MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astonex | 2025-09-26 15:39:44+00:00
>Can anyone really point me out the real problem about the immigrants?

This minimises the problem. The UK voters have consistently voted for reduced immigration, with polls showing the preferred number to be somewhere between 0-100,000. Those elected have consistently ignored them which has raised tensions.

In the last few years, the UK had around 1 million people net per year. 1 million people is bigger than most cities in the UK for comparison, so imagine a new city of people, every single year. The infrastructure could not, or did not keep up and has contributed to worse living standards through overly-subscribed national services, increased living costs, etc.

>for example the lack of funding of the NHS or the hyper funding of other initiatives such as war in Ukraine.

The NHS is already the single biggest expenditure of the UK's taxes. I remember it being more than 25% of the total budget. How much should be spent on the NHS? 50%? 90%?

The cost of defending democracy and freedom from a tyrannical Russia is also barely a drop in the bucket, while having huge meaning for many. Only 2% of the budget for the entire Armed forces, let alone just some support for Ukraine, compared to the 25+% on NHS. It's nothing.
by bhu8 | 2025-09-26 15:39:57+00:00
> Opting to introduce them sooner will almost certainly increase the complexity of your codebase prematurely

Agreed, but how else are you going to scale mostly AI written code? Relying mostly on AI agents gives you that organizational complexity.

> Given how long gpt codex 5 has been out, there’s no way you’ve followed these practices for a reasonable enough time to consider them definitive

Yeah, fair. Codex has been out for less than 2 weeks at this point. I was relying on gpt-5 in August and opus before that.
by pringk02 | 2025-09-26 15:40:28+00:00
> No representatives from ByteDance were present at the signing, and the company hasn’t acknowledged that a transaction is taking place. No purchase price was mentioned, and there’s no indication that the Chinese government has made changes to laws that would be necessary for a deal to take place.

> President Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping gave the deal the go ahead. Vance said the Chinese government put up some resistance before the agreement

I find these two paragraphs particularly interesting
by boogieknite | 2025-09-26 15:40:46+00:00
hes already started that last step and has work paying for his pro plan

you put it nicely when you mention a fundamental limit and will borrow that if i think hes wasting a risky amount of time

i really like the sibling idea of having him try to explain again, then use claude to explain if he cant

genuine thanks to you and sibling for offering advice
by kube-system | 2025-09-26 15:40:53+00:00
The title here "TikTok Sold for $14B" is completely incorrect

TikTok was not sold. This is an announcement of an executive order endorsing a proposal to sell TikTok.

> No representatives from ByteDance were present at the signing, and the company hasn’t acknowledged that a transaction is taking place. No purchase price was mentioned, and there’s no indication that the Chinese government has made changes to laws that would be necessary for a deal to take place.
by fwip | 2025-09-26 15:41:05+00:00
There is no reachable[1] chess position[2] at which a player has more than 218 valid moves[3] to choose from.

[1] Able to happen while following the rules of chess

[2] The arrangement of chess pieces on the board

[3] A valid move is the motion of one piece to a place on the board, which doesn't break the rules of chess - e.g: "King to E4."
by Someone1234 | 2025-09-26 15:41:32+00:00
Yeah, I have the same issue too. Even for a file with several thousand lines, they will "forget" earlier parts of the file they're still working in resulting in mistakes. They don't need full awareness of the context, but they need a summary of it so that they can go back and review relevant sections.

I have multiple things I'd love LLMs to attempt to do, but the context window is stopping me.
by dingnuts | 2025-09-26 15:41:47+00:00
it just seems like a lot of work when you could just write the code yourself, just a lot less typing to go ahead and make the edits you want instead of trying to guide the autocorrect to eventually predict what you want from guidelines you also have to generate to save time

like I'm sorry but when I see how much work the advocates are putting into their prompts the METR paper comes to mind.. you're doing more work than coding the "old fashioned way"
by savanaly | 2025-09-26 15:42:10+00:00
The democracy one (fifth point) is a big ol' stretch, and the healthcare one is debateable, but the other points are well-taken. I have struggled to make the case to my friends and family after visiting China that in a very meaningful sense, and especially for the vulnerable, having more things well connected by public transit and safe to travel on at any time of day or night is freedom. And they have an order of magnitude more of it than the USA does.
by rudedogg | 2025-09-26 15:42:29+00:00
Dang, I was really excited about this too.

I guess I'll either stick with sqlite-vec or give turso another look. I'm not fond of the idea of a SQLite fork though.

Do you know if anything else I should take a look at? I know you use a lot of this stuff for your open-source AI/ML stuff. I'd like something I can use on device.
by grishka | 2025-09-26 15:42:32+00:00
Of course. Also TV ads would usually be shown during programs that the advertiser's target audience is most likely to be watching. Like ads for toys between cartoons. That's all fine, you can do the same on the internet without harming anyone's privacy. As an advertising network, you can receive the topic information from the websites themselves as part of them signing up, and users' approximate location can be derived from the IP address.

But instead, they're all hellbent on doing some form of personalization (via tracking) and attribution, and act as if the world would end if all technical means to do that, like third-party cookies, would cease to exist.
by rglover | 2025-09-26 15:43:34+00:00
I think this will be the inevitable outcome. I wrote a post [1] about this a few months back explaining how (I think) the long shot of AI adoption is an extreme dumbing down to the point where humans no longer know how to organically build or maintain what they need without AI.

[1] https://ryanglover.net/blog/chauffeur-knowledge-and-the-impe...
by lomase | 2025-09-26 15:43:55+00:00
I understand why you made it microservices, people make that too even when not using LLMs, because it looks like it is more organized.

But in my experience a microservide architecture is orders of magnitud more complex to build and understand that a monolith.

If you, with the help of an LLM, strugle to keep a monolith organized, I am positive you will find even harder to build microservices.

Good luck in your journey, I hope you learn a ton!
by mturmon | 2025-09-26 15:44:00+00:00
There are straightforward emulation settings in which a trained emulator can be more accurate than a single forward run, even when both training and "single forward run" use the same accuracy settings.

Suppose you emulate a forward model y = F(x), by choosing a design X = {x1, ..., xN}, and making a training set T = {(x1, y1), ..., (xN, yN)}.

With T, you train an emulator G. You want to know how good y0hat = G(x0) is compared to y0 = F(x).

If there is a stochastic element to the forward model F, there will be noise in all of the y's, including in the training set, but also including y0! (Hopefully your noise has expectation 0.)

(This would be the case for a forward model that uses any kind of Monte Carlo under the hood.)

In this case, because the trained G(x0) is averaging over (say) all the nearby x's, you can see variance reduction in y0hat compared to y0. This, for example, would apply in a very direct way to G's that are kernel methods.

I have observed this in real emulation problems. If you're pushing for high accuracy, it's not even rare to see.

More speculatively, one can imagine settings in which (deterministic) model error, when averaged out over nearby training samples in computing y0hat, can be smaller than the single-point model error affecting y0. (For example, there are some errors in a deterministic lookup table buried in the forward model, and averaging nearby runs of F causes the errors to decrease.)

I have seen this claim credibly made, but verifying it is hard -- the minute you find the model error that explains this[*], the model will be fixed and the problem will go away.

[*] E.g., with a plot of y0hat overlaid on y0, and the people who maintain the forward model say "do you have y0 and y0hat labeled correctly?"
by agf | 2025-09-26 15:44:31+00:00
This is interesting, and I'd say you're not the target audience. If you want the code Claude writes to be line-by-line what you think is most appropriate as a human, you're not going to get it.

You have to be willing to accept "close-ish and good enough" to what you'd write yourself. I would say that most of the time I spend with Claude is to get from its initial try to "close-ish and good enough". If I was working on tiny changes of just a few lines, it would definitely be faster just to write them myself. It's the hundreds of lines of boilerplate, logging, error handling, etc. that makes the trade-off close to worth it.
by observationist | 2025-09-26 15:44:49+00:00
Digital bill of rights and enforcing laws already on the books, imposing requirements on ISPs to remove bad actors, and having governments and law enforcement agencies actually do the boring and tedious work of tracking these people down and shutting them down. Disconnecting ISPs from the rest of the internet when they cannot police themselves. Shutting down "VPN" services that harvest and abuse residential IP blocks of their users to evade detection while accepting money from bot herders, and other criminal activity that gets ignored.

We have sensible laws on the books, treaties, and all sorts of agreements with entities ranging from big corporations to ISPs to countries, but they aren't enforced. Just look at how long spam call centers have been an issue - if we start playing hardball and simply shutting off entire regions until providers and governments comply with basic enforcement, we can have a civilized internet.

These botnets are not magic. They're not subtle. They're not ultra-secure beyond the reach of mere mortals to do anything about.

They're allowed to persist for all sorts of reasons, ranging from utility to nation state level threat actors to local ISP corruption and bribery to simple laziness and incompetence.

From the top down, governments merely need to enforce the rules that are already in play. I guarantee if you disconnect large regions of India where many of these sorts of problems originate, the people there will convince their local officials to take appropriate action - and if that doesn't work, we don't need them on the internet anyway.

Same goes for any regional ISPs in the US, or Canada, or anywhere else in the world.

We have rules, let's try following them before we decide on mechanisms like CloudFlare or other centralized controls.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-26 15:45:03+00:00
Or at the very least, an easier way to extend the desktop with extensions.

What made gnome extensions so successful (despite gnome breaking them every new release) is it's just JavaScript & CSS. You can learn & make a gnome shell extension in an afternoon. No need to learn C, GObject, etc.

For COSMIC, even the panel applets are full rust programs
by EcommerceFlow | 2025-09-26 15:45:08+00:00
This has been the case for a while. Attempting to code API connections via Vibe-Coding will leave you pulling your hair out if you don't take the time to scrape all relevant documentation and include said documentation in the prompt. This is the case whether it's major APIs like Shopify, or more niche ones like warehousing software (Cin7 or something similar).

The context pipeline is a major problem in other fields as well, not just programming. In healthcare, the next billion-dollar startup will likely be the one that cracks the personal health pipeline, enabling people to chat with GPT-6 PRO while seamlessly bringing their entire lifetime of health context into every conversation.
by frapetowl | 2025-09-26 15:45:21+00:00
I can't seem to reply to the main Who Wants to Be Hired Post (maybe because a new HN account) but can reply to comments so here goes nothing:

Location: NY Hudson Valley / NYC / Remote

Technologies: Python (FastAPI, web scraping, data pipelines, LangChain, embeddings/LLMs with Ollama + HuggingFace + Chroma), Java (academic + project work), React (prototypes/front-end integration), Playwright automation, Git. Familiar with startup workflows, experimentation, and building MVPs end-to-end.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WehgLwie8_CwPFYSBg6-30Pyvmh...

https://github.com/FraPetOwl

What I’ve built: Recently developed a chatbot MVP for a small business (DJ & lighting rentals) — scraped/cleaned product data, embedded it with HuggingFace + Chroma, and served responses via FastAPI with a streaming API. Integrated React front-end for chat UI. Prior experience building automation/scraping tools and full-stack prototypes. What I’m looking for: Full-stack or backend-leaning role (internship, entry-level, or startup contract) where I can ship fast, learn in the trenches, and contribute to real product outcomes. Interested in early-stage startups that value initiative and flexibility.

Email: pfrase4@wgu dot edu pfras@protonmail dot com
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-26 15:45:52+00:00
> Saving progress is useless if your history is a mess…

Nope, it works, commit! Tests pass, commit! Push.

You’ve demonstrated you don’t know what version control is for. Cleaning up the past is a peripheral nicety, that is not at all core.

In fact some situations prefer history not be changed at all.
by gethly | 2025-09-26 15:45:59+00:00
I use Traefik for local development on daily basis, where I have to run double digit https services. It works, but it was a pain to set up. The documentation sucks ** and the config is confusing AF. I would never recommend this to anyone. If i will have to reinstall my computer one day, Traefik will not be welcomed back.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-26 15:46:24+00:00
Bluetooth buttplug (you can get such things on Amazon; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovense) and an observer in the audience tapping out Morse code?

Or, more mundanely, bathroom breaks. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/sports/kirill-shevchenko-...

Your iPhone can reliably beat the best chess players in the world.
by klelatti | 2025-09-26 15:46:25+00:00
Agree 100%. I think that without Saxby there would be no Arm as we know it today.

IIRC Steve Furber and colleagues considered the licensing model and decided it would never work. Saxby made it work. All credit to him too for standing down before he overstayed his welcome and keeping out the limelight since.

Yes, re Sophie it was Firepath I think as per this presentation (2014).

https://old.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc14...
by ibaikov | 2025-09-26 15:46:31+00:00
I use a different air purifier, a pretty basic xiaomi one. There are two downsides: it is quite big (I don't mind really) and it can be loud at a high speed.

I host movie nights with friends and sometimes someone might even smoke in the room, air purifier clears the air quite fast and there absolutely are no odors left. So yeah you can and if you solder or 3d print often, I'd suggest to get one, they don't cost much.

I'm not allergic and air here is basically always perfect - 1-5 ppm, but I still love it. It does filter out allergens and people allergic to pets find it easier to breathe (I have a dog). It also lowers amount of dust a bit, and I have an automation to run it on full speed when robot vacuums floors, I think it might help filter some stuff out.

I wish there'd be a way to put activated carbon packs inside somehow, because I'd love to change it more often than the full filter.
by simonw | 2025-09-26 15:46:50+00:00
"And yet, coding agents are nowhere near capable of replacing software developers. Why is that?"

Because you will always need a specialist to drive these tools. You need someone who understands the landscape of software - what's possible, what's not possible, how to select and evaluate the right approach to solve a problem, how to turn messy human needs into unambiguous requirements, how to verify that the produced software actually works.

Provided software developers can grow their field of experience to cover QA and aspects of product management - and learn to effectively use this new breed of coding agents - they'll be just fine.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-26 15:46:58+00:00
> Even the idea of trying to chase more off line unmediated experiences is a simulacral objective, an attempt at simulating a lifestyle that doesn't really exist now.

No, if you live your real life doing things in a certain way that is a real lifestyle which actually exists by virtue of that fact.

Being consciously pursued does not make it some kind of fiction, and if someone writes in a book that it does it doesn’t change that the ways real people actually live their lives are, ipso facto, real lifestyles that exist, it just means the book is wrong.

(It may be pursued out of nostalgia or yearning for a past, foreign, or imagined lifestyle that no longer exists, cannot exist in the immediate local conditions, or never existed, and may not acheive the goals for which it is pursued, which may especially be true if those goals are things that the model lifestyle achieved for reasons related to aspects that are not replicated or of the context of the model lifestyle which are not present in the context of the real and present one, but that’s a different issue from whether the lifestyle is, in fact, a real one which exists.)
by everdrive | 2025-09-26 15:47:36+00:00
>Zuckerberg thinks he's Caesar and has become Dominican, post metaverse, for some reason. Bezos has become a Miami club promotor with phallic rockets. Thiel rants about the coming Anti Christ in seminars and keeps trying to create 'libertarian' cities (that he would own). Altman talks about the coming age of the Dyson sphere.

Well yes they're all nuts, but do any of these quirks suggest poor impulse control?
by dingnuts | 2025-09-26 15:47:39+00:00
that's because a next token predictor can't "forget" context. That's just not how it works.

You load the thing up with relevant context and pray that it guides the generation path to the part of the model that represents the information you want and pray that the path of tokens through the model outputs what you want

That's why they have a tendency to go ahead and do things you tell them not to do..

also IDK about you but I hate how much praying has become part of the state of the art here. I didn't get into this career to be a fucking tech priest for the machine god. I will never like these models until they are predictable, which means I will never like them.
by AdamN | 2025-09-26 15:48:02+00:00
In the old Soviet/US rivalry days there was an accusation of cheating that I thought was novel. The accusation was that the Soviet players in the middle rounds were doing subtle not-right moves with the US #1. This forced the lead US player to put way too much effort into figuring out if it was some new line that he didn't know about and tiring him out. Then by the time he got to the final he was exhausted and confused.
by smohnot | 2025-09-26 15:48:19+00:00
TikTok has not been sold for $14B but Trump signed an executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners... for less than 1x it's US revenue.

It reminds me of the oligarchs in Russia, license raj in India, privatization in Mexico etc…

being close to political power lets folks buy up crown-jewel assets at a fraction of their true value.
by allenu | 2025-09-26 15:48:41+00:00
It's frustrating because the content here looks like it could be good. It feels like it was thrown together quickly. If you click the "Chapter 1" it just takes you a page with just the chapter title on it. Seems like they split the book into sections and fed each section into a template and said good enough.

The highlighted links are incredibly off-putting, like buying a second-hand book that someone has already highlighted. The readable text is so narrow and small, but the sections are so short that you immediately hit the massive "Buy a Book" upsell banner at the bottom, which distracts you. All of this makes it hard to focus on the text itself.

I'll never understand sites that have way too many links in their articles. Am I mean to click away as I'm reading a paragraph? Do you want me to stay on the article or do you want me to be distracted and go somewhere else?
by wat10000 | 2025-09-26 15:48:47+00:00
I don't have gcc handy, but this bit of code pretty easily gets clang to use several of them:

int f(int **x) { int *a = x[0]; int *b = x[1]; int *c = x[2]; int *d = x[3]; puts("hello"); return *a + *b + *c + *d; }
by jcranmer | 2025-09-26 15:48:58+00:00
I can see that DOS applications might require Virtual 8086 mode, but from what I can tell, almost no Win16 applications require it nor require hardware task management (I'm not even sure I'm aware of any application that uses hardware task management!).

Granted, Win16 is not an especially long period of active application development, but I would expect that the vast majority of Win16 applications would work perfectly fine in x86-64 compatibility mode. I know that the ones I have played with do.
by palata | 2025-09-26 15:49:04+00:00
I think that there is a big difference, for the population, between "somebody is reading and keeping a copy of all your mail" and "Some algorithm looks for illegal material locally on your phone. If you don't have illegal material, it won't do anything".

Nobody would want to carry a microphone recording them 24/7 and storing everything on a server, but everybody is fine with TooBigTech simply promising that they don't store the data.

We have to accept that people are fine with the idea. The problem (both with the connected mic and ChatControl, btw) is that it can be abused. That's the problem. Again: we have to convince people that it is at risk of being abused. Not that they should be outraged. They just are not.
by barchar | 2025-09-26 15:49:04+00:00
High MPC is just a low savings %. Mostly relevant for governments and public policy rather than businesses. Still, if a business is a big enough part of the economy it means workforce expansion involving lower wage jobs may "cost less" than it appears; if Amazon builds a new warehouse the workers might spend some of their paycheck at Amazon.

Decreased inequality with the same level of consumption would mean higher velocity of money, and thus higher total tax liabilities b