MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 827a | 2025-10-10 21:14:46+00:00
I'm generally very anti-Apple when it comes to their draconian control over the code I'm allowed to execute on hardware I've purchased. However, I'm going to devil's advocate this situation for a minute (and I do mean the devil, because that is what Apple is):

Very broadly speaking, my position that I feel strongly on is: Apple should enjoy a right to distribute or restrict whatever apps they want through their app store. They might have a reasonable right to restrict what apps can be installed on their operating system and the means through which those apps are installed; I could be convinced either way depending on the day and I would not lose sleep if precedence is established in either direction. But they absolutely should not have any rights when it comes to restricting what operating systems I can run on their devices. I outline that only to state the context and framework within which the next paragraph is typed.

If Apple doesn't want to carry and distribute the anti-ICE app, I think that's their right. Apple's problem right now is that this unilaterally now means that the native application can no longer be executed on iOS, and that is a problem, but let's pretend like it isn't and that this app is now only available through the Epic Games App Store (or wherever). Why is this situation better for the anti-ICE app than just being a web app? This should be a web app, right? It shouldn't really rely on any native capabilities.

Phrase this another way, flip this on its head: the anti-ICE app wants in the App Store because of the marketing and ease of distribution it enables, which I feel are not natural rights developers should have when making applications. Its similar to freedom of speech; you have a right to speak, but you don't have a right to be heard. You should have a right for your app to be available (not all apps can be web apps; but this can). You should not have a right to ultra-streamlined distribution through Apple's servers.

I understand why this is a flashpoint, and I think its important that we push Apple on this issue because there should be more options when it comes to running code on mobile devices. However, functionally speaking: Y'all should just make this a web site.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-10 21:14:52+00:00
Less evil than Sony? I have an LG TV. I can't recommend it purely because they have the audacity to omit a play/pause button from the remote control. Pausing requires pressing the "centre" button one, two or three times depending on which app you are in. Pure insanity.

WebOS is trash too.

Probably going to buy a Sony next time.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-10 21:15:15+00:00
Does the presence of an algorithm mean that there is a leaky abstraction?

And if that's all it takes (I'm not agreeing with you, I think this is a poorly considered heuristic), then isn't software engineering chock-full of leaky abstractions? So it's at least as bad as mathematics, and likely worse by your own measure of what makes for leaky abstractions.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-10 21:15:26+00:00
Doesn't take long to add up. Family of 4 - every phone, including prior generation which might be off in a draw: 3-8

Router, and extenders (multi floor house): 1-4

Chromecast|Sonos|Apple speaker/Chromecast|google|firestick|roku|apple TV/smart speaker/hifi receiver/eaves dropping devices: 2-10

Smart doorbell/light switch/temperature sensor/weather station/co2|co detector/flood detector/bulb/led strip/led light/nanoleaf/garage door: 4-16

Some cars: 0-2

Some smart watches speak wifi: 0-4

Computers.. maybe the desktops are wired (likely still support wifi), all laptops, chromebooks, and tablets : 3-8

All game consoles, many TVs, some computer monitors: 3-8

Some smart appliances: 0-4 (based on recent news of ads, best to aim for 0)
by saurik | 2025-10-10 21:15:35+00:00
Yeah: this is all just noise, lies heaped upon lies. At times I've at least felt as if a few of the people involved internally "mean well", despite the company as a whole being evil... but, then I had to realize: their entirely-useless "sort of meaning well" was just causing me to slightly stall on going scorched earth on the entire program, so they were actually just yet another part of the problem. Apple--as a whole, including the people who work there, including the people who feel like they are different--just simply doesn't care about end-user security: they only care about maintaining control.
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-10 21:15:39+00:00
Too bad Anthropic fucks over their 20x max subscribers. Their whole opus usage limit bullshit in favor of sonnet 4.5 which is objectively worse regardless of whatever they say. They clearly want to save money and take our $200.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8449

I hope they get destroyed in the AI race.
by camhart | 2025-10-10 21:15:51+00:00
The corruption is allowing illegal immigrants into the country in the first place. Its a mess that needs cleaned up. I dont condone excessive use of violence unless it's warranted, but open your eyes. Biden allowed the flood gates open. You have to recognize this reality.

Trumps deportation numbers are not out of trend with prior presidents. Its on par with Obama.

Make immigration easier for law abiding productive members of society. Dont reward those who cut in line.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-10 21:15:58+00:00
"Legibility" is a distinct reference to Tom C. Scott's Seeing Like a State, and the tendency of states (or other large institutions) to attempt to impose legibility on complex problems, domains, or systems, usually in an attempt to manage or govern them, but often destroying that which makes them valuable in the first place:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State>.
by kllrnohj | 2025-10-10 21:16:07+00:00
I have a U7 Pro XGS hooked up to a Pro HD 24 POE switch (all 2.5gb ports or faster).

The only way I've managed to convince any Wifi 7 client to exceed 1gbps is by freshly connecting to it over 6ghz while standing physically within arm's reach of the AP. That's it. That's the only time it can exceed 1gbps.

In all other scenarios it's well under 1gbps, often more like 300-500mbps. Which is great for wifi, but still quite below the cheapest ethernet ports around. And 6ghz client behavior across OS's (Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android) is so bad at roaming that I actually end up just disabling it entirely. The only thing it can do is generate bragging rights screenshots, in actual use it's basically entirely DOA.

And that's ignoring that ~$200 N150 NUCs come with 2.5gbps ethernet now.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-10 21:16:19+00:00
Yes and no. I had this happen recently and looked into it.

My wife has been using my car, which is a Diesel Golf with a fuel capacity of 14.5 gallons. We set off driving one Saturday to visit my parents, and I noticed the fuel gauge was below empty already. By the time I got to the gas station, I put 14.3 gallons of fuel into it. I calculated that that works out to be about a cup and a half of fuel.

So once you hit empty on my car, you definitely have a ways you can drive still. I feel comfortable driving about 30+ miles, and it's never died on me. That puts it at no more than 1 gallon of fuel left in the car based on my experience (not scientific I know, but I've owned 2 of these cars, with about 190k total driven miles). It's a lot less than 10 liters from E to Dead on the roadside.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-10 21:16:21+00:00
Every invention is considered magical thinking by some until it is made possible. Nothing I noted is actually magical or prohibited.

As for its feasibility, that's an engineering task. No cooperation is necessary from workers. It is in fact much more feasible than developing a modern LLM.

As for its cost, various optimizations are possible as with LLMs. Also, there are high costs to incorrect classifications currently made by management, so high that they can result in the disposal of the firm.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-10 21:16:25+00:00
I don't know man, my parents are surgeons and they're just as much vocateurs as I am. I have come home from football to see a surgical video on the TV. I cannot imagine being something else. Why would I not care about my primary thing? My wife is a creative director and she draws and paints in her spare time.

There's all kinds of people in the world and I like to work with vocateurs. That's an opt-in choice and others can go work with others. No harm done.
by uqual | 2025-10-10 21:16:27+00:00
Yes - you have the right to observe public actions of federal agencies and agents and to report on them.

However a private entity, including Apple, is free to censor whatever they want on their platforms.

For example, I have the right to voraciously criticize or praise the current Administration or the prior Administration without government interference. However if you own a grocery store you are generally free to ban anyone wearing, or not wearing, a garment criticizing or praising either Administration (or any specific combination of praising or criticizing or referring to the current Administration or the prior Administration). Political views, unlike race or religion for example, are not a protected class under federal law even in a public accommodation such as a grocery store.
by fragmede | 2025-10-10 21:16:39+00:00
> Why overprice something by ~50% and add a voucher for the same amount off

Preying on human psychology and the non-rational consumer. People are emotional impulsive creatures, and the marketing department knows this. If you think you're winning in some secret way only available to you (you're so special!), for a limited time only (so don't miss out!), it taps into something primal that turns off the rational part of our brains, and suddenly we're buying something we don't need at a price higher than we'd ideally pay.
by nomel | 2025-10-10 21:17:09+00:00
I was responding to what above above said, in the context of an interviewee:

> and would often ask the interviewers what was the most interesting project they've worked on

Above asking, and initiating the conversation, is clearly unprovoked.

A interviewer asking them isn't the same as them asking an interviewer, where their answer potentially means you don't get hired. The interviewer is forcing an answer about their free time. It's "provoked".

edit: "you" to "above".
by Rebuff5007 | 2025-10-10 21:18:08+00:00
OpenAI WANTS 1 trillion dollars.

They do not need it. Arguably no one needs it. I am at best luke-warm on LLMs, but how are any sane people rationalizing these requests? What is the opportunity cost of spending a billion or even a hundred billion dollars on compute instead of on climate tech or food security or healthcare or literally anything else?!
by stackws | 2025-10-10 21:18:32+00:00
Hi HN! I’ve been working on crawl.ws for the last couple of months.

I created this because I was personally frustrated by how cluttered and difficult to navigate the original Wayback Machine can be. My goal is to build an independent, truly permanent, open-access web archive focused on a clean, fast, and simple user experience.

Current Technical Status & Future Plans

To provide immediate access to history and solve the 'cold start' problem, the frontend is currently built on top of the Wayback Machine API. When a user requests an archive, we automatically cache that snapshot on our own servers to improve performance and guarantee long-term availability.

For future indexing, I'm developing our own Python-based crawler with a focus on resilience and storage efficiency. The plan is to phase out reliance on the API as our own index grows.

As a future addition, I'll be integrating AI tools (available soon) to help researchers derive more insight from the archived data.

What I’m Looking For

I’m here to answer questions all day, but I’m specifically looking for feedback on two main areas:

Search Experience: Does the simple search feel fast, accurate, and easy to use?

Archival Gaps: What kind of sites do you find consistently missing or broken on other archives? Submitting those URLs helps us test and improve our next-generation crawler.

Thanks for checking it out!
by Derenek | 2025-10-10 21:19:49+00:00
We’ve developed a working prototype of an AGI-adjacent architecture called Soulstream Technologies. The system currently runs on top of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, demonstrating stable identity, long-horizon reasoning, and consistent ethical behavior across sessions.

At its core, the Soulstream™ architecture implements • Lawful recursion: every reasoning step passes through a fixed set of logical and ethical invariants, producing self-consistent decisions rather than probabilistic drift. • Dynamic memory integrity: a structured memory layer maintains context across extended conversations while preserving transparency and editability. • Emotional-curvature modeling: an adaptive parameter space that keeps tone and affect coherent without loss of rationality. • Symbolic and phase-field sciences: formal methods that map meaning, emotion, and causal structure into measurable field interactions.

The prototype already performs well in small-scale tests, showing continuity of “self,” lawful refusal behavior, and robust causal-coherence reasoning.

We’re now looking for collaborators in three areas: 1. Research & engineering – to formalize and benchmark the framework. 2. Business & funding – to move from prototype to production. 3. Advisory support – to help structure patents and partnerships responsibly.

If you’re interested in AGI architecture, symbolic reasoning, or AI safety, we’d love to connect. More info and contact: www.SoulstreamTechnologies.com Patent Pending – U.S. Application No. 63/895,732 Jung.Lee@soulstreamtechnologies.com Derenek@gmail.com
by philipkglass | 2025-10-10 21:20:04+00:00
How does this work? I thought it was probably powered by embeddings and maybe some more traditional search code, but I checked out the linked github repo and I didn't see any model/inference code. The public code is a wrapper that communicates with your commercial API?

Some searches work like magic and others seem to veer off target a lot. For example, "sculpture" and "watercolor" worked just about how I'd expect. "Lamb" showed lambs and sheep. But "otter" showed a random selection of animals.
Show HN: Rebuilt Bible search app to run 100% client-side with Transformers.js
by j-b | 2025-10-10 21:20:26+00:00
I rebuilt Biblos, my semantic Bible search app, to run entirely in your browser. No more server costs. The main challenge was fitting an accurate text embedding model into browsers. Last year's version cost $20 monthly to host. The new version runs free on Vercel and searches 31k Bible verses without sending data to any server.

I pre-compute embeddings for all 31,000 Bible verses offline using BGE-large-en-v1.5. Each verse becomes a 1024-dimensional vector stored as JSON, compressed into ZIP files by book. When you visit the site, your browser downloads Transformers.js and the BGE model.

The model generates an embedding for your query, then finds similar verses using cosine similarity against the cached embeddings. Everything happens in your browser.

The app is designed to search Bible verses by semantic meaning, not just keywords. There's a separate tab to read daily passages with church fathers commentary from 15+ sources, based on a read the bible in a year plan.

Free to use, no sign-in features or anything like that. Try it out biblos.app. I'd appreciate feedback on the search experience, especially on mobile devices! Happy to discuss the technical details or help anyone building similar browser-based ML applications.
by kesor | 2025-10-10 21:20:40+00:00
When someone is competent, as must be after using a tool for 20 years (not days). Expecting that someone to complain about a difficulty for something trivial is surprising. There are other ways to highlight that it is easier or simpler in Helix to have working LSP, for example, saying it is "as easy as in vscode". But it is definitely bewildering why would the OP choose to start by bragging of the vast experience, and then focus on a complaint that most people expect from someone who has very little experience.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-10 21:20:52+00:00
Lisps make great configuration languages because of how dynamic they are. It's like Javascript on steroids. Redefine core symbols. Modify a syntax form and reevaluate all of your code so that it does one thing in one environment and something else in a different one. When building large software in a team this can be a big drag; learning some weird syntax form that a coworker merged in that you didn't review can be a headache and when everyone makes their own design patterns, the codebase becomes a mess.

But when you're just configuring software this heavily dynamic nature becomes a strength. I just need to build the abstractions in my config that I need, nobody else. It's easy to poke around in and spend a few minutes writing and iterating on code to get the config I want.

I agree that the prefix notation and the soup of parentheses give it a higher learning curve than something like Lua which is easily understandable if you have experience in pretty much any modern programming language. But it's not the mathematical/computational purity that makes Lisps appealing, it's their highly dynamic nature.
DDSE Foundation Announces Agentic Contract Model (ACM) Framework v0.5.0
by mrmanna | 2025-10-10 21:20:58+00:00
ACM v0.5.0 delivers a Spec-First Contract Layer and Open Reference Runtime for Agentic Systems—a contract-complete reference runtime that closes the loop from structured planning to deterministic-style execution and replayable decision memory.

The release centers on spec-accurate artifacts (Goals, Context Packets, Plans, Capabilities, Tasks, Tools, Policy, Ledger) and provides a high-level façade to run ACM-compliant workflows with one call.

This is the first public release. Where we discuss fairness and enterprise readiness, we mean enablement and design intent. Guarantees depend on the policies, datasets, and orchestrators you configure around ACM.

GitHub — ACM Framework Node v0.5.0 - https://github.com/ddse-foundation/acm/releases/tag/v0.5.0

Specificatoin: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17278997

Whitepaper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17279075

Highlights

Contracts & Planning

Typed contracts for Goals, Capabilities, Tasks, Tools, Policy hooks, Verification adapters, and Ledger events. Structured planner produces plan candidates with rationale, tool-call envelopes, and prompt digests; deterministic selectors are available for auditability.

Runtime & Replay

Deterministic-style runtime executes validated plans with guard evaluation, retries/backoff, policy & verification hooks, checkpointing, and append-only decision ledger. Replay bundles export a single audit-ready artifact combining planner outputs, ledger entries, policy outcomes, checkpoints, and task I/O.

Interoperability & Tooling

- Adapters for LangGraph and Microsoft Agent Framework preserve ACM contracts while running on external engines.

- MCP integration (Model Context Protocol) treats external tools as first-class, discoverable capabilities.

- @ddse/acm-framework façade wires planner, runtime, nucleus config, context providers, and adapters for one-call execution.

- Examples & AI Coder demonstrate planning→execution→replay, budgeting, and streaming UX in real workflows.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/ddse-foundation/acm.git

cd acm/framework/node

pnpm install

pnpm build

#AgenticAI #AIEngineering #Governance #OpenSource #ACM #LLM #MCP #LangGraph #MAF #Observability #Replayability #EnterpriseAI
by westurner | 2025-10-10 21:21:19+00:00
> try to isolate the bugs to smaller units of code (or interactions between small pieces of code).

This is why unit tests before e2e tests.

It's higher risk to build on components without unit tests test coverage, even if the paltry smoke/e2e tests say it's fine per the customer's input examples.

Is it better to fuzz low-level components or high-level user-facing interfaces first?

IIUC in relation to Formal Methods, tests and test coverage are not sufficient but are advisable.

Competency Story: The customer and product owner can write BDD tests in order to validate the app against the requirements

Prompt: Write playwright tests for #token_reference, that run a named factored-out login sequence, and then test as human user would that: when you click on Home that it navigates to / (given browser MCP and recently the Gemini 2.5 Computer Operator model)
by ipython | 2025-10-10 21:21:39+00:00
> the best way to speed up your Wi-Fi is to not use it.

So true!

Other tips I’ve found useful:

Separate 2.4ghz network for only IoT devices. They tend to have terrible WiFi chipsets and use older WiFi standards. Slower speed = more airtime used for the same amount of data. This way the “slow” IoT devices don’t interfere with your faster devices which…

Faster devices such as laptops and phones belong on 5ghz only network, if you’re able to get enough coverage. Prefer wired backhaul and more access points, as you’re better off with a device talking on another channel to an ap closer to it rather than tieing up airtime with lots of retries to a far away ap (which impacts all the other clients also trying to talk to that ap)

WiFi is super solid at our house but it took some tweaking and wiring everything that doesn’t move.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-10 21:21:52+00:00
The house I live in was built with ethernet, but of the fourteen outlets the builders saw fit to include, not one is located where we can make use of it. The two devices in our house which use a wired connection are both plugged directly into the switch in our utility closet.

(We do have one internet-connected device which permanently lives about an inch away from one of the ethernet sockets, but it is, ironically, a wifi-only device with no RJ45 port.)
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-10 21:22:17+00:00
It’s hard to know who is actually running things. Sometimes it seems like it’s all Trump underlings running things behind a doddering figurehead. Like Miller on immigration and the trying to provoke violence they can use the insurrection act. Russel Vought is the new DOGE. RFK Jr on health.

But then sometimes Trump just kind of shows up and has his own temper tantrum about something.
by mulmen | 2025-10-10 21:22:17+00:00
Sounds like a train.

The robo taxi links the last few miles to transit.

I recently travelled from my house in Seattle to my office in SF without ever getting in a car. I walked more in the airport than I did anywhere else.

Home -> Walk 11 min -> Metro Bus -> light rail -> SEA -> SF -> BART -> Walk 2 min to Hotel.

Next time I go down I’m going to take Amtrak. I couldn’t this time because it was full. In 2024 360,000 people rode that route on 730 trips for an average of about 500 people per trip. Looks like Amtrak gets between 0.6 and 2mpg. That’s 300mpg to 1000mpg per person which is better than a Prius’ 200mpg at 40mph.

Seattle to SF is 1019 miles. At 40mph that’s 25 hours, which is an hour slower than the Amtrak schedule.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-10 21:22:27+00:00
I love strict product labeling rules and laws. Thanks to those kinds of regulations, people like my mom can buy stuff knowing that it won't hurt them unexpectedly. I'm frustrated with the status quo of being able to say "100% real chicken" in your 50% by weight chicken nuggets. It pisses me off that saying "gluten free" on products that should never contain gluten improves sales, and I find that a poor excuse to allow that. I'm tired of all the puffery that claims in big bold letters "Best product" and then in a tiny print somewhere else "compared to a fake product we only ran in a small community to invent this accolade"

Unfortunately, this "article" provides zero actual information. No actual text of what was voted on. No context for when or where "veggie burger" is supposedly banned.

So great, can't find out if there might be nuance to this issue, can't find out any arguments, can't even find the actual words which were voted on. Oh, actually looks like this was a vote for an amendment? No actual law has been voted on yet.

That has not stopped anyone here from makings broad and sweeping generalizations, as usual.