MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-09-26 17:12:44+00:00
I've experienced the opposite. Gemini is actually the MOST sycophantic model.

Additionally, despite having "grounding with google search" it tends to default to old knowledge. I usually have to inform it that it's presently 2025. Even after searching and confirming, it'll respond with something along the lines of "in this hypothetical timeline" as if I just gaslit it.

Consider this conversation I just had with all Claude, Gemini, GPT-5.

<ask them to consider DDR6 vs M3 Ultra memory bandwidth>

-- follow up --

User: "Would this enable CPU inference or not? I'm trying to understand if something like a high-end Intel chip or a Ryzen with built in GPU units could theoretically leverage this memory bandwidth to perform CPU inference. Think carefully about how this might operate in reality."

<Intro for all 3 models below - no custom instructions>

GPT-5: "Short answer: more memory bandwidth absolutely helps CPU inference, but it does not magically make a central processing unit (CPU) “good at” large-model inference on its own."

Claude: "This is a fascinating question that gets to the heart of memory bandwidth limitations in AI inference. "

Gemini 2.5 Pro: "Of course. This is a fantastic and highly relevant question that gets to the heart of future PC architecture."
by jrm4 | 2025-09-26 17:12:54+00:00
No. That is emphatically NOT entitled -- if the Traefik people have made heavy use of "open source," either practically or in marketing.

If you tout "open source" ideas in the work you do, then you can reasonably be held to the social contract that the ideas of open source originate in.

Lately (by lately I mean maybe the last 20 years or so) there's the idea of "because the open source ish company needs to pay the bills, they can completely abandon the ideas of open source."

Nah. You took from the commons, the commons has at least SOME right to ask for something back.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-09-26 17:13:13+00:00
They should be interoperable... I should be able to take my account from bluesky and host it on any other pub server

The server shouldn't need to be specific to mastodon/bluesky networks either

Ghost (the blogging platform) is kind of a peek into this — you can host your microblogging account there and interact with other activity pub networks like mastodon

this is the promise of the activitypub standard, anyone that uses the standard can interact with anyone else using the standard...
by Verdex | 2025-09-26 17:13:15+00:00
Honestly, the paper solution is the solution.

If they could do it digitally then you pull in your expert to testify that it was changed and they pull in their expert to testify that it wasn't or if it was then it was done by some mysterious hacker and they shouldn't be held liable for the attempt.

Meanwhile with paper, the judge and jury can look at your copy and see that it was obviously printed out and the aged for 10 years where their copy is fresh off the presses and your signature on it is either not a match at all or is suspiciously identical on every line.

Even if the digital version can be technically safer, I feel the paper version tells a more compelling story that non-cryptography experts can follow along with.
by gosub100 | 2025-09-26 17:13:29+00:00
This makes me want to cheat just as a technical challenge. Could I hide a computer in my hair? Could I ingest a capsule computer and communicate with it using the resonance of my teeth chattering? (No, I would not insert one in an inappropriate place).

I'm sure it would be a downer that I cheated but it would do them a favor by saying: "look, you cannot stop it. Time for something new".
by whstl | 2025-09-26 17:13:40+00:00
I "vibe coded" a Gateway/Proxy server that did a lot of request enrichment and proprietary authz stuff that was previously in AWS services. The goal was to save money by having a couple high-performance servers instead of relying on cloud-native stuff.

I put "vibe coded" is in quotes because the code was heavily reviewed after the process, I helped when the agent got stuck (I know pedants will complain but ), and this was definitely not my first rodeo in this domain and I just wanted to see how far an agent could go.

In the end it had a few modifications and went into prod, but to be really fair it was actually fine!

One thing I vibe coded 100% and barely looked at the code until the end was a MacOS menubar app that shows some company stats. I wanted it in Swift but WITHOUT Xcode. It was super helpful in that regard.
by reitanuki | 2025-09-26 17:14:17+00:00
I hit this too, maybe on the order of one day every month or two?

I'm using a fairly mainstream ISP in a fairly mainstream country.

I don't get why I seem to have such a hard time. I've kept the same IP for months.

But the worst thing overall is that it just doesn't acknowledge it.

Want to block me? OK. But tell me that! Don't just make me tick a box again and again and untick it. It's infuriating.
by xoxxala | 2025-09-26 17:14:34+00:00
I saw this at Interplay in the early 90s. Our audio director had a range of set ups, from high-end monitors to cheap Radio Shack speakers, and could switch between them with one knob.

(The artists, on the other hand, always worked in dark rooms and with their monitor contrast cranked up. We'd constantly complain about the dark, hard to see graphics.)
by nodesocket | 2025-09-26 17:14:36+00:00
I’ve deployed Traefik in-front of Kubernetes on some moderately large traffic sites with and without enterprise licensing. Recently I switched to using Caddy though. I know the stigma is that Caddy is not “production” ready and battle tested but I haven’t encountered any issues with it in terms of performance. It just works. Let’s Encrypt with CloudFlare DNS verification is super easy to setup and the configuration is very intuitive.
by Scramblejams | 2025-09-26 17:15:09+00:00
I did apologize, didn't I? :-)

Perspective is everything, I guess. You look at that three year old comment and think it's not particularly informative. I look at that comment and see an experienced infosec pro at Fly.io, who runs billions of container workloads and doesn't trust the cgroups+namespaces security boundary enough so goes to the trouble of running Firecracker instead. (There are other reasons they landed there, but the security angle's part of it.)

Anyway if you want some links, here are a few. If you want more, I'm sure you can find 'em.

CVE-2022-0492: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cve-2022-0492-cgroups

CVE-2022-0847: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/dirty-pipe-contai...

CVE-2023-2640: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-discovers...

CVE-2024-21626: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2024-21626

Some are covered off by good container deployment hygiene and reducing privilege, but from my POV it looks like the container devs are plugging their fingers in a barrel that keeps springing new leaks.

(To be fair, modern Docker's a lot better than it used to be. If you run your container unprivileged and don't give it extra capabilities and don't change syscall filters or MAC policies, you've closed off quite a bit of the attack surface, though far from all of it.)

But keep in mind that shared-kernel containers are only as secure as the kernel, and today's secure kernel syscall can turn insecure tomorrow as the kernel evolves. There are other solutions to that (look into gVisor and ask yourself why Google went to the trouble to make it -- and the answer is not "because Docker's security mechanisms are good enough"), but if you want peace of mind I believe it's better to sidestep the whole issue by using a hypervisor that's smaller and much more auditable than a whole Linux kernel shared across many containers.
by karmakaze | 2025-09-26 17:16:37+00:00
When I saw the story for Pulse[0], the first thing that came to mind was 'stickiness' of the platform--AI boy/girlfriends--could go sideways quick.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375477

> Introducing ChatGPT Pulse - Now ChatGPT can start the conversation
by mcny | 2025-09-26 17:16:42+00:00
Now here is a controversial question... Can we have a free of cost top level domain? What are the actual costs associated with registering a domain? If let's encrypt can provide secure certificates free of cost, why can't a different no profit provide domains free of cost as well? It doesn't have to be pretty. It could be a UUID v7 stacked on top of another UUID v7 for all I care but it would be globally unique and available free of cost.

And once you go to the site, your browser will remember it anyway so you don't need to type the monstrosity.

Or is it a really bad idea™?
by neom | 2025-09-26 17:17:20+00:00
Somewhat tangential: I met the founder of this https://www.atalantaclimate.co/ at new york climate week yesterday, it does all the regular air purification stuff, but it also removes carbon from the air, they claim this helps with sleep and work focus in your space (not sure), their demo was impressive (off the shelf co2 monitor in 2 spaces) - I wonder if this is going to be a thing?
by oersted | 2025-09-26 17:17:20+00:00
Indeed. I'd say that the issue is that they are misinterpreting the word "collecting". The principle is true if you are collecting or observing data live, but this data was collected long ago and with a much wider scope: when the games were recorded.

What they are doing here is sampling the data after the fact, and obviously one needs to take a uniformly random sample of a dataset for any statistical analysis done on it to be representative.
by lucascolley | 2025-09-26 17:17:36+00:00
*with the indispensable help and guidance of the conda-forge core team!

Yesterday, I seemingly became 'patient zero' of a bug in conda-forge's C compiler toolchain with the new macOS 26, where executables it compiled would immediately crash. Thankfully, the conda-forge core team were on hand to find the one-line patch needed to fix the problem, and guide me through the process of contributing the fix! I wrote a blog post describing the problem and how we fixed it on the same day it was found.

The takeaway for me is the evident power of free and open-source software — and especially of community-owned software distributions like conda-forge — that if somebody (or some big company) breaks your software, you can go and fix it yourself (/with the help of the conda-forge core team, who keep conda-forge running, often on a volunteer basis!), right down to the fundamental tools like the C compiler!
by 12_throw_away | 2025-09-26 17:18:02+00:00
> Surprised to see Deus Ex mentioned

I think it's in people's minds because A) "Deus Ex: Remastered" was announced this week [1] and B) many have remarked that the remaster low effort, and at least from its trailer, does not compare favorably to the many high quality community mods such as this one.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3131640/Deus_Ex_Remastere...
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-09-26 17:18:10+00:00
I’m working on a project that has now outgrown the context window of even gpt-5 pro. I use code2prompt and ChatGPT with pro will reject the prompt as too large.

I’ve been trying to use shorter variable names. Maybe I should move unit tests into their own file and ignore them? It’s not idiomatic in Rust though and breaks visibility rules for the modules.

What we really need is for the agent to assemble the required context for the problem space. I suspect this is what coding agents will do if they don’t already.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-09-26 17:19:25+00:00
> this is gonna cause more pushback regarding the rust in the kernel movement.

Only among those that don't understand that, if this is a problem, then it is Canonical problem, not a Rust problem.

To give another example, Canonical includes ZFS in Ubuntu too. And, for a while, Canonical shipped a broken snapshot mechanism called zsys with Ubuntu too. Canonical ultimately ripped zsys out because it didn't work very well. zsys would choke on more than 4000 snapshots, etc. zsys was developed in Go, while other snapshot systems developed in Perl and Python did a little less and worked better.

Now, is zsys a Go problem? Of course not. It wasn't ready because Canonical sometimes ships broken stuff.
by logicprog | 2025-09-26 17:20:09+00:00
> it largely rehashes caveats that are already well explored in the original paper, which goes through unusual lengths to clearly explain many ways the study is flawed. ... The study gets so much attention since it's one of the few studies on the topic with this level of rigor on real-world scenarios,

Yes, but most people don't seem aware of those caveats, and this is a good summary of them, and I think it does undercut the "level of rigour" of the study. Additionally, some of what the article points out is not explicitly acknowledged and connected by the study itself.

For instance, if you actually split up the tasks by type, some tasks show a speed up and some show a slowdown, and the qualitative comments by developers about where they thought AI was good/bad aligned very well with which saw what results.

Or (iirc) the fact that the task timing was per task, but developer's post hoc assessments were a prediction of how much they thought they were sped up on average across all tasks, meaning it's not really comparing the same things when comparing how developers felt vs how things actually went.

Or the fact that developers were actually no less accurate in predicting times to task completion overall wrt to AI vs non-AI.

> and it explains why previous studies or anecdotes may have claimed perceived increases in productivity even if there wasn't any actual increases.

Framing it that way assumes as an already established fact that needs to be explained that AI does not provide more productivity Which actually demonstrates, inadvertently, why the study is so popular! People want it to be true, so even if the study is so chock full of caveats that it can't really prove that fact let alone explain it, people appeal to it anyway.

> It clearly sets a standard that we can't just ask people if they felt more productive

Like we do for literally every other technological tool we use in software?

> (or they need to feel massively more productive to clearly overcome this bias).

All of this assumes a definition of productivity that's based on time per work unit done, instead of perhaps the amount of effort required to get a unit of work done, or the extra time for testing, documentation, shoring up edge cases, polishing features, that better tools allow. Or the ability to overcome dread and procrastination that comes from dealing with rote, boilerplate tasks. AI makes me so much more productive that friends and my wife have commented on it explicitly without needing to be prompted, for a lot of reasons.
Why I gave up on AI agent builder and built another screen recorder
by hitchyhocker | 2025-09-26 17:20:12+00:00
4 months ago, I chased the AI agent builder hype, and failed.

But I discovered something: making a good product demo was painfully clunky.

I had to record with one app to get nice zoom-ins, then generate AI voice with another just to fix my accent.

Around that time, a quote resonated with me: “If you can’t be the best in the industry, don’t do it.” (from Li Auto’s CEO)

So I asked myself: Can I build the best screen recorder for product demos?

Today, we’re launching the biggest Tight Studio update yet - packed with powerful features most screen recorders don’t have: AI narration, simple caption editing, seamless media import or AI generation, and much more.

Check it out at https://tight.studio/
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-26 17:20:34+00:00
If you are on social media, maybe reach out? Like museum pages. Comment. Did you go to DC on a school trip? Maybe post it's impacts, or what you enjoyed/remember? Or just 'imagine a job where you get to positively impact so many peoples' lives! You all are doing good things!"

We need to tell each other we are seen. We aren't alone. To keep our heads up. We will get through this together if we keep our heads up. Only when they can force us to cry alone do they win. They are weak and want unnatural things, which is why they are flooding the zone trying to break us all down separately and make us feel isolated/powerless. Every football team defense 'floods the zone' every field goal/extra point kick. It doesn't work. Don't let it work here.

We aren't brave and will just complain from the sidelines, but we can at least cheer on those not on the sidelines. It's never been easier to express support. Hit up peoples/institutions socials and tell them they are seen, tell them keep their heads up because we do support them.
by tecleandor | 2025-09-26 17:21:00+00:00
There's a lot of mentions to Caddy here. Haven't used it as, back in the day, there was something funny about its license and binary distribution. AFAIK that's not a problem anymore, isn't it?

From people that migrated from Traefik to Caddy... What are the main differences? Anything you really miss?

I use Traefik in a bunch of small deployments, sometimes pointing to Docker stuff, sometimes outside of Docker, Kubernetes, or anything similar.
by hadlock | 2025-09-26 17:21:57+00:00
It's been demonstrated that as ChatGPT usage goes up, traffic to sites dependent on SEO search ranking has gone down, roughly proportionally, every month over the last ~18 months. ChatGPT is free and fast and requires no technical know-how. Installing an ad blocker requires knowing what one is, and the time and energy to install a browser plugin. Pretty much everyone I know thinks free online ChatGPT type products is an absolute existential thread to Google's ad dominance. Even mediocre LLMs provide a vastly better experience than ad choked pages linking to ad choked SEO optimized websites serving (largely) google's own ads.
by serbuvlad | 2025-09-26 17:22:27+00:00
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

Unfortunately, my comment was simply not a defense of the company, since I know little about the situation, nor was it an attack on the city's actions. It was a reply to the comment I was responding too, which voiced a call to "lock 'em up" and punish them more, which I see all too often.

I certainly do not support government surveillance for any reason.

My comment was a defense of the legal proceedings as-we-have-them, in which the city issues a cease-and-desist, the company ignores it, the problem persists for a while, litigation start, the city demand a court order etc. And in the end the company is massively screwed, if they were wrong.

The alternative is simply that city decides, and the company is forced to follow.

The problem is procedural and structural, not consequentialist.
Show HN: FingerprinterJS – A tiny JavaScript library for browser fingerprints
by lococococo | 2025-09-26 17:22:39+00:00
I made FingerprinterJS, a small library with no dependencies that creates browser fingerprints from signals like canvas, WebGL, audio, fonts, userAgent, and screen info.

It’s written in TypeScript, lets you enable/disable collectors, add custom data, and includes a simple suspicious-activity score.

Would love feedback.
by philwelch | 2025-09-26 17:22:56+00:00
That's a provocative statement, especially taken out of context like that, but it doesn't necessarily imply the devaluation of anyone's life, and the broader context of everything Charlie Kirk said and the way he treated people, including people who identified themselves to him as transgendered, makes it obvious he didn't feel that way. But then again, that's exactly the reason you stripped that quote out of context and posted it to an online argument in which you are much more explicitly devaluing the lives of people you disagree with politically.
by spyder | 2025-09-26 17:23:01+00:00
This is false:

"that's because a next token predictor can't "forget" context. That's just not how it works."

An LSTM is also a next token predictor and literally have a forget gate, and there are many other context compressing models too which remember only the what it thinks is important and forgets the less important, like for example: state-space models or RWKV that work well as LLMs too. But even just a the basic GPT model forgets old context since it's gets truncated if it cannot fit, but that's not really the learned smart forgetting the other models do.
by zahlman | 2025-09-26 17:23:14+00:00
> Out of the box, script will pass bs= option to dd for it to be aware of how much to skip from the beginning of input data (and on later while loop iterations). This seem to have handled by dd either improperly or at least in a different way than it was in the past (with GNU core utils). However, once bs= is replaced with ibs=, all seems to go back to normal.

The bs/ibs/obs options don't "skip" anything, but determine how much data to buffer in memory at a time while transferring. Regardless, it's hard to fathom how something this simple got messed up, especially considering that the suite supposedly has good test coverage and has been getting close to a full green bar.
by borroka | 2025-09-26 17:23:14+00:00
However, it is also because, in matters of life or death, as a diagnosis from a radiologist can be, we often seek a second opinion, perhaps even a third.

But we don't ask a second opinion to an "algorithm", we want a person, in front of us, telling us what is going on.

AI is and will be used in the foreseeable future as a tool by radiologists, but radiologists, at least for some more years, will keep their jobs.
by schiffern | 2025-09-26 17:23:40+00:00
>as far as I can tell, this doesn't contain any real updates

I don't think that's true? Pretty rare to see incorrect info boosted so high without any factual challenge. Just lucky timing, I guess.

Can anyone point out where they previously read about these methane blast experiments and SpaceX sharing the raw data with regulators? This was news to me, and I follow SpaceX news pretty closely.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-26 17:24:27+00:00
If you are using Starship or New Glenn and comparing doing ambition things in LEO to going to the Moon or Mars you are looking at launching maybe 15 total Starships to put a 100 tons on another planetary body [1] or launching one Starship to put 100 tons in LEO, that is, 15x lower costs.

The showy space hotel might be impractical but it is more practical than a Mars or even Moon colony.

O'Neill was pessimistic about how much rotation people can take

https://nss.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Space-Settlement-...

his kind of colony could be scaled down to a much smaller structure than he thought, you could not get the nitrogen from the moon to fill a large airspace cylinder at L5 the way O'Neill thought but a baby Bernal sphere in LEO needs just 15 Starship loads for the atmosphere which is possible.

[1] perhaps you don't reuse the last Starship and instead use it on the site
by Tobs40 | 2025-09-26 17:24:36+00:00
Hi all,

a friend of mine pointed out that my article is being discussed in this forum. I am sorry for choosing a suboptimal title and I hope that it is unambiguous now. I am grateful for your feedback and kind words!

If you have any questions, also in regard to proving similar chess facts, I'd be happy to help ^^

Best regards, Tobi
by yde_java | 2025-09-26 17:24:37+00:00
Talking about coding websites: I'm a seasoned dev who loves to be in control of the website code, but hates debugging nitty gritty layouting issues, which steal tons of time and attention. I want to progress fast building great landing websites for my tech products, with the same speed that I code the products themselves. What stacks and LLM tools (if any) do you recommend that help writing great looking websites with great SEO support... fast?