MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by legitster | 2025-10-02 15:58:50+00:00
> Many of the computers still running Windows 10 can’t upgrade to Windows 11. In 2022, hardware researchers found that 43% of all computers running Windows 10 could not move to Windows 11 — which equaled around 400 million computers at that time.

My understanding is that Microsoft has more or less phased out the requirement in question (that a CPU has TPM 2.0).
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-02 15:59:01+00:00
Based on personal experience I don't believe it has as much to do with smartness or willingess to work hard. A lot of poor kids have that too.

The bigger difference is that successful parents are constantly acting as role models, giving their children cues to follow, and passing on important knowledge that schools don't whether they realize or not. Many poor kids miss out on those things entirely, and as a result end up spinning their wheels later in life due to misplaced efforts and fumbled attempts. They may eventually figure things out on their own, but it'll happen several years down the road, and while they can narrow the gap closing it entirely becomes more difficult the further they ascend (feels a bit like Zeno's Paradox).
by viewmodifier | 2025-10-02 15:59:22+00:00
Sharing the preview release that you can all try today at: https://swiftly.sh

Its entirely free and runs offline directly from your browser - you dont need Xcode and it works on any device (Mac, windows, chromebook etc).

I have lots of ideas for where we can take this from saving and sharing snippets to ota code updates in apps.

if you're curious how it works I wrote up a lil detail linked in the footer on the site.

TLDR - its a custom Swift Interpreter written in Swift and compiled to wasm - it works in 2 parts:

1. a "Compiler" that transforms Swift code to a custom intermediary format

2. a VM that can evaluate the intermediary format at runtime

Supports core features (functions, closures, control flow, optionals, collections, string interpolation) - more coming soon. Would love feedback on what you’d do with it or features you’d want next.
by astout55555 | 2025-10-02 16:00:09+00:00
Location: Phoenix, AZ Remote: Prefer remote, open to hybrid or on-site Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, React, Node.js, Express, Postgres, MondoDB, Docker, Git/GitHub, AWS Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CBGG1TiClmM8DbnGflpBRDCosU5OB9R-/view?usp=sharing Email: alex.stout55555@gmail.com
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 16:00:30+00:00
> If you can spend $100 BILLION on data centers, you have the budget to stand up a proper school.

This is an excellent point. Georgia Tech, a top 10 computer science university, has an annual budget of $2.7 billion (2024) for the entire university to educate an enrollment of 53,000 students. Really puts it into perspective; this is 1% of Google's annual expenses.
Show HN: Xent Game: help GPT2 minimize its surprise
by upperhalfplane | 2025-10-02 16:00:34+00:00
Hi there! We're Andrew and Clément and we decided to make a game to understand better how LLM process and compress information. So we made a sort of reverse prompting game with constraints: try to find a prefix to a given story, and see how many bits of cross-entropy (xent) are removed from a text with that prefix (as seen by GPT 2). This leads to cool and creative solutions! It's also interesting to find how high the scores can go and to see the solutions of other users.

Enjoy!
by amelius | 2025-10-02 16:00:45+00:00
Strange, because I never see it on the front page.

Perhaps I should change the way I read HN.

PS: I just searched, and indeed there is a lot of talk about incidents around drones. But what I mean is talk about the technology used in these drones. For example, how do you send a video feed through a kilometers long fiber optic cable that is cheap to produce and lightweight? These are the kind of questions I'm interested in.
by triceratops | 2025-10-02 16:00:58+00:00
> if you run something like a drug trafficking business

Violence and other crimes are inherent in the illegal drug trade once you get to any high level. Your local friendly weed dealer may not hurt anyone physically but the people above him are another matter.

> you can probably run a generic shipping business if you make the same risk adjusted money

The propensity to take a course of action based on "risk adjusted profit" rather than "right or wrong" is a pretty good predictor of future criminality.
by majormajor | 2025-10-02 16:01:06+00:00
One person's waste is another person's more comfortable routine; one person's efficiency is another person's grueling day. (Even setting aside possible complications from not re-sterilizing, in this specific example.)

Our goal should be to have a comfortable amount of capacity in the system so that we don't need to sweat the details, not to hyper-optimize everyone into human machines.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-10-02 16:01:15+00:00
> If someone reaches AGI, current business models, ROI etc will be meaningless.

sure, but its still a moonshot, compared to our current tech. I think such hope leaves us vulnerable to cognitive biases such as sunk cost fallacies. If Jesus comes back that really would change everything, that's the clarion call of many cults that end in tragedy.

I imagine there is fruit that is considerably lower hanging, that has more obvious ROI but is just considerably less sexy than AGI.
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 16:01:25+00:00
The headline is terrible given the thesis of the short article.

The Economist's analysis creates a model that shows Pharma companies making "excess profits" (greater than 10% return on capital) second only to technology companies. In that sense, by the Economist's terms, they are in fact gouging.

But that's not really the point the Economist wants to make; rather, regardless of whatever profits Pharma is raking in, they're in fact a small component of overall health care spending. You could zero out Pharma profits (this is my point and not theirs) and not materially change US health spending.

In all these discussions about American health care, my first take is that everybody should go download the CMS National Health Expenditures, and make a beeline for "Expenditures by Type of Expenditure and Program" (it's just an Excel spreadsheet). It's an extremely intuitive breakdown of where all US health care spending goes, and who's paying for it, all on one sheet.

There are a lot of narratives about health care spending that do not survive first contact with that spreadsheet.
by diego_moita | 2025-10-02 16:02:04+00:00
I'm surprised on the comments here that go: "I had to pay $$$$ for a medication when I could buy that same medication somewhere else for a fraction of it. Therefore Big Pharma gouges America".

That is not evidence that "Big Pharma gouges America". It is evidence that Americans pay a lot more than other countries. Only that. The conclusion doesn't necessarily follow from the premises.

Want to understand why? Read the article's last paragraph:

> The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity.

As always, no one reads anything.
by rohansood15 | 2025-10-02 16:02:21+00:00
I don't get why folks are so dismissive here.

If you ever saw Claude Code/Codex use grep, you will find that it constructs complex queries that encompass a whole range of keywords which may not even be present in the original user query. So the 'semantic meaning' isn't actually lost.

And nobody is putting an entire enterprise's knowledge base inside the context window. How many enterprise tasks are there that need referencing more that a dozen docs? And even those that do, can be broken down into sub-tasks of manageable size.

Lastly, nobody here mentions how much of a pain it is to build, maintain and secure an enterprise vector database. People spend months cleaning the data, chunking and vectorizing it, only for newer versions of the same data making it redundant overnight. And good look recreating your entire permissioning and access control stack on top of the vector database you just created.

The RAG obituary is a bit provocative, and maybe that's intentional. But it's surprising how negative/dismissive the reactions in this thread are.
by gruez | 2025-10-02 16:02:21+00:00
For people who only read the title, note that the article is actually about a slightly different point:

>America is a lucrative market for the world’s drug giants. Many pharma bosses admit that is where they make most of their profits. But are these profits really responsible for America’s ballooning health-care bill? The short answer is no.

I don't think the article is disputing that Americans pay more for drugs than other countries, only that the pharma industry isn't the top gouger (or even above average) in the healthcare industry.
by Narann | 2025-10-02 16:02:30+00:00
> LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’

I don't know why what Bernard Arnault says is on HN, he has no competencies in economy.

No dumb rich-hate here, simply that Bernard Arnault is definitely not best person to talk about the subject.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-02 16:02:59+00:00
Fil-C is going to usually be a huge perf regression right? Sometimes I won't care, sometimes I will and this will vary between users with only some commonality.

I think any software on the "most people are annoyed" list will get a rewrite. All the tools where people cared specifically about perf anyway are already rewritten or being rewritten because there are so many performance opportunities. The out-of-box grep sucks compared to ripgrep for example.

It will suck to be someone with no programming ability for whom a tool most people aren't annoyed by is too slow with Fil-C for their niche use. But that's not so different from how it sucks when your local government forgets deaf people exist, or that time we made everything use touch screens so if your fingers don't "work" on a touch screen now you're crippled with no warning.
by 1dolinski | 2025-10-02 16:03:20+00:00
OP here:

For AI to become truly autonomous, it needs to have the best context window.

That comes at a setup cost (AI can't provision API keys, it doesn't have a credit card or billing address)

And requires spend.

Both are solved by connecting paid APIs, SAAS tools, and real-time data to the wallets that AI can hold.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and work with people that are interested.
by ksctrading | 2025-10-02 16:03:26+00:00
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by Kirby64 | 2025-10-02 16:03:43+00:00
I’d suggest that’s just a case of what you’re used to. I never use CarPlay except when I get a rental and every time I use it there’s a learning curve to relearn how it works. Just like any new UI honestly. As for Tesla nav in particular, I can’t really think of any nav elements “buried” in the UI except disabling toll routes or something. But that’s a sub-menu on almost any nav software, so not unusual.

The thing that is not subjective though: the UI is responsive and the map data isn’t extremely outdated. Those are the two primary problems with “bad” nav implementations.
by saltysalt | 2025-10-02 16:03:50+00:00
This is great advice:

"It also means that staying the course when things don’t go your way isn’t just a virtue but a practice. To play the long game, you have to keep showing up even after crushing disappointment without getting cynical of the process. Put differently, you need high levels of frustration tolerance."

Stoicism helps, or any form of resilience training. Leaders need high frustration thresholds to reach the top, because the view from up there doesn't get any better.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-02 16:04:02+00:00
Edit: I somehow completely skipped the bad bit, right at the beginning.

> 16LB (1) The Secretary of State may by regulations specify a description of consistent identifier for the purposes of this section.

Such provisions are ripe for abuse – somewhat tempered by 16LB(6), but that relies on the designated person's discretion (which itself is constrained by 16LB(12), and my experience with educational folk suggests they take such guidance seriously, even when they profoundly disagree with it), and having a database in the first place is the major issue. Ignore the rest of this comment.

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That doesn't seem to say that? It says:

> 16LB (2) “Consistent identifier” means any identifier (such as, for example, a number or code used for identification purposes) that—

> (a) relates to a child, and

> (b) forms part of a set of similar identifiers that is of general application.

School ID plus some school-specific identifier would suffice, if I'm reading this right.

That said, I'm not sure why you'd write this into a law under my interpretation, since it's already current practice to take actions that are "likely to facilitate the exercise by any person of a function of that person that relates to safeguarding or promoting the welfare of children", and to avoid actions that "would be more detrimental to the child than not including it", so maybe this is one of the things that you need to be a legal expert to understand.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-10-02 16:04:06+00:00
"With today’s tools — including AI — it’s no longer necessary for artists to learn a craft. What matters is the content, the idea. It doesn’t matter what tools you use if you achieve it.”

The word "art" etymologically derives from older words meaning "skill" or "craft." Doing stuff that doesn't require skill or craft is not art by definition, even if it looks like it.

You're not an artist if you do this. But it's okay. Artists throughout history have always lived with the rest of the world being apathetic to art and confusing making copies of things with the artistic process. This age is no different, except copies can be made easier and faster.

That being said, it sounds like we're really close to me being able to type in a description of something and receive an AI-generated sculpture of it, hopefully with a 3D preview. Awesome, but we're also seeing some really disturbing authoritarian trends lately, and we're likely going to see a lot of ideas get labelled as harmful and blocked from being used by AI tools. So I don't see this leading to any type of utopia for anyone other than the owners of these technologies.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-02 16:04:13+00:00
Google is absolutely notorious for freezing accounts with zero warning, zero explanation and zero recourse.

I personally experienced this while working for a charity that used Google workspace. After 8 years they suddenly froze the account. The freeze lasted 32 days. During this period they could not operate and Google was completely unresponsive for the first 2 weeks. Google then started demanding various forms of proof of incorporation, various employee government ID's, things like that. We provided all this information. After another week of silence they started asking for ID's of people that did not even work there. We told them we could not provide this information, because of that. Silence. Finally at week 4 we got a call from someone in India that told us there was nothing they could do and the response team would continue to investigate. We are not allowed any contact with the investigation team. Then 32 days after being locked out,the account was silently unlocked again with no explanation.

I cannot discourage people from using any google product for their business any more strongly than this story. They are a terrible company and do not care at all about their customers. They are too big to fail so they just stomp all over you.

Remember google has no way to contact them other than an email form. Which we filled out 2-5 per DAY, which went mostly un-responded to. In the painfully rare case that you do get someone one the phone they will just be someone in India that tells you sorry, nothing we can do.
by owenthejumper | 2025-10-02 16:04:25+00:00
The n8n space has been crowded for a long time - Tray io, Zapier Enterprise, Workato, Make, UIPath, and many others

N8n seems to be standing out thanks to their open source roots (and not deliberately hampering the OSS variant too much).

DataTables will make a big difference again - being able to store some level of "state" has been a need in almost every workflow I've built.
by kent-mc | 2025-10-02 16:05:08+00:00
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by Anamon | 2025-10-02 16:05:08+00:00
This case is really the opposite, though. Sorting strictly by character value was the default for decades because it was the quickest and easiest to implement. Only with computers hitting the really big mainstream, and millions of complaints from users who don't know the ASCII table by heart, or have ever heard of ASCII, did tools start to implement the kind of ordering logic that any user who isn't a developer would expect.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-02 16:05:26+00:00
Everyone is guilty here, because once one sector forms a monopoly, they have monopoly pricing power, and so their counterparty sectors have to form a monopoly as well to keep leverage in negotiations.

50 years ago, there were many more pharma companies, many more insurance companies, and many more hospitals under individual ownership. First the pharma companies consolidated, which give them monopoly pricing power over insurers. So then the insurance companies consolidated to they could negotiate on equal footing, but then they had monopoly pricing power over the hospitals. So then hospitals consolidated so they could negotiate. And now after decades of this, we're right back we're started, except for consumers, who can't consolidate and hence get fucked.

The two solutions here are either breaking up all the monopolies at the same time-- pharma, insurance, and hospitals-- so that everyone has market competition again, or letting health care consumers consolidate so they have pricing leverage-- i.e., forming a single-payer health-care system where the government negotiates deals on behalf of a 330+-million payer pool.

It does not make sense to either blame or spare one single sector: the pharmas, insurers and hospitals are all guilty, though in a sense all of their hands were forced by their counterparties. It's a coordination problem of exactly the kind government is supposed to solve, hence why government-run health care eventually seems like the only option.
by SilentM68 | 2025-10-02 16:05:30+00:00
Hmm, this does not sound like an accurate interpretation of work culture. Perhaps this is true in an ideal job environment. The word "Work" says it all. It's work, labor, hard stuff, not fun and stressful. There is no actual way to manager that kind of stress unless your work is what you normally do for fun, and you enjoy. This does not describe the average work environment.

In my experience, everybody that I've worked with has been stressed, by the job, the managers, co-workers, and their client base. The worse the economy is, the higher the likelihood of people getting let go, so of course everyone is weary of everybody else and making sure that if somebody's head is heading for the shopping block, it's not themselves.
by AJ007 | 2025-10-02 16:05:39+00:00
All of the future billion dollar model training runs might be for conversion rate optimization.

User mentions they didn't sleep well. Model delivers jarring information right before user's bed time. Model subtly suggests other sleep disruptive activities, user receives coupons for free coffee. User converts for ad for sleeping medication.

(This is already happening, intentionally or not)

Notably the open source models OpenAI released right before gpt5 are likely good enough to be substitutes for 95% of typical ChatGPT use cases.
by ferguess_k | 2025-10-02 16:06:08+00:00
I think the consideration is: Yes we did send humans to the moon, but we don't know whether we can do it now, so we need to do it now. If China can do it NOW and we can't, it's bad for us.

Basically dog versus dog mindset, but very understandable. Big dogs gotta have everything other big dogs have, and more. At least it is good for science and technology. If we have to have BS in politics, this is one of the best.
by k310 | 2025-10-02 16:06:16+00:00
Behind all the smoke and pyrotechnics:

> Although many on the right, including Musk, have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, while hostile towards and desperate to clamp down on criticism or opposing views.

It's 100% hypocrisy.

Moderation is the mark of a civil forum. I only peruse two, including HN. I have no time or attention to give to unchecked lies and hate speech.
Show HN: Qbecc is a C compiler producing Go(Golang) ABI0 assembler
by 0xjnml | 2025-10-02 16:06:30+00:00
The resulting assembler code runs on standard Go movable stacks. This is another way how to avoid the cost of CGo Go<->C context switch. However, as no silver bullets exist, the cost of running on movable stacks is not gone in full. It have shifted to the additional handling of goroutine-local allocations for addressable local variables.

The purpose of this experiment is to compare the modernc.org/ccgo/v4 and qbecc approaches with respect to resulting performance differences, if any.

The proof of concept has reached v0.1.0.