MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maratc | 2025-10-14 15:04:13+00:00
“My opinions are not opinions — these are facts, and those who disagree are either stupid, or evil, or both. In your case, I’m going to, in good faith, assume ignorance.”

I actually read a lot of history books, but I’m not limiting myself to WW2 material. I can see how someone who only reads about that could assume that WW2 is the only thing that happened — but also the only thing that is happening, and the only thing that could ever happen. For these, it’s always 1939 somewhere, and the only question that remains is where.
by mustaphah | 2025-10-14 15:04:19+00:00
I've been approached three times over the past three months.

I got pretty close with one, but I wasn't a good match for the other two. Compared to direct applications, HN had the best SNR for me.

I'm based in the Middle East, so only companies that hire globally would consider me. If I were based in the US or EU, I would've definitely had more.
by pmarreck | 2025-10-14 15:04:31+00:00
I've had success in the past with getting it to write YueScript/Moonscript (which is not a very large part of its training data) by pointing it to the root URL for the language docs and thus making that part of the context.

If your typed version of Lua has a syntax checker, you could also have it try to use that first on any code it's generated
by Bender | 2025-10-14 15:04:39+00:00
Given Microsoft created this problem by requiring updated hardware for Windows 11 I suspect this may lead to the same issue that happened with Windows XP. There will be a myriad of ISO's floating around the web with Windows 10 and some slip-streamed updates from paid accounts and who knows what else embedded that people will be using both privately and in their companies to keep things running. This may be a boon for malware distributors and state actors.
by dandellion | 2025-10-14 15:05:10+00:00
Same, I've using GNOME for a long time and haven't switched yet out of laziness and being busy with other things, but the next time I have to upgrade my laptop I'm giving KDE a spin, I'm tired of GNOME replacing useful features with... nothing.

They deprecate something and replace it with an app that looks sleek because it has no buttons, and it has no buttons because it has none of the features that I use. And this has happened with the file browser, the image browser, the pdf browser, the text editor... I've lost count. GNOME is seriously worse to use now than it was 15 years ago. At this point I'm not sure what they have left to butcher, but every new version they seem to surprise me with something new they found to mess with.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-14 15:06:31+00:00
That’s math based off of arbitrary initial assumptions. There are numbers that work.

All this math is useless. Use your brain. The entire point I’m communicating is that it’s not a given that it must become less accurate. There are multiple open possibilities here and scenarios that can occur.

Doing random math here as if you’re dropping the mic is just pointless. It doesn’t do anything. It’s like making up a cosmological constant and saying the universe is collapsing look at my math.
by smt88 | 2025-10-14 15:06:35+00:00
Yeah except I do that with Claude Code, and my output is still shit most of the time. It might save me a little time or typing, but it definitely needs hand-editing. The people who say Claude is a junior dev (at best) are right.

That's why I think a lot of people who think it's a miracle probably aren't experienced enough to see the bugs.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-14 15:06:40+00:00
Fade In looks like a great option! I'll check it out.

I find selling commercial software to be really difficult, honestly I'd rather just release my projects for free versus dealing with someone complaining that it doesn't run right, etc.

If you have a mailing list or something I would be glad to sign up! I'll be your first customer.
by czhu12 | 2025-10-14 15:06:44+00:00
Would like to echo the absurdly expensive bit. They charged us over $140k / year to basically stream ~1TB of production data (50m rows) from our Postgres into a redshift database.

They were part of the reason I started https://canine.sh as a way to self host more things. Had we had the confidence to host Airbyte or kafka + debezium as an option, we wouldn't have to deal with the atrocious pricing.

Everytime I bring up self hosting, the response is always a rote response of: "Its way too hard", "What if it goes down?", "Just delegate it to the professionals". To me this just seems incredibly defeatist, and its the same set of rebukes regardless if the cloud version costs $100 or $100,000.

end of rant.
by anon7000 | 2025-10-14 15:07:09+00:00
Why is the raw total number the only or most important thing? BS example numbers, but if we have 50x the debt today, that’s not as scary as it sounds if we also have 50x the population and 50x the economic productivity (50x the tax base to pay off the debt). So it is about ratios. Maybe GDP isn’t the right number, but surely the raw number by itself is not very meaningful. (Maybe debt per capita, or debt per company tax dollar)

Inflation helps you increase GDP and keep the economy running, so it’s not surprising they’re mentioned together.
by runako | 2025-10-14 15:07:23+00:00
There is no SpaceX without the ability to build on the (public) advancements of NASA and the public willingness to pay SpaceX taxpayer dollars for speculative flights.

There is no Ozempic without federal funds for basic research to identify GLP-1. (Nordisk started their research downstream of the US taxpayer's contributions.)

GPT-4, as its builders would certainly admit, is a descendant of early work in the field. This work involves a significant amount of work funded by DoD.

None of this is to detract from these products. But there is no point in pretending that e.g. rocket research is not generally funded by militaries (governments), on which SpaceX built.

In general, if you a citing something with a brand name and a trademark, you are talking about something that is not basic research. Basic research in the US is overwhelmingly government-funded for the simple reason that companies do not invest on the time horizons required and in general cannot take on the amount of risk entailed.
by tdb7893 | 2025-10-14 15:07:52+00:00
I don't really understand how you come to the conclusion that the current system is non-functioning. There are tons of examples of it working (I even have members of my family who took their research to make products) and for the rocket example experts didn't think it was literally impossible, just not cost effective with the current technology (e.g. the space shuttle was reusable but very expensive). I don't think that's some huge failure given SpaceX had a lot of launch failures and went nearly bankrupt before the first launch (and even after that it was a long road to profitability, I thought it took 20 years to get to an operating profit). This is also ignoring how SpaceX is operating within the current system also.

It's not perfect but if you replace the system you're gonna find the same sorts or errors since it's impossible to accurately guess future value of uncertain engineering projects.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-14 15:08:23+00:00
Fair enough but given sparse coverage of the backgrounds of many serial arsonists (the ones that got caught, presumably most of them do not) behind recent California wildfires, people notice that for example, Alexandra Souverneva, was an Environmental Studies major and yoga instructor and speculate on her motive.

Much of that speculation is the direct result of the conspicuously sparse reporting about the backgrounds of these arsonists. There was Maynard, the college professor, there was Eric Michael Smith who may have simply been anti-authoritarian bedwetter type. I mean, it’s a huge list but the coverage, perhaps for noble reasons, focuses almost exclusively on climate change which if you understand the science and notice the vast number of arsonists that do get caught seems almost conspiratorial to those prone to conjecture.
by beeflet | 2025-10-14 15:08:41+00:00
What if everything in the economy could be efficiently produced through one-off manufacturing methods? This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately as i've been working on 3d printing/CNC/aluminum casting.

It avoids the need for any sort of parts shipping, and can be easily retooled to make war machines in a time of emergency (which is one of the motivations to bring back american manufacturing).

The main problem with this is that you still need surface-mount components if you are going to make PCBs, and you still need magnets to make motors, etc.
by notatallshaw | 2025-10-14 15:08:44+00:00
The standard library does not directly include type hints, they are stored in typeshed: https://github.com/python/typeshed

You can take a look yourself if you think some of them are wrong: https://github.com/python/typeshed/tree/main/stdlib/asyncio

The advantage is type hints can be fixed without needing to release a new version of Python. The disadvantage is there's a lot of code in the standard library that doesn't really consider how to represent it with type hints, and it can be really tricky and not always possible.

I'm surprised to see so many people moving to pyrefly, ty, and zuban so quickly. I was going to wait until some time in 2026 to see which has matured to the point I find useful, I guess some users really find existing solutions actually unworkable.
Show HN: Rover a Manager for Coding Agents
by ridruejo | 2025-10-14 15:08:57+00:00
We recently open-sourced Rover, a manager for AI coding agents. It is a tool we developed internally to help us work better with coding agents like Claude and Gemini.

If you take a look at some of HN stories or tweets, it seems many developers are getting amazing results from coding agents while the rest of people are completely disappointed to the point of being a net negative.

Think of Rover as the bundling of best practices and technical functionality (i.e. git worktrees) to have an easy way to interact better with coding agents. You can run multiple agents in the background and even combine them to complete a task.

In practice, what this means is that:

You can assign tasks to multiple agents and they can work independently and in parallel. The agents don’t interfere with each other or your system. They run inside containers and use git worktrees. Everything is transparent and runs locally. It installs as an npm package in the command line or as an extension to VSCode. You do not need to change anything in the way you work. We now support Claude, Codex, Gemini and Qwen.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

https://github.com/endorhq/rover
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-14 15:09:24+00:00
Generally, IPv6 does autoconfiguration (never seen a home router with DHCPv6), so no need to ask for anything. Even for ipv4, I've never seen a home router enforce DHCP (even though it would force the public ip).

But the point stands, you can't selectively punish a single device, you have to cut off the whole block, which may include well-behaved devices.
by zahlman | 2025-10-14 15:09:41+00:00
How did we go from "in broad daylight" being used for emotional appeal, to using "in the middle of the night" for emotional appeal? If there is not a better time of day at which to take these actions, then adding these phrases is just highlighting the irrationality of the argument.

I already explained why this is definitionally not "kidnapping" nor a violation of due process. Being lawfully apprehended by federal agents is an arrest, which is completely compatible with due process. Due process rights apply after that point: things like not being held indefinitely, having access to legal representation, etc.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-14 15:09:53+00:00
LLM is valuable as a research tool. For finding information, answering questions, doing comparisons, etc, it's great.

Otoh, an LLM writing code is a dog painting. If you spend enough billions on it, a dog can churn out a Picasso. Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
by fragmede | 2025-10-14 15:10:01+00:00
Ah yes, companies like UCLA + MIT (TCP), USC/ISI (DNS, Email/RFC 822), CERN (HTTP, World Wide Web), UC Berkeley (Unix sockets / BSD networking stack). IETF (BGP,TLS), University of Delaware (NTP), MIT/CSAIL/W3C (HTML, CSS, Ethernet).
OpenAI board member is selling ChatGPT / Claude API to banned country
by justiceforai | 2025-10-14 15:10:04+00:00
OpenAI board member, CEO of Quora (Poe.com), Adam D'Angelo, has been selling export banned API access of ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to banned countries like HongKong.

Poe used to be ranked at #2 at HongKong app store and they recently launched the API service for HongKong users.

It is interesting that OpenAI/Anthropic allows Poe.com reselling banned services to this region.

Poe at Hongkong App Store ranking: https://www.similarweb.com/top-apps/apple/hong-kong/productivity/top-grossing/

Related Reddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/15zp5lr/why_is_chat_gpt_banned_in_hk_but_poe_is_allowed/
by chii | 2025-10-14 15:10:20+00:00
The thing is, those 50 yr old machine tools might be still good, but the more recent CNC machines are much more efficient, and require way less manual dexterity to use (say, compared to a lathe).

This is the whole idea of industrialization - moving away from having skilled artisans, into machines that encode the skill to reproduce the article.

The fact that machines that are 50 yrs old are still in operation is quite a feat but also an indication that the production methods remained static (of course, if the production machines are good enough already, then investment into new machines don't bring in new profits).
by constantcrying | 2025-10-14 15:10:22+00:00
Not that this isn't interesting, but there is far more to a material than it's strength to weight ratio. In this case I would suspect the additional processing is not particularly environmentally friendly and quite energy intensive.

>“People always complain that furniture breaks down over time

This very much applies to plywood. Although I own quite a bit of furniture, actually made of planks of wood, which has lasted for an extremely long time. Even furniture which has belonged to my grandparents and which is still in very usable condition.
by salawat | 2025-10-14 15:10:25+00:00
There is a certain point where the infrastructure of access control eclipses the problem space of the thing to be done. No one wants to have to learn LDAP++applied cryptography to set up their jig to do their thing.

Now, access control may very well be the jig that makes accountancy and modern business tractable, but it is still nevertheless, a massive problem surface orthogonal to most tasks.
by kenhwang | 2025-10-14 15:10:35+00:00
That article is being disingenuous and wrong. It's comparing the lightest possible Civic configuration with the heaviest possible Accord of a different body type.

The 2000 Accord sedan is 2,712lbs, not 2,987lbs (which would be the wagon).

The 2019 Civic sedan is 2,743–2,923lbs depending on equipment/trim.

So yes, the Civic compared to an older car of similar size did get heavier.

The Miata proves that cars don't have to be heavier, but the Miata also took advantage of much more aluminum compared to the older models. Maybe mainstream cars should also switch to use more aluminum to keep weight down, and you're right that the reason they don't is because oil is cheap enough where weight isn't a priority enough to use more expensive aluminum instead of steel.
by stop_nazi | 2025-10-14 15:10:36+00:00
The problem with the horrible injections on the page can be solved very simply. If the information on a page is open, just pass that page openly and pass a checksum of page in the header. To prevent this sum from being tampered with, the server will encrypt it. Not the whole page, just the sum. You will save a lot of CPU time on server and on client, reduce CO₂ and so on
by MBCook | 2025-10-14 15:11:00+00:00
iOS is based on MacOS is based on NeXT is a Unix.

It’s been designed with lower user trust since day one, unlike other OSes of the era (consumer Windows, Mac’s classic OS).

Just how much you can trust the user has changed overtime. And of course the device has picked up a lot of a lot of of capabilities and new threats such as always on networking in various forms and the fun of a post Spectre world.
by exmadscientist | 2025-10-14 15:11:02+00:00
I guess that's where our experience differs. I am 100% on board with you for chasing as many incidents to true root cause as possible and I agree that doing so can be extremely helpful in ways that might not be easy to foresee.

But my experience is also that you cannot ignore anything. Even the little stuff. The number of difficult system-level bugs I have resolved by remembering "you know, two weeks ago, it briefly did this weird thing that really shouldn't have been possible, but this might be related to that if only..." is crazy. It's been a superpower for me through the years.

However, I mostly work on hardware. Hardware's complexity envelope is straight-up different to software's. So that might explain some of our different perspective. Hardware absolutely never randomly misbehaves (which is to say that all its bad behavior has some kind of cause one might reasonably be able to ascertain, and that cause isn't from a level unreachable for a hardware engineer), but software carries enough state, and state from other levels of the stack, that I would not make the same statement. Thus the fault-chasing priorities aren't quite the same.
by kbolino | 2025-10-14 15:11:09+00:00
> but websites over HTTP still work fine

The best attack surfaces always do. If I'm a smart attacker, why would I impair your experience (at least, until I get what I want)? It's better to give you a false sense of security. There are, of course, dumber attacks that will show obvious signs. While many people do fall prey to such attacks from lapses in, or impairment to, their judgment, the smarter attacks hide themselves better.

The classical model of web security based around "important" sites and "sensitive" actions has been insufficient for decades. It was certainly wrong by the time the first coffee shop/airport/hotel wifi was created; by the time the first colocation provider/public cloud was created; by the time every visitor/student/employee of any library/university/company was given open Internet access; etc.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-10-14 15:11:21+00:00
>You just go along with what the majority of society considers to be moral?

As pertains to the law. Yes!

>did you believe the opposite?

Did I behave the opposite would be the question. You're talking about duty which implies action. No. I did not break any laws.

>You mean like Jesus of Nazareth or Buddha?

There is no evidence of any Jesus, but that's another discussion. The Buddha is a fantastic example of a man who advised the acceptance of all beliefs in society, showing humility and exemplifying how his beliefs were not the end all doctrine for morality. An opposition to invasion isn't relevant here because invasion isn't an attempt at a societal agreement on morality.

>The belief that morality isn't defined by the majority is an extremely common viewpoint.

No it isn't. All religions attempt to align society on a singular "higher" shared morality provided by the church, which throughout history represented their state and their justice system too.

>police force is so corrupt and violent that they'd think nothing of gunning down unarmed protestors in cold blood.

I didn't say corrupt. But violent, yes. Unarmed protesters aren't breaking any laws.

But if they fail to move when instructed, breaking the law, then that definition no longer applies and they are indeed physically relocated by increasingly violent means.

>Why do you think that following the law would stop this?

The law is the closest thing to a moral agreement of the majority. You're acting against that agreement when you break the law. Any amount of force used by police to protect that moral agreement becomes easy to justify in court. How many cops are sitting in jail? It's not a big number. That should tell you all you need to know. You're giving the opponent a justification for violence if they want it. And as I said before, they are selected from a pool of people who want it. That's a job requirement.

No individual agrees with all laws. But society must agree with that near moral agreement known as the law. It's the best we have.

When people don't have that near moral agreement, the fabric of society is degraded into anarchy, which empowers the most violent. And that's so much worse, isn't it?
by kouteiheika | 2025-10-14 15:12:17+00:00
The most exciting thing about Muon for me is that it requires half the state of Adam while having either equivalent or better performance. That's amazing if you are VRAM limited! And just like Adam, you can also quantize it. I can get it to work relatively well as low as 4-bit, which essentially cuts down the memory requirements from full 32-bit Adam by a factor of 16x! (And by a factor of 4x vs 8-bit Adam).
by medicalthrow | 2025-10-14 15:12:21+00:00
Hi HN, submitting from a burner since I'm an applicant this current medical residency admissions cycle. I thought it was interesting to show the real world implications of using LLMs to extract information from PDFs. For context, thalamus is a company that handles the "backend" for residency programs and all the applications they receive (including handling who to invite for interviews, etc). One of the more important factors in deciding applicant competitiveness is their medical school performance (their grades), but that information is buried in PDFs sent by schools (often not standardized). So this year, they decided to pilot a tool that would extract that info (using "GPT-5o-mini": https://www.thalamusgme.com/blogs/methodology-for-creation-a...). Some programs have noticed there is a discrepancy between extracted vs reported grades (often in the direction of hallucinating "fails") and brought it to the attention of thalamus. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the main company is discontinuing usage of the tool.

Regardless, given that there have been a number of posts looking into usage of LLMs for numerical extraction, I thought this story useful would be a cautionary tale.

EDIT: I put "GPT-5o-mini" in quotes since that was in their methodology...yes, I know the model doesn't exist
by wiether | 2025-10-14 15:12:38+00:00
Also the variation is the focus of each person.

Based on my own personal experience:

- on some topics, I get the x100 productivity that is pushed by some devs; for instance this Saturday I was able to make two features that I was reschudeling for years because, for lack of knowledge, it would have taken me many days to make them, but a few back and forth with an LLM and everything was working as expected; amazing!

- on other topics, no matter how I expose the issue to an LLM, at best it tells me that it's not solvable, at worst they try to push an answer that doesn't make any sense and push an even worst one when I point it out...

And when people ask me what I think about LLM, I say : "that's nice and quite impressive, but still it can't be blindly trusted and needs a lot of overhead, so I suggest caution".

I guess it's the classic half empty or half full glass.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-14 15:12:43+00:00
The requirement for murder is typically: 1) You intended serious harm to a person 2) The person died. So yeah, "I wanted to start a big fire" != "Intent of serious harm". Negligent sure, but that's not enough for Murder.

However many US states have a "felony murder rule" which as I understand it says if you did something that resulted in death, and it was in the course of a felony then it can be tried as murder. Most of them rule out some felonies (felony assault + death => murder is a stupid way to apply such a rule and so is usually ruled out) and some only rule in a handful like rape and prison escapes, but felony arson + death => murder might play.