do something about malicious and hostile business practices, but not on just gambling but every other business as well. If you have food addiction, how should mcdonalds filter you out? Plenty of diabetics and heart-attack risks out there thanks to that, and I hope you don't think that's less of a problem. Don't pick and choose vices.

If we agree on that last point and you agree that gambling companies should exist and sane people who are well informed have the right to gamble at those places, then we agree on all important points.
by cafard | 2025-09-26 13:37:20+00:00
Not particularly. On the one hand, I'm retired, my days are in many ways much alike, and "what did you do last Thursday" could leave me mumbling. On the other hand, I've met about a dozen people in the last three weeks, and remember their names. (I did write them down.)

[Edit: changed the first "on the other hand" to "on the one hand".]
by Anamon | 2025-09-26 13:37:37+00:00
And many of those utilities and edge cases will have been wrong or inconsistent, too. That's what the new "100x engineers" don't realise, because they never check those 1,000 lines of code they generated for themselves in a few minutes.

I've made similar experiences to yours for some one-shot scripts, and once decided to actually look inside. It did stuff like writing three different validators for the same data, each called only once, each validating slightly differently, and no doubt each with their own set of subtle bugs and gotchas.

These tools are intrinsically incapable of creating clean architectures and adhering to consistent standards and best practices. They are not cost-cutting or raising efficiency, they're simply very good at camouflaging the immense time costs they will cause down the line.
by Anvoker | 2025-09-26 13:37:39+00:00
Are you sure that the jankiness you describe is not related to you not being close enough to the enemy for it to count as a point blank hit? The engine does a simple distance check which is rather unforgiving, and if you utilize the range your melee weapon affords you, you will fail this point black attack check. This is just a guess on my part, but it's the #1 reason I've seen people be perplexed at seemingly inconsistent melee stealth takedown behavior.

If you first push yourself as close as you can get to the enemy model and attack the general area of their torso, it works every single time. But again, this is just me taking a guess as to what the problem you're referring to is!
by roenxi | 2025-09-26 13:37:57+00:00
> Critical path/flow diagrams [0] are incredibly useful for both laying out what has to happen in serial vs what can be parallelized. That being said, I've almost NEVER seen them used...

Making technically good decisions is one of a distressing number of domains where making any attempt at all will put someone a long way ahead of the game vs most people who wield power. Several advanced techniques that nearly nobody seems to do:

"Do we have evidence that this is a good idea?"

"What if we assume that we achieve the most likely outcome of this action, based on past experience and checking what happened when other people tried doing it? Is it a good idea?" [0]

"Assuming we just keep doing what we're doing, where will we be in 12 months?"

[0] Please someone get this one into the mainstream US debate next time they're trying to start a war.
by xlazom00 | 2025-09-26 13:38:02+00:00
People are scare of nuclear energy. Just look at Fukushima and Cernobil. People shouldn't ignore that. It is easy to talk how great and clean nuclear energy is. Yes, it is. And then something happen next to your home. I wish that nothing like Fukushima and Cernobil every happen. It was really bad PR for nuclear energy. We need more secure nuclear energy. I do hope that SMR(small modular reactor) don't make any ecological catastrophe.
Show HN: VenturePulse – AI platform for idea validation
by rakeshmenon | 2025-09-26 13:38:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a project called VenturePulse, which grew out of my own struggle trying to validate startup ideas.

Initially, I leaned heavily on tools like ChatGPT or Claude. They were good at generating ideas, but I ran into recurring issues:

- Results were inconsistent, the same prompt often produced very different answers. - There was no structured framework (e.g. SWOT, financial projections, risk analysis). - The knowledge cutoff meant missing current trends and competitor information. - Analysis was fragmented across multiple chats, with no coherence. - Converting all of this into something usable (like an investor deck) took days.

VenturePulse tries to address these gaps by combining a few things in one workflow:

- Cross-model AI verification: querying multiple AI models and surfacing where they agree or disagree. - Real-time data: pulling in competitor and market data from the web. - Standardized frameworks: structuring results as SWOT, risk matrices, and financial scenarios. - Scoring: giving a quick “PulseGrade” across different dimensions. - Outputs: generating reports, landing pages for early testing, and investor-style pitch decks.

The focus is on speed (3–5 minutes per analysis) and coherence (tying all the parts together instead of juggling multiple tools).

You can check it out here: https://venturepulse.app

I’d love feedback on:

- Whether “multi-AI verification” feels useful or gimmicky. - If the frameworks align with how you’d actually evaluate an idea. - Any obvious holes you see, or things you’d want to add.

This is still evolving... so I’m more interested in honest feedback than marketing right now.

Thanks for taking a look!
by hliyan | 2025-09-26 13:38:49+00:00
Ten years ago, I wrote something [1] arguing that it is impossible to escape ads by paying, as long as the product is content:

> Here’s why I believe you will not escape ads by paying for your content: people who can afford to pay for content are people with money, or people with buying power, in other words, the exact same people advertisers look to target. The more buying power you demonstrate, the more advertisers will target you. So the more you pay to keep ads away, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in. With the way the world currently works, selling ads, it seems, will always be more profitable than selling content.

[1] https://hliyan.github.io/2015/07/19/Why-you-will-never-escap...
by bluGill | 2025-09-26 13:39:43+00:00
This is likely a criminal case: the government goes to court not you. You of course can (should!) sue as well, but you are looking for something different. For sure get a good lawyer, they will get you a nice sum of money after their fees, and do this all at no cost to you (other than time you have to spend in court - but in this case it is worth it just be punish them for their actions)
by jfengel | 2025-09-26 13:40:06+00:00
As opposed to us moving as fast as we can to control the future?

If they really can outpace us, good luck to 'em. We Americans pride ourselves on our magnanimity in dispensing tech goodies to the world. Maybe we can get the benefit of somebody else's work for a while. And maybe it'll even take a little heat off of us, which we attract because of the way we've controlled the world.
by Romario77 | 2025-09-26 13:40:06+00:00
It wasn't just incompatibility, it was some of the design decisions that made it very hard to make performant code that runs well on Itanium.

Intel made a bet on parallel processing and compilers figuring out how to organize instructions instead of doing this in silicone. It proved to be very hard to do, so the supposedly next gen processors turned out to be more expensive and slower than the last gen or new AMD ones.