MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xpe | 2025-10-06 16:44:39+00:00
> The absolutely most charitable thing that could be said about this report is that it’s a weak attempt at smearing non-US competition.

You aren't using the words "absolute" [1], "charitable" [2], and "smear" [3] in the senses that reasonable people expect. I think you are also failing to use your imagination and holding onto one possible explanation too tightly. I think it would benefit you to relax your grip on one narrative and think more broadly and comprehensively.

[1] Your use of "absolute" is rhetorical not substantive.

[2] You use the word "charitable" but I don't see much intellectual flexibility or willingness to see other valid explanations. To use another phrase, you seem to be operating in a 'soldier' mindset rather than a 'scout' mindset. [5]

[3] Here is the sense of smear I mean from the Apple dictionary: "to damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander: someone was trying to smear her by faking letters." NIST is not smearing DeepSeek, because smearing requires false claims. [4]

[4] If you intend only to claim that NIST is overly accentuating negative aspects of DeepSeek and omitting its strengths, that would be a different argument.

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Mindset
by Vitamin_Sushi | 2025-10-06 16:45:12+00:00
Traffic enforcement is abysmal in my city (I'm sure in many other places too), and our ever-increasing car insurance premiums reflect that. If there's a better way to enforce traffic laws or punish drunk drivers rear ending me and running off, then I'm all ears. Right now, the only other alternative I'm reading is letting the problem get worse.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-06 16:45:58+00:00
You build the tech, then people use it as a tool to help execute an overall strategy. The tech is not the strategy, it’s just a tool. Ideally you have multiple overlapping tools, including non-technical tools, and the loss of one does not cripple your movement.

An authoritarian government can also just start rounding up and shooting anyone suspected of being a dissident. Typically that doesn’t end well for the government!
by gcr | 2025-10-06 16:46:02+00:00
To me, Ring Racers feels like some bizarro version of a "what if we made a kart racer that plays like what normies think a fighting game plays like" future (complimentary, not derogatory). It's fascinating to get a glimpse. It's like those weird extinct animals who take over a tiny ecological niche but wouldn't survive in a more diverse climate, like channichthyidae or galapogos finches.

The result isn't quite a kart racer and isn't quite a fighting game, it's...some mix in between, where the difference between coming in first and being in fourth requires knowing that (say) directional influence is reversed while you're teching banana peel spinouts, or how your boost frames are preserved if you cancel your sliptide wavedash around a tight corner, etc etc. The skill ceiling is ridiculously high. For online play, so is the skill floor.

In all honesty I don't think it quite "works" for mass consumption...but it's not meant to! This corner of design space is built by those who love the genre they've made, so to hell with mass consumability anyway. I personally find the experiment fascinating and rewarding to learn. Certainly do check it out.
Will BEP29 of BitTorrent be updated in the near future?
by Xquenda | 2025-10-06 16:46:17+00:00
I think BEP29 has three major problems:

1. Very low bandwidth utilization over long-distance networks (similar to classical Reno)

2. Pacing is not mandated

3. It doesn't maintain low priority when AQM is deployed
by eambutu | 2025-10-06 16:46:38+00:00
I can't speak for other people, but our strong opinion about how companies should work is to reduce the massive amount of chores and tedium that exist in our work days today.

With the company GPT, we want to tackle things like: 1.) having to answer a repeated question from a colleague, 2.) answering questions to coworkers that are purely informational, and eventually 3.) things like standup updates, written updates to leadership on status, etc.

I think human interaction at work is one of the most valuable experiences if you're lucky enough to have good colleagues and interesting work. But I think they should almost entirely be around creativity, decision-making, debate, etc. rather than sharing information that exists elsewhere.
by gansbrest | 2025-10-06 16:46:45+00:00
We are still going, but it's a bumpy road. One of main products got delayed by partnering financial institution, which sent us into money crunch mode.

At the moment our engineering is ahead of our sales - which gave me some capacity to lift my head up and test my skills relevance against the market on the fractional/advisory capacity potentially turning into revenue stream with more control from my side.

You know how it works for us with engineering minds - you always consider worst case scenarios and try to mitigate them before they become real problems.

Based on my experience it typically works in cycles, where you need some sort of fresh blood every five or so years to re-kindle the spark and keep going.
by dethbird | 2025-10-06 16:46:52+00:00
I built a lightweight screenplay editor for the Fountain (fountain.io) format — a plain-text way of writing screenplays.

Fountain Writer supports a few syntax extensions and renders the formatted script in real time. No login, no ads, just text that turns into a screenplay.

App Demo: https://fountain.dethbird.com

Write-up: https://dethbird.com/fountain-writer-screenplay-editor-with-...
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 16:47:01+00:00
They could do staged releases, where you pay $30 extra to get access to the game 2 months earlier or #50 to get beta access as much as a year early (with warnings about stability). There's a decent chance that could make up the difference.

Still IMO better than Ads either in the larger streaming or in-game... or micro-transactions, or a number of other things that make gameplay worse.
by eichin | 2025-10-06 16:47:17+00:00
Flashbacks to the Okidata Microline 80 dot matrix printer I used in high school (early 1980s) - it had a 7-wire print head, so no descenders and lower case "g" was particularly bad (basically to get the detail in 7 lines it had a squashed shape and it was moved up in the box, looking more like a weird "9".) My teachers were... tolerant but mildly annoyed, mostly because they knew just how bad my handwriting was :-)
by nowittyusername | 2025-10-06 16:47:21+00:00
That's exactly what I am focusing on. IMO getting rid of the biggest pain points regarding script building but also benefitting from modern day AI systems. "Have your cake and eat it too." We know that scripts are far more reliable then LLM's, but to build a good complex script is a pain in the ass and takes tremendous effort in creating and maintaining/debugging. So we use leverage modern day generative systems and have them be the builders and maintainers of said scripts. So the most intensive part for a human now comes down to creating a robust AI system that is able to build scripts reliable and then use them in conjunction with its own generative capabilities. Basically teach the machine to create the tools it will use and maintain, after that drop the human from the loop.
by jerf | 2025-10-06 16:47:25+00:00
Well, ChatGPT is certainly trained on the SCP Wiki. I just fed it: "Continue this prompt: Object Class: Keter" and it spat out a perfectly-formatted SCP entry. It's not impossible that it's getting "interference" from that part of the vector space.

One of the advances I'm keeping my eye out for in AI is some sort of improvement in training capability that allows us to get some sort of AI that is roughly as capable as today's AIs but don't need to have the (metaphorical) entire Internet shoveled at them to work. A non-trivial number of alignment problems could be eliminated or mitigated if the data being fed in was small enough to be more carefully curated and the misalignments could be eliminated at the source, e.g., if we didn't feed the AIs stories about AIs going rogue and taking over the world people would have a harder time wandering into a part of the vector space where the AI starts telling that story to the user. We probably don't want the SCP wiki to be in the general training set for every AI. Some of them, by all means, but probably not all of them.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-10-06 16:48:15+00:00
> I started watching for long periods, which got me noticing irregularities.

This is not normal. Why would you want to do this?

> Convinced she was cheating on me, I started spoofing my location and driving by to see if her car was at home.

You thought it was more likely that she would have spoofed her location to go cheat on you instead of attributing it to a tech failure, so you starting lying to her and showed up to her place?

I'm surprised she didn't break it off with you because of what you did. I'm glad y'all figured it out but there's a lot of stuff you need to unpack.
by kalap_ur | 2025-10-06 16:48:16+00:00
They sign the purchase order on 1/1/26. AMD issues invoice to be paid in 30 days, that is 2/1/26. OpenAI triggers warrant and informs AMD on 1/2/26. OpenAI receives shares on 1/4/26. On 1/5/26 OpenAI and AMD announce the GPU purchase deal. On 1/30/26 OpenAI sells its shares in AMD. From proceeds, OpenAI pays AMD on 2/1/26. Thus, AMD financed OpenAI's GPU purchase via AMD's shares.
by lxgr | 2025-10-06 16:48:25+00:00
> And "lying" to it is not morally equivalent to lying to a human.

I never claimed as much.

This is probably a problem of definitions: To you, "lying" seems to require the entity being lied to being a moral subject.

I'd argue that it's enough for it to have some theory of mind (i.e. be capable of modeling "who knows/believes what" with at least some fidelity), and for the liar to intentionally obscure their true mental state from it.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-06 16:48:31+00:00
> Video gaming is the mess that it is in 2025

Is it though? IMO video gaming is fine, in a great spot, even. Consumer prices have stayed (unreasonably!) cheap for decades and especially the indie market is thriving right now. I remember paying more for games 15 years ago than I do now.

But I primarily play indie titles on Steam (currently Silksong), so that might warp my perspective.

Regarding commoditized nostalgia: I don't think pricing is that unreasonable. For instance, I'm pretty happy with the current state of Age of Empires 2.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-06 16:48:46+00:00
China did it successfully. Violent oppression sometimes does work without consequence - you might even become a WTO member.

Military-grade technologies make you a threat to be dealt with by the military. An opponent with weapons is more directly an opponent to be crushed than an opponent with a microphone. Standing in the streets mourning with candlelight would probably be more effective than an encrypted messaging app. The encrypted messaging app definitely feels cooler though, but feelings don't determine reality.

The most successful revolutions in history that built cultural inertia as morally righteous were never known for their sophisticated weapons and planning. China was more freaked out over blank paper than they would have been if tens of thousands of rebels had been armed. Heck, blank paper probably rattled China more than every citizen having Signal would have.

Activism is about changing hearts and minds. It's never a logistics problem. Enter a direct competition with the government and you've already lost. From that perspective, ICEBlock has done nothing for activism.
by Group_B | 2025-10-06 16:48:53+00:00
> When I was in the ICU for a few days (thankfully due to medical confusion and not a real condition) people reached out to see if I was ok and needed anything. I know people who discovered that a mutual friend died unexpectedly when their phone had been at the morgue for several days.

I feel like this kind of information can be found out by just naturally talking with others. Viewing your friend's and family's location all the time is just so unnecessary and overkill. If something is wrong, you simply reach out to others, they don't need to be actively checking your location to determine that. Yeah obviously the exception is crazy emergencies, but I think most people would take their chances than be this open to location sharing. Kids too make sense. Other than that, I don't believe location sharing to this degree should be normalized at all.
by jdbohrman | 2025-10-06 16:48:57+00:00
Hey everyone! James here, solo founder of Nabla. I'm building an evidence relay for programmatic evidence collection for key guidelines such as NIST 800-53, CMMC, FedRamp 20x, and more with ease via an intuitive REST API.

I just spent all weekend fleshing out the final pieces of our API and perfecting it to a point I feel comfortable launching things properly, after a few bungled launches in the past. We now have a stable API running with four endpoints on Azure Container Apps, powered by a FIPS-compliant Rust build (Chainguard Rust base + glibc-dynamic runtime).

This wouldn't have been possible without the amazing work of OSS projects in the Rust community such as:

- serde - axum - rustls - aws-lc-rs - sqlx

So, as a way to give back, I decided to open source the /v1/diagram endpoint that parses HashiCorp Terraform .tfstate and uses Cloudflare Workers AI to generate Mermaid-based architecture boundary diagrams on demand. Drumroll please...

Presenting Hayashi! A Rust-based diagramming-as-code API that allows you to turn your .tfstate file into details architecture boundary diagrams. Hayashi is a web service that parses Terraform state files and generates visual architecture diagrams with security and compliance boundaries. It leverages Cloudflare Workers AI to create human-friendly diagrams that meet FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and other compliance framework requirements.
by tptacek | 2025-10-06 16:49:14+00:00
I find the comparison risible because SIKE is based on an entirely different and novel problem class, and the vibe I get from Bernstein is that he thinks lattice cryptography is alien enough to people who don't work in this space that they'll miss the fact that cryptosystems based on ring-LWE hardness have been worked on by giants in the field since the mid-1990s.
by tallanvor | 2025-10-06 16:49:35+00:00
I was in Portland less than a month ago and had no problems. Sure, there was one time I crossed the street to avoid someone who was clearly homeless and mentally ill, but I never found myself feeling unsafe.

Unfortunately homelessness is something that can't be solved by one city or even one state. Feeding, housing, and getting them treatment is expensive and not something even the wealthier cities have the budget to do on their own. And the first major city that tries will have to deal with other places dropping more homeless people on their doorstep - that's one thing that both red and blue cities have been guilty of as you can read about at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
by gruez | 2025-10-06 16:49:55+00:00
>Adding up the big "ad-based" companies (google, meta) gets into the double digit percentages of US GDP (and those companies also do some useful non-ad things, too).

this comparison is meaningless because you're comparing market cap (stock) with GDP (flow). If you only compare revenue and GDP you get a far more modest 1.7%, and even that's misleading because you're comparing global advertising revenue with the production of one country.
by rockostrich | 2025-10-06 16:49:55+00:00
Not sure if you have a background outside of software engineering, but as someone who got a degree in mechanical engineering and then shifted over to software engineering I've landed on home/car maintenance as a pretty good base hobby to fall back on. There's always more to learn, you can do most of it with a pretty limited set of tools, and it has the added bonus of improving daily life.

This may be a bit specific to me since I bought an older house and car in the past year and they require a bit more TLC. My partner and I painted all of the rooms (tools are just paint, brushes, and rollers). I've replaced almost all of the outlets and switches, including putting in a few zigbee switches (Sonoff ZBMINIR2s to be specific) since we have no overhead lights in any of our rooms and the switches don't control the right outlets... The only tools for that work are a screwdriver and a wire stripper. We also hung some cabinets in our living room and put up some bookshelves (made easier with power tools, but possible with hand tools). When it got warm, we did a bunch of work outside including some brick edging (bucket, mason line, and a trowel) and a fire pit (shovel, level, rake, and tamper).

Cars require some more tools but you can do pretty much every bit of maintenance work with a standard set of wrenches, a jack, and jack stands.

Everything just sits against the wall or in a toolbox in the garage. It's a big 2 car garage but it fits a home gym set-up, a TV on a cart, a workbench, a bunch of furniture that we need to get rid of on FB Marketplace, and there's still room to pull in a car (mine is in there right now since I'm changing the spark plugs).
by Onawa | 2025-10-06 16:50:13+00:00
Why no synthetic underwear? I feel like I would be miserable with only cotton boxer-briefs... I sweat entirely too much even in moderate weather to be comfortable in cotton. I am partial to Pair of Thieves extra long boxer-briefs, they don't ride up at all since I have big thighs. When travelling I can wash them in a sink, and they dry way more quickly than cotton.
by tptacek | 2025-10-06 16:50:39+00:00
The length of detention is of minor importance compared to breaking down doors and pulling people out of their homes indiscriminately (across an entire 5-story apartment building) at 3AM. This is extremely different from other crackdowns. There isn't a way you can rhetorically salvage it; you will keep running aground of the fact that they rousted and detained an entire building at 3AM.
by eambutu | 2025-10-06 16:50:59+00:00
Our experience, especially with the most recent reasoning models, is that the LLM's are a lot better now at sifting through the garbage. So if you last gave these products a try more than a month ago, I would try them again.

(Additionally, there are a lot of details that do make a big difference in data processing / search algo too, which have taken our own internal accuracy on hard questions from 30% => 80%+)
by jampekka | 2025-10-06 16:51:41+00:00
It was quite a long conversation, in which I gaslit Deepseek quite a bit too. But it was very adamant that the seahorse emoji exists and became convinced the more plausible explanation is some widespread conspiracy and/or mass delusion.

https://chat.deepseek.com/share/ghqivm1xkj8kw47do7
by nomel | 2025-10-06 16:52:18+00:00
These sorts of questions are what I call “Easter eggs”. If someone understands the actual complexity of the question being asked, they’ll be able to give a good answer. If not, they’ll be able to give the naive answer. Either way, it’s an Easter egg, and not useful on its own since the rest of the interview will be representative. The thing they are useful for is amplifying the justification. You can say “they demonstrated a deeper understanding of Unicode by pointing out that a naive approach could be incorrect”.
by brudgers | 2025-10-06 16:52:36+00:00
who has written some iOS and Android apps for other clients in the past

Here on HN, I have seen people say they had been "universally banned" from app stores due to the nature of previous work for clients. Basically, the behavior of those clients was linked to them either directly because their name was on the developer account or indirectly in some other way.

I don't know if or how any of that was fixed.

And I am not saying that's what happened here. Just saying that I've seen posts where people had similar issues that seem to trace back to previous work that the landlords apparently deemed problematic. Good luck.
by soelost | 2025-10-06 16:52:39+00:00
Your balance is the unpaid amount on any given day. Your utiization is a snapshot of your balance on your statement date.

You could have a 0 balance for 28 days and unknowingly make a large purchase the day before your statement closes and now youre at 63% and your score takes a hit. You could also be at 63% of your limit for 28 days and pay just before your statement closes and have a 0% utilization and your score doesnt take a hit.

So even if one pays the balance in full every month, so that no interest charges accrue, they can impact their credit if timed incorrectly and that could lead to higher rates elsewhere.

I'm sorry it didn't translate as I'd hoped.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-06 16:52:41+00:00
My thinking is just that having so many services ads funded means that companies like Google and Meta will never ever show a company that their ad spending yielded no measurable result. If some of the larger buyers of ad space started pull back their spending, because it's generating results, multiple industries would just collapse.

I think we've reach the point where actual honest consumer products have peeked in terms of ad spend, and that's why we're seeing so many ads to garbage products and addictive online games. The "good" ads dried out long ago, and now we're more or less just scamming weak and addicted people.
by kristjansson | 2025-10-06 16:54:12+00:00
There's an older talk Simon Peyton Jones (IIRC?) gave about some development or other in haskell, in which he suggested that many software systems have some aspect of the swamp or the marsh into which you must eventually wade - that there's a mucky, sticky, irreducible aspect to the problem that must be dealt with somewhere, regardless of how elegant the rest of the system is.

"that marsh thing" has stuck with me, and been a frequent contributor to my work and thinking. I'll happily take Law of Conservation of Ugly as a _much_ better name for the thought :)
by kyriakos | 2025-10-06 16:54:13+00:00
I think gamepass numbers are lower than expected because of hardware.

Xbox hardware is not as widely available as PlayStation. Maybe it is in USA but in Europe every electronics shop has PS5 section and almost never xbox. I have to go out of my way to find an xbox console to buy while I've seen PS5s being sold at a supermarket. On top of that Cloud gaming is available in a handful of countries making gamepass ultimate half baked for the rest of the world.
by sfn42 | 2025-10-06 16:54:22+00:00
I'm in that boat, everything is just a crud app. I've worked on some fairly complex apps but at their core they were crud apps and most of their complexity were caused by bad developers overcomplicating and fumbling things.

That's not to say something like Figma isn't on an entirely different level, but most apps aren't Figma and don't need to be. Most apps are simple crud apps and if they aren't it's usually because the devs are bad.

It's also worth noting that a crud app can be quite complex too. There can be a lot of complexity even if the core is simple.

I also think that those of us who can recognize simple apps for what they are and design them simply are also the people best equipped to tackle more complex apps. Those guys who can make a simple crud app into an incomprehensible buggy monster certainly can't be trusted with that kind of complexity.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-06 16:54:43+00:00
> I don't think anyone wants a timeline where tanks are patrolling the roads. There's a reason our military outside the national guard doesn't focus on domestic action unless there's a dire emergency.

This was mentioned a few decades ago (in 2004, the post-9/11 environment) by Battlestar Galactica:

> There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZ53lPPsF0

* https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/14/6002211/battlestar-gala...