MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seviu | 2025-10-23 21:25:48+00:00
You would be surprised…

Regarding CZ and Binance and the Trumps, they have kind of a symbiotic relationship.

After Binance and CZ pleaded guilty to money laundering in November 2023, for which they paid over $4 billions in fines, WLFI (which is a clone of AAVE belonging to the Trump family) launched a stablecoin called USD1. Magically on March 2025, $2 billion flowed into Binance through MGX, a state backed Abu Dhabi fund, later revealed to have been paid in USD1 (two months before it was unveiled and without at the time no effective audits), effectively propping WLFI’s coin (backed, unbacked, nobody knows, I assume backed). CZ applied for a presidential pardon inmediately after in May 2025.

WLFI now gets to earn about $60–80 million per year in yield from the USD1…

…As long as Binance doesn’t redeem those $2 billion.

I still don’t know what MGX got out of this deal, but I am pretty sure they didn’t walk empty handed.
by boomskats | 2025-10-23 21:26:16+00:00
Ha! This looks really nice, and I'm right there with you on the context development UX being clunky to navigate.

A couple of weeks ago I built something very very similar, only for Obsidian, using the Obsidian Canvas and OpenRouter as my baseline components. Works really nicely - handles image uploads, autolayout with dagre.js, system prompts, context export to flat files, etc. Think you've inspired me to actually publish the repo :)
by nine_k | 2025-10-23 21:26:22+00:00
This is fun! But I see it showing me a close-up view (smaller FOV) if I move my head back, and a wider view (larger FOV) if I bring my head closer. This is the opposite to what I'd expect: if I bring my head nearer to the screen, I should see a more detail, closer (narrower FOV).
by jesse_dot_id | 2025-10-23 21:26:29+00:00
Well, the way to perform the attack is to organize millions of people with instructions to click on every ad they see. That's not really my thing. I think to try and do it programmatically would make it trivial to filter for talented engineers. However, my question is how would they defend against it if people were manually clicking on ads with their free time? I'm not sure how it would be possible.
by guywithahat | 2025-10-23 21:26:35+00:00
I mean there are lots of people arrested on effectively political charges, and it's good to be able to reflect on it years later and get them out of jail. I'm not convinced Changpeng Zhao's charges would have ever been brought against him if the Biden admin didn't go so hard against crypto, I'm happy to see him pardoned. Hopefully next Trump can get whistle blowers like John Kiriachou
by ericmcer | 2025-10-23 21:27:39+00:00
Downvoted but you are kind of right.

The most clear example of this was Indians flooding tech in the early 2000s. Like this was a few years after 9/11 when brown dudes with accents were facing crazy discrimination, but India had really strong STEM education and was turning out good programmers so they got jobs. If the industry blocked qualified individuals based on prejudice how the heck were middle eastern looking dudes killing it directly after 9/11?
by WorldPeas | 2025-10-23 21:27:40+00:00
I've been thinking more recently, do you think that an OpenAi-Apple merger will happen this cycle as it did with AOL-TimeWarner in the past? The thought being that an aging gatekeeper attempts to merge with an up-and-coming company when they feel it's too late to be relevant only for there to be another paradigm shift that obsoletes that decision. Though that is very much speculation.
by dimal | 2025-10-23 21:27:53+00:00
Oh man. One of my favorite songs is Sex Dwarf [0]. It’s completely ridiculous and over the top, and so fucking catchy. Such a perfect snapshot of 80s synth decadence. RIP.

[0] https://youtu.be/wGfZhkBgR9Q?si=VpMmpKPvGyjkCE6C
by netfortius | 2025-10-23 21:27:59+00:00
Unpopular opinion: America needs/ed this. They nerve truly believed that a Ceaușescu, Hitler, Stalin, Mao were possible in the US. Maybe one or two generations will suffer, but this is a required lesson, for the future maturity of the nation, long term. Assuming they come out in one piece at the other end, of course.
by serial_dev | 2025-10-23 21:28:40+00:00
Or maybe people don’t want to discuss politics with you because they know you’ll label them juvenile, racist, vile POS and saying they aren’t political is the easiest way out of getting into a heated argument with you at the BBQ party. Most sane people know that arguing with you will not change anything (neither your opinion, nor the sad facts that we are all ruled by criminals no matter who we vote for).

I’m following politics and I have my opinions about things but you can be sure I won’t be discussing them with coworkers and friends.
by nonfamous | 2025-10-23 21:29:14+00:00
iPad OS 26 is just as bad, if not worse. It's the Windows ME of tablet OS's: ugly, near-unusable, and riddled with bugs.

Just one example: I was excited by the idea of having two apps on screen at the same time: there are two I like to look at side-by-side all the time. But one of them (an iPhone app) randomly decides to switch to landscape mode, making the layout unusable. More generally, the window controls keep getting activated unexpectedly by taps when I use full-screen apps like games, resulting in the window reverting to not-full-screen. So I guess I'll just have to turn that feature off until it's actually usable.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-23 21:30:11+00:00
Biden pardoning his son was widely condemned by Democrats.

This is despite the fact that Hunter was gone after on a charge that is basically never enforced alongside a media and political campaign ramping up all sorts of lies and half-truths and trying to draw connections to things he was never on trial for, much less convicted of, with an incoming president that had spoken extensively about his desire to weaponize the government to enact revenge on his political rivals, which we have seen him do extensively already.

I don't like that Biden pardoned his son, but I also think the idea that it is at all comparable to the pardons Trump has issued that are blatantly corrupt is absurd. Meanwhile, Jan6 pardonees have a whole Wikipedia section detailing all of the crimes they have gone on to commit since being pardoned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_Sta...
by torginus | 2025-10-23 21:30:18+00:00
Not sure if that's the case - however doing V2L requires the manufacturer to add an inverter to the car, and making that powerful probably adds extra cost most customers wouldn't pay. TI just looked it up and my Ioniq can only do about 2kW sustained - but since this charges the house battery, that's enough - idle load is just a couple hundred watts.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-10-23 21:30:52+00:00
There's a double standard that I see a lot here, where people want to vote for a party, denigrate those who chose not to participate as being morally culpable for the results of the election, but won't take moral culpability for what their team does when they're in power.

If you vote for team A and they win and then do something bad (inevitable), shouldn't you be morally responsible for that? After all, you seem fine claiming non-participants have moral culpability for whatever the winning team does.
by bananalychee | 2025-10-23 21:31:04+00:00
He didn't just pardon his family members and issue questionable preemptive pardons, he also issued the most pardons of any president ever, and not by a small margin, but by a factor of 20 compared to Trump up to now, in a single term, including pardons for violent criminals and yes, white-collar fraudsters as well. They didn't get much publicity because most of them were committed at the tail end of his term while the media were focused on the election and on the transition of power, because of double standards, and because the actors were low-profile. It really shouldn't be controversial to point out that the abuse of presidential power didn't start nor end with Trump. He most certainly wouldn't have gotten re-elected if that were the case.
by jefftk | 2025-10-23 21:31:18+00:00
> You're going to write a lot of code in blood this way.

Waymo has been doing a lot of driving, without any blood. They seems to be using a combination of (a) learning a lot from close calls like this one where no one was hurt even through it still behaved incorrectly and (b) being cautious so that even when it does something it shouldn't the risk is very low because it's moving slowly.
by epistasis | 2025-10-23 21:31:40+00:00
> Solar and wind capacity had shot through the roof in the last five years because they can't sell hardware to the west any more.

"can't sell hardware??" hah! I've never heard that weird made-up justification, where did you pick it up from?

China installed 277GW of solar in 2024, capacity factor corrected that's 55.4 GW of solar power. That's equivalent to the entire amount of nuclear that China has ever built. One year versus all time. And then in the first half of 2025, China installed another 212GW of solar. In six months.

Nuclear is a footnote compared to the planned deployment of solar and wind and storage in China.

Anybody who's serious about energy is deploying massive amounts of solar, storage, and some wind. Some people that are slow to adapt are still building gas or coal, but these will be stranded assets far before their end of life. Nuclear fusion and fission are meme technologies, unable to compete with the scale and scope that batteries and solar deliver every day. This mismatch grows by the month.
by Sesse__ | 2025-10-23 21:32:32+00:00
They overlap, but none does strictly more than the other.

Kaitai is for describing, encoding and decoding file formats. Wuffs is for decoding images (which includes decoding certain file formats). Kaitai is multi-language, Wuffs compiles to C only. If you wrote a parser for PNGs, your Kaitai implementation could tell you what the resolution was, where the palette information was (if any), what the comments look like and on what byte the compressed pixel chunk started. Your Wuffs implementation would give you back the decoded pixels (OK, and the resolution).

Think of Kaitai as an IDL generator for file formats, perhaps. It lets you parse the file into some sort of language-native struct (say, a series of nested objects) but doesn't try to process it beyond the parse.
by drak0n1c | 2025-10-23 21:32:40+00:00
CZ was not convicted of fraud or even money laundering. There's a reason the sentence was only 4 months. His charge was the first ever prosecution of a platform/bank poorly implementing KYC and not doing enough surveillance of its users to comply with the letter of AML regulations. The case relied on the theoretical possibility of US citizen users placing trades that are matched by people from sanctioned countries - it did not even find cases of such trades. Big banks routinely pay fines for this, and never face imprisonment.

Regardless of what you think of the circumstances of the pardon, the prosecution was not related to fraud and was an unusual case by a DOJ that was recently embarrassed by FTX and was arguably symbolic in intent.
by latexr | 2025-10-23 21:33:18+00:00
> I wonder if anyone else here is old enough to remember the "I'm a Mac", "And I'm a PC" ads.

Those ads ran from 2006 to 2009. That’s between 16 and 19 years ago. How young do you imagine the typical HN commenter is?

> There was one that was about all the annoying security pop-ups Windows (used to?) have.

Those have been relentlessly mocked on the Mac for years. I remember a point where several articles were written making that exact comparison. People have been calling it “macOS Vista” since before Apple Silicon was a thing.

> WIW, it starts here: https://youtu.be/qfv6Ah_MVJU?t=230

A bit better quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY
by int_19h | 2025-10-23 21:33:19+00:00
The problem is that "code delivers what we need" usually translates to "shovel crap as fast as it sells". Combined with heavy monopolization of the software market, where users have very little recourse to being force-fed crap - what are you going to do, go to one other competitor who does the same exact thing? - this means that average software quality in the industry has declined to the point where I would consider shipping it in that state to be actively harmful to the users and to the ecosystem at large (since others then build upon that pile of crap, which of course is a GIGO problem).

Now, you might argue that it doesn't matter because it's not the users who pay you, it's the company. But, well - some people have professional standards. It's rather unfortunate that this is apparently not compatible with "doing business" in this day and age, at least outside of very narrow niches.
by mvdtnz | 2025-10-23 21:33:42+00:00
I often get third party popups from software vendors which asks me for my MacOS password. I have checked several times and these are "legit" (as in, the popup comes from a who it says it does and it's a reputable company). It's wild to me that Apple have painted themselves into a world where it's expected that users give their OS password to third party apps.
by alganet | 2025-10-23 21:33:58+00:00
I want to write about thinking crictically, specially but not limited to a software development context.

Lots of people don't have resources to invest in LLMs (either self-hosted or not). They rely on what other people say. And people get caught in the hype all the time. As it turns out, lots of hype nowadays is around LLMs, so that's where I'll go.

I was skeptic about LK99. Didn't had the resources to independently verify it. It doesn't mean I don't believe in superconductors or that I should have no say in it.

Some of that hype will be justified, some will not. And that's exactly what I expect from this kind of technology.
by tptacek | 2025-10-23 21:34:14+00:00
What is the purpose of identifying "root causes" in this model? Is the root cause of a memory corruption vulnerability holding a stale pointer to a freed value, or is it the lack of memory safety? Where does AWS gain more advantage: in identifying and mitigating metastable failure modes in EC2, or in trying to identify every possible way DNS might take down DynamoDB? (The latter is actually not an easy question, but that's the point!)
by jefftk | 2025-10-23 21:34:18+00:00
This is another example of something where, at least if you want to get all the way to completely correct operation, it's easier for an driverless car than a human. A person can't memorize the schedules of every school district they might pass, but an automated system potentially could. Of course something like Google Maps could solve this too, for both humans and Waymo.
by archi42 | 2025-10-23 21:34:27+00:00
Residential batteries are not that expensive anymore, at least not all of them. That's a misconception I also held until a few years ago ;-)

My first 14.3 kWh pack cost about 2800$ DDP from China, delivered 03/2023. For that one I did calculate how long it took for amortization, which I projected at about 5 years.

The second, identical pack was delivered 08/2024 and cost 2000$ DDP. Since we got an EV that's drawing about 14kWh per day, I didn't bother doing the math and just ordered it.

These are 280Ah 16S 51.6V packs, based on the EVE LF280K. In an enclosure, with a BMS (Seplos, 200A) and a dedicated balancer. They are good for 6000 cycles at 140A or less [each]. Mind these were both part of small bulk orders - I think each time we ordered 6 to 8 of these, which reduced shipping costs.
by silverquiet | 2025-10-23 21:34:54+00:00
I've got a (probably former at this point) buddy who makes less than $15K/year. He seems to have lots of time to listen to right wing propaganda podcasts and likes telling "jokes" about how minorities are problematic. He was never really interested in politics when we were growing up and I suspect never voted before 2024. Poor people have interests and opinions too.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-10-23 21:35:14+00:00
Just as a judge should not be ruling on a case where the defendant is throwing suitcases full of money at him, a judge should also not be ruling on a case where the defendant is his own son. Both are inappropriate uses of a power intended for the application of mercy and the correction of faults in the justice system. Both are the sorts of things that should lead to recusal.

Biden's use is far more forgivable, as it's a given that his son was being prosecuted politically to punish Biden (though certainly he was guilty) and would likely have been prosecuted more under Trump, like Comey is being prosecuted today. And certainly "saving your children" is a far more forgivable sin than naked bribery, but being better than Trump is a low bar, but it's still not okay to excuse criminals from punishment because they have an important family member.
Show HN: FlowLens – MCP server for debugging with Claude Code
by mzidan101 | 2025-10-23 21:35:18+00:00
Hi HN,

We often run into this with coding agents like Claude Code: debugging turns into copy-pasting logs, writing long explanations, and sharing screenshots.

FlowLens is an MCP server plus a Chrome extension that captures browser context (video, console, network, user actions, storage) and makes it available to MCP-compatible agents like Claude Code.

You can try it here: https://magentic.ai/flowlens

Any feedback—good, bad, or brutal—is welcome.
by jmull | 2025-10-23 21:35:43+00:00
> should never be used in a professional codebase

Mostly true.

But most system also ingest external data -- that data truly is "unknown" until you parse/validate it. Once you do parse/validate it, you're going to want it to have the correct type.

You shouldn't "never" use. You should only use it in limited, constrained ways, and always with other controls that are sufficient to ensure it's correct.
by lateforwork | 2025-10-23 21:35:43+00:00
Yes, and that's depressing. Why are so many people not understanding what is going on?

Reminds me of this Bill Gates quote: "We were a bit naive: we thought the internet, with the availability of information, would make us all a lot more factual. The fact that people would seek out—kind of a niche of misinformation—we were a bit naive."
by LinXitoW | 2025-10-23 21:35:52+00:00
Here in Germany, we have like 20 different parties on the ballot, with maybe 6 of those having a reasonable chance to actually get any seats. Not a SINGLE ONE perfectly represents me and my issues.

I still voted, because my personal laziness or moral superiority does not trump the very real world effects of the "bad ones" winning. Lazy people like you with post hoc rationalizations exist here too, and they're just as bad and wrong.
by yencabulator | 2025-10-23 21:35:58+00:00
Oh heh, a trip down the memory lane. I wrote the initial version of that, in an era where AWS docs did not match observed S3 behavior. The only way to make an S3-compatible API was to create a suite of over-the-network tests to run against both AWS S3 and radosgw.

We also had a little grammar-based fuzzer for S3 requests (really, any HTTP), but over the last 10+ years I've lost track of what happened to that code. That found some incompatibilities with allowed character sets etc too.
by lazide | 2025-10-23 21:36:07+00:00
This doesn’t actually work in the real world where people cannot be isolated from or protected from people who keep doing this to them.

You can’t ’out empathize’ someone doing 24/7 manipulation against people.

The only thing that works are real consequences against bad actors.

And that there was no real consequences for bad actors is exactly why we are in the situation we are in now.
by int_19h | 2025-10-23 21:36:39+00:00
It's not an either-or. Doing the replacing with AI means that you're ripe for being replaced yourself. Indeed, what you do until then is likely to have a side effect of training the very model that eventually replaces you.

The real answer to this is collective action - unions etc - to push back against the lowering of the standards by our employees. But software engineers still seem to be broadly allergic to unions.
by torginus | 2025-10-23 21:36:47+00:00
1. It does. The only issue is that the car can only output about 2kW sustained (this is a model limitation). That's fine since I have batteries in the house.

2. Tbh not super familiar with V2G/V2H, other than it being super expensive for both the wall box and the car (only high end models tend to support it)/

3. No idea, but it's not a high end feature, I wouldn't count on any inverter to just have it, but if you're looking to buy one that does, I don't think you'll be breaking the bank.

Imo the future is for solar inverters to offer a dedicated DC car charger port, as once again all the hardware is already in there.
by ankit219 | 2025-10-23 21:37:33+00:00
create a instruction.md file with yaml like structure on top. put all the instructions you are giving repeatedly there. (eg: "a dev server is always running, just test your thing", "use uv", "never install anything outside of a venv") When you start a session, always emphasize this file as a holy bible to follow. Improves performance, and every few messages keep reminding. that yaml summary on top (see skills.md file for reference) is what these models are RLd on, so works better.
by stingraycharles | 2025-10-23 21:37:36+00:00
What I mean is that you want the total number of tokens to convey the information to the LLM to be as small as possible. If you’re having a discussion, you’ll have (perhaps incorrect) responses from the LLM in there, have to correct it, etc. All this is wasteful, and may even confuse the LLM. It’s much better to ensure all the information is densely packed in the original message.
by stopachka | 2025-10-23 21:38:01+00:00
Thank you!

Since all the reactive demos are local, I didn't add Instant in this case.

One little trick I did for data was here:

https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/client/www/co...

Mainly: I wanted to get all counts for Wodehouse, but didn't want to block the page load for that. So what I did was take a small subset of the data that's needed to render the page, and have that written into the file. Then after load I fetch all the other counts.

In the tutorial I also used Bun.xxHash3, but to make sketches run on the client, I had to replace that with a library.

The actual sketch implementation that backs the demos is here:

https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/client/www/co...
by pietz | 2025-10-23 21:38:10+00:00
Oh, it's nothing fancy I'm afraid.

I have an AGENTS.md file in my vault that provides a bit of context that this is not about coding, but about serving as my Obsidian helper. I ask it to check the .obsidian folder to check my plugins, Tell it how I like to build my presentations and the workflow I follow when writing articles.

Then I just launch codex in the terminal inside the vault, have it do stuff, while I watch the desktop app for change.

Other coding agents like Claude Code should work also, but gpt-5-codex was specifically trained on using the terminal to do everything it and doesn't even have that big of a system prompt related to coding. Works well.

Combine that with a speech-to-text app and codex blazes through to find stuff or do things for me.
by econ | 2025-10-23 21:38:27+00:00
It is remarkably simple. There are countless meals on the menu but people get to see only the two on the front page. Say, monkey brains and bull testicles. Few can really appreciate either. There is a little talk about the slugs on page 1. An abysmal small number will turn a few pages and look over the burgers and pizzas... but you can't really order a burger in a restaurant like this? Can you? So even they pretend they really like to eat testicles.

You could have literally opened a random page and order whatever is on there. It is perfectly safe to order the burger as you will most likely be served monkey brains anyway.

No one will rage at you for voting for Afroman. There are no dire consequences.