MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-23 19:02:27+00:00
This is less useful than most people expected. Redwood has been struggling because the expected battery turnover is not occurring. EV batteries are lasting a long time, so they stay in the car are and not being recycled or reused in any quantity yet.

If EV batteries last 20+ years in EV's, it'll be > 2040 before there are significant numbers of EV batteries available to recycle or reuse.

https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/
by pessimizer | 2025-10-23 19:02:49+00:00
> The researchers quoted in the article are, essentially, defining collusion as knowing what competitors prices are.

It really is just another display about how injured the concept of "collusion" always was. Plenty of competitors have met in smokey rooms in order to fix prices, but you don't actually have to speak to each other to agree that if all of you can maximize your profits together, you should. Everybody knows how much everybody else is charging.

The ideal competition myth only works in a fictional zero-cost startup, zero-cost supplier, zero-cost distribution scenario. In real life if you try to enter a market with a few competitors with super high margins, they'll just threaten to freeze anybody who buys from you or sells to you out of the market, then offer you a ticket into their cartel.

Doesn't make it not evil, though, and it doesn't mean it's not an essential function of government to stop it. Government can't allow powerful little subgovernments to build up. You might as well allow paramilitary militias.
by hollerith | 2025-10-23 19:02:50+00:00
I wish there were some term other than addiction here: addicts routinely steal from friends and family to feed their addiction; addicts who are parents sometimes threaten to stop allowing their children to visit with a grandparent unless the grandparent helps the addict pay for the addiction; drug addicts living in violent neighborhoods sometimes agree to murder somebody in exchange for drugs.

Screen addicts almost never stoop that low and the ones that do are addicted to a cam girl (e.g., Grant Amato), porn or gambling, not Netflix (or social media).
by Terr_ | 2025-10-23 19:03:03+00:00
Historical comparison: "I just had a pizza delivered on the new Segway and it was super duper cool because they came right into the conference center, so say goodbye to cars and bikes, by 2025 it's all going to be Personal People Movers!"

That said, I think LLMs will have a bigger effect than a self-balancing scooter, both positively and negatively.
by alecco | 2025-10-23 19:03:04+00:00
Claude Code became almost unusable a week ago with completely broken terminal flickering all the time and doing pointless things so you end up running out of weekly window for nothing.

I guess OpenAI got it right to go slower with a Rust CLI. It lacks a lot of features but it's solid. And it is much better at automatically figuring out what tools you have to consume less tokens (e.g. ripgrep). A much better experience overall.
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-23 19:03:28+00:00
>Audiences will turn to professional wrestling and roller derby because those athletes have integrity

You know what the sad part is?

They won't.

Wrestling and roller derby would need to give audiences something to bet on before they would switch from football-soccer-basketball-baseball.

A switch away from the popular bet-able sports will never happen in the absence of another set of corrupt bet-able sports.
by IMTDb | 2025-10-23 19:03:30+00:00
> Magistrats is a broad term that also include Procureurs, Judges but also some Lawyers.

The also is key: "Juge d'instructions" absolutely are "Magistrats" - just like Procureurs, etc are. Some of those "Juge d'instructions" are part of this union who put a target on the back of some politicians. How can they claim with a straight face that they are not biased ?

Either they know it's bullshit and they are simply lying; or they really believe their claims and they are just delusional. I don't know which one I prefer.
by malux85 | 2025-10-23 19:03:31+00:00
Speak up citizens!

Email the state congressman and tell them what you think.

Since (pretty much) nobody does this, if a few hundred people do it, they will sit up and take notice. It takes less people than you might think.

Since coordinating this with a bunch of strangers (I.e. the public) is difficult, the most effective way is to normalise speaking up in our culture. Of course normalising it will increase the incoming comm rate, which will slowly decrease the effectiveness but even post that state, it’s better than where we are, which is silent public apathy
by bruce343434 | 2025-10-23 19:03:52+00:00
Did you use the documentation to figure out the proxying? I can't see a clear path of how to reconcile giving the responsibility of certs to another software, but still having stalwart use them for imap and smtp tls. And do you have the stalwart web interface running on www.yourdomain, or did you manage to get it working on a different subdomain? I don't see the config syntax in the docs for changing that
by xpe | 2025-10-23 19:04:06+00:00
> I wish they’d stop with the anthropomorphizations

You mean in how Claude interacts with you, right? If so, you can change the system prompt (under "styles") and explain what you want and don't want.

> Claude doesn’t “think” anything

Right. LLMs don't 'think' like people do, but they are doing something. At the very least, it can be called information processing.* Unless one believes in souls, that's a fair description of what humans are doing too. Humans just do it better at present.

Here's how I view the tendency of AI papers to use anthropomorphic language: it is primarily a convenience and shouldn't be taken to correspond to some particular human way of doing something. So when a paper says "LLMs can deceive" that means "LLMs output text in a way that is consistent with the text that a human would use to deceive". The former is easier to say than the latter.

Here is another problem some people have with the sentence "LLMs can deceive"... does the sentence convey intention? This gets complicated and messy quickly. One way of figuring out the answer is to ask: Did the LLM just make a mistake? Or did it 'construct' the mistake as part of some larger goal? This way of talking doesn't have to make a person crazy -- there are ways of translating it into criteria that can be tested experimentally without speculation about consciousness (qualia).

* Yes, an LLM's information processing can be described mathematically. The same could be said of a human brain if we had a sufficiently accurate enough scan. There might be some statistical uncertainty, but let's say for the sake of argument this uncertainty was low, like 0.1%. In this case, should one attribute human thinking to the mathematics we do understand? I think so. Should one attribute human thinking to the tiny fraction of the physics we can't model deterministically? Probably not, seems to me. A few unexpected neural spikes here and there could introduce local non-determinism, sure... but it seems very unlikely they would be qualitatively able to bring about thought if it was not already present.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-10-23 19:04:27+00:00
If you ask, the leaders in that area of Google will tell you something like "we're actually HELPING users because we're giving them targeted ads that are for the things they're looking for at the time they're looking for it, which only makes things for the user better." Then you show them a picture of YouTube ads or something and it transitions to "well, look, we gotta pay for this somehow, and at least's it's free, and isn't free information for all really great?"
by jeffbee | 2025-10-23 19:05:15+00:00
There is one constant to all these conversations and that is Silicon Valley tech dudes are grossly misinformed about the lifecycle of things. Solar panels don't wear out, batteries don't wear out as fast as they used to. This is evidenced both by undertaking weird dead-end startup ideas, and being susceptible to propaganda about the supposed downsides of solar energy and batteries.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-10-23 19:05:52+00:00
That was my first thought as well. A worry is police officers make mistakes which leads to anywhere from hapless people getting terrorized, harmed or killed. The bad thing about AI is it'll allow police to escape responsibility. Perhaps also where a human will realize it made a mistake they can admit it and everything is okay. But if AI says you had a gun, it won't walk that back. AI said he had a gun. But when we checked, he didn't have it anymore.

In the Menezes case the cops were playing a game of telephone that ended up with him being shot in the head.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-23 19:06:52+00:00
Musk, paraphrased: "I want all the perks and benefits and everything Tesla being public has afforded me. But I don't like the downsides, and other inconveniences, so really, I should be given enough money so that I can keep all those benefits but eliminate all the risk."

Also:

> Tesla’s board said the package is needed keep him focused on Tesla given all his other holdings and interests.

Just wow. "If he doesn't get this $1T package, he'll be distracted, and it's not good enough for him. So rather than finding someone who might be willing to run Tesla for <$1T TC, we should, uh, just give it to him."

And people get upset that shareholders are challenging this in court.
by varispeed | 2025-10-23 19:06:59+00:00
That's not exactly correct. You can totally read whole sentences or paragraphs at once without having to piece individual words together.

I can give you an analogy that should hopefully help. If you look at a house, you don't look at the doors, windows, facade, roof individually, then ponder how they are related together to come to a conclusion that it is a house. You immediately know. This is similar with reading. It might require practice though (and a lot of reading!).
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-23 19:07:00+00:00
Assuming a normal election where the pendulum swings back and a normal transfer of power (no certain things), the outgoing President could pardon everyone from his chiefs of staff and cabinet officers to low-level federal law enforcement on the way out, and then the Democrats would wring their hands and say there's nothing they can do, bar some large scale political realignment where Republicans lost control of numerous state legislatures and governorships by a large margin, as well as in Congress.

The best opportunity for a major restructuring of the legal environment would bea Constitutional Convention, but because Republicans have pursued this as a strategic goal for a while, Democrats invested all their relevant energies in being against it rather than developing any kind of strategy of their own, guaranteeing that they would get rolled if one actually took place because they went in with wholly defensive mindset and no plan to win. The fundamental flaw of the modern Democratic party is that it sees itself as a vehicle for competent management of the status quo, not a force for implementation of its voters' political aspirations. Thus is pays lip service of what its supporters want but operates to dampen and delay those same supporters whenever it gets into office in the name of continuity and responsibility. It operates on a combination of political rent seeking and fundamental conflict aversion.

This is why I find myself increasingly impatient with self-styled moderates. Wanting to talk things out and compromise is good, but it only works when there is mutuality between counterparties. When the political opposition is indifferent to questions of truthfulness or corruption, moderation degrades into appeasement; moderates will sell out their own supporters in the name of peace and quiet, while giving away the strategic initiative over and over. The previous Trump administration engineered a mob overrunning Congress in an attempt to stay in power, and only failed because the Vice President declined to aid the scheme; a mistake the current one surely doesn't intend to repeat. The incoming administration spent a great deal of energy prosecuting every footsoldier they could find who set foot inside the Capitol, but shied away from going after the people who actually organized it. The results speak for themselves.
by arivero | 2025-10-23 19:07:05+00:00
I am allowing my nephew to consult the tables or the calculator when solving step by step a long multiplication. The idea was that in this way she will finally memorise the tables via practising. But when consulting the tables she becomes distracted, and in the calculator she needs to look for the times and then the equals sign and then the continuity of the phrase "6 por 8, 48" is lost, I am afraid she gets the value "48" from the screen but separated from the "index key", "6 por 8".
by coldtea | 2025-10-23 19:07:13+00:00
> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It does however play a hugely important role in a recipe, in a way than the choice of language doesn't play in a program (especially considering turing completeness). So the analogy is broken.

Besides nobody made the point that list of ingredients makes a recipe.

Just that it's important to know the list of ingredients for a food you're gonna eat, and that it's even illegal to not disclose them (either to the public or a regulatory body) if you sell food.
by mscbuck | 2025-10-23 19:07:21+00:00
I have also anecdotally noticed it starting to do things consistently that it never used to do. One thing in particular was that even while working on a project where it knows I use OpenAI/Claude/Grok interchangeably through their APIs for fallback reasons, and knew that for my particular purpose, OpenAI was the default, it started forcing Claude into EVERYTHING. That's not necessarily surprising to me, but it had honestly never been an issue when I presented code to it that was by default using GPT.
by dreadsword | 2025-10-23 19:07:59+00:00
Thanks so much for the kind words - its 100% o3-mini for clustering. I have zero editorial input as to what constitutes a cluster, what's "top" news, etc.

The one subtlety is setting up the LLM to understand whether a new story belongs in an existing cluster, or with > 1 neighbors, constitutes a new cluster. The challenge there is scoping the clustering window (hours of stories for consideration) and topic breadth to avoid creating Katamari-super-clusters that just end up with every story associated to them.

At this point I seem to have found a sweet spot re: the hours window, the frequency of processing, and the design of the prompt such that its working consistently.

Very few false positives in terms of spurious clusters being created, or potential clusters being missed.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-23 19:08:31+00:00
From TFA:

David Roberts

When did automotive batteries become the majority of your input by volume?

Colin Campbell

That is a good question.

David Roberts

Was it recent or was that early on?

Colin Campbell

I would say the transition to EV batteries dominating what we received, it’s been in the last year or 18 months.

David Roberts

So the front edge of a very large wave of batteries has begun to arrive?

Colin Campbell

Yeah, the wave is out there, it’s coming. The waters have finally started to arrive at the beach here.
by giobox | 2025-10-23 19:08:35+00:00
Agreed, this is truly bizarre to me. Is OP not going to have to do this work all over again in x days time once the nodes fill with stale docker assets again?

AI can still be helpful here if new to scheduling a simple shell command, but I'd be asking the AI how do I automate the task away, not manually asking the AI to do the thing every time, or using my runners in a fashion that means I don't have to even concern myself with scheduled prune command calls.
by kragen | 2025-10-23 19:08:49+00:00
I'm not sure any of my secondary-school classes taught it, but I dropped out of secondary school to go to the university, so maybe they would have in the following year. In secondary school I was in the "smart kids" math track, though, and they also had an "average kids" track and a "dumb kids" track, and I really doubt those tracks covered it.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-10-23 19:08:53+00:00
The difference is that unlike USSR bureaucracy, these corporations' continued operations depend completely on the decisions (buy or not) of customers who they cannot coerce -- so their feet are far more held to the fire of market reality than totalitarian regime leaders. They do not have the power to force people not to vote with their wallets (not to mention with their feet).

As frustrating and corrupt as our market economy is, the oppression under regimes like the USSR and East Germany was unimaginably worse.

That being said, yes -- we badly need another round of legislative reform like the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and all the regulatory actions that followed.
by eastbound | 2025-10-23 19:09:24+00:00
Not applicable - As a society we’ve countless times chosen to favour the right of the mother to keep children above the rights of other humans. Most children are killed in the home of the mother (i.e. either by the mother, or where partner choice would have avoided that, while the father was available), or even worde in the Anders Breivik situation (father available with stable job and perspectives in life, but custody refused, child grew up a mass murderer as always).
by niko-ng | 2025-10-23 19:09:27+00:00
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by ModernMech | 2025-10-23 19:09:49+00:00
The essence of the problem is not political parties, we've had them for hundreds of years and nothing this bad has happened. The actual simplest essence of this problem is malignant narcissism and cult-like behavior embedded in political parties.

Donald Trump is an actual cult leader (Jim Jones was also a malignant narcissist), MAGA is an actual cult (not just a cult of personality), and they are also ostensibly but not actually a political party. Insofar as a two party system isn't ideal, it at least provides a level of stability. But when one of the two parties is an actual cult, then the whole thing falls over. Parties must not be cults. That's the root of our current predicament.

> It just so happens

This didn't just "happen", it was predicted far in advance, and not on the basis of parties but on the basis of antisocial personality disorders. For instance:

https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-unbearable-lightness-of-bein... and https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissi...

If we as a species are to flourish and prosper, we need to understand that our urgent and necessary task is transcending and dismantling of our narcissism, both individual and collective.

Note the date, May 13, 2016 to 2018. Her body of work from that time predicts with extreme prescience what has come to pass. Thinking back to when she made these predictions, people called her crazy, alarmist, unprofessional, all ignored her warnings. And yet, she turned out to be 100% right, even predicting the insurrection years before J6. Even as Trump was calling for a mob to descend on Congress days before J6, people refused to believe it would happen. Yet she got it right just by being lucid about who Trump is at his core.

How did she do it? She used her professional experience to recognize Trump as a malignant narcissist, and her lived experience as a Polish national who watched the rise of authoritarianism in her country to put 2 + 2 together.

So it wasn't something that "just happened" as if it was only a matter of time before Democrats act this way. There are precise reagents needed to make it happen. Political parties are necessary but not sufficient. The cult leader is the necessary ingredient that was missing. People who knew what to look for recognized it early, called it out, predicted this would happen, and they were ignored.

We can't rewrite that history now, we have to learn the lessons we missed. "It just so happens to be the Republicans in power when the consequences of this have spiraled out of control" is not the lesson. "A two party system where one of the parties turns into an actual cult destabilizes completely" is the lesson.
by michaelmior | 2025-10-23 19:10:12+00:00
> No hub required - TOMMY runs as a Home Assistant add-on or on a Linux host (Docker) and uses supporting devices to create a sensing network.

I don't see how either the HA instance or the Linux host can't be viewed as a hub. No hub required feels untrue to me. I assume this question is intended to clarify that some additional device is not necessary, but I think this could be reworded.
by JokerDan | 2025-10-23 19:10:52+00:00
> not like they changed anything significant about the product itself

They had already done this months ago, they changed the licence and stripped a lot of the code of their admin UI/object browser. So a lot of the features vanished for people overnight if they updated. This is what the OP is linked to - a fork at the point that they did this. This was work already done, feature already widely in use, they decided to take it out of what was available to the community.

So the product has significantly changed and offering had been reduced. That in addition to the stopping of publishing images - both without notice - caused a decent bit off community 'wtf'.
by shrubble | 2025-10-23 19:11:14+00:00
The Bind resolver required each zone to have an increasing serial number for the zone.

So if you made a change you had to increase the number, usually a timestamp like 20250906114509 which would be older / lower numbered than 20250906114702; making it easier to determine which zone file had the newest data.

Seems like they sort of had the same setup but with less rigidity in terms of refusing to load older files.
by tptacek | 2025-10-23 19:11:22+00:00
I think you have to be careful with ideas like "the root cause". They underwent a metastable congestive collapse. A large component of the outage was them not having a runbook to safely recover an adequately performing state for their droplet manager service.

The precipitating event was a race condition with the DynamoDB planner/enactor system.

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
by dist-epoch | 2025-10-23 19:11:35+00:00
I wrote a similiar tool myself, mostly because your tool or repomix doesn't support "presets" (saved settings):

[client] root = "~/repo/client" include = [ "src/**/*.ts", "src/**/*.vue", "package.json", "tsconfig*.json", "*.ts", ] exclude = [ "src/types/*", "src/scss/*", ] output = "bundle-client.txt" $ bundle -p client

What do you do when you repeatedly need to bundle the same thing? Bash history?
Show HN: Generative UI: OSS "Imagine with Claude"
by anorak27 | 2025-10-23 19:11:41+00:00
Anthropic recently released an experiment called "Imagine with Claude" (https://claude.ai/imagine/). However, it was limited time only and available only for Pro and Max users which I am not.

I liked the idea and wanted to reverse engineer it just from public content like youtube videos and reviews.

Turns out, there were a bunch of limitations in their implementation

- The LLM cannot generate any JavaScript which means it cannot do any crazy animations

- They are capturing all user interactions using code and invoking the LLM with that info which means form data is not captured

I went ahead and implemented what they already had and a bit more

- All windows go into iframes which means it can have JavaScript

- I let the LLM write code to send iframe messages from any window to be invoked. This way the LLM writes the logic to invoke itself

You can also use this with both OpenAI and Anthropic models. Gemini models were not working well with these instructions.

I have hosted the app and you can use it by BYOK. There is no backend. LLM requests are made directly from your browser. There's no tracking and analytics as well.

This is a small experiment project that took me a couple of weekends and would love any feedback.