MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by janalsncm | 2025-10-20 19:48:45+00:00
Really devastating. He was my favorite chess streamer and such a genuine person. I remember distinctly every time his opponent was suspected of cheating he was adamant in giving them the benefit of the doubt.

No matter what we find out in the next few days, I wish authorities had taken Kramnik’s cyber bullying more seriously. It’s a stain on chess that this is allowed to continue.

To take the conversation in a more technical direction, there are pretty clear parallels with “AI detector” technology which also could be (and I’m sure has been) life ruining. For both writing and chess, there are no authenticity detectors, only circumstantial evidence.
by hbn | 2025-10-20 19:48:47+00:00
Your answer is right in the article, it shouldn't be that baffling.

No one is campaigning to get rid of the beautiful modern 4k OLED displays and return to CRTs for everything. But for low resolution content (retro games and computers) it looks better on a CRT.

There's pretty good modern emulation of the look, but at the end of the day it's a different technology and they do look different.

Not to mention the feel of playing through a near-zero latency analogue signal is noticeable if you've played enough of certain games. There's a reason speedrunners of retro games all play on console with a CRT.
by coffeefirst | 2025-10-20 19:48:58+00:00
I don’t accept the results as revealed preference.

1. Users are not given a choice (well, accept to leave, and I know many people who have).

2. This is measured on time spent, not user satisfaction.

In practice, we demonstrated that algorithms designed to be addictive are addictive (success?), not that there’s an actual preference.
by simonw | 2025-10-20 19:49:36+00:00
I had a preview of this over the weekend, notes here plus some example PRs: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/

It's really solid. It's effectively a web (and native mobile) UI over Claude Code CLI, more specifically "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions".

Anthropic have recognized that Claude Code where you don't have to approve every step is massively more productive and interesting than the default, so it's worth investing a lot of resources in sandboxing.
Show HN: Sixth Coast -- RSS Blog Discovery Website
by dpbigler | 2025-10-20 19:49:41+00:00
My usual outlets for internet doom scrolling have felt a little stale lately, and I've been feeling a little nostalgic for the old internet, so I built sixth coast. It's the frontend for a webcrawler that looks for personal blogs and pulls RSS feeds out of them when they're present. The posts on the home page are from the last 24 hours, sorted by the inverse post frequency of the feeds they belong to. The results are a little quirky, but I've found it useful as a way to discover new, human-created corners of the internet.
by butlike | 2025-10-20 19:49:46+00:00
Ambient crowd noise before the music starts is ~85dB inside a venue (not to mention festivals), which is ~10dB above the acceptable limit for permanent hearing damage. The loudness, to some extent, is a necessity. That being said, I've noticed diminishing returns from a ~100dB show to a ~110-112dB show.

Street fests are the worst since you have a perfect combination of amateur sound engineers, outside sound shaping, and an amateur audience to boot. Sometimes I think bringing children to steet fests should be illegal if there's going to be that loud of music. I've seen some clock in at ~115dB! Ridiculous.
by jemmyw | 2025-10-20 19:50:02+00:00
Those don't seem like the best reasons. European and American economics are pretty close. Europe isn't socialist, it has broader welfare system than the US, but the US has significant welfare systems as well.

I've lived in the US and in Europe and the UK. Shared culture is still very significant. If anything, maybe even closer now than in the 90s.

There's probably other reasons to think about the why and how of alliances than these.
by jngiam1 | 2025-10-20 19:50:04+00:00
I got so used to having Claude Code read some of my MCP tools, and was bummed to see that it couldn't connect to them yet on the web.

Pretty cool though! Will need to use it for some more isolated work/code edits. Claude Code is now my workhorse for a ton of stuff including non-coding work (esp. with the right MCPs)
by dynamite-ready | 2025-10-20 19:50:25+00:00
> Containers have nothing to do with storage. They are completely orthogonal to storage

Exactly.

And sure, you can use S3/Dynamo/Aurora from an EC2 box, but what would be the point of that? Just get the app running in a container, and we can look into infrastructure later.

It's a very common refrain. That's why I believe Docker is strongly to linked the development of these proprietary, cloud based models of computing, that place containerisation at the heart of an ecosystem that bastardises the classic idea of a 'server'.

The existence of S3 is one good result of this. IAM, on the other hand, can die in dumpster fire. Though it won't...
by gspencley | 2025-10-20 19:50:30+00:00
> "Oops, Jim Bob tripped over the power cord, guess we won't get any emails until the IT guy shows up" - this used to be a routine experience.

You're not entirely wrong, but you're being hyperbolic too. I'm actually curious how old you are / how long you've worked in tech, because I started out pre-cloud and things weren't nearly as bad or as limited as you suggest.

First, on-prem servers are not the only alternative to "cloud." Many businesses, including the ones I worked for, did co-location. The companies owned their own bare metal servers, but would rent a rack in a data centre, and certain things - like the network admin - was entirely outsourced to the data centre / hosting company.

You could also rent managed bare metal servers (you still can). This means that you can pretty much outsource your entire IT department, but you're still not doing cloud services. Meaning you've got bare metal servers, someone you're paying at the hosting company is handling security updates and troubleshooting. You don't get things like auto-scaling or serverless or other cloud features, but you also don't have to worry about Jim tripping over the power cable either.

There's also still virtual servers. Which is basically a VM running on a server that hosts multiple clients.

All of this is to say that the alternative is not "cloud" or "box in a closet." The alternative is "cloud" and a ton of different server options: owned, rented, co-located, on-prem, dedicated, virtual, managed v un-managed (outsource IT vs admin your own) and the list goes on and on.
by yaky | 2025-10-20 19:50:43+00:00
The instructions are from Synapse docs:

https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/turn/cotur...

Element (not ElementX), the official/preferred app, works with coturn for 1-on-1 calls. But ElementX does not. IMO it is surprising to break 1-on-1 call functionality.
by waynesonfire | 2025-10-20 19:51:09+00:00
I worked closely with an engieer that would write these massive long functions; but they read clear and linear. They were really easy to follow and understand.

He'd of course develop functions and macros to avoid repeating themselves.

It just worked for his style and problem solving approach. He knew when to stretch a function. So, I'm convinced long functions can be done elegantly, it's probably uncommon.
by rozab | 2025-10-20 19:51:20+00:00
The most important feature of a launch site is having no populated areas downrange. Kilimanjaro would have Mombasa downrange.

I don't know of any launch sites significantly above sea-level, the marginal performance increase wouldn't be worth the logistical nightmare. It's easier to fly up a 747 than build a launch facility on top of a mountain.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-20 19:51:44+00:00
We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Code was amazing and a "just take my frikkin money" product. Then Codex overtook CC and is much better at longer runs on hard problems. I've seen Claude Code literally just give up on a hard problem and tell me to buy something off the shelf. Whereas Codex's ability to profoundly increase the capabilities of a software org is a secret that's slowly getting out.

I don't have any relationship with any AI company, and honestly I was rooting for Anthropic, but Codex CLI is just way way better.

Also Codex CLI is cheaper than Claude Code.

I think Anthropic are going to have to somehow leapfrog OpenAI to regain the position they were in around June of this year. But right now they're being handed their hat.
by ritvikpandey21 | 2025-10-20 19:51:54+00:00
DeepSeek AI just released DeepSeek-OCR, a new open-source model that aims to rethink text extraction through what it calls Context Optical Compression. The launch quickly caught attention on X and GitHub, with many celebrating another big step in open document AI.

At Pulse, we were curious how it performs on the kinds of messy, high-density documents that power real business workflows. So we ran DeepSeek-OCR through our standard evaluation suite: multi-page PDFs, handwritten forms, nested tables, and scanned statements. The results were promising in theory but inconsistent in practice.
by astrange | 2025-10-20 19:52:06+00:00
> You can scramble to submit PRs to ChatGPT to keep up with the “how many Rs in blueberry” kind of problems but it’s clear they can’t even keep up with shitposters on reddit.

Nobody does that. You can't "submit PRs" to an LLM. Although if you pick up new pretraining data you do get people discussing all newly discovered problems, which is a bit of a neat circularity.

> And your 2nd and third point about planning and compounding errors remain challenges.. probably unsolvable with LLM approaches.

Unsolvable in the first place. "Planning" is GOFAI metaphor-based development where they decided humans must do "planning" on no evidence and therefore if they coded something and called it "planning" it would give them intelligence.

Humans don't do or need to do "planning". Much like they don't have or need to have "world models", the other GOFAI obsession.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-20 19:52:06+00:00
I don't think anyone has ever managed to pull off a success story with this kind of advanced expert manipulation.

It's not entirely impossible, but I remain skeptical until see a proof that it, first, works. And, second, that it actually has an advantage over "we'll just train another base model from scratch, but 10% larger, with those +5% performance architecture tweaks, and a new modality blender, and more of that good highly curated data in the dataset, and fresher data overall, and it'll be glorious".
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-20 19:52:12+00:00
> ...inter-agency relations between Dutch and American intelligence organizations remain “excellent”.

While I highly doubt that Dutch Intelligence is significantly more accountable tothat the American ones are, and therefore don't assume that any meaningful intelligence will actually be withheld (or at least, if is being withheld, it isn't because of the decision being discussed in this piece), BUT it is at least interesting that they made this announcement, which suggests some element somewhere in the European deep state is at least trying to pressure Washington in some way.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-20 19:52:48+00:00
> In its lawsuit, Smucker alleges consumers are “deceived into believing that Defendant’s product is in some way sponsored by, originates from or is affiliated with Smucker, when, in fact, it is not.”

Baloney. Trader Joe's obviously went out of their way to make their product packaging look entirely different. The TJ knock-off is less deceptive than any store-brand Pop-Tarts or Corn Flakes.

Here's the strategy that Smucker should be using - https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/09/cheerios-be... - same nutrition, better taste.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-20 19:53:31+00:00
It's not what people want. The iPhone Air is wider and taller than the iPhone 17, and thinner by 2.31mm. It's noticeably thinner, but once you add on a case it doesn't matter. The tradeoff is worse battery and camera for a thinner device that's basically as thick as the other devices once the case is added in, pointless. And it costs more than the iPhone 17 which has better battery and cameras. The same engineering that enabled it to be so thin (basically getting the SOC to fit into the top portion where the camera is) could have given them a great iPhone Mini entry that actually would have been different (than their other entries this year). Same battery and camera tradeoff, but smaller dimensions in the dimensions people actually care about.

You can spend an extra $200 for the top-end phone, or save $200 and get a better phone except in thickness and slightly lower chip performance (it's a phone, CPU performance matters to very few people).
by rafabulsing | 2025-10-20 19:53:49+00:00
Yeah, I don't think anyone is nostalgic for doing spreadsheets/word processing/etc on CRTs.

The utilitarian POV will always look for the best (less noisy/most accurate/most reproducible) medium possible. But when it comes to art, many other aspects factor in, and a little bit of noise can very well add something to a piece. Not always, but often enough.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-20 19:54:26+00:00
Your links do nothing to establish any root cause. One is a case report of someone with multiple confounding factors (PTSD, polydrug abuse, prescription drug, and a recent bereavement), the other is a statistical study deducing that more suicides happen at night when you weight for the probability of people being awake. The latter posits being awake at night as a causal factor, but doesn't consider the obvious possibility that suicidality might make it harder for someone to sleep. It says nothing about circadian alignment because the dataset is based on times of death, not prior sleep habits.

These studies don't make a good case for your claim, and as I pointed out the relevance of your claim is highly questionable. If you're struggling with this issue yourself you're better off talking to a doctor than trying to broadcast public service announcements on a weak scientific foundation.
by dgfitz | 2025-10-20 19:54:30+00:00
I’ve never worked in such a space where the deployed environment had unfettered internet access, no access at all actually.

I’ve probably missed a huge wave of programming technology because of this, and I’ve figured out a way to make it work for a consistent paycheck over these past 20 years.

I’m also not a great example, I think I’ve watched 7 whole hours of YouTube videos ever, and those were all for car repair help.

I shy away from tech that needs to be online/connected/whatever.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-20 19:54:41+00:00
From the same site, there's the Size of Space page:

<https://neal.fun/size-of-space/>

There are a few sites which let you scroll through the solar system, from the Sun or Earth IIRC. Here's one:

<https://onotherplanets.com/solarwalk>

Ah, and "If the Moon Were Only One Pixel", which is what I'd had in mind, shared by @stared <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641839>:

<https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....> (2014)

(HN discussions: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266828> (4 months ago), <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735528> (6 years ago) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936581> (3 years ago).
by alecco | 2025-10-20 19:55:30+00:00
> - Knows that running an operation at AWS scale is difficult and any armchair critism from 'experts' is exactly that. Actions speak louder than words.

NO. From their own reports, clearly AWS is too centralized and dependent on a specific region (us-east-1) and a specific service (DynamoDB). This has been observed for well over 10 years. Why do they stay in this centralized architecture? Cloud services need much higher standards than the average corporation. Just look how they took down 2000+ services for many hours.

[1] https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
by Yoric | 2025-10-20 19:55:31+00:00
Are you sure?

I mean, the current administration has repeatedly threatened to invade militarily two of its allies. Also, it has repeatedly threatened to not honor military agreements with most others, and both the current president and vice-president have insulted the leaders of several allied countries to their face.

Oh, and if that weren't sufficient, the current admin has unilaterally broken all trade treaties (alongside most intellectual property treaties) it held with its commercial partners.

The EU is slow at it, but it's no accident that everybody is doing their best to move away from US tech and military dependencies.
Show HN: 106-byte JSON field extractor for embedded (8× smaller than JSMN)
by CoreLathe | 2025-10-20 19:55:38+00:00
Single-header JSON field extractor for when you control both message format and receiver. 106 bytes on ARM Cortex-M4, no malloc, MIT licensed.

#include "packet_atoms.h" char temp[16]; jet("{\"temp\":22.5,\"hum\":65}", "temp", temp, sizeof(temp)); // temp now holds "22.5"

Deliberate limitations: - Fixed field order (uses strstr) - No nested objects/arrays - Strings include quotes - You design the protocol

Size comparison (ARM ‑Os): - cJSON: 3.2 kB + malloc - JSMN: 800 B + token iteration - This: 106 B

Tested on Cortex-M4 and x86-64. Header-only, copy-paste ready.
by waynesonfire | 2025-10-20 19:55:52+00:00
> I failed to use IP tables for years.

Me too, then I discovered FreeBSD and pf tables. I _feel_ like an expert network engineer now. It took time and effort of course, but the learning process "clicked" for me all along the way and I was able to build on my understandings. Give it a try!

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/firewalls/

There was a recent book published on the tool, The Book of PF, 4th Edition
by maherbeg | 2025-10-20 19:56:33+00:00
Yeah this has been my experience as well. The Claude Code UI is still so much better, and the permissioning policy system is much better. Though I'm working on closing that gap by writing a custom policy https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/execpolic...

Kinda sick of Codex asking for approval to run tests for each test instance
by syllogism | 2025-10-20 19:56:40+00:00
This has been discussed to death but to reiterate here: people have been much too polite about Kramnick's nonsense. Danya and Hikaru are (were) probably the two people in the world whose bullet play is least suspicious. Cheating isn't very powerful in short time controls, and they have streamed thousands of games playing them.

Kramnick's bullshit never made any damn sense at all.
by yansoki | 2025-10-20 19:57:28+00:00
I wasn't building one exactly for me, but I believe not all devs have a team available to monitor the deployments for them...and sometimes centralized observability could really be a plus and ease the life for a developper....just being able to vizualise the state of your multiple vps deployments from your single pc without logging into you provider accounts should count for something I belive....this is without any form of anomaly detection or extra advice about your deployment state...I wanna believe this is useful but again the critique is welcome
by ivape | 2025-10-20 19:57:31+00:00
but to design systems (or habits) that surface the most structurally important signals

Right, the “filter”. Again, the simplest thing people do is put up their mental firewall and don’t manage the whitelist. That means things don’t even get through to be classified as important.

The other variant of that is there is no filter at all, but the person lacks the ability to classify anything as important (classified incorrectly).

If we filter correctly, and classify correctly, that’s probably best. The filter part is easy, just do it. The classification part requires, in my opinion, some kind of value system.
by Sanzig | 2025-10-20 19:57:36+00:00
I think there's two reasons: one, it makes them gobs of money. Two, it discourages customers from building architectures which integrate non-AWS services, because you have to pay the data transfer tax. This locks everyone in.

And yes, AWS' rates are highway robbery. If you assume $1500/mo for a 10 Gbps port from a transit provider, you're looking at $0.0005/GB with a saturated link. At a 25% utilization factor, still only $0.002/GB. AWS is almost 50 times that. And I guarantee AWS gets a far better rate for transit than list price, so their profit margin must be through the roof.
by derefr | 2025-10-20 19:57:37+00:00
My understanding:

If you generate embeddings (of the query, and of the candidate documents) and compare them for similarity, you're essentially asking whether the documents "look like the question."

If you get an LLM to evaluate how well each candidate document follows from the query, you're asking whether the documents "look like an answer to the question."

An ideal candidate chunk/document from a cosine-similarity perspective, would be one that perfectly restates what the user said — whether or not that document actually helps the user. Which can be made to work, if you're e.g. indexing a knowledge base where every KB document is SEO-optimized to embed all pertinent questions a user might ask that "should lead" to that KB document. But for such documents, even matching the user's query text against a "dumb" tf-idf index will surface them. LLMs aren't gaining you any ground here. (As is evident by the fact that webpages SEO-optimized in this way could already be easily surfaced by old-school search engines if you typed such a query into them.)

An ideal candidate chunk/document from a re-ranking LLM's perspective, would be one that an instruction-following LLM (with the whole corpus in its context) would spit out as a response, if it were prompted with the user's query. E.g. if the user asks a question that could be answered with data, a document containing that data would rank highly. And that's exactly the kind of documents we'd like "semantic search" to surface.
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-20 19:57:39+00:00
> That said, the current American administration probably doesn't see Russia as a threat.

That's just pabulum for the masses which you're better off not repeating so as not to appear so easily fooled. Keep your friends close and your enemy closer [1] rings a bell I assume?

[1] https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/keep-your-friends-close-...
by cubefox | 2025-10-20 19:57:50+00:00
No, CRTs are still much better than sample-and-hold screens (OLED or LCD) with regards to motion clarity.

Short version: Our eyes are constantly tracking objects on screen ("smooth pursuit"), which leads to visible smearing on OLED and LCD screens, because they hold their frame for the entire frame time rather than just flashing them for a short fraction of that time. Especially fast paced and side scrolling games like Sonic look much better on CRT screens. (But CRTs have much lower brightness and hence contrast than modern screens.)

Full explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604613
by sberens | 2025-10-20 19:58:17+00:00
> This Reuters article claims OpenAI is going to generate $3.6 billion in revenue this year, but the costs will lead to a loss of more than $5 billion. It expects a major revenue jump next year to $11.6 billion

The article linked[0] is from last year.

A recent article[1] from this year says "OpenAI looks to meet its full-year revenue target of $13 billion and a cash-burn target of $8.5 billion, the report added."

[0]https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-first-half-revenu...