MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daft_pink | 2025-10-22 15:54:51+00:00
While it’s true that there is an observer effect to prediction markets, that phenomenon isn’t unique to them. It applies to most systems.

The news media routinely makes predictions. When enough people believe and act on those forecasts, the prediction itself can influence the outcome. In that sense, collective expectation becomes a causal force and I would argue that there are many different people who aim to harness propanda or the media to change behavior.

There are legitimate concerns. As South Park humorously suggested this season, that some might try to manipulate prediction markets for profit. However, overall, these markets remain an extraordinary tool for generating accurate forecasts across a wide range of global events.

It’s difficult to imagine scenarios like China invading Taiwan or the war in Ukraine ending because the participants were motivated by their market positions. There are many topics where the reality reaches far beyond the reach of monetary speculation.

On the other side, it’s also possible that people who have priviledged information are using that information to place bets against inaccurate predictions and we’re benefiting from that information in the prediction market. It’s not necessarily fair to the participants as it’s insider trading, but it gets a better outcome for the observer seeking the information.
New software roles being created by AI?
by venuv | 2025-10-22 15:55:05+00:00
other than Palantir's forward deployed engineer and Quora's AI automation engineer - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quora/b0ef4655-20b0-4c4f-93d2-037556c6c9e5, what kinds of new roles are emerging in AI native startups (or companies wanting to evolve towards AI native)?
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-22 15:55:09+00:00
> The courts however, have consistently ruled against AI-generated content.

No, they haven't consistently “ruled against AI generated content”.

In fact, very few cases involving AI generated content or generative AI systems have made it past preliminary stages, and the rulings that have been reached, preliminary and otherwise, are a mixed bag. Unless you are talking specifically about copyrightability of pure AI content, which is really a pretty peripheral issue.

> It's really only a matter of time until either the bubble bursts, or legislation happens that pops the bubble.

The bubble bursting, as it is certain to do and probably fairly soon, won’t have any significant impact on the trend of AI use, just as the dotcom bubble bursting didn’t on internet use, it will just represent the investment situation reflecting rather than outpacing the reality.

And if you are focusing on an area where, as you say, courts are consistently ruling against AI content, legislation is unlikely to make that worse (but quite plausibly could make it better) for AI.
by tw04 | 2025-10-22 15:55:21+00:00
^^Microsoft may have its warts, but I don't know how someone can go from Excel to Google Sheets or Outlook to Gmail and think: this is just such a major upgrade I don't know how I existed in the past and I would never work someplace that uses Microsoft productivity tools.

Excel in particular, for any power user, sheets just doesn't hold a candle to its functionality. Outside of the valley Microsoft must still have a 10:1 ratio of corporate use, I never run across a customer that has made the switch.
by zokier | 2025-10-22 15:55:49+00:00
Well they also claim to be able to cache build steps somehow build-system independently.

> As the build runs, any step that exactly matches a prior record is skipped and the results are automatically reused

> SourceFS delivers the performance gains of modern build systems like Bazel or Buck2 – while also accelerating checkouts – all without requiring any migration.

Which sounds way too good to be true.
by tverbeure | 2025-10-22 15:55:52+00:00
I wrote “countries”, plural, for a reason. And thanks for confirming that it is not as good.

But let’s not confuse the accessibility of good health care for the poor with simple sensible food handling.

Drinking raw, uncooked milk is full of micro-organisms (salmonella, …) By your standards, any kind of food regulation is totalitarian.
Show HN: afrim – A framework for input method engine
by pythonbrad | 2025-10-22 15:56:07+00:00
afrim is a framework and toolset that facilitates the implementation of input method engines (IMEs). Initially introduced as an IME for African languages[1], afrim has now evolved into a universal solution. It is compatible with various sequential writing systems, including Amharic, Geez, Pinyin, and more.

afrim is written in Rust and his architecture is inspired by librime[2]. It's available to use in Rust (afrim), Python (afrim-py), JavaScript (afrim-js), and more.

Repo: https://github.com/fodydev/afrim Demo: https://fodydev.github.io/afrim-web/ FAQ: https://github.com/fodydev/afrim/blob/main/FAQ.md

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41427563 [2]: https://github.com/rime/librime
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-22 15:56:14+00:00
"surpassing even the fastest classical supercomputers (13,000x faster)"

"Quantum verifiability means the result can be repeated on our quantum computer — or any other of the same caliber — to get the same answer, confirming the result."

"The results on our quantum computer matched those of traditional NMR, and revealed information not usually available from NMR, which is a crucial validation of our approach."

It certainly seems like this time, there finally is a real advantage?
by underlipton | 2025-10-22 15:56:31+00:00
My understanding is that pasteurization denatures enzymes that would otherwise make the milk easier to digest. Which is true.

The problem is that the stringent production standards that would be required to make raw milk "safe" are incompatible with factory production and the profit motive. Unless you're personally vetting the sterilization of everything the milk comes into contact with and its immediate cooling to a temperature non-conducive to bacterial overgrowth, you probably shouldn't drink it.
by kragen | 2025-10-22 15:56:35+00:00
The article doesn't describe how the balloons are controlled or tracked, but it seems inevitable that the combination of advances in electronics, cryptocurrences, and new tariffs will make smuggling of all kinds explode over the next few years, by air, by water, and even by land. You could see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb as a kind of smuggling, the kind where the recipient of the shipment doesn't want it.
by pkaye | 2025-10-22 15:56:47+00:00
You can see a simulation of an 6502 CPU running here.

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/expert.html

Also this person has some simple tutorial on how a toy CPUs work. He even made a simulator so you can make your own using gate logic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwneRb-zqA&list=PLFt_AvWsXl...
by kstrauser | 2025-10-22 15:57:08+00:00
This affected me and my wife. We have an Eight Sleep mattress courtesy of my employer, which is probably the only way I'd have something that expensive. I've slept on everything from Navy bunks to plain dirt to the nice memory foam mattress we have now. I'm not finicky. But while I'm not going to shill for Eight Sleep, I've gotta say that they're really nice. Well, normally, when they're working as expected.

It has an automatic routine where our bed[0] is nicely cool when we climb in at bedtime. Then it warms up a little overnight when we're in deep sleep. Finally, it gets uncomfortably warm at alarm time, as a way to encourage you to want to get out of bed. It also uses sensors to detect how much you're moving around, pairs that with the room temperature, and uses that to, say, turn the temperature down if you're thrashing around on an especially warm night.

Know how in San Francisco, the weather's almost always perfect except for those rare days when it's too warm to get comfy at night? Honestly, it's ideal for getting through those without having to crank the window air conditioner[1].

During the outage, my wife and I both woke up because we were too hot. Our bed wasn't overly warm, like if it were on the "it's time to wake up, get moving!" setting. It was just a normal "ugh, it's so hot in the room, I wish I could sleep!" kind of thing. I'm glad to hear they're upping their offline game to handle these situations more gracefully.

I don't know if I'd recommend anyone go out and buy an Eight Sleep. They're pretty pricy and you can buy a lot of air conditioning for that money, if the cooling feature is the main reason you'd want it. However, if you have the opportunity to get one on someone else's budget[2], absolutely do it! It's really very pleasant to climb into a cool bed on a warm night, and presumably vice versa.

They work as advertised. Except, you know, when the Internet's out.

[0]Our settings are individualized, but similar.

[1]For those outside SF, AC is unusual here. We almost never need it so most places don't have it.

[2]Huh, wonder if you could use it to spend down an FSA?
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-10-22 15:57:10+00:00
> All of these are incredibly obvious. If you have even the slightest idea of what you're doing and review the code before deploying it to prod, this will never succeed.

Well this is wrong. And it's exactly this type of thinking why people will get absolutely burned by this.

First off the fact they chose obvious exploits for explanatory purposes doesn't mean this attack only supports obvious exploits...

And to your second point of "review the code before you deploy to prod", the second attack did not involve deploying any code to prod. It involved an LLM reading a reddit comment or github comment and immediately executing.

People not taking security seriously and waving it off as trivial is what's gonna make this such a terrible problem.
Show HN: Corporate Hierarchy API – Map the corporate family tree
by mfrye0 | 2025-10-22 15:57:14+00:00
Hey HN! I'm sharing our Corporate Hierarchy API that we just launched in beta. Its current focus is on mapping the complete corporate ownership upwards to the ultimate parent by doing deep research across the open web and global government registries.

The problem: Companies spend millions on manual research teams to answer compliance / risk questions like, "does this business roll up to a state owned entity in China / Russia?". A bankruptcy processor we work with had 30 people just manually researching data points like this. An ex-Shell trader told us Shell has 800 people + $100M/yr spent with Deloitte to conduct manual research to ensure international trade compliance.

Why existing solutions are lacking: The dirty secret is that legacy providers like Dun & Bradstreet, Orbis, and S&P run on armies of manual workers and are built on decades old technology. At query time, you’re typically tapping into a quarterly generated, static, expensive database.

Our approach: We built this on top of our entity resolution engine - a deep research agent that anchors entities to our business graph, powered by direct integrations with government registrars and our web scraping infra. When you need hierarchy research, our AI agents spend on average 10-20 mins researching upward to identify the ultimate parent and build the complete ownership DAG with source citations. We auto-generate Mermaid diagrams so you can immediately render the results in your own app.

Technical backstory: I've spent 10 years building MDM, data enrichment, and entity resolution systems at B2B startups and enterprises, mostly in fintech. I actually built an in-house Clearbit replacement after they overcharged us and almost killed the startup I was at. The core challenge is always the same - taking messy business data and mapping it to web data and the actual legal entity. Most off the shelf solutions are mediocre because they skip the hard part: the gnarly 20-40% of records that force you into manual research.

Current state: Just three of us, bootstrap funded. We're getting requests for full subsidiary mapping too, but focused on upward hierarchy for now. We're still figuring out pricing (market rate seems to be a few dollars a lookup, but we aim to be a fraction of that). Deep research is expensive but we think we can make it work at scale.

Try it:

- Interactive demo: https://savvyiq.ai/products/entity-hierarchy (no signup)

- Free account: https://savvyiq.ai/signup

- API docs: https://savvyiq.ai/api-reference#tag/entity-hierarchy-beta

Would love feedback on the hierarchy API specifically, including the schema, gaps / edge cases, but also curious about other use cases where business identity resolution is a pain point for you.

Happy to run a few entity hierarchy lookups in the comments if anyone wants to see the API in action - I can share the results as Mermaid diagrams that you can paste directly into any Mermaid renderer.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-10-22 15:57:16+00:00
> But what you see in the end is that 90% of medias in France belongs to a few wealthy families that are friends with him.

The only way the current wave of right-wing media ends if by finding a new way to fund media & making it impossible to concentrate in the ends of a few rich folks.

And good luck with that, folks don't want to pay for media.
by YesBox | 2025-10-22 15:57:23+00:00
Thanks! No blog or patreon. I use twitter, bluesky, and reddit to post updates [0]

It is possible to "pay what you'd like" on itch though :) [1]

The demo up there is in pre-alpha, but I push out a big update every 4-6 months.

[0] https://linktr.ee/yesboxstudios

[1] https://yesbox.itch.io/metropolis1998
by iLemming | 2025-10-22 15:57:34+00:00
Not trying to snob you, just for didactic means:

Magit easily does that and more:

- Not only you can see the log for an individual file - you can trace the evolution of a given function. - You can diff not only branches, commits and files - you can diff them in reverse order, diff the changes since the last pull, etc. - From the diff you can jump to the file in Dired. Dired is an Emacs' "DIRectory EDitor" - it lets you not only browse, but edit the entire [nested] file-tree as if it is a wiki page (using all the tools like multiple cursors, search&edit, etc.) and then commit changes that immediately would be reflected in the filesystem. - You can mark some files and dirs in Diread and stage/unstage them, or even ask Magit to show the logs pertaining only those items. - You can reorder, squash, fixup, or reword commits quickly - Bisecting, cherry-picking, reverting, stashing, patching, etc., also very clean and intuitive
by bri3d | 2025-10-22 15:57:56+00:00
The article's deep dive into the math does it a disservice IMO, by making this seem like an arcane and complex issue. This is an EC Cryptography 101 level mistake.

Reading the actual CIRCL library source and README on GitHub: https://github.com/cloudflare/circl makes me see it as just fundamentally unserious, though; there's a big "lol don't use this!" disclaimer and no elaboration about considerations applied to each implementation to avoid common pitfalls, mention of third or first-party audit reports, or really anything I'd expect to see from a cryptography library.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 15:58:10+00:00
Funny it is getting really hard to find tradespeople to work on your house these days. I don't see those jobs getting outsourced or done by AI any time soon.

More fundamentally higher ed faces the problem that people are having fewer children and trend is (i) getting worse all the time and (i) baked in from 20 years ago. Funny, college attendance lowers the birth rate

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3449224/

so the cycle perpetuates itself.
by Rendello | 2025-10-22 15:58:13+00:00
I might have to try it out. I got an interactive music theory course (Lightnote) built by another HN user after reading the "2024 side project show and tell" [1]. It seems to be in a similar vein, though with less emphasis on guitar. Maybe with both I could have theory and practice, so to speak.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380418
by sofixa | 2025-10-22 15:58:36+00:00
Piers Morgan is English.

It might be shocking for some Americans, but pro/anti gun is a political issue almost exclusively in the US. In the rest of the developed world, nobody is "pro" gun. Even far right loons (and I mean proper loons, like a motorist party or a bunch of weirdos screaming about vaccines in parliament) in the EU aren't "pro"-guns.

And yes, Piers Morgan is on the right of the spectrum as it exists in the UK and EU.
by bityard | 2025-10-22 15:58:39+00:00
Meh, content marketing for a commercial biz. There are no interesting technical details here.

I was a build engineer in a previous life. Not for Android apps, but some of the low-effort, high-value tricks I used involved:

* Do your building in a tmpfs if you have the spare RAM and your build (or parts of it) can fit there.

* Don't copy around large files if you can use symlinks, hardlinks, or reflinks instead.

* If you don't care about crash resiliency during the build phase (and you normally should not, each build should be done in a brand-new pristine reproducible environment that can be thrown away), save useless I/O via libeatmydata and similar tools.

* Cross-compilers are much faster than emulation for a native compiler, but there is a greater chance of missing some crucial piece of configuration and silently ending up with a broken artifact. Choose wisely.

The high-value high-effort parts are ruthlessly optimizing your build system and caching intermediate build artifacts that rarely change.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-22 15:58:48+00:00
I would agree except there is a lot of time most people waste that could be put to better use. yeeears ago I freed up about 4hrs/day but removing all social media apps from my phone and logging off for good. spending 60-90 per day is something most people should be able to allocate by cutting that same time from infinitely less important things than your investments
by jolux | 2025-10-22 15:58:49+00:00
I’m aware of the context, but as someone who frequently uses LLMs productively I find bans on all usage to be misguided. If in practice the rule is “if we can tell it’s AI generated, we’ll ban you” then why not just say that?

Moreover, in the case of high-quality contributions made with the assistance of LLMs, I’d rather know which model was used and what the prompt was.

Nonetheless I still understand and respect rejecting these tools, as I said in my first comment.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-22 15:59:00+00:00
I think that's usually how it breaks down in practice but even if the language directly provided format strings, I'd still call them format strings, and even if a library provided string interpolation, I'd call it string interpolation.

The difference is format strings are a string with indicators that say where to insert values, usually passed as additional arguments, which follow after the string. String interpolation has the arguments inside the string, which says how to pull the values out of the surrounding context.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-22 15:59:10+00:00
Crossing gates should come down 20-30 seconds before the train gets there, pretty much regardless of train speed.

I suppose that the difference may be that, at higher speeds, the train is further away when the gates come down, and people don't realize how soon it's going to get there, and so decide to go around the gates. (And, I suppose, when there is an accident, it's more likely to be fatal because of the speed.) If you meant anything other than those two options, though, I'm not sure why you think that "grade crossings are inherently unsafe at those speeds".
by txru | 2025-10-22 15:59:34+00:00
This might be paranoia, but could this be state sponsored?

I can see a lot of reasons for Belarus and Russia to create lots of contacts in EU airspace. The strategy is called "salami slicing" [0]

Especially in light of the point the others are making-- this is a really unreliable form of smuggling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics
by Havoc | 2025-10-22 15:59:35+00:00
I've switched almost entirely to AI news (basically research mode & give it 10 areas I'm interested in).

It definitely has a issues in the detail, but if you're only skimming the result for headlines it's perfectly fine. e.g. Pakistan and Afghanistan are shooting at each other. I wouldn't trust it to understand the tribal nuances behind why, but the key fact is there.

[One exception is economic indicators, especially forward looking trends stuff in say logistics. Don't know precisely why but it really can't do it..completely hopeless]
by lambertsimnel | 2025-10-22 16:00:06+00:00
It's worrying. Assuming there's a risk of such fraud going undetected and harming a paying guest, I think a punishment more serious than a warning could easily be justified. Even if it isn't reasonable to prosecute, banning the host would help. Users of other online services are sometimes banned without warning or explanation, so the deference to Airbnb hosts is jarring.
by rconti | 2025-10-22 16:00:07+00:00
A more apt comparison would be a fuel pump, since fuel tanks don't really stop working short of springing a leak which brings its own problems.

Fuel pump failure is certainly not an uncommon thing, although in my limited experience, they usually become a bit intermittent and the car sputters for awhile, rather than losing all motive power at once (but that's totally possible too).

I am guessing when drive power is lost on an EV it would just coast (hopefully). Since there's effectively no connected battery pack to regen to, and the electric motors won't physically lock up.
by upofadown | 2025-10-22 16:00:11+00:00
>...OWASP's recommended 46 MiB configuration reduces compromise rates by 42.5% compared to SHA-256...

Not sure that is a good comparison. The competition is against things like scrypt not raw hashes.

The default suggested 2GB Argon2 memory requirement is likely putting people off so there certainly is room for a different suggestion. It is just too bad this stuff wasn't worked out at the beginning.
by seanhunter | 2025-10-22 16:00:34+00:00
This is not the RCS problem or indeed anything from number theory.

The announcement is about an algorithm which they are calling Quantum Echoes, where you set up the experiment, perturb one of the qbits and observe the “echoes” through the rest of the system.

They use it to replicate a classical experiment in chemistry done using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. They say they are able to reproduce the results of that conventional experiment and gather additional data which is unavailable via conventional means.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-22 16:01:02+00:00
That's overly optimistic about America's capacity to induce immigration from Africa.

Most of Sub-Saharan Africa was Francophone, and that's represented in African immigration data as well. The US might be able to attract some amount of brain drain from Nigeria, but it's much less likely given the changes in immigration policy in the US over the past 10 years. A Nigerian who may have been brought on an H1B will now most likely be brought by an employer to Canada or the UK, or a GCC will be formed within Nigeria.

Furthermore, the question is what do you define as "African". Africa is a massive and diverse continent with various different countries with varying levels of state and human capital capacity. The kind of immigrant coming from Nigeria will be significantly different from similarly sized DRC.

Also, as a 1.5 gen immigrant (I immigrated as a toddler), it's easier to immigrate to much of Western Europe and the UK compared to the US.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-10-22 16:01:06+00:00
The rule of thumb is that a working quantum computer that can run Grover's algorithm reduces the security of a symmetric cipher to half of its key size. That is, AES-128 should be considered to have a 64 bit key size, which is why it's not considered "quantum-safe."

Edit: An effective key space of 2^64 is not secure according to modern-day standards. It was secure at the times of DES.