MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arainach | 2025-10-31 15:54:32+00:00
People don't want to have to read manuals and become experts on every task. They want tools to get something done so they can focus their limited time and attention on things they care more about.

I'm the kind of person who wants to understand how everything I touch works (and the kind of person that does a lot of video recompression and cares about quality and filesize tradeoff) and even I hate Handbrake's UI. Every time I set up a new machine I spend an hour or two looking for an internet guide to what settings mean what to configure a preset, and then I use that preset basically exclusively. I'd much rather have a couple of drop targets, one of which is "Bluray 1080p quality".
Show HN: Qordinate – AI that talks for you (coordination-first, early build)
by SinghCoder | 2025-10-31 15:54:48+00:00
Hey HN - founder here. I'm building Qordinate with a simple (big) idea: Most AI assistants talk to you. I want one that talks for you - one that can share, negotiate, and coordinate on my behalf with others.

Reality: we're early. Today, Qordinate can: - send clean pings on your behalf (with your approval) - collect info/files via tiny forms and track replies - nudge people politely and close the loop with you - do basic actions via connectors (Gmail/Calendar/GitHub/Linear/Drive/Slack) - keep lightweight lists in chat (tasks, contacts, logs)

Why I'm doing this The real pain isn't knowing what to do, it's getting others to do their part. Coordination is the tax. I want to cut that.

Where I'm unsure - how far "talks for you" should go before it's annoying or risky - what approval flow feels safe but not heavy - which coordination templates (collect docs, pick a time, chase invoices, etc) you'd actually use

Roadmap - better multi-party scheduling

If you're curious: - https://qordinate.ai/

I know less than many of you here. Happy to be told what's dumb, missing, or risky.
by abustamam | 2025-10-31 15:54:58+00:00
I grew up with windows. Used it until after college when I was gifted a MacBook pro for dev work. I used parallels to keep a windows box close by (I think I only ever used up to Vista), but then eventually I just went full Mac and got used to the interface and key bindings. It's a fine interface, not amazing, not terrible, but I can get around. And every job I've had basically required a Mac anyway.

Years later, I built a gaming machine so obviously I needed Windows. Got Win10 and eventually upgraded to 11 and it's just so jarring how unusable it is.

In older windows I could click on my computer to see all my drives and files. Now I have no idea where it is so I just click on the little folder icon at the bottom which opens I think my home directory, then I have to click on somewhere else to see my C and D drives. I can probably make a desktop shortcut or something but point being is that it's un intuitive. And powershell is not a great terminal, and I haven't found one for windows.

SO, after learning that gaming works well on Linux, I recently switched to Ubuntu, and I haven't looked back. Gaming, AI workflows, everything I need works just perfectly, and if it doesn't I can easily customize things to work the way I want it to. I'm not treated as a criminal for installing software on my computer. It's awesome.
by treeform | 2025-10-31 15:55:38+00:00
Thank you for working on the Nim Compiler. This is great. Another great release. The Nim Compiler continues to move forward.

Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed to the development of this superior language. Nim Compiler continues to be one of the most wonderful languages I have worked with. With the speed of C and the simplicity of Python, it has allowed me to write a lot of cool software.

I do not know where I would be if Nim did not exist in my life.
by j16sdiz | 2025-10-31 15:56:43+00:00
> authoritarian countries that issue modern e-passports but do not allow free elections

You are trying to solve a political problem with a technological solution.

1. Many authoritarian countries don't allow freedom of travel (i.e. it is not easy to get a passport)

2. If they don't care free election, what's stopping them issuing more passport just for voting?

3. What's stopping them confiscating or revoking your passport?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-31 15:56:43+00:00
> Godwin - This is such a lazy argument (especially for someone harping on "critical thinking skills.")

It was a criticism of your character, not a argument in a debate, so Godwin's law doesn't apply here.

> $1 is too much.

$1 is too much because they're migrants, so spend $50B? but billions by natural born citizens isn't too much, so who cares about crime? The mental gymnastics! lol

> Comparing rounding up illegal economic migrants who are actively breaking long-standing (enacted decades before they were born) federal law for the purpose of economic gain to law-abiding Jews being taken from their homes during an act of genocide is unconscionable.

Not a good argument. there are no arrest warrants, trials, due process,etc.. afforded to these supposedly illegal migrants. plenty of cases where US citizens are being rounded up, beaten and disappeared as well.

There is a case in "aligator alcatraz" where 1200 people are missing without a trace for example. these are concentration camps.

I'm not disagreeing with deporting illegal migrants, so don't waste your breath on that. Justify to me why $50B is worth the investment. why is $1 too much when it is an illegal immigrant, but if your own child/family/friend was raped by crackhead it isn't worth $50B, because they were born in the US?

If you care about the law so much, why not spend that money in opening lots of immigration courts and training ICE to follow the law and do things lawfully instead? You're not for the law, you're for wasting money and racially profiling americans. In your view, american citizens being detained because of their phsyical appearance is ok. Children being treated in hospitals being deported is ok.

You crave the cruelty. You have abandoned your humanity in pursuit of cruelty towards your fellow man. I'm agreeing with you that deporting illegal migrants is fine, sanctuary cities shouldn't be a thing. lawfully removing illegal migrants is fine, yet your argument is to deprive people of due process (which all humans on US soil are afforded), and beyond that, committing of acts that no law can absolve your conscious of is still the way to go. And not only that, this brutality is worth spending more money on that even a military branch whose entire job is invading other countries. You're fine with masked soldiers kidnapping US citizens. You have betrayed your people.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-31 15:56:48+00:00
My default assumption would be that every model is spying (or rather: is being spied on). The data is just way too juicy, every major intelligence agency has to be salivating at the though of getting this degree of insight into people.

Of course with Kimi there is fear because the Chinese government can easily pressure Moonshot AI into sharing the data, and other countries have to work to stealthily siphon data off without being caught by Chinese counterintelligence. As opposed to GPT5 where the American government can easily pressure OpenAI and every other country has to stealthily siphon data off without being caught by American counterintelligence. The only way to be reasonably certain that you aren't spied on is to run your own models or rent GPU time to run models.

The bigger worry imho is whether the models are booby-trapped to give poisoned answers when they detect certain queries or when they detect that you work for a competitor or enemy of China. But that has to be reasonably stealthy to work
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-31 15:57:00+00:00
The point is that just because the good guys got the bad guys in the end doesn't make it right or that it's good precedent.

I remember during the Fanny-whatever-her-name-was thing that went through the courts prior to Trump's election they pulled up cell location records from 10yr ago as if they were nothing special whatsoever and introduced them as evidince. Sure, all of that was done according to laws and process, but having decades old location records exist at all to be subject to government inquiry is probably something that's bad on its face and we should not be doing even if it lets us nab a few people who did wrong.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-31 15:57:18+00:00
Even if you're using a separate key for voting, the passport key had to sign it. How do you prove legitimacy of the voting key without exposing the passport key? It's not like in blockchain where your anonymity normally comes from people just not knowing which irl person owns a pubkey. (Though I know Monero etc use homomorphic enc for anon payments)

I'm also assuming here that the govt is signing all the passport keys, cause idk how else that would work.
by hackthemack | 2025-10-31 15:57:20+00:00
I guess in javascript world, the phrasing I am looking for would be

I wish all arguments were copies unless I put some symbol that says, alright, go ahead and give me the original to mutate?

It seems like this way, you reduce side effects, and if you want the speed of just using the originals, you could still do that by using special notation.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-10-31 15:57:27+00:00
When I was trying to learn to code as a kid, I struggled for days trying to wrap my head around the concept of a variable.

I the concluded that programming isn't for me and left the bloodshed ide untouched.

Two weeks later, I was watching TV. And out of nowhere it just hit me. I finally understood what variables are! I ran to the computer to test my assumption, and it was spot on.

To this day, 20+ years later, I still remember the feeling of everything suddenly falling into place!
by graypegg | 2025-10-31 15:57:57+00:00
> Or attempt to acquire Canva?

I wonder if the Figma acquisition being canned [0] would also prevent them going after Canva. However, there might be different people in those regulator positions/agencies...

I don't want to will that into existence, so I'll just hold onto hope that fighting for regulator approval would be obscenely expensive for Adobe still. Fingers crossed!

[0] https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/adobe-and-figm...
by layer8 | 2025-10-31 15:58:29+00:00
The accuracy of recollection can certainly vary, but the point is that some information is retained long-term even when it isn’t made use of in the meantime. Of course one could argue that actually it is being made use of unconsciously, but I’m skeptical of that, given the relative irrelevance of the details that can be recollected. It’s also not that difficult to imagine that some memory-representing micro-structures in the brain just happen to be stable over decades even when they remain untapped.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 15:58:38+00:00
They do mention it in the linked announcement, although not really highlighted, just as a quick mention:

> As a result, we’re very excited to share that in Ubuntu 25.10, some packages are available, on an opt-in basis, in their optimized form for the more modern x86-64-v3 architecture level

> Previous benchmarks we have run (where we rebuilt the entire archive for x86-64-v3 57) show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement and some packages, mostly those that are somewhat numerical in nature, improve more than that.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-31 15:58:53+00:00
> I also just tried it and of course it's not notarized, meaning that it's almost impossible for anyone to install on macOS, unless they know of the secret button in System Settings.

I don't understand why you're blaming the Darktable team for that when it's Apple that makes it nearly impossible for anyone to install a program written by someone who doesn't pay them $100/year.
by edolstra | 2025-10-31 15:59:05+00:00
To be clear, there is no bug here: derivers are simply not uniquely determined in the presence of fixed-output derivations, which is by design. That's even more true with CA derivations.

CA derivations also introduce the opposite situation, namely that the same derivation can produce different output paths for different users (if the build is not bitwise reproducible).
by Hizonner | 2025-10-31 15:59:13+00:00
> I mean it is no secret a lot of people who produce these things have mental health issues

Really? In my experience, people who think they should be in charge of the interests of "civilization", or who are obsessed with other people's vices, have a lot more mental health issues. Mostly weird savior complexes or fucked up (usually guilt driven) purity obsessions.

That's no secret.
by gruez | 2025-10-31 15:59:17+00:00
>The overwhelming majority of actual taxpaying citizens don't pay enough tax to cover their per-capita share of government spending, is there some factual evidence to suggest that unlimited economic migrants would? (or could?)

Exactly. Evidence actually points in the opposite direction:

https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-e...

https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20250315_FNC...
by mobilio | 2025-10-31 15:59:21+00:00
Announce was here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-vari...

and key point: "Previous benchmarks we have run (where we rebuilt the entire archive for x86-64-v3 57) show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement and some packages, mostly those that are somewhat numerical in nature, improve more than that."
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-31 15:59:25+00:00
Under Capitalism, people must sell the labor if they don't have other means.

AGI removes not only the need for the labor, but Capitalism itself. As a societal model Capitalism doesn't support removing labor, it doesn't have a substitution.

If the oligarchs want to push 'AI, AGI, etc' we need to include by extension moving on from Capitalism. You can't take away half of Capitalism's structures and still claim it is a useful/workable model for society.
by Schiendelman | 2025-10-31 16:00:06+00:00
Rivian lost something like $5B in 2024, but they're on track to only lose $2.25B in 2025. That trend line is clear. In 2026 they release a much lower cost model, and a lot of that loss has been development of that model. They probably won't achieve profitability in 2026, but if they get their loss down to $1B in 2026, in 2027 we'll likely see them go net positive.
by tonymet | 2025-10-31 16:00:26+00:00
Washington State “Enhanced ID” (which is also REALID compliant) was one of the first DHS-approved IDs from way back in 2005 . Ari Jeuls et al (see below) found a number of vulns including remote cloning and remote disablement, publishing their findings a few years after the launch.

I talked to WA DOL Privacy Officer about it a couple years ago, and found that the tech platform had remained unchanged. WA maintains the printed material and DHS maintains the RFID package which is over 20 years old now .

Think of other 20 year old tech and how safe you feel having that in your wallet.

https://www.arijuels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/KJKB09.p...

Edit: clarified Enhanced ID because there are differences in the program
by alfonsodev | 2025-10-31 16:00:32+00:00
What I understood from youtube gurus, take it with a grain of salt, is that your brain is taking ketones as source of energy to preserve the little glucose that goes into the system, and as result it consumes less oxygen.

But I'm not sure the mouth taste comes from the brain's waste.

To some degree, if you had your brain inflamed by bad eating habits, fasting would revert that and make the flushing more efficient as well.

Again please take with with double grain of salt, since I don't even know inflame brain is a thing for sure, or the correct term.
by j45 | 2025-10-31 16:00:47+00:00
The M2/3/4 Max CPUs in a Mac Studio or Macbook Pro when paired with enough ram are quite capable.

In more cases than expected, the M1/M2 Ultras are still quite capable, especially performance power per watt of electricity, as well as ability to serve one user.

The Mac Studio has better bang for the buck than the laptop for computational power to price.

Depending on your needs, the M5's might be worth waiting for, but M2 Max onward are quite capable with enough ram. Even the M1 Max continues to be a workhorse.
by slashdev | 2025-10-31 16:00:52+00:00
Nvidia has a trailing PE of 50. Cisco was 200 At the height of the dotcom bubble.

Nowhere near that level. There’s real demand and real revenue this time.

It won’t grow as fast as investors expect, which makes it a bubble if I’m right about that. But not comparable to the dotcom bubble. Not yet anyway.
by Larrikin | 2025-10-31 16:00:54+00:00
Yea all the AI features seem like a huge distraction to Warp. I hope they don't kill the terminal.

Is there a terminal that offers this same experience,? All the comments here seem to be people crapping on it without trying it. it's really great for someone who develops but spends maybe only 5 percent of their time in the terminal for minor tasks
by alphazard | 2025-10-31 16:00:58+00:00
Yes, it is possible to anonymously aggregate votes from a set of public keys, and ensure that no key has voted twice. It's also possible to ensure that one's own vote was included in the total.

The fact that this is even possible is deeply un-intuitive as it requires some of the most sophisticated cryptography. That's probably the greatest barrier to adoption. When people think of electronic voting, they think about trusting a company to make machines that operate on plaintext, and require humans to guard access to the machines. They aren't thinking about systems that are provably correct, where it is more likely for an asteroid to wipe out the country conducting the election than for the election results to be incorrect.

For the details and tradeoffs, I highly recommend Vitalik's blog.
by synapsomorphy | 2025-10-31 16:01:20+00:00
Not sarcasm at all.

There are some "AI thinkers" who are trying to make 8% faster CUDA kernels for attention, and there are some trying to save the world. These fields are called "capabilities" and "alignment". There is some overlap but not much.

LessWrong is mostly the latter, and labs and universities are mostly the former. That said, many LessWrongers work on AI at labs or universities or other places.
by threeducks | 2025-10-31 16:01:31+00:00
Yea, it's full of AI slop like "It's not X, it's Y!":

> Half the bugs you chase aren’t in your code. They’re in your head.

> You’re not asking for their input, necessarily. You’re asking to have someone listen to you so you can think straight.

> The truth is in the path, not the punchline.

> The log is not your diary. It’s your surveillance system.

> Debugging isn’t just thinking. It’s re-thinking

> These 10 tips aren’t a checklist: they are a starter kit.

> Logs are your sidekick, not your saviour.
by blackcatsec | 2025-10-31 16:01:41+00:00
To build on this: One might ask, why don't countries with larger populations directly derive more wealth (particular by measurement of GDP) than smaller populations naturally?

There are a lot of reasons for this, but the short answer is that health, education, and enough individual wealth to explore figuring out ways to generate new revenue streams is important. Authoritarian countries are by nature not able to do this due to limits of their authoritarian nature, not necessarily limits of their population numbers.

It's all intertwined :)
Show HN: I'm building an open source platform for studying Arabic
by selmetwa | 2025-10-31 16:01:47+00:00
One thing that always frustrated me as an Arabic learning was how difficult textbooks are to use. You’re constantly flipping to the end to check translations or transliterations, which completely kills your focus.

So I started building an open-source platform that fixes this with interactive parallel texts, you can click or drag over any Arabic word to instantly see its meaning, transliteration, and grammar notes in context. It’s like reading a bilingual book that actually flows.

The platform also includes AI-generated stories and sentences, letting learners practice Arabic in natural, evolving contexts instead of static textbook examples. All content comes with accompanied dialect-specific audio.

Most resources focus only on Modern Standard Arabic, but that’s not what most people actually speak. There’s very little for dialects like Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic. To fill that gap, I leverages custom LLMs trained specifically on Egyptian and Moroccan dialects, since general-purpose models (like ChatGPT) often struggle with dialect-specific content.

If you’re interested in Arabic, dialects, or open-source edtech, I’d love your feedback (and maybe collaborators).
by 15155 | 2025-10-31 16:02:21+00:00
> Money is finite. So are basic survival needs.

Yes, and the United States cannot shoulder the burden of the entirety of the world's economic migrants.

Where is this magical, commensurate influx of licensed doctors coming from to deal with the influx of unlimited economic migrants (who can't cover their own tax expenses?)

We're not talking about yachts: we're talking about healthcare and food. Take all the yachts away, force Bezos to liquidate everything (and every other billionaire): neither the income nor the fixed assets are enough to cover healthcare for the population we already have, much less a gargantuan, unproductive group of new arrivals.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-10-31 16:02:35+00:00
An abacus is a digital device, but it's not a binary digital device obviously.

> Since it is very common for an abacus to have 5 beads per pole

These are "bi-quinary" abacuses that have two rows of beads, the bottom row is 0-4 and the top row is either 0 or 5.

Computers weren't always binary, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - looks like it was decimal based as it was electronically (with tubes) working like an adding machine.
by SJMG | 2025-10-31 16:02:48+00:00
`@` makes the array (stack allocated) into a sequence (heap allocated).

Edit: Just read the second half of your post—

> I don’t think the equivalent Python code would look much different. Maybe more concise

He could be leveraging [std/sugar](https://nim-lang.org/docs/sugar.html) to make this look cleaner.
by maleldil | 2025-10-31 16:02:58+00:00
Not "a resource", but memory specifically. If there's a proper resource (e.g. a file), you should ensure it's explicitly released instead of relying on the GC (using with/close/etc.) And if memory usage is really important, you should probably explicitly delete the variable.

Anything else is wishful thinking, trying to rely on the GC for deterministic behaviour.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-31 16:03:20+00:00
There’s a lot in LLM training that is pretty commodity at this point. The difficulty is in data - and a large part of why it has gotten more challenging is simply that some of the best sources of data have locked down against scraping post-2022 and it is less permissible to use copyrighted data than the “move fast and break things” pre-2023 era.

As you mentioned, multiple no name chinese companies have done it and published many of their results. There is a commodity recipe for dense transformer training. The difference between Chinese and US is that they have less data restrictions.

I think people overindex on the Meta example. It’s hard to fully understand why Meta/llama have failed as hard as they have - but they are an outlier case. Microsoft AI only just started their efforts in earnest and are already beating Meta shockingly.
by alyxya | 2025-10-31 16:03:25+00:00
Scaling applies to multiple dimensions simultaneously over time. A frontier model today could be replicated a year later with a model half the size, with a quarter of the FLOPS, etc. I don’t know the real numbers for optimization scaling, but you could check out NanoGPT speedrun [1] as an example.

The best solution in the meantime is giving the LLM a harness that allows tool use like what coding agents have. I suspect current models are fully capable of solving arbitrary complexity artificial reasoning problems here, provided that they’re used in the context of a coding agent tool.

[1] https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt