MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-09-07 10:59:44+00:00
This is an interesting question where I do not know the answer.

I will not pretend to be an expert. I would suggest that "human understanding convenience" is pretty important in safety domains. The famous Brian Kernighan quote comes to mind:

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

When it comes to obscure corner cases, it seems to me that simpler is better. But Waymo does seem to have chosen a different path! They employ a lot of smart folk, and appear to be the state of the art for autonomous driving. I wouldn't bet against them.
Show HN: Quick freebie for job seekers: 1-page AI resume cheat sheet (PWYW
by rocky101 | 2025-09-07 11:00:10+00:00
If your resume isn’t getting replies, steal this 15-min fix: mirror 7 JD keywords, 1-line STAR bullets, metric first. I turned this into a 1-page AI cheat sheet (PWYW). 10 free copies Link: https://helloitsraman.gumroad.com/l/wozae
by youknow123 | 2025-09-07 11:00:32+00:00
Modern apps are way more complex than Quake. Dropbox needs threads for syncing files, watching folders, updating UI, etc. Steam's web helper is basically running a mini-browser.

Back in the Quake days, we had single-core CPUs and tiny RAM - every thread mattered. Now with 16+ cores and tons of memory, it's cheaper to just spawn threads for everything rather than write complex single-threaded code.

Your computer's fine - this is just how software works now. We traded elegance for "throw hardware at the problem."
by miguelgrinberg | 2025-09-07 11:00:49+00:00
Thanks. The smart heating device in question is one that is fairly popular in Ireland, but I believe it isn't sold elsewhere. The brand is Climote (https://www.climote.ie/).

As part of the service, this controller gives you the option to send commands through an app, or by sending SMS (the device comes with a SIM card and gets its own mobile number). The commands would allow you to ask if the heating is running or not, to turn the heating on or off, and so on.

I first implemented the SMS interface with Twilio, but then found that the number of texts you can send to the device is capped. I don't remember what was the monthly allowance, but I reached it in a few days after querying the device every 15 minutes or so 24/7.

I then found a project on GitHub with the reverse-engineered API that the phone app used to send commands. So I then reimplemented the command logic using this API to be able to talk to the controller without limitations.

I'm not familiar with the Nest devices, but I'd suggest you do a search on GitHub to see if someone figured how to reverse-engineer its API.
by andy12_ | 2025-09-07 11:01:12+00:00
> They just choose the most probabilistic next token

That does not imply that a model should hallucinate. A trivial counterexample is a small LLM trained up to 100% accuracy to output x mod 100 for any input x in the range 0-1000000 and "I don't know" for any other input that is not a number in that range. Such model does not hallucinate, even if it's still just a probabilistic autoreggressive next token predictor. In fact, this is a point argued in this paper

> Hallucinations are inevitable only for base models. Many have argued that hallucinations are inevitable (Jones, 2025; Leffer, 2024; Xu et al., 2024). However, a non-hallucinating model could be easily created, using a question-answer database and a calculator, which answers a fixed set of questions such as “What is the chemical symbol for gold?” and well-formed mathematical calculations such as “3 + 8”, and otherwise outputs IDK. Moreover, the error lower-bound of Corollary 1 implies that language models which do not err must not be calibrated, i.e., δ must be large. As our derivations show, calibration-and, hence, errors—is a natural consequence of the standard cross-entropy objective. Indeed, empirical studies (Fig. 2) show that base models are often found to be calibrated, in contrast to post-trained models which may deviate from cross-entropy in favor of reinforcement learning.
by dangus | 2025-09-07 11:01:32+00:00
MS will absolutely extend the deadline, or otherwise make it meaningless. The install base of windows 10 is too high.

My prediction is that instead of extending support forever like XP and 7, Windows 10 will be “unsupported” but it’ll still get security patches for a long time.

The “unsupported” nature of the OS will only matter to corporate auditors. Consumers will be using Windows 10 for years longer.
by franga2000 | 2025-09-07 11:01:52+00:00
The flip side is true, however: the problem can not be solved without motivating the execs.

At the end of the day, if the pile of cash they take home at the end of the day isn't inversely proportional to the number of people they fucked over, the best case is they don't care and the worst case is they'll notice that there's money to be saved (and therefore transfered to their pile) by fucking people over and do it even more.

Note that I didn't just say "number of people whose data was leaked" - the same thing applies to other ways of fucking over your users or even employees. Aligning execs' inventives usually isn't the whole solution, but it usually is a necessary part of the solution.
by mooreds | 2025-09-07 11:02:36+00:00
> Being highly productive and effective result in work done faster.. and more work given !

I love this quote from Jason Lengstorf[0]: "A career is a pie-eating contest & the prize for winning is more pie"

It's weird to think about and do, but you have to be strategic about what you are good at.

0: https://jason.energy/more-pie/
by dangus | 2025-09-07 11:04:32+00:00
I’m honestly surprised that anyone with 9+ year old hardware would want to run Windows 11 at all.

This kind of user isn’t exactly jumping on the latest Windows version. They’re going to be using Windows 10 until their hardware dies and they’ll “upgrade” when their next machine comes with the current Microsoft OS.

I personally don’t think the end of “support” for Windows 10 will have any meaning. There are too many users still using it for Microsoft to stop patching it. The “unsupported” status will only matter to companies who want to pass audits.
by Two9A | 2025-09-07 11:05:47+00:00
I'm reminded of an MVC microframework I put together many years back in PHP: https://github.com/Two9A/BirSaat

Having pulled down a copy just now, the framework itself is 526 lines of PHP, and the sample site (a newsfeed that pulls from the BBC) is perhaps 300 lines in models and controllers. I use the framework to this day to serve out my blog and other small sites, seems to work well without getting in the way.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-09-07 11:05:50+00:00
>No but we can and should store it as a timestamp with a timezone.

It would be highly unusual and misleading to call something a timestamp unless it is a point in time. In Postgres for instance, the timestamp with timezone type represents an instant in time.

This data type cannot be used to store things like reminders for future appointments. It's not rare at all.
by Domazine | 2025-09-07 11:06:13+00:00
Hello Ramraj, I am Dev, an incoming SWE in the Quant Desk team at Goldman Sachs and I wanted to reach out, if you are open to hiring applicants for the Applied AI Engineering roles at Komodo Health! I loved Komodo’s mission of reducing the global burden of disease and your AI-first approach, and had messaged you with my application on Reddit!

About me: I am a prev:SWE Intern at AWS India(was extended return offer), in the Q for Business Team, where I work on integration of BidirectionalStreaming using TTS models to integrate low latency voice mode usage in our application; and an active contributor to Pickle's Glass[ https://github.com/pickle-com/glass ], and HyprNote[ https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyprnote/ ].

My previous experiences include:

Experience: WorldQuant (Quant Research), AstraZeneca (ML engineer for drug discovery using LLMs), TransHumanity(AI Engineering solving Traffic), Alma [ https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryalma/ ] (AI engineering to simplify the visa process for immigration), Univ. of Missouri (biomedical GraphRAG research).

Competitions: Top 0.016% in Amazon ML Challenge 2024 (12th/75,000 teams) and ranked 11th/50,000 teams in Amazon HackOn 2024, UC Berkeley AGENTX-2025.

Open Source: EleutherAI's LMEvaluationHarness[ https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness ], HuggingFace's nanoVLM( https://github.com/huggingface/nanoVLM )[integrating metrics and GRPO training techniques], Pickle's Glass[added search functionality, adding knowledge base support for enterprises] , HyprNote[ https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote ] [removing silent responses and quantizing models for effective summarization]

I've attached all my profile links, hereby. https://debjyotiray.github.io/ https://github.com/DebjyotiRay https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fo-Xo10AAAAJ&hl=en.

Thanks for your time!
by musbemus | 2025-09-07 11:06:59+00:00
> And in the long run, the best way to get what you want is to deserve it.

Love this quote.

And just a comment on agency: it's not necessarily rewarded or even acknowledged in all environments. Some expect that you're literally a worker-robot and just need someone to carry out menial tasks from up top. You don't want to end up at one of these places, regardless of what your life situation is.
by dzaima | 2025-09-07 11:07:00+00:00
Problem is it doesn't affect outcome at all unless you do mutation, and as such testing is irrelevant, but still can significantly impacts perf, and performance problems can take a while to surface; like, it may slowly grow from 0.1% of runtime to like 2%, low enough to not get get noticed at all at first, and still be too low to have significant thought put into it afterwards (but still way too high from a single missing character).

And, as you said, this is a meaningful difference in intent, so linting can't just blanket complain on every single instance of a non-&-ed argument.

And the difference in writing down intent is the wrong direction - doing a full nested object clone should require adding code in any sane language, whereas, in C++, making code clone takes.. negative one characters.

Whereas in Rust, the only thing that's ever implicit is a bitwise copy on objects with constant size; everything else requires either adding &-s or .clone()s, or your code won't compile.
by jakobnissen | 2025-09-07 11:07:25+00:00
I don't think anonymous companies make sense ethically, and they're demonstrably causing harm to society by enabling corruption and money laundering.

To address your concern, I think the problem is that a) the address is publically available in your country, and b) your police is so violent that they weaponize prank calls to lethal threats. That's an issue of shit policing.

The idea that you can exercise power in society and have zero accountability and demand to stay anonymous is either a) an cyberpunk fantasy, or b) a cleptocrat's dream.
by mattlondon | 2025-09-07 11:07:52+00:00
FWIW I take his writings with a hefty pinch of salt these days. It seems incredibly concentrated on OpenAI to the detriment of anything else. This was only cemented when he ended up appearing on some OpenAI marketing video.

This is fine. He is his own person and can write about whatever he wants and work with whoever he wants, but the days when I'd eagerly read his blog to get a finger of the pulse of all of the main developments in the main labs/models has passed, as he seems to only really cover OpenAI these days, and major events from non-OpenAI labs/models don't seem to even get a mention even if they're huge (e.g. nano banana).

That's fine. It's his blog. He can do what he wants. But to me personally he feels like an OpenAI mouthpiece now. But that's just my opinion.
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-07 11:08:23+00:00
Spending thousands of words to essentially say "ChatGPT's search feature works pretty well now" with mundane examples like finding UK cake pop availability or identifying buildings from train windows. This has been done before by less capable models - it's just a rehash. Should we expect newer models getting worse? The breathless "Research Goblin" framing and detailed play-by-play of basic web searches feels like padding to make a now routine tool use seem revolutionary.
by defrost | 2025-09-07 11:08:56+00:00
In our part of rural Australia ute (utility vehicle) is largely reserved for the classic Australian Ute (eg: 1974 HQ Holden Ute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztnXaND-Xo) which is a non US car footprint that'd be at home in Europe, cut down from a family sedan to be a single front bench seat in a two door cab, with everything behind as a tray.

Other parts of Australia do vary

As such things get bigger, get more doors, and veer towards a US size they get called crew cabs, trucks, pickup's, etc.

The wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)

Traditionally, the term referred to vehicles built on passenger car chassis and with the cargo tray integrated with the passenger body (coupé utility vehicles). However, present-day usage of the term "ute" in Australian English and New Zealand English has expanded to include any vehicle with an open cargo area at the rear, which would be called a pickup truck in other countries.

doesn't speak for all Australians and veers toward city usage.
by SapporoChris | 2025-09-07 11:09:15+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_bombing#World_War_II "These provided impressive accuracy—British post-raid analysis showed that the vast majority of the bombs dropped could be placed within 100 yards (91 m) of the midline of the beam, spread along it a few hundred yards around the target point, even in pitch-dark conditions at a range of several hundred miles. But the systems fatally depended on accurate radio reception, and the British invented the first electronic warfare techniques to successfully counter this weapon in the 'Battle of the Beams' "

I do hope wherever you are from that your cities are larger than a few hundred yards.
by arvinaq | 2025-09-07 11:09:21+00:00
I often needed to compress or resize images, so I built a small web app for it. It’s completely free, runs fully in the browser, and does not upload your files anywhere — everything stays local.

Features:

Compress images without losing much quality

Resize to any dimensions

Batch processing

Supports many formats (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, etc.)

I mainly built this for myself but thought others might find it useful too. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome!
Show HN: An Open Source XR(AR/VR) Operating System
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-07 11:09:43+00:00
We're two college students building an XR(AR/VR) native Operating System with a custom kernel. We're also Open Source so feel free to check our GitHub Repository- https://github.com/manaskamal/XenevaOS .

The journey hasn't exactly been easy, we've been criticized by a lot saying that whatever we're doing is impractical and that we're too ambitious. Regardless, we've been committed to reach our goal.

Here to answer all questions and doubts. Answering one question beforehand because we know someone is going to ask it -

Q: Why use your own kernel/ Why don't you use Linux/ Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel?

A: Using our own kernel helps us get rid of the baggage of legacy codes, bring the most optimal performance on our target hardware (XR/AR/VR) and achieve more efficiency than what we would've achieved on an existing kernel.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel, but just building Formula One racing tyres for it.
by ColinWright | 2025-09-07 11:10:00+00:00
I saw this here:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@jamey@toot.cat/115162618544000037

That post says:

> I found an interesting paper about turning plastics into syngas. (Syngas is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that's useful for lots of things, including making various kinds of fuel, or even feeding to bacteria to make protein for food.)

> Their method works at normal pressure and temperature, in a reaction driven by sunlight. They made these special metal sheets that you can put in water with microplastics. Over a couple days, most of the plastic disappears. They tested PE plastic bags, PP plastic boxes and PET plastic bottles.

> And the way they made the sheets was basically "stir together these three chemicals you can buy online, heat, centrifuge, wash, and dry". It sounds maybe simple enough to try at home. Seems like a fun material to play with if the ingredients aren't too unsafe (I haven't checked safety yet).

> So I looked at how much actually buying those chemicals costs. It came to something like US$3,000 for the amount they made, which was less than a gram. Which no longer sounds quite so straightforward to try at home. I guess it's a catalyst, so it's not consumed by the reaction, but that's still a big investment as DIY projects go.

> Still a neat paper, though
by Mindfusefounder | 2025-09-07 11:10:10+00:00
Therapy is powerful, but it’s also expensive and often hard to access. What struck me recently is how much relief can come from something simpler: just being heard.

Sometimes the person who listens best isn’t a friend or a therapist — it’s a stranger. No baggage, no expectations, no history. Just someone on the other side of a conversation.

I started experimenting with this idea through mindfuse.io , which connects people for anonymous 1:1 voice conversations. It’s not therapy — but the effect can feel surprisingly similar.

Curious what you think:

Do you see potential in strangers as “therapeutic listeners”?

Or do you believe only professional therapy can provide that kind of relief?
by miguelgrinberg | 2025-09-07 11:10:14+00:00
To clarify this, note that the extensions are entirely optional, and unlike what you are saying, most do not require any dependencies.

The only two extensions that use dependencies are the one that adds template rendering, and the one that implements secure user sessions.

For templates, you can use Jinja on CPython (where you wouldn't normally have space issues), or the uTemplate library (https://github.com/pfalcon/utemplate) on MicroPython, which is quite small.

For secure sessions, on CPython you have to add PyJWT. On MicroPython you need to add the HMAC and JWT modules from the MicroPython standard library, which are not installed by default. These are also very small.
by aqme28 | 2025-09-07 11:10:27+00:00
> Yes, I would, simply because I can see you’ve put a lot of effort in and created something high quality. But I’d have some reservations because of the concerns I’ve raised above and, in particular, I’d want to dig in to how user-centred your approach is, because that isn’t really demonstrated here.

Then the site satisfied its purpose. A portfolio site should get you an interview with someone who is curious to know more. Its purpose is to be a foot in the door, not to get you the job.
by Letstalk123 | 2025-09-07 11:10:50+00:00
Every app today seems designed for one thing: to fragment attention. Infinite feeds, notifications, and algorithmic noise keep us swiping — but they also train our brains to never sit still.

What struck me is how different I feel after a real conversation. When I’m talking to someone — especially one-on-one — I can’t multitask, I can’t swipe, I’m just there. It feels like the opposite of scrolling: my focus sharpens, my mind clears.

I started experimenting with this idea by building mindfuse.io : a platform for anonymous 1:1 voice conversations instead of feeds. It’s simple, but it feels like it reclaims attention in a way other apps don’t.

Curious to hear from HN:

Do you think conversations can actually restore focus in a distracted age?

Or is our attention too far gone to be repaired this way?
by graemep | 2025-09-07 11:10:56+00:00
That is true, but the majority of rich people pay other people to manage their investments. They might manage the family business or similar but there are who industries and careers built around managing rich people's money (private banking, family offices, etc.).

I have met quite a lot of rich people in real life and I do not recognise your description. It is true hustle is for plebs, because hustle is born of desperation, but rich people act much the same as non-hustling plebs.
by jordanb | 2025-09-07 11:13:06+00:00
Like most Malcom Gladwell works this is confused and sloppy.

The "bomber mafia" (they didn't call themselves this) were prewar strategists who thought you could destroy an enemy's ability to fight by hitting his strategic and tactical assets with bombers.

Basically they thought that bombers would be to the next war what artillery was in WWI.

What ended up happening is level bombing wasn't very precise, it was often hard to identify the correct targets, and modern mechanized war machines were more resilient than expected so bombers ended up not being as decisive as expected.

"Area bombing" or "carpet bombing" and the strategy to "dehouse and demoralize the population" were tactics developed during the war when the earlier tactics weren't working.
by noodlesUK | 2025-09-07 11:13:54+00:00
I just don’t believe that people should be allowed to benefit from limited liability if they aren’t willing to share ownership information and addresses of service if the corporate veil needs to be pierced. I get that people deserve privacy of their home addresses and similar but I feel the public benefit of being able to hold people accountable for their actions is very important. You need to know who you’re entitled to sue if you have a cause of action.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-07 11:14:03+00:00
> Then there's that super old problem where the settings app opens in a tiny window and cannot be resized.

It still amazes (and infuriates) me when I try to use Windows for something and see a non-resizeable window pop up. Often it's for things that really need to be resized (e.g. iSCSI LUNs) so instead you have to scroll around lots and maybe write things down as the GUI is so old and unusable.