MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluecalm | 2025-10-09 12:07:26+00:00
>>There are a bunch of charts out there that tell you what hands to go all in with if you have 15bbs or fewer. None of those charts take into account ICM. Also how do you adjust the charts if your opponents are calling with too many hands? How do you adjust them if they call with too few hands?

There are multiple tools on the market that solve preflop all-in game for multiway pots with ICM and more advanced chip utility models. Those are very easy to solve you don't even need a chart (on the fly solving is fast enough on a laptop). You can also solve them with adjustments for certain players.
by estearum | 2025-10-09 12:08:46+00:00
> understanding the underlying biology becomes more useful to address novel variants popping up in the wild (apart from other potential uses).

This is effectively not true in light of the mRNA platform, which negates the rest of your argument as well, because the existence of the mRNA platform is not contingent upon the origin.

Dangerous GoF was made excessively dangerous by the invention of the mRNA platform regardless of whether COVID itself even happened, never mind the specific origin of it.

Doing GoF research in major metropolitan areas is very obviously unacceptable and should have been considered such prior to COVID, and should be widely considered such after COVID. Again regardless of whether COVID itself came from WIV.

We already know everything we need to know about zoonotic possibilities which is that nature can produce pathogens orders of magnitude worse than COVID on any dimension.

If after learning that COVID was zoonotic, your conclusion is "guess it's okay to keep WIV and WIV-like labs in major cities doing the type of research they were doing," then you are simply insane.
by tuesdaynight | 2025-10-09 12:08:55+00:00
Honestly, HN crowd is very diverse. I would say that it's a normal distribution here. There are some fascists/neonazi, some communists/anarchists and a lot of liberals/conservatives. I know that here is not the place for these kind of conversations, but it's funny how it's way better for that than other social media platforms. It's not perfect, of course, but perfect is not possible in real life.
by alickz | 2025-10-09 12:09:07+00:00
>LLM generated code is noisy as hell, for no good reason

You can direct it to generate code/docs in whatever format or structure you want, prioritising the good practices and avoiding bad practices, and then manually edit as needed

For example with documentation I direct it to:

*Goal:* Any code you generate must lower cognitive load and be backed by accurate, minimal, and maintainable documentation

1. *Different docs answer different questions* — don’t duplicate; *link* instead.

2. *Explain _why_, not just what.* Comments carry rationale, invariants, and tradeoffs.

3. *Accurate or absent.* If you can’t keep a doc truthful, remove it and add a TODO + owner.

4. *Progressive disclosure.* One‑screen summaries first; details behind links/sections.

5. *Examples beat prose.* Provide minimal, runnable examples close to the API.

6. *Consistency > cleverness.* Uniform structure, tone, and placement.

I also give it a note to refuse the prompt if it cannot satisfy these conditions

>I don’t know why we pretend that “good code”, “good documentation”, “good tests” etc are the same for everybody

Of course code, docs, tests are all subjective and maybe even closer to an art than a science

But there's also objectively good habits, and objectively bad habits, and you can steer an LLM pretty well
by numlock86 | 2025-10-09 12:09:42+00:00
I clicked on the link and was greeted by AI slop instantly. I checked the comments, saw this, am writing this and will probably not look at it ever again. Guess I am just not the target audience. I wish them that their AI slop strategy works out just for the sake of good vibes, though. If everyone does it it can't be bad, right? I'm the issue here, clearly.
Show HN: Plural – Bringing AI to DevOps the way Cursor did for coding
by sweaver | 2025-10-09 12:09:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Sam, co-founder of Plural (https://plural.sh/). Today we’re launching the next generation of our platform—an AI-powered experience for DevOps.

Our view is simple: what Cursor has done for software development, Plural is doing for DevOps.

DevOps teams are overwhelmed by:

- Kubernetes upgrades that break downstream workloads - Endless YAML diffs and drift - Reactive firefighting when incidents hit

Plural’s new release integrates AI directly into GitOps workflows, so platform teams can move faster and more safely:

- Autonomous upgrade assistant → orchestrates complex Kubernetes upgrades with guardrails

- AI-powered troubleshooting and Fix → leverage the resource graph from our GitOps engine to provide deep RAG into devops data, generating well-informed root cause analysis, and fixes PRs for a broad set of kubernetes and IaC issues

- Query Your Infrastructure with Natural Language - we will vectorize and index your devops information as they’re instantiated, giving a clean semantic understand of your entire estate which is useful for ad-hoc search and discovery and agentic workflows

- DevOps agents tuned to terraform and kubernetes - use all the information above to provide agentic workflows for modifying infrastructure managed via GitOps. Ask Plural to “double the size of my production database” and the combination of our semantic index and ability to do deep RAG against your infra and code will guide the AI to make the necessary change and issue a PR for you to review.

The future of DevOps isn’t more dashboards or more YAML. It’s AI-augmented workflows that multiply team productivity while keeping humans in the loop for control. GitOps is the ideal surface for that since it is fully auditable, easily composable with proven and rapidly improving capabilities around LLM coding, and provides a clean review-approval loop to ensure changes are performed safely.

We’d love feedback from the HN community on:

1. Where you’d want AI to take the toil out of your DevOps workflows

2. What would give you trust in AI systems operating in production

3. The biggest blockers you face managing Kubernetes at scale

Full launch post here with more technical details: https://www.plural.sh/blog/plural-now-with-ai-that-understan...

Excited to share this with you all — happy to dive deep on any part of the system.

— Sam, CEO/co-founder of Plural
by kakacik | 2025-10-09 12:10:19+00:00
It has been discussed ad nauseum. It demolishes learning curve all of us with decade(s) of experience went through, to become seniors we are. Its not a function of age, not a function of time spent staring at some screen or churning our basic crud apps, its function of hard experience, frustration, hard won battles, grokking underlying technologies or algorithms.

Llms provide little of that, they make people lazy, juniors stay juniors forever, even degrading mentally in some aspects. People need struggle to grow, when you have somebody who had his hand held whole life they are useless human disconnected from reality, unable to self-sufficiently achieve anything significant. Too easy life destroys both humans and animals alike (many experiments have been done on that, with damning results).

There is much more like hallucinations, questionable added value of stuff that confidently looks OK but has underlying hard-to-debug bugs but above should be enough for a start.

I suggest actually reading those conversations, not just skimming through them, this has been stated countless times.
by ineedasername | 2025-10-09 12:10:19+00:00
“Web of circular deals”

Welcome to how economies work. You only worry when you can’t see where the ends of the circle meet up. Ponzi schemes are notable specifically due primarily to the fact that they’re so directional and one-way. If you can’t pinpoint the escapement and see how it’s feeding into the winding of some other spring, walk away.
by jononor | 2025-10-09 12:10:20+00:00
I believe Stack Overflow and Quora were screwed because chatbot interfaces became the new entrypoint. _If_ Instagram/TikTok/YouTube manage to stay the place people go habitually, then I think they will benefit, not be harmed. But there are probably many ways to step wrong here. There is a bit of an innovators dilemma for the platforms that currently relies on human produced content. If I were them, I would fund 2-3 new/separate efforts to be able to experiment while not immediately killing the current golden goose.
by credit_guy | 2025-10-09 12:10:50+00:00
OpenAI: We need lots of GPUs, you make GPUs, but your GPUs are not quite equal to Nvidia's GPUs. And we are a growth startup, we don't have a lot of cash, can you give us a hefty discount on those GPUs?

AMD: We need cash too, you know? We'd love to sell you those thousands and thousands of high end GPUs, that would cover some of our R&D, and we could one day match NVidia. But we don't swim in cash either. We can't give you the discount.

OpenAI: What can you give us? You must be able to throw in something there. Otherwise, honestly, we can't make the deal.

AMD: What if we give you some equity? And if our deal goes well, and our GPUs start being viable alternatives to Nvidia's, maybe we'll be able to get close to Nvidia's market cap and even surpass them, just like we did with Intel.

OpenAI: Brilliant. We love it.

AMD: Yes, but that equity will be contingent on how the deal goes.

OpenAI: Sure thing, we'll take that.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 12:11:31+00:00
You have to be very specific in the intervention you’re either looking at in an RCT or modelling in a prospective cohort study. We wouldn’t expect adding NNSs to a diet to improve much (perhaps some benefit from carbonated ones on body mass). We need to investigate/model replacement of SSBs with NNSs.

When we do that we pretty consistently see benefits. Good overview as a response to the WHO position paper here that goes over that evidence base: https://mailchi.mp/b30c80ddf8ba/who-as
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-09 12:11:47+00:00
But what if it is lays potato chips? Potatoes fried in oil and then salted. None of the potato scrap mashing and molding that pringles have.

There is a connection between ultra processing and hyper-palatability, but it is a very lossy one. Doritos are ultra processed but no honest definition of ultra processed foods can include Fritos. Are Doritos substantially worse for you than Fritos?

Is ice cream ultra processed? There are definitely ultra processed ice creams you can buy, with lots of stabilizers or whatever. But you can also make ice cream with just cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla beans. If anything, the homemade stuff that isn't ultra processed is even more hyper-palatable than the "frozen dairy dessert" kind.
by Someone | 2025-10-09 12:12:11+00:00
FTA: “Now the SHD Group's forthcoming estimates raise this number to 21+ billion chips by 2031, eclipsing $2 billion in total revenue by this point“

That’s about $0,10 per CPU, so we’re looking at low-performance units. Also, Intel’s revenues are about $50 billion a year, AMDs about $25 billion. ⇒ I expect they count # of CPUs, not revenue or profit.

Might still mean ARM should be concerned about the bottom of their market, though, even if RISC-V currently only takes market away from other incumbents.
by NumberCruncher | 2025-10-09 12:12:15+00:00
> Often I find myself cursing at the LLM for not understanding what I mean...

Me too. But in all these cases, sooner or later, I realized I made a mistake not giving enough context and not building up the discussion carefully enough. And I was just rushing to the solution. In the agile world, one could say I gave the LLM not a well-defined story, but a one-liner. Who is to blame here?

I still remember training a junior hire who started off with:

“Sorry, I spent five days on this ticket. I thought it would only take two. Also, who’s going to do the QA?”

After 6 months or so, the same person was saying:

“I finished the project in three weeks. I estimated four. QA is done. Ready to go live.”

At that point, he was confident enough to own his work end-to-end, even shipping to production without someone else reviewing it. Interestingly, this colleague left two years ago, and I had to take over his codebase. It’s still running fine today, and I’ve spent maybe a single day maintaining it in the last two years.

Recently, I was talking with my manager about this. We agreed that building confidence and self-checking in a junior dev is very similar to how you need to work with LLMs.

Personally, whenever I generate code with an LLM, I check every line before committing. I still don’t trust it as much as the people I trained.
by pndy | 2025-10-09 12:12:51+00:00
This isn't limited to reddit - normal forums and discord also suffer from mods with overgrown egos who treat maintaining the order as personal fight of good versus evil where they're of course the omnipotent gods of truth you can't argue with.

What is particularly specific to reddit is that subs associated with big media titles, companies etc. originally were ran by normal people, fans so to speak but at some point become marketing tools with entrusted mods whose job is to make sure no criticism of any kind - even the slightest is present. Some communities moved elsewhere, some gave up and some pretend everything is as it used to be.

There are niche places on reddit with little moderation, where actual votes people cast on posts are the moderating tool but even there, some hijackers tend to appear. Their MO is to spew dangerous content, make sub locked and then gracefully arrive as saviors who are from that point in control of what's actually posted.
by sgarland | 2025-10-09 12:13:13+00:00
uv has done for Python what Docker did for containers. Could you accomplish what Docker did with OS primitives like cgroups? Of course. Do most devs know what those are, much less how to use them? Doubtful.

I consider myself to be fairly good with Python, and excellent with *nix. uv is far and away the best tool for managing Python projects, tools, and scripts, bar none. Sorry, Poetry - you had a good run.
by xela79 | 2025-10-09 12:14:02+00:00
> Get some old i7 or Ryzen

power draw. running 24/7 it makes a huge difference in overall power usage, and by switching from a repurposed desktop mobo & cpu, to a dedicated low power saved me thousands in electricity costs every year.

that fact that in EU power isn't cheap... is also a main reason for keeping total power draw as low as possible.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-09 12:14:30+00:00
In the very short term yeah, but in the long term GAAP still sniffs this out. Eventually Company A will need to use some form of mark to market valuation to assign a value to that $1M they invested. If Company B is a dumpster fire then eventually the $1M investment will be worth much less (or zero) and balance is restored to the world.

You see companies hand waving this sort of thing away on earnings calls when they have a really bad quarter but the CEO is blowing smoke at shareholders saying “On non-GAAP this was an amazing corner.” Which is code speak for “that terrible decision I made a few quarters ago is coming home to roost and our lawyers have said I need to reflect that on our books. If you ignore where we screwed up badly, our numbers look good!”
by alickz | 2025-10-09 12:14:34+00:00
I come from a Swift/Kotlin background and I've been learning Rust for fun in my spare time

From what I heard online I was expecting it to be a lot harder to understand!

The moving/borrowing/stack/heap stuff isn't simple by any means, and I'm sure as I go it will get even harder, but it's just not as daunting as I'd expected

It helps that I love compiler errors and Rust is full of them :D Every error the compiler catches is an error my QA/users don't
by floundy | 2025-10-09 12:14:39+00:00
Write often, try to write well, don't sacrifice writing for easier dopamine-rich activities like scrolling the web or watching videos/movies/television. But yes most importantly, just write, as a human. Lord knows the losers using LLMs to flood the internet with derivative textual slop aren't giving a second thought to the quality of the volume of trash they're putting out. That's the bar I keep reminding myself of — is this better than LLM slop? If yes, post, if no, keep it offline. It's surprisingly nearly always the former.
by simianparrot | 2025-10-09 12:15:16+00:00
Except mormons don’t police it; they make it shameful and morally wrong.

Most western societies rely too heavily on laws to govern every aspect of their society when laws and police are there for the extremes; the rest must be managed by shaming and talking to people who break the unwritten moral rules.

The reason for this is that societal morals evolve, change and adapt more organically than any rigid bureaucratic processes can. You don’t want law based dress codes beyond a certain bare minimum (ie. naked), but instead you want people to govern themselves and be encouraged to tell others off for dressing inappropriately around others in the community.

Western liberal societies in particular have slid down into depravity because we’ve made it _immoral_ to be individual moralists. If it’s not against the law, it’s all acceptable. A man that abuses drugs and lives off welfare all his life is as lawful as a man that works hard every day for himself and his family and pays taxes that contribute to supporting the former’s lifestyle. But they are not morally the same, and it’s obvious to most of us. But we risk losing our livelihoods if we say so out loud.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-09 12:16:40+00:00
> The deal automatically turns X$ into ~2X$ in books.

No it doesn't. The revenue it gets back is valued only at a fraction, because it's only worth its profit. Revenue != profit.

And your "the value of which will rapidly grow" is doing all the work here. That's not guaranteed. It might collapse as well.

It's not money printing at all. It's tying up cash long-term in exchange for a much smaller amount of profit short-term. Which is risky but entirely normal.

Nothing "money printing" about it.
by prhn | 2025-10-09 12:17:12+00:00
Let's not conflate the two things that were said.

It is absolutely true that companies were rushing to rewrite their code every few years when the new shiny JS library or framework came out. I was there for it. There was a quick transition from [nothing / mootools?] to jQuery to Backbone to React, with a short Angular detour about 13 years ago. If you had experience with the "new" framework you could pretty much get a front-end gig anywhere with little friction. I rewrote many codebases across multiple companies to Backbone during that time per the request of engineering management.

Now, is React underappreciated? In the past 10 years or so I've started to see a pattern of lack of appreciation for what it brings to the table and the problems it solved. It is used near universally because it was such a drastic improvement over previous options that it was instantly adopted. But as we know, adoption does not mean appreciation.

> React is used near universally, despite there being alternatives that are better in almost every way.

Good example of under-appreciation.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-09 12:17:23+00:00
> Two weeks ago, Nvidia Corp. agreed to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to help the leading AI startup fund a data-center buildout so massive it could power a major city. OpenAI in turn committed to filling those sites with millions of Nvidia chips. The arrangement was promptly criticized for its “circular” nature.

That's not a "circular" deal, that's a... regular deal.

I genuinely don't understand the criticism here. Every business deal is -- I'll do something for you, you do something for me, and we'll both be better off. That's the free market.

Regardless of whether AI is a bubble, this is just business as usual.
by jghn | 2025-10-09 12:17:27+00:00
My friends group has gone down the ZBiotics route. Some of us swear by it, others don't find much help. I've taken it a bit further by adding a handful of other products that purport to have similar benefits via different mechanisms.

My experience as someone deep in their middle age is that it seems to have turned the clock back about 10 years or so in terms of the next day effects.
by amelius | 2025-10-09 12:17:34+00:00
> HFTs killing the spreads is one of the only reasons the markets didn't implode during covid despite the extraordinary fear and volatility that was impacting them.

And why would this not be possible if everybody traded at the same, low, frequency? Alternatively, what is the minimum trading frequency required to save markets from collapsing?

By trying to answer these questions you see how ridiculous the situation with HFT really is.
by jama211 | 2025-10-09 12:19:42+00:00
That the Linux community is elitist and will treat you like the issues you have are always your fault no matter what. If I used a niche distro, people would tell me I should’ve gone with a more mainstream one. You literally can’t win.

Also if the most major distros are still bad also, then why the heck would anyone switch? lol.
by agobineau | 2025-10-09 12:20:04+00:00
most of the sedentary lifestyle of the US is intentionally done, as a silently understood truth, to avoid violent crime without getting caught by title vii lawsuits

the only places that dont need to build suburbs with 10 mile buffer zones from other people are cities like SF and NY that exclude people via rent prices or other place like alaska, obvious reasons

i have had (white) frends visit LA/hollywood and get arrested for walking on sidewalk, taken to local police station and told yes this is for your own safety, you are free to go but do not walk around here
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-09 12:20:20+00:00
I work at Google. We have cafeterias with real food. There are videos on youtube fawning over how cafeteria staff are able to tackle this logistical challenge of serving high quality food to so many people each day. "Wow you have such amazing food there" is a selling point. People take their friends to have a meal at work to show off.

This responsibility is roughly identical to the responsibility that cafeteria staff have. Feeding meals to hundreds of kids is not any different from feeding meals to hundreds of adults. Yet cafeteria staff are, like you say, treated as garbage and uncreative jobs. So of course nobody who is passionate about food production decides to work in a school cafeteria.

Money solves this (plus society giving a shit about the flourishing of children). That's the long and short of the story. Decide that school lunch is not just about meeting minimum nutritional standards and make it about the joy of serving and eating food. Vastly increase pay for cafeteria staff, increase their autonomy to produce meals, and increase their budget for ingredients.

Everything else is putting lipstick on a pig. Further constraints on acceptable ingredients or macro and micro nutritional breakdowns will just force the cost optimization to some other unwanted state.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-09 12:20:34+00:00
>That's not true, the fundraising platforms raising funds for the convoy had to register with FINTRAC and failing that,

A USA entity like givesendgo is not registering with fintrac.

>What's the source that the government used the leak to find the accounts?

Chrystia Freeland and marco mendicino.
by jollyllama | 2025-10-09 12:20:49+00:00
> You’re just not using LLMs enough.

> You can never trust the LLM to generate a url

This is very poorly worded. Using LLMs more wouldn't solve the problem. What you're really saying is that the GP is uninformed about LLMs.

This may seem like pedantry on my part but I'm sick of hearing "you're doing it wrong" when the real answer is "this tool can't do that." The former is categorically different than the latter.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-09 12:21:55+00:00
>> so when the banner to warn me it was an external email

These are so obviously useless. When the majority of your email has a warning banner it stops to be any sort of warning. It's like being at "code orange" for 20 years after 9/11; no-one maintained "heightened security awareness" for decades, it just became something else to filter.