MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by denisraslov | 2025-10-27 12:45:53+00:00
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by laterium | 2025-10-27 12:46:05+00:00
What makes you think you can understand the subjective experience of LLMs then? It's out of reach of science, so the only way is to ask them? How can you be sure they don't have subjective experience? Remember that you forbade yourself from using science to answer it.

Also, if subjective experience has any effect on the material world, then we can measure it and test it, putting it in reach of science. If it doesn't, why does it even matter in this discussion? By definition it has no relation to the AGI discussion since that's an empirical matter.
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-27 12:46:10+00:00
I think it makes Microsoft feel bigger though.

If Microsoft were just Windows, Teams, Azure, Bing and whatever it is, Microsoft would actually feel like a competitor for firms like Canonical or Red Hat or SUSE which happens to be big but nothing special relative to the others, whereas it now, with with this very public service feels like a behemoth.
by VPenkov | 2025-10-27 12:46:19+00:00
37 Signals [0] famously uses their own Stimulus [1] framework on most of their products. Their CEO is a proponent of the whole no-build approach because of the additional complexity it adds, and because it makes it difficult for people to pop your code and learn from it.

[0]: https://basecamp.com/ [1]: https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/
by beeforpork | 2025-10-27 12:46:43+00:00
0.8mm is definitely out of USB 3.0 official spec and might damage the plug. The Spec requires 0.7mm with contacts and 0.6mm without, i.e., 0.05mm for the contact. See:

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%...

Pages 42 and 44.
Show HN: Shivon AI – Practice job interviews with AI and get a shareable report
by Vraj911 | 2025-10-27 12:46:46+00:00
Hi HN,

Over the past several months we’ve been building Shivon AI, a platform aimed at candidates getting ready for interviews. The core idea: let you simulate real interviews with an AI (any domain, any role), generate a detailed performance report, and then share that report as part of your job-application portfolio.

Key features: A chat-based AI interviewer that asks theory, practical usage and case-study style questions. After each simulation you receive a breakdown of your performance across metrics (e.g., communication, problem solving, confidence) with actionable suggestions. You can track improvements over time and share your interview-report as tangible evidence of your prep. We just launched the beta at https://candidate.shivonai.com (no paywall; demo mode available).

Why we built this: We’ve seen how difficult it can be for candidates to highlight their real skills beyond a résumé or LinkedIn profile. Interview preparation often happens in isolation, with no way to measure improvement or share results. Our goal is to make this process measurable, transparent, and empowering for every job seeker.

We’re looking for feedback from the HN community especially around: How realistic/interview-like the AI questions feel (domain-agnostic). Whether the performance report adds value and how it could be improved. Thoughts on sharing such a report as part of a portfolio — does it meaningfully affect job odds, or feel gimmicky?

Happy to answer questions on the architecture, data pipeline, UI/UX, even business model if you’re interested.

Thanks for checking it out — looking forward to the discussion.

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by nicoburns | 2025-10-27 12:46:50+00:00
> It’s crazy how people think using Rust will magically make your code bug and vulnerability free

It won't for all code, and not bug-free, but it absolutely does make it possible to write code parsing untrusted input all-but vulnerability free. It's not 100% foolproof but the track record of Rust parsing libraries is night-and-day better than C/C++ libraries in this domain. And they're often faster too.
by derangedHorse | 2025-10-27 12:47:25+00:00
I am of the belief that the best school, for those who can afford it, is homeschooling. Most of the time there is no one who cares more about a child’s education than the child’s parents.

Not everyone can afford to have one parent stay at home, but those who can should try it out. Most of the time there’s online curricula that can be followed and the course work can be completed in a fraction of the time vs learning in a public school. This leads to more time for extracurriculars and give more time for social interaction.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 12:47:46+00:00
Both Assange and Snowden are apparently alive and well, despite Mossad-like agencies wishing otherwise, largely thanks to Tor; and Hamas, whose adversary was in fact the Mossad, apparently still exists. Hizbullah has hopefully taught us all a good lesson about supply-chain attacks.

Debian is probably the only example of a successful public public-key infrastructure, but SSH keys are a perfectly serviceable form of public-key infrastructure in everyday life. At least for developers.

Mickens's skepticism about security labels is, however, justified; the problems he identifies are why object-capability models seem more successful in practice.

I do agree that better passwords are a good idea, and, prior to the widespread deployment of malicious microphones, were adequate authentication for many purposes—if you can avoid being phished. My own secure password generator is http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/netbook-misc-devel/bitwords...., and some of its modes are memorable correct-horse-battery-staple-type passwords. It's arguably slightly blasphemous, so you may be offended if you are an observant Hindu.
by blenderob | 2025-10-27 12:47:56+00:00
I expect better from the people who lurk at https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and upvote stuff which help decide what reaches the home page. It's sad to see a shallow, pseudo-intellectual piece like this voted to the top. This has been a long time issue in /newest. I lurk there and upvote the good stuff to help it reach home page. But the shallow hot takes and ragebait rise quickly while the real gems like thoughtful posts made from hard work and genuine hacker spirit barely get any votes and rarely reach home page.
by twostraws | 2025-10-27 12:48:09+00:00
All you have to do to unlock the next free challenge is solve the previous challenge. The first 10 tutorials are designed to teach the basics of the app – how to transform data with the toolbox, how to read web page source code and run JavaScript, basic Linux commands, etc – and so they are run in order. There are 10 in total, all free, plus another one in the first territory afterwards, which teaches the basics of ciphers.
by kergonath | 2025-10-27 12:48:11+00:00
> Newton wouldn't have called it so.

Of course. To him that would be modern mechanics. Or just mathematical natural philosophy, or whatever.

> Maybe we should categorize sciences based on the spatial scale at which they operate.

That would not be very useful, because there is no boundary. Nothing in general relativity says "below this everything is Newtonian". As a matter of fact we need to consider relativistic effects in quantum chemistry calculations that involve some heavy elements, at length scales smaller than 0.1 nm. Similarly, they just gave a Nobel prize for work on "Quantum properties on a human scale".

> For example, quantum scale, human scale and cosmic scales have their own physics, logic and causality.

That is not at all how these frameworks are built, and that is not the dominant epistemological approach. The mainstream view is that there is a theory of everything that exists but is unknown to us, and that our various theories are approximations of that theory under different assumptions. They look categorically different because we don’t understand the overarching framework, not because nature is fundamentally different depending on scale.

Also, I don’t see how the logic is fundamentally different between e.g. quantum mechanics and general relativity. Both rely heavily on things like Hamiltonian mechanics or symmetries. Some behaviours are different (like photons following geodesics and not straight lines, or superpositions of quantum states), but these are not a fundamental problem: a straight line is a limit case of a geodesic in a flat space, and a unique state is a limit case of superposition.

I am not saying that everything is fine and we know everything, just that there is no clear boundary between the situations in which different theories are required and we cannot neatly decompose the universe into different realms where different theories apply.
by ac29 | 2025-10-27 12:48:48+00:00
> I agree but does Flatpak actually work for CLI tools (which is where I see most use of curl-bash). E.g. could I install Rust using Flatpak? My understanding was it's more suited for sandboxed GUI apps.

Distrobox is basically flatpak for CLI apps. Not exactly, but it accomplishes a similar goal.
by shandor | 2025-10-27 12:48:56+00:00
> concordance of action and "intention" .... must be united in ethically good action

Yeah, I had to disagree with how TFA brought "fake it till you make it" into this very discussion.

Yes, one can have "faking" that ultimately ends up creating the thing it promised....but I fear that for each such benign or constructive "fake" there are so many cases of Theranos et al that I could ever remove what you called intention and ethically good action from the calculation.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-27 12:50:32+00:00
I do love when Boz espouses opinions.

He has got better them over the years, this one is much less teenager trying to sound clever. Which is great, I love to see people grow.

The problem with this is that in my professional dealings with him, he has two modes: empathetic & arrogant dick. At his worse he was fighting in the comments section of workplace, telling employees that they are wrong. At his best he is warm and caring, even funny.

The problem for meta employees, is that most of the time you only really see arrogant dick boz.
by nickspacek | 2025-10-27 12:50:46+00:00
Worth considering at least, and looking at approaches like you mentioned and avoiding allowing free entry of foreign vehicles. We could consider partnerships (if China is interested) like we have with other foreign manufacturers like Honda and Toyota. We should also be considering expanding the existing relationships, though I'm sure there are retooling costs, and possibly playing hardball with other manufacturers to encourage them to setup shop (e.g. Kia/Hyundai).

I doubt I'm offering anything that hasn't been part of discussions already, but having the ability to manufacture vehicles seems like an area of industrialization a country shouldn't part with lightly.
by drdec | 2025-10-27 12:50:56+00:00
> I've found that nearly every game in my embarrassingly-large Steam library works fine on Linux.

I have on occasion been scared off of buying a package from Humble Bundle when the games are available on Steam but not explicitly marked as linux. (Some of the games are marked with linux and some are not.) Are you saying I am being unnecessarily cautious?

For example, there is a "momcore" bundle at the moment where some games claim linux support and others do not, if you want to see what I'm talking about.
by SirMaster | 2025-10-27 12:51:18+00:00
I don't think it's really AGI until you can simply task it with creating a new better version of itself and it can succeed in doing that all on its own.

A team of humans can and will make a GPT-6. Can a team of GPT-5 agents make GPT-6 all on its own if you give it the resources necessary to do so?
by Majromax | 2025-10-27 12:52:10+00:00
> Could this really invalidate research? Managing to produce a model that works (assuming you check all of the myriad modeling correctness checkboxes) is sufficient on its own.

In the academic sense, a model that happens to work isn't research; the product of research should be a technique or insight that generalizes.

"Standard technique X doesn't work in domain Y, so we developed modified technique X' that does better" is the fundamental storyline of many machine learning papers, and that could be 'invalidated' if the poor performance of X was caused by a hidden correctness bug avoided by X'.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-27 12:52:31+00:00
They have a funny way of showing it. Almost all those people will be immigrants, either themselves, or they'll at the very least have family living in muslim countries. Family who'll get arrested when they're protesting their governments or religion.

Yet they really care about free speech ... in America. THAT is where the free speech problem is according to them. Am I really the only one having trouble believing that this is a genuine attitude? Oh and they only defend their version of free speech, with limits on "hate speech" (but not Sami Hamdi's kind of hate speech of course), limits on criticism of religion, and limits on criticizing middle eastern governments. You know, THAT kind of free speech. CAIR, in the US, is really arguing for limits on free speech, "against hate speech", against "islamophobia", against criticism of middle eastern governments, you know limits on the very thing free speech was created for (ie. to protect all criticism of religion and governments, especially foreign ones, but all governments, including the US one)

And who do they invite? Sami Hamdi.

Please go read his twitter stream and tell me if you believe people who hire this guy have any problem with hate speech. Oh and maybe it's just one issue, so filter out the Gaza conflict, and ... nope still hate speech, mostly about the UK. Okay, filter out the UK too. He's defending people who went "on a Jew hunt" in the Netherlands ... This guy is not a moderate in any way shape or form.

Here's the link: https://x.com/SALHACHIMI

I'm sure he'll have made 5 new posts by the time this is read and they'll be another 5 posts inciting at the very least more hatred of Israeli. You may hate Trump, but let's be blunt here: this guy is thankfully powerless, but is easily a LOT worse than Trump.

If you take CAIR's attitude at face value, limits on free speech against hate speech, they'd help deport Sami Hamdi. But clearly this kind of hate speech they don't just want to allow, but protect and nurture.

What I mean is, CAIR really make themselves look really bad here. Really, really, really bad.
by laterium | 2025-10-27 12:52:39+00:00
Why would it have to be a 1 to 1 replication? Isn't that a strawman argument? NNs can basically store the collective of knowledge of humanity in that miniscule amount of neurons. NNs also run at much much higher frequency than human brains. Does that make human brains inferior and not worthy of being called aware by the same line of argumentation? Why do these differences even matter? I can imagine a vastly different form of awareness than humans just fine. They can both be aware and not that similar.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-27 12:52:44+00:00
An actual dynlib (containing the core framework crates that typically dont change between compiles (and which in C world might be installed as precompiled system libraries)).

It doesn't necessarily require C ABI. Rust doesn't make any guarantees about stability of the Rust ABI. But if you compile the app and the dynlib with the same compiler version then it works in practice (and IIRC there are enough things relying on this that this is unlikely to break in future).

That does mean you need to recompile the dynlib when you upgrade the compiler, but that is probably infrequent enough not to be a huge issue. Certainly if your aim is fast-recompiles in response to e.g. ui style changes then it ought to work.

--

A note on the sort of Rust compile times I see for a TodoMVC app using my Rust UI framework (412 dependencies):

- A clean release build (-O3) is 1m 01s

- An incremental (-03) rebuild is 1.7s

- A clean debug build (-O0) is 35s

- An incremental debug build (-O0) is 1s

That's on a 2021 MacBook M1 Pro which is fairly fast, but I hear the M4 machines are ~twice as fast. And that's also without any fancy tricks.
by stockresearcher | 2025-10-27 12:53:34+00:00
No.

Buc-EEs takes pride in doing things that [presently] require a human and then hires however many humans it takes to do a great job of it.

Tesla doesn’t have enough respect for their employees or their customers to do anything that would approach the level of execution that Buc-EEs achieves. And I say this as someone that does not share the love for Buc-EEs that many people do.
by tuukkah | 2025-10-27 12:53:41+00:00
I think some consider the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link to consist of multiple parts, as the main tunnel (Fehmarn Belt Tunnel proper) is between a German island and a Danish island so stops a bit short. On the Danish side, they rebuild the Storstrøm Bridge, and on the German side they decided to build another tunnel alongside the existing Fehmarn Sound Bridge. So in total, one existing bridge, one rebuilt bridge, one short new tunnel and one long new tunnel will connect Germany proper to Denmark proper.
by some_furry | 2025-10-27 12:53:42+00:00
The most charitable thing I can offer here is:

Alice is a horrible sociopathic monster that fakes being good because of the social utility it provides.

Bob is authentically, genuinely a "good" person (however you define it).

If the two are indistinguishable from an outsider's perspective, and arrived at a similar level of social status and "success" (intentionally vaguely defined), the path they got there may not matter to you. At least, it might not at a glance? If you don't think about it too long? Or deal with them for too long?

...

Yeah, I think I did hurt my back with that reach.
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-27 12:53:42+00:00
I'm married to a medical doctor and talking to her is incredible, they tread the body like it's nothing at all, from excretion to horrible wounds, it's just another day at the office.

She's sometimes telling me how it was bad at work because someone disagreed with the treatment of some 22 year old that got shot in the stomach and I'm like dying inside.
by andy99 | 2025-10-27 12:53:49+00:00
Canada already isn’t economically independent. Diversification is fine, especially if it saves costs that can then be deliberately redirected towards improving sovereign capabilities. Right now we have the worst of both worlds, we pay top much for stuff or can’t get it, and remain completely dependent on the US and China.

We could and should further diversify by removing whatever barriers are keeping European cars out.
by Etheryte | 2025-10-27 12:53:58+00:00
Not necessarily, that really depends on what you mean by fast. Cars definitely go higher in top speed than bikes do for example. If I'm not mistaken, racing electric cars also accelerate comparable or faster than bikes. A bike can generally go around a track faster than a car, but that only holds true in dry conditions. Etc, many ways to define fast and what you actually mean.
by Aefiam | 2025-10-27 12:55:23+00:00
you can develop just as fast or even faster with python once you develop a good enough utility library for it.

For example my python interpreter imports my custom List and Path classes and I could just do the following to get the same result:

List(List(Path("filepath").read_text_file().splitlines()).group_by_key(lambda x:x).items()).map(lambda x:(len(x[1]),x[0])).sorted()

and if used often enough, it could made an utility method:

Path("filepath").read_sorted_by_most_common()

So I find it shortsighted to reject someone based on that without giving them a chance to explain their reasoning.

I think generally people really underestimate how much more productive you can be with a good utility library.
by jt2190 | 2025-10-27 12:55:33+00:00
The “U.S.” car industry is actually the North American car industry. Factories are in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. primarily and parts move across the border duty-free. This dates back to the Auto-pact.

Canada almost certainly does not want to allow Chinese made vehicles to undercut their local producers. Any talk of this is just posturing and threats in the ongoing trade negotiations.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-27 12:55:51+00:00
> If you represent the interests of corporations then try leading with that next time.

I don't. I'm just saying Google and whichever boogeyman you'd care to slot into position 2 share the same interests. Far more than you or me and Google anyway.

> Besides being a broad statement that lacks citations and no doubt relies on contrived examples where this was implemented poorly

To a laymen user, any software that is running without code signing has a much much much higher chance of being something that has gone wrong rather than Joe Public found a cool image editing app that doesn't want to be distributed via the Play store. Are there exceptions? Sure, I'm certainly a big one. Does that mean I don't understand Google's position here? No.

> it's also clearly a violation of the EU Digital Markets Act.

If true, they'll end up in court, same as Apple did.
by fsf4alltemp | 2025-10-27 12:56:24+00:00
This idea that protecting users is worth the cost of giving up your ownership rights is fallacious.

Protecting 1 million grannies is an entirely different risk class than the security implications of stopping everyone from using their devices as they see fit.

Protecting 1 million grannies means everyone loses ability to install apps that:

-allow encrypted chat -allow use of privacy respecting software -download art/games/entertainment that is deemed inappropriate to unelected parties -use software to organize protests and track agents of hostile governments -download software that opposes monopolistic holds of controlling parties

Using Linux is also not a real choice. To access my bank and health services in my country, I require a mobile device that is remote attested by either Apple or Google which are American countries. Hell, it's becoming closer to reality that playing online video games requires remote attestation either to "prevent" cheating or for age verification.

Thus the risk widens to the sovereign control a nation has over its own services. A US president could attempt to force Google and Apple to shutoff citizen access of banks and health services of an entire nation. Merely the threat could give them leverage in any sort of negotiations they might be in. For some nations in the future, the controlling nation may be China I imagine.

I think the real regulatory solution here is to break up monopoly practices. While the EU's DMA is all well and good in some ways, the EU is also pushing Chat Control... In a more fragmented market it becomes impossible for a bank or health service to mandate specific devices for access (they lose potential customers) so you could theoretically move to a device that doesn't do draconian style remote attestation that breaks if you go off the ranch. We need more surgically precise regulatory tools than sweeping legislation that would keep using alternatives like Linux or FreeBSD or whatever actually viable. It also makes it much harder for that same legislative body to enforce insane ideas like Chat Control.

The answer is not protect users from themselves. The answer is more freedom, with a legal framework that helps all users have more choices while helping victims acquire restitution.