MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-25 13:56:52+00:00
" is good reason to believe it."

The results of this belief seem to be pretty catastrophic. Trust against authorities has evaporated all over the world.

"People in groups are irrational and tribal in ways people are not if you speak to them one on one. "

Sure, but why precisely do you believe that lies / deliberate misinformation will work better in such situations?

Is anybody able to craft such misinformation so soothing and so believable that the vast majority of the population will accept it indefinitely?

If not, what happens when it becomes obvious that someone in a position of authority communicated dishonestly to the public?
by mark_l_watson | 2025-10-25 13:56:53+00:00
I am mostly retired but I am thinking of restarting a solo products mini-company next year. I have been looking at much less expensive options like Alibaba Cloud, GLM, Kimi K2, etc. There is a recent Stanford study showing most US startups are using less expensive Chinese models, but I think usually hosted in the US.

For now I am happy enough with Gemini and GPT-5 because my usage is so lite that anything is cheap. For many engineering use cases, Gemini-2.5-flash-lite works well enough.

How do you use GLM? With codex —oss? Or, just ‘raw’ with no agent-wrapping coding environment?
by AayatsFounder | 2025-10-25 13:57:27+00:00
I was really annoyed with how bad my advertising campaigns were doing. (I had really bad ads and campaign management.) So I built AI agents to do this for me better than I ever could so I can sleep easier at night and lose less hair.

It's called Versaunt, it's an autonomous AI ad platform that generates, manages, and optimizes video ads while you sleep.

You just paste your landing page's URL and it analyzes everything about your business and generates compelling video ads that are either funny, scary, informative, or convincing.

It's free for you this weekend. If you find it useful, cool, or exciting we're on PH today so check us out.

I'd like to take this to YC, would anyone be open to critiquing my draft application?

Also, this is my first time posting on HN (please do not cook me).

Btw, Versaunt = Versatile + Savant
by vacuity | 2025-10-25 13:57:37+00:00
I believe we can do fairly well in addressing people in groups. People are irrational, but the probability distribution of "things we say" against "what people will think and do" can be modulated for the better. The bigger issue, I think, is that the authorities can't be trusted. In what world will you find even 100 people who will agree to hold truth, justice, blah blah in high regard, and actually execute on those words? Corruption in the leaders exacerbates the illness of irrationality in the people.
by logicchains | 2025-10-25 13:58:01+00:00
>(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.)

It's not because OpenAI's CEO is also the founder of WorldCoin, a project to ID everyone?
by api | 2025-10-25 13:58:18+00:00
The vaccine didn’t work as well as we thought it would.

It did work to some extent. It’s there in the numbers. But it was not the resounding success that, say, the smallpox or polio vaccines were. It attenuated the disease a little.

That might change some of the calculus. Or it might not. It’s hard to tell the difference between myocarditis caused by the vaccine or from COVID or from other factors.

Imagine it’s you who gets to make the call. Whatever call you make will be roundly criticized and you might be wrong. If you’re wrong more people will die.
by necovek | 2025-10-25 13:59:00+00:00
Edit to answer the first point: free software as a cultural movement grew out of a need to control the hardware a software engineer bought and which came with no source code for the drivers. Friends made along the way was great, and I agree that's lovely, but ultimately that's what free software enables, among other lovely things (like not depending on a manufacturer you disagree with, or another programmer you disagree with).

Forking a project does not duplicate the effort — collaboration requires a lot of effort, and the more collaborators, the more expensive it is (usually even more than 2x). This is why many well-run free software projects have their own BDFLs (Linux, Python... OK, maybe not so benevolent at all times :)).

If the two of us wanted to take a project in a different direction, and insisted on keeping it a single project, we'd have to do more work to reach compromises all the time, neither side ever being fully happy, but doing duplicate work for an imperfect result.

As you are well aware, RoI calculation is not as simple as LoC count, and typing in the code is the fast part. With two projects with clearer missions, willing contributors flock to the one they align better with, which leads to one being more stable, another being quicker to add new features.

And no, getting all of those contributors on a single project would not result in a single project that is both stable and adding new features quickly.

Obviously, no expectation on you to do anything. I just find it surprising you do not see the value in a different way to organize a community compared to what's common, even if what's valuable to you is different.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-25 13:59:04+00:00
> This is true, but it is also true that "official" communication often tends to project level of certainty that just does not correspond to the actual level of knowledge, and Covid was pretty bad in this regard

After my SO got her first COVID vaccine she lost her period. It had been rock steady for many, many years and suddenly gone and hadn't come back for a few months. She had a GP appointment, and I accompanied her as I often do as my SO struggles with recalling important details.

My SO told the GP about her missing period, and the GP quickly tried to reassure her it wasn't something to worry about and it would come back soon enough.

Well, I had just read published studies about this and knew the medical establishment had no idea why the vaccine caused a lot of women to lose their period.

So I challenged the GP and asked if she knew what the mechanism was that caused my SO to no longer have her period, and of course she didn't know.

"Well, if you don't know the mechanism, how can you say it's fine this time?", I asked sincerely.

She admitted she was just going off what usually happens when women lose their periods, which can happen due to various kinds of stress. I wondered why it was so difficult to lead with that, instead of confidently stating it would be fine.

My SO did eventually get her period back, but to this day, almost 5 years later, it's still highly unregular.
by api | 2025-10-25 13:59:27+00:00
> It’s an overreaction stemming from years of dealing with bad-faith trolls.

A billion billion billion times this.

It makes me wonder about the inquisition. There’s a subset of Catholic inquisition apologists who argue it was an overreaction to social breakdown and an explosion of cults, some of which were very harmful. Having seen the rise of mass social media I am no longer able to dismiss this argument as easily. Still don’t quite buy it but there is, as you’d say in criminal law, reasonable doubt.
by nwallin | 2025-10-25 14:00:03+00:00
In Southern California it costs $120 just for a guy to come out and look at your HVAC. Not fix anything--not install anything--just to look at it and give you an estimate for how much the repair is going to take. I went to the website for a local installer and they give a ballpark of $13,000-$25,000 for a heat pump installation.

I don't know why it's so expensive here. It shouldn't be, it makes no sense. But it is.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-10-25 14:00:05+00:00
Cool thanks! So does that mean if I want more durability/copies of the data I can just link up additional servers and they’ll sync all the data via IPFS? So like if I started with just my home NAS, then later added a VPS, and later a computer sitting at my brother’s house, I would end up with a copy of all data in all 3 locations and could access it if at least one of them was online at any given time?
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-25 14:00:52+00:00
Like I said, I understand why it happens. But it’s also just very easy for me to sit down and kind of talk through why it’s not a good way to operate. There are definitely types of “experts“ and certain fields that I am incredibly skeptical of or maybe even dismiss outright, but to translate that into a broader “basically every doctor and government is lying to me“ as one accepts “outsider” opinions as gospel is just such an extreme reaction.

And normally I wouldn’t really even bother acknowledging that that extreme stance exists. If you look hard enough you can find an extreme stance on anything. But the sheer percentage of the US population that has embraced an almost entirely skeptical/dismissive view of doctors and experts of any kind… it’s kind of horrifying
by Vipsy | 2025-10-25 14:00:55+00:00
I think some of the React vs Backbone debate misses how web projects often evolve in unpredictable ways. Most 'tiny' apps pick up complexity as features are added. So it's useful to build on a platform that scales smoothly and encourages best practices and grows with you.

React has become that platform that it is because teams can reliably ship, maintain the codebase and onboard new folks. Preference for 'right tool for the job' is good but real life means sticking to tools that won't bite you a year later.
by eterm | 2025-10-25 14:01:35+00:00
Just as consumers don't want to pay the "true" price of food or the "true" price of clothing, we don't want to pay the "true" price of software.

You might grumble about $30/mo for something like Postman, and it's true that "back in the day" it might have been a $40 one-off, but that's closer to $90 with inflation now, and there's a good chance that would have only bought you version 4.

Then next year version 5 comes out, and you face a dilemma. Do you pay all over again? Do you end up staying on version 4 until eventually there's a compelling reason to upgrade?

SaaS solves that problem by keeping everyone on the latest version.

Software is economically expensive to produce, we don't do enough to recognise that, in part because of how much free work is contributed by open source contributors and how little we recognise how much work they really do.
by pepoluan | 2025-10-25 14:02:12+00:00
It's not "naive". That is the nature of Open Source software. Everything is in the open.

Especially because people will not use a pre-compiled binary, but compile the software themselves (e.g., Gentoo users). So there must be no 'secret' tests, to guarantee that whoever compiles the software, as long as the dependencies are met, will produce a binary with the exact same behavior.

In fact, as an Open Source software, the test suite of the original coreutils is part of the Source package. It's in their (that is, coreutils' maintainers) interest to have the software tested against known edge cases. Because one day their project will be picked up by "some lone developer in Iowa" who will add new features. If there are 'secret' test cases, then the new developer's additions might break things.

This incident is merely coreutils happening to produce correct results on some edge case for uutils.
by FlameRobot | 2025-10-25 14:02:30+00:00
> You know what your lived experience was, that doesn't make you an expert on how addiction works on a physiological level.

I actually edited out that from my reply because I knew that this would be used this way. Also "lived experience" is such a stupid phrase. Obviously I was alive when this happened.

I am not claiming to be an expert. I am claiming you are over-intellectualising something. This is something that people constantly try to do, with almost everything now. Everything is a condition, every failing someone has can be scientifically explained. I find it nauseating tbh.

> You mean the thing that didn't even cross my mind until you brought it up, unprompted, after repeating the exact ideas I would expect from the group you claimed that you weren't apart of? And then in the same breath accusing me of not understanding anything about addiction?

1) You brought this up by talking moral judgements of others. So it did cross your mind. So that is a lie. Also I feel extremely guilty about what I did. I should do.

2) I am not part of that group. I specifically said so. What I was trying to explain is that "While I am not one of these and do dogmatically believe it, there some rationale and value behind it".

> And then in the same breath accusing me of not understanding anything about addiction?

I said you didn't know what you was talking with regards to moral judgements. I specifically quoted the piece of text I was responding to. What you wrote was kinda tripe tbh.

> That was slightly amusing, yes. I'm sorry you found that offensive.

What you did was make a jab at me because you assumed I was dogmatically believed in a set of ideas. You seem to be attempting to retcon this now. I don't find it offensive. I find it tiresome. I am not an American, and I am not a conservative.

> I don't know why you accept that you were in full control of your addiction, nor do I care because I'm not trying to take away from your own personal experience.

I am not saying I was in full control of addiction.

I did make a choice to drink. Every-time I bought the alcohol (often while sober) I made a choice, full cognisant of the consequences. It was my own hubris to stopped me from taking the correct course of action sooner. There doesn't need to be a more complex explanation because it is the truth. I don't need to intellectualise it further.

I have seen other people do exactly the same thing as I did.

> but you don't get to use it to lift yourself up and put others down the way you've been doing.

I am not doing either. I have throughout this thread said "this was my mistake, I take full responsibility". I am specifically telling you that I am not better than anyone else and in fact people were correct in judging me poorly due to my own behaviour at the time.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-25 14:03:35+00:00
Look, I think the 996 schedule is bananas and that it's wild hearing AI boomers talking about the coming 2 day work weeks while also making people work 996. We should all just chill the fuck out. But I also think that the past 20 years or so of the internet/tech industry really warped people's sense of what's normal. I love tech business culture! But so much of tech business culture has been developed in a zirp / culture where there we're infinite problems to solve. But now that power has been consolidated in a few companies, and the number of problems to solve with internet webapps is waning, it's going to become a much more competitive environment.

"Build something people want" is great! But the number of opportunities is diminishing fast.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-25 14:04:08+00:00
Yeah, I neglected to compare my hypothetical 6kW EWH against a 1500W HPWH, and did it against a 1500W EWH.

Heat pumps have no problem operating at a COP of 3-4, so the 120V 12A (1440kW) HPWH would be equivalent to a 240V 25A EWH (6kW)
by siva7 | 2025-10-25 14:04:12+00:00
Good Points. The most important consideration from my experience having worked with more than 40 teams: "Code review is not the time for you to impose your personal taste on a colleague." There are always many acceptable ways how to solve a problem in software development, so if someone imposes his personal preference over that from a colleague this creates tension and a time sink for the team - don't make this a blocking review! This also plays a big role when developers obsess over code but lack the vision and experience to see that not everything will be a relevant factor for technical debt in the grand scheme for the business.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-25 14:04:44+00:00
>We don’t know how the team reacted for a start

We know they reacted in a way which forced OP to go to his manager.

>Or maybe, based on the alleged jerk’s aggressive behaviour to the team in the past

If that were the case OP would have mentioned it. Workplace bullying is certainly more important than disagreeing and this would make a reasonable case to fire him. If the jerk was bullying his team and OP did not notice, that would prove my argument even more.

>Or maybe they’re junior.

There are 9 other people. And they weren't asked to stand up for their own opinion, but for their team leads opinion. I do not think this matters much. 9 people not standing up for you as a team lead is a very bad sign, even if they are all juniors.

>Or maybe you’re right and all 9 people unanimously felt OP was in the wrong.

This isn't my interpretation at all. My interpretation is that OP had one opinion the other guy had his and the rest did not particularly care either way.

>Criticise the reported actions, sure, discuss some hypotheticals, but going straight for “you’re a bad leader” goes a bit beyond.

But having to go through your manager to force through a totally reasonable decision that is yours to make is being a bad leader. I do not think that there is any alternative interpretation then that this event at least is a failure in leadership.

I am saying this because I want to tell OP how his situation sounds to a complete outsider. OP was there if the 9 guys all immediately stood up for him and told the other guy that he was clearly in the wrong, then this obviously disproves everything I said and OP knows that I am wrong. But if they did not, then he should reconsider his actions and at least allow for the possibility that this was a failure on part of his leadership.
by golly_ned | 2025-10-25 14:05:03+00:00
Twice so far, though not in as stark terms, and not recently. Once, I told him to knock it off trying to make a peer engineer who was underperforming look bad in front of the team, and instead to inform our manager of cases where he believed the engineer was underperforming, but not to try to embarrass or humiliate him -- the other engineer was extremely distressed by this engineer. He did stop. Another case he seemed to understand in our 1:1, but ramped up writing long slack comments that read to me as passive-aggressive.

There's a very high risk of things blowing up since there isn't a strong groundwork of trust to begin with, and since things blew up with the previous lead who was too direct with him, so I'm wary to do this without the involvement of my manager.

At first when I joined the team we seemed to have a good amount of trust since I was sympathetic to things that happened in the past to him -- he was treated very unfairly from a director who'd since been fired who let blame travel down directly onto this engineer. The director way over-promised and underestimated and caused the team to face tons of criticism. Most of the burden fell on this engineer; his peers were very little help, and the project was way too large. It was doomed from the start. Everyone on the team flamed each other in year-end reviews. The lead said everyone on the team, including himself, should be fired. It was extremely bad.

Eventually as I disagreed with him and saw he really didn't want /anything/ he'd worked on to change, we started to have conflict. I ended up having a lot more responsibilities added, and decreased the rate at which I held 1:1s with all my peers -- I think he felt insulted, and called off our 1:1s completely.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-25 14:05:17+00:00
Nah, its only perceived as a slur by language police people with little stakes in the actual game. And, the slur thing is definitely not an US only phenomenon. In the german speaking area where I dwell, the youth use "spast" as a general derogatory term for everyone they dont like or perceive as "below" them. That is definitely a slur that went rogue.
by jorangreef | 2025-10-25 14:05:47+00:00
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by gen220 | 2025-10-25 14:06:04+00:00
Not intending to be rude, but the common denominator here might be the region these schools are based in, vs the particular flavor of education.

A close family member of mine has taught Montessori for 30 years at the same school. The school has changed a lot in those 30 years (for the worse, unfortunately), but it’s nothing to do with the education methods and everything to do with broader trends in the area.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-25 14:06:53+00:00
> I’m not suggesting that speech is obstruction, that wouldn’t make sense.

Well, you're half right: that doesn't make sense.

> Speech isn’t the crime, federal obstruction is.

> If you call lawful arrests 'kidnappings', don’t be surprised when the state treats you like an adversary.

It seems like what you're saying is that "call[ing] lawful arrests 'kidnappings'" is obstruction. If you don't want your point of view to be confused, write more words in explanation. Instead, you write like you think other readers are too stupid to get it.

> being questioned isn’t censorship

Well, it can be.

> to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor

It mostly depends on the actual intention of the investigation. If they are investigating, well, because he was at a particular public place at a particular time, they are investigating this person because of his speech and public assembly, which is censorship by definition.

They don't have reason to think this person was involved in the actual criminal activity other than, you guessed it, he was at the same, er, public assembly.

> Portraying him as a victim whose free speech was violated is absurd

It is absurd that his freedom of speech was violated in this way. It is especially absurd that you defend your rights being taken from you.
by lmm | 2025-10-25 14:06:55+00:00
> This is a common incel talking point, and to be honest I don't think it has basis in reality. It's totally fine to share with a therapist and I don't know who would criticize someone for it. If a friend criticizes you for going to therapy, they aren't a friend.

> Should you be able to also share with your friend?

Why did you leap from talking about incels to talking about friends? It's not friends that are the problem, it's partners, for whom it really does seem to be normal to both expect and demand that you share your weaknesses with them, and then get the ick when you do.
by rob-p | 2025-10-25 14:07:47+00:00
Uhh, there is nothing at all "academic" about pthash, (or phast, or ptrhash), apart from the fact that they also described their ideas in papers. All of those tools work on massive sets of data, support massively parallel construction, and support external memory construction. They are all well-engineered libraries and not "academic" in any derogatory sense.