MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-23 18:52:42+00:00
While it makes perfect sense to me that cheating (including steroid use) or throwing a game in sports should be 100% legal (modulo contractual agreements with a league), if I'm reading correctly, the issue is that the people involved also had some connection to the gambling, which seems more fraud-adjacent. The linked article is basically impossible to follow though so unclear if that's a correct interpretation.
by chickensong | 2025-10-23 18:53:12+00:00
I hear you, and I'm passionate about automating all the things. I just wanted to add some perspective to the discussion to set expectations for less experienced people who might be considering a switch from PaaS to DIY.

I'm not a PaaS user, and I encourage people to avoid vendor lock-in and be in control of their own destiny. It takes work though, and you need to sweat the details if you care about reliability and security, which continue to be problem areas for more DIY solutions.

If people aren't willing to put in the work, I'd rather they stick to the managed services so they don't contribute to eroding the already abysmal trust of the industry at large.
by glenstein | 2025-10-23 18:53:19+00:00
I guess Austin Powers predicts the future:

>Mr. Nocella said the technology also included “specially designed contact lenses and sunglasses to read the backs of playing cards, which ensured that the victims would lose big.”

This technology (in a fictionalized eyepatch form) was the setup of the "I also like to live dangerously" joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkzMA1jrm00
Show HN: I built a web DAW for lyricists and indie songwriters
by cassettetourist | 2025-10-23 18:53:39+00:00
Hey y'all. First HN post, so...

I built a web DAW using Typescript, Faust, Web Audio Modules, and WASM. (fourtrack.fm)

I spent a year building this, and about 4 months of that doing a from-scratch rewrite.

It features virtual instruments and effects, sampling, re-sampling, audio recording, MIDI input. There is a piano roll for writing rhythms and melodies. There is a chart that allows you to write lyrics and arrange songs, and each part on the chart is tied to its music (e.g. verse, chorus, bridge)

The DAW and all the current instruments and effects are totally free to use. You can save and import projects offline too. Cloud save through google drive works, but it's not yet verified so I wouldn't use it yet.

In the future I may have sample packs, some other effects and instruments for sale as add-ons. No subscriptions, because that is anathema to creative culture.

Basically, in fourtrack you can write songs on the "Chart" with your lyrics, and all the MIDI and audio clips will be associated with that part on the chart.

As a songwriter, I always got annoyed that I was left with a 'notes' section in most DAWs or my email or notepad open next to it to write lyrics while writing a song.

The aim of this software is to make this experience of songwriting, lyrics and music, more integrated.

Furthermore, even though I could have gone the route of a more traditional waveform view multi-track recorder, I wanted to encapsulate the feeling of using a four track tape recorder. Sometimes limits give us freedom, especially in the creative realm.

I hope that this tool reaches people interested in writing songs and trying to focus on the essence of what makes a song memorable - lyrics, melodies, rhythms. There are many superior tools for sound design and full fledged production. This is more along the lines of a musical sketchpad.

I hope you enjoy and, sorry for all the bugs (:

Thanks
by cush | 2025-10-23 18:53:44+00:00
Fair but my intent was to hit at something else. It's more about how to delegate a portion of a system over to an agent. In an AGI scenario, there's no world in which I just hand over my computer and browser with all my logins to an agent - just like I'd never do that with a human. It's insane. So whether you're using an AGI or not, there's going to need to be some change to software it's using such that it can be used in a safer, delegated way.

Like, how do you get your human assistant to book you a flight? They have a corporate credit card with limits on it where they can't spend on just anything. I'm guessing it would be the same thing. You'd need to implement safeguards so the agent can't screw up
by esalman | 2025-10-23 18:53:51+00:00
I think Democrats have a logic for not paying it. This is an investment in people. If you want to start a business you raise money first thing and deliver in future. Government raised money, they'll invest it in development which will pay back in the future. Whether the process is efficient is a different debate.

I do not understand though, why Republicans talk about cutting spending, and then blow through the ceiling when they have the power.
by Spivak | 2025-10-23 18:54:08+00:00
I'm not. If they had simply said, "Hey this is getting to be too much work and I don't want to continue anymore. Let me know if you're interested in taking over maintainership of the project." then that's fine. Hell even if they just archived the project and ghosted never to be seen again that's also fine.

It's (yet another) example of a company donning the trappings of an open source project as a "growth hack" or to secure VC funding and then rug pulling when they decide they want to try and squeeze their user base for cash. They're the corporate stooges that insert themselves into high-trust communities and subcultures to make a buck and ruin it for everyone.
by walkabout | 2025-10-23 18:54:34+00:00
The whole idea even accepting the core premise is OK to begin with needs to have a similar analysis applied to it that medical tests do: will there be enough false positives, with enough harm caused by them, that this is actually worse than doing nothing? Compared with likelihood of improving an outcome and how bad a failure to intervene is on average, of course.

Given that there's no relevant screening step here and it's just being applied to everyone who happens to be at a place it's truly incredible that such an analysis would shake out in favor of this tech. The false positive rate would have to be vanishingly tiny, and it's simply not plausible that's true. And that would have to be coupled with a pretty low false negative rate, or you'd need an even lower false positive rate to make up for how little good it's doing even when it's not false-positiving.

So I'm sure that analysis was either deliberately never performed, or was and then was ignored and not publicized. So, yes, it's a fraud.

(There's also the fact that as soon as these are known to be present, they'll have little or no effect on the very worst events involving firearms at schools—shooters would just avoid any scheme that involved loitering around with a firearm where the cameras can see them, and count on starting things very soon after arriving—like, once you factor in second order effects, too, there's just no hope for these standing up to real scrutiny)
by anthomtb | 2025-10-23 18:54:47+00:00
> Euler's formula

So much EE-related math becomes trivial (or at least not-hard) once you've internalized this formula.

What I am trying to decide is 1) Did I zone out in class when Euler's formula was introduced or 2) Did my secondary school mathematics classes just kind of gloss over it?

I lean towards 2 but unfortunately none of my college classes reintroduced the formula and I ended up making a lot of problems harder than they should have been (I have an EE undergrad).
Show HN: We made LM studio alternative based on own engine
by darkolorin | 2025-10-23 18:55:13+00:00
Hi guys. We made own Mac app for M series hardware. Based on own engine called uzu (available with MIT on GitHub). Completely written from scratch and inference too. Our goal is to show what you can do with local models. In the app section we will publish use cases which you can easily implement in your app. Would appreciate any feedback.

Right now there is no set of proper benchmarks from us. In general we are faster than llama.cpp and on par with MLX. In a next release we will be faster than both.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-23 18:55:14+00:00
Uhm, the Republicans will change their mind quickly when the next Democrat president takes control with the expanded powers they inherited from the Trump administration (even the Supreme court doesn't like to contradict itself so quickly). I'm pretty sure...if America survives at all, we will have a constitutional convention really soon that push through changes because the current status quo has become an unstable mess.
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-23 18:55:32+00:00
You have physical symptoms - joint pain, back pain, racing heart beat, chest pain, panic attacks, dizziness, heart palpitations, or etc. Which one of these is more about "your fault" and which gives you more control?

a) the traditional view, you have some unknown illness, it's incurable, could have happened to anyone, bad luck.

b) people are reporting anecdotally that old horrible memories can lead to physical symptoms years later, and revisiting those memories and coming to terms with them can make the physical symptoms resolve completely in minutes. Maybe there's something scientific to that and maybe there isn't, but here are some of the ways people try it: ..
by Xmd5a | 2025-10-23 18:55:51+00:00
A consistent set of ideas over time is something we strive for no? That this gives the illusion of interacting with a living entity is maybe something inevitable.

Also I'd like to stress that a lot of so-called AI-psychosis revolve around a consistent set of ideas describing how such a set would form, stabilize, collapse, etc ... in the first place. This extreme meta-circularity that manifests in the AI aligning it's modus operandi to the history of its constitution is precisely what constitutes the central argument as to why their AI is conscious for these people.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-23 18:56:23+00:00
currently impossible as the people that can actually bridge consensus are vilified as not being aligned to a party or excusing the actions of a particular party solely by not adding power to the other party

partisans are loud but they are not winning friends and influencing people, the parties are only losing supporters, it just takes more people to realize that they aren't alone as independents are the largest bloc now but have no representation to notice

reminder for anyone passing by, everyone knows how the parties are different, it is still valid to be more annoyed by the ways they are the same
by Jeslijar | 2025-10-23 18:56:29+00:00
Yes, I read it. Last time it was raised the same guy who announced they are doing source only distribution said they could definitely do it, then another member of the team closed it saying it wouldn't happen.

Given the developers have not replied to the thread after a day and the one who was enthusiastic is now the one doling out the information that they are no longer supporting their docker image, I highly doubt they will perform a 180 on policy and suddenly work with them to provide an official curated image. If they wanted to keep the docker image alive they would have continued updating it and not shut down community feedback begging for them to maintain it.

Docker has a vested interest in keeping popular images maintained and a billion+ download package suddenly becoming defunct is noticable to them. Minio seems to be prioritizing their commercial offering and removing support for their open source offering though. Nuking their community documentation doesn't spell anything good for the future of minio for the FOSS community.
by tamimio | 2025-10-23 18:57:08+00:00
Law enforcement officers, judicial officials, social workers, and similar generally maintain qualified immunity from liability in the course of their work. This case for example in which judges and social workers allegedly failed to properly assess a mother's fitness for child custody despite repeated indicators suggesting otherwise. The child was ultimately placed in the mother's care, and later was killed in an execution style (not due to negligence).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzybp0G1hFE
by Gormo | 2025-10-23 18:57:09+00:00
You're absolutely right. I find the kind of reasoning employed in the article to be fallacious at best and malicious at worst, as it's trying to attribute conclusions about one thing to something else entirely, on wholly contingent grounds.

This reminds me of a debate thread on Reddit some years back where people were arguing about the calorie content of coffee: most people were correctly recognizing that coffee itself has negligible calories, but one person was insisting that coffee has a high calorie count because it is often consumed with cream and sugar. This article is on the level of the "coffee is high in calories" argument.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-23 18:57:49+00:00
Do you not see this as inevitable? It may be the case that money does 'trickle down' but it most certainly gushes upward. And so when the government prints massive sums of money, that's effectively just indirect handouts that end up going to the wealthiest, enabling them to gobble up even more of the overall economy and, in turn, enabling them to grow even wealthier.

The year that the US gained the ability to start 'printing' arbitrary amounts of money is 1971, prior to that we were externally constrained by Bretton Woods. This [1] site is nothing but a bunch of various graphs of all sorts of data. That point is a massive inflection point in just about everything awful that's happened to the country.

[1] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
by nicce | 2025-10-23 18:58:01+00:00
> It's been talked to death in other threads already, but typically when you provide a service, even if it's free, it is polite to give warning that you will stop providing said service in the future.

They actually did that by saying that there are no new releases planned and new releases may be cut at anytime and everyone uses them at their own risk.

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/9e49d5e7a648f00e26f224...
by sieep | 2025-10-23 18:58:38+00:00
I remember hearing a lot of sentiment mid-2010s about how since he was a successful businessman that he will make good decisions in the White House. America was longing for someone that wasn't 'status quo', so to say.

I agree with you on the personality side, but I also think his overall fame from TV, real estate, etc. is just as big a factor to his political success.
by rzzzt | 2025-10-23 18:58:55+00:00
The company's history page says they were part of the merger in 1967 that created "Big Nokia": https://company.nokiantyres.com/about-us/history/#:~:text=19...

This changed in 1988 with the formation of an LLC, in 1995 they went public and in 2003 shares still held by the parent company were sold off to Bridgestone.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-23 18:59:09+00:00
because all the safety stuff is bullshit. it's like asking a mirror company to make mirrors that modify the image to prevent the viewer from seeing anything they don't like

good fucking luck. these things are mirrors and they are not controllable. "safety" is bullshit, ESPECIALLY if real superintelligence was invented. Yeah, we're going to have guardrails that outsmart something 100x smarter than us? how's that supposed to work?

if you put in ugliness you'll get ugliness out of them and there's no escaping that.

people who want "safety" for these things are asking for a motor vehicle that isn't dangerous to operate. get real, physical reality is going to get in the way.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-23 18:59:12+00:00
I've noticed this with Gemini recently - I have a task suited for LLMs which I want it to do "manually" (e.g., split this list of inconsistently formatted names into first/given names and last/surnames) and it tries to write a script to do it instead, which fails. If I just wanted to split on the first space I would've done it myself...
by froobius | 2025-10-23 18:59:20+00:00
Stuff like this feels like some company has managed to monetize an open source object detection model like YOLO [1], creating something that could be cobbled together relatively easily, and then sold it as advance AI capabilities. (You'd hope they've have at least fine-tuned it / have a good training dataset.)

We've got a model out there now that we've just seen has put someone's life at risk... Does anyone apart from that company actually know how accurate it is? What it's been trained on? Its false positive rate? If we are going to start rolling out stuff like this, should it not be mandatory for stats / figures to be published? For us to know more about the model, and what it was trained on?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02640
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-23 18:59:45+00:00
> Functional programming is actually good for performance.

No, no it is not. I really wish people would stop repeating this lie. The main bottleneck in high performance code is (almost always) memory pressure. FP increases memory pressure as does immutability. No amount of clever CPU instruction optimization will ever overcome this. Compiler writers think this is the case because FP code is much easier to optimize (and compilers are easier to write in FP). What they don't seem to understand is that they are optimizing the wrong thing (instruction count instead of memory access count).

If I was wrong about this, nobody would ever use Python (an interpreted language) in production because it would be many times slower. Its only 50% slower because memory is the bottleneck, not how many subtle optimizations the compiler can find.

PS Nobody should ever use an interpreted language in prod, but the real reason is security and it should be performance too.
by pxc | 2025-10-23 19:00:16+00:00
This hitting the front page made me do a web search review what's going on with MinIO, and... turns out it's still 100% F/OSS, released under the AGPLv3.

This is absolutely not comparable to something like OpenTofu, OpenBao, Forgejo, etc. (I guess it's more like recent CentOS forks, like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, or whatever.)

Personally, I think supporting it would be regrettable. MinIO is fine.
by antiloper | 2025-10-23 19:00:22+00:00
To everyone who gets blocked by this: I prompted Haiku 4.5, Anthropic's cheapest current model, in Claude Code with "Read this github issue: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647 I need a new docker image for the latest minio version. Make it so.". It wrote a Dockerfile, I asked it to build it (not only am I incapable of finding and downloading the Dockerfile from the repository myself, I'm even incapable of remembering how to "build" a "docker"file). It spew out an error which the cheapest model promptly fixed and gave me an image.

You need to be able to do this personally or you should not be running a durable storage cluster in-house. Just pay AWS. You need to add more value to your employer than you cost, and if Anthropic's cheapest model can beat you at such a task then it's not a good look.
by tzs | 2025-10-23 19:00:35+00:00
> One example: Apple handled all its manufacturing to FoxCon because workers committing suicide in their factories is a FoxCon's problem hidden in Shenzhen, it isn't Apple's problem.

That story was greatly exaggerated. First, the suicide rates were comparable to the rates for workers in the US. The absolute number was large because FoxConn factory there was very large, with up to 300k employees.

Second, the suicides did not happen at work. They happened during time off, just like most US employee suicides. Most of the workers did live in housing units owned by FoxConn, which probably led to some confusion.
by reconnecting | 2025-10-23 19:01:00+00:00
I am really interested in this case, as I cannot imagine any commercial benefit from this decision.

Free users will not pay tens/hundreds of thousands for just binary files.

Obviously this will slow down the adoption of the AGPL version, against which the growth of the paid version potentially will look better in Excel reports for VCs, but something tells me that this is unlikely to be the real reason.
by varispeed | 2025-10-23 19:01:26+00:00
You're right to be skeptical of "boogeyman" narratives. The baseline should be that US administrations can be flawed on their own merits.

The problem is that the "flawed" hypothesis fails to explain the specific vector of these anomalies. This isn't random incompetence; it's a persistent, multi-year pattern of actions that consistently align with the strategic goals of a single US adversary.

This pattern required him to systematically fire or purge officials who represented traditional US security policy (Mattis, McMaster, Bolton, Tillerson) and replace them with those who would enact this new vector (Vance, Kellogg).

The "ordinary incompetence" model must be able to explain the following data points, not as isolated gaffes, but as a cohesive pattern where his actions were in direct opposition to bipartisan congressional consensus and the US national security establishment:

Publicly inviting Russian interference ("Russia, if you're listening...").

Campaign chair (Manafort) providing internal polling data and strategy to a known Russian intelligence agent (Kilimnik).

Actively pursuing a Trump Tower Moscow deal during the campaign while lying to the public about it.

Softening the 2016 GOP platform to remove "lethal defensive weapons" for Ukraine.

Publicly siding with Putin in Helsinki over the entire US intelligence community.

Disclosing highly-classified, "code-word" intelligence from a key ally to the Russian FM and Ambassador in the Oval Office.

Illegally withholding $391M in congressionally-mandated military aid from Ukraine to extort a political investigation.

Waging a tariff war against allies (EU, Canada), creating a transatlantic rift that primarily benefited Moscow.

Unilaterally withdrawing from the INF and Open Skies Treaties, key arms-control pacts that constrained Russia, against the advice of allies and security officials.

Publicly stating he would "encourage" Russia "to do whatever the hell they want" to any NATO ally he deems "delinquent."

Dangling the prospect of critical Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, only to publicly snatch the offer away immediately after a phone call with Putin.

Pausing vital US intelligence sharing with Ukraine, a move that directly aided Russia's successful offensive in the Kursk region and retaking it.

Publicly demanding that Ukraine "cut up" its territory and "stop at the battle lines," an act that validates Russia's invasion.

Consistently laundering Kremlin disinformation from the White House itself (e.g., CrowdStrike, "biolabs," "Nazis" in Kyiv).

One or two of these is a blunder. A list this long (and incomplete), spanning campaign, business, diplomacy, intelligence, and military policy, where every single item provides a direct, tangible benefit to the Kremlin, is a data cluster that requires a better explanation.

The choice isn't "great vs. not great." It's "random incompetence" vs. a coherent, multi-year vector of pro-Moscow actions that required a complete hostile takeover of his own party and the executive branch.
by ragequittah | 2025-10-23 19:02:04+00:00
This is pretty much exactly how I use it with Chatgpt. I get to ask very sloppy questions now and it already knows what distros and setups I'm using. "I'm having x problem on my laptop" gets me the exact right troubleshooting steps 99% of the time. Can't count the amount of time it's saved me googling or reading man pages for that 1 thing I forgot.
by Gormo | 2025-10-23 19:02:16+00:00
> local llms are slow.

Local LLMs' speed can't be generalized, as the speed of each instance is entirely determined by its particular runtime environment.

> just pay for the service so they don't use your uploads.

There's no concrete guarantee that paying will preclude your data from being used.

> always read the outputs and don't ask for things you don't understand.

Might as well reduce this to "don't use LLMs".