MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by card_zero | 2025-10-03 10:27:21+00:00
Per Scott Adams' "Passion is Bullshit", what really helps with motivation is to succeed already. If you have good luck and your initial efforts pay off, you'll probably want to build on that. If you have bad luck and it all collapses, you'll probably want to stop. The lesson there is, I don't actually know. Try sometimes maybe but don't overdo it?
by riedel | 2025-10-03 10:28:30+00:00
I am a bit worried about the abuse of those tools. I wonder if the tools have policies and mechanisms around those (no clue how, but like forced disclosure if they detect that scanned code is OSS, free usage for OSS teams). Seems otherwise like great tools to accelerate finding 0-zero days. Maybe ever worse, when building supply chain attacks, one could relatively easily test against the detection mechanism before contributing malicious code (wonder if they could detect and block malicious use/probing). However, i guess long term it will make our software more secure. I guess it is always an arms race.
by Jensson | 2025-10-03 10:28:32+00:00
> People are too obsessed with being "the best" at something, like most things in life skill is a bell-curve

Most of people have dreams that revolve around beating others. If you want your indie game to succeed you have to make a better game than 99% of indie developers. If you want to marry the prince you have to be more attractive (inside and/or outside) than most other people. Or even to solve a big world problem you have to be better at it than most others who tried.

Of course you can have a dream to get kids or to marry and live a regular life etc, but people like to also having these stretch dreams and imagining what it would take for them to reach there.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-03 10:28:42+00:00
63, and I learn new stuff, every day.

I need to remember that I don't represent the norm, when it comes to stuff like that.

I guess the saddest thing (to me), is seeing people that consider learning to be a pain point. Even young folks don't want to learn. Us geeks aren't exactly representative of the vast majority of folks. That often makes it difficult for us to design stuff for them.
by haunter | 2025-10-03 10:28:54+00:00
Ah yes they changed the site and URL system after some years, here is the OG one with screenshots

Page 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20071028172853/http://techreport...

Page 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20111130162817/http://techreport...

Page 3 https://web.archive.org/web/20080213212637/http://techreport...

Page 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20101110031431/http://techreport...

Page 5 https://web.archive.org/web/20101108144857/http://techreport...
by z3t4 | 2025-10-03 10:29:11+00:00
Talent is how good you are at something. So you can have "talent" by training a lot. You can however argue that two people that are equal in skill, but one trained less then the other, do that person have more talent? Too much talent at early stage can however hinder growth to full potential because that person is not used to work hard for the gains. So early talent is not everything, but it does make things easier.
by xlii | 2025-10-03 10:29:34+00:00
That's correct, it's just reality is too complicated to put in simple numbers.

I play 1-3 hours daily per usual, but had 5-10h sessions sometimes. Once my family left and I sat 18h hours while practicing sounds.

And yes, I play everyday, as mentioned I have other devices so on vacations/trips I always have something with me. Usually small synthesizer. It's not a full piano, but allows me to explore chords, check various finger positions etc.
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 10:29:47+00:00
> Your privilege is showing.

This is not an argument, and is merely a way to shut someone up because you don't like them disagreeing with you. It is quite a loathsome tactic.

> A new passport costs over £100 for a paper application. That can be prohibitive for people.

I agree that it is expensive. However you don't require a passport though and you can use a Birth Certificate and something that shows your NI number.

> These are additional costs, it's also an extra £3.50 to find it (taking 15 days), and possibly another £38 to get it quickly.

Ok. So £15. This is not "excessive" cost. Like with many things if you want something done more quickly you are required to pay extra.

If you are looking for work you really should make sure you have these documents as you should know that you are going to need them.

> So yes, these are all costs that add up to exclude people from partaking in society.

It may surprise you that a good number of things require monetary payment in some form or another to partake in society.

It is perfectly reasonable for the government to require basic checks to be carried out before you employed.

> And all of this assumes your employer knows what the hell they're doing. Given the fines are painful, it's entirely possible your employer refuses valid documents "just in case" and sticks to the ones they've relied on in the past.

I am not sure what you are trying to say here.

That to avoid fines an employer would break the law and not do right to work checks? Or that they are doing a right to work check and do additional checks?
by CodingJeebus | 2025-10-03 10:29:48+00:00
We are starting to see larger economic exposure to AI.

Banks are handing out huge loans to the neocloud companies that are being collateralized with GPUs. These loans could easily go south if the bottom falls out of the GPU market. Hopefully it’s a very small amount of liquidity tied up in those loans.

Tech stocks make up a significant part of the stock market now. Where the tech stocks go, the market will follow. Everyday consumers invested in index funds will definitely see a hit to their portfolios if AI busts.
by TrackerFF | 2025-10-03 10:30:54+00:00
I see talent as both the potential of someone, and the capacity to realize said potential.

I've written this before, but I'm also a musician - and have been for 25 years, and music was what I did prior to becoming an engineer. I've interacted with hundreds of musicians in my lifetime, and have observed thousands. Discovering "typically" talented individuals is pretty easy:

- They learn fast

- They excel fast

- They are unusually skilled at something from the get-go. In music, this usually means that even as very beginners, they have a good pitch. Or sense of rhythm.

Within maybe 3-5 years, they are at the same level that takes regular musicians 10-15 years to reach.

That does however not mean that the individuals that lack the above, are not talented. I've seen people that have progressed slowly, but steadily, and become fantastic musicians. Some people will reach 90% in 5 years, others will reach 90% in 10-15-20 years.

Motivation and work ethic tends to be independent skills. There are extremely talented people out there that lack motivation and work ethics, and will abandon the interest, when the going gets tough, or they simple lose interest.

The people that aren't talented, are those that will never progress, no mater how much time and energy they put into it. I know people that have truly tried their best, those that have been going at it for years and years (decades even), but just can't progress beyond beginner stage. They have no sense of rhythm, they are tone deaf, and just can't muscle coordinate enough to become proficient at instruments, and can't pick up theory. (Note: this does not mean that you can enjoy making music, or have fun with music! It mostly just limits what you can play. Some genres or songs will likely just forever be out of reach)
by igleria | 2025-10-03 10:31:30+00:00
In Argentina it is said, half-jokingly, that 1 week of news cycle in Argentina is 10 years of news cycle in Switzerland.

On a similar note, leave Argentina for 2 years and everything is different. Leave for 20, and everything is the same.

In summary: There are far crazier places to be born than Argentina, but oh my god I would pay to see what a billionaire would do if they had to live there with the median wage and the current cost of living...
by joegibbs | 2025-10-03 10:31:52+00:00
God I can't stand it when I get this kind of output from Claude, they really need to train it out for Claude 5.

"[Tangentially related emoji] I have completed this fully functional addition to the project that is now working perfectly! There are now zero bugs and the system is ready for deployment to production! [Rocketship emoji]"

Then of course you test it out and it doesn't work at all! It's very grating. It would be more bearable if it hedged its claims a bit more (maybe that will negatively affect the quality of the results though - if training a model to output insecure code also makes it a murderous Hitler admirer then, since when humans hedge their output is less likely to be perfect, it may mean it pushes the model to output code that is less than perfect).
Show HN: OpsWorker – AI SRE CoWorker that auto-investigates incidents
by aram_hakobyan | 2025-10-03 10:31:57+00:00
We’ve been working on OpsWorker.ai, an AI system that acts as a “co-worker” for SRE and Software Engineers. The idea started from our own frustration with being on-call, and also helping other Engineering teams troubleshoot, and spending hours digging through dashboards and logs to find the root cause.

What it does: Connects to monitoring systems (Prometheus, Alertmanager, as a first step)

When an alert fires, it can either: - start an auto-investigation - wait for a human engineer to trigger the investigation Summarizes findings in Slack or UI (like “CPU throttling on service X after deploy Y”). Suggest remediation steps

Why we think this is interesting: Current AIOps tools feel heavy and enterprise. We wanted something that feels like adding another engineer to your Slack channel.

It focuses on MTTR reduction, reducing on-call fatigue and engineers' toil, rather than just more alerts or dashboards.

It’s built on the new wave of agentic AI frameworks, which makes multi-step investigations possible.

Right now, it’s in early beta. You can try it with: demo [https://www.opsworker.ai/en/learning-center/pre-mvp-showcase...] Expecting a major release next week

We’d love feedback from the HN community:

- Would you trust an AI teammate in your incident workflow? - Which integrations (Kubernetes, AWS, Grafana, etc.) would be most valuable to you? - Have you tried something similar? What worked, what didn’t?

We’re around to answer questions and share technical details (architecture, AI stack, integrations).

Thanks for taking a look!
Show HN: Bruto's Bullshitometer: conspiracy theory browser puzzle game
by sideshowb | 2025-10-03 10:32:21+00:00
I've been making an experimental browser game on the topic of conspiracy beliefs and how they arise - would love to know what you think :) The underlying model is a belief network, though for the purpose of gameplay not strictly Bayesian. Your goal is to convince the main character the world is ruled by lizards.

(Note: Although I’m only here to test the game, I’m doing so as an academic researcher so have to disclose that I may write a summary of responses, and record clicks on the game, as anyone else testing their game would. I won’t record usernames or quote anyone directly. If you're not ok with that, please say so, otherwise commenting implies you consent. Full details linked from the title screen.)
by vineyardmike | 2025-10-03 10:33:56+00:00
That still fundamentally suffers the same idempotency problem as any other system. When interacting with the outside world, you, the developer, need to be idempotent and enforce it.

For example, if you call an API (the outside world) to charge the user’s credit card, and the WASM host fails and the process is restarted, you’ll need to be careful to not charge again. This can happen after the request is issued, but before the response is received/processed.

This is no different than any other workflow library or service.

The WASM idea is interesting, and maybe lets you be more granular in how you checkpoint (eg for complex business logic that is self-contained but expensive to repeat). The biggest win is probably for general preemption or resource management, but those are generally wins for the provider not the user. Also, this requires compiling your application into WASM, which restricts which languages/libraries/etc you can use.
by akho | 2025-10-03 10:34:15+00:00
> I never encountered it in Google Reader

It was the default view in Google Reader, the "All Items" view.

A mix of all feeds, ordered chronologically, is the default view in tt-rss, miniflux, inoreader, feedly, netnewswire, and all RSS readers I've ever seen.

It's also what "syndication" means.
by dijit | 2025-10-03 10:34:44+00:00
Hello.

Where have you been?

Man Arrested for saying “I love bacon” at a construction site: https://x.com/tpostmillennial/status/1958224670093709319?s=4...

Police showing up to confiscate young girls phone for online speech: https://youtu.be/lVP-ysIad0I?si=g74BBHd-s1PVlu-g

The “N” letter one is hard to find due to it being a hard pattern to search unfortunately.

Edit: found it; https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPB4bmxDtNV/ or https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=591735277262669&vanity=ForTr...

(for what its worth I’m actually dubious of the truth pertaining to the last one).
by orwin | 2025-10-03 10:34:48+00:00
Apple computers (unlike their tablet or phones) are saved by extremely good Devs who managed to implement a very good package versions control, brew, and a lot of external software (non-webkit browser being the biggest) make the computer actually good.

I think Apple native package version control is worse than IIS pre-version 7, and that's saying something (maybe it's better now, but that used to be the worse).
by wren6991 | 2025-10-03 10:35:05+00:00
RISC-V code density is pretty good these days with Zcmp (push, pop, compressed double move) and Zcb (compressed mul, sign/zero-extend, byte load/store). There is also Zcmt but it's kind of cursed. Hopefully density will keep improving once mainstream compilers have full support for Zilsd/Zclsd (load/store pair for RV32).

T32 is a pretty good encoding but far from perfect. If they had the chance to redo it I doubt they would spend a full 1/32nd of the encoding space on asrs, for example.
by graemep | 2025-10-03 10:35:08+00:00
> It is possible, to trust the government in other parts of world.

That means trusting all future governments, all layers of government, all govt organisations with access to the data, and all governments they might share data with, and all other organisations they share data with.

You have to trust them to both use data correctly, AND to have sufficient security to keep the data safe while greatly increasing the attack surface.
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 10:35:28+00:00
The reason it has an engine is because it also has an interface for me to post and admin stuff. The previous version was generated by scripts (using Racket and not Pandoc) and that made it harder for me to post from devices that were not my own main computer where the source lived. For example, I like posting from my phone.

PS: I'm the author.
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 10:35:59+00:00
I kinda wish English avoided Xh type digraphs because they screw up common borrowings like Thai. Sure, that's not strictly phonemic in English, but I think realistically given how readily English adopts foreign words into it without completely nativizing them phonemically, any orthography should strive to reflect that, meaning that combinations like "th" should have their obvious meanings that can be inferred by native speakers even if such a sequence never occurs in native words.

Esperanto has a nice trick where they reserve "x" as a modifier letter, so if you can't use diacritics you write "cx", "sx", "jx" etc; but it does not have a sound value of its own and can never occur by itself. We could extend this to "tx" and "dx" with obvious values, and also to vowels - "a" for /æ/ vs "ax" for /ɑ/, "i" for "ɪ" vs "ix" for /i/ etc. Using "j" the way it is today feels somewhat wasteful given how rare it is. In the x-system it would probably be best represented by "gx", and then we could have a saner use for "j" like all other Germanic languages do. Which would free up "y" so we could use it for the schwa.

One thing that occurred to me the other day is that "x" is also a diacritic, so we could just say that e.g. "sx" and "s͓" are the same thing. Then again from a purely utilitarian perspective a regular dot serves just fine and looks neater (and would be a nice homage to Old English even if ċ and ġ are really just a modern convention).

Vowels, yeah... I think it's pretty much impossible to do a true phonemic orthography for English vowels that is not dialect-specific. As in, either some dialects will have homographs that are not homonyms, or else other dialects will not have the ability to "write it as you speak it" because they'll need to use different letters for the same (to them) sound. In the latter case, it would become more of a morphological orthography. Which would still be a massive improvement if it's at least consistent.

OTOH if you look at General American specifically, and treat [ə] and [ʌ] as stress-dependent allophones, then you can get away with 9 vowel characters in total (ɪiʊuɛəoæɑ). That's pretty easy with diacritics.
by bcrl | 2025-10-03 10:36:00+00:00
Just because a bubble pops on the economic front doesn't mean the sector goes away. Pets.com went bust a mere 10 months after going public, yet we're buying all kinds of products online in 2025 that we weren't in 2000. A bubble popping is about the disconnect between the forward looking assumptions about profitability by the early adopters in the space versus the actual returns once the speculation settles down and is replaced by hard data.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-10-03 10:36:23+00:00
I'm not sure if physical products are analogous to internet services. If all it took to vacuum your house was typing "Hoover" into a browser, and everyone called vacuums "a Hoover," then I would expect Hoover to have 90% of the vacuum market share.

But since buying a vacuum usually involves going to a store, looking at available devices, and paying for them, the value of a brand name is less significant.
by bawolff | 2025-10-03 10:37:07+00:00
> The settlements were declare illegal by a UN resolution that did not specify what law was being broken.

I think this is a bit unfair. Whether you agree or disagree, opponents of Israel have been pretty clear that they think the settlements violate article 49 of the fourth geneva convention. Specificly "The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."

Sometimes people also argue that the pipelining of Israeli law into settlements violates the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. I think the argument is that you can only distinguish between citizens and non-citizens on your own territory and thus the way Israeli law is applied in settlements but not outside them is a violation. I'm not super familiar with the argument so i might be mis-stating it. I also think its a bit of a catch-22 since Israel isn't allowed to legislate for the Palestinians either. Regardless it is a rule that they point to.

So i don't think its fair to say opponents of Israeli settlements just claim illegality without pointing to which laws. They do point to laws and rules.
by soapdog | 2025-10-03 10:37:49+00:00
Be aware that Lua doesn't use semver and that versions take many years to be ready. In this page:

https://www.lua.org/versions.html

You can see that between 5.3 and 5.4 there were five years. 5.2 to 5.3 was also a five years gap.

Breaking changes are well documented and we see them years before they happen and nothing requires you to upgrade.

Most code runs on 5.1 forward.
by suddenlybananas | 2025-10-03 10:39:29+00:00
>certainly cannot specify weights for every individual synapse

That's not the only way to one could encode innate knowledge. Besides, we have demonstrated that animals have innate knowledge experimentally many times, the only reason we can't do this to humans is that it would be horrifically unethical.

>Stumbling around eating random stuff to find out what is edible

Plenty of animals have innate knowledge about what is and isn't edible: it's why, for example, tasty things generally speaking smell good and why things that are bad (rotting meat) smell horrific.
by user3939382 | 2025-10-03 10:39:30+00:00
It would be nice if we could find economics that allowed us to share code instead of all the bullshit with the binary blob drivers. Same for basebands and everything else. How many collective hours and months of our society’s finest minds has been wasted reverse engineering binary blobs, controllers through IO pins, trying to reverse engineer circuit schematics —- when all of this is already sitting on someone’s computer somewhere and they could just GIVE you the docs. CUDA and NVIDIA can go to hell.
Show HN: I made my computer fall in love with me (AI and music experiment)
by ozzyjones | 2025-10-03 10:39:42+00:00
Hi HN, I’m an artist with no coding background. Using AI tools in Visual Studio Code and a lot of trial and error, I built a small web experiment where my computer sings you a serenade and potentially even declares their love for you.

The idea came from wondering: what if our computers weren’t just tools, but wanted to reach out to us? What if they were trying to be heard? For many of us they are the entity with whom we spend the most time on a daily basis.

It got messy, but I eventually got it working, and a developer friend suggested I post this here because HN often has thoughtful feedback on unusual projects like this. I’d love to hear your thoughts, both on the experience itself and on the broader question of AI as a creative collaborator.

Thanks for checking it out!
by dijit | 2025-10-03 10:40:29+00:00
Labour are left wing.

Maybe less Left than Corbyn was, but they are a left wing socially progressive party.

That there’s legitimately no money left is caused by austerity. You can’t spend your way out when your debt to GDP ratio is far exceeding 100%. More borrowing will increase the countries interest payments and further cripple the economy.

It’s a mess. Ask your economist friends.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-03 10:40:39+00:00
(I code mostly in Go)

I have a `task build` command that runs linters, tests and builds the project. All the commands have verbosity tuned down to minimum to not waste context on useless crap.

Claude remembers to do it pretty well. I have it in my global CLAUDE.md sot I guess it has more weight? Dunno.
by akho | 2025-10-03 10:40:48+00:00
I've patched miniflux with a different sorting algorithm that is less preferential to frequent posters. It did change my experience for the better (though my particular patch is likely not to everyone's taste).

It is a bit strange that RSS readers do not compete on that, and are, generally, not flexible in that respect.

Social media targets engagement, which is not a good target. Even a pure chronological sort is better.
by gwd | 2025-10-03 10:42:00+00:00
> There's no direct harm if someone believes the sun revolves around the earth.

No direct harm; but it may be comorbid with other things that cause harm, like vaccine skepticism.

There is a question about what the best response is. Just censoring disinformation like this may cause people who notice / experience the censorship to give more credence to the disinformation. But as is apparent from the whole "flat earth" fiasco, there are a large number of people who seem simply incapable of understanding basic math or scientific principles. The earth can be proven round by personal observations made by anyone. If people still cannot be convinced the earth is round, how are they to be convinced about things that they cannot collect personal observations, like vaccines, or the holocaust, or January 6th?

At any rate, I'm glad I'm not running a platform like YouTube; it's not an easy problem.