MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sweepi | 2025-10-28 10:29:19+00:00
Imo, this shows that LLMs are nice for compression, OCR and other similar tasks, but there is 0% thinking / logic involved:

magistral: "Turn card pairs the board with a T, potentially completing some straights and giving opponents possible two-pair or better hands"

A card which pairs the board does not help with straights. The opposite is true. Far worse then hallucinating a function signature which does not exist, if you base anything on these types of fundamental errors, you build nothing.

Read 10 turns on the website and you will find 2-3 extreme errors like this. There needs to be a real breakthrough regarding actual thinking(regardless of how slow/expensive it might be) before I believe there is a path to AGI.
by lan321 | 2025-10-28 10:30:32+00:00
One is a crime though. For 'daily' crimes I believe essentially every country has some form of Statute of Limitations. If I decide to pursue a theft 20 years after it happened the courts will tell me to fuck off because it's no longer relevant..

The issue with reparations or w/e though is that it's punishing people who committed no crime for something that's now a crime but back in the day, wasn't, done by their ancestors long enough ago that most have no real life recollection of it anymore.
by submeta | 2025-10-28 10:31:29+00:00
Tangential: Have had sleep disorders my whole life. Until I read an article here about melatonin (an article that was about substances that have an effect on longevity). So I started taking melatonin every night, 0.5mg. I must say: Never had this kind of deep sleep. Over such a long period of weeks (since I started taking it). My Garmin watch has a sleep tracker. And it confirms that I get way more deep sleep.
by isolay | 2025-10-28 10:32:18+00:00
> [Apple] promised apps with no viruses and no risks; a place where everything was curated and safe.

Apart from the viruses, nothing of the above is true any more. Apple doesn't care if you're getting screwed over by an app, and neither does Google. If they can increase their profits by taking away our freedom and/or control over "our" devices, then it WILL happen, as sure as death and taxes.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-28 10:32:56+00:00
GPLv3-or-later is currently almost the same as GPLv3-only at the moment given there is no GPLv4.

The reason why it's not possible to include GPLv3-only code in a GPLv3-or-later codebase is that the latter is more permissive, allowing the FSF to release an updated version of the GPL.

They won't make GPLv4 any less copyleft and more permissive than GPLv3, if they ever do make one. At worst, the GPLv4 will cause some commercial user of the code to be even more inconvenienced.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-10-28 10:33:09+00:00
That flag is tiny compared to the one telegram has been sailing with for years.

Despite there founder crying on twitter[1] how horrible and distopian chat control client side scanning to bypass E2EE would be, telegram is still only offering hidden and limited opt-in E2EE instead of making it global default like signal.

[1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/1976420399970701543
by Propelloni | 2025-10-28 10:34:28+00:00
What works best for me is to take a book, on paper, preferably on a boring topic (depends on you, obviously) and just start reading. Usually my eyes drop in a matter of minutes. Once I wake up, startled by the book falling over, I kill the lights and go to sleep. Works every time, any time.

If I lie in bed and just think stuff, it takes much longer.
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-28 10:34:30+00:00
> I don't come from the USA and in fact you literally couldn't pay me to go work in or for the USA.

That's why I also said "international tech hubs" because that's were it's easier to find non-MS jobs outside the US. But it seems that passed over your head and you spent 3 sentences to go on a tangent on how much you hate the US even if the US wasn't my point.

>an emerging pattern of MS-shops being the kind of place incompatible with wanting to take pride in your work

There's plenty of non MS-shops that make SW just as bad, if not much more worse and evil than MS-shops (nefarious Facebook and Google spy-/ad-ware isn't done in a Microsoft shop). SW stack is just a tool and a tool does not define one's character just how whether you use DeWalt or Makita doesn't. Which is why I dislike your binary/black-or-white view on this topic as it screams ideological zealotry, short sightedness or even borderline discriminatory.

Taking "pride in your work" in the context of working for someone else's SW corporation, is mostly a luxury belief of privileged people who have the luxury of choice in the labor market, while for most folk, labor is done just as a way to pay bills, while taking pride is reserved for activities with hobbies, family, children and friends.

You don't need to "take pride in your work" to be a kind person and functioning member of society, but it seems it's just a virtue signaling purity test by the "holier than though" crowd of tech workers.
by kaspermarstal | 2025-10-28 10:34:34+00:00
If someone is processing 50k rows, that means they found real value and the UX is working. That's the whole point.

Also, 50k rows wouldn't cost $50k. More like $100 with Sonnet 4.5 pricing and typical numbers of input/output tokens. Imagine the time needed to go through 50k rows manually and math doesn't really work for a horror story.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-10-28 10:35:44+00:00
The edition of Crime and Punishment that I read had an appendix with a detailed character listing mapping characters to their nicknames (and giving an overview of their relationships also I think): I was so grateful for that.

I am bad at tracking things like character's surnames already when books call people by different names, I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy the book as much as I did without this help.
by derefr | 2025-10-28 10:35:52+00:00
Tailscale is a system service / DevOps deploy-time architectural middleware tool for putting entire devices onto managed OS-level networks.

Iroh is a development-time library for building software that forms open decentralized application-specific networks.

The closer comparison for Iroh would be to something like libp2p. (Or maybe libzmq, given its toolkit-of-very-well-thought-out-primitives approach. I might describe Iroh as the decentralized complement to libzmq.)
by WithinReason | 2025-10-28 10:35:58+00:00
Or in PowerShell on Windows:

1..1119 | % { iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-$_.jpg" -OutFile "000R-$_.jpg" } 1..1119 | % { iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-$_.jpg" -OutFile "000V-$_.jpg" }
by b112 | 2025-10-28 10:36:11+00:00
You don't owe anyone anything when free.

However, your reputation does depend upon treating security seriously. It's 2025, not 2005.

So one should indicate "this is a hobby, and I have no time to deal with this" if so. Fair enough!

However, if you have people paying for support, or you want them to see your software and become clients, or you do a project to showcase your skills?

Security front and centre.

My list of helpfuls, in my prior post, actually helps a project maintainer reduce unnecessary queries.

Think of a CVE list as a FAQ.
by VagabundoP | 2025-10-28 10:36:38+00:00
I'm watching videos of ICE kidnapping a woman and her kids while shes in their school, to be brought to god knows where, that would not look out of place in the 1930s.

When you have a full time secret police that wanders the streets kidnapping people, yeah that has a chilling effect, people want to keep their heads down.

And its tricky, because they will ignore the huge protests, and they want some sort of armed or civil disobedience when it comes to their secret police because they are looking for excuses to label them Antifa terrorists and escalate.

I don't see the obvious play here for Americans looking to fight this. Maybe the Midterms could help, maybe if enough local action, maybe the US to too big to cow like that, maybe the blue states have enough independence to survive the federal overreach, maybe Trump dies and MAGA dies with him.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-28 10:36:48+00:00
OpenAI tried to get rid of the excessively sycophantic model (4o) but there was a massive backlash. They eventually relented and kept it as a model offering in ChatGPT.

OpenAI certainly has made mistakes with its rollouts in the past, but it is effectively impossible to keep everyone with psychological issues away from a free online web app.

>ChatGPT should be nowhere near anyone dealing with psychological issues.

Should every ledge with a >10ft drop have a suicide net? How would you imagine this would be enforced, requiring everyone who uses ChatGPT to agree to an "I am mentally stable" provisio?
by novoreorx | 2025-10-28 10:38:50+00:00
While I largely agree with the philosophy, the example provided is not very practical. The code snippet `getExpiredUsers(db.getUsers(), Date.now())` is unlikely to occur in real-life scenarios. No one would retrieve all users and then filter them within the program. Instead, it should be `db.getExpiredUsers(Date.now())`.

We should never be too extreme on anything, otherwise it would turn good into bad.
by int_19h | 2025-10-28 10:40:04+00:00
It doesn't have to be government propaganda, though. It can be everyone with enough money to broadcast, and in the Internet age that is basically everyone.

We've spent most of the 20th century honing propaganda techniques to the point where its potency is like a nuke compared to a dynamite stick. And then we've spent most of the 21st century so far making that nuke cheap and easily available to everyone.

I'm very pro-free-speech in general and I don't think censorship is a solution, but in order to argue for free speech in good faith we have to acknowledge the problem. The reason why people want government to censor is, in many cases, the same reason why they want government to crack down on someone who is building a nuke in their garage (but are okay with the government itself having the same nuke).
by akazantsev | 2025-10-28 10:40:07+00:00
Here is a homework for you to see why they do it:

1. Checkout Chromium's codebase. 2. Make a commit and see how long it takes. 3. Try to push it to any git hosting service.

You will discover what's actually brittle and annoying.

And yes, being 10s vs 10000s devs in the same repo isn't fun.
by hopelite | 2025-10-28 10:40:40+00:00
That seems to be a rather weak security, especially relying on “…should cover…” to save you, which I presume you have also never been able to test. And that’s without addressing common mistakes like not realizing the policy is for cash value and requires evidence; which people do not have, is not updated, or is not compliant. That can leave people with effectively no coverage at all, with the only test being run in deployed systems… the first time you check if your arms supplier provided quality arms, is when you’re facing the enemy trying to kill your at the front lines.
by anastasija2504 | 2025-10-28 10:41:02+00:00
AI moves faster than your last commit - and so do hackers. Security can’t be an afterthought; it has to run alongside your code, like invisible, always-on seatbelts keeping users safe. AI moves fast, and so do the threats that come with it.

Roland Liposinović, Security Governance Generalist at Infobip, sees a critical shift: security should no longer be an afterthought or a compliance checkbox:

Make security a growth tool, not a tax. Build safety in from day one, and audits finish faster, big customers say yes sooner, and purchasing roadblocks disappear.

This mindset shift is one many organizations still struggle to make.

Too often, security is treated as a necessary evil, something to appease auditors and regulators. But Roland argues that security-first development is a competitive differentiator. By integrating controls early, companies can unlock new markets more quickly, shorten sales cycles, and establish trust in ways that directly impact the bottom line.

Security isn’t red tape. It’s quality control for modern, AI-powered products. Trust drives sales. Secure design grows trust over time.
by Ratelman | 2025-10-28 10:41:04+00:00
Reflecting on my own experience - frequency of contact (if I see them once a year, can't really count them as close friends) How involved they are in my life - are they people I turn to when I'm facing a problem, do they turn to me when facing their own problems? Do we have frequent deep conversations - not just surface level discuss the weather, sports etc. but stuff that matter. Quantifying this - length of friendship (# of years), frequency of contact (annually, monthly, weekly etc.), level of trust (low, medium, high - can I trust my kids with them kind of trust), level of involvement (low, medium, high - what things do I feel comfortable sharing with them - suppose this is also level of trust?)
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-10-28 10:41:15+00:00
The 2 minutes wasted to write it doesn't move the needle, but the time that their present and future teammates will waste on reading it might.

It costs me more effort to read and understand a screenful of unfamiliar code than the equivalent "sort -k 1.1" or "uniq" while skimming through a shell script. This adds up.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-10-28 10:42:22+00:00
> I can start a fresh new instance of plain, vanilla, clean-slate instance of Emacs; then open a scratch buffer and piece-by-piece rebuild my entire configuration, consisting of a dozen thousand lines of customizations; install third-party packages that bring hundreds of thousands of their own code;

we're here to edit text though, I thought? It sounds clever but it might be clever for clevers sake sometimes.
by pogue | 2025-10-28 10:43:02+00:00
I just posted this a few days ago, but the corporate people at the top won't look at it from a technical perspective, I'm sure. They'll look at how much they can save the company by quicky implementing the latest & greatest AI solution and lay off the people working there.

>> It has gotten to a point that the use of AI has turned life into a literal Kafkaesque nightmare. How soon will AI take the place of customer service for actual necessary services like calling your local DMV to make an appointment or even taking over 911 services? The promises made by AI companies about this software making our lives easier has merely become a drive to implement AI into every possible facet of life, not to benefit anyone, but to drive up profits.

Full post/context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708816
by jakubmazanec | 2025-10-28 10:44:28+00:00
React isn't slow. It can be pretty fast (thanks to hooks like useTransition or useOptimistic, and now React Compiler, etc.) - it's just that it takes a lot of learning and work to use React correctly. Some people don't like that, and that's why other frameworks with different trade-offs exist.

The other thing is that React is too big in terms of kBs of JavaScript you have to download and then parse (and often, thanks to great React ecosystem, you use many other libraries). But that's just another trade-off: it's the price you pay for great backwards compatibility (e.g. you can still use React Class components, you don't have to use hooks, etc.).
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-28 10:44:44+00:00
I wonder how many of these exchanges are from "legitimate" people trying to get advice on how to commit suicide.

Assisted suicide is a topic my government will not engage into (France, we have some ridiculous discussions poking the subject with a 10 m pole) so many people are left to themselves. They will then either go for the well-known (but miserable) solutions, or look at Belgium, the Netherlands or Switzerland (thanks god we have these countries nearby).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-28 10:46:01+00:00
Amunsingly, I have read 10 hands and I got the reverse impression you did. The analysis is often quite impressive even it is sometimes imperfect. They do play poker fairly well and explain clearly why they do what they do.

Sure it's probably not the best way to do it but I'm still impressed by how effectively LLMs generalise. It's an incredible leap forward compared to five years ago.
Show HN: Droidrun – LLM Agent for Android
by nodueck | 2025-10-28 10:46:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Nikolai, software engineer and co-founder at DroidRun. We built DroidRun, an LLM-based agent that leverages the Android Accessibility Tree for precise control and understanding of UI elements. It works on real phones and emulators, and it's open source.

How it started:

Our co-founder Niels Schmidt (you’ll see him in the demos) coded a prototype and shared a quick video. It went viral, about 50k views on X in under 2 hours. That moment pushed us to go all-in on DroidRun and soon after, we open-sourced it.

How it works:

Most agents rely on screenshots alone for context. We do that plus feed the Accessibility Tree into the LLM. That gives structural, hierarchical, and spatial metadata about UI elements.

Here’s an example:

Screenshot of a real UI: https://imgur.com/a/ePRLpyv

And a matching accessibility JSON snippet:

{ "index": 3, "resourceId": "com.android.settings:id\\/search_action_bar", "className": "LinearLayout", "text": "search_action_bar", "bounds": "42, 149, 1038, 338", "children": [ { "index": 4, "resourceId": "com.android.settings:id\\/search_bar_title", "className": "TextView", "text": "In Einstellungen suchen", "bounds": "189, 205, 768, 282", "children": [] } ] }

We also annotate UI regions in screenshots with numbers, then match them in the tree. This structure gives the agent a deep understanding of what’s on screen, even across different device types like tablets.

This allows for better generalization across devices and screen sizes. Agents can act with greater confidence and fewer hallucinations.

Current Status:

- Ranked #1 on AndroidWorld until recently (it became highly competitive)

- Supports real devices + Emulators

- Strong performance on simple and complex UI tasks

- Gemini 2.5 Pro works best so far, but we’re iterating fast

What's next:

We’re working on a cloud platform where you can run prompts on Android devices without setup. Think of LLM controlling a phone in the cloud, ready to test your automations.

Looking for:

- Feedback from HN

- Collaborators who love Android, LLMs, agents

- OSS contributors
by A1kmm | 2025-10-28 10:46:37+00:00
For only 100 GB, that's quite expensive storage. Compare for example Backblaze B2 at $7.20 / year / 100 GB. That is just the storage, so if you do lots of I/O it might increase - but if you aren't using exactly 100 GB and don't do much IO it might also be less than $7.20.
by levario_studio | 2025-10-28 10:47:22+00:00
Hello, thank you for the suggestion, I'm testing the ground right now, initially when I built this project I thought there are not so many competitors to goodreads, but apparently, there are tons of them, so, I would not waste time and many deploying this website before finding out if there is interest for it. I know real domain is needed, but for now I m tracking traffic to see if there are people interested in my projects. btw, what is saasrow?
by georgehopkin | 2025-10-28 10:48:35+00:00
A 16-year-old student from the UK has designed and built a four-fingered robotic hand using standard LEGO parts that mimics the human-like adaptable grasp of advanced research models.

Jared Lepora, a student at Bristol Grammar School, developed the “Educational SoftHand-A”. The project is described in a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, reports Phys.org. The device is made entirely from LEGO MINDSTORMS components, with the only non-LEGO parts being the cords that act as tendons.
by lucyjojo | 2025-10-28 10:49:33+00:00
friend of mine (early 20s) got his atp production severely damaged (not annihilated but way less than normal).

he can't really use stairs, or walk a long time, etc. he sleeps a lot, and basically can't be active for a long time anymore. his reaction time also worsened apparently (used to be ridiculously fast).

hospital folks (in 2 different countries) directly linked it to the vaccine.

so yeah it's rare but it can get really bad...
by anonym29 | 2025-10-28 10:49:33+00:00
I'm no fan of surveillance technology in general, nor of Clearview specifically, but no American corporation is legally obligated to obey British law. To suggest that Clearview is "dodging" the (British) law falsely implies that Clearview has any legal duty to obey (British) law in the first place.

Sure, if they don't want to follow British law, Britain has the right to reject Clearview from British markets, but that's about it. The British government does not have jurisdiction over American companies or American citizens outside of Britain's borders, in spite of what British Parliament seems to believe.
by lexszero_ | 2025-10-28 10:49:43+00:00
Not sure if you're referring to DeviantOllam or someone else, but here is his awesome talk on safes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_Jv7vuiqg

He is a great source of knowledge on physical security for laymen and professionals alike, and leaves an impression of an extremely amicable and well-rounded human being.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-28 10:51:09+00:00
> I work very hard to provide deep, thoughtful code review

Which is awesome and essential!

But the reason that the value of code reviews drops if they aren't done live, conducted by the person whose code is being reviewed, isn't related to the quality of the feedback. It's because a very large portion of the value of a code review is having the dev who wrote the code walk through it, explaining things, to other devs. At least half the time, that dev will encounter "aha" moments where they see something they have been blind to before, see a better way of doing things, spot discontinuities, etc. That dev has more insight into what went into the code than any other, and this is a way of leveraging that insight.

The modern form of code review, where they are done asynchronously by having reviewers just looking at the code changes themselves, is not worthless, of course. It's just not nearly as useful as the old-school method.
by AnicetN | 2025-10-28 10:51:53+00:00
Hey HN!

We're two european builders who spent the last 2 months building Ariana, essentially Claude Code Web on steroids with some aspects ressembling Conductor.

We were frustrated with how managing multiple coding agents, sync and async, was feeling. Always either too much friction to go all-in most times, and once all-in too hard to manage. Especially as a team.

In Ariana you can launch multiple agents powered by your Claude Code on the same codebase, they go on to work on their own Hetzner VPS, on their own branch. They auto-commit, and you can generate a PR in the end.

You can launch & use agents from web, mobile web, desktop (win, mac, linux).

Why VMs over local git worktree? Well it doesn't clutter your disk space. It also makes agents shareable (one link share with your team), and useable from anywhere even away from the desktop. For example, you can start an agent on your local code and keep prompting it later in the metro.

Coding in a cloud VM is often annoying because you'd like to run or edit the code locally in your IDE. So on desktop we added real-time bidirectional file sync and network forwarding which allows you to fully focus on one agent as if it was there locally while the others keep working. You can also fork agents and by switching focus test multiple variants or features.

VMs can run anything like docker, docker compose, most languages. They each have an IP with firewall on by default. You can open ports and host what your agent worked on even.

We leave it for you to discover many other features and quality of life UX things.

You can try it on the web immediately for free using you claude subscription or API key. Linking a GitHub acc is optional (can just give a public clone url from github, gitlab, azure or bitbucket), but usage is more limited.

https://ariana.dev/app

If you want to try also the desktop, download it at: https://ariana.dev

Mixing desktop & web rhather than web only is highly recommended.

Thank you for your attention, curious to know what you think!