MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apizon | 2025-10-22 17:21:59+00:00
Thanks a lot

The app is made with flutter with mostly just the default widgets that I customized a bit. I'm not really that versed into UI/UX so I just tried to keep things simple design wise. As for performance, I didn't even have to do that much optimization except for the library part to have smooth scrolling when displaying hundreds of diagrams but overall the framework is pretty fast and a joy to work with.

I'd say the hardest part honestly was just staying consistent for more than a year alone without really any feedback and just sticking to it a little every evening and on the week-end rather than playing a game or something. Especially making the content itself was at time a bit repetitive like the lessons or the chords for the library (which were all manually taken from books not auto generated)

I started the app store process quite some time before release so it's just something I did a little here and there in between commits and overall it wasn't that painful.
by bartread | 2025-10-22 17:22:12+00:00
Yeah, but this is exactly not what the internet is supposed to be. It’s supposed to be decentralised. It’s supposed to be resilient.

And at this point I’m looking at the problem and thinking, “how do we do that other than by legislating?”

Because left to their own devices a concerningly large number of people across many, many organisations simply follow the herd.

In the midst of a degrading global security situation I would have thought it would be obvious why that’s a bad idea.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-22 17:22:19+00:00
Yes. The problem isn't the letter of the law, it's that governing bodies like the EU need something like an enforcement czar who tells companies in no uncertain terms that if they're going to try to be clever they're going to get the ol' Jack Ma treatment. Stop letting the tail wag the dog.

And before someone says that it will hamper innovation, I used to live in China and talk to investors often, they would always stress that for every guy with a billion who can't play by the rules there's a thousand guys with a million who have no problem taking the market share, that's hardly an issue
by cedws | 2025-10-22 17:22:23+00:00
You have correctly identified there is more complexity to this than is addressable in a HN comment. Are you asking me to write the laws and design a government-operated pentesting platform right here?

It's pretty clear whatever security 'strategy' we're using right now doesn't work. I'm subscribed to Troy Hunt's breach feed and it's basically weekly now that another 10M, 100M records are leaked. It seems foolish to continue like this. If governments want to take threats seriously a new strategy is needed that mobilises security experts and dishes out proper penalties.
by porphyra | 2025-10-22 17:22:35+00:00
The solar array is 4 km by 4 km. The whole Earth, with its 6400 km radius, only gets hit by a Prius-sized asteroid once per year. So the risks are much lower. I guess the array may be hit by many micro-asteroids though, but it should be possible to engineer some level of tolerance for that.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-22 17:22:58+00:00
I said a secure VPN option.

However, even with all those choices, “port knocking” still wouldn’t be a solution for anything.

[edit]

Are you just searching for random WireGuard CVEs now?

CVE-2024-26950 was a *local-only* DoS and potential UaF requiring privileged access to wireguard netlink sockets.
by Demiurge | 2025-10-22 17:23:21+00:00
This is slightly off-topic, but is it "jail" or "prison"? I see this switch all the time, and French does not make a difference. But, in English, and many other languages, jail is more specific than prison, and is usually for short term or pre-sentencing holding. If someone is sentenced, it's usually a different facility called "prison". Is BBC making a mistake, or are they actually saying Sarkozy will be held in in an actual jail?
by bee_rider | 2025-10-22 17:23:25+00:00
I think very few businesses were created just to help people. Maybe some nonprofits.

Lots of good businesses were created to just make their owners a reasonable income, I mean, most people will take “be rich” if that’s an option but have reasonable expectations.

The problem with heavily invested in companies is occurs when they skip the stage of being a small profitable business with an actual business model.
by Arrath | 2025-10-22 17:23:29+00:00
The inertia of established supply chains and industry norms can be a real mother to overcome.

Hobbyist computing could benefit from a move to 48V as well, if only to keep the problematic 12VHPWR from killing expensive video cards.

I say hobbyist because AIUI 48v is making inroads in server hardware but that's not my area.
Show HN: Hypdar (hype radar) – Never miss a release
by nschmeli | 2025-10-22 17:24:01+00:00
Built this after realizing I was constantly googling "when does [thing] come out."

The key feature: cross-category search. If you search "Star Wars," you see the next movie, upcoming games, new books, comic releases, and concert tours - all in one view. Everything about one thing, not just one category.

Current categories: - Movies - Video games - Comics - Concerts/festivals/events - Books

Tech: FastAPI backend, vanilla JS frontend, deployed on DigitalOcean. Hits multiple sources in parallel and sorts chronologically.

Planning to add: - Alert system (email/SMS when tracked items release) - Links to each where you can purchase each item (have concerts/events done)

Open to feedback! What categories am I missing? Would you use release alerts?
by ZiiS | 2025-10-22 17:24:08+00:00
It is aiming to be much closer to the Vision Pro. Whist it is nearly half the price, it is probably still twice the price where that would make much difference. The market that _needs_ this is tiny/nonexistent; if you are happy to drop $1,800 to try a device that needs a lot more product and software work :shrug: the should be some second hand Vision Pros very close to this. (Obviously, other Apple/Android deciders not withstanding).
by nix0n | 2025-10-22 17:24:34+00:00
> the person / team who would go on to actually crack brain-like AI would be remembered closer to Hitler than to Einstein

I completely agree. I think that the people who are funding AI research are essentially attempting to create slaves. The engineers actually doing the work have either not thought it through or don't care.

> Assuming it comes with consciousness, which I think is fair to presume, brain-like AI seems to me like a technology that shouldn't be made.

"Fair to presume" is a good way to put it. I'm not convinced that being "like a brain" is either necessary or sufficient for consciousness, but it's necessary to presume it will, because consciousness is not understood well enough for the risk to be eliminated.
by bnjms | 2025-10-22 17:24:35+00:00
I’m going to go find these recordings now. But do you, or anyone else, have a preferred location for this type of data?

For example reddit is consistently an echo chamber in the reverse direction. Another example is any clips selected by cable news are doubted by republicans for intentional malicious framing. Which is fair enough since I’ve seen plenty of intentionally obtuse takes of things said which are already unacceptable.
by maxloh | 2025-10-22 17:24:37+00:00
(From Ai2's Discord channel)

We’re rolling out *olmOCR 2*—the next major update to our open OCR model for complex documents & scans.

olmOCR 2 turns messy files with tables, equations, handwriting, and more into clean text. Under the hood, we combine synthetic data with unit tests as verifiable rewards to push state-of-the-art performance on challenging docs.

*What’s new*

◆ *Stronger text recognition:* Trained with a new data mix, including 20,000 historical pages for better coverage of aged and degraded materials. Example: olmOCR 2 can now read Abraham Lincoln’s handwriting correctly, recovering the date “January 10th” in his 1864 letter to Major General Hitchcock.

◆ *Big benchmark gains:* 82.4 on olmOCR-Bench (up from 78.5), with improvements across every document category.

◆ *Faster & cheaper:* New FP8 quantized model (olmOCR-2-7B-1025-FP8) reaches ~3,400 output tokens/sec on a single H100—enough to process 10,000 pages for < $2.

◆ *Adapt to your data:* Want to fine-tune for your domain? We provide everything you need to customize and deploy.

Available now, and on the DeepInfra & Parasail APIs. We’re also updating our demo—try olmOCR 2 today!

Learn more: https://allenai.org/blog/olmocr-2 Model: https://huggingface.co/allenai/olmOCR-2-7B-1025-FP8
by riedel | 2025-10-22 17:25:22+00:00
1.8k$ that is roughly 10x the amount I paid for my XReal Air 2. Does watching movies. Does work as a display using Android desktop mode and the phone as an air mouse [0] (worked best for me).

Wonder what I get for the other 1.6k, that makes me want it...

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htl.agmous...
by intended | 2025-10-22 17:25:37+00:00
Sure, and it is used in a perjorative manner -

> As a result, U.S. strategy is shedding values and historical memory, narrowing its focus to money and homeland defense. Allies are discovering what unvarnished unilateralism feels like, as security guarantees become protection rackets and trade deals are enforced with tariffs. This is the same logic of raw power that helped spur two world wars, and the consequences are already visible.

Being compared to criminals and failed nations that started wars is not typically how America Ascendant believers frame the nation.

Am I missing something here?
by mindslight | 2025-10-22 17:25:47+00:00
Sure, that doesn't give you license to play fast and loose rejecting science for entirely political reasons.

Individuals are fallible, politicians are hypocritical, news at 11. Rather than aim for consistent application of rules and justice, your movement seems to have overextrapolated these failings into a rejection of having any kind of society in the first place.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-22 17:25:57+00:00
We had some neighbors that used it throw a big Halloween celebration. They gave out drinks and snacks, dressed up in very elaborate costumes, setup movies on outdoor projectors, and do hayrides.

They didn’t do it last year. I was disappointed, but I’m not angry at them. I realize that they were spending a lot of time and energy and maybe they are just burned out.

I’m sure there are people who are angry and judge them. But those people are spoiled, entitled brats.

The distinction is that it is entirely fine to be disappointed. It’s not fine to get angry.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-22 17:26:03+00:00
They would do it if they had the political capital, and further they will tell you as much.

Why would I not believe candidates who have spent their political life advocating the banning of the most popular rifle in America? When someone shows you what they are, believe them.

If Democrats want people to stop reacting that way, they need to commit to leaving law-abiding gun owners alone, not say "well it'll be fine, believe us" yet continue to campaign for bans and pass idiotic restrictions that do little to control crime.
by notahacker | 2025-10-22 17:26:41+00:00
> Saying something akin to "it's obviously Elon's fault because Elon is bad because everyone says Elon is bad" is not critical thinking, it's groupthink, brought to you by all the people who paid for all the stuff you read that says Elon is bad.

I love the way you talk about critical thinking and steelmanning, and yet write a wall of text characterising all criticism of Elon as that, whilst lacking either the critical thinking skills or the good faith to engage with my actual points, which were that the supposed "anti Elon base effect" had absolutely nothing to do with the fact Elon was best buddies with the Trump administration a few months ago and isn't now

Imagine seriously trying to argue that short sellers had more impact on Trump's opinion of Elon than Elon tweeting about Trump being in the Epstein files, or indeed that Sean Duffy would be fine with Elon running Twitter polls suggesting his "chimp skills" don't qualify him to run NASA if it wasn't for the pesky "baseline effect". I mean, I'd be the last person to suggest that Trump and his cronies were immune to groupthink or persuasion by moneyed interests, but I think there might be something else going on here, y'know...

Once you've grasped the idea that people's change of opinion of Elon might be more swayed by him personally insulting him than business interests which have been threatened by Elon for well over a decade now - probably more when he was at peak popularity - you'll be shocked to learn that people also have strong opinions on politics independently of Tesla short interest, and that Elon might have been prominent in that sphere lately...

Fun fact: I work in the same industry as Elon and hear positive sentiments about him all the time, sometimes managing to be well-reasoned, sincere and gushing. Also quite a few negative ones from people who depend on his business continuing to do well for their livelihoods, some of whom even worked with him in the past. The social media account which has had the most negative impact on my opinion of him is @elonmusk. It's amazing that you are "genuinely curious" about trends in opinion of Elon Musk, believe they owe a lot to social media and appear to be unaware of this heavily promoted account which keeps upsetting demographics that were previously neutral or favourably disposed towards him. Wonder which moneyed interest that represents...
by mvieira38 | 2025-10-22 17:27:25+00:00
Viewing corporations as amoral bots that are justified in squeezing every bit of profit out of humans is exactly what is wrong with our society. Someone in a big tech was the inventor of this dark pattern and they think they're awesome for finding a loophole in the well-meaning regulation, at the cost of the costumer they supposedly should serve. That person is the problem, and so are the people that followed them
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-22 17:27:42+00:00
That is not a basis. LLMs do not even exist within the same plane of intelligence that AGI would. NanoGPT gets us no closer to AGI than Tylenol gets us to curing cancer. And predictions about when we'll "cure cancer" have been about as accurate as I suspect AGI will be. When you don't understand the problem or the solution, you can't estimate the timeline for the solution. LLMs regurgitate and summarize text with unreliable accuracy, and they feign intelligence by reproducing the work of intelligent humans.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-22 17:28:05+00:00
Yep! But you aren't seeing African immigration to the same degree in the rest of the US, let alone compared to what you see in much of Western Europe like the UK or France.

Also, much of the African immigrant community you see in NYC is primarily Senegalese in origin (there's a reason why 116th St in Harlem is Petit Sénégal), and most Senegalese immigrate to France.

There are only around 20k Senegalese Americans (most of whom live in the NYC area) versus 300k French Senegalese. And that's just Senegal alone.
Show HN: Genesis DB MCP Server: AI Meets Event Sourcing, a Love Story
by patriceckhart | 2025-10-22 17:28:13+00:00
I've been experimenting with connecting AI clients directly to event-sourced data, and the result is something I'm genuinely excited about: the Genesis DB MCP Server (Preview).

It's a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI tools (like Claude Desktop) structured access to Genesis DB events so you can literally ask your database questions in natural language, such as:

• "How many users signed up last week?"

• "Show me all events for customer 42."

• "What event types exist in the system?"

Under the hood, the MCP Server acts as the interface that translates natural-language queries into Genesis DB queries and streams the results back to the client.

Why this matters: Most event stores are great for systems, not people. The MCP server makes event-sourced data conversational and explorable without writing queries or projections first.

Available now (Preview): https://github.com/genesisdb-io/genesisdb-io-mcp-server
by narag | 2025-10-22 17:28:27+00:00
There's a joke about a speeding BMW that crashes into the back of a hay cart. The driver complains that the cart should had a red rag to signal its presence. The carter responds "you didn't see the cart, would have you seen the rag?"

The info in Voyager is just a vanity plate... or a time capsule. Nothing wrong with that anyway. Some time in the future, humans will locate it and put it back in a museum.
by dpe82 | 2025-10-22 17:28:34+00:00
One of the eternal struggles of BigCo is there are structural incentives to make organizations big and slow. This is basically a bureaucratic law of nature.

It's often possible to get promoted by leading "large efforts" where large is defined more or less by headcount. So if a hot new org has unlimited HC budget all the incentives push managers to complicate things as much as possible to create justification for more heads. Good for savvy mangers, bad for the company and overall effort. My impression is this is what happened at Meta's AI org, and VR/AR before that.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-22 17:28:37+00:00
In general, bots/worms/clowns will first check if a host/router is already infected or vulnerable to a shim. Thus, tripwires on those checks or URI often auto-ban infected/hostile hosts before a scan fully escalates to a successful payload. Note, people don't want a VM delta-snapshot of their zero-day around for automated analysis.

99.98% of hostile traffic simply reuse already published testing tools, or services like Shodan to target hosts.

One shouldn't waste resources guessing the motives behind problem traffic. =3
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-22 17:28:40+00:00
Conflating physical products and open source software doesn't usually make sense. The open source model is more like someone making a valuable tool for their own use and then agreeing to let other people copy the design and make their own version of it. Monetisation can come from various sources - you may be paid to make the tool in the first place or you may perform a job where that tool helps you (or whoever is paying you).
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-22 17:29:00+00:00
That doesn't mean their intelligence services aren't also stoking various fires, some calling for more inquiries. Discord is to their benefit.

A politician who is no longer able to exert influence going to prison isn't a big loss to them, in fact it's arguably a good outcome. They get to have had favors while Sarkozy was in office and an angry France now that's he's out.
by text0404 | 2025-10-22 17:29:24+00:00
Oh, so an "emotional appeal"? That's also a logical fallacy btw.

This is about your personal fears of a candidate's religion and not his actions. Otherwise (if this were actually about your fear of indoctrination and dogma) you'd be spouting this same rhetoric for all politicians who believe in Abrahamic religions. Again, hypocrisy. Or did I miss where you said Christianity should be singled out and denounced by the UN?
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-22 17:29:51+00:00
This is actually really interesting because I’ve never actually seen anything coming out of Lecun‘s group that made it into production

that does not mean that nothing did, but this indicates to me that FAIR work never actually made it out of the lab and basically everything that Lecun has been working on has been shelved

That makes sense to me as he and most of the AI divas have focused on their “Governor of AI” roles instead of innovating in production

I’ll be interested to see how this shakes out for who is leading AI at Meta going forward
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-22 17:30:04+00:00
> Plenty of things have serious health impacts and we don't mandate it.

There are very few things with serious health impacts that are completely unregulated. The closest we get is probably guns.

> To go after something as niche as raw milk is weird in my view.

It wasn't niche when we regulated it. It's niche now because we did.

> Heart disease leads to quite a few deaths and we don't ban McDonalds.

We take plenty of regulatory steps to reduce heart disease. McDonalds is required, for example, to provide nutrition facts. The burger meat gets USDA inspected. The restaurants get health inspections. (And we do try to do more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drinks_portion_cap_rule)
by ajross | 2025-10-22 17:30:12+00:00
Because it fundamentally is just a laptop battery. The job of the 12V bootstrap battery is to bring the main control hardware (not even the MCU, I don't think) online so that the DC/DC converter can power the 12V bus from the main battery. There are a few other systems that expect to be powered in the event of a main battery failure, like door locks and charging.

But I really don't think hydraulics like power steering/braking are on that list. The fallback for hydraulic failure is manual pressure, just like it is on any car. It's a naturally redundant system.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-22 17:30:15+00:00
An analogy to making a physical tool doesn’t really work because we have to basically describe what software is in terms of exceptions to the analogy.

If I had a ratchet that, every time I turned it, I had to pay $.1, but I’d gotten it for free, but it was basically free to replicate, but the person who designed it did have to spend some significant work on R&D for the thing… I have no idea how I’d price that or how I’d feel.
by M95D | 2025-10-22 17:30:25+00:00
I think he meant to say the spirit of the law is the law.

If you read GDPR in it's complete form [1], there are 173 paragraphs before the actual law begins at CHAPTER I, almost half way down the page. Those are the reasons why the law was created, what's it trying to achieve, how it is intended to work, responsibilities of govenrnments, etc.

The EU provided us the spirit of the law - in writing.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng
by dangus | 2025-10-22 17:30:28+00:00
You did not answer my question about fairness to workers, and in that lack of answer I have my answer: you are anti-worker and prefer a system that rewards people who are already wealthy even more than they are rewarded now.

When you see someone like Jeff Bezos paying an effective tax rate of 12% you want that rate to be zero, while the median worker is getting a tax hike paying 50% ($600 per week is about half the median weekly individual income).

You’ve also made the tax so flat that it disregards regional economic differences. If you live in Alabama you’re paying a wildly higher tax rate than if you live in California. (You gave the example of $600 rather than a percent, please correct if you meant something else)

You call it an income-driven economy but only the income of the people doing labor is taxed.

If anything you’re doubling down on the most flawed aspects of our current system, introducing insane new ones, and possibly the most annoying bit is you seem to have zero interest in making even the most half-hearted elevator pitch as to how this could possibly make life better for the 99%.