MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sherry-sherry | 2025-10-03 07:44:37+00:00
Which is why all of them should, every single one. Ones who don't should be called out by others.

Same thing at White House press conferences, push push push them relentlessly with questions that make them uncomfortable... make them squirm.

Press who always allow the other side to control the narrative deserve to die out. I know this is all easier said than done, but holy crap we are making it so easy for them to walk over us right now, we could at least do something.
by ukblewis | 2025-10-03 07:45:19+00:00
How CNN, a supposedly reputable news source can quote Hamas-run (a recognised terror group in the US) Health Ministry’s number without even noting who runs the ministry or raising any doubt is ridiculous? More ridiculous, noting the prices of different goods in Gaza when the vast majority of those goods enter Gaza as free aid. So who is stealing it and extorting others? Hamas and other terror groups are ghosts in this article. It is time that the UN focus on delivering aid rather than blaming Israel. Gazans die when they both refuse IDF convoys to keep them safe and blame the IDF for not keeping them safe as the “occupying” power. If only the IDF had already won, then Gazans would eat like normal already
by fedeb95 | 2025-10-03 07:45:46+00:00
it's not that without digital ID you didn't need verification. At least in Italy, digital identities means don't having to go attending lengthy queues in public offices, where paper identities where usually checked. Sometimes you still have to do it.

What I agree with, is that some system is needed to help those without an identity, or at the border of the system. Digital stuff can help there too.
by kingstnap | 2025-10-03 07:46:09+00:00
The demo gif looks so weird. So you send someone an email, and (if it's not a gmail) it asks them the log into some mini gmail looking thing to view the actual message?

> preserving enhanced data sovereignty

As in you need google in order to view any of your data?

> end-to-end encrypted

Ah yes end (googles server) to end (also googles server) encryption. Very useful.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but this genuinely seems completely pointless at best. It's middleman to that same middleman encryption solving the last mile delivery problem by not sending the actual message.
by jwr | 2025-10-03 07:46:20+00:00
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" all over again. I am appalled at how many people use Gmail, giving up their privacy, control over E-mail, and leading to an overly centralized system where our mail is controlled by 2-3 companies at most (about 30% of my spam comes from Google servers, they pretty much ignore abuse reports, and I have no way to block it, because they are "too big to fail").

Now we will get a slowly introduced proprietary encryption scheme that will pretend to be "open", but will be carefully controlled so that it is slightly broken for everyone except Google. Several years down the road we'll wake up in a world where people will be annoyed that you can't receive their E-mail and will tell you to "just use gmail".

Replace "Google" with "Microsoft" and "Gmail" with "Outlook" and it's the 1990s all over again.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-10-03 07:46:23+00:00
I think privacy abuse can be largely prevented if a hard line is drawn saying that digital ids must only be used by the government for government services, such as voting, taxes, immigration, welfare, etc.

If any private parties like banks, social media, or online stores are allowed to check your digital id, they are going to be a privacy disaster.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 07:46:31+00:00
And my point is that the international community, which mostly comprise of Arab nations, Muslim nations, or nations that rely on Arab oil, has been shown to levy accusations and resolutions against the state that the Arab and Muslim nations are united to destroy.

If there was merit to the claim that Jews building houses in the West Bank is illegal, they would have stated which law is being transgressed.
by ikurei | 2025-10-03 07:46:35+00:00
Webapps are rewritten because a developer wanted to use the new shiny, or someone was convinced that everything will be better with the newer frameworks everyone is using. Also, it often goes hand in hand with giving it a more modern look-and-feel.

But the point is not whether webapps are rewritten, but whether they have to be rewritten. I know some old enterprise webapps made with PHP about 10 years ago that are still working fine.

You do have to worry about security issues, and the occasional deprecation of an API, but there is no reason why a web-based service should need to be rewritten just to keep working. Is that true for mobile and desktop apps?
by jjav | 2025-10-03 07:46:42+00:00
> The government is a centralization of power, it doesn't matter if our devices are "decentralized" if the government can simply make it illegal to use unlocked devices.

That is a very binary view of the world, but the world is nothing but shades of gray.

At the very extreme of the most totalitarian government, you're right. Such a government can ban one thing or ban everything.

But in nearly every country, it's vastly easier to go choke a single neck (Apple) and tell them to shut something down, than to chase after tens of millions of individual people with individual devices, if all of them can run whatever they want from wherever they want.

That is the power of decentralization.
by microtonal | 2025-10-03 07:47:50+00:00
The Netherlands has had a standard for authentication, which is supported by all government organizations, many insurance companies, etc. for 21 years and it only got better with time. I also strongly prefer it over the shitty, broken authentication systems many government organizations, companies, etc. come up with otherwise (we lived in Germany for a while and the crappy systems we had to deal with were endless). Or even worse, let some FAANG company do the authentication.
by rafaelmn | 2025-10-03 07:48:30+00:00
>Just the disruption we can already see in the software industry are easily of that magnitude.

WTF ? Where are you seeing that ?

Also no you can't calculate 100k over 30 years as 3M because you expect investment growth - lets say stock market average of 7 percent per year that investment must return like 24 million in 30 years otherwise its not worth it. That means 8 trillion in next 30 years if you look over that long of an investment period.

And who in the hell is going to capture 30 years of profit with model/compute investments made today.

The math only maths within short timeframes - hardware will get amortized in 5 years, model obsolete in even less. So best case scenario you have to displace 2 million people and capture their output to repay that. Not with future tech - with tech investments made today.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-10-03 07:48:51+00:00
Headline is misleading, TFA says it's the last maintenance release in the 4.x series so if anything, big changes are expected in the 5.0 beta whose planned release date was two days ago as mentioned at the end. So are there any news for 5.0 yet? I loved Sketchup and sure looked forward to Blender releases over the years but it's anything but a tool for casual 3D scene modelling or level design, requiring a huge time investment for learning and keep memorizing its awkward UI.
by tho223oi4j8979 | 2025-10-03 07:49:23+00:00
Not wanting huge numbers of foreign army base in your country is Xenophobic Isolationism ? I'm sorry; I guess I'm all hopped up on the the anti-colonial struggles of Asia (ironically, many of them, supported by Japan).

The China issue is orthogonal to all this. US-Japan relations were atleast beneficial till now (unlike say Europe's colonial possessions in Asia), but it looks like the country will first suck all its vassals dry before going down.
by sieve | 2025-10-03 07:49:40+00:00
> The CEO is also more puritan than the pope himself considering the amount of censorship it has.

In that case, you should try OpenAI's gpt-oss!

Both models are pretty fast for their size and I wanted to use them to summarize stories and try out translation. But it keeps checking everything against "policy" all the time! I created a jailbreak that works around this, but it still wastes a few hundred tokens talking about policy before it produces useful output.
by jjav | 2025-10-03 07:49:44+00:00
> Not the definition of our government. Our founding documents state that "Congress shall make no law" along the lines of what Apple is being pressured to do here.

I suggest read up on NSLs.

Sure, that should not be legal if the constitution meant anything, but there it is.

> the problem is the power

Tell me about a single government ever in history that has not abused its power at least sometimes?

While you're right, we should strive for that, we also need to strive for not building centralization that can be abused. Because it will always be abused.
by danielhanchen | 2025-10-03 07:50:05+00:00
I made some dynamic GGUFs for the 32B MoE model! Try:

./llama.cpp/llama-cli -hf unsloth/granite-4.0-h-small-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Also a support agent finetuning notebook with granite 4: https://colab.research.google.com/github/unslothai/notebooks...
by lostlogin | 2025-10-03 07:50:55+00:00
You’re making me twitchy.

Desktop Docker (eww, yuck) and it’s permissions, path hell and general bs.

Can <permissions dialogue> it <permissions dialogue> be <permissions dialogue> any <permissions dialogue> other <permissions dialogue> way? <permissions dialogue>

I want a headless mac mini running docker. Why is it so hard?
Ask HN: How would you use an AI-powered browser agent?
by hamzamairaj | 2025-10-03 07:51:10+00:00
I’m exploring the idea of AI powered browser agents tools that can navigate the web like a human: clicking, typing, scraping, filling forms, or even completing multi step workflows. All you do is prompt the task.

If you had such an agent, what would you use it for?

- Automating repetitive tasks? - Gathering and cleaning data? - Handling customer or internal workflows? - Something else entirely?

I’d love to hear how the HN community imagines using this.
by xwolfi | 2025-10-03 07:52:12+00:00
Well it's not the same game. Here in China we're in this phase of accomplishing big stuff to help each other and flex a bit and wow at our own development. When the British colonized America, it was exactly the same - an insane accomplishment to capture and re-develop that land into something half-working so far away. When China starts capturing and colonizing other continents, you can start being really jealous !

Now, the US is focused on other stuff like maybe having some return on their investment, or looking at its people as first-class problems rather than ants meant for a greater national goal. It's not that bad, it depends on what you focus on, I think people in the US have nice stuff to look forward to, like I don't know, a holiday in Disneyland with their kids, when Chinese people often don't see our kids for years while we're building bridges far away.

Plus you know, we don't get to vote for great politicians like in the US and are stuck instead with bureaucrats that care more about infrastructure than pleasing the people. Be proud of that, I'd love for us to have your president (yes, I'm teasing you :p)
by ukblewis | 2025-10-03 07:52:24+00:00
Your metrics are yours alone. Ask Hamas if they won? If they stay in power in Gaza, trust me, they won. Same as if the Nazis were still in control of Germany, Stalin in charge of Russia, ISIS in charge of Iraq and Syria and the Khmer Rouge in charge of Cambodia…

Your suggestion that Israel stop fighting in contrast to Trump’s direct words stating that he will back Israel fully in defeating Hamas if Hamas does not accept his deal which involves them fully disarming, is essentially suggesting that Israel should accept defeat even when it has the backing of the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. Now either you are ignorant or you are intentionally malevolent in your suggestion… take your pick
Show HN: Dakora – OSS tool to manage LLM prompts without redeploys
by bogdan_pi | 2025-10-03 07:52:25+00:00
Ever get lost in all the prompts in your project? I did. Hardcoding them works fine for POCs and small apps, but once you have dozens it turns into “prompt hell”: giant strings in code, every tweak needs a redeploy, and changes are hard to track.

So I built Dakora — a small open source tool that:

- Stores prompts in a central vault (files under git)

- Lets you edit them in a simple UI playground

- Syncs them into your app without redeploys.

- Works with Python out of the box (pip install dakora)

Curious how others are managing prompts in production. Feedback welcome.

GH: https://github.com/bogdan-pistol/dakora
by YmiYugy | 2025-10-03 07:54:06+00:00
I recognize that this goes a bit against the spirit of the article, but I struggle to even conceptualize what land value means and how it can possibly be independent of its use. Land doesn’t really have inherent value, it comes from what you could do with it, but that depends a on a lot of factors including what it’s currently used for and who owns it. One problem to illustrate is that land value is typically calculated per area, but the value obviously depends on how you subdivide a particular piece of land. If I try sell a single sqft in my backyard it’s obviously pretty useless and so the value is low. But if I sell the entire plot the value of that backyard will be much higher, and a developer who manages to buy the whole neighborhood would probably value that even higher
by qianli_cs | 2025-10-03 07:54:29+00:00
In DBOS, workflows can be invoked directly as normal function calls or enqueued. Direct calls don't require any polling. For queued workflows, each process runs a lightweight polling thread that checks for new work using `SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` with exponential backoffs to prevent contentions, so many concurrent workers can poll efficiently. We recently wrote a blog post on durable workflows, queues, and optimizations: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/why-postgres-durable-execution

Throughput mainly comes down to database writes: executing a workflow = 2 writes (input + output), each step = 1 write. A single Postgres instance can typically handle thousands of writes per second, and a larger one can handle tens of thousands (or even more, depending on your workload size). If you need more capacity, you can shard your app across multiple Postgres servers.
by nickpp | 2025-10-03 07:55:14+00:00
> We don't need an economic angle [...] We aren't just cogwheels in an economic system

This kind of thinking is exactly how people go bankrupt. "But I deserve those shoes" "I need a Starbucks to get the day started" "This McMansion would make me happy" "I'd rather commute in a BMW than a Toyota"
by lloeki | 2025-10-03 07:55:32+00:00
> you can only delete the human input once

git branch "backup/$(git branch --show-current)/$(date +%s)" # do whatever you fancy git reset --hard "backup/$(git branch --show-current)/${thattimestampabove}"

You can't lose anything as long as you have a pointer to it (which doubles as making it easy to find)
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-03 07:55:52+00:00
The bouncer saying I need to see your ID always rubbed me up the wrong way, not because I objected to being challenged but because they don’t need to know who I am, they just need to see proof of age. Not even that! Proof that my age is greater than or equal to X!

In a world where we would might actually see societal benefits in having people prove things about themselves*, could we not leverage technology to emit verifiable tokens that say “I have the right to work” and “my eyeballs have this shape and are this far apart”** without the world turning into 1984?

(I suppose with enough people there could still be a black market for token generators where you could feasibly buy one that matched a subset of your biometrics.)

* Illegals have the potential to be exploited just as much they themselves can be exploitative. It goes both ways.

** Is it possible to have biometrics that can be verified against my physical presence, but which can’t be used to identify me in a crowd?
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 07:57:13+00:00
By those HN guidelines, your shallow dismissal of my clear criticism is what is against the HN rules that you quote. So is your twisting of my words to a conclusion that I did not state.

Furthermore, if you're dragging out the HN guidlines, it clearly states that comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Your comment was neither thoughtful nor substantive. Further furthermore, that document states that Hacker News should not be used for political or ideological battle - yet that is all that we see in these Israel posts that happen here every few days. The top of that document states that most stories about politics are Off-Topic. Yet HN happily drags many non-tech discussions about Israel on for over a thousand comments, whereas discussions about similar situations are completely absent from HN.
by essi_ | 2025-10-03 07:57:32+00:00
As a privileged European, I am not primed to fully engage with this point of view. The "pro digital id" arguments of freedom appeal to me, for instance it means it's easier for me to have secure, reliable access to my medical data.

That being said, I do appreciate that it must look very different when you don't get access to it, especially when so much of travel and government assistance relies on it. Our digital Id solutions definitely still have accessibility issue for instance. And I do believe that in some societies, it can be (and maybe is) used as a "boot to the neck".

I would say the main goal should be to make it easier for anyone to obtain and use the benefits of these tools, but that it relies on a society where the government protects personal freedom of movement as necessary.
by jasode | 2025-10-03 07:57:42+00:00
>RSS is just a protocol. You could make a reader now with any algorithm you want that displays feeds.

Your proposal to filter on the client side where the RSS reader runs can't do what the gp wants: algorithmic suggestions on the _server_ side.

The issue of an AI algorithm applied to client-side-RSS is it's limited to the closed set items of the particular feed(s) that RSS happened to download of whatever websites the user pre-defined in the white-list.

Example of inherent client-side limitation would be how Youtube works:

- a particular Youtube channel about power tools : can use RSS to get a feed of that channel. Then use further customized client filtering (local AI LLM) to ignore any videos that talk about politics instead of tools.

- the Youtube algorithm of suggested and related videos to discover unknown channels or topics : RSS can't subscribe to this so there's no ability to filter on the client side. Either Youtube itself would have to offer a "Suggested Videos as RSS feed" -- which it doesn't -- or -- a 3rd party SaaS website has to constantly scrape millions of Youtube videos and then offer it as a RSS feed. That's not realistic as Google would ban that 3rd-party scraper but let's pretend it was allowed... getting millions of XML records to filter it client-side to throw away 99% of it is not ideal. So you're still back to filtering it on the server side to make the RSS feed managable.

In the "explore-vs-exploit" framework, the "explore" phase is more efficiently accomplished with server-side algorithms. The "exploit" phase is where RSS can be used.

- "explore" : use https://youtube.com and its server-side algorithms to navigate billions of videos to find new topics and content creators. Then add interesting channel to RSS whitelist.

- "exploit" : use RSS to get updates of a particular channel
by nickdothutton | 2025-10-03 07:57:44+00:00
> I'm thinking of something like "algorithm as a service," which would be aligned with your interests and tuned for your personal goals.

I thought about this back in 2017 (within the context of LinkedIn signal to noise) [1]. I hap hoped for a marketplace/app store for algos. For example:

"What if the filter could classify a given post as 30% advertorial 70% editorial, and what if you could set a threshold for seeing posts of up to 25% advertorial but no more?"

and

"What if the filter could identify that you’d already received 25 permutations of essentially the same thing this month, and handle it accordingly."

[1] https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/
by morsch | 2025-10-03 07:59:02+00:00
I'm afraid there's plenty of avenues for them to insert ads that probably won't be perceived as obnoxious by most people (I still find it incredibly obnoxious).

About half of AI queries are "Asking" (as opposed to Doing or Expressing) and those are the ones best suited for ads. User asking how to make pizza? Show ads for baking steels and premium passata. User asking for a three day sightseeing routine in Rome? I'm sure someone will pay you them to show their venue.

It seems unlikely that the ads will be embedded directly into the answer stream, unless they find a way to reliably label such portions as advertisements in a "clear and conspicuous" way, or convince law makers/regulators that chat bots don't need to be held to the same standards as other media.
WASM DB for fast in-browser calcs
by vinserello | 2025-10-03 07:59:46+00:00
We tried to push a large dataset through our browser-based tool and the old JS engine just died. Swapping in DuckDB compiled to WebAssembly turned out to be the fix.

Now the whole analytical DB runs client-side. Parsing, filtering, and aggregation happen in the browser, so no network latency or server round-trips. Performance is surprisingly solid: multi-hundred MB CSVs load in a couple seconds and queries scale up without the UI locking.

Feels like a big unlock for building heavier analytics directly on the client. If you want to join us, we are Datastripes
by ben_w | 2025-10-03 07:59:56+00:00
All options are too far away to predict which will come first, or with what side effects.

(In practice, almost everything over 5 years away, even when already in early human trials, has this property; the only reason the Covid vaccines happened faster is that everyone was willing to throw unlimited resources at the problem and do simultaneous tests on all candidates, and in a pipeline, rather than cost-efficiently and slowly like everything else has been).

In-vitro tissue culture is already a thing (including brain organoids, if you want a brain to control a robot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_organoid), as is 3D bio-printing.

IIRC, there's no current way to scan even a single living synapse/synaptic cleft/dendrite combination to read out the corresponding connection strengths, let alone for the whole brain, so we can't yet scan a brain — but if we could do that, writing it back to a fresh blank one currently seems(!) like the easy part, as neurons change shape and grow in response to electrical gradients.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-03 08:00:04+00:00
Smart aliens misses the fact that AI lives inside boxes we control and manufacture. With a variety of software boxes like VMs inside them. If you tell me the 300IQ AI will escape the box, I’ll tell you i will have used it’s predecessors to design the box in the first place. There are even actual invariants and physical laws that no amount of IQ can overcome.

I’m all for AI Safety, i just don’t think it’s fundamentally very different from the kind of ordinary security mechanisms we already think about - to execute untrusted code in a sandbox, RBAC etc. All the talk of AI Safety seems to be a sci-fi creative writing exercise rather than having a solid grounding in nuts and bolts details.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-03 08:00:14+00:00
Entirely depends how on we leave. We could convert the debt when we exit. That's unlikely to please our debtors hence the gamble but "c'est la vie".

Anyway, independently of the debt, the euro is a huge weight to drag for the French economy, technically for pretty much all the economies of the eurozone part for Germany.