MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-09-24 12:13:05+00:00
I am not a propnent of cencorship or loose labeling as nazi etc. too. Identity politics is unfortunately also part of the left, which allows right wing media to manipulate the gullible by mis-portraying the left with dislikeable stereotypes of LGBTQ/communism/violence etc.

> we have enough of this

So do i. But what to do about it?

Having a clear, open and hopefully constructive conversation about

> we need to reduce immigration

would take one of two pathes (once we have agreed on that migration is required). Either the problems with migrants are inherent to them or to the society they grew up in. Its the nature vs nurture debate.

Path 1 would be the dehumanising, simple-minded right wing "pill". Path 2 is the complex left stance about wealth distribution leading to better social mobility, more stable families, strengthening institutions, communities and democracies, blablabla.

Which path would you take?

Would it be too much, if id call trump a nazi or could you still politically align yourself with someone who does?

You didnt state "we need to reduce _criminal_ migration."

Trump campaigned against criminal mexicans and is now deporting any hard working migrant, even when they are welcome in the local community and valuable members of society. ... like a racist? Maybe even a nazi?

I am tired of not having clear, open and constructrive conversations about self-critizing topics with people. I think, my previous post described the the political conversation matter pretty good and suprisingly not that inflamatory and all you responded was basically "but look at what the left does!"

I think you cannot imagine how often i got such a reply from right wingers and how increasingly annoying it is.

How do we fix this?
by lxgr | 2025-09-24 12:13:19+00:00
> Given the resources of cell operators, the most charitable explanation for how something like this can exist for more than a brief interval is total indifference.

And why should they care?

A paying customer is a paying customer, never mind the health and integrity of the public phone network (which coincidentally also serves as the primary identification and authentication method for ~everybody in the US).
by mauvehaus | 2025-09-24 12:13:20+00:00
You don't hire someone to do the easy 95% of the job. You hire someone because when you find something crazy in the hard 5%, they have the experience and skill to pull it off while making it look easy.

I'm not downplaying how much someone of average competence can pull off, but when the chips are down experience counts for a lot.

I say this having replaced 140' of rotted logs in our log home this summer. Some full length. We got it done, but there was some sketchy use of car jacks, bottle jacks and a comealong to finish the job. I am 100% certain a pro would've gotten the job done with far less stress and far safer setups.
by pella | 2025-09-24 12:13:41+00:00
> In the case of GPT-Codex: it is on hold because the perceived relative impact for us is low

Interesting ... so for you "Hold" ~= "low impact / monitor ", while ThoughtWorks use "Hold" more like "don't start anything new" ( https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/insights/blog/technology-... ) [1]. Personally, I've started to read "Hold" in their sense - basically as "not recommended" for new work.

that’s why I first thought "GPT-Codex" (one of my favorite models) was already "not recommended." :-)

[1]

"" Hold: The original intent of the hold ring was "proceed with caution", to represent technologies that were too new to reasonably assess yet. But it has evolved into more of a "don't start anything new with this technology." You may be constrained to use it for existing projects because it is so deeply embedded into the tech portfolio, but you should think twice about using this technology for new development. """

Thanks for the links - makes much more sense now!

EDIT:

Zalando definition ( https://opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar/ )

"HOLD — Technologies not recommended to be used for new projects. Technologies that we think are not (yet) worth to (further) invest in. HOLD technologies should not be used for new projects, but usually can be continued for existing projects."
by blablablerg | 2025-09-24 12:14:57+00:00
I'll go against the grain here. If I invite someone a couple of times, and constantly get declined no way I'll invite that person anymore, because I make an effort to invite you. Declining (repeatedly) makes me feel like an ass for inviting you. And I want friends that respond, not friends that reject me. Wanting to be invited just to decline sounds.. egotistical to me. A relationship is a two way street, and being that shy is a you problem.

To even be more cynical, maybe Alexei wanted something more from Anna? Because I certainly haven't seen people invite someone to repeatedly get declined.
by alansammarone | 2025-09-24 12:15:23+00:00
While I think I agree with most of what you're saying, I think it can be misunderstood and it can be very damaging when taken to an extreme, so I'll just leave a quote from the absolutely fantastic 20 lessons from the 20th century by Timothy Snyder:

> Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
by xnickb | 2025-09-24 12:15:27+00:00
I do understand the core message but I don't get why the author seems upset about it. Sounds like people complaining that instagram models show fake "fake" life. LinkedIn is a social network. Professionals show off how successful and hirable they are, or companies show how nice it is to work there.

I personally can't take this self promotion that has become very necessary in many parts of our industry so I stay clear of places where it is exercised.
by Borealid | 2025-09-24 12:16:12+00:00
I don't know where you've got those numbers, but they're wrong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n79udw/inferen... seems comparable to the Framework Desktop and reputable - they didn't just quote a number, they showed benchmark output.

I get far more than 3 t/s for a 70B model on normal non-unified RAM, so that's completely unfeasible performance for a unified memory architecture like Halo.
by xinayder | 2025-09-24 12:18:40+00:00
I had a similar debate with a friend of mine over a age verification law recently passed in Brazil. It mandates age verification for social media in order to restrict teenagers and children access to adult content, for example, or any other content that violates teenagers rights.

The law in question (PL2628/2022) doesn't mention CSAM or sexualized/erotic content depicting children or teenager by name. It's broader than that, it mentions that any content deemed offensive to children/teenagers, or that violates their rights as defined in the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, should be removed by social media.

My friend supports the law because he thinks it will stop 99.9% of the bad guys looking for CSAM on the internet because he believes they get their content from Instagram. I tried to explain to him the law won't do shit to stop the bad guys but instead just add more surveillance to people who aren't doing anything wrong, but he doesn't want to accept it, and even called me out saying I look like a defender of the bad guys, simply for the fact that I don't think mass surveillance and age verification of people is enough to stop wrongdoers on the internet, or to protect children.
by alberth | 2025-09-24 12:19:09+00:00
You could also think about life as a "Factory" (instead of a computer) too:

HUMAN FACTORY COMPUTER ----- ------- -------- Cell Factory Computer Enzyme Worker Functions Ribosome Assembler Compiler Acids Blue Print Source Code

The difficulty with this type of analogy is so many things need these various capabilities that it's not unique to a computer, or a factory or even a human.
by leo_researchly | 2025-09-24 12:20:27+00:00
Hi ricardobeat, you just perfectly touched on our CTO's main concern. :) Although we are not a large organization (we are a 3 people team), we have a few technologies around.

Most of that was urged by me the CEO. Some, admittedly motivated by a "red shiny object" syndrome.

We use Coolify to accelerate deployment (atop of Azure), so it does not interfere with Bolt and Lovable.

Our backend developer used Bolt in that past to built frontends for his backends. I use Lovable primarily as an alternative to Figma, i. e. for communication new ideas. None of that ends up in the production product (here we use Cursor mainly).

v0 is in asses because we heard good things about their full-stack capabilities (something that Lovable/Bolt cannot really do).
by osigurdson | 2025-09-24 12:20:54+00:00
Yes, of course that works, but then you have to start up and shell into WSL. With podman, you can run all commands directly in Windows which is more seamless. Plus, getting it working is just a matter of running "winget install -e --id RedHat.Podman". This is particularly helpful when trying to roll things out for larger teams as they don't have to know anything about WSL and everything integrates in their environment seamlessly. Of course, just using Linux is preferable for development if you can get away with it.
by eschnou | 2025-09-24 12:20:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a simple tool to help software development teams benchmark their AI adoption (in a AI Native Dev spirit).

Every team says they’re “doing AI,” but maturity levels vary a lot. This tool asks 12 short questions across 6 dimensions (coding, process, governance, people, culture, value). It then gives a 1–5 maturity score, plus a radar chart showing strengths and gaps.

I originally built it for conversations with companies, VCs and dev teams I work with — but I thought it might be useful for others here as well.

I’d love feedback: - Do the questions feel relevant to real-world teams? - What dimensions do you think are missing?

Thanks for taking a look!

PS: Share your scores below and let's discuss how to improve :-)
by XCSme | 2025-09-24 12:21:29+00:00
That's a real good point!

Unfortuatenly, my CPU (5900x) doesn't have an iGPU.

The last 5 years iGPU got a bit out of trend. Now maybe they actually make a lot of sense, as there is a clear use-case which involves having dedicated GPU always in-use which is not gaming (and gaming is different, cause you don't often multi-task while gaming).

I do expect to see a surge in iGPU popularity, or maybe a software improvement to allow having a model always available without constantly hogging the VRAM.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-24 12:21:48+00:00
everything we know about the universe at the lowest scales/levels (sub-subatomic) is known to us as a computation. the universe is computation.

life is computation not because it's life, but because an inert rock in a very cold place is also computation, as is plasma within the sun.

you can model the universe as physical matter plus energy, with computations to describe what happens over time, or you could do away with the physical model and just assume it's all computation.

(as a side note, don't assume digital anywhere, and don't assume analog either, the math would take the form of what is)
by pookha | 2025-09-24 12:22:16+00:00
What your Chinese friend isn't saying is that all those Substack writers in the US would be disappeared into Chinese gulag's. The US has a strong freedom of speech clause baked into its core governance system...When I was fifteen I'd be subscribed to five different punk zines and would be creating mix-tapes from 10 different sources (and much of it wildly offensive and political).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-24 12:23:02+00:00
> You absolutely can run docker on the CLI in WSL2.

But again, they're talking about Windows, not Linux-in-Windows or virtualized Linux on Windows. Just because you can do something in WSL2 doesn't mean you "can do it on Windows", as much as you "can run systemd and Wayland on Windows" because you could run it inside a Linux VM...
by turtleyacht | 2025-09-24 12:23:46+00:00
Seems like governance is a corporate force that gives us meaning. Maybe we will find projects so large reflecting a hierarchy of accounts are themselves organisms that cannot but survive.

Distributed repositories enable any contributor to supply infra, although that comes with its own challenges. Huge time sink to maintain that, per person, constantly.

Losing access because of centralized management is not one of them, though.
by mrsmrtss | 2025-09-24 12:23:58+00:00
Generally .NET's "out-of-the-box" experience is comparable to using Java with a framework like Spring, as it includes a built-in DI container, a modern ORM (Entity Framework), a complete web stack (ASP.NET) with the high-performance web server (Kestrel) and so on. Because these first-party tools receive strong support from both Microsoft and the community and set a very high standard, which likely reduces the incentive for third-party alternatives to emerge. Of course, there are also many quality third-party solutions, but these mostly cover areas that are not covered well by .NET. You could happily build a lot of things using only .NET, without needing any third-party dependencies.
by etrautmann | 2025-09-24 12:24:30+00:00
Why does consciousness have to live somewhere? I currently prefer to think of it as an emergent phenomenon that arises (somehow, we have no clue) from the complex and distributed computations in the brain. Many different systems contribute, and saying that a single level of abstraction is where it lives seems meaningless. Kind of like saying that your video game “lives” in a transistor. It’s not wrong, but it’s not useful.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-24 12:24:33+00:00
Am I overlooking their mention of the hydrogen source? 'Cause to quote Wikipedia -

> Nearly all of the world's current supply of hydrogen is created from fossil fuels.

> As of 2023, less than 1% of dedicated hydrogen production is low-carbon, i.e. blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, and hydrogen produced from biomass.
by lylejantzi3rd | 2025-09-24 12:24:39+00:00
> And the answer is that different people prefer different things.

Exactly. There is no winning here.

When I was in college, I built a system for the college radio station that plays music while there are no DJs on the air. What I enjoyed most is keeping track of what songs played when (which we needed to do anyway for FCC compliance) so that we never play the same song twice until every song was played. This "felt" more random even though it wasn't.

Some people didn't like it. They wanted to hear a smaller subset of songs more often (the equivalent of putting a playlist on random). We solved that by letting users request songs through the website.

I wonder if there's a way to solve this by adding a setting called "repetitiveness". It's a value between 1 and 100. 1 is the least repetitive "play all songs once before repeating any" and 100 is "play the same sequence of songs every time."
by bitlax | 2025-09-24 12:25:03+00:00
Yes, you're cherry-picking, hand-waving, and a week behind in the publicly known evidence.

I'd entertain steelman arguments for these theories using all available evidence but I've yet to see anyone do it.

At any rate, were a long way from "full stop" and you seem to be lashing out in the dark so I'm content to leave it here.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-24 12:25:12+00:00
>And if you don't see that as a threat, imagine someone in the trump administration sent that, do you still think its not a threat?

We don't need to imagine anything. The chair of the FCC publicly threatened ABC over Kimmel. This morning Trump posted a direct threat of government reprisals if they didn't fire a comedian over a joke he doesnt like.

Nothing vague or implied about it. Just the government of the United States directly threatening free speech

I wont link to truth social. You can Google it.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-24 12:25:14+00:00
you caring a lot doesn't change reality in your favor. You get one vote that you can exercise once a year or so. Thats about all the agency you have on the wider world (and probably rightly so, if its to be proportional to the population)

Being informed just enough to choose the less horrible of the two clowns the systems presents you... takes very little effort. Everything past that is a waste of brain cycles. Spend your energy on things you can affect. If you care about your children then spend the emotional energy on your friends, family and community. It'll help them more
by hansvm | 2025-09-24 12:25:35+00:00
Relooper goes the other direction though. We don't need to produce high-level control flow. For a transpilation-to-Zig use case the algorithm can be extremely dumb. Naively translate every loop (or any other control flow containing nontrivial internal gotos) into a labeled switch, then partition the bodies at each goto statement, making a new label for each such location.

The only thing you're really losing is that the goto is bounded by an enclosing function, but that's also the case in C, C++ and other languages written by non-masochists. From a developer ergonomics perspective you _might_ want a proper goto instead of having to rely on a clunky general-purpose transformation as described above (though I've yet to see that use case), but from a transpilation perspective it's extremely easy to just treat labeled switch as a bunch of gotos, replace other control flow with gotos, and lower an entire function into something that compiles optimally.
by rock_artist | 2025-09-24 12:26:14+00:00
In the reddit there's a link to another article related and there's response from Laliga (If I got it right):

> Desde LaLiga también advierten que "aquellos clientes de Cloudflare que puedan sufrir bloqueos en sus webs, pueden dirigirse al email afectadoscloudflare@laliga.es con el fin de hacer llegar a Cloudflare que el contenido ilegal alojado en la IP de su misma web no tiene su autorización".

So they eventually made an email to report if you're being affected by their blocking.
Show HN: Verdent – AI coding agent that plans, tests, and ships
by ZJChen | 2025-09-24 12:26:37+00:00
Hi HN!

We just launched Verdent, an AI coding agent that actually plans before it codes, tests its own work, and delivers production-ready results without you having to clean up after it.

tl;dr Check out the website [1] and read the story [2]

- The problem: Current AI tools dump code and leave you to debug. You ask for "build a login endpoint" and get a passwordless JWT mess that doesn't fit your project. We've talked to hundreds of engineers who are frustrated with having to micromanage AI output.

- What we built: Verdent works more like a senior engineer. It asks clarifying questions first, breaks down complex tasks, writes the code, then runs its own tests and fixes bugs until everything works. We call it the Plan → Code → Verify loop.

Two ways to use it: VS Code extension for staying close to the code, or Verdent Deck desktop app for handling bigger multi-component tasks in parallel.

- Background: I was Head of Algorithms at TikTok and spent 9 years as Chief Technical Architect at Baidu before this. Building those massive recommendation systems taught us that you need hundreds of specialized models working together, not just wrapping an LLM. We applied the same system engineering approach to AI coding.

- Try it: Available now, paid plans start at $19/month. We're a small team so no free tier, but we'd rather you experience what autonomous coding can actually do than get frustrated with a limited version.

- The bigger picture: We see AI coding as just the start of a larger shift where AI becomes the orchestrator across the entire software lifecycle, not just a typing assistant.

What do you think?

What tasks would you actually trust an AI agent to handle end-to-end?

[1] https://www.verdent.ai/ [2] https://thenewstack.io/tiktoks-ex-algorithm-chief-launches-v...
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-24 12:26:48+00:00
> The problem is, actually skilled labor - think of translators, designers, copywriters - still is obviously needed, but at an intermediate/senior level. These people won't be replaced for a few years to come, and thus won't show up in labor board statistics.

This is even more true for construction workers and cooks. The actually, actually skilled, I suppose.

Also, an AI still can't come close to replacing either interns or juniors—but, I suppose we're just supposed to act like shouldering more work cleaning up after an AI that can't learn rather than hiring someone up to the task is progress.
by cube00 | 2025-09-24 12:27:04+00:00
I got lectured this week that I wasn't working fast enough because the client had already vibe coded (a broken, non-functional prototype) in under an hour.

They saw the the first screen assembled by Replit and figured everything they could see would work with some "small tweaks" which is where I was allegedly to come into the picture.

They continued to lecture me about how the app would need Web Workers for maximum client side performance (explanations full of em-dashes so I knew they were pasting in AI slop at me) and it must all be browser based with no servers because "my prototype doesn't need a server"

Meanwhile their "prototype" had a broken Node.js backend running alongside the frontend listening on a TCP port.

When I asked about this backend they knew nothing about it be assured me their prototype was all browser based with no "servers".

Needless to say I'm never taking on any work from that client again, one of the small joys of being a contractor.
by lstodd | 2025-09-24 12:27:31+00:00
It is quite hard to lock the front going straight. A [edit] stoppie while spectacular is a quite simple trick. I basically did a couple the second time I rode a bike. Unintentional at that.

One can do a lowside, that is losing traction (not even locking, but just overspeeding and then braking, even engine-braking) in a turn. But this point is basically the first that must be taught: how to enter and exit turns properly.

I think ADAC is just being lazy / or too much ass-covering. But I don't know. I'm self-taught and not in Germany.
by np- | 2025-09-24 12:27:38+00:00
Isn’t it a feature that people are vocally dissatisfied with what the media reports? To just accept it quietly in silence seems in fact the worse outcome. Even if everyone knows the media reporting is wrong, keeping quiet about it creates a strange meta state where the reporting is true enough that no one wants to publicly question it, because nobody else is questioning it, so it’s unclear whether your fellow citizens accept it as true or not, so you need to assume they believe it’s true.
by christophilus | 2025-09-24 12:28:28+00:00
Man. Drew DeVault has made some cool projects-- I'm particularly interested in Hare. But he's like the inverse DHH. I don't boycott projects based on their leader's political rants, but it does dampen my enthusiasm.

> Omarchy and Ladybird are both run by fascists

No. They are not. I've met actual, real-life fascists and white supremacists. They exist, and they are a nasty breed. Omarchy and Ladybird are absolutely not run by fascists. By people who lean right of center? Maybe. But, that's not fascism.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-24 12:29:29+00:00
Maybe I'm cheating by using a 1080P monitor, but I have only ever installed Windows once and that was for Starfield since it didnt work with Proton OOTB, once they fixed it, I purged and havent gone back. In the future I wont be doing that. I love Bethesda games, so in the future I'll just wait it out. I did make sure to play the heck out of it while I was on Windows though.

In hindsight, I really didn't need Windows, but I was impatient.
by crabique | 2025-09-24 12:29:57+00:00
Is there an open source service designed with HDDs in mind that achieves similar performance? I know none of the big ones work that well with HDDs: MinIO, Swift, Ceph+RadosGW, SeaweedFS; they all suggest flash-only deployments.

Recently I've been looking into Garage and liking the idea of it, but it seems to have a very different design (no EC).