MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spicyusername | 2025-10-25 12:40:00+00:00
I think that anecdote leads to the same conclusion, no? Children with worse parents have worse outcomes?

All the kids with engaged parents who participated in online classes from home probably did just fine.

I'm not saying going to school doesn't matter, I'm saying that what kind of school you go to is going to matter a lot less if your parents can't do a good job. Or put another way, what kind of parents you have is the dominant influence in your educational outcome.

This matters because when thinking about what kind of policies are needed to influence educational outcomes, they may not need to directly have to do with school.
by necovek | 2025-10-25 12:40:15+00:00
I get you, and I can understand how emotionally taxing it is to not do anything and "keep it in" (should have said this, could have done that, why are they not reading simple instructions... — I've spent one too many sleepless nights mostly when I wasn't behaving as myself but rather adapting to social expectation).

So I think you are completely right to set the boundaries you want to set, but perhaps you can recruit someone else in the community who doesn't get so annoyed at people not respecting others' time, because let's be honest, that's what people do (mostly because it usually works due to the social norms being what they are).

It is why some people are unapproachable and build boundaries (eg. imagine even executive assistants to executives in order to not divide their attention on every little thing).
by FlameRobot | 2025-10-25 12:40:30+00:00
You know what is the funniest thing. I used to drink all these different Ales and artisan beers.

After I quit drinking alcohol. I used to have a 4 pack of these 0% Ales/Larger that was supposed to taste similar. The packaging differs from the regular beer in that it has a silver top instead of dark blue on this particular. I picked up the alcoholic ones inadvertently as they were in the wrong place on the shelf.

When I took a sip, I thought it had gone off. It tasted terrible, like poison! Obviously once I checked the can, I realised my mistake. I gave them to my rest of the pack to one of my neighbours I think.
by olooney | 2025-10-25 12:42:01+00:00
From a rhetorical perspective, it's an extended "Yes-set" argument or persuasion sandwich. You see it a lot with cult leaders, motivational speakers, or political pundits. The problem is that you have an unpopular idea that isn't very well supported. How do you smuggle it past your audience? You use a structure like this:

* Verifiable Fact

* Obvious Truth

* Widely Held Opinion

* Your Nonsense Here

* Tautological Platitude

This gets your audience nodding along in "Yes" mode and makes you seem credible so they tend to give you the benefit of the doubt when they hit something they aren't so sure about. Then, before they have time to really process their objection, you move onto and finish with something they can't help but agree with.

The stuff on the history of computation and cybernetics is well researched with a flashy presentation, but it's not original nor, as you pointed out, does it form a single coherent thesis. Mixing in all the biology and movie stuff just dilutes it further. It's just a grab bag of interesting things added to build credibility. Which is a shame, because it's exactly the kind of stuff that's relevant to my interests[3][4].

> "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." - Samuel Johnson

The author clearly has an Opinion™ about AI, but instead of supporting they're trying to smuggle it through in a sandwich, which I think is why you have that intuitive allergic reaction to it.

[1]: https://changingminds.org/disciplines/sales/closing/yes-set_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliment_sandwich

[3]: https://www.oranlooney.com/post/history-of-computing/

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220656#45221336
by simonw | 2025-10-25 12:43:58+00:00
If you ask Claude Code a question about its own features you can see it using hyperlinks directly, starting with this dedicated markdown index page:

https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/claude_code_docs...

This is driven by instructions in the Claude Code system prompt:

> When the user directly asks about Claude Code (eg. "can Claude Code do...", "does Claude Code have..."), or asks in second person (eg. "are you able...", "can you do..."), or asks how to use a specific Claude Code feature (eg. implement a hook, or write a slash command), use the WebFetch tool to gather information to answer the question from Claude Code docs. The list of available docs is available at https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/claude_code_docs....

Screenshot and notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/claude-code-docs-map/
by lapcat | 2025-10-25 12:44:50+00:00
> Much like obesity is primarily driven by abundance of calories, another fight we won with our natural environment. The highly processed foods and marketing are just barely making a dent at the edge, and are largely a zero-sum game between food manufacturers.

Who is getting obese from fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and the like?

People will eat a whole bag of salted potato chips or a whole container of ice cream in a sitting, but who eats a whole bag of oranges in a sitting?
Ask HN: What Are You Building?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-25 12:44:58+00:00
Hey HN,

Curious to know what people here are building -side projects, startups, or even experiments. What’s your current project, what problem are you trying to solve, and what stage are you at?

We Currently Built CapitalReach AI - https://capitalreach.ai

Would love to hear what everyone is working on and maybe get inspired.
by businessmate | 2025-10-25 12:45:37+00:00
By mid-2025, AI assistants will handle over 40% of search queries, yet most brands lack auditable visibility metrics to navigate this shift. This article evaluates AIVO Standard™, a governance-focused framework, against tactical tools like Profound, Evertune, and Scrunch. With the Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) market projected to grow from USD 848 million in 2025 to USD 33.7 billion by 2034 (50% CAGR), AIVO’s Prompt-Space Occupancy Score (PSOS) and ±5% reproducibility tolerance deliver unmatched auditability, enabling enterprises to manage visibility as a strategic asset in AI-driven discovery.
by II2II | 2025-10-25 12:46:22+00:00
> Is this really a difficult precedence issue? It seems quite obvious to me that foo + 1 parses as (foo) + 1.

Keep in mind that precedence rules are arbitrary constructs, typically based upon what the rule maker perceived as more convenient. Perceptions will vary from person to person, so there is no objective obvious about them. Heck, there isn't even anything obvious about infix notation (see Forth or Lisp). Or, in the case of unary operators, it isn't obvious that the operator should come before or after the object it is operating on (consider how we negate as a prefix, while factorial is a suffix).
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-10-25 12:47:06+00:00
> a reset is resetting to a browser's defaults

No, a browser's defaults are, well, its defaults. One doesn't reset to them.

I think the line between a normalizer and reset stylesheet is _very_ fine, if there even is a line. A normalizer is probably _slightly_ more opinionated than a reset stylesheet. In the end, the difference isn't really important. If you need a reset stylesheet, normalizer will probably do just as well.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-25 12:47:57+00:00
But then skim the submission article and try to evaluate which audience it seems written for.

Considering they have stuff like "Located within the Sysdiagnoses in the Unified Logs section (specifically, Sysdiagnose Folder -> system_logs.logarchive -> Extra -> shutdown.log)" in the article, my guess is that they're aiming for people who at least have a basic understanding of security, not general users, as those wouldn't understand an iota of that.
by azangru | 2025-10-25 12:48:21+00:00
> At least React doesn't try to abstract too much

What do you mean? The DOM is abstracted away. Hooks are magical, and don't work like regular javascript functions. The scheduler, and the concurrent features are magical. The string pragmas are magical. It is all getting more and more magical, and you need a linter to keep you in line with the magic.
by alluro2 | 2025-10-25 12:48:49+00:00
This person just shared (for free) tons of experience, knowledge and insight into thinking/problem-solving process, for others to enjoy and learn from - and your only comment is attack on them for "stealing" somehow, by not sending e.g. 300 WA messages, but instead kilobytes of HN content?

How much would you calculate was stolen this way? Based on which factors?

As a side note, those pesky "tech people" are most certainly not THE most paid profession, now or ever.
by derbOac | 2025-10-25 12:48:50+00:00
I'm skeptical of this for several reasons, not the least of which is experience being around people who weren't bathing for a long time.

Every single time I read about this, it's the person adopting it who claims they don't smell. Not others around them.

Then there's the unspoken but critical exceptions, which seems par for the course in health social media now. The acquaintance doesn't use soap, with the asterisk (there's always an asterisk today) that he "does wash his hands with soap and, in the cases where there’s actual dirt or grime on him, will lather up." He doesn't use shampoo, but maybe in another asterisk he uses some other cleaner instead? Toward the end of the article the author mentions someone who doesn't use soap, with the asterisk that he means "everything but his armpits and crotch"... which seems significant especially given that lather is likely running elsewhere.

I do wonder if cleaning routines could change, to use gentler cleansers, or different strategies to moisturize and condition skin and hair. That would be a different and maybe more productive discussion.
by sevenseacat | 2025-10-25 12:48:53+00:00
> Do people actually ignore a comment explaining a problem with the code as written just because it wasn't a blocking review ?

Yes, yes they do.

And some devs will go the other way - not matter how minor a comment you leave, even just those that are tagged nitpick/FYI, they must address them.

I'm in agreement with most of the points, but I still find that most of the PRs I review, I block and request changes. Maybe that says more about me and the devs I've worked with...
by olooney | 2025-10-25 12:49:04+00:00
I just don't want them to design a data model with a single `numeric(10,2)` columns for "sale_price", or hard-code their PowerBI report to show the last five years of data using whatever the exchange rate was on the day they wrote the report. You're right - it could be covered in five minutes, but since we don't currently bother, every junior has to learn it the hard way...
by ZvG_Bonjwa | 2025-10-25 12:49:21+00:00
I take issue with comments like this, firing off inflammatory criticism based on nothing but guesswork and extremely tenuous “deductions”. There’s like, 8 extremely debatable assumptions here.

Reading between the lines is fair but architecting entire narratives is a stretch. Even then, the narrative lacks logic: why are we arbitrarily trusting what the manager and engineer says “at face value” but not OP? Where on earth is it even remotely implied that OP lets the engineers do what they want?

Repeatedly saying “I don’t know what’s really happening buuut” is not a coupon to let you arrive at such a negative conclusion.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-25 12:50:10+00:00
This isn't an accurate take either. You can load client skills, sure, but the whole selling point from Anthropic is that skills are like memory, managed at the API layer "transparently" and that those skills are cross project. If you forced Claude to only use skills from the current project to try and be transparent, it would still be a black box that makes it harder to debug failures, and it'd still be agent and vendor specific rather than more human friendly and vendor agnostic.
by krrrh | 2025-10-25 12:50:15+00:00
This is funded by the mushroom dispensary stores operating in the open in Vancouver. LSD is very low risk for adulterants, partly because it’s cheap to produce and is somewhat separate from other supply chains, partly because the effective dose is so small, but it never hurts to send in a sample of anything, particularly white powders.

https://getyourdrugstested.com/
by patcon | 2025-10-25 12:51:23+00:00
I've worked around a medium-sized and storied backbone project that (for good reason) didn't have time to "get things right" and hoooooo boy can it get complex and spaghetti.[1]

Compared to my confusion making sense of that project, I simply cannot imagine getting so confused orienting in a React project, even if it were done by an inexperienced person. It seems to me that the "extra" abstractions of React compel you to use them, and so things end up in reliable, sensible places.

The entanglements the author mentions feel like part of the benefit, I guess?

[1]: https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/tree/edge/client-part...
by crazygringo | 2025-10-25 12:52:05+00:00
Just searched for their actual policies to corroborate and found the policies on ID verification:

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organizatio...

And that credits are nonrefundable:

https://openai.com/policies/service-credit-terms/

It absolutely seems like terrible horrible customer service not to issue refunds in this case. Obviously the credits can still be used for most of the models, so it's not like you can't do anything with them. But if someone explains they bought the credits specifically to use with the verification-gated models and then discovered they couldn't (since apparently verification fails for some people), there's no question that refunds are the right thing to do. What is OpenAI thinking?

(BTW, speculation seems to be that the verification process doesn't have anything to do with know-your-customer laws or anti-fraud, but is intended to prevent competitors like Chinese DeepSeek from having large-scale access to OpenAI's best models.)
by hypfer | 2025-10-25 12:52:33+00:00
> but perhaps you can recruit someone else in the community who doesn't get so annoyed at people not respecting others' time

No, I can't. The world, in this aspect, is wrong. It is flawed. Rotten, even. I (and actually we) cannot approach this by just accommodating what is broken.

Everyone has been doing that and you can see what damage this has done to democracy and to reality itself.

As the docs state, Valetudo is counter-culture. The definition of being that is that you will hear a steady stream of loud screaming, because culture is being countered. If this stream stops, that means that the countering also stopped.

I do not think that we can afford to let the world deteriorate even further than it has already. We need to re-learn context. No matter how painful that might turn out.

I know HN is the last place for this :D But I also didn't ask to be linked here. I did however ask to not be posted here anymore.

I also believe that Valetudo is a unique opportunity for this, because no one is being held at gunpoint and forced to use it, nor will anyone die because they can't use it. But, at the same time, it is highly-polished software that just works and offers massive amounts of value for free. You only pay with accepting that context exists and that other humans exist.

> It is why some people are unapproachable and build boundaries

This is precisely what I am doing. I would argue thought that the "unapproachable" really depends on where one is coming from.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-25 12:53:18+00:00
I think there are four pieces of evidence:

- One person on the team does not respect him. That is pretty unambiguous.

- His manager puts his own (in all likelihood, based on quite limited information) opinion about the one guy over the opinion of the team lead. The team lead definitely knows the guy better, yet his manager disregards that. Why would he do that if he believed that the team lead was doing good leadership? Questioning the behavior of your subordinates is something you do when you don't trust in their abilities.

- The post mortem. If you are the team lead and you want a post mortem, then you will do a post mortem. "Because I say so", should be enough of a reason. Yet somehow his own manager needed to get involved, to force through the decision of the team lead? This also relates to the point before this.

- The Team. And I think this is the biggest tell. Imagine you are a team lead and you tell 10 people "we are doing X", one guy disagrees. There are still 9 other people, if they trusted the team lead as a leader, they would take his side, especially if X is something as obvious as doing a post mortem. This whole situation can only develop if the 9 people "who like to work with him" refuse to stand up for him at all. If you as a leader have 90% of the people behind you everything you say will be done.

The real question is why the rest of the team is doing nothing. Either it is because they are more afraid to go against the one guy (unlikely) or because they do not think it is worth it to stand up for the team lead. The real thing OP should consider is why his team does not appear to care the tiniest bit about his leadership position. If they did, the one guy would not be a problem at all.

One question remains, why do they love working with him. I do not think they are flattering him, I think they mean it. Often working for a weak leader is easy, because you can set your own rules and you can push your leader around. They probably enjoy that the atmosphere in the team is more relaxed, they get to have more influence on decisions and they can deflect work they do not want to do.
by cmgver | 2025-10-25 12:53:35+00:00
Hi HN! I've been working on a quantum AGI language where every output comes with a verifiable truth score. It's called SPL (Semantic Pattern Language).

GitHub: https://github.com/spliq/spl Youtube: https://youtu.be/Jd1IMC2Z4vY

The Problem

Current AI hallucinates. Fine for chat, dealbreaker for medical AI, legal automation, autonomous systems—anything where errors mean liability.

What SPL Does

Every pattern execution returns:

output: result: [your output] truth_score: 0.94 # Verifiable confidence method: "validator+agent" evidence: [...]

Instead of black-box prompts, you compose typed, versioned patterns with contracts. Each pattern has guarantees that compose all the way up.

Architecture

20 foundational patterns across 6 layers that compose into millions through exponential growth: - L0: Meta-Pattern (rules all patterns follow) - L1: 13 Critical Patterns (validator, agent, translator...) - L1C: 6 Cognitive Patterns (values, knowledge, ethics...) - L2+: Reality × Technology × Products

Key Differentiation

vs. LangChain/AutoGPT: They orchestrate. SPL adds verification + truth scoring + formal contracts.

vs. Prompt Engineering: Prompts = untyped text. SPL = versioned, typed, composable, with dependency graphs.

The insight: Separate what (pattern contracts) from how (LLM implementation). The LLM proposes; validators verify.

Cognitive Patterns (AGI Part)

6 patterns forming minimal viable AGI: 1. Value System - priorities/tradeoffs 2. Knowledge Representation - organizing info 3. Experience Acquisition - learning 4. Motivation - goal formation 5. Expectation - predictions 6. Ethical Reasoning - moral decisions

Connect them in a loop → general intelligence.

Why Open Source?

Apache 2.0 because: - Network effects (value grows with pattern library) - Prior art defense (timestamp against patents) - Community validation (prove/break this) - Transparency (verifiable AI needs verifiable foundations)

2+ years building. Spec stable (v2.3). 20 foundational + 200+ patterns in development.

What's In The Repo

Meta-pattern v2.3 13 critical + 6 cognitive patterns Full specs with contracts Extensive docs Python tooling (Q4 2025) Test suite (Q1 2026)

Use Cases

- Factory robots explaining why they stopped - Autonomous vehicles with verifiable decisions - Hospital diagnostics with evidence trails - Legal discovery with auditable reasoning - AI therapists that escalate when confidence drops

Hard Questions

"Isn't this over-engineered?" Works at every level—chatbots to surgery robots. Our platform spliq.ai will make it free.

"How enforce truth scores?" Patterns declare verification methods. Audit the chain. Community scores trust.

"Can't LLMs lie?" Yes. Critical patterns use external validators (code execution, APIs, theorem provers). LLM suggests; validator verifies.

What We Need

- Domain experts (medical, legal, finance, robotics) - Skeptics (break it now, not in production) - Builders (tools, validators, visualizers) - Early adopters (try it, report back)

---

Here all day for questions. Hit me with skepticism—I'd rather fix problems now.

~ ptah (Carlos Garcia - Spliq team)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-25 12:53:54+00:00
The most frustrating and brain damaged part about this take is that everyone pushing it ignores that not getting vaccinated has 20x higher chance of cardiac damage from covid.

It's literally people arguing not to wear seatbelts and pointing at cases were people lived because they were ejected from the car. Ignoring all the people who lived because they were wearing seatbelts.

The correct framing is "How many young people didn't get myocarditis because they got the vaccine?"
by warpspin | 2025-10-25 12:53:55+00:00
Seems to redirect back to HN now when you visit it from HN? Still glad it was mentioned here. Have been pondering buying a vacuum robot for a while and the missing privacy was off putting, so I haven't bought one yet, and I only today learnt of the project.

Can somebody who runs this on one of the recommended Dreame mopping robots say from experience whether you actually lose some kind of essential features the built-in firmwares have? The "why not" page says feature parity is a non-goal but only specifically mentions multifloor where I can understand the reasoning.
by dangus | 2025-10-25 12:54:20+00:00
You had a framework that broke in 3 years. I had a MacBook Pro 15” 2016 with a defective keyboard design that had repeating keystrokes within a year, which wasn’t corrected on the design of the machines until 4 years later.

It’s gaslighting because you’re trying to convince us of a different alternate reality than the observed truthful reality, not just a different opinion. You’re trying to tell us that factually non-user-repairable MacBooks with a manufacturer that refuses to sell spare parts with a major hardware reliability scandal under its belt less than 10 years ago will stand the test of time.

I never claimed that you can find hardware that is 100% as good as MacBooks, I’m only claiming that the extra XX% better hardware polish/quality/battery life you get with a Mac is not really worth giving up expandable storage and easy Linux compatibility in the context of someone who was going to install Asahi Linux instead of macOS. And there are PC systems that get closer than ever to MacBook quality. ThinkPad X1 Carbon, some higher end ASUS Zenbook systems I’ve played with, even some of the thin and light gaming-oriented systems out there are really nice quality as the space is very competitive.

If the only major compromises are battery life (solved by a $50 spare battery or a wall outlet at the coffee shop) or how much my laptop feels like a luxury indulgence like a fashionable handbag, I’m personally fine with that.