MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pcoz | 2025-10-05 14:17:22+00:00
Traditional knowledge graphs fail when applied uniformly to mixed documentation types. Force a well-organized spec through the same extraction pipeline as chaotic Slack threads and you either over-process structured content or under-extract from conversations. AILang's Knowledge Amalgamator solves this by processing documents according to their inherent structure. Well-structured docs (Confluence, specs) get minimal internalization—just outlines and anchors. Why re-serialize what's already navigable? Loosely-structured sources (Slack, email) undergo heavy extraction of decisions, risks, and procedures buried in conversations. The system uses a Person-based memory architecture that mirrors human cognition: separate episodic, semantic, and procedural memory types with natural boundaries between them. The lightweight schema eliminates massive ML costs while enabling production-grade reliability. GitHub: https://github.com/pcoz/ailang/tree/main/examples/knowledge_...
by gruez | 2025-10-05 14:17:42+00:00
>What about an app that reports every LEO (not just ICE) around you? What would that accomplish except benefit criminals?

Do you think apps like waze should also be illegal? What possible reason would you want location of speed trap except to speed with impunity? Moreover whether it "benefits criminals" is irrelevant here, because the current legal standard is imminent lawless action[1]. Otherwise that would be license to ban all manner of materials, from anarchists cookbook to DRM circumvention tools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
by pizza234 | 2025-10-05 14:17:46+00:00
You haven't read the article, which actually says the opposite:

> A few weeks ago, The Argument Editor-in-Chief Jerusalem Demsas asked me to write an essay about the claim that AI systems would take all of our jobs within 18 months. My initial reaction was … no?

[...]

> The problem is whether we will degrade our own capabilities in the presence of new machines. We are so fixated on how technology will outskill us that we miss the many ways that we can deskill ourselves.

[..]

> Students, scientists, and anyone else who lets AI do the writing for them will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-05 14:18:02+00:00
> Those "Arabs" are just taking your living room, aren't they?

Those Arabs were actually in the living rooms of my friends and co-workers two years ago, yes in fact. Two women I know had their babies burned to death. My daughter's classmate was murdered along with both his siblings and both his parents in their living room. My son's camp counselor was dragged off to Gaza and murdered - pulled out of his bedroom. I could go on and on and on, these are just examples of people whom the Arabs were in their living rooms recently. In fact, one man that I would occasionally have breakfast with, though he wasn't a close friend, is still in Gaza today. He was dragged out of his own living room or bedroom, yes.
by Ocha | 2025-10-05 14:18:35+00:00
Until coolify and similar projects support DB backups with streaming replication, it will just remain as a hobby project and won’t be used for anything customer facing.

Docker compose and bash script is all I need to run 2 vms, with hourly backups to s3 + wal streaming to s3 + PG and redis streaming replication to another vm. That is bare minimum for production
by shivhere | 2025-10-05 14:18:39+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Shivam, the founder of Cent Capital.

For years, I've felt that personal finance tools were either too complicated (rigid apps, endless spreadsheets) or had misaligned business models (selling data, pushing ads). This leads to a lot of stress and inaction for most people.

So, I decided to build Cent Capital. It's an AI-powered co-pilot that securely connects to your accounts and transforms your financial data into a simple, actionable plan. The goal isn't just to show you charts, but to give you clear, prioritized steps to improve your financial health.

It's a simple $1/month subscription—we'll never sell your data or run ads.

I've just launched the site and would love to get this community's honest feedback on the product concept, the landing page, and the mission.

Thanks for taking a look!
by bamboozled | 2025-10-05 14:18:43+00:00
It's happened to me recently, I've relied so much on LLMs for coding and after hours of spinning the wheel, I realized, it has no idea, when it fixes something it's mostly a guess, most I've the time we're just debugging by adding logging statements and the code we've created looks crap and is mostly wrong, full of fluff, or hard to understand.

I've been coding without my LLM for 2 hours and it's just more productive...yes it's good for getting things "working" but yeah, we still need to think and understand to solve harder problems.

My initial impressions blew me away because generating new things is a lot simpler than fixing old things, yes it's still useful, but only when you know what you're doing in the first place.
by gruez | 2025-10-05 14:19:07+00:00
>These locked down devices seems to be future tech is being pushed to. I suspect the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows is a first step in Locking Down Laptops and Desktops.

You mean the boogeyman that's been around for over a decade and precisely nothing has come of it? Moreover given the declining use of desktops/laptops, and the widespread prevalence of locked-down devices like smartphones, tablets, and streaming boxes, the battle over "locking down" has already been lost. If a company wants their app to run in a trusted environment, they can simply not offer a web version and enforce attestation (so you can't run it in an emulator or whatever).
by floundy | 2025-10-05 14:19:08+00:00
Yup that’s why I started self-hosting, when my wife got pregnant and we started to think about what technology access for our future kids would look like.

I started with CasaOS and Jellyfin. Quickly outgrew Casa and moved to learning Docker and setting up my own container stack, moving from media self-hosting to adding new containers of stuff like budgeting apps. I’m still working on building out my server but every container I add, the goal is basically to self-host a version of something I’m doing on a centralized service on the web and ultimately take my data and privacy back.

I will say some peoples’ elitist attitudes about stuff can be annoying and discouraging; it’s the same general spillover attitude from the Linux supremacy crowd. When I started with Casa I had someone basically tell me I was wasting my time and if I wasn’t running everything in VMs why bother. Which is entirely the opposite attitude to get “normies” and low technical literacy people on board, they need easy one-click install solutions like CasaOS. And if they decide to move onto something more complex, well I’m sure they can figure out how to reimage and rebuild their server in ProxMox or Docker as part of that.
by goku12 | 2025-10-05 14:19:24+00:00
I would have loved to engage in a conversation, if only to learn something new. But something in the way you framed your reply tells me that that's not what you have in mind. Instead, here's what Dr. Terrence Tao thinks about the same subject [1]. Honestly, I can relate to what he says.

I'm not someone who likes or promotes LLMs due to the utterly unethical acts that the big corporations committed to make profits with them. However, people often forget that LLMs are a technology that was developed by people who practice Mathematics and Computer Science. That was also PhD level work. The fact that LLMs got such a bad reputation has nothing to do with those wonderful ideas, but was a result of the greed of those who are obsessed with endless profits. LLMs aren't just about vacuuming up the IP on the internet, dumping kilotonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere or endless streams of AI slop and low effort fakes.

Human minds process logic and the universe in extraordinary ways. But it's still very limited in the set of tools it uses to achieve that. That's where LLMs and AI in general raise the tantalizing possibility of perceiving and interpreting domains under Mathematics and Physics in ways that no living being has ever done or even imagined. Perhaps its training data won't be stolen text or art. It could be the petabytes of scientific data locked up in storage because nobody knows what to do with it yet. And instead of displacing us, it's likely to complement and augment us. That's where the brilliance of mathematicians and scientists are going to be needed. Nobody knows for sure. But how will one know if you close the doors to that possibility?

I admire Dr. Tao for keeping his mind open to anything new at his age. I wish I had as much curiosity as him.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-become-ma...
Show HN: I built a design AI agent that never hallucinates
by vgabaz | 2025-10-05 14:19:56+00:00
As graphic designer turned software engineer, I realized a lot of my daily tasks are generating repeating templates for social media.

That's why I built Pablle - instead of prompting an image model, you plug in your existing templates, and generate new branded graphics via chat or API - in seconds. Since it's template based, it's always on brand, without hallucinations, and supports any dimensions.

You can use it for ads, certificates, social media posts, or any repeatable design workflow.

Would love your feedback!

Viktor
by Steltek | 2025-10-05 14:20:13+00:00
MacOS feels like Android. It's more mobile OS than desktop/laptop. It's theoretically open but you can absolutely feel the walls closing in around you: only signed binaries are trusted by the OS (no asked who you trust), apps not from the app store are scrutinized heavily, etc.

Given Apple's recent actions in the US, MacOS doesn't feel like something I'd be switching to.
by dcastonguay | 2025-10-05 14:20:20+00:00
My current opinion is that AI is just a thing that is going to further amplify our existing tendencies (on a person-to-person basis). I've personally found it to be extremely beneficial in research, learning, and the category of "things that take time because of the stuff you have to mechanically go through and not because of the brainpower involved". I have been able to spend so much more time on things that I feel require more human thinking and on stuff I generally enjoy more. It has been wonderful and I feel like I've been on a rocket ship of personal growth.

I've seen many other people who have essentially become meatspace analogues for AI applications. It's sad to watch this happen while listening to many of the same people complain about how AI will take their jobs, without realizing that they've _given_ AI their jobs by ensuring that they add nothing to the process. I don't really understand yet why people don't see that they are doing this to themselves.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-05 14:20:30+00:00
Neither Macron nor Merz are far left, or even left really. It's not clear they really have any political ideology whatsoever besides a mixture of 'whatever's convenient' and globalism. If they were far left, they'd have far higher approval than 30, let alone 17.

And that's the problem. With the "populist" candidates, you know what you're getting and if that's cool with you, then they actually make pretty decent candidates. But with these globalists, they seem to regularly behave in irrational ways that often are even self destructive. But again I think that's because most of them don't even particularly care much for their countries, or at least it's secondary to 'global' concerns. And that really doesn't appeal to many people even if they think it might, at first.
by komali2 | 2025-10-05 14:20:36+00:00
Coolify still requires root for installation, though they have a branch that doesn't that they're working on.

So you can just ssh in and do the coolify install and then switch off root login I guess, if you're willing to just blow away the server and start over if you ever needed to ssh in again.

I tried a from scratch coolify deploy recently and it kept failing with ssh key errors. On the other server we have it working and deploying many projects however the "just give it a docker compose" method has never worked for us.
by ashtonsix | 2025-10-05 14:21:28+00:00
Thank you so much for attempting a reproduction! (I posted this on Reddit and most commenters didn't even click the link)

For the baseline you need SIMDe headers: https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde/tree/master/simde. These alias x86 intrinsics to ARM intrinsics. The baseline is based on the previous State-of-The-Art (https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2137) which happens to be x86-based; using SIMDe to compile was the highest-integrity way I could think of to compare with the previous SOTA.

Note: M1 chips specifically have notoriously bad small-shift performance, so the benchmark results will be very bad on your machine. M3 partially fixed this, M4 fixed completely. My primary target is server-class rather than consumer-class hardware so I'm not too worried about this.

The benchmark results were cpy-pasted from the terminal. The README prose was AI generated from my rough notes (I'm confident when communicating with other experts/researchers, but less-so with communication to a general audience).
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-05 14:22:00+00:00
You arent wrong to note the deficiencies in the linked source. Still, did you click through to read the consumer reports article this blog post acrually about?

It itemizes the claims of seed oil opponents, then links to peer reviewed studies to refute most of them. All seem to be from reputable journals. None of the linked papers note that they've been retracted. Nobody is citing Facebook here, unlike some proponents of the theory that seed oil is the number one cause of "inflamation" or whatever.

That's pretty solid reporting, and exceeds my standard of evidence when it comes to health reporting for the most part.

Admittedly, linking to the blog instead of the actual article was silly.
by naasking | 2025-10-05 14:23:22+00:00
As the OP mentioned, restricted number ranges:

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Restricted_Number_Demo is -- Define a restricted subtype of Integer subtype Small_Positive is Integer range 1 .. 100; -- Define a restricted subtype of Float subtype Probability is Float range 0.0 .. 1.0; -- Variables of these restricted types X : Small_Positive := 42; P : Probability := 0.75; begin Put_Line("X = " & Integer'Image(X)); Put_Line("P = " & Float'Image(P)); -- Uncommenting the following line would raise a Constraint_Error at runtime -- X := 200; end Restricted_Number_Demo;
by techjamie | 2025-10-05 14:23:30+00:00
It comes down to how you use it, whether you're just getting an answer and moving on, or if you're getting an answer and then increasing your understanding on why that's the correct answer.

I was building a little roguelike-ish sort of game for myself to test my understanding of Raylib. I was using as few external resources as possible outside of the cheatsheet for functions, including avoiding AI initially.

I ran into my first issue when trying to determine line of sight. I was naively simply calculating a line along the grid and tagging cells for vision if they didn't hit a solid object, but this caused very inconsistent sight. I tried a number of things on my own and realized I had to research.

All of the search results I found used Raycasting, but I wanted to see if my original idea had merit, and didn't want to do Raycasting. Finally, I gave up my search and gave copilot a function to fill in, and it used Bresenham's Line Algorithm. It was exactly what I was looking for, and also, taught me why my approach didn't work consistently because there's a small margin of error when calculating a line across a grid that Bresenham accounts for.

Most people, however, won't take interest in why the AI answer might work. So while it can be a great learning tool, it can definitely be used in a brainless sort of way.
by _z7iw | 2025-10-05 14:23:43+00:00
You're just proving my point.

You have some growing up to do.

You have become worse than them. Until you admit this, you will not be better. And I know that you don't care about being better anymore. You're just a racist looking to wipe out an ethnic group, not even an ideology. It's in your words.

Shame on you. If and when history confirms that your self-entitlement was the cause of the attacks you would deny it for a long time, just as you are now.

By the way, you're talking to someone whose family is from there as well. You're not the only one who has lost people. What you are doing is attempting to justify the perpetuation of an asymmetric response because you cannot admit your own falsehood, ignorance, and lack of relational depth.

If you really are the stronger and more justified party, you can chill out and allow justice to take its course. Instead, you have lost the support of your allies because you have become the murderers you decried.

This conflict will stop when you can admit that. The obvious solution that you are proposing is the elimination of a group of people, not an ideology. And that is why you can go straight to hell.
by kqr | 2025-10-05 14:23:55+00:00
I think this is hard to argue against because you haven't defined what you mean by strict rules, but here are some positive outcomes of gambling:

- Insurance prevents financial catastrophe by aggregating risk, yet it is nothing more than wagering you'll get into trouble.

- Market liquidity is provided by people willing to bet on price developments, which smoothes out fluctuations in availability.

- Large infrastructure projects and charity donations been financed through lotteries -- it's a way to raise money without a guarantee of return.

- If you want to sell something which a single buyer cannot afford, and it is difficult to share, it can be sold through a lottery which lets buyers buy a ticket's expected value rather than the full cost of the thing.

These benefits still exist when unregulated, but of course it seems to work even better under the appropriate regulation.
by buran77 | 2025-10-05 14:24:14+00:00
Synology has shady business practices more recently and outdated tech stack since forever but I haven't heard anything particularly bad about reliability. For a NAS the safety of the data is the highest priority. Anything that endangers the data isn't just a drawback, or a "con", it's an instant elimination. Right now I wouldn't trust Ubiquiti NAS to store my recycle bin, I need to see a long track record of reliability and a commitment to quality.
by tkgally | 2025-10-05 14:24:14+00:00
That’s the problem, I think: Using AI will make some people stupider overall, it will make other people smarter overall, and it will make many people stupider in some ways and smarter in other ways.

It would have been nice if the author had not overgeneralized so much:

https://claude.ai/share/27ff0bb4-a71e-483f-a59e-bf36aaa86918

I’ll let you decide whether my use of Claude to analyze that article made me smarter or stupider.

Addendum: In my prompt to Claude, I seem to have misgendered the author of the article. That may answer the question about the effect of AI use on me.
by mooreds | 2025-10-05 14:24:14+00:00
> Hard to imagine; you don't really get it until it happens to you - hopefully never.

100% this. It rocked my world when it happened to me. I took a day to recover then hopped back in the job market. But it took a year for the anger to fade.

I probably identified too closely with my job at the time. I've tried to dial that back.
by rmsaksida | 2025-10-05 14:25:28+00:00
> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response.

I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't make sense. I do wish ChatGPT & co had a pro or advanced mode that was more similar to Google AI Studio.
by willidiots | 2025-10-05 14:25:34+00:00
I made a conscious effort to switch from hyphens to em dashes in the 2010's and now find myself undoing that effort because of these things, so I try not to instantly assume "AI". But look long enough and you do notice a "sameness": excellent grammar, fondness for bulleted lists, telltale phrases like "That's not ___, it's ___."

And a certain vacuousness. TFA is over 16000 words and I'm not really sure there's a single core point.
by zdw | 2025-10-05 14:25:58+00:00
For an example of where this already happened, look at the number of people who literally don't have a minor inkling of how to plan a route or navigate without a GPS and mapping software.

Sure, having a real-time data source is nice for avoiding construction/traffic, and I'd use a real-time map, but going beyond that to be spoon fed your next action over and over leads to dependency.
by ksec | 2025-10-05 14:25:58+00:00
OH Wow.

OVH VPS - 24 vCPU, ( or Threads ) 96GB RAM for $53.40/month.

Hetzner VPS [1] - 16vCPU, 32GB, $54.90/month

DO Droplet - General Compute, Regular CPU, 16 vCPU 64GB RAM, $504/month.

Linode - 20 vCPU, 96GB RAM, $576/month

Upcloud - 24 vCPU, 96GB RAM, $576/month

I dont know what CPU OVH is using, because all the others are AMD EPYC or Newer Intel Xeon. But the pricing difference is too great that even if they were Intel E-Core CPU it would still be pretty damn good deal.

[1] There is a cheaper option from Intel vCPU, but those hardware are older and is only available when other customers cancel their plan to free up slot. So only the newer AMD option is used for comparison.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-10-05 14:27:46+00:00
What everyone forgets is that regexes as implemented in most programming languages are a strict superset of mathematical regular expressions. E.g., PCRE has "subroutine references" that can be used to match balanced brackets, and .NET has "balancing groups" that can similarly be used to do so. In general, most programming languages can recognize at least the context-free languages.
by floundy | 2025-10-05 14:27:47+00:00
Sorry, worded poorly, yes I feel Macs are less “dumbed down” in the sense that user experience and design aren’t sacrificed to try and make it easier for the lowest common denominator to use, but in the end it’s just worse for everybody. Example: in Windows 11 the right click menu has less options than Win10, and now contains a “more” option leading to expanding another submenu where pretty basic functions from Win10 right click are hidden behind this extra menu. Hell, the design doesn’t even match. The nested context menu looks like it was Frankensteined in from Win10. Apple at least has a design philosophy for UI stuff.

I have personally felt like I have to fight less with MacOS than I did with Windows. And my pihole shows Apple isn’t greedily trying to hoover up my data like MS.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-05 14:27:53+00:00
Looks interesting for it's simplicity and ability to thwart encryption legislation.

Just a couple of points:

- It looks this could be described as a variation on one time pad. Instead of one pad, you're using up to 256 pads. - It appears that the size of most messages will double. - To encode will require substantial memory to hold the address lookup table. With a 64K ROM, as much as 1 Mb would be required. This could prove challenging on a 8 bit micro.

Intuition also tells me that you could probably achieve reasonably similar security by using a simple mathematical encryption method with a comparable sized (64K) secret key.

Part of the attraction of mathematical encryption is the use of short keys to facilitate frequent key exchange.