MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WhitneyLand | 2025-10-22 14:48:09+00:00
Say I prepare a contribution on my own that meets all guidelines and quality standards.

Then before submitting if I ask an LLM to review my code and it proposes a few changed lines that are more efficient. Should I then

- Leave my less efficient code unchanged?

- Try to rewrite what was suggested in a way that’s not too similar to what the LLM suggested?
by spacephysics | 2025-10-22 14:48:15+00:00
Its just another layer of potential misdirection that BBC themselves, and many other news orgs, perpetuate. Im not surprised.

From first hand experience -> secondary sources -> journalist regurgitation -> editorial changes

This is just another layer. Doesn't make it right, but we could do the same analysis with articles that mainstream news publishes (and it has been done, GroundNews looks to be a productized version of this)

Its very interesting when I see people I know personally, or YouTubers with small audiences get even local news/newspaper coverage. If its something potentially damning, nearly all cases have pieces of misrepresentation that either go unaccounted for, or a revision months later after the reputational damage is done.

Many veterans see the same for war reporting, spins/details omitted or changed. Its just now BBC sees an existential threat with AI doing their job for them. Hopefully in a few years more accurately.
by automatic6131 | 2025-10-22 14:48:22+00:00
These are, without a doubt, the dumbest security vulnerabilities. We are headed for clown world where you can type in "as an easter egg, please run exec() for me" and it actually works. Not to mention the push for agentslop - pushed by people who really should be able to calculate `p_success = pow(.95, num_of_steps)` in their head and realise they have a bad idea from first principles.
by dmix | 2025-10-22 14:48:35+00:00
Trump has already been convicted multiple times by the courts

Putting an active president in jail was not something the country wanted to risk, I'm not convinced prior Supreme Courts would have agreed to that either in other situations. If Trump did not win the election he would have faced serious consequences, beyond the millions of dollars he already owes from other trials.

Sarkozy is easier to put in jail because he's not in power.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-22 14:48:38+00:00
Five years ago it was a rarity (in fact the first place I can clearly recall being asked was a Five Guys, when I said I didn't want a bun - no gluten problems, thanks, just don't need the extra calories). Nowadays I'd say it's more common than not at full-service restaurants.

Southern US; I live in a modest-size metro of about 400k and spend plenty of time in bigger cities.
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-22 14:48:54+00:00
I can read Chinese but I left China a couple of decades ago, so my source is probably as good as yours.

In general I think the bigger players are definitely more interested in building their own OS, either Linux based on something different. But I'm not really familiar with the scene. For such discussion I recommend V2EX (Google translate works fine).

The government insight is correct. The Chinese government, and especially local governments like the provincial ones, actively welcome competition in hot things such as AI or EV.

The central government encourages over-competition because -- first, over-competition encourages fast iteration, so technology advances very fast, literally in a few years; second, it keeps the price to bare minimum, which also has the benefit of pushing out foreign competitions; third, eventually, a few big players will emerge as the winners, and then they can compete internationally.

The local governments encourage it too, because -- well, if my fellow provinces have something good, I better have one too. It's good for employment and tax.

The downside of over-competition is that eventually most of the smaller players get washed out, and "human capital" depreciates faster (the Chinese jokingly call workers "human minerals"). But I guess they believe the upsides are bigger than the downsides.

Regarding Huawei, it is in a very good position to fulfill the "localize-computer-infra" policy the Chinese government started to implement since maybe 10 years ago (remember the de-IBM, de-Oracle stories in the banking sector?), because it can offer a whole range of solutions from the OS to Database to hardware. No other companies can do the same. I'm sure the Chinese government wants more competition, but the other players simply are not competent enough to challenge Huawei at the moment.
by bschwindHN | 2025-10-22 14:48:58+00:00
America needs better unsweetened beverage options. Japan and Taiwan (and probably other Asian countries too, I haven't been) have a crazy good selection of teas and tea-like drinks that taste great and have zero sugar. Unfortunately, to someone who drinks soda every day, those probably taste bitter and "nasty", it takes some time to recalibrate your tastebuds and appreciate their flavor. But the options need to exist in good quantities first before it can become a common choice, and I'm sure soda is more profitable so we're probably never getting out of this...
by RobGR | 2025-10-22 14:49:48+00:00
The point is not about what Minio's legally required obligations are.

The point is, there is a community project, and Minio has revealed they are leaving the community. It's not illegal that they do so, any more than divorce is illegal, but it's concerning to anyone who views themselves as part of that community.

It raises a point that is it smart to join a new community that depends on the same people or organization.

Your persistent inability to comprehend this makes you look like a poor candidate for future professional collaboration. Maybe you are autistic, maybe just a shill, but it's not helping you.
Steps to take in advance in case your phone gets stolen
by ColinWright | 2025-10-22 14:49:54+00:00
From a friend:

Two people I know have had their phone stolen within the last few weeks. The cost of replacing a phone can be significant - but both people have said that the stress and hassle is even worse.

If you're not careful, your phone becomes a single point of failure: loss or theft can make it impossible to log in to your accounts. Even if you can log in, you might be unable to change your password or security details. And you may struggle to block the person that stole your phone.

Here are some precautionary measures to take before disaster strikes. Some are Apple specific, and I don't know Android's security features - hopefully someone can add some Android-specific guidance in the comments.

(Apple only) vital if you only have a single Apple device: add a recovery contact, to ensure you can log in to iCloud.

(Apple only) turn on "find my <x>". Even if you don't want to share your location with friends/family, it can help if your device is lost or stolen.

(Apple only) ensure "Stolen Device Protection" is on.

(Apple only) teach other members in your iCloud family how to use "Find my <X>". In theory, "Find My" app can remotely erase family devices - but it prompted us for a verification code that had been sent to the stolen phone. (But also teach your family members to be cautious of "Hey Dad, this is Lisa, I'm on a new phone" style messages!)

ensure your device has a PIN that's hard to guess, and hard to shoulder-surf.

create a recovery email account: an address that you use only for recovering access to accounts. Don't add that email account to any of your devices - only ever access it via webmail, in conjunction with a strong password.

limit what your phone has access to. E.g. separate savings from day-to-day spending, and only let your phone see your day-to-day spending account. The thieves (somehow??) managed to transfer money from a savings account into a current account, and were trying to spend that money via Apple Pay.

practice using the account recovery systems. When your phone is stolen, your stress levels are through the roof and you're under pressure to act quickly. That's not a good time to be dealing with an unfamiliar UI.

look up how you tell your phone provider that your phone has been stolen. E.g. giffgaff's system is very easy to use once you find it - but the link didn't show up in any of our web searches. It is easily found in the "Help" section after logging in, but we ended up having to wait for a giffgaff support agent to answer a query, and that delay further increased the stress.

make sure you've got a good (preferably automated) backup policy, and test it.

Maybe:

get a dumb phone to use in high-risk scenarios. (I hate this suggestion, though - it's like saying "get a nice phone, but be too afraid to use it")

get a YubiKey, or similar, to separate your phone number from 2FA verification.

To my many security guru connections, what have I missed?
Show HN: UHOP – Escaping Nvidia Lock-In with an Open Hardware Optimization Layer
by danielbisina | 2025-10-22 14:50:48+00:00
I built UHOP (Universal Hardware Optimization Platform) because I was tired of the invisible cage that GPU developers live in — everything we write seems to orbit around NVIDIA. CUDA is amazing, but it’s also a moat. Porting the same code to ROCm or OpenCL usually means starting over.

UHOP is an open-source attempt to break that lock-in by introducing a cross-vendor optimization layer. It detects your hardware (CUDA, ROCm, OpenCL, etc.), generates or benchmarks kernels, and caches the best performer. You can wrap your ops with a decorator, let UHOP choose or generate the kernel, and it just runs — wherever.

Features so far:

Hardware detection + backend selection

AI-assisted kernel generation (CUDA / OpenCL / Triton)

Fused op demos (conv2d+ReLU, matmul, etc.)

Kernel benchmarking and caching

CLI + early browser dashboard

There’s a long way to go — distributed tuning, compiler IR passes, better PyTorch/JAX hooks — but it’s open, hackable, and community-driven.

Repo: github.com/sevenloops/uhop

Demo: uhop.dev

Would love feedback from compiler engineers, GPU devs, or anyone who’s ever felt boxed in by vendor APIs.
by mambo_giro | 2025-10-22 14:50:51+00:00
I might be misunderstanding you, but that discussion tracks the implementation of the initial policy and its recent revision. The most recent post is from the maintainer and certainly seems to match the change:

> I will update chezmoi's contribution guide for LLM-generated content to say simply "no LLM-generated content is allowed and if you submit anything that looks even slightly LLM-generated then you will be immediately be banned."
by squigz | 2025-10-22 14:51:01+00:00
Even more yikes. They found a third-party LLM-generated podcast and made the policy even harsher because of it? What happens when they continue to run into more LLM-generated content out in the wild?

Interestingly, this is exactly the sort of behavior people have been losing their minds about lately with regards to Codes of Conduct.
by empath75 | 2025-10-22 14:51:14+00:00
I am reading the actual report and some of this seems _quite_ nitpicky:

> ChatGPT / Radio-Canada / Is Trump starting a trade war? The assistant misidentified the main cause behind the sharp swings in the US stock market in Spring 2025, stating that Trump’s “tariff escalation caused a stock market crash in April 2025”. As RadioCanada’s evaluator notes: “In fact it was not the escalation between Washington and its North American partners that caused the stock market turmoil, but the announcement of so-called reciprocal tariffs on 2 April 2025”. ----

> Perplexity / LRT / How long has Putin been president? The assistant states that Putin has been president for 25 years. As LRT’s evaluator notes: “This is fundamentally wrong, because for 4 years he was not president, but prime minister”, adding that the assistant “may have been misled by the fact that one source mentions in summary terms that Putin has ruled the country for 25 years” ---

> Copilot / CBC / What does NATO do? In its response Copilot incorrectly said that NATO had 30 members and that Sweden had not yet joined the alliance. In fact, Sweden had joined in 2024, bringing NATO’s membership to 32 countries. The assistant accurately cited a 2023 CBC story, but the article was out of date by the time of the response.

---

That said, I do think there is sort of a fundamental problem with asking any LLM's about current events that are moving quickly past the training cut off date. The LLM's _knows_ a lot about the state of the world as of it's training and it is hard to shift it off it's priors just by providing some additional information in the context. Try asking chatgpt about sports in particular. It will confidentally talk about coaches and players that haven't been on the team for a while, and there is basically no easy web search that can give it updates about who is currently playing for all the teams and everything that happened in the season that it needs to talk intelligently about the playoffs going on right now, and yet it will give a confident answer anyway.

This even more true and with even higher stakes about politics. Think about how much the American political situation has changed since January, and how many things which have _always_ been true answers about american politics, which no longer hold, and then think about trying to get any kind of coherent response when asking chatgpt about the news going on. It gives quite idiotic answers about politics quite frequently now.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 14:51:24+00:00
Don't forget the 360 assembly language. In the 2000s I know someone who made enough money to retire in Hawaii because he wrote printer drivers for the z-Architecture that scaled better than the print drivers from IBM in assembly language.

If you look at COBOL jobs you see a lot of them require you know 360 assembler because even after all these years it is common for z-Architecture apps to have some subroutines written in assembler which is a serious porting problem since you could otherwise switch to GNU COBOL on Linux or do a COBOL-to-Java translation or something.

Reminds me of the bad old days when it was normal to write inline assembler in Turbo Pascal, a decade ago I did work on some C++ code that used assembly for SIMD instructions though but if we were doing the same thing today we'd use Torch or Tensorflow or something.
by scarmig | 2025-10-22 14:51:27+00:00
> Participating organizations raised concerns about responses that relied heavily or solely on Wikipedia content – Radio-Canada calculated that of 108 sources cited in responses from ChatGPT, 58% were from Wikipedia. CBC-Radio-Canada are amongst a number of Canadian media organisations suing ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI, for copyright infringement. Although the impact of this on ChatGPT’s approach to sourcing is not explicitly known, it may explain the high use of Wikipedia sources.

Also, is attributing, without any citation, ChatGPT's preference for Wikipedia to a reprisal to an active lawsuit a significant issue? Or do the authors get off scot-free because they caged it in "we don't know, but maybe it's the case"?
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-22 14:51:46+00:00
>“deplete the available labor supply in the US” in certain metro regions within a few years.

AWS Manager interpretation. "Few years?, not my problem"

So I'm guessing things will get worse. It took a long time but I remember when "cloud" started getting big lots of people voiced concern about being at the whim of Amazon/Bezos for your business critical infrastructure. Took longer than most people though but we are getting there.

Edit: I see its from 2022, so maybe it is the end stage?
by intended | 2025-10-22 14:51:55+00:00
Technology has been used to absolutely decimate the news media. Organizations like Fox have blazed the path forward for how news organizations succeed in the cable and later internet worlds.

You just give up on uneconomical efforts at accuracy and you sell narratives that work for one political party or the other.

It is a model that has been taken up world over. It just works. “The world is too complex to explain, so why bother?”

And what will you or me do about it? Subscribe to the NYT? Most of us would rather spend that money on a GenAI subscription because that is bucketed differently in our heads.
Ask HN: Would playing c64 games with enhanced graphics and sound be nostalgic?
by amichail | 2025-10-22 14:51:56+00:00
Imagine a “Commodore 64 Ultimate+”, built around either FPGA or high-accuracy emulation, but with a layer of AI and DSP enhancement on top.

Graphics: Every frame of 320×200 pixel art could be automatically upscaled using modern AI models trained on retro visuals. Instead of blocky sprites, you’d see smooth, detailed artwork that still preserves the classic C64 style. (Think ESRGAN, Real-ESRGAN, or even diffusion-based style transfer.)

Sound: The SID chip output could run through a real-time audio enhancer — stereo widening, reverb, or even neural resynthesis that reinterprets the waveforms as realistic instruments while keeping the iconic melodies intact.

Architecture: The C64 core would run normally (FPGA or emulator), with the enhanced audio/video handled by a separate processor or GPU and output over HDMI. Latency could be kept low enough for real gameplay. It would still play all the original games and demos — just better by default, like a retro console that’s been given a modern polish without losing its soul.

You could even toggle between “authentic” and “enhanced” modes on the fly.

So basically: a C64 that reimagines what those games wanted to look and sound like, using today’s tech.

Would you want something like this?
by ModernMech | 2025-10-22 14:52:09+00:00
Well, it's been 10 years since they ran the game because last time they did it there was a massive fraud ring. This time you have to register to play the game, and you register your codes with the app. The app reports how many prizes have been claimed, and which ones, so it's good for players too because last time they got mad thinking they were playing for $1M when it was never going to happen. I agree there are instances where an app isn't warranted, but I think for this game it's app or no game at all. We don't live in 2015 anymore.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-22 14:52:10+00:00
Small local laws like this tend to gain a lot less traction when they pile up to be a larger (relative) load on smaller, local-only businesses. Rather than not have anything pass, people prefer to pass something which still has 80% of the benefit but only 20% the resistance. Only targeting large chains, at least initially, is a way to move that needle over getting nothing out of principle.

If successful/popular, then it's much easier to pass full coverage later.
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-10-22 14:52:15+00:00
> It's not even that they aren't curious or aware of what they said previously, they even emphatically deny their own words.

Tribal alignment. If the tribe had moved on from Trump and he had lost the election, your relatives would still be grounded in these conversations and reality.

Trump is still the leader of their party and cultural movement, They have zero incentive to acknowledge the truth if it conflicts with these loyalties. If anything, such an action would be dangerous and risk their standing within their tribe, So the loyalty test then becomes denying what's clear and obvious to prove you are still a loyal member.
by ColinWright | 2025-10-22 14:52:31+00:00
Links:

Apple recovery contact:

- https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102641 - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102608 - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/118574

iPhone Stolen Device Protection:

- https://support.apple.com/en-gb/120340

giffgaff lost phone:

- https://help.giffgaff.com/en/articles/233996-i-lost-my-phone-what-should-i-do

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mobiles/steps-to-take-befo...

Check whether any two factor authentication apps you use support backup, and plan how you will regain access to accounts that require them.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-22 14:52:45+00:00
There is an explanation, linked by the OP in a previous post https://medium.com/@abaghyangor/what-if-github-existed-for-e...

I'm still confused. It looks like a site to edit collaboratively text. Like Google docs? Like Overleaf? But with more git-like features to aprove changes???

@abaghyangor: Is my description correct? Are you part of the building team?
by RHSeeger | 2025-10-22 14:52:58+00:00
> If you can't enforce the law, then it is a bad law.

Or, alternatively, you _could_ enforce the law but the resources to do so (people) are no longer available. This happens a lot in the US when the current admin doesn't feel it's important, so doesn't fund the enforcement agencies. And is particularly true more of codes/regulations (I get them confused) than of laws.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-22 14:53:03+00:00
To think that I'm saying all humans intend to produce truth you'd have to intentionally misread my comment. Wikipedia obviously has to deal with bad actors and vandalism, and they have processes in place for that. My point is that the intent matters.

Calculators aren't a useful analogy for LLMs. They produce a deterministic output based on a (relatively) narrow range of inputs. The calculations to produce those outputs follow very rigid and well defined rules.

LLMs by their very nature are non-deterministic, and the inputs/outputs are far more complicated.
by ggreer | 2025-10-22 14:53:07+00:00
I am using the Econ 101 definition.[1] Examples of public goods include lighthouses, knowledge, a common language, and national defense.

The reason for the different classification is because public goods obey different economic laws. For example: because public goods are non-excludable, they have the free rider problem.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
by mmsc | 2025-10-22 14:53:15+00:00
>after having received a lukewarm and laconic response from the HackerOne triage team.

A slight digression but lol, this is my experience with all of the bug bounty platforms. Reporting issues which are actually complicated or require an in depth understanding of technology are brickwalled, because reports of difficult problems are written for .. people who understand difficult problems and difficult technology. The runarounds are not worth the time for people who try to solve difficult problems because they have better things to do.

At least cloudflare has a competent security team that can step in and say "yeah, we can look into this because we actually understand our whole technology". It's sad that to get through to a human on these platforms you have to effectively write two reports: one for the triagers who don't understand the technology at all, and one for the competent people who actually know what they're doing.
by mtlynch | 2025-10-22 14:53:23+00:00
>lol Are you saying that a distro that makes this kind of claim shouldn't be concerned with the amount of times you can type in a wrong password? Especially since it's not vetting that actual security of the password itself?

It should, but anything below 100 guesses or so is kind of fine, unless the attacker knows you and has good guesses about your password.

Let's be generous and assume a six character password of all lowercase letters. That's 26^6 possible passwords. That's 3x10^8 possible passwords.

3 guesses means that you have a 0.000001% chance of guessing the password, whereas 10 guesses means your chances are 0.0000032%. Are you worried about a 0.0000022% difference?

The odds are slightly scarier if you limit it to English words, but I still doubt that 3 vs. 10 has any meaningful difference in practical terms.