MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shreyans | 2025-09-26 14:12:23+00:00
Love opening with LeWitt and Eno.

I really like this para: > Another significant change is that workflows can be long‑lived and self‑healing: if run on always-on compute like servers, agents can schedule and repair persistent or recurring work like report generation, data pipelines, or crawl-and-summarize tasks, always resuming from state,with a general purpose recovery mechanism. The significance of generality is worth calling out, because in some sense it is the crux of what is new. These systems are inherently more robust than traditional symbolic programs because they have a modality that is complete at the expense of consistency: all inputs will produce some response from an LLM, whereas most possible inputs will crash most classical functions. Whether or not the general handler will “do the right thing” comes down to the quality of the specification.

And this one: > When the shape of programming changes to encapsulate multiple levels of abstraction, the basic unit of work changes from specifying lines of code to specifying any of: line of code, logic, function, capability, behavior, application. Our new programs will buy determinism with checks. Type systems, property‑based tests, schema checks, idempotent operations (declarative codegen), and permission policies make runs repeatable and failures bounded; agents work is graded by those deterministic gates.
by plasma | 2025-09-26 14:12:32+00:00
I gave the demo a try and was able to run a search that showed "51 results" - great start! A few things I noticed though:

On the Data tab it says "no schema defined yet."

The Schema tab doesn’t seem to have a way to create a schema.

Most of the other tabs (except for Sources) looked blank.

I did see the chat on the right and the "51 items" counter at the top, but I couldn’t find any obvious way to view the results in a grid or table.
by nadis | 2025-09-26 14:12:34+00:00
OP here, this is great advice. Thanks for sharing. Clearing context more often between tasks is something I've started to do more recently, although definitely still a WIP to remember to do so. I haven't had a lot of success with the .md files leading to better results yet, but have only experimented with them occasionally. Could be a prompting issue though, and I like the structure you suggested. Looking forward to trying!

I didn't mention it in the blog post but actually experimented a bit with using Claude Code to create specialized agents such as an expert-in-Figma-and-frontend "Design Engineer", but in general found the results worse than just using Claude Code as-is. This also could be a prompting issue though and it was my first attempt at creating my own agents, so likely a lot of room to learn and improve.
by trundle-drit | 2025-09-26 14:12:45+00:00
I really wish Raspberry Pi (or someone) would make something like this but with a decently sized portable display. $100-$200 machine with a 10-14 inch 720p or 1080p screen would be really beneficial for access to computer education. Closest thing I've seen is the now-discontinued "PiTop", but even that was too expensive for the performance level.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-26 14:13:03+00:00
Sure, but you could also have a more useful visual design while maintaining that. The problem with the site, on mobile at least, is the lack of visual hierarchy through spacing, text weight, and implied lines because you might only see one or two red chapter titles on screen at any given time. I get that they were trying to stick with a visual motif and the red text does make the chapter titles stick out— it would work great in print or maybe on a big monitor when you could see it all at once. But if you have to scroll through it, I found it pretty irritating to have no way to visually orient yourself.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-26 14:13:33+00:00
I mean experiencing LLM "intimacy" of any sort is just getting to roleplay as a billionare tech CEO isn't it? It's why they're so proud of it, as far as they're concerned, they've perfectly reproduced the real people they encounter: breathless sycophants utterly tripping over themselves to tell them how fucking smart they are for whatever banal shit they've farted out most recently and tell them every idea they have is god working through them to bestow his gifts to mankind.

And for the same reason: they want their fucking money.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-26 14:14:11+00:00
I don't know about that - quite a few of us developers value stability over all else.

I can build newer tools/libraries from source if needed, but upgrading and discovering half my workflow is broken on a newer OS is an absolute dealbreaker. I'll wait to adopt new OS for some time after they are released, let the early adopters flush out all the bugs.
by whinvik | 2025-09-26 14:14:20+00:00
Having done some tests, its clearly better at instruction following and JSON output now.

However its hampered by max output tokens. Gemini is at 65 K while GPT 5 mini is at 128K. Both of them have similar costs as well so as such apart from the 1M context limit GPT 5 mini is better in every way.
by jiveturkey | 2025-09-26 14:14:49+00:00
HN headline is wrong. AMZN not fined 2.5B, they were fined 1B and have to refund 1.5B to consumers. The original article (at this time anyway) has an accurate headline.

It's really too bad the FTC settled and AMZN gets to admit no fault. What is the incentive for FTC to simply not pursue this to the bitter end? 1B is literally pocket change to the fed government, and is laugh-meme moment for Amazon. $50 back to each user is also not even worth claiming. So the settlement is just FTC not doing their job.

Disclaimer: I willingly use Prime and doubt I'd ever leave.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-26 14:14:52+00:00
If no one is entitled to the labor of others, why would we engage in charity?

Work-trade when it's someone's health is slavery, so we're going to go ahead and pull that off the table.

Loans are, more or less, how we've gotten into the awful state we are currently in in the US with unpayable medical debt.

I propose an alternate approach: medical care is a civil service that you can voluntarily provide, like fire prevention or undrafted military service. If you do, you are paid the rate the society agrees to for the work. We all pay for it with taxes. If we want more of it, we raise taxes and incentives. This removes several perverse market effects and sets up a minimum standard of care divorced from individual circumstance to level out the effect of bad luck a bit.

This is, more or less, a model that many countries are currently enjoying.
by gunalx | 2025-09-26 14:14:55+00:00
Depends. API pricing from oss model inference providers basically has to be sustainable, because of competition in the space.

And with that in mind, i definetly dont use more than a couple of bucks a month in API refils. (not that i really am a power user or anything)

So if you consider the 20 bucks to be balanced between poer and non power users, and with the existing rate limits, its probably not that far off being profitable, at least on the pure inference side.
by jasonlotito | 2025-09-26 14:15:18+00:00
> You seem...

No. You are 100% wrong.

The context of this discussion is PE. So comments discussing this involve PE. So while you are correct in general, you are wrong specifically.

In light of that, I stand by what I said: you have to explain how removing CON solves the PE issue mentioned when states without CON had the same issues.

Maybe this isn't possible, but then we accept that this is not an answer to PE, which again, topic of conversation.
by a-dub | 2025-09-26 14:15:20+00:00
sure, i believe it. the question i have is: if one were to try to match the resilience, storage, memory and time efficiency of the well optimized linux c implementations of mature filesystems, and one were to use rust, would they be using all these high level language features and libraries out of the box or would non-canonical use of the language be necessary? (and if so, (or not) how would the resulting implementation compare from a readability perspective?)
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-26 14:15:38+00:00
Pop was my last Distro before I went to Endeavour (Arch), it wasn't anything against Pop, I just ran into a weird issue where I needed a more up to date GBLIC for some software I was trying to run (to add insult to injury, it was a Ubuntu package too). I am really excited by the work they do, if I'm ever shopping for a Non-Mac Laptop in the near future I'm strongly leaning towards buying a System76 laptop since I love what they do.

Their desktop environment was nice, though I always run back to KDE, even now I'm on KDE on Endeavour, I gave Budgie a try again which is another one I really enjoyed for Ubuntu but KDE has enough bells and whistles that I always miss, especially its window management stuff. I did try OpenBox and company but too much manual setup required. I want OOTB experiences that just work without hassle.

I am interested that they've been working on a Text Editor, I saw it on their GitHub, and hopefully it will be nicely polished.

One thing I loved about ElementaryOS (Ubuntu based as well) was the built-in custom Text Editor they made, it was nice and fast, and did everything I wanted, and looked gorgeous. I'm hoping they do similar with their Text Editor.
by alicepfulton | 2025-09-26 14:16:19+00:00
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by Scarblac | 2025-09-26 14:16:27+00:00
It's white to move. If black is in check with white to move, that makes the position illegal, and unreachable -- there's no possible legal move by black that led to this position where he is in check.

Replacing one of the black pawns by a white knight would add some moves, but there is no budget for that -- both knights are already on the board, and all pawns were promoted to queens. (And replacing both pawns would again make it impossible for black to have made the previous move)
by jiveturkey | 2025-09-26 14:16:44+00:00
I write intermediate commit messages as notes to self. You don't always work continuously on the same PR. The commit messages are a useful context refresher.

Why advocate against this anyway? If no one reads them, it harms no one. Just like personal blogs. However, the writing of the blog is the useful act, not the reading.

Ironic that you are accusing TFA article of being an expert novice. I don't disagree your take on him / the article, but you are committing the same sin.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-26 14:17:19+00:00
Doing something isn't as important as doing it well in a situation that wasn't an emergency.

Not trusting the government but happy they are performing some action at all seems reckless.

> only ones with the cajones to do the job.

Trump doesn't have the balls to cut defense spending or to stop government subsidizes to farmers. Firing people and cutting aid to poor people isn't brave.
by nadis | 2025-09-26 14:17:45+00:00
> My experience has been similar, and it's why I prefer to keep LLMs separate from my code base.

I'm curious how you're managing this - is it primarily by inputting code snippets or abstract context into something like a Claude or ChatGPT?

I found for myself that I usually was bad at providing sufficient context when trying to work with the LLM separately from the codebase, but also might lack the technical background or appropriate workflow.
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 14:17:54+00:00
Most of congresses appropriations can't be faithfully executed because they largely violate the tenth amendment, appropriating functions of the federal government outside the scope authorized by the constitution and reserved to the people and states. This is exactly what DOGE was helping to keep in check.

At the times when the federal government was mostly within the constraints of the 10th amendment, federal spending was under 5% of GDP in non war-time.
by saberience | 2025-09-26 14:18:51+00:00
Note to anyone reading this blog in the future, this is both very very basic, and also highly misleading. The author makes it seem as though PostGres and Redis are interchangeable and that there's not much difference between them.

This is totally misguided and incorrect.

Redis can be easily deployed such that any request returns in less than a millisecond, and this is where it's most useful. It's also consistent and stable as hell. There are many use-cases for Redis where Postgres is totally unsuitable and doesn't make sense, and vice versa.

Do yourself a favour and ignore this blog (again: inaccurate, poorly benchmarked, misleading) and do your own research and use better sources of information.
by not--felix | 2025-09-26 14:18:53+00:00
The "old web" never really went a way. The "new web" just got better and more engaging. I still use my rss reader as my primary way to connect to the internet, but rss has problems and the readers did not evolve to solve them. The main problems are it is easy to drown in articles and hard to discover new feeds. Social media sites solve booth of these problems with their algorithms, but rss never found a solution for that. Thats why I started my own reader https://ivyreader.com to reduce the issues rss has, because I really hope it stays.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-26 14:19:06+00:00
>But you just said it's a ridiculous trope that people would want to charitably donate to the healthcare of others. How would you get the majority to support a single payer system when electing to help others is such a ridiculous trope that you flippantly dismiss it?

Are you really that ignorant of the issue, or are you just being deliberately obtuse?

We as a society already pay way more than we would with a rational single-payer system. That's not hyperbole either.

What's more, not having employers and employees pay insurance premiums would more than offset any additional taxes.

But you knew that already, because we've known this to be the case for most, if not all, of your life.

I'm done explaining the facts of life to you. Perhaps you should ask your dad.
Show HN: NovelADV – AI-assisted visual novel writing on iOS
by orenodinner | 2025-09-26 14:19:07+00:00
I enjoy writing visual novels, but keeping track of branching plots, characters and clues on a phone was messy. To make the process smoother, I built NovelADV, an iOS workspace for AI‑assisted fiction.

NovelADV works like a chat‑based visual novel engine. You advance your story by talking to your characters; the app keeps a ledger of world details, characters and unresolved “clues” beside the chat so you don’t lose track of them. It also saves “checkpoints” so you can safely roll back to any decision point and explore alternate paths. To help with longer arcs, there’s a summary‑based long‑term memory that compresses earlier scenes into a short narrative so the AI doesn’t forget context.

The initial motivation was to combine the fun of playing a visual novel with the flexibility of writing one, all on a phone. I’d love feedback from writers and developers experimenting with AI‑assisted storytelling – is this approach useful, or does it introduce new pitfalls?

There’s a free tier on the App Store (link below). a pre‑built sample project are available . Feel free to try it and tell me what works, what doesn’t, or what you’d like to see improved.

App Store:https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/noveladv-ai-visual-novel/id675...
by nathan_douglas | 2025-09-26 14:19:11+00:00
One of the pages mentioned a 'cello da spalla, which I hadn't heard of before, so I found this YouTube video introducing it and playing part of a prelude on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD4kNY34AoE

I enjoy instruments that, for whatever reason, seem to have been discarded by progress - viola da gamba, mandolincello, etc. It's amazing how rich all of our musical traditions are, that we have so many delightful variations on so many lovely ideas.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-26 14:19:12+00:00
> corporate jets and huge pay packages for the C-Suite and large dividends for the shareholders of insurance companies

And armies and armies of middle-folk who are adjudicating from afar whether a given medical procedure is justified or not.

The way the US practices paying for medicine is, counter-intuitively, very expensive because we pay a lot of people to find reasons to justify not paying for it. If we took their salaries and put them into actual service provision, and cut down the vast web of categories and sub-categories to salami-slice the nickels and dimes, we'd spend far less on employment of arbiters and on paperwork and we'd have more money to pay for more services (and no a priori reason to believe the system would oversaturate).
by rkomorn | 2025-09-26 14:19:52+00:00
Not only that but they are even less capable of taking off on their own (see the work done by Airbus' ATTOL project [0] on what some of the more recent successes are).

So I'm not sure what "planes can land on their own" gets us anyway even if autopilot on modern airliners can do an awful lot on their own (including following flight plans in ways that are more advanced than before).

The Garmin Autoland basically announces "my pilot is incapacitated and the plane is going to land itself at <insert a nearby runway>" without asking for landing clearance (which is very cool in and of itself but nowhere near what anyone would consider autonomous).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TIBeso4abU (among other things, but this video is arguably the most fun one)

Edit: and yes maybe the "pilots are basically superfluous now" misconception is a pet peeve for me (and I'm guessing parent as well)
by laserlight | 2025-09-26 14:20:03+00:00
“I'm eating fewer calories yet keep putting on weight.”

There's a reason self-reported measures are questioned: they have been wildly off in different domains. Objectively verifying that a car is faster than walking is easy. When it's not easy to objectively prove something, then there are a lot that could go wrong, including the disagreements on the definition of what's being measured.
by api | 2025-09-26 14:20:30+00:00
Misuse of AI is mass stupidity. The problem is that people don't understand how these things work, and the technology has been oversold (as nearly every new tech is) as something more powerful and more trustworthy than it actually is.

AI is incredibly useful. I'm already getting a ton of use out of it. But you have to treat it like an untrustworthy source, or at least have a "trust but verify" attitude. You also have to understand that it is not sentient, doesn't "care" about you, and is just a hugely powerful autocomplete engine. Any sense of intimacy or understanding you have with it is an illusion.

In engineering I treat it like a junior intern that is very fast, has memorized a huge amount of info, but makes mistakes and has to be hand-held and anything they produce must be examined and tested.
by apitman | 2025-09-26 14:20:36+00:00
Mixing feelings about this. On the one hand a core value proper of fly is managing the complexity of a global deployment for an arbitrary number of regions. On the other hand, if I did want to manage this myself, I would probably stop around ~8 regions because that's all you really need to give almost everyone a low ping.

For my projects that are on fly (https://lastlogin.net/ and https://takingnames.io/) I'm only using 5 regions each, so the only impact for me was moving a machine from gig to gru. It took about 2 minutes to figure out what I needed to do and a couple seconds for the commands to run.
by apollopower | 2025-09-26 14:20:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I started working on Alki because wrangling and deploying AI models on edge devices felt clunky. Going from a Hugging Face model to something production-ready required too many manual steps. Alki aims to simplify that by offering more conversion options, packaging models into reproducible bundles, and making them easy to publish or run on edge hardware.

Llama.cpp was a great starting point, but it led me down the rabbit hole of building a toolchain that could handle different quantization methods, export formats, and deployment bundles for orchestration.

It’s still early and I’d love feedback from infra engineers and startups running LLMs outside the cloud, especially around packaging formats, performance, and what would make the biggest quality-of-life improvements.
by elric | 2025-09-26 14:21:42+00:00
I imagine this goes beyond what most people think of when they think of "intimacy" (sex, relationships) and includes all kinds of emotional closeness and friendships. Maybe it's just my imagination, but I've noticed a decline in people's willingness to engage with other people since the covid pandemic. If we start replacing interpersonal relationships with chatbots, we're headed for dark times.
by Muromec | 2025-09-26 14:21:49+00:00
That's why important stuff is done in three copies -- one to each party and the third to a notary. Here the document signing service acts as such third party and it's the rare case where they have to show up and say which copy is legit.

It's also very rare -- I worked in a similar company for years and only heard of one case of disputed signing and none of disputed contents.

I would not count on a judge to read through technical mumbo-jumbo even if it's completely obvious to you how hashes work, it's probably not for them, so the company has to put a statement.
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-26 14:22:04+00:00
> "A new paper argues that lack of competition, demand for custom features and “Buy America” rules have driven up costs for transit agencies in the US."

If that's not the most NYC finance-centered headline ever, I don't know what is.

"If we just offload our bus-building industry to somewhere else, we could save $x on taxes each year. Yeah, it eliminates jobs and is another blow against strategically-important heavy industry, but please, think of my balance sheet!"
by otikik | 2025-09-26 14:22:24+00:00
Glad that we see some common ground. I think we agree on the essentials.

> If you have food addiction, how should mcdonalds filter you out?

Debatable. Let's go back to this statistic:

- Approximately 25% of online gamblers are classified as problem gamblers based on clinical screening tools

That is not insignificant. I don't know how it is at McDonalds, but I doubt 25% of their customers are food addicts. What is a tolerable range? We do have rules and restrictions for alcoholic drinks and tobacco.
by jiveturkey | 2025-09-26 14:22:40+00:00
I often do this. It's a great way to highlight the areas you want a reviewer to focus on, the areas you are least happy about and want some collab. You can't always get collab pre-review, as you're writing. Plus you want to write it down and move on. Then you can async edit when the feedback comes. Not unlike a prose writing process.