MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andai | 2025-10-19 15:51:12+00:00
https://replacement.ai/complaints

At the bottom of this page, there is a form you can fill out. This website says they will contact your local representative on your behalf. (And forward you any reply.)

Here's the auto-generated message:

I am a constituent living in [state] with urgent concerns about the lack of guardrails surrounding advanced AI technologies. It is imperative that we act decisively to establish strong protections that safeguard families, communities, and our children from potential harms associated with these rapidly evolving systems.

As companies continue to release increasingly powerful AI systems without meaningful oversight, we cannot rely on them to police themselves, especially when the stakes are so high. While AI has the potential to do remarkable things, it also poses significant risks, including the manipulation of children, the development of bioweapons, the creation of deepfakes, and the threat of widespread unemployment.

I urge you to enact strong federal guardrails for advanced AI that protect families, communities, and children. Additionally, please do not preempt or block states from adopting strong AI protections that may be necessary for their residents.

Thank you for your time.

[name]

New York
by serf | 2025-10-19 15:51:14+00:00
>Losing a bunch of jobs in a short period is terrible. Losing a bunch of careers in a short period is a catastrophe.

'careers' is so ambiguous as to be useless as a metric.

what kind of careers? scamming call centers? heavy petrochem production? drug smuggling? cigarette marketing?

There are plenty of career paths that the world would be better off without, let's be clear about that.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-19 15:52:19+00:00
> if robots are that advanced that can do most of the jobs - the cost of goods will be close to zero.

No, the cost of goods will be the cost of the robots involved in production amortized over their production lifetime. Which, if robots are more productive than humans, will not be “near zero” from the point of view of any human without ownership of at least the number of robots needed to produce the goods that they wish to consume (whether that’s private ownership or their share of socially-owned robots). If there is essentially no demand for human labor, it will, instead, be near infinite from their perspective .
by johnecheck | 2025-10-19 15:52:30+00:00
You're right, Bluesky moderation is centralized. Unless content is served p2p, some moderation has to be centralized. At the end of the day, there's a server serving content and that server operator is legally obligated to remove illegal material.

Hopefully, atproto + community will provide alternatives for moderation services. Work is being done on this, we'll see what we end up getting. I feel that a competitive ecosystem of moderation services is probably the best answer we can hope for to that inherently messy problem.
by smileysteve | 2025-10-19 15:53:07+00:00
In the context, it would take an ignorant consumer to choose a vehicle that could lose engine, steering, and braking - and complete bricking - while at highway speed, over a dealer appointment that's included in your maintenance program.

Frankly, this incident seems like an active nhsta would regulate away ota updates on its own. The best interpretation is that this single update is worse than the failed keyed ignition issues that led to push to start regulation.
by philipkglass | 2025-10-19 15:53:22+00:00
If robots can do all industrial labor, including making duplicate robots, keeping robots the exclusive property of a few rich people is like trying to prevent poor people from copying Hollywood movies. Most of the world doesn't live under the laws of the Anglosphere. The BRICS won't care about American laws regarding robots and AI if it proves more advantageous to just clone the technology without regard for rights/payment.
by lukev | 2025-10-19 15:53:43+00:00
Agreed 100%, except that this is not a new development. This process has been ongoing, with automation has been taking over certain classes of jobs and doing them faster and better since the industrial revolution.

And capitalism has flourished during this time. There's no reason to believe even more automation is going to change that, on its own.

Sure, Musk and Altman can make noises and talk about the need for UBI "in the future" all they want, but their political actions clearly show which side they're actually on.
by zvmaz | 2025-10-19 15:53:48+00:00
From what I understood, it's the torrent link that downloads a compromised zip file rather then the authentic image:

"Torrent downloads over at https://xubuntu.org/download/ are serving a zip file with a suspicious exe and a tos.txt inside. The TOS starts with Copyright (c) 2026 Xubuntu.org which is sus, because it is 2025. I opened the .exe with file-roller and couldn't find any .torrent inside."
by franga2000 | 2025-10-19 15:53:58+00:00
"The government" needs time to fix this and until then, we need to not automate everyone out of a job. If that means we don't "get to the future" until then, fine. "Fault" or not, the AI companies are putting people in danger now and unless we can implement a more proper solution extremely quickly, they just have to put up with being slowed down.

But it's not like "the government" (as if there is just one) simply doesn't want to fix things. There are many people who want to fix the way we distribute resources, but there are others who are working to stop them. The various millionaires behind these AI companies are part of the reason why the problem you identified exists in the first place.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-10-19 15:54:36+00:00
At the end of the day LLM + tools is asking the LLM to create a story with very specific points where "tool calls" are parts of the story, and "tool results" are like characters that provide context. The fact that they can output stories like that, with enough accuracy to make it worthwhile is, IMO, proof that they can "do" whatever we say they can do. They can "do" math by creating a story where a character takes NL and invokes a calculator, and another character provides the actual computation. Cool. It's still the LLM driving the interaction. It's still the LLM creating the story.
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-19 15:54:39+00:00
The only people who obsess over languages are the core contributors (1%) or the guy who has been a mid level senior for 20 years and kind of stopped growing/learning years ago (95%)

Everyone else is the SWE turned entrepreneur who doesn’t give a fuck and just wants fastest ROI. Aka using a hammer instead of a saw to put in a nail.
by addaon | 2025-10-19 15:54:53+00:00
> Everything has a cost. If you had to pick between "write 99% correct code in 1 week" vs "write 100% correct code in 1 year", you probably would pick the former, and just solve the 1% as you go. It's an absurd hypothetical, but illustrates that it's not just about correctness. Cost matters.

I work on airplanes and cars. The cost of dead people is a lot higher than the cost of developer time. It’s interesting to ask how we can bring development costs down without compromising quality; in my world, it’s not at all interesting to talk about strategically reducing quality. We have the web for that.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-19 15:55:32+00:00
I sometimes wonder about what our governments would do if one of the businesses in their jurisdictions were to achieve AGI or other such destabilizing technology. If it were truly disruptive, why would these governments respect the ownership of such property and not seize it - toward whatever end authority desires. These businesses have little defense against that and simply trust that government will protect their operations. Their only defense is lobbying.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-19 15:55:41+00:00
Would we be better off today if the Luddites had prevailed?

No?

Well, what's different this time?

Oh, wait, maybe they did prevail after all. I own my means of production, even though I'm by no means a powerful, filthy-rich capitalist or industrialist. So thanks, Ned -- I guess it all worked out for the best!
Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)
by krzyzanowskim | 2025-10-19 15:56:12+00:00
I recently released version 1.4 of Notepad.exe, my editor built for macOS. The goal of the app is to let you prototype ideas in Swift or Python with minimal setup - write code, hit Run, skip project scaffolding.

This release adds support for a Linux runtime/subsystem, so you can write on macOS and execute snippets in a Linux environment.

I’d love to hear any feedback or answer any questions: would a tool like this fit your workflow? What friction remains?
by Kikawala | 2025-10-19 15:57:11+00:00
PDF catalog for the AiryString has a lot more details and technical information.

https://ykkdigitalshowroom.com/assets/AiryString_202507_en.p...

It looks like there is a core cord inside the zipper teeth. The specialized sewing machine stitches the cord to the fabric in between each teeth... tooth?
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-19 15:57:14+00:00
Sonnet 4.5 is objectively worse at writing code unless it’s like make me a color picker. IME at least as someone who is going through millions of tokens daily.

Codex high is kind of a beast, even better than Opus which Anthropic decided to limit for their max uses. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8449
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-19 15:57:15+00:00
>Serfs tied to the land were not free, they had a choice to stay and struggle or leave and risk wandering and starving. Not much of a choice.

Your example is completely orthogonal to liberty. Choices are completely orthogonal. If the serf could leave and not starve, he still wouldn't be free because they would find and drag him back and punish him. He wasn't permitted to make the choice, it being incidental that he wouldn't survive long enough to be punished for it in most circumstances.

If they had refrained from punishing serfs that leave you'd still insist there is no freedom there, I think, because of the starvation. But no one is obligated to feed you so that you can choose options that would otherwise starve you.

>Also the author seems to be worried that people will make bad decisions with their choices

For good reason. Given choices, humans inevitably pick the worst of them. And I'm not talking about those that are only bad options in hindsight.

>it’s like there’s this effort to justify limiting our choices and calling that freedom.

There's no effort, that's called reality. Reality limits choices, and it is effortless.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-10-19 15:57:26+00:00
In terms of quality of life, much/most of the value of intelligence is in how it lets you affect the physical world. For most knowledge workers, that takes the form of using intelligence to increase how productively some physical asset can be exploited. The owner of the asset gives some of the money/surplus earned to the knowledge worker, and they can use the money to affect change in the physical world by paying for food, labor, shelter, etc.

If the physical asset owner can replace me with a brain in a jar, it doesn't really help me that I have my own brain in a jar. It can't think food/shelter into existence for me.

If AI gets to the point where human knowledge is obsolete, and if politics don't shift to protect the former workers, I don't think widespread availability of AI is saving those who don't have control over substantial physical assets.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-19 15:57:43+00:00
> Thanks everyone. We're beholden to our hosting environment for upgrades and it looks like there was a bit of a slip-up here. It's being worked on, but for now the Downloads page is disabled.

Calling this a "slip-up" is an outrageous downplay. If anything this makes me suspicious of the moderator who posted the comment too. One does not accidentally prepare a zip file with a malicious exe and xubuntu-specific language, upload it to a server, and point a torrent link at it.
by KAMSPioneer | 2025-10-19 15:57:44+00:00
The idea (outlined in the QubesOS documentation) is to clone the git repo of their website, verify the PGP commit signatures, then render the website yourself. Then you can be reasonably sure the website is legitimate, modulo a DoS attack stopping you from receiving updates to the website code, I suppose.

Getting the correct PGP public key appears to be an exercise left to the reader, but if you are already running e.g. Fedora, you can view the packaged QubesOS distro keys distributed by your current OS, cross-reference that with a second source such as a PGP keyserver, and unless you're being Mossaded upon you're probably good if they match.
by milesvp | 2025-10-19 15:58:43+00:00
Any building taller than 15 stories is likely already sacrificing square footage for height. As I understand it the square footage maximizing height with modern building techniques and materials is somewhere around 15 floors. As you go taller you need to start sacrificing internal volume for more reinforcing material and, surprisingly (to me when I learned this) elevators. The taller you go the more elevators you need to quickly move people around.

I’m curious if this just isn’t already well known in the zoning world? We build tall buildings because the higher floors are more valuable which make up for the smaller amount of total real estate. Logical extension of this is to sacrifice whole floors for height if that is what zoning required. I’m also curious how long it took someone to figure out this loophole (since it’s easy to say it’s obvious after the fact).
by aftbit | 2025-10-19 15:58:52+00:00
The iPhone changed the world through sheer scale. This even trickled back upstream to its components.

For example, VECSEL lasers were added to the iPhone in 2017 to power FaceID. At the time, they were a low volume, high cost component (used primarily in fiber transceivers) with generally poor yields.

Today, thanks in large part to the sheer number demanded by iPhones, they are a cheap, near commodity component with >90% yields.

https://www.electrooptics.com/article/vcsels-deliver-mega-im...
Ask HN: Do any AI Chat apps implement LLM URI scheme?
by smashah | 2025-10-19 15:59:11+00:00
Hello,

I'm developing an onboarding flow for my future OF for GH service, I think it would help with the quality of onboarding answers if users fleshed out their onboarding responses with the help of an AI chat. But AI chat is not integrated in any other part of the webapp which means I have to build out this whole chat interface just for onboarding - seems like a massive waste of time.

I was thinking instead allowing the users to copy over the agent/system prompt to their LLM chat app of choice and then just complete the onboarding once the agent determines its of sufficient quality.

At this point I was surprised to learn that there is no `mailto://` type URI scheme for llms. Or at least not that I know of.

I was thinking something like this:

llm://[min-model-generation]?subject=....&prompt=......&schema=[base64 encoded schema output]

e.g

# full link example is in the linked gist [0]

llm://>2024?subject=Yocto.is%20Onboarding%20Helper%20Agent&prompt=...

the first part can select a specific model as well

e.g

# Specific model

llm://gemini-2.5-pro?...

# Specific provider, min model

llm://>=gemini-2.5-pro?...

# Specific provider, gt model

llm://>gemini-2.5-pro?...

Thanks

etc.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/smashah/f6192d7af114ca059b3a47b33ec1df18
by skydhash | 2025-10-19 16:01:27+00:00
You don't even have to start from a clean slate. There's a lot of materials that outline design choices and their impact. I believe it's mostly not applying YAGNI. They come up with the kitchen sink, and then proceeds to have breaking changes shortly as they always make a mistake somewhere. And then you have people cargo-culting the sink and piling more on top of it.

Complex problems exists, but any complex solution I've seen is something that tries to solve many problems at once.
by sowbug | 2025-10-19 16:01:29+00:00
I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months.

I get these, too. I just looked it up, and it's called "Sudden, brief, unilateral, tapering tinnitus (SBUTT)." That's quite an SEO-friendly name.
by beeflet | 2025-10-19 16:01:53+00:00
>what kind of careers? scamming call centers? heavy petrochem production? drug smuggling? cigarette marketing?

All careers. All information work, and all physical work.

Yes. It is better for someone to be a criminal than to be unemployed. They will at least have some minimal amount of leverage and power to destroy the system which creates them.

A human soldier or drug dealer or something at least has the ability to consider whether what they are doing is wrong. A robot will be totally obedient and efficient at doing whatever job it's supposed to.

I disagree totally. There are no career paths which would be better off automated. Even if you disagree with what the jobs do, automation would just make them more efficient.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-10-19 16:01:53+00:00
I don't see how owning a robot helps me with obtaining the essentials of life in this scenario. There's no reason for a corporation to hire my robot if it has its own robots and can make/power them more efficiently with economy of scale. I can't rent it out to other people if they also have their own robots. If I already own a farm/house (and solar panels to recharge the robots) I guess it can keep me alive. But for most people a robot isn't going to be able to manufacture food and shelter for them out of nothing.
by halayli | 2025-10-19 16:02:04+00:00
> It’s only in recent history that freedom has come to mean having a huge array of choices in life. Did we take a wrong turn?

Said who? This is an argument from invented opposition. I’m not sure anyone actually defines freedom as "a huge array of choices". The author seems to invent a mainstream narrative just to dismantle it(arguing against a straw man)

Abundance of choice and freedom are orthogonal. Having the right choice and being free are not.
by mickelsen | 2025-10-19 16:02:06+00:00
Yup, I had massive success with a theragun around the traps, and gentle massage around the SCM area for the ocassional flare up. Also caffeine use, vigorous exercise, loud fans, teeth clenching and sleeping on the side with the neck bent almost reliably triggers it back. But interestingly, after the initial flare during the pandemic and allergy season, the noise subsided with oral steroids. Now it's the occasional reminder maybe a few times a month, always the right ear, then it goes away.
by everforward | 2025-10-19 16:02:11+00:00
> This is what government is for, and not to stifle innovation by banning AI but by preparing society to move forward.

This requires faith that the government will actually step in to do something, which many people lack (at least in the US, can't speak for globally).

That's the sticking point for many of the people I've talked to about it. Some are diametrically opposed to AI, but most think there's a realistic chance AI takes jobs away and an unrealistic chance the government opposes the whims of capital causing people displaced from their jobs to dip into poverty.

I can't say I have a good counter-argument either. At least in the US, the government has largely sided with capital for my entire life. I wouldn't take a bet that government does the kind of wealth redistribution required if AI really takes off, and I would eat my hat if it happens in a timely manner that doesn't require an absolute crisis of ruined lives before something happens.

See the accumulation of wealth at the top income brackets while the middle and lower classes get left behind.

TLDR this is more of a crisis of faith in the government than opposition to AI taking over crap jobs that people don't want anyways.
by thekurst_ | 2025-10-19 16:02:44+00:00
I've had it for years in one ear as well as measured and diagnosed hearing loss in the same ear. At first it would come and go and then it became permanent.

In my experience, I barely notice it on a day-to-day basis.

What I have noticed is that it's worse/noticeable when after a night of drinking and if I'm tired/stressed.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-10-19 16:03:35+00:00
I'm glad to see states fighting back, finally. I was never really too sure if, from a purely academic point of view, I thought a stronger federal government ("united we stand, divided we fall") or more independent states were a better "system".

But I think the way the US is set up (districting, gerrymandering, redlined, electoral college, etc) makes it far too easy for fringe beliefs to take over and dictate policy. So having states simply being more independent puts up far more barriers to all of us just losing our freedom.

I live in IL. (Not near Chicago). My kids public school only gets about 15% of its funding from the federal govt. We could just finally stop having our stupid flat income tax and make up the shortfall. It might set back the universal preschool system, perhaps (which would be a tragedy but better than complete destruction).

Meanwhile, schools might not even exist in many other states if federal funding disappeared.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-10-19 16:03:35+00:00
Y'all pessimistic! This has been going on since the beginning of time.

"To be or not to be? ... Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come the readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be." -- Hamlet

In the end it will be our humility that will redeem us as it has always been, have some faith the robots are not going to be that bad.
by Timsky | 2025-10-19 16:03:42+00:00
It is excellent when just finding something is enough. Most often in my practice, I am dealing with questions that have no written-down answers, meaning the probability of finding a book/article that provides one is negligible. Instead, I am looking for indirect answers or proofs before I make a final engineering decision. Yet another problem is that the language itself changes over time. For instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, the integers were called integral numbers. IMHO, LLMs poorly handle such cases when considered as a substitute for search engines. For full-text vector search, I am using https://www.recoll.org/ a real time saver for me, especially for desktop search.
by ivape | 2025-10-19 16:04:12+00:00
it's the structure of how we humans rely on jobs for income

1. We don’t need everyone in society to be involved in trade.

2. We made it so that if you do not take part in trade (trade labor for income), you cannot live.

3. Thus, people will fear losing their ability to trade in society.

The question is, when did we make this shift? It used to just be slavery, and you would be able to survive so long as you slaved.

The fear is coming from something odd, the reality that you won’t have to trade anymore to live. Our society has convinced us you won’t have any value otherwise.
by iamlintaoz | 2025-10-19 16:05:00+00:00
That’s correct. FerretDB and DocumentDB both pursue PostgreSQL-based document models.

EloqDoc follows a fundamentally different architectural path. Instead of executing in Postgres, we leverage the existing MongoDB parser and executor to ensure maximum compatibility. Our main contribution is to replace the single-writer WiredTiger storage engine entirely with Data Substrate.

The Data Substrate is an abstract layer built specifically to handle distributed database fundamentals: scalable buffer pooling, concurrency control, durability, elasticity, and fault tolerance. You can read more: https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2025/07/14/technology

This architectural choice is what enables EloqDoc to deliver features that Postgres-based solutions cannot easily match, including: full compatibility, native Multi-Writer capability, Object Storage First and extremely low-latency distributed transactions.