MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chucksta | 2025-10-22 18:15:13+00:00
>A church is literally a place for mass assembly, while a liquor store or dispensary can easily be configured for social distancing, i.e. only let up to N customers in the store at a time depending on the size.

This logic makes 0 sense. Churches have the same capabilities to reconfigure, if not more most of them are just one big room. The same capabilities to limit patrons if it was required. They could split services and space the people out, or only let in N numbers of people as you suggested
by stackghost | 2025-10-22 18:15:35+00:00
It wasn't that long ago that if you worked at an engineering firm, you needed a whole floor or floors of skilled draftsmen to produce the engineering drawings of your bridge, or your widget. Now an intern can do that in seconds with modern CAD software.

The same phenomenon is already occurring with AI. The concern is not that it will replace people, it's that it will make people so productive that it will create an oversupply of workers and thus kill a lot of jobs.
by glenstein | 2025-10-22 18:15:59+00:00
I'm glad this point is continuing to get hammered home. Because on what feels like a nearly daily basis, I'm still seeing people surprised and learning for the first time that what they think of as a whole browser ecosystem is really just a bunch of things using a Chromium foundation.

But to try and be constructive for whoever's reading and thinking of their next AI browser, I would be impressed by a wholly alternative browser engine, or demonstrations of major capacity to maintain programming upkeep of alternatives on par with the programming capacity supporting Chromium. A big part of the Chromium "moat" as it exists right now is the ability to bring disproportionate resources to bear on browser engine modernization. I would be impressed if AI tools were being used to demonstrably close the gap, because it conceivably could have important implications for getting us away from the browser monopoly problem.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-22 18:16:14+00:00
Gemini will lie to me when I ask it to cite things, either pull up relevant sources or just hallucinate them.

IDK how you people go through that experience more than a handful of times before you get pissed off and stop using these tools. I've wasted so much time because of believable lies from these bots.

Sorry, not even lies, just bullshit. The model has no conception of truth so it can't even lie. Just outputs bullshit that happens to be true sometimes.
by dekhn | 2025-10-22 18:16:22+00:00
I'm seeing a lot of frustration at the leadership level about product velocity- and much of the frustration is pointed at internal gatekeepers who mainly seem to say no to product releases.

My leadership is currently promoting "better to ask forgiveness", or put another way: "a bias towards action". There are definitely limits on this, but it's been helpful when dealing with various internal negotiations. I don't spend as much time looking to "align with stakeholders", I just go ahead and do things my decades of experience have taught me are the right paths (while also using my experience to know when I can't just push things through).
by fransje26 | 2025-10-22 18:16:36+00:00
Well yes. But no. And that's exactly why there is always a risk of a "politically tainted" investigations.

The "Juge d'instruction" is not an independent judge that will, out of his own will, start an investigation.

He can start an investigation when asked by the "procureur", directly or indirectly under influence of the executive power, or by private citizens, as a "partie civile". The Sarkozy case was started by the former.

On top of that, the "juge d'instruction" is nominated by the Minister of Justice for a period of 3 years, which means it is, once again, linked to the executive power.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-22 18:17:44+00:00
I do think that GUI stuff is important, there's a lot of folks who have said "not interested unless there's a magit equivalent" which I totally understand. I'm not a big GUI person for VCS myself, so I don't feel the same pain.

For LLMs, yeah this is hard for any new project. I use Claude Code, and it does a decent job with jj, it only tries to do git stuff sometimes. I haven't asked ChatGPT about it though, I'll have to experiment with it myself.
by nine_k | 2025-10-22 18:17:54+00:00
At least they claim that: «Quantum verifiability means the result can be repeated on our quantum computer — or any other of the same caliber — to get the same answer, confirming the result. This repeatable, beyond-classical computation is the basis for scalable verification.» (emph. mine)

But apparently they haven't demonstrated the actual portability between two different quantum computers.
by adev_ | 2025-10-22 18:18:16+00:00
> It's also worth noting that members of the second system

Nope. This picture was found in the office of an Union related to "magistrats".

Magistrats is a broad term that also include Procureurs, Judges but also some Lawyers.

The union is not specifically associated to the position of "Juge d'instruction" by any means.

But yes, generally speaking Politicians do not like Magistrats and Magistrats do not like politicians in France. And honestly, it is more healthy like that.
by joouha | 2025-10-22 18:18:42+00:00
Let me explain what inspired me to create modshim:

I've written a Jupyter client for the terminal (euporie), for which I've had to employ monkey-patching of various third-party packages to achieve my goals and avoid forking those packages. For example, I've added terminal graphics support & HTML/CSS rendering to prompt-toolkit (a Python TUI library), and I've changed aiohttp to not raise errors on non-200 http responses. These are things the upstream package maintainers do not want to maintain or will not implement, and likewise I do not want to maintain forks of these packages.

So far I've got away with monkey-patching, but recently I implemented a kernel for euporie which runs on the local interpreter (the same interpreter as the application itself). This means that my patches are exposed to the end user in a REPL, resulting in potentially unexpected behaviour for users when using certain 3rd party packages in Python through euporie. Modshim will allow me to keep my patched versions isolated from the end user.

Additionally, I would like to publish some of my patches to prompt_toolkit as a new package extending prompt_toolkit, as I think they would be useful to others building TUI applications. However, the changes required need to be deeply integrated to work, which would mean forking prompt_toolkit (something I'd like to avoid). modshim will make it possible for me to publish just my modifications.

Perhaps it's a somewhat niche use-case, and modshim is not something most Python users would ever need to use. I just thought it was something novel enough to be of interest to other HN users.

> messing around with import internals in python is extremely tricky to get right

This is true! modshim has been the most complicated thing I've written by some way!
by vunderba | 2025-10-22 18:18:42+00:00
Nice. I have a bash script similar to the one listed "removeexif" called prep_for_web which takes any image file (PNG, BMP, JPG, WebP), scrubs EXIF data, checks for transparency and then compresses it to either JPG using MozJPEG or to PNG using PNGQuant.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg

[2] https://pngquant.org
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 18:19:08+00:00
There is just so much garbage in the media and marketing.

The people who say they used Claude Code to write a 1,000,000 line of code application in assembly language that worked the first time. Or how Microsoft wants you to buy a Copilot+ PC in the backdrop of them and Qualcomm failing to transition to ARM over and over again. Or the Harris campaign insisting, like Democrats have since 1992 or so, that they are going to win this one and all the next ones because Latinos are an increasing fraction of the population. Or the way Sabine Hossenfelder talked to ChatGPT and Eric Weinstein and went insane.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

But it is x10,000 and accelerating all the time thanks to turbo-capitalism, A.I. slop and the people blogging about how they vibe coded an A.I. slop cannon that almost works.
by lazide | 2025-10-22 18:19:18+00:00
For any given time period N, if it takes > 0 time or effort to make a tool, then there are provably less possible tools than infinity for sure.

If we consider time period of length infinity, then it is less clear (I don’t have room in the margins to write out my proof), but since near as we can tell we don’t have infinity time, does it matter?
by vapg1974 | 2025-10-22 18:19:23+00:00
The idea that there are straightforward “female” and “male” traits should seem quite shaky to anyone who is even a little bit into humanities... "Humanities", that alone makes your whole argument invalid.

As if brain configuation, that staemming from genetics and hormone levels, had no influence in how the sexes perceive world and social clues and behave according to those perceptions. Not mentioning the inherent physical differences which also influence how they differently percieve the world and behave.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-22 18:19:39+00:00
Chess is a closed system w/ finitely many rules. I don't think success in closed domains transfers to open ones & this is the usual error optimists are making about AI & its success in closed domains like chess. Continuous learning is necessary for open domains b/c real world distributions are constantly changing & unless deployed systems can keep up w/ the changes their performance will continuously degrade until they're worse than random. Chess has been the same for millenia & that's why chess is essentially solved.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-22 18:19:50+00:00
Pournelle's law of bureaucracy. Any sufficiently large organization will have two kinds of people: those devoted to the org's goals, and those devoted to the bureaucracy itself, and if you don't stop it the second group will take control to the point that bureaucracy itself becomes the goal secondary to all others.

Self preservation takes over at that point, and the bureaucratic org starts prioritizing its own survival over anything else. Product works instead becomes defensive operations, decision making slows, and innovation starts being perceived as a risk instead of a benefit.
by 9rx | 2025-10-22 18:20:17+00:00
Formal proof languages are pretty neat, but nobody really uses them in the real world. Among the languages that people actually use on a normal basis, even those that claim to have extensive type systems, they still rely on testing for most everything, and once you're relying on testing anyway the type system isn't any kind of real saviour.

There is, perhaps, some segment of the developer community who believe that they are infallible and don't need to write tests, but then have the type system exclaim their preconceived notions are wrong, and then come to love the type system for steering them in a better direction, while still remaining oblivious to all the things the incomplete type system is unable to statically assert. But that's a rather bizarre place to be.
by glenstein | 2025-10-22 18:20:37+00:00
I think the concerns are not about feature requests but about leveraging embrace-extend-extinguish dynamics to push the web as a whole closer to being locked into dependence on Google as a platform. There are mountains of articles on the topic, ranging from ad blockers to privacy to DRM. But the critiques are old news to anyone who's been following the topic for a while.
by apizon | 2025-10-22 18:20:46+00:00
I don't think the app alone will directly make you better at improvisation as this comes only from playing imo but it might make you better at practicing improvisation.

Personally I find when practicing alone I often get stuck on playing the same phrases and chords.

The app can help visualizing and thinking of new shapes or places to play that maybe I wouldn't have though of naturally. This brings some most welcomed novelty to my playing until I get bored with it again.

Rince and repeat ad vitam æternam as I don't think one can ever reach a eternal state of contentment with one's playing. Or in other words, there is no leaving intermediate guitaristry I guess but that's okay (:
by walkabout | 2025-10-22 18:21:22+00:00
They’re basically markov chain text generators with a relevance-tracking-and-correction step. It turns out this is like 100x more useful than the same thing without the correction step, but they don’t really escape what they are “at heart”, if you will.

The ways they fail are often surprising if your baseline is “these are thinking machines”. If your baseline is what I wrote above (say, because you read the “Attention Is All You Need” paper) none of it’s surprising.
by magicmicah85 | 2025-10-22 18:21:30+00:00
Years ago I worked in customer service. There was this guy who came in to to motivate us. He talked about the work of someone named Bob Farrell who had a chain of ice cream shops and sold burgers. He had received a letter from a disappointed customer. The customer had been given the extra pickles on his burgers for years and now one of Bob's employees told him he now had to pay extra for it. The customer said he'd never come back. Bob could have said "what an entitled idiot" and kept charging for pickles but he took that letter as a calling for how you should treat customers - just give 'em the pickle. It costs you next to nothing to give the customer the pickle and it makes them happy.

Minio doesn't have to give non-paying users anything, but the story still applies. Give them the pickle. It costs nothing in the grand scheme of things, and if it does, ask for donations like any open source project would do to cover your costs. But as others have pointed out, Minio is not an open source company, they are a commercial company that has source available.
by ghshephard | 2025-10-22 18:22:05+00:00
There are a ton of different discount options - large customers typically get between 50-60% discount based on committed spending, and AWS is pretty flexible around how that commit lands (they will allow roll overs even if they say they won't). Reserved instances get you ~70% discounts - similar to the committed spending. And my favorite - if it works for you - spot instances on EC2 come at as high as 90% off.

Nobody at commercial volume pays list to AWS - everyone gets a discount.
by self_awareness | 2025-10-22 18:22:21+00:00
"The problem is not the law but with the people who don't follow it."

I mean... uh.

If the world would only consist of people who want to cooperate and don't have malicious intentions, then WE WOULDN'T NEED THE LAW AT ALL.

The law exists BECASUE OF the people who don't want to comply. So if the law doesn't control those people who don't want to comply, then the problem is with the law.

Because if we're saying that the problem is with the people, then the discussion is pointless like a black hole.
by Bender | 2025-10-22 18:22:49+00:00
Ring CEO says his cameras can almost 'zero out crime' within the next 12 months

Not likely by itself. There would also need to be cameras facing each direction of the road to get a license plate, make and model of vehicle. Criminals know about the ring cameras and linger just outside of camera view until other cars have gone by. The road cameras would need to be ALPR enabled. Automation would have to provide a queue for law enforcement agencies to take the closest triggering events that have a clear view of everyone involved along with them getting out of and into their vehicle. The license plate would have to automatically hand off to grid camera computers to track the current location. The system would need to prioritize stolen cars, cars without plates, acts of violence, anyone carrying a weapon, anyone covered in blood, active BOLO's, etc...

This does not even get into the topic of keeping criminals in prison or even putting them there in the first place. This would be an act of futility in places that do not enforce laws and that is why I do not believe "zero out" is applicable short of a nation wide reformation.
by NietzscheanNull | 2025-10-22 18:23:03+00:00
Unfortunately, my local stations are deep enough into the Enshittification Cycle™ that the formerly-functional pump mute buttons have all been disabled. That seems to be the trend among several of the newer gas stations I've visited lately.

That's the line which, when crossed, I immediately boycott and use another gas station indefinitely, but I get the feeling that it's only a matter of time before they all follow suit.

But surely, “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” that our late-stage capitalism has so benevolently bequeathed us.
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by uscnep-hn | 2025-10-22 18:24:03+00:00
Many articles today are difficult to read, cluttered with ads, pop-ups, and distracting layouts that make focused reading exhausting. I built a super simple Chrome extension that turns articles into text-only reading views using Mozilla's Readability.js library with custom CSS informed by accessibility and readability research. It follows four design choices based on W3C WCAG 2.2 standards: a sepia background to reduce eye strain, 1.5× line spacing for better readability, 50–75 character line length to reduce eye fatigue, and sans-serif fonts that work well on screens.

Shortcut key: Alt+Shift+Y or Command+Shift+Y

Limitations: it's designed for reading plain text articles. Because it hides images, tables, and formulas, some pages may lose important context or meaning.

Github (Feel free to contribute! ) : https://github.com/uscne/Yumi-Reader
by hinkley | 2025-10-22 18:24:14+00:00
Then I missed it too because I let my Indian coworkers handle production issues after 9,10pm unless the problem sounds an awful lot like the feature toggle I flipped on in production is setting servers on fire.

My main beef with that team was that we worked on too many stories in parallel so information on brand new work was siloed. Everyone caught up after a bit but stuff we just or hadn’t demoed yet was spotty for coverage.

If I was up at 1 am it was because I had insomnia and figured out exactly what the problem was and it was faster to fix it than to explain. Or if I wake up really early and the problem is still not fixed.
by dxtrous | 2025-10-22 18:24:22+00:00
One of the authors here. I am genuinely thrilled to know someone would like to know what "B" stands for, knowing/expecting that "DH" stands for "Dragon Hatchling"!

A clarification is thus due. As indicated in the github repo: "BDH" stands for "Baby Dragon: Hatchling". Technically, "Hatchling" would perhaps be the version number.

For readers who find this discussion point interesting, I recommend considering for context: 1. The hardware naming patterns in the Hopper/Gracehopper architecture. 2. The attitude to acronyms taken in the CS Theory vs. Applied CS/AI community.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-22 18:24:33+00:00
>Someone else may or may not continue their work for the benefit of the community.

Someone still can. They can't revoke the AGPL license of previous versions.

>They prioritized working on their commercial product

It's a company, not a non-profit. What else would you expect them to do?

I'm less understanding when a VC backed company does things like this, but many times its just a matter of "we were trying to make money by doing X. X is no longer working, so we're moving to Y".

I've also seen hostile mobs form when very small companies or individuals decide to start charging for things they used to give away for free, so it's not just that they are a VC backed company here.
by bluGill | 2025-10-22 18:24:36+00:00
There is value in experience, but for something like this I'm going to submit that the larger value is in learning to spin up teams that do something completely different.

IF you were talking about building a good public transit system the value is in building a team and keeping it running. However this is - for all we know - just a one off show and so there isn't value in getting experience. The people looking at Mars have value in experience, and there may be value in robotic moon missions, but so far as I can tell human missions are just for showing off and should be treated like a one time show off and then get rid of the team for another 50 years.
by keeda | 2025-10-22 18:24:44+00:00
> To the point where people are quitting over other peoples opinions.

Isn't that rational? If you found that a colleague had views you found personally abhorrent AND you had the luxury of being able to walk away from the job, wouldn't you?

The tragedy of modern work life (and the current job market!) is that the vast majority of people do not have that luxury, and hence are stuck in the jobs they hate. But I expect the COO of a large VC probably has several lifetimes' worth of that luxury stashed away.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-22 18:24:46+00:00
There is an important point you are missing. Attitudes like this discourage people from doing nice things for others in general. Because you are saying that one nice deed or nice deeds for a period of time mean you are bound to have to do that deed forever for free.

This is the tragedy of the commons but not just for a field of grass, instead its for all human altruism. You really need to think about the consequences of this attitude because it doesn't lead where you seem to think it leads. In fact, it leads to exactly the opposite set of human behaviors.

PS The neighbors could easily just contract someone else to do the shoveling in the future and instead of being salty about having to pay, looking at it as how much money they saved in the past.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-22 18:25:26+00:00
Boring isn't even what you got. I don't know a single person who considers a proprietary chip with proprietary graphics APIs is "boring" in 2025. My brothers in Christ, you are using the least-standardized chip out of everything commercially availible to consumers. You could switch your desktop to a PowerISA machine and still daily-drive a more boring chip than Apple Silicon.

But this is what Mac owners wanted. No standards, no respect for third-party platforms, and zero documentation. A clean slate for a magic CPU, one filled with mystery and excitement that may persist beyond your lifetime.