MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d_silin | 2025-10-29 18:44:32+00:00
It is a hardware RNG they are building. The claim is that their solution is going to be more computationally efficient for a narrow class of problems (de-noising step for diffusion AI models) vs current state of the art. Maybe.

This is what they are trying to create, more specifically:

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/119/15/150503/40486/Pro...
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-29 18:44:39+00:00
This is very cynical, and almost certainly deliberately false take.

Many situations are fundamentally uncertain with respect to laws/rules in place. The idea that they "skirted rules and regulations" is wrong. Did they push in an attempt to get a decision made which would favor them? Sure. But there was a decision to be made.

And, the people are supposed to be in control anyway, not the government.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-29 18:45:02+00:00
Parent comment flagged and removed, but it was basically "Why didn't you complain in the past?".

This is a known tactic of propagandists, implying that you have no right to complain if you didn't complain in the past. Anyone using this method is immediately suspect of not seeking honest discussion. Also, it doesn't work outside of a few social networks, stop trying it everywhere.
by sedatk | 2025-10-29 18:45:04+00:00
The paradox of cloud provider crashes is that if the provider goes down and takes the whole world with it, it's actually good advertisement. Because, that means so many things rely on it, it's critically important, and has so many big customers. That might be why Amazon stock went up after AWS crash.

If Azure goes down and nobody feels it, does Azure really matter?
by godelski | 2025-10-29 18:45:51+00:00
> We are also extremely far from robots that can do unsupervised complex work

Don't worry, they'll just sell teleoperated robots[0]. I'm absolutely positive this definitively 100% won't get outsourced and result in you getting a s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ s̶e̶r̶v̶a̶n̶t̶ low cost helper from a third world country. The dehumanization is a feature!

[0] I'm not joking, they are openly stating this...
by roywiggins | 2025-10-29 18:45:54+00:00
They don't even always say that:

https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/feds-march-into-...

> “Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.
by tootie | 2025-10-29 18:45:59+00:00
I don't see how OpenAI isn't doomed. They are riding on brand recognition. They are in such a deep hole with investors and despite their meteoric revenue they are only getting deeper. And there is no moat between them and Google or Anthropic or xAI or China for that matter. If Atlas and the video slop machine are their attempts at revenue, they are worse than doomed.
by aftbit | 2025-10-29 18:46:11+00:00
Except there were no shotguns in the Trojan Wars, and there were tanks in WW1, many less armed and armoured than today's IFVs/APCs.

Regardless, the parent poster was right - I cannot find any proof of ICE having modern tanks, just some lighter equipment. And regardless of that, I think my point stands - ICE is emphatically not a vulnerable group, and Google is saying they are because they want Most Favored Company status with our increasingly fascist regime.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-29 18:46:29+00:00
IMO the best fusion for this kind of thing is:

1. There's a "normal" interface or query-language for searching.

2. The LLM suggests a query, based on what you said you wanted in English, possibly in conjunction with results of a prior submit.

3. The true query is not hidden from the user, but is made available so that humans can notice errors, fix deficiencies, and naturally--if they use it enough--learn how it works so that the LLM is no longer required.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-29 18:46:39+00:00
I can only speculate so take it with a spoon of salt... But people who are really good at sussing out other people's wants can find ways to make more people happy. It's like a maze of interests and I guess he's just really motivated and good at navigating and aligning them (at least among the rich and powerful).

He also seems to understand something about power and perception, in that he takes calculated risks that seem to keep working out.

So in other words, he seems to be an extraordinarily skillful politician (in both the general and the Patrick Lencioni sense).
by kianN | 2025-10-29 18:46:58+00:00
The URL is unique to your search and saves it's state!

In the technical notes I sort of laid out our model graph on the document branch. We also have a topic branch that is also structured hierarchically: Uniform Prior → High Level Topic Word → Granular Topics → Document Lever Variation in Topics. We just directly visualize that hierarchical representation in the sunburst.

The low level model graph is all written in C and exports granular annotations of the model graph. We use the model output to annotate the original text data. We do some work to store these hierarchical results in a SQL queryable format in DuckDB.

What's cool about this process is it's all annotation based. You can query data at the topic level, analyze topics and sql, and at any point pull up the exact excerpts to which the high level data refers.

Curious what you've been using it to search for?
by jshier | 2025-10-29 18:47:18+00:00
Yes, ICE has been a bad actor since the day it was created, which is why "shutdown ICE" has been a thing on the left for a while now. But it's now operating as the private military of Donald Trump and the executive branch on a scale never before seen in America. Its upcoming budget is greater than every other federal law enforcement agency combined. We see videos every day of their gleeful assaults on anyone they like, while their leadership has explicitly stated there will be no repercussions, and that they should be as abusive as they want.
by kiitos | 2025-10-29 18:47:32+00:00
> There are three basic types of “boxes and lines” (as I derisively refer to them) diagrams:

the point of a boxes-and-lines diagram is to express relationships between components at a single layer/level of abstraction

the best metric for the "quality" of a diagram isn't the number of boxes, rather it's the number of edge-crossings, where >0 is a pretty reliable signal that either (a) the diagram is trying to show too much, or (b) the architecture is sub-optimal

any non-trivial system will always require multiple boxes-and-lines diagrams to be accurately described, one per abstraction-layer

and not really sure that linking between diagram and code is a core requirement, diagrams will generally include identifiers that are unambiguously grep-able, i guess...
by chrisgeleven | 2025-10-29 18:47:52+00:00
I usually read Hacker News, not comment...this story just grabbed my attention because of my kid's situation and wanting to maybe give others hope fighting a similar battle.

You know, when you deal with the past 18 months where your kid has 6 hospitalizations due to illness, 2 minor surgeries, 3 major surgeries (this last one was spine related, others heart), countless appointments, multiple feeding tube feedings a day to sustain nutrition, nearly $2 million lifetime billed do insurance (as a 6 year old)...who the fuck cares about what gender I decide to write about or the reason I might not share it?
by dkdcio | 2025-10-29 18:48:23+00:00
from neovim to helix? I would prefer the configuration simplicity (while my neovim config is fairly stable and straightforward, it can be annoying to update) and better out-of-the-box defaults. I’d also be a lot more personally interested in contributing to the Rust codebase of Helix if I ever did run into bugs or features
by swyx | 2025-10-29 18:48:40+00:00
> threatening economic damage to California.

whoa there. corporations have the right to move to the best location for them. California does not have the eternal right to OpenAI's taxes and employee base. think about what you're implicitly assuming here. if one company simply leaving causes concerning "damage" then perhaps it is the government that is the problem, not the corporation driving economic growth.
by whalesalad | 2025-10-29 18:49:54+00:00
Yikes, http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ is running on Azure and it's down. So any SOAP/WSDL api's are dead in the water.

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='schemas.xmlsoap.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /soap/encoding/ (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'schemas.xmlsoap.org' doesn't match '*.azureedge.net'")))

A service we rely on that isn't even running on Azure is inaccessible due to this issue. For an asset that probably never changes. Wild for that to be the SPOF.

160k+ results on GitHub: https://github.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.xmlsoap.org...
by vladms | 2025-10-29 18:50:13+00:00
Some technical solutions could be implemented, but I wonder if it is worth it? My claim is that probably 80-90% of the people that can pay, already do, because they get things they want in return (as mentioned with the online services connected to various things). We shouldn't make it completely easy to copy software, but the focus of companies would be to develop new useful things not to restrict platforms to police poor people or the few that like to steal.

In the end, I suspect that the platform companies know that - as an example Google probably gave Android without asking a lot in return - but what they need are excuses to restrict competition when they reached a dominant position.

Rather than proposing technical solutions to fix this invented issue, I would rather find the next challenger - that will start by being nice (same as Google did).
by cwyers | 2025-10-29 18:50:16+00:00
The lack of transparency here is wild. They aggregate the scores of the models they test against, which obscures the performance. They only release results on their own internal benchmark that they won't release. They talk about RL training but they don't discuss anything else about how the model was trained, including if they did their own pre-training or fine-tuned an existing model. I'm skeptical of basically everything claimed here until either they share more details or someone is able to interpedently benchmark this.
by trhway | 2025-10-29 18:50:24+00:00
The government believed him that OpenAI will stay in CA the same way that that government, OpenAI founders and others believed that OpenAI will be non-profit.

I think here is the answer to another commenter's question about success - it looks like great success comes to one who is able to recognize in time when old obligations become "obsolete" and thus drop them well before those obligations start to block or heavily tax the way to further success.
by tootie | 2025-10-29 18:50:38+00:00
Anil is an old-school technologist. He helped Movable Type which was arguably the first blogging CMS. He also worked at Fastly and Glitch. I'm sure he knows how CLIs work and what they're good for. And surely no one here is suggesting that for 99% of normie users that they'd be comfortable with CLI just because it's good at piping one command output to another. Even those of us who are proficient use GUIs more often.
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-10-29 18:50:59+00:00
I'm on Silverblue rather than Bazzite (although I'm only an `rpm-ostree rebase` away from it!) and I genuinely think this is becoming best OS family out there for most people. Super-stable, lots of software support, lots of "base" options (which are easy to switch between) - no snooping, no adverts, no "forced packages" (looking at you, Apple Music, which I keep inexplicably managing to open whenever I connect my headphones..).

I have no illusions that it will work for everyone but there are some really appealing reasons to switch to Linux nowadays, and Fedora Atomic is a really appealing option for those who want to try it out.
by zen928 | 2025-10-29 18:51:02+00:00
I'm kind of confused by your post, as if you didn't read your parent poster at all and wanted to use the chance to write a lecture about CS101 concepts. Can you explain how your uniform code argument fits in at all with their example of introducing multiple other system components in a PR because they lacked the knowledge to add it in the correct area? Every piece of code they brought to that PR could have followed a uniform standard and still be considered a failure at understanding proper system architecture for their app, which is the discussion everyone else is actually having.
by mock-possum | 2025-10-29 18:51:49+00:00
Honestly that sounds like a personal issue. I’ve gf the opposite experience - trying the high quality version of a thing has allowed me to find more intentional appreciation of the low quality version. I like shitty wines better now that I know what a good wine is, because I know what I’m paying for. “This isn’t great but it was like $8” and “this is great and well-worth $40” are better together than just “this is cheap and I dont mind it” in my book.

Then again I’ve never understood the appeal of ‘ignorance is bliss’
by thiht | 2025-10-29 18:52:04+00:00
None of these labels are false. I won’t shy away from calling a spade a spade, or a nazi a nazi. I’m tired of far right extremists trying to control the narrative while saying the most hateful shit and lying all the time. If you want to attack someone’s speech, attack MAGA. They’re the party of flat earth and antivax and "paracetamol causes autism" and "slavery was not that bad".

And stop trying to frame this as just open mindedness, this is not the case. MAGA and far right billionaires are not the open minded ones.
by valbaca | 2025-10-29 18:52:19+00:00
I have a dumb and probably easily-googled question, but I trust the average knowledge here:

What's the best Video Card / Brand / Model for running games on Linux? I'm considering upgrading my old gaming PC and would rather also switch to Linux for gaming. (I'm already familiar with Linux for regular use and programming, but haven't gamed on it once).
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-29 18:52:24+00:00
Corporations are applications of government power and have no natural rights, their legal rights are at best proxies for the rights of natural persons with some interest in them, and at worst a fiction which serves to limit the rights of natural persons.

Also, having a right to do something does not contradict a description of you leveraging power by using a threat of doing it, in the first place.
Show HN: SQLite Graph Ext – Graph database with Cypher queries (alpha)
by gwillen85 | 2025-10-29 18:52:46+00:00
I've been working on adding graph database capabilities to SQLite with support for the Cypher query language. As of this week, both CREATE and MATCH operations work with full relationship support.

Here's what it looks like:

import sqlite3 conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:") conn.load_extension("./libgraph.so") conn.execute("CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE graph USING graph()") # Create a social network conn.execute("""SELECT cypher_execute(' CREATE (alice:Person {name: "Alice", age: 30}), (bob:Person {name: "Bob", age: 25}), (alice)-[:KNOWS {since: 2020}]->(bob) ')""") # Query the graph with relationship patterns conn.execute("""SELECT cypher_execute(' MATCH (a:Person)-[r:KNOWS]->(b:Person) WHERE a.age > 25 RETURN a, r, b ')""")

The interesting part was building the complete execution pipeline - lexer, parser, logical planner, physical planner, and an iterator-based executor using the Volcano model. All in C99 with no dependencies beyond SQLite.

What works now: - Full CREATE: nodes, relationships, properties, chained patterns (70/70 openCypher TCK tests) - MATCH with relationship patterns: (a)-[r:TYPE]->(b) with label and type filtering - WHERE clause: property comparisons on nodes (=, >, <, >=, <=, <>) - RETURN: basic projection with JSON serialization - Virtual table integration for mixing SQL and Cypher

Performance: - 340K nodes/sec inserts (consistent to 1M nodes) - 390K edges/sec for relationships - 180K nodes/sec scans with WHERE filtering

Current limitations (alpha): - Only forward relationships (no `<-[r]-` or bidirectional `-[r]-`) - No relationship property filtering in WHERE (e.g., `WHERE r.weight > 5`) - No variable-length paths yet (e.g., `[r*1..3]`) - No aggregations, ORDER BY, property projection in RETURN - Must use double quotes for strings: {name: "Alice"} not {name: 'Alice'}

This is alpha - API may change. But core graph query patterns work! The execution pipeline handles CREATE/MATCH/WHERE/RETURN end-to-end.

Next up: bidirectional relationships, property projection, aggregations. Roadmap targets full Cypher support by Q1 2026.

Built as part of Agentflare AI, but it's standalone and MIT licensed. Would love feedback on what to prioritize.

GitHub: https://github.com/agentflare-ai/sqlite-graph

Happy to answer questions about the implementation!
by dagmx | 2025-10-29 18:52:55+00:00
With the exception of AVFoundation, I’d covered all of those in my comments. That’s not a lot of surface area. Games are typically not using a significant portion of AppKit beyond what I already mentioned, and AVFoundation is likely also a very thin wrapper that is maintainable.

I’m assuming Apple isn’t going to arbitrarily restrict what runs but will remove things to just the subset that they believe are needed for games such that other stuff just implicitly won’t work.
by kvam | 2025-10-29 18:53:07+00:00
Agree! We saw this a lot. Launching with the Quest 3, we were often the first company to do X, Y, Z despite being months after new features had been released in the SDKs because they were poorly documented (and often even conflicting).

Diverging even slightly from the demo use case would quickly feel like Sisyphus; so close, but never succeeding in getting over the hill.

Good for marketing in certain cases (to be the first), but bad for the community of builders
by cube2222 | 2025-10-29 18:53:18+00:00
This is so relevant for me!

I spent some time last weekend on a small side project which involves JIT encoding ARM64 instructions to run them on Apple Silicon.

I’ve written assembly before, but encoding was always kind of black magic.

How surprised was I to learn how simple instruction encoding is on arm64! Arguably simpler than implementing encoding wasm to byte code, which I played with a while ago.

If you want to play with this, based on my very very limited experience so far, I’d suggest starting with arm - fixed length 4 byte instructions, nice register naming scheme, straightforward encoding of arguments, make it very friendly.
by delf | 2025-10-29 18:53:28+00:00
The outage impacted GitSocial minor version bump release: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitSocia...

There's no way to tell, and after about 30 minutes, the release process on VS Code Marketplace failed with a cryptic message: "Repository signing for extension file failed.". And there's no way to restart/resume it.
by atonse | 2025-10-29 18:53:45+00:00
I would think that sort of framing implies that the government gives them permission to exist.

Rather than, the natural state is that they exist unless they do something bad enough to be shut down.

Unless you mean, they need the government's "permission" to even file to become a corporation... But even in that case, you aren't asking for permission, you're doing the old school equivalent of signing up for a domain, you're submitting a filing and reserving a spot for that name/ID.
by tcmart14 | 2025-10-29 18:54:16+00:00
Yea, good old store and forward. We implemented it in our PoS system. Now, we do non PCI integrations so we arn't in PCI scope, but depending on the processor, it can come with some limitations. Like, you can do store and forward, but only up to X number of transactions. I think for one integration, it's 500-ish store wide (it uses a local gateway that store and forwards to the processors gateway). The other integration we have, its 250, but store and forward on device, per device.
by EigerAI | 2025-10-29 18:55:25+00:00
Hey HN!

I'm one of the devs behind 2LY. Here's why we built this:

Lately I was building AI agents across LangChain, n8n, and custom Python. Every time, I had to: - Reconnect the same tools (Slack, GitHub, Drive) with new auth configs - Deal with Python/Node version conflicts between tools - Debug failures with zero visibility into what actually happened

It felt like pre-Docker chaos—everyone solving the same problem differently.

The key issue: most MCP gateways just proxy requests. Your agent still manages configs, dependencies, and credentials. We wanted to fully decouple tool infrastructure from agent logic.

*How 2LY works differently:* - Embedded runtimes for each tool—your agent never touches Python versions or npm packages - Central registry—connect a tool once, use it across any framework (LangChain, Langflow, n8n, custom) - Built-in playground to test tools before deploying - Full observability—every agent-to-tool interaction logged in one place

So you can swap agent frameworks, update tool versions, or add integrations without touching agent code. Everything scales independently.

It's open source (Apache 2.0), runs locally with Docker, takes 2 minutes to start: https://github.com/AlpinAI/2ly

*Curious:* Are you rebuilding the same integrations across agents? How do you handle dependency conflicts?

I'll stick around to answer questions!
by rvz | 2025-10-29 18:55:44+00:00
This looks really amazing if not unbelieveable to the point where it is almost too good to be real.

I have not seen benchmarks on Extropic's new computing hardware yet but need to know from experts who are in the field of AI infrastructure at the semiconductor level if this is legit.

I'm 75% believing that this is real but have a 25% skepticisim and will reserve judgement until others have tried the hardware.

So my only question for the remaining 25%:

Is this a scam?
Show HN: CapSlap – Local caption generation using Whisper
by nick_wolf | 2025-10-29 18:55:44+00:00
Built this for a friend who needed to add captions to videos without uploading to third-party services. uses whisper models locally or Openai's api as a fallback.

Features:

- Runs entirely on your machine (privacy-first) - Supports local whisper models - Openai api integration optional - Free and open source

Technical notes:

- Macos only (haven't tested on windows) - Built with Rust, ffmpeg 8, Electron - You'll need to either run from source or allow the app in system settings (no apple developer cert, so gatekeeper will complain). Pretty straightforward if you're comfortable with terminal or adjusting security settings

Figured the HN community might find it useful or have suggestions for improvement.

Github: https://github.com/riseandignite/capslap

Happy to answer questions or take feedback.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-29 18:55:45+00:00
Absolutely. I'm a legal immigrant, but delays in processing and other things when I had to adjust status after divorcing from my US citizen wife (I moved here on a K-1 fiance visa) had me involving an immigration attorney, who made the comment, "I hate saying this, but it's true. You're the right color, and with where you're coming from (Australia), nobody cares about checking up on you."
by ludicrousdispla | 2025-10-29 18:56:36+00:00
I find the 'Deutschkurse Passau" workbooks [0] to be the best at focusing on grammar structure and providing useful practice. They can be worked through without an instructor (provided you've had some exposure to the grammar at each level.)

0. https://www.deutschkurse-passau.de/JM/index.php/downloads

My main complaint with most of the other German language coursebooks is the grammar lessons are too scattered, and the main effort in doing the exercises is figuring out what they want you to do.
by bitexploder | 2025-10-29 18:56:44+00:00
Over time people learned the key APIs and classes that you needed to interact with. And obfuscated Java is like an order of magnitude easier to work with than machine code. Once someone figured out how to do something it was generally pretty easy to use that interface to do your own thing. Modders of course still often hit edge cases that required more reversing, but yeah, it was really cool to watch over the last 15+ years :)