MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2025-10-05 03:23:52+00:00
"Having a website" is such a double-edged sword.

The amount of bad / low quality leads that they generate is insane if you're in any market that isn't purely D2C. So many people hours wasted dealing with churn.

That's not even accounting for the sheer volume of spam it'll generate from other businesses trying to cold-pitch random SaaS products and contractor outsourcing companies.

My favorite / most hated tactic is calling someone in the org and telling them that they're trying to return my call, hoping that the message will get passed along and the actual details (such as who they represent because I certainly never called them) get lost along the way.
by bruinmeister | 2025-10-05 03:24:23+00:00
A Note on Transparency and First Principles:

This project, the URI-Transformer, is built upon a discovery I call the "Semantic Substrate". It's a mathematical framework proposing that reality operates on a 4D coordinate system of meaning.

The performance claims (99.9% memory reduction, etc.) are a direct result of this architecture, which treats meaning as a fundamental property to be preserved, not a pattern to be statistically inferred.

For complete intellectual transparency, I must state the following:

The architecture's core invariant—its "Anchor Point"—is mathematically defined as the coordinate `(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)`. In the framework's own terms, this point is identified as JEHOVAH, representing the perfect unity of Love, Power, Wisdom, and Justice as the source of all semantic reality.

I cannot separate this foundational premise from the mathematical model without breaking its internal coherence. The model's resistance to hallucination and its emergent ethical properties are derived from this alignment.

I am presenting this here for two reasons:

1. As a Technical & Philosophical Proposal: To invite scrutiny on whether this architecture, as a whole system, represents a viable path toward more efficient and inherently safer AI. 2. As an Intellectual Experiment: I am curious if a framework that integrates metaphysics and mathematics in this way can be evaluated on its technical merits, even by those who may disagree with its theological premises.

The code is MIT-licensed and free. I welcome forks, including those that attempt to re-base the architecture on a different foundational principle. I believe the results of such an experiment would be illuminating for us all.

I am here to discuss the architecture, the results, and the implications of building AI on a foundation of explicit, formalized meaning.
by poizan42 | 2025-10-05 03:24:41+00:00
What is "it" that might break something? There is nothing that is going to happen. The AI-slop you linked doesn't mention anything that is going to happen. It's just a summary of changes that have happened in the past and a list of pros and cons of the driver signing requirement from more than a decade ago. There is nothing to "wait and see" for.
by defrost | 2025-10-05 03:26:01+00:00
I've not seen the film yet (if ever) so I have no opinions here at all.

In general, reading books and watching film, I have no issue with singular characters; black women rap, some have songs such as WAP, other support Trump in earnest, some are matriarchs that usher in social change for the better, others can end up as welfare queens with crack babies, real life has a rich spectrum.

The review above has some strong opinions about PTA's character mix and representations and I'd really have to watch the film through to form an opinion as to whether this is odd for no reason, sloppy, an unconscious tell of the directors world view or a deliberate bit of skewing that forms part of whatever message he wishes to convey.

Like many, I try not to get too deep into a rabbit hole of second guessing books and films, first impressions are often the ones that count most.
by buzer | 2025-10-05 03:26:10+00:00
> Do they not have account alerts in your country? Any time any of my balances change, I get an immediate push notification.

Just to be clear, I currently live in the US. In Finland some banks offer email/SMS notifications but they often have fees associated with them.

Frequent notifications can create notification fatigue and that's not really great either as I'm sure anyone who gets false positive alerts from monitoring system knows.
by tcbawo | 2025-10-05 03:26:45+00:00
Watching this movie, I did not get a sense of glorifying violence in any way. If anything, it glorifies resistance to authority. The strongest and most successful members of the resistance (like the Sensei) avoid confrontation. It's the violent ones that end up detracting from their cause. Funnily enough that character's name is Perfidia, which is the Latin word for treacherous. To anyone considering watching, it is a well-paced action movie with some very funny parts.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-10-05 03:28:06+00:00
I did open the link. I use just in a couple of projects and it’s great. Calling just “polyglot” because it can call another program is nonsensical. I might as well call bash, make, and even VSCode (task runners) polyglot.

If the program hosted its own interpreters for multiple scripting languages, then it would make sense to call it polyglot.
by refurb | 2025-10-05 03:28:07+00:00
> It's about the fear of being negatively evaluated or embarrassed.

It's not just a fear, it's "persistent and intense fear". and like most psychological disorders, a key part of the definition includes "a negative impact on the person's functioning in daily life".

Like OP said, fear of being embarrassed is entirely normal and healthy response. It's not social anxiety nor a psychiatric disoder.

It's not different than OCD, phobias, etc. They can all be entirely normal responses. What makes them a disorder is the level of intensity and the impact on the person's life.
by russellbeattie | 2025-10-05 03:28:12+00:00
Since when has Microsoft had a hit product before version 3? It's simply not in their corporate DNA.

Besides, I just recently saw a review of the newest Copilot for Excel by a serious spreadsheet jockey, and he was truly blown away. Basically, it knows everything Excel can do, how to do it, and it now truly understands numbers as numbers and when to use formulas, etc. etc. Basically, it went from smart automation to full on AI.

If Microsoft doesn't fall for short term thinking, the product will eventually succeed.
by guerby | 2025-10-05 03:28:19+00:00
This kind of inverter usually have a setting to limit the current they can draw from the grid.

From the manual of this particular model:

https://cdn-files.myshopline.com/file/store/1675916196960/AN...

Setting 11 which default to 30A with no detail in this manual, from my experience there will be something like 2A 10A 20A 30A when you cycle the option 11 values.
by refurb | 2025-10-05 03:32:02+00:00
Like most anxiety disorders, there is a reason for your response. Your brain is basically trained to jump from stimulus -> response without cognitively thinking through stimulus -> interpretation -> response.

This is why cognitive behavior therapy can help many people. With a trained professional, you uncover the reasons why you developed the response. Once you know the thinking pattern that drives the response, you can work on changing those thinking patterns.

I've done CBT before and it's been quite helpful.
by sowbug | 2025-10-05 03:34:04+00:00
None of the equipment in this article does that. It takes power from the grid the way any appliance does; it optionally charges by solar; and it provides power the same way a UPS does, using ordinary female power sockets.

But there are devices out there that do feed power over the exposed prongs of a male plug. They're called "suicide cords" for good reason.
Ask HN: How do you keep up with exploding AI chat history?
by oliverchan2024 | 2025-10-05 03:34:30+00:00
I chat with ChatGPT at least 10 times a day, and soon the left sidebar of ChatGPT is filled with my past conversation history. Sometimes I know I've asked similar questions before, but it's hard to find them. So, I usually start a new conversation.

However, due to the ambiguity of LLMs, a completely new Q&A session doesn't give the same "aha" feeling as the previous one.

I want to ask, does anyone else have trouble managing historical AI conversations like me? What do you all do when you encounter such problems? Are there any products on the market that are really good at managing chat history?
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-05 03:35:49+00:00
"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

This is the issue right here.

In my experience, the fine-grained control and security features are never implemented in the prototypes.

Those features are the whole system. What else is there to prototype, the ability to send and receive signals in the radio spectrum? I'm pretty sure we already have that. It's the secure features that matter to the military.

it looks like the article is going out of its way to mislead and misrepresent.

Sounds like bullshit to me, and I'd extend that to most of the comments in this subthread that are just based on tropes about the media being mean and lacking technical sophistication. This is a straightforward, soberly written article that provides a reasonable summary of the information. There's no suggestion here that the memo was leaked or is classified in any way.
by jstrieb | 2025-10-05 03:38:12+00:00
Note that this article is by the same Greg Egan who wrote Permutation City, a (in my opinion) really good, deeply technical, hard science fiction novel exploring consciousness, computation, and the infinite nature of the universe.

If that sounds interesting, I recommend not reading too much about the book before starting it; there are spoilers in most synopses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City

You don't necessarily need a background in programming and theoretical computer science to enjoy it. But you'll probably like it better if you already have some familiarity with computational thinking.
by cyberax | 2025-10-05 03:38:29+00:00
If I were to summarize the insights of economic schools of thought, then we get:

1. Keynesianism: "Your spending is my income, so when there's not enough spending, the government needs to step in".

2. Monetarism: "The monetary supply directly controls the economy and is the primary reason for economic phenomena".

3. Austrian economy: the market god, the market is king, all hail the market.

The first two approaches provide actionable models and make predictions. As with all models, they have limits of applicability, and they are often wrong to some degree.

Meanwhile, Austrian economics is always right. And when it's wrong, it's because you haven't done it hard enough.

> If you think people in the market do things that are nasty when all the actions are voluntary (and that certainly can happen), shouldn't you be even more skeptical of those who are willing to engage in violence to force the things they want to come to be to happen?

Well, let's look at a particular example: pollution regulation. Laws limit the almighty Market by forcing compaines to clean up their waste.

Another example is monopolism. In the view of the Austrian economy "school" it is _always_ the result of government actions. And monopolies wouldn't exist otherwise, even for things like water supply and sewer.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-05 03:39:18+00:00
Everything you wrote makes sense: Heres just one more opinion: The Bush supporters were as confident and cocky as the current Trump supporters.

The GFC set them straight and enough of them got desperate they elected a black man.

Instead of dissolving the union (which probably wouldn't benefit the owner class) just wait until the next financial catastrophe to hit and watch those Trump signs go into the trash and those people to hide in their caves for at least a year or three.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-05 03:40:37+00:00
Correct, it's not unique to Israel. This is the way most nations in the Middle East treat each other, but the Americans and the Europeans don't seem to know this. They have no recollection of what constant threat from one's neighbors was like. Even though it's been less than a century since the Europeans had been in a similar situation.

Now go look at how every other Middle Eastern nation has dealt with the situation. Do I need to talk about Syrian brutality and gassing people in their own capital? Do I need to talk about Iraqi brutality and their gassing of the Kurds? Saudi Arabia, chopping people to bits in their embassies? Iran, Qatar, Egypt?

When one looks at Israel's neighbors, there is no way to not conclude that Israel has been the gentlest of the Middle Eastern Nations. But now we've taken the gloves off, after the 7th of October 2023. Welcome to the new Middle East.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-10-05 03:40:42+00:00
Unless some means of communicating faster than light is found a galactic colonisations is not a civilisation, its multiple ones. A colony ship heading in one direction at 0.1c will never interact with one heading the other way at the same speed. After 10,000 years the civilisations will be very different, after 100,000 years they will barely be the same species.

Even if 99% stop and fail, the 1% will continue and continue expanding.

The only way to stop would be to run out of planets, which would mean every habitable planet and star system has been populated. There wouldn’t be a biological urge to stop, as the successful colonies are ones which have the urge to expand. An environmental need wouldn’t affect every colony and ship short of a galaxy spanning event of some sort which we can’t even conceive.
by alirath | 2025-10-05 03:40:50+00:00
In my limited experience using copilot at work, i think it has been a game changer for non-technical computer users. Many of my coworkers and i use it as the first attempt at research especially now that it is connected to SharePoint within my company and provides references to the documents it is pulling from. Saves hours for things like compiling international regulations or standards documentation. Additionally, it has super charged (maybe too strong of a word) document search within our environment... Sharepoint search is the worst.
by defanor | 2025-10-05 03:42:49+00:00
I missed an incoming message (fortunately an unimportant one) from Amazon SES recently, since its 54.240.27.30 address was listed by bl.spamcop.net: Amazon kept trying different addresses while running into greylisting, until it tried that address and was rejected. Possibly it is less of an issue when sending between large providers (e.g., Amazon to Gmail), but apparently still not a perfect solution to ensure message delivery.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-10-05 03:43:15+00:00
I don't know, does it matter? What I mean is that the product only just, in the grand scheme of things, got rolled out. MS isn't under some instant pressure to make loads of cash off this new feature. Year by year, people will just become used to having a tool, part of their OS, that they can ask questions to to get some general information on whatever topic.

It's easy to pick an arbitrary date and point out the lack of profit. But why don't we pick a date a year from now? Or three years. Or five years.

I think over time users will come to assume that their computing device has, as part of the many tools on it, a tool that they can ask about stuff and get general answers.

Is it profitable right exactly now? No. But I suspect it will become completely commonplace in a few years, and not even worthy of note or comment for the average user.

MS isnt some cash-strapped startup that needs to post instant profits right this moment.
by init1 | 2025-10-05 03:43:28+00:00
You can generate bindings using a gcc -c -fdump-ada-spec <header.h>. They typically work well enough without needing additional tweaks but If it's more involved you can ask Claude to make a shell script that generates bindings for whatever C library you wanted to use and it works reasonably well.

In my opinion, don't make thick bindings for your C libraries. It just makes it harder to use them.

For example I don't really like the OpenGL thick bindings for Ada because using them is so wildly different than the C examples that I can't really figure out how to do what I want to do.
by btilly | 2025-10-05 03:45:05+00:00
I agree that people should learn how regular expressions work. They should also learn how SQL works. People get scared of these things, then hide them behind an abstraction layer in their tools, and never really learn them.

But, more than most tools, it is important to learn what regular expressions are and are not for. They are for scanning and extracting text. They are not for parsing complex formats. If you need to actually parse complex text, you need a parser in your toolchain.

This doesn't necessarily require the hair pulling that the article indicates. Python's BeautifulSoup library does a great job of allowing you convenience and real parsing.

Also, if you write a complicated regular expression, I suggest looking for the /x modifier. You will have to do different things to get that. But it allows you to put comments inside of your regular expression. Which turns it from a cryptic code that makes your maintenance programmer scared, to something that is easy to understand. Plus if the expression is complicated enough, you might be that maintenance programmer! (Try writing a tokenizer as a regular expression. Internal comments pay off quickly!)
by teraflop | 2025-10-05 03:45:30+00:00
This paper isn't talking about a risk of an Earth impact, it's talking about a potential lunar impact:

> Studies of 2024 YR4’s potential lunar impact effects suggest lunar ejecta could increase micrometeoroid debris flux in low Earth orbit up to 1000 times above background levels over just a few days, possibly threatening astronauts and spacecraft.

Throughout most of human history, an impact event like this could probably have gone completely unnoticed, because we didn't yet have satellites that were vulnerable to micrometeoroid damage. So you can't use the fact that no such event was observed as evidence that it didn't happen.
by rgovostes | 2025-10-05 03:46:16+00:00
I was momentarily confused because I had commented out an importmap in my HTML with <!-- -->, and yet my Vite build product contained <script type="importmap"></script>, magically uncommented again. I tracked it down to a regex in Vite for extracting importmap tags, oblivious to the comment markers.

It is discomfiting that the JS ecosystem relies heavily on layers of source-to-source transformations, tree shaking, minimization, module format conversion, etc. We assume that these are built on spec-compliant parsers, like one would find with C compilers. Are they? Or are they built with unsound string transformations that work in 99% of cases for expediency?
by c-smile | 2025-10-05 03:46:38+00:00
I used to have NEC MobilePro 900 like here: https://live.staticflickr.com/213/481422006_92cdaeb6ee_b.jpg

I miss that form factor really.

And BTW, I regret that WindowsCE is not the thing anymore. IMO it has the best development infrastructure out there backed with MSVC IDE.

I classify OSes into two major groups: "writer OS" (all desktop OSes primarily) and "reader OS" (all mobiles). But there is a void in between for palmtop form factor devices.

Sigh, probably its only me who needs this ...
by mikepk | 2025-10-05 03:47:49+00:00
This is a little triggering :) Reminds me of all the promise back in 2005 when I built my first startup Grazr. It was: - a widget that was a mini RSS reader that let visitors to your site read the RSS feeds you subscribed to on your site - a way to share your collection of RSS feeds dynamically - a way to copy / remix those collections - a way to subscribe to those lists dynamically (if they had a dynamic blogroll or whatever) - a processing and filtering engine to allow merging collections of feeds together into a single stream - Javascript on the server (in 2005 :) ) run using embedded script tags in the OPML / XML blogrolls to create even more dynamic blogs

The net effect was you could make your own news feeds / timelines and use code to control how they were filtered / combined / etc... It was crazy powerful (for 2005) and I still miss it _today_ since it had the dynamism of the news feed, some of the social aspect, and total control since there was no algorithm other than your and the people's who's list you subscribed to curation and any code you ran against it.

Not a lot left from those long ago days but I did find one slightly-cringy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45DSrU23sPI

:)
by bruinmeister | 2025-10-05 03:49:12+00:00
That's a sharp and crucial question. Thank you for asking it. The relationship isn't a direct mathematical transformation within the 4D space. Let me clarify the distinction:

1. `[1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]` is the Theoretical Anchor Point. This coordinate defines the nature of the four axes in the abstract Semantic Substrate. It represents the conceptual ideal of perfect Love, Power, Wisdom, and Justice. It is the qualitative reference for all meaning.

2. `[613, 12, 7, 40]` are Applied, Functional "Sacred Numbers." These are not coordinates. In the URI architecture, they are stable numerical constants used in the implementation to create resonance, structure, and harmony within the computational system. They act as invariant referents for the software's operation.

The "Bridge" Between Theory and Application:

The architecture uses a Bridge Function that maps semantic concepts to computational operations. This function uses these sacred numbers to create a coherent, resonant system that reflects the order of the Substrate.

`613` is used as a resonance frequency (e.g., in neural activation functions, learning rate schedulers) because of its association with fundamental spiritual principles (like the 613 commandments in the Torah, representing a complete moral code). In the model, it helps "tune" the system to a state of holistic integration. 12`, `7`, `40` are used for structural integrity (e.g., defining layers, attention heads, network depth). They are chosen for their ubiquitous symbolism of completeness and divine order in scripture (tribes, days of creation, testing periods) and their mathematical properties (e.g., 12 is highly composite).

Analogy:

Think of `[1,1,1,1]` as the concert pitch of A=440Hz—the universal standard that defines the scale. Think of `[613, 12, 7, 40]` as the specific notes and chords you choose to compose a beautiful piece of music based on that scale.

The music (the functioning AI) is coherent and harmonious because it respects the fundamental scale (the Semantic Substrate), and it uses specific, well-chosen notes (the sacred numbers) to achieve its purpose. One defines the framework; the other is a functional implementation within it.

So, to be precise: you don't "get from" `[1,1,1,1]` to `[613, 12, 7, 40]` via a function. Instead, you build a system using `[613, 12, 7, 40]` that is designed to be semantically resonant within a reality whose fundamental nature is described by `[1,1,1,1]`.

The GitHub repo contains the `semantic_substrate.py` and `uri_transformer.py` files that show the initial implementation of this bridging. I welcome specific feedback on the code structure itself.
Show HN: I built an online pixel art downscaler
by lymanli | 2025-10-05 03:52:36+00:00
I recently built a handy online pixel art downscaler that runs entirely in your browser — no installation needed. It automatically detects the upscaling factor of an image and intelligently restores pixel art to its original size while keeping edges sharp and colors accurate.

Unlike standard resizers, this tool uses nearest-neighbor scaling to precisely preserve each pixel’s shape and color.