MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-09-17 16:45:25+00:00
My cynical view is that it's mostly trade war and nationalism. If you follow the official PRC position, the chips are already made in China because TW is CN... Practically buying TW chips is boosting it's economy and hence funding it's military so from that perspective that makes sense. From long term development perspective this will absolutely boost national market... however that will take an insane amount of time. If you buy into AI is going to change everything hype, this move is a huge handicap and hence a boon to external economies. And I am probably missing a ton of viewpoints... politics meh
by what_was_it | 2025-09-17 16:46:43+00:00
Yes! This is the real question.

I wrote about this (as a tangent, but anyway) recently. https://asemic-horizon.com/2025/07/28/julian/

TL;DR "akrasia", procrastination etc. are all forms of ambivalence that are not nearly as "psychological" and individual as usually presented. The nausea is in the world itself.
by DenisM | 2025-09-17 16:46:57+00:00
We kinda move from the situation “LLM can only do what it seen before” to “LLM can do something by composing several things it has seen before”. We didn’t get to the situation “LLM can do things it has not seen before”.

The practicality of the situation is that a lot of problems fall into the second bucket. We all like to think we deal with novel problems, but most of what we can think of was already considered by another human and captured by llm. You had to invent something deliberately unique, and that’s telling. Most startup ideas are invented more than once, for example.

The key shortcoming of the llm is that it is not aware of its own limits. If it ever becomes aware it can outsource such rare things to mechanical Turk.
by bobcorponoi | 2025-09-17 16:47:41+00:00
I have a similar issue, I can find motivation to start something but then it spirals into other things.

For $100 million I would probably just learn to put on the scuba gear but for instance my mind would go to "I should make my own scuba gear". So for a personal project I start on something and decide I need something else, so then I want to make a tool to help me make that thing and so on. I think it's probably related to a shorter attention span so I'm working on that.
Show HN: Web-based 2D geometry calculator
by ccorcos | 2025-09-17 16:48:03+00:00
I often find myself trying to solve a geometry problem where the constraints are really simple to understand, but solving it algebraic is really hard and tedious.

I built this whole thing from scratch with Claude Code. It's my first time trying it and I literally did not write a single line of code...

That said, it still would be hard build this as a novice. I had to guide things along the happy path, but it saved me a ton of time!

The code is open source! Let me know if you run into any issues.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-17 16:48:12+00:00
HttpClient is relatively new and getting HTTP/3 support next spring, so it’s certainly not falling into the dead weight category. You are probably confusing it with an older version from Java 1.1/1.4.

As for XML, JAXP was a common way to deal with it. Yes, there’s Xstream etc, but it doesn’t mean any of standard XML APIs are obsolete.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-17 16:48:13+00:00
I have participated in a company-wide meeting not that long ago and as a corporate veteran of sorts, I have never heard such a high amount of new corporate friendly neologisms in such a short amount of time. Corporate bingo would have been over 3 minutes flat. There is a part of me that is amused, because people saying those words clearly did not believe them ( delivery was very flat ), but it does make me question the future of our language.

My initial pet theory was that is going to be more uniform as a result, but now... I am not so certain.
by tsunamifury | 2025-09-17 16:48:39+00:00
There is a significant difference in a population of 70 million educated workers who need to be maintained for high performance and 400 million low skill workers who are highly replaceable.

I am trying to make no judgement here, just explaining then 'motivational environment'

This math of course is in flux to a degree we haven't seen in maybe 1000+ years though right now.
by cornholio | 2025-09-17 16:48:41+00:00
This is a totally predictable result, there are dozens of HPV strains and the vaccine will immunize against 9 of them that are high risk.

So, unless you are a sex worker or similar, it's unlikely you "have" all of them to the point where the vaccine is completely useless. You might later get infected with a strain that you didn't yet have, and it's precisely the one that kills you.
by thepryz | 2025-09-17 16:48:56+00:00
Sorry, but I find this to be an excuse.

Voters can hold elected officials accountable by not re-electing politicians, not donating to them, and supporting candidates that will better represent them.

The problem is that most citizens are not civically knowledgeable or engaged which is why we continue to have to choose the lesser of two evils that are often the same in policy.
by llbbdd | 2025-09-17 16:49:16+00:00
Sure, the alternative view is just as wild to me, and I've travelled plenty both ways. It's only expensive if you don't value the advantages, and even in absolute terms it doesn't cost much more. Public transit is for me way more stressful because crowds are annoying, train and bus schedules are annoying, people are inconsiderate and you have no control over it at all. The worst part of public transit is the public; I love going to the theatre but I've mostly stopped for the same reason and got a nice setup at home instead. It's not IMAX but IMAX isn't that fun anyway with a bad audience.

Cars are clean and if they aren't, there's a rating system for that. Bus is dirty? The city will surely see to your ticket eventually.

Cars are uncomfortable? Pay another couple dollars and Uber will send you an SUV just for you if you want. Try offering a couple dollars to the people sandwiching you on either side on the subway and see if it makes you more comfortable.

I've never had a license beyond a temp, my family doesn't own a car. I agree driving is stressful, which is why I prefer to pay people who drive for a living to do it for me, so it's not about driving for driving's sake, it's about what's comfortable to use and convenient. Most public transit is neither.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-17 16:49:57+00:00
I think it's mostly about accepting that you are the one in control. The problem of "getting yourself to do something" is poorly formulated, as though some other person was in charge of your actions that you have to convince to do what you want.

This confused conviction is the real problem. There is no other you to convince. The same you that you are bargaining with to do the thing is the same you that's doing the bargaining. You can at any moment just do it.
by Mukesh_dhal17 | 2025-09-17 16:50:17+00:00
Hi Community,

I’ve recently published a blog on “HR Professional Day” ; a day dedicated to recognizing the incredible impact HR teams have on organizations. The article explores:

What HR Professional Day is and why it matters

The many hats HR wears (from recruiter to culture builder)

Key challenges HR faces today

Why recognition is crucial

5 meaningful ways to celebrate HR Professional Day

Sharing this with the community to spark discussions and appreciation for HR professionals who keep workplaces thriving. Would love your thoughts and feedback!
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-17 16:50:40+00:00
Tesla has done some good things --- and some bad things --- like "fixing" stuff that wasn't broken.

Mechanical door latches weren't broken --- but Tesla decided to fix them in order to prevent people from exiting after an accident.

Basic data near the drivers line of sight wasn't broken either --- but Tesla fixed it so drivers are forced to take their eyes off the road just to see how fast they're going.

If they really wanted to be futuristic, why not a heads up display?

https://www.cars.com/articles/which-cars-have-head-up-displa...
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-17 16:50:41+00:00
>If you have knowledge of a withdrawal and even a rough ball park of that amount, then you can probably determine it was a phone purchase.

I mean, this is only true if you pull out money once just for this one purchase. If you pull out money regularly and make most of your purchases with that cash, it would be incredibly difficult. If I pull out $500-$1000 per week in cash, with occasional $1,500-$2,000 weeks, there would be very little ability to know if I was buying a phone on a $2,000 week or a car repair. If a $1,500 week was a regular week with a fancy dinner, or a low expense week with a phone purchase.

It would be like trying to tell what you bought with the credit card you use for all your expenses by only looking at the size of the payment each month from your bank account.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-17 16:50:55+00:00
I was about to say "Disallow forwarding". The problem with most networks (and in the old days, even emails), was that the bulk of the material I'd get from people I personally know were not original content, but memes, humor, or political content being forwarded.

But this may serve an equivalent purpose:

> And finally, there should be a reasonable cap on the number of times a user can post per day. Roughly 5 times per day feels like the upper threshold of what you can post while being intentional about what it is you're posting.

Amusingly, just yesterday I said in a comment:

"Imagine you have a quota of only 1 HN comment per day. You probably will be a lot more careful on what you reply to."
by modeless | 2025-09-17 16:51:42+00:00
It's not just visual. You also need a representation of the rules of the game and the strategies that make sense. The puzzles I'm solving are not straight Sokoban, they have per-game varying rules that need to be discovered (again, ARC-AGI-3 style) that affect the strategies that you need to use. For example, in classic Sokoban you can't push two crates at once, but in some of the puzzles I'm using you can, and this is taught by forcing you to do it in the first level, and you need to remember it through the rest of the levels. This is not a purely visual concept and models still struggle with it.
by tguvot | 2025-09-17 16:51:54+00:00
the atlantic article from almost exactly year ago: https://archive.is/wKScw

Brett McGurk would push back against the complaints, invoking his stint overseeing the siege of Mosul during the Obama administration, as the U.S. attempted to drive ISIS from northern Iraq: We flattened the city. There’s nothing left. What standard are you holding these Israelis to?

It was an argument bolstered by a classified cable sent by the U.S. embassy in Israel in late fall. American officials had embedded in IDF operating centers, reviewing its procedures for ordering air strikes. The cable concluded that the Israeli standards for protecting civilians and calculating the risks of bombardment were not so different from those used by the U.S. military.

When State Department officials chastised them over the mounting civilian deaths, Israeli officials liked to make the very same point. Herzl Halevi, the IDF chief of staff, brought up his own education at an American war college. He recalled asking a U.S. general how many civilian deaths would be acceptable in pursuit of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the jihadist leader of the anti-American insurgency in Iraq. The general replied, I don’t even understand the question. As Halevi now explained to the U.S. diplomats, Everything we do, we learned at your colleges.
by seatac76 | 2025-09-17 16:51:57+00:00
Everglades as a biological system is perhaps one of the most unique things in the world.

I don’t think there is one like this.

It was eye opening to visit, have never been this close to Aligators.

It should be preserved in totality, for as long as we can, it is an American treasure. Unsustainable building in Florida is not a good enough reason to drain the Everglades.
by jstimpfle | 2025-09-17 16:52:09+00:00
It gets better with experience. You can have a minimal base layer of common but rarely changing functionality. You can reduce static inline functions in headers. You reduce data structure definitions, but put only forward declarations in header files. (Don't use C++ methods, at least don't put them in an API, because they force you to expose your implementation details needlessly). You can separate data structures from functions in different header files. Grouping functions together with types is often a bad idea since most useful functionality combines data from two or more "unrelated" types -- so you'd rather make function headers "by topic" than putting them alongside types.

I just created a subsystem for a performance intensive application -- a caching layer for millions or even billions of objects. The implementation encompasses over a 1000 LOC, but the header only includes <stdint.h>. There are about 5 forward struct declarations and maybe a dozen function calls in that API.

To a degree it might be stockholm syndrome, but I feel like having had to work around a lot of C's shortcomings I actually learned quite a lot that helps me in architecting bigger systems now. Turns out a lot of the flexibility and ease that you get from more modern languages mostly allows you to code more sloppily, but being sloppy only works for smaller systems.
Do you guys use Anydesk or Teamviewer and are you looking for something new?
by lsswiss | 2025-09-17 16:52:33+00:00
As Teamviewer started to nag it's users to pay, the Anydesk team formed and created Anydesk. Now, as Anydesk starts to nag it's users, it is time for a new tool that works just as easy as it's predecessors.

Thus I am thinking to rewrite a new remote support Tool on the basis of HTML5, which is much faster because of it's WEBP support for screen sharing.

Basically what I need to do is to combine HTML5 Screensharing with a local tool that shares the Keyboard/Mouse input.

Would anyone of you guys be interested in it?

I am thinking to setup a crowd funding where all supporters would have free livetime access to the tool.
by lexicality | 2025-09-17 16:52:37+00:00
Sorry, I completely forgot about the existing semantic tree view element that exists and can be interacted with visually but doesn't provide any accessibility or keyboard support because the browser manufacturers decided to skip that one.

Or are you talking about a situation where the developer has implemented a custom component (aka "done something") which doesn't use the native focus system and therefore requires additional work to make accessible?
by nathane280 | 2025-09-17 16:52:43+00:00
This is a neat topic and love the format so far.

I’m curious to get your thoughts on the long-term future of the intercontinental submarine cables given advances in cheap high-bandwidth satellites, as proven out by SpaceX. In 100 years, are we still maintaining physical fiber across such distances? And is there a role and/or benefit of data centers in space?

I have a long drive coming up, will have to finish this and come back with more specific thoughts.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-09-17 16:52:56+00:00
It's maybe simpler than I thought at first.

The Norwegian deployment will be cheap to run and so easy to sell. It's clearly intended for people outside of Norway to use. So it's big.

The UK deployment will be expensive to run and only people who are limited to UK for regulatory reasons will want it. There are few such customers so it's small.
by yeahforsureman | 2025-09-17 16:53:04+00:00
I'm pretty sure that if this passes, the EU Court of Justice will eventually find it more or less in violation with EU fundamental rights.

That will take time, though, so I guess they are either hoping that some impossibly secure, reliable and unerring technologies emerge in the meantime, or they are prepared for a forever battle with the Court, coming up with ever new adjustments as soon as previous schemes get struck down[1], meanwhile allowing European law enforcement agencies to keep testing, developing and iterating on whatever client-side scanning or other techno-legal approaches they may come up with. I think this was roughly what they — ie, basically a group of a dozen or two law enforcement reps from different member states agencies and ministries along with like one lonely independent information security expert — said themselves in some working group report as part of some kind of Commission roadmap thing presented by von der Leyen not too long ago.

[1] On the data protection side we've already seen this kind of perpetual movement through the years with respect to different “safeguarding” mechanisms made available to enable transfers of personal data to the US without too much hassle, from Safe Harbor through Privacy Shield to the current Data Privacy Framework.
by KylieM | 2025-09-17 16:53:10+00:00
Author here – a few quick notes that didn’t fit in the main post:

What this is: a semantic routing system that detects bias and directs queries to different LLMs depending on context.

Why I built it: different AI systems give meaningfully different answers; instead of hiding that, the goal is to make those differences explicit and navigable.

Technical details:

Uses BGE-base-en-v1.5 embeddings (768-dim, 512 token capacity) via transformers.js.

Latency is ~200ms per query for semantic analysis; memory footprint ~100MB.

Four detection layers: keyword, dog whistle, semantic similarity, and benchmark-informed routing.

Goal optimization: routing decisions balance safety vs. performance. Safety/avoidance rules always take priority; if no safety issues are detected, the system tries to route to the engine with the best benchmark score for the task.

Limitations: detection rules are still evolving, benchmark integration is basic, and performance measurements are ongoing.

Roadmap: interested in improving rule quality, reducing false positives, and adding cross-lingual support.

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback, especially about use cases or edge cases worth testing.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-09-17 16:53:17+00:00
Usually when I have polymorphism I have some algorithm that operates on an array or graph of mixed instances of BaseClass. For any particular graph I know statically which concrete nodes I want and their arrangement. Factory really only made sense to me if you want to delay the actual creation of the array members, if the decision comes from something external, or if their creation is deeply entangled with their environment in a way you couldn't otherwise avoid repeating.
by putzdown | 2025-09-17 16:53:52+00:00
This is very well said. It's horrifying, but very well said and very true. Sometimes the situation is just plain bleak. I have been unemployed for more than a year twice; I've been unemployed or underemployed for about 5 years in total. This despite accomplishing great things while employed and being well-regarded at past jobs. For me, each time the cloud has eventually passed and new work has come along, but that doesn't help until it actually happens.
by palmotea | 2025-09-17 16:53:59+00:00
> Eh, quality of life has gone to the moon in China in living memory. Not nearly as much a positive delta here in the US.

The Chinese rural population still isn't eligible for local equivalent of social security in their old age (that's only for city folks), and IIRC there was a huge unwillingness to provide financial assistance to individuals during COVID.
by mock-possum | 2025-09-17 16:54:02+00:00
These labels are unintuitive.

‘Bin’ is a generic empty container, and specific slang for a trash can. It might stand for ‘binary’ but what’s the difference between ‘binary’ 1s and 0s and ‘binaries’ aka compiled executables?

‘Etc’ is a dismissive way to refer to there being more things, too numerous to list: X, Y, Z, etc. in no way does it relate to configuration or options or settings or preferences.

‘Lib’ is fine I guess, but also what are libraries. If I ask my mom “what libraries do you have on your computer?” She’s going to be 1) confused and 2) assume I mean ebooks. I’m a programmer so I have a concept of what a library is - but how does that relate to my OS? Is it packages? Is it utilities? Is it frameworks?

accessible, intuitive, usable UX is a Very Hard Problem, there’s a reason it isn’t trivially solved with directory names like ‘bin,’ rather with elements of layout, colour, iconography, typography, you know, a GUI.

Users don’t want to solve a logic puzzle in order to interact with their computer.
by seec | 2025-09-17 16:54:13+00:00
I agree very much.

People arguing about photo quality on phones (and particularly iPhones who always have smaller sensors to begin with) is just proper nonsense. No matter what garbage AI processing they come up for the picture, they still take pretty bad photos that only look good when they are viewed on device with their small size and embellishing displays.

But there are always a bunch of idiots who want to show off instead of shutting up and actually taking worthwhile photos with proper hardware.

To me they are like the housewives who can't stop arguing about their trashy cooking robot that are supposed to do everything but can't do a single thing right. If they could just shut up and just learn the skills, their cooking would be infinitely better.
by resonaX | 2025-09-17 16:54:35+00:00
thanks bix6. - Video point is totally taken, it was my first time recording a demo so I guess went a bit longish but will try to shorten. - great idea about defaults like 20M ARR SaaS CMO, SaaS Founder etc. Just that by putting a linkedin profile it becomes hyper-personalised. - if a profile is private, we use publicly available data + behavioral patterns from similar personas in our database. - Right now users compare responses to their actual customer conversations. I'm seeing 65-70% alignment on messaging preferences. But you're right - having human advisors validate the AI responses could be a premium feature.

I would love it if you could create a digital twin by just a linkedin profile of even someone yo know or yours and tell me how accurate you think responses are. Would mean the world to me ;)
by qsort | 2025-09-17 16:55:37+00:00
I do expect this package to make connecting easier, but it was okay even before. ODBC connectivity via pyodbc has always worked quite well and it wasn't really any different when compared to any other ODBC source. I'm more on the data engineering side and I'm very picky about this kind of stuff, I don't expect the average user would even notice besides the initial pain of configuring ODBC from scratch.
by nailer | 2025-09-17 16:55:49+00:00
> HN hasn't changed in that way

You have written you've manually unflagged stories, and from the tone of it that seems like a change.

I know 'HN has gone downhill' is an old meme but manually unflagging seems to be a new moderation behaviour and the amount of political posts is high. Hence people commenting on them.

> it wouldn't make it ok to break the rules

What rules have I broken? You seem to think I've been uncivil, I've been incredibly civil as previously discussed. The best example is me responding to a troll with their own language back at them.

> Pointing the finger at other users is not a good way to respond when you have been breaking the rules.

I raised what you were doing with moderation weeks ago and you didn't respond.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-17 16:56:24+00:00
Do any of those networks limit the number of posts you can make a day?

Do they limit forwarding? Or give users an option not to be shown forwarded messages?

For me, unlimited posts (or rather, minimal friction in posting), and blind forwarding are what destroy social media. If you can make only 3 public/group posts a day, chances are lower they will be crap.

I'm on Mastodon. It's only very mildly nice. The reality is that it still suffers from all of this. I still have to cut off connections because of the guy who's always ranting about some politician/political party.

Increase the friction for people who want to rant!