MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rkomorn | 2025-10-27 07:01:54+00:00
Yep, an early block can definitely leave people stuck for a while.

Although at this point, I think something that's missing from all of these discussions (spawned from whatever ancestor comment in this thread) is what the actual policies/culture/expectations are in our respective projects.

We're all going on about things like there's one absolute truth that should be followed and that is clearly not the case.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-10-27 07:01:59+00:00
The first "sort" sorts the input lines lexicographically (which is required for "uniq" to work); the second "sort" sorts the output of "uniq" numerically (so that lines are ordered from most-frequent to least-frequent):

$ echo c a b c | tr ' ' '\n' c a b c $ echo c a b c | tr ' ' '\n' | sort a b c c $ echo c a b c | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c 1 a 1 b 2 c $ echo c a b c | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 2 c 1 b 1 a
by sedivy94 | 2025-10-27 07:02:22+00:00
Everything you listed are tail risks of COVID, even in individuals with comorbidities, and are far more characteristic of the early strains than what’s circulating today. The only exception in your list of side effects is myocarditis, which is also a side effect of the COVID vaccine. Furthermore, the vaccine’s target population is individuals over 65 years old, immunocompromised individuals, obese individuals… not newborns or infants.

Alarmism, militant shaming, and omission of details like the ones I mentioned above are three strategies that steer vaccine hesitant people away from taking vaccine advocates seriously. Personally, I would raise concerns about anything but COVID and ease up on the Newspeak.
by treetalker | 2025-10-27 07:02:40+00:00
> It is exactly what a majority of the voters wanted though.

Let's not abandon accuracy or the fact that presidential elections are done under the electoral-college system.

Trump supposedly won the required number of electoral votes. But of eligible voters, fewer than two thirds voted; and of those who did vote, less than half of them voted for Trump (read: Trump electors).

But I agree with the rest of your comment.
by ozgung | 2025-10-27 07:02:50+00:00
This is one of the last bastions of anthropocentric thinking. I hope this will change in this century. I believe even plants are capable of communication. Everything that changes over time or space can be a signal. And most organisms can generate or detect signals. Which means they do communicate. The term “language” has traditionally been defined from an anthropocentric perspective. Like many other definitions about the intellect (consciousness, reasoning etc.).

That’s like a bird saying planes can’t fly because they don’t flap their wings.

LLMs use human language mainly because they need to communicate with humans. Their inputs and outputs are human language. But in between, they don’t think in human language.
by palata | 2025-10-27 07:04:31+00:00
> Turns out devs in general are not into the "setup completely independent public mailing lists for projects" idea.

My feeling is that devs in general are not into the "learning how to use tools" idea.

They don't want to learn the git basics, they don't want to learn the cmake basics, ...

I mean that as an observation more than a criticism. But to me, the fact that git was designed for those who want to learn powerful tools is a feature. Those who don't can use Microsoft. It all works in the end.

Fun fact: if I want to open source my code but not get contributions (or rather feature requests by people who probably won't ever contribute), I put my git repo on anything that is not GitHub. It feels like most professional devs don't know how to handle anything that is not on GitHub :-). Bonus point for SourceHut: if someone manages to send a proper patch on the mailing list, it usually means that they know what they are doing.
by dialup_sounds | 2025-10-27 07:04:31+00:00
Not to pull the Godwin lever, but the German SS went from being security guards to overseeing the entire national police force to running gas chambers in about 10-15 years. The function of an organization can change over time. The purpose of a system is what it does.

When a domestic law enforcement agency is spending 600% more year-over-year on weapons to point at people in frog costumes it's reasonable to wonder if that may reflect a de facto change in that organization.
I built an AI agent with Mistral that automates 80% of my PostgreSQL DBA work
by bugrac | 2025-10-27 07:06:15+00:00
I wanted to move beyond using AI for just writing code or content and see if it could manage complex, specialized systems. This led me to build my own AI database assistant, and it's already handling about 80% of my routine DBA tasks via natural language.

This isn't just a fancy chat interface. It's a command center where a Mistral-powered AI agent connects to my PostgreSQL data (via Postgres MCP) and gives me instant health reports and executable optimization commands.

Here’s the stack and how it works:

The Brain: I'm using an open-source Mistral model. Its reasoning capability is key—it doesn't just fetch data; it understands the intent behind a request like "Why is the database slow?"

The Bridge: The agent accesses the database through a 'Postgres MCP' (Monitoring and Control Plane) bridge, all running in Docker. This gives the AI secure access to the necessary metrics and logs without direct, risky DB exposure.

The "Wisdom": The system combines traditional DBA knowledge (like analyzing pg_stat_statements outputs) with the speed of AI.

The result? I no longer spend hours manually parsing query stats. I can just ask:

"Find the top 5 slowest queries from the last 24 hours."

"What's the index hit rate on the users table?"

"Simulate a new index on orders(customer_id). "

For that last part, it even uses hypopg to simulate index recommendations in seconds without locking tables.

I've essentially created a "turnkey" system that takes my natural language commands, diagnoses performance issues, and suggests concrete optimizations. It feels like a real example of how AI agents will merge with deep technical domains.

Happy to answer any questions about the setup.

https://www.bigdba.com/postgresql/2267/ai-driven-postgresql-performance-tuning-the-open-source-llm-and-mcp-guide/
by Retric | 2025-10-27 07:06:30+00:00
Let’s not resort to such exaggeration. There’s a fuck of a lot more humans on earth today than in the 1600, something like 16x globally with some regions growing more than others. Literacy was also generally low in 1600 as in sub 20%.

Further, up until recently the first few rungs of surviving as an author looked a lot like abject poverty today.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-27 07:06:35+00:00
> They worked without masks or other protection, the dangers of asbestos either unknown or not thought worth bothering about.

No, they did know. Already in the 19th century it was discovered an high rate of mortality amongst asbestos workers.

In France, 1893, we had the first laws about factory dusts levels.

1906, everyone knew.

Here is a rough translation of a France sénat Report :

> It was in 1906 that the first cases of fibrosis were discovered among spinning mill workers.

> The 1906 Labor Inspection Bulletin published a document entitled "Note on the Hygiene and Safety of Workers in Asbestos Spinning and Weaving Mills," by Mr. Auribault, departmental labor inspector in Caen 11 ( * ).

> Denis Auribault noted: "In 1890, an asbestos spinning and weaving factory was established near Condé-sur-Noireau (Calvados). During the first five years of operation, there was no artificial ventilation to directly evacuate the siliceous dust produced by the various looms; this total failure to comply with hygiene rules 12 ( * ) resulted in numerous deaths among the staff: around fifty workers died during the aforementioned period."

> Thus, as early as 1906, the link between exposure to asbestos fibres and the occurrence of occupational deaths was clearly established.

https://www.senat.fr/rap/r05-037-1/r05-037-1_mono.html#toc28
by businessmate | 2025-10-27 07:06:48+00:00
DIVM v1.0.0 introduces a governance-grade Data Integrity & Verification Methodology for AI Visibility, ensuring reproducible, auditable metrics across LLM ecosystems such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. It provides enterprises, auditors, and regulators with a legally defensible framework to verify AI visibility data with scientific precision.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-10-27 07:07:12+00:00
In healthy children the chances of any of that happening are effectively 0, and while vaccine injuries and significant side effects are rare in their case it might actually be more likely. That’s why very few countries other than the US ever vaccinated healthy children, especially post-pandemic.

Almost literally everyone has and will continue to get COVID at this point. Not vaccinating your child, or all of the children in the US, won’t prevent that. I don’t know a single person that hasn’t had it, vaccinated or not. So, your child gets the vaccine. They’re then, what, maybe 50% less likely to get COVID for 6 months? Not exactly moving the needle as far as community transmission goes. This isn’t 2021 anymore.

If we had a better, longer lasting vaccine you might have an argument. Very, very few parents are going to do the COVID vaccine for their child every year. At the very least you’re risking them picking up something more serious just by going to a clinic or pharmacy to get it.
by chebureki | 2025-10-27 07:07:45+00:00
I never claimed it set a precedent. But a federal judge in this case claimed "The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction [between citizens and legal non-citizens] and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence."

In our history OR jurisprudence! You seem to claim otherwise, if I am not mistaken. So, it behooves you to provide evidence to the contrary. Specifically, what precedent-setting Supreme Court decision claims that the First Amendment does not apply to non-US citizens?
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by vlovich123 | 2025-10-27 07:09:16+00:00
What I said was that I’ve seen 0 times C suite make technical change decisions. It’s completely natural for them to make directional strategic and tactical decisions for the company. I don’t see that as shifting goalposts so much as muddying the waters about what I said.

I’m not claiming Apple is flawless as a company - no individual is and no group of individual is either.

> You're arguing from "I knew people there who cared" a decade ago. Which of us is reasoning from evidence that can be falsified?

A good chunk of the people I know are still there and constantly being promoted to more and more senior positions.

> Your CSAM example perfectly illustrates my point, not yours - Apple pulled back "when it started hurting their brand," meaning they respond to financial and reputational pressure, not pure privacy principles

I think you’re confusing the situation - both things can be true. It can both be simultaneously true that Apple thought they developed a privacy preserving CSAM solution AND that there was enough public blowback that they decided it wasn’t worth it to continue.

> But right now I'm looking at documented patterns: $37B in tariff relief, gold gifts to Trump, court findings of deception, and suspicious timing on forensic artifacts

None of which really means anything in terms of the privacy stance of the company. You’ve conflated the political moment (and perhaps legit malfeasance in dealing with the EU - I haven’t followed that situation closely) with their policy on privacy.

I’m happy to update my priors when presented with evidence to the contrary but I just haven’t seen any. I don’t see how bending the knee to a fascist government that has significant influence over a good chunk of their revenue and regulatory control of their HQ is evidence of them sacrificing their stance on privacy. I see it as being a concerning step but to me that’s more of an issue of the rapidly deteriorating political situation in the US and within that context Apple’s actions matter negligibly.
by woolion | 2025-10-27 07:09:26+00:00
I don't think that it's necessarily true, but the big problem is that discoverability is almost impossible, and that the investment to know how good a book might be is much higher than other forms of media. It's also why you might get more out of books, you have to make some efforts to ingest them, but this means it's a problem if you have no idea how good it might be.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-27 07:09:55+00:00
I’m only 1% serious, but how do we know for sure which direction evolution went in within the ape family?

It seems not entirely unplausible that we have at some point in the scientific chain of custody assumed the “lesser” apes “evolved into” the “more advanced” human.

But a species could easily branch and have the branch lose its geographic portability features (e.g.ability to manipulate environment, most exogenous behavior learning-based) if they are no longer selected for in a particular environment, and I’m not aware of anything in the fossil record that firmly establishes directionality. Am I wrong?
by muldvarp | 2025-10-27 07:09:59+00:00
I did like the (short) LLM-free part of my career. The bait-and-switch refers specifically to the changes due to the introduction of LLMs. Any career where LLMs don't play a big role would not have been a bait-and-switch.

That said, I don't understand the point of "what if nothing ever works out for you?"-type questions. What do you expect me to answer here? That I'm secretly a wizard and with the flick of my magic wand I'll make something work out?
by lordkrandel | 2025-10-27 07:10:28+00:00
No, and there are reasons for that. There are prebuilt houses and architecture. Industrial bread and bakeries. Photographs, AI creations, and paintings. Add to that, that we don't require a program to be "more or less calculating our taxes", or "have an almost right dose of insulin for the patient", we want it to be 100% accurate, and that's something LLM's cannot guarantee. Software developers are constantly inventing more tools to avoid doing their job since the 60's. If this round we get untested prototypes that we have to hammer on for hours to get anything remotely decent, according to requirements, specifications, compliance and internal policies, it's just like having premade jam to make a cake instead of squishing the cherries yourself. Creativity lies in the choices you make, even with machine tools.
by 317070 | 2025-10-27 07:11:08+00:00
Do you have some primary sources for the statement that he is a jihadi? Do you have any primary source for the statement that he cheered ethnic cleansing?

I've been looking, but all I find is that:

> Mr Hamdi has previously denied accusations that he celebrated October 7, instead claiming he was "illustrating the international recognition that efforts to normalise relations in the Middle East must include Palestinian people."

> He told the National Post: "The October 7 events underscore the failure of any approach that seeks normalisation at the expense of the Palestinian people."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-citizen-who-encourag...
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-27 07:11:59+00:00
Why on earth do you need an app and a camera? The same basic VTech audio monitors that are basically the same for many decades now work great, don't cost a fortune and there's no question of "where is this data going?" It's all just a big cash grab for people who need chincy tech toys for a non-problem that's better solved with way more simple kit.
by al_borland | 2025-10-27 07:12:06+00:00
It’s possible to care without coddling. The best bosses I’ve had have been quick with blunt feedback, and that honesty extended to all areas, which built trust and showed they respected me. These are the times I worked extra long hours, because I enjoyed it, and I did my best work.

I’ve had other bosses who really didn’t care. The only time I heard from them if they were getting yelled at about something, and I really don’t think they care if I lived or died. With these people I’m just punching the clock. They give me the bare minimum, and that’s what they get back.
by bialpio | 2025-10-27 07:12:42+00:00
I have 2 free-roaming rabbits in one room of the house, we've been using Eufy camera to access live feed and found no issues with it, definitely would buy again. And the SD card recording allows us to seek a couple days into the past - it is pretty fun to watch the rabbits scramble to the automatic feeder at the set time.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-27 07:13:48+00:00
The point is that ICE has been given a mandate to ignore any notion of due process in their handling of immigrants, very visibly and officially. This allows them to deport anyone they want, including American citizens who get on the bad side of the regime, by just claiming that the person is an illegal immigrant and they don't have time for looking at silly papers like a birth certificate.

So ICE, is in fact being shaped into a secret police that can be used to punish anyone speaking against the regime, under the guise of being a brutal anti-immigration force.
Show HN: Life.exe – File bug reports for your feelings
by SoulLab | 2025-10-27 07:13:58+00:00
A small web toy that turns emotional struggles into bug reports. Example: “Hope.exe stopped responding after job rejection.” It converts your line into a humorous, cathartic “grief CV.” https://life-exe.vercel.app

Built with HTML, Tailwind, JS. Curious if it resonates or just feels weird.
by avestura | 2025-10-27 07:13:58+00:00
If you wanted to become a painter, would you use generative AI to make you a painting and then call yourself an artist? I wouldn't. Downloading mp3 files doesn't make anyone a musician.

That said, I don't see any problem with using AI to grasp ideas faster[1]. AI can help you create a personalized roadmap and resolve confusion along the way. But if one doesn't go hands-on and understand what the AI is doing, and only consumes the output, there is no learning in that.

[1] By 'faster,' I mean getting a response quickly (requires fact-checking, ofc) instead of spending hours on Stack Overflow.
by imiric | 2025-10-27 07:14:17+00:00
Code generation tools of today are pretty good at writing the boring boilerplate. I think the author is aware of this.

But what happens when they get really good at generating the not-so-boring bits? They're much better at this than they were a year or two ago, so it's not unthinkable that they will continue to improve.

I'm a firm "AI" skeptic, and don't buy into the hype. It's clear that the brute force approach of throwing more data and compute at the problem has reached diminishing returns. And yet there is ample room for improvement by applying solid engineering alone. Most of what we've seen in the past year is based on this: MCP, "agents", "skills", etc.

> I would code even if I didn't get paid for it.

That's great, but once the market value of your work diminishes, it's no longer a career—it's a hobby. Which doesn't mean there won't be demand for artisanal programming, but it won't power the world anymore. It will be a niche skill we rely on for very specific tasks, while our jobs will be relegated to steer and assist the "AI" into producing reliable software. At least in the short-term. It's doubtful whether the current path will get us to a place where these tools are fully self-sufficient, and it's arguable whether that's something worth aiming for anyway.

This is the bleak present and future the article is talking about. Being an assistant to code generation tools is far removed from the practice of programming. I personally find it tedious, unengaging, and extremely boring. There's little joy in the experience beyond ending up with a working product. The road to get there is not a journey of discovery, serendipity, learning, and dopamine hits. It is a slog of writing software specs, juggling contextual information and prompts, and coaxing a human facsimile into producing working software by using natural language. I dislike every part of this process. This is not the type of work that inspired me to do this professionally. Sure, every job has tasks we sometimes don't enjoy. But once you remove programming from the equation, there's not much joy in it left for me.
Show HN: My open-source project PdfDing is receiving a grant
by mrmn2 | 2025-10-27 07:15:19+00:00
Hi HN,

for quite some time I have been working on the open-source project PdfDing - a Django based selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. You can find the repository here: https://github.com/mrmn2/PdfDing. As always I would be quite happy about a star and you trying out the application.

Two weeks ago PdfDing was selected to receive a grant from the NGI Zero Commons Fund: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFun.... This fund is dedicated to helping deliver, mature and scale new internet commons across the whole technology spectrum and is amongst others funded by the European Commission. The exact sum of the grant still needs to be discussed, but obviously I am very stocked to have been selected. The funding is the next highlight after PdfDing's popularity grow over the last year to over 1,3k stars on github and around 125k docker pulls. I plan to use this momentum to further increase the project's reach.

PdfDing's features include:

- Seamless browser based PDF viewing on multiple devices. Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading - Stay on top of your PDF collection with multi-level tagging, starring and archiving functionalities - Edit PDFs by adding comments, highlighting and drawings - Manage and export PDF highlights and comments in dedicated sections - Clean, intuitive UI with dark mode, inverted color mode, custom theme colors and multiple layouts - SSO support via OIDC - Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code with optional access control - Markdown Notes - Progress bars show the reading progress of each PDF at a quick glance

PdfDing aims to be a great solution for a diverse target group as PDF is an omnipresent file type:

- Avid readers (e.g. me) that want to seamlessly read PDFs on multiple devices - Hobbyist, that want to make their content available to other users. For example one user wants to share his automotive literature (manuals, brochures etc) with fellow enthusiasts. - Researchers and students trying to stay on top of there big PDF collection - Small businesses that want to share PDFs with their customers or employees. Think of a small office where PDF based instructions to different appliances can be opened by scanning a QR on the appliance.

I originally started developing PdfDing because surprisingly there was no available solution that satisfied the following requirements:

- Complete control over my data. - Easy to self-host via docker. PdfDing can be used with a SQLite database -> No other containers necessary - Lightweight and minimal, should run on cheap hardware - Continue reading where you left off on all devices - Browser based - Support single sign on via OIDC in order to leverage an existing identity provider - PDFs should be shareable with an external audience with optional access control - Open source - Content should not be curated by an admin instead every user should be able to upload PDFs via the UI