MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by riyanapatel | 2025-09-25 19:32:18+00:00
This post hits on something crucial - the difference between performative code review and substantive collaboration. The "theatre" metaphor is spot-on. The core issue Saša identifies - PRs that are "unreviewable" getting rubber-stamped with "LGTM". Teams go through the motions without the actual substance.

The storytelling approach through commits is brilliant, but it only works if you solve the human factors too. Even perfectly crafted PRs with great commit narratives get surface-level reviews. The friction kills engagement.

A few complementary approaches I've seen work: pair reviewing for complex changes that are hard to break down, AI pre-screening for basic issues so humans can focus on architecture/business logic, and synchronous review sessions when async back-and-forth is just burning time.

The key insight: good PR structure needs to be paired with removing tooling friction. When review is painful, people default to "LGTM" regardless of how well the story is told.
by halflife | 2025-09-25 19:32:46+00:00
You know what, I just had to do a double take because your post is so stupid.

Israel brought nothing to the region? Let’s review.

Israel has the highest gdp by a great margin.

Israel is an important exporter of technology to the world, be it cyber tech, water tech, agriculture tech or defense tech.

Israel has the highest number of startups per capita in the world.

Israel has more Nobel laureates than the entire rest of the Middle East.

Last olymipcs Israel won more medal than the rest of the Middle East.

Palestines primary exports pretty much mounts to terrorism and sedition.

So yeah, Israel is an extremely successful country, saying otherwise is either ignorance, or malicious.
Show HN: Prism – Let browser agents access any app
by rajit | 2025-09-25 19:32:48+00:00
Hey HN, We’re Alex, Land, and Rajit. We’re building Prism (prismai.sh), a tool that helps browser agents authenticate onto websites with user credentials. Developers pass in credentials, Prism logs into a website on their behalf, and hands them back the cookies so they have an authenticated session. Here’s an example of how developers can use Prism to complete username/password flows (https://youtu.be/SEtVUnWnxuE), and here’s an example of how developers can use Prism to complete login flows that require an OTP code (https://youtu.be/fe9w9PvrwH0).

We spoke to browser agent developers and saw people copying and pasting credentials and even credit card numbers directly into model system prompts. We were surprised that there wasn’t a better way to give agents access to websites on a human’s behalf. Moreover, we noticed that every company had to build infrastructure to manage OTP, TOTP, and MFA and that auth remained a significant hurdle in agent reliability. We wondered if this was a boring part of the problem of building web automations that someone could automate away.

We started working with Casco, an autonomous security testing company, to enable their agent to access customer sites. Before a pentest, Casco makes a request to Prism’s API specifying test user credentials, a domain, and a login method. For example, give me an authenticated session for the account rajit@prismai.sh for OpenAI via OTP code over email. Our agent logs in on their behalf (without exposing credentials to a model), and we download the cookies and send them back in the response.

To maintain speed and reliability, we use playwright in most cases to login (which gives us speed), and we fallback to AI on failure (which gives us reliability). We have a number of websites we support out of the box and add new scripts as the number of websites we need to support grows. We are working on a way for the agent to update the existing playwright script on failure, so our scripts always stay up to date.

To try our api, you can use our API playground docs.prismai.sh/api-reference/endpoint/login to sign into x.com with the following API key: pk_54abb1cd0a637eb973ed690416e71a953e98f2ea839cf16529bbfa41a41bc016 .

We’d love to learn more about how other developers give agents access to their accounts. We look forward to everyone’s feedback and comments.
by efreak | 2025-09-25 19:32:58+00:00
I still (unfortunately) am stuck with kiwi as well. I use it almost exclusively for a few webapps that use large amounts of indexeddb storage (>10gb) without a working export method[1]. With Firefox, I was able to export this data with devtools over ADB[2] to another Firefox install.

I really wish someone would create an indexeddb shim that interfaces with another system and only uses indexeddb for (very large) cache. Something I could drop in with a userscript would be lovely, even if it required running a local server with something like rsync or rclone responsible for the actual transfers.

[1]: dexie import export used to work, now it never returns. I have no way of verifying that it's doing nothing without putting it in background (thus suspending it...), but I've let it run 3 hours with no results. [2]: Firefox doesn't allow backing up app data for some reason but devtools functions allow reading and writing the profile directory through the use of terminal commands (zip profile directory, unzip and restart browser).
by austinallegro | 2025-09-25 19:33:05+00:00
As opposed to sitting on an overpriced laptop all day taking up space other people might want to use as well as costing a business time and money in lost custom so you can spend the day treating the coffee shop like rented office space?

What about patrons with disabilities? Patrons that might want to use the coffee shop to meet someone and talk to them and socialise?

If you want to use a coffee shop as a work hub either a) go to the office, b) work from home or c) go rent office space or visit a work hub.

Some people...
by sipofwater | 2025-09-25 19:33:16+00:00
"Resolving Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 SSD Issues with Game Launching": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5553708/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5553708/resolving-windows-11-24h2-kb5063878-ssd-issues-wit)
by jschveibinz | 2025-09-25 19:33:17+00:00
The title is hyperbolic as is the weak assertion that "broad swaths may no longer have influence..."

Publicly available data show that the middle 40% are responsible for more than one-third of consumption; the labor force is large and strong; and lower income spending is relatively flat over the past ~10 years.

The upper income group is indeed spending more--and that is something to watch carefully with respect to broader market business trends. There may even be opportunities to exploit if the smaller segments are less served.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-25 19:33:22+00:00
I don't think that follows. Doctors are doctors but also they are people and whatever metric you apply to any large fraction of the population will most likely follow a bell curve. A subset of doctors will probably shift the centerline a bit left or right depending on what the subject is but there will still be outliers. So fat doctors will exist, mostly because they can exist, and likewise very skinny ones will exist too.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-25 19:33:48+00:00
> Merges to main should not be more than 150 lines long

This can be done by allowing a flag in the commit message that bypasses the 150 line long (or whatever example) rule in the CI that enforces it. Then the reviewers and submitter can agree whether or not it makes sense to bypass the rule for this specific case.

In many cases like this, it's okay to override a rule if the people in charge of keeping the codebase healthy agree it's a special case.
by palata | 2025-09-25 19:33:49+00:00
> if they wanted to reduce child abuse, scanning everyone’s communications for CSAM would not be the most straightforward way to go about it.

* First, this is not what politicians do. What they want is to look like they are fighting it.

* Second, what is your more straightforward way to fight CSAM? Asking for a backdoor is pretty straightforward, I find. I would rather say that fighting CSAM is more difficult than that.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-25 19:33:52+00:00
Funny my primary care doc says I shouldn't take it because if take Tylenol my liver enzymes are up.

Liberals now are going to run to the defense of a drug that causes a significant number of overdose deaths just to spite Trump:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37436926/

I think it's fair to say there there is still no safe analgesic. Normal NSAIDs wreck your stomach and probably your heart. Opioids are physically safe in comparison but addictive.

The trouble with autism is that it's eaten up all other developmental disorder diagnoses:

https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Matrix-Gil-Eyal/dp/074564399X

It used to be you were MR or a little bit weird or in some other way different. If you're a bipolar adult like Kanye West you might say you are autistic to escape the stigma of serious mental illness.

The autism awareness movement has everybody scared so when a paper like this

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study...

presents data to the effect that 37-90% of people who think they are autistic actually aren't it is presented as if there are five autism subtypes.
by ars | 2025-09-25 19:33:56+00:00
> I don't know what you're making or misrepresenting in your statememt about Jordan and Jerusalem

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

"The Jordanians immediately expelled all the Jewish residents of East Jerusalem.[54] Mark Tessler cites John Oesterreicher as writing that during Jordanian rule, "34 out of the Old City's 35 synagogues were dynamited. Some were turned into stables, others into chicken coops.""

Which is why Palestinians should never get East Jerusalem as their capital, it's simply not theirs, not even in the nebulous way that the West Bank is.

This:

> Jews have always prospered under actual religious Muslim rule, whether in Palestine, Spain, Morocco, Iran, or otherwise. Zionism is what drove a rift between Muslims and Jews in past two centuries, as prior to this there never was one.

Is not true, as even a cursory view of the history will reveal endless massacres of Jews by Muslims.
by nottorp | 2025-09-25 19:34:24+00:00
It's in the runtime specifications, I think.

"Application should use all cores and all available memory."

In the past few years, the only applications i've seen run amok with memory usage at least were of course Electron based.

However, note that this problem is on Mac OS "users had too much contrast so we ruined it" 26 Tahoe. It's part of the early adopter experience.
by egorfine | 2025-09-25 19:34:25+00:00
> only the sanctioned parts of Ukraine were impacted

First of all, banks couldn't care less about telling apart different species of Ukrainian people. Second, for any bank in the world it's a matter of cost of finmonitoring. And for each and every customer the cost of compliance is always higher than the profit from this person's transaction. Therefore, banks have strong incentive to refuse service for any person that is remotely unordinary. Hence "debanking": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debanking
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-25 19:34:29+00:00
The Electron maintainers should've considered that possibility before reaching for a private API. It's on the Electron's team's shoulders and nobody else's.

If I were building a FOSS platform, I wouldn't give a second thought to third parties making use of my platform's private APIs. They're private for a reason, whether that be because they're not yet fully baked or because using them can have unintended consequences, they're not intended for public consumption. I especially wouldn't want somebody else's platform to depend on my private APIs, because I am then effectively locked into keeping that API frozen in time by the numerous others building on this other person's platform.

It's generally poor practice to build upon such brittle things as under-the-hood tinkering anyway.
by dunekid | 2025-09-25 19:34:31+00:00
>Since Gaza has no airport

Gaza had one, care to explain what happened to it. I would say it was before the October 7th.

Israel took control of Rafah border. And do not give full control to Egypt. Egypt, under the tripartite agreement with US and Israel is restricted heavily to be subservient to Israel. Stop the lies please.

>they could only leave through Egypt or Israel.

Gaza has, you know, a sea? Into Mediterranean. But ITF shoots down Palestinians, and detains anyone who goes there, par for the rogue nation it is. Yes, before Oct 7th.
by alecco | 2025-09-25 19:34:41+00:00
Recently the EU allocated billions to fund tech startups. But if you read the bare minimum demands, you'll see how suspicious it is. Like, you have to have a female co-founder, when everybody in the trade knows it's very hard to find a trustworthy co-founder of any kind.

I haven't heard of anybody getting these funds. I suspect the recipients were pre-selected before the announcement and the criteria was tailored to match them. And I also suspect, in some roundabout way, part of the money will end up in political campaigns or something.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-09-25 19:34:48+00:00
> a business can refuse service to anyone

In Colorado, such service refusals are illegal. The civil rights agency prosecutes them and their legal rationale is that historically every "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" has only been used to discriminate against non-white customers.

> Rule 20.4 – Discriminatory Signage in Places of Public Accommodation.

> No person shall post or permit to be posted in any place of public accommodation any sign that states or implies the following:

> “WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE.”

> Such signage implies that management may rely upon unlawful discriminatory factors in determining access to a place of public accommodation and thus is prohibited.

https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersi...
Hello to Unstructured Analytics
by torrmal | 2025-09-25 19:35:10+00:00
Traditional analytics “loved” neat rows and columns (oh, how they adored orderly databases!), so anything messy—emails, PDFs, customer feedback, doctor notes, ... your grumpy aunt's product complaints— account for about 80–90% of enterprise data, yes it lives in that messy land of unstructured chaos [ask MIT, IBM]. Sitting pretty, ignored, shunned like the weird cousin at Thanksgiving. Which is totally nuts. Anywho, Thanks to MindsDB Knowledge Bases, though, we no longer need to treat unstructured data like forbidden fruit: we can chew, digest, and excrete real insights as if it were perfectly tabular all along.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this: repo: [https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb](https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb)

blog about knowledge bases: [https://mindsdb.com/blog/mindsdb-knowledge-bases-revolutionizing-ai-powered-data-queries-with-sql-algebra](https://mindsdb.com/blog/mindsdb-knowledge-bases-revolutionizing-ai-powered-data-queries-with-sql-algebra)
by tunesmith | 2025-09-25 19:35:29+00:00
Data point: I run a site where users submit a record. There was a request months ago to allow users to edit the record after submitting. I put it off because while it's an established pattern it touches a lot of things and I found it annoying busy work and thus low priority. So then gpt5-codex came out and allowed me to use it in codex cli with my existing member account. I asked it to support edit for that feature all the way through the backend with a pleasing UI that fit my theme. It one-shotted it in about ten minutes. I asked for one UI adjustment that I decided I liked better, another five minutes, and I reviewed and released it to prod within an hour. So, you know, months versus an hour.
Show HN: I built LeetEngineer – Interview prep for non-IT engineers
by Daneng | 2025-09-25 19:35:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I built LeetEngineer because while software engineers have platforms like LeetCode or HackerRank to prepare for interviews, non-IT engineers (mechanical, civil, aerospace, manufacturing, etc.) have almost nothing.

From my own experience applying for 500+ jobs, I realized interviews for engineers often focus on scenario-based questions that test how you apply engineering skills to real-world problems. I wanted a tool that helps with exactly that.

With LeetEngineer, you just paste a job description and the platform generates tailored, scenario-based practice questions so you can walk into your interview prepared and confident.

This is the first MVP and I’d love feedback from this community. https://leetengineerai.com

What do you think about the idea, and what features would you find most useful?

Thanks!
by dessimus | 2025-09-25 19:36:15+00:00
> I have no idea how/why Intel got a second life after that, but they did.

For the same reason the line "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." exists. Buying AMD at large companies was seen as a gamble that deciders weren't will to make. Even now, if you just call up your account managers at Dell, HP, or Lenovo asking for servers or PCs, they are going to quote you Intel builds unless you specifically ask. I don't think I've ever been asked by my sales reps if I wanted an Intel or AMD CPU. Just how many slots/cores, etc.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-25 19:36:38+00:00
I don’t understand what goes through the developer’s mind. A method is marked as private. It’s documented as not to be used by developers. Further documentation says that using it may break your application in strange ways now or in the future. Despite all this, the developer concludes: “yea, I think it’s a good idea to use this API!” Then, later when something breaks, it’s Shocked Pikachu all around.
by eej71 | 2025-09-25 19:36:45+00:00
I see the war in radically different terms than you. It's not a battle between who has the better historical claim to the land. It's a religious battle. It's a battle between radical Islam and the secular west.

For a fuller treatment of the defense of Israel from a secular view point.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38926431-what-justice-de...

I'm grateful that what little good pieces are left in the American right their defense of Israel remains in place.
by 9rx | 2025-09-25 19:36:56+00:00
> I think they’re still going “deep” in that they will focus very heavily on one subject in their conspiracy rabbit hole.*

Which is totally fair, but may not be what I imagined when I said "deep".

> There was that dude a few years ago who was trying to build a rocket to “see if he could see the curve”, for example.

Building a rocket sounds like fun, to be honest. If you are also of the proclivity that you are entertained by claiming to believe in a flat earth, combining your hobbies seems like a pretty good idea.

> I have seen some fairly convincing vlogs where the people at least seem to really believe it.

At the same time people don't normally talk about the things they (feel they) truly understand. It is why we don't sit around talking about 1+1=2 all day, every day. Humans crave novelty. It is agonizing having to listen to what you already know. As such, one needs to be heavily skeptical of someone speaking about a subject they claim to understand well without financial incentive to overcome the boredom of having to talk about something they know well. And where there is financial incentive, you still need to be skeptical that someone isn't just making shit up for profit.

When someone is speaking causally about something, you can be certain that either: 1) They recognize that they don't have a solid understanding and are looking to learn more through conversation. 2) Are making shit up for attention.

There is no good way to know how many flat earthers never speak of it, I suppose, but as far as the vocal ones go I don't suppose they are really looking to learn more...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-25 19:37:01+00:00
In terms of utility as training data, the Internet is a poisoned well now, and the poison is becoming more potent over time. Part of it is the SEO spam and content marketing slop, both of which kept growing and accumulating. Part of it is even more slop produced by LLMs, especially by cheap (= weak) models, but also by LLMs in general (any LLM used to produce content is doing worse job at it than a model from subsequent generation, so it's kinda always suboptimal for training purposes). And now part of it are people mass-producing bullshit out of spite, just to screw with AI companies. SNR on the web is dropping like a brick falling into a black hole.

It's a bit of a gamble at this point - will the larger models, or new architectures, or training protocols, be able to reject all that noise and extract the signal? If yes, then training on the Internet is still safe. If not, it's probably better for them to freeze the datasets blindly scrapped from the Internet now, and focus on mining less poisoned sources (like books, academic papers, and other publications not yet ravaged by the marketing communications cancer[0], also ideally published before the last 2 years).

I don't know which is more likely - but I'm not dismissing the possibility that the models will be able to process increasingly poisoned data sets just fine, if the data sets are large enough, because of a very basic and powerful idea: self-consistency. True information is always self-consistent, because it reflects the underlying reality. Falsehoods may be consistent in the small, but at scale they're not.
by kbelder | 2025-09-25 19:37:57+00:00
It was rude, and I probably shouldn't have posted it on HN. It was intended to point out something though, and that was to call out the parent post.

In my opinion, at least, stating something and then adding "I am right!" is rude and disrespectful. It's implying that anybody that disagrees with you is not just wrong, but wrong to the degree that you cannot even allow for the possibility that you are mistaken, or that conversation is pointless. That's why I was rude back.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-25 19:38:15+00:00
I'd argue VR did have it's killer app, VRchat, and covid gave them a golden opportunity.

Unfortunately they chased user acquisition hard via non-vr modes and subscriptions rather than enabling creators using their platform highlighting what made such spaces unique. Updates actively made things more hostile to their most dedicated users, it was sad to see.

Eternal September got kicked into overdrive and most dedicated users either got pushed out or retreated entirely to private spaces. Lo and behold the mobile and casual VRless werent interested in spending money, so vrchats been running out of runway.
by lukan | 2025-09-25 19:38:50+00:00
"No, you don’t get it."

Did you get my last sentence?

"In short - if they wanted to reduce child abuse, scanning everyone’s communications for CSAM would not be the most straightforward way to go about it."

What would be the most straightforwand way? Install a camera in every home?

Yes, abuse is usually more to be found inside families. And the solution kind of complicated, involving social workers, phone numbers victims can call, safe houses for mothers with children to flee into, police officers with sensitive training who care, teachers who are not burned out to actually pay attention to troubled kids ...
by zenmac | 2025-09-25 19:38:51+00:00
Like the parent have ran Email servers for many years now. If you get a bad IP, as long as you get the DKIM records right, over time it will 'warm' up the IP. And the more you use the email on that IP and NOT spam people. The IP will warm up. Make sure you actually own that IP!!! It will become valuable.
by simianwords | 2025-09-25 19:39:17+00:00
Not sure why this is downvoted but I essentially agree. There's a lot of UX layer products and ideas that are not explored. I keep seeing comments like "AI is cool but the integration is lacking" and so on. Yes that is true and that is exactly what this is solving. My take has always been that the models are good enough now and its time for UX to catch up. There are so many ideas not explored.