MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elzbardico | 2025-09-12 18:00:00+00:00
He was making a pun on the common practice during COVID of attributing death in death to certificates to COVID whenever the patient presented a positive PCR test, no matter the real cause of death, the actual existence of COVID disease in clinical terms or the existence of more preeminent factors in the death.

This usually happened due mostly as a result of federal policy of paying out extra money for hospitals based on the number of covid patients, thus creating an incentive of diagnosing anyone with a positive PCR test as sick from covid, whether they presented actual clinical symptoms of the disease or not.
by NobodyNada | 2025-09-12 18:00:50+00:00
> it's banned some places

"Engine braking" bans usually target jake braking [0] (opening the exhaust valve at the end of the compression stroke), which greatly increases the effect of engine braking at the cost of producing a very loud noise [1] (which is why it's often banned in residential areas). As far as I'm aware, such bans do not limit the use of "normal" downshifting to decelerate.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...

[1]: https://youtu.be/z3bLqjPBlx8
by chaboud | 2025-09-12 18:01:40+00:00
Id probably stop the candidate, dig into how they’d using constraint based solvers, and how they might expect that to fall apart. Applicability and judgment is worth way more than raw algorithmic questions.

One way to think about this is:

Is a fresh graduate more likely to provide a solid answer to this than a strategic-thinking seasoned engineer? If so, just be conscious of what your question is actually probing.

And, yes, interview candidates are often shocked when I tell them that I’m fine with them using standard libraries or tools that fit the problem. It’s clear that the valley has turned interviewing into a dominance/superiority model, when it really should be a two-way street.

We have to remember that the candidate is interviewing us, too. I’ve had a couple of interviews as the interviewee where the way the interview was conducted was why I said “no” to an offer (no interest in a counter, just a flat “no longer interested” to the recruiter, and, yes, that surprises recruiters, too).
by RagingSpaceMonk | 2025-09-12 18:01:52+00:00
Created this PWA App Store for Android. Based on F-Droid database. Written in TypeScript using Angular. Also created an assistant android app that, when paired with PWA, allows apps to be installed directly to your phones. Doesn’t require accounts, uses random sha256 hashes as a pairing code (still working this out properly).

Any TypeScript capable devs looking to help out feel free. Code is a bit on the messy side!
by xienze | 2025-09-12 18:01:57+00:00
> The right loves to say that violent rhetoric is the left's fault

Well you know, they are the ones constantly comparing Republicans to Hitler, the Nazis, calling them fascists, making direct claims that electing Trump would lead to the end of democracy, having "punch Nazis" be a rallying cry, and so on. Not really crazy to see how that might influence people to think that killing Trump or even a conservative podcaster is necessary to save the world.
by fedepochat | 2025-09-12 18:02:41+00:00
Groq API call failed: Rate limit reached for model `llama-3.3-70b-versatile` in organization `org_01k4w9mm39edsbap27na8w34pp` service tier `on_demand` on tokens per day (TPD): Limit 100000, Used 99816, Requested 951. Please try again in 11m2.343s. Need more tokens? Upgrade to Dev Tier today at https://console.groq.com/settings/billing

I believe you've reached your rate limit
by bobbiechen | 2025-09-12 18:02:59+00:00
>We’ve already done the work to render the page, and we’re trying to shed load, so why would I want to increase load by generating challenges and verifying responses? It annoys me when I click a seemingly popular blog post and immediately get challenged, when I’m 99.9% certain that somebody else clicked it two seconds before me. Why isn’t it in cache? We must have different objectives in what we’re trying to accomplish. Or who we’re trying to irritate.

+1000 I feel like so much bot detection (and fraud prevention against human actors, too) is so emotionally-driven. Some people hate these things so much, they're willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-12 18:03:33+00:00
I was starting to think this was impressive, if not impossible. 1B vectors in 48 MB of storage => < 1 bit per vector.

Maybe not impossible using shared/lossy storage if they were sparsely scattered over a large space ?

But anyways - minutes. Thanks.

Edit: Gemini suggested that this sort of (lossy) storage size could be achieved using "Product Quantization" (sub vectors, clustering, cluster indices), giving an example of 256 dimensional vectors being stored at an average of 6 bits per vector, with ANN being one application that might use this.
by renmillar | 2025-09-12 18:03:48+00:00
If someone competent wanted to take over my important work projects (deployment systems, core code maintenance, etc.), I'd gladly hand them over. I could orphan them right now claiming I need time for immediate tasks, but I don't want to dump unmaintained code on my team. I'd guess open source maintainers feel even more responsible since they see their work as community service. Maybe dropping the project is what's needed to trigger a well-funded fork or get corporate attention, similar to how Heartbleed affected OpenSSL.
by stefanha | 2025-09-12 18:04:09+00:00
I'm the presenter of the talk, but not an io_uring kernel developer or security expert.

The io_uring implementation is complex and the number of lines of code is non-trivial. On the other hand, as code matures and the number of bugs being reported falls, the trade-off between functionality gained and risk of security issues changes. More people will decide to use io_uring as time passes. People already rely on much larger and more complex subsystems like the network stack or file systems.
by drob518 | 2025-09-12 18:04:14+00:00
Hence my statement about education. All tools must be used correctly in their proper domain, that is true. Don’t try to drive screws with a hammer. But I'm curious what problems you tried them on and found them wanting and what your alternative was? I actually find that custom solutions work better for simple problems and that solvers do a lot better when the problem complexity grows. You’re better off solving the Zebra puzzle and its ilk with brute force code, not a solver, for instance.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-12 18:04:46+00:00
The linked WSJ article has an interview-quote from Scott Aaronson:

> Anyone perceived as the ‘mainstream establishment’ faces a near-insurmountable burden of proof, while anyone perceived as ‘renegade’ wins by default if they identify any hole whatsoever in mainstream understanding.

I feel this Futurama clip about evolutionary "missing link" fossils [0] captures a little bit of that frustration. Building any cohesive framework for understanding a big problem is always harder than finding and attacking a weak spot and declaring the entire thing flawed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICv6GLwt1gM
by diggan | 2025-09-12 18:05:11+00:00
I gotta say, having white blurry blobs of something in the background floating behind white/grey text maybe wasn't the best design-choice out there.

None the less, I tried to find the actual APIs/service/software used for the "search" part, as I've found that to be the hardest to actually get right (at least for as-local-as-possible usage) for my own "Deep Research Agent".

I've experimented with Brave's search API which worked OK, but seems pricey for agent usage. Currently experimenting with using my own (local) YaCy instance right now, which actually gives me higher quality artifacts at the end, as there are no rate-limits and the model can do hundreds of search calls without me worrying about the cost. But it isn't very quick at picking up some stuff like news and more, otherwise works OK too.

What is the author doing here for the actual searching? Anyone else have any other ideas/approaches to this?
by skhameneh | 2025-09-12 18:05:15+00:00
True, that is an option I forgot about. I generally don't see it any better than a standard 16:9 OLED given the price and limited (in comparison to 32:9) width though.

> the pixel density isn't great.

I got one of the 49" 32:9 OLED and it has 1140 vertical. I'm making due with it and had to tweak settings like crazy to make it tolerable... I'd love a proper 2160 option for the ratio. I came from a 28" 4K TN panel, so it's been a major change of tradeoffs.

It's hard to justify the higher price on the smaller 45", it makes it a hard sell over a standard 16:9 ratio 4K OLED (although I wonder if that would have been the better choice over what I got).
by amluto | 2025-09-12 18:05:18+00:00
I’ve contemplated a modified one-pedal scheme. The accelerator pedal could a haptic mechanism such that a smallish force could hold it at the neutral point and a significantly larger force would be needed to depress it into acceleration territory. This would allow light foot pressure to maintain speed without constantly oscillating a bit.

“Neutral” could be defined as zero motor power, constant speed, or something else — there’s plenty of room for experimentation.
by krapp | 2025-09-12 18:06:08+00:00
> I wouldn't be surprised if the "AI Slop" art style wasn't already inspiring human artists. Maybe there are already painters out there doing portraits of people with the wrong number of fingers.

People adopt art styles because they like something about them, the aesthetic or what they represent. I don't think there are enough human artists who like AI slop (they tend to despise it categorically) enough to want to imitate it, unless it's as some form of satire. They aren't going to do so simply because it exists.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-12 18:06:13+00:00
> Ambiguity: [...] Different or non-deterministic models will return highly variance results.

Yes, and thanks. That was my intended point - but you point out a better example. Slightly different prompts may also produce highly varied responses.

(My subsequent comments on ambiguous models was in case I was misinterpreting the comment I was replying to. I also generally think of ambiguity as a property of input. Either way, ambiguity is not the same as non-deterministic.)
Show HN: Open-Source to Containerize Dev Environments
by fedepochat | 2025-09-12 18:06:22+00:00
Hello,

I have been working on an open-source project to containerize dev environments.

We want to fix the common: "it worked on my machine issue". Also, it's really useful for python since you don't need any venv management.

Any feedback on the project or doc is really appreciated!
by hbn | 2025-09-12 18:06:25+00:00
Base iPhone 17 is the first year since the Pros existed where I think most people are not missing out by getting the non-pro.

I'm certainly not a photographer but I got the 16 Pro because of ProMotion. If I were upgrading this year, I'd probably go for the standard 17 because it finally has practically everything a standard user could expect.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-12 18:06:28+00:00
I've seen a case of both providers of ACA "marketplace" plans in a state each including only one of the four closest hospitals to me as "in network", with similar extremely-spotty coverage for everything else. And one excluded the massive children's hospital in the city that'd also gobbled up every pediatric care office in 50 miles, so there was, practically, only one insurer you could pick if you had kids (those two providers were the only ones offering individual insurance in that state at all, everyone else had pulled back to only doing group plans in that state; both were also companies I'd never heard of before).

This was in an actual city. Things can be even worse out in the sticks, where hospitals are much farther apart and often offer only some of the services you expect from a big-city hospital.

Lots of these plans also only cover a small geographical area, except for ER visits (which I think they have to cover). So don't get sick in a way that gets you discharged from the ER into a regular hospital bed, but still unable to get home, while traveling within your own country, if you don't want to go bankrupt.

Like it truly wouldn't have been crazy for someone on one of those plans to get some kind of travel insurance while traveling in the US. That's how fucked up our healthcare system is.
by diggan | 2025-09-12 18:06:46+00:00
Personally been using GPT-OSS-120b locally with reasoning_effort set to `high` and it blows pretty much every other local model out of the water, but takes a lot of time for it to eventually do a proper content reply. But for fire-and-forget jobs like "Create a well-researched report on X from perspective Y" it works really well.
by labcomputer | 2025-09-12 18:07:05+00:00
1. In the United States, insurance companies are legally mandated to pay out at least 85% of premiums as medical expenses. It's called the Medical Loss Ratio if you care to Google it. That stipulation is part of the ACA / "Obamacare". If they spend less than 85%, they are legally required to issue refunds. The 15% that insurance companies get to keep has to cover both administrative costs and their profit.

2. Single-payer systems still have administrative costs. The administrative cost of running England's NHS is not zero. But, even if you created a perfect AI robot that had zero cost to operate (in magic fairytale land) to run your single-payer system, you still couldn't reduce premiums by more than 15%.

3. Realistically, switching to single-payer and doing nothing else would reduce costs by a single-digit percent.
by seydor | 2025-09-12 18:07:07+00:00
In the past it was the postmodernists attacking physics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

It's funny how this new generation of professional antiestablishers are using the same tactics (even though they would vehemently attach postmodernism)

It's all a power play really, when politics is involved. That's not science
by 76SlashDolphin | 2025-09-12 18:07:23+00:00
That's a good question! We do use an LLM to categorise the MCP tools but that is at "add" or "configure" time, not at the time they are called. As such we don't actively run an LLM while the gateway is up, all the rules are already set and requests are blocked based on the hard-set rules. Plus, at this point we don't actually look at the data that is passed around, so even if we change the rules for the trifecta, there's no way for any LLM to be poisoned by a malicious actor feeding bad data.
by username332211 | 2025-09-12 18:08:03+00:00
The thing is, sanctions damage both the sanctioned nation and the sanctioner.

I'm not really optimistic about western Europe's willingness to absorb damage in it economy in order to damage Russia. France's government expenditures are 55% of GDP, much of it financed by borrowing. That's the level maintained by major powers in the world wars. Can the French state demand more from a private sector that's funding the equivalent of a total war?

Worse yet, western European politics gives you the strong impression all these expenditures are necessary to prevent the election of a pro-Russian government or a bloody revolution.

Hence why sanctions seem to be something of a joke.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-12 18:08:33+00:00
You generate blocks of 2 at a time yes. In general, k. As you can imagine, larger k performs worse. LLM(I like cats) is very likely to continue with "because they", but beyond that, there's too many possibilities. LLM(I like cats because they are) = small and cute and they meow, while LLM(I like cats because they eat) = all the rats in my garden.

If you try to predict the whole thing at once you might end up with

I like cats because they are all the rats and they garden

> Overlap

Check out an inference method called self-speculative decoding which solves(somewhat) the above problem of k-token prediction, which does overlap the same ___ across multiple computations.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-12 18:08:38+00:00
Of course they are the point of LLMs:

The point of high dimensional space is to generate the illusion of specifics from arbitrary intermediaries, from what is thought is specific.

(Vectors and high-dimensional spaces Vocab space Embeddings)

That it is conceptually distinct from language does not erase the inherent arbitrariness that links both fatally.

Yes, words are nothing: the only reputable operation of language is to refute itself on the path to next-gen specifics (action-syntax or otherwise). Make sense? All these words are not for naught, but they only have one purpose.

You need context or citation to the notion language is irrelevant: Aristotle, there are no contradictions, and if you need this expanded into a clear argument, Cassirer Language and Myth, which eviscerates language in 1946.

That we remained blind to these disproofs is hair-raising.
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-09-12 18:08:48+00:00
Nice, I'll find this useful. I reference OpenAPI specs frequently as I practice spec-driven development. The spec is my source of truth for the interface, and I use it to generate both my client and server code. It automates all the request handling boilerplate on both sides, including validation, and provides me a typed interface regardless of which language I'm using. OpenAPI of course limits the types of endpoints you can create, but I find those limits stop you doing things that are strange/surprising. I find that creating APIs that can be expressed nicely in OpenAPI leads to APIs that have a consistent feel with few gotchas and a satisfyingly predictable developer experience.
by mnahkies | 2025-09-12 18:09:11+00:00
> Really wish the norm was that companies hosted their own registries for their own usage

Is this not the norm? I've never worked anywhere that didn't use/host their own registry - both for hosting private packages, but also as a caching proxy to the public registry (and therefore more control over availability, security policy)

https://verdaccio.org/ is my go to self hosted solution, but the cloud providers have managed solutions and there's also jFrog Artifactory.

One corollary of this is that many commercial usages of packages don't contribute much to download stats, as often they download each version at most once.
by mandevil | 2025-09-12 18:09:18+00:00
Which Ro Marine didn't have- but they submitted forged documents to Panama and other countries claiming they did. When you have the resources of a nation-state, forging documents from other countries is straight-forward: you can all buy roughly the same stamps, etc. from the same sources, for your own documents. So changing a stamp or two to look like Norway's stamps isn't too difficult.

Getting ports around the world to check back with the originating agency on every document they look at... would be a lot of extra work.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-12 18:09:43+00:00
The link doesn’t work for me, but based off your comment: I can accept that mainstream journalism is generally in decline in various ways. But it is curious they chose to single out WSJ, which is considered more balanced and less biased than NYT or whoever else (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart). Or is it just to point out that even WSJ is subject to this issue?
by troupo | 2025-09-12 18:09:46+00:00
> Cookies don't matter. There are many different ways to track users without using cookies

Oh look. Here's what I wrote:

--- start quote ---

The law isn't about browsers or websites. It equally applies to all tracking. E.g. in apps. Or in physical stores.

--- end quote ---

> But what does matter was already discussed. Are you reading comments in complete isolation again or what? There is a context that has been built up.

This is literally the only thread around your comment. There are dozens of other discussions, yes. I was specifically replying to your comment, and expecting replies within the context of your comment.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-12 18:09:56+00:00
This does not present a good understanding of how to test machine learning models. If you let the "labels" be visible at test time, your test is worthless. Your analogy of "real world software development" doesn't hold up. In real world software development, I don't have magical commits from the future, that I merely need to check out and look at to see the solution.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-12 18:10:35+00:00
They want the data centers without having to build renewables. Renewables are the cheapest form of energy, but constrained by ideology. Electric rates and availability are a function of these factors.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/08/the-war-on-sunshine-h...

https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-s...

https://www.ehn.org/renewable-energy-faces-significant-hurdl...
by Terr_ | 2025-09-12 18:10:45+00:00
> this new generation of professional antiestablishers [...] would vehemently [attack] postmodernism

I can think of two ways to interpret this, and I'm not sure which one you intend:

1. They hold modernist views, that there is a distinct and meaningful direction/progression for how societies must change over time.

2. They don't know what postmodernism means, and consider it a generic bad-word to attach to things they don't like. (Comic example: [0])

[0] https://existentialcomics.com/comic/289
by ath3nd | 2025-09-12 18:11:31+00:00
> Laughable role, given no access to the place you claim is a genocide, and that's an active war zone with terrorists running around delaying the inevitable and prolonging the suffering.

It's useless to debate genocide apologists as facts mean nothing to them, so I am not gonna try to debate your obvious lies and twisting of the truth.

Netanyahu will be tried for his war crimes and genocide in the Hague and will rot in prison or will die of old age. History will paint Israel's genocide of Palestinian people the same way the Nazis went down in history for doing the Holocaust.

Here is a video of Israel bombing a hospital and bombing it again when crews and journalists went to help. Nothing more is needed to be said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cWLFvMcys0

Stop the genocide. Stop genocide apologizing.
by Apocryphon | 2025-09-12 18:12:01+00:00
> the point is to understand how the candidate thinks, communicates, and decomposes problems

Interviewers always say this, but consider: would you endorse a candidate who ultimately is unable to solve the problem you've presented them, even if they think, communicate, and decompose problems well? No interview in this industry prizes those things over getting the answer right.
by AnEro | 2025-09-12 18:12:15+00:00
Yea from what I understand 'Chats' and AI coding are something they already have market domination/are a leader on and are a good/okay product. It's the other use cases they haven't delievered on in terms of other companies using them as a platform to deliver AI apps, which I would imagine would have been a huge vertical in their pitches to investors and internal plans.

These third-party apps get huge token usage with agenentic patterns. So losing out on them and being forced to make more internal products to tune to specific use cases is not something they want to biuld out or explore
by ks2048 | 2025-09-12 18:13:09+00:00
> The WSJ piece is a perfect case study in how everything gets flattened into culture war narratives and influencer drama instead of actual substance.

But the article is literally about the culture war, so of course it is framed in a culture war narrative.

I guess you can claim the WSJ shouldn't have written this piece at all, but I didn't see anything glaringly wrong about it.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-09-12 18:13:36+00:00
> the folks on HackerNews and related sites mostly have a privacy-first worldview

It's more that the privacy-first folk are the ones that bother expressing opinions in threads like this. I think these days, a large part of HN audience doesn't especially care about privacy, and a good chunk of us are the ones that created the current privacy hellscape we have.