MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon7000 | 2025-10-09 06:29:13+00:00
There are a large number of policy issues the average American should be able to agree on, but have been polarized to the point that we don’t solve them.

- Get money out of politics. Everyone complains about corruption, no one tries to do a constitutional amendment to get rid of Citizens United.

- Strong privacy protections for your online data. Does anyone like the fact that your data gets sold and then used against you by car insurance companies?

- Break up big companies that are taking their power too far. Seriously, take your Syscos, Nestles, AB InBevs of the world and break them up. No company deserves to have that much power over consumer markets, and the centralization of that power definitely makes prices higher. My conservative parents definitely don’t like how when Walmart and Rite Aid came to small-town midewest, all the local drug & grocery stores went out of business.

- Every American knows our private health insurance system sucks. I mean every person you meet either doesn’t have good coverage, hasn’t used it much, or has had had a terrible experience with it.

- We need to do away with police overstep like asset forfeiture, where the government can basically just rob you. I’m not talking defund the police, but you could sit the average American down, and probably come to agree that the police state has too much power and not enough accountability in a couple areas.

There are so many stories along these lines which could get republicans and democrats on a similar page, and it comes down to the frustrations we ALL have with the systems we live in. It doesn’t matter who you voted for, when health insurance starts scamming you out of a procedure you need, it’s frustrating on a deeply personal level. And we all feel like we don’t have much control over federal policy — partly because businesses & moneyed interests can protect their interests while everyone else struggles, no matter who’s in charge.

(And btw, this isn’t a elected officials on both sides are the same comment, more of a “we Americans have a lot of shared frustrations regardless of party”
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-09 06:30:04+00:00
As I understand it, that is incorrect. It's more like a hypervisor still running in the background. That may have rolled back more and more with recent versions, but in principle the hypervisor can show shit like temperature, voltages and frequency in wrong ways, or delayed to the 'guest', whatever that may be. Actually that was the case, for some time, as some low-level tinkerers and/or overclockers discovered.

Similar to anything running in SMM (System Management Mode) on X86/AMD64 since the times of the 386SL. Be it BIOS, APM, ACPI, UEFI, or whatever.

I repeat: "It's just an illoooshn..." (There is now raw iron/silicon for consumers)
by trevordilley | 2025-10-09 06:30:39+00:00
Validating to see projects like these coming to life. I'd also love your feedback on our take of this development approach! We started https://devswarm.ai about 6 months ago and we're aiming to solve this problem in similar ways!

* Agent UI is the CLI itself, no wrapper UI.

* Isolate your work with worktrees (though we do our best to make sure you never have to think about them!)

* Many agents to choose from (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Amp, etc), and more to come!

* Features to support running your app in parallel (port vars, untracked file copying).

* Basics like code editor, git commit UI, branch diff UI.

* Easy access to your local IDE from the worktree.

* Soft launch of our Jira integration if you click on the repository name in the sidebar and click “Jira”, start your agents quickly right from a backlog-esque view of your work! (Next release will integrate Jira into onboarding)

Say hi on our discord too! https://discord.gg/devswarm

We’ve been building DevSwarm with DevSwarm and building like this is just unreal. Honestly can't imagine building any other way now.

edit: Oh forgot to mention we're in free-beta right now, so please download it and tell us what you think!
by kameit00 | 2025-10-09 06:30:53+00:00
Your own words:

>> I'm the co-founder of an interview prep mentorship platform [...] my company's services so there is a small amount of overlap on the most experienced end of Codesmith and the least experienced end of Formation. <<

https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/18cpq98/ana...
by kubb | 2025-10-09 06:31:05+00:00
Driving polarization is a conscious strategy of leaders and the media (especially a particular large corporate media outlet, which is worldview shaping for a large part of the population), isn’t it?

You could argue that the system rewards it in the short term which is all that matters.

There’s also one party with way less scruples when it comes to the methods it uses, which polarizes the other party against them.

There’s no way to make friends with someone who wants to „take care” of you by violent means.
Show HN: Sora2 watermark is heavy, so I built a one-click remover
by wushi | 2025-10-09 06:31:17+00:00
Since Sora’s second-gen video tool, the corner watermark has become noticeably harder to deal with. When distributing clips to other platforms—especially for vertical edits, mashups, or remixes—it looks out of place. I often need a clean version for editing and packaging, so I built a simple button: upload → click → download. Site: sorawatermarkremover.net

What it does

Automatically detects the corner region and cleans it with AI in one click;

Works with default settings—no manual tweaking for most clips;

Outputs common formats that drop straight into your edit/distribution flow.

Boundaries & use

For content you own or are authorized to edit only. Please don’t remove marks that must remain or use it for infringement.

This isn’t an ownership check; I rely on user responsibility. If stronger guardrails are needed, I’m open to adding them.

Privacy

No login required to try;

Processing is server-side; I don’t use uploads for training or share them;

Retention/deletion policy will be tightened and clarified based on feedback.

Known issues

Fast motion + complex textures may show subtle artifacts;

Heavily compressed footage is more likely to reveal edges. I welcome hard cases.

Why HN This started as a small button for my own distribution workflow, and I’d love honest feedback:

Web app vs a Chrome extension—which would you prefer?

Any watermark scenarios in distribution that I’m missing?

Suggestions on policy/abuse prevention.

What’s next

Batch processing and API if there’s demand;

A “light blend” mode that favors natural look over total removal.

Thanks for reading—feel free to share short clips that break it, and I’ll follow up.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 06:31:24+00:00
But, just like lots of people expect/want self-driving to outperform humans even on edge cases in order to trust them, they also want "AI" to outperform humans in order to trust it.

So: "humans are bad at this too" doesn't have much weight (for people with that mindset).

It makes sense to me, at least.
by teiferer | 2025-10-09 06:32:28+00:00
> they are an extreme net good for the ecosystem.

Evidence?

Perhaps depends on what you mean with "ecosystem". Within the AI tech/hype, sure, there it's good. But for the economy as a whole? Is it that good? There are probably some benefits, but do they match the current valuations?

Most likely they don't, because hype cycles inherently overvaluate things for a while because they don't know what will stick. If things were not dramatically overvalued right now then investors would not be acting in their best interest.
by AllegedAlec | 2025-10-09 06:32:35+00:00
On a more important level, I found that they still do really badly at even a minorly complex task without extreme babysitting.

I wanted it to refactor a parser in a small project (2.5K lines total) because it'd gotten a bit too interconnected. It made a plan, which looked reasonable, so I told it to do this in stages, with checkpoints. It said it'd done so. I asked it "so is the old architecture also removed?" "No, it has not been removed." "Is the new structured used in place of the old one?" "No, it has not." After it did so, 80% of the test suite failed because nothing it'd written was actually right.

Did so three times with increasingly more babysitting, but it failed at the abstract task of "refactor this" no matter what with pretty much the same failure mode. I feel like I have to tell it exactly to make changes X and Y to class Z, remove class A etc etc, at which point I can't let it do stuff unsupervised, which is half of the reason for letting an LLM do this in the first place.
by figassis | 2025-10-09 06:33:07+00:00
This is quite alarming and brings an entirely new threat threat factor to the DNS ecosystem. Outside of hacks/takeovers, the physical (and some digital) content you produce will outlive your domain ownership. How safe them is it to place links into your published work, even ones you control today?

Depending on how much penetration (no pun intended) your work has, it can be used as an amazing distribution channel.
by schiho | 2025-10-09 06:33:54+00:00
I just run into this issue with claude sonet 4.5, asked it to copy/paste some constants from one file to another, a bigger chunk of code, it instead "extracted" pieces and named them so. As a last resort, after going back and forth it agreed to do a file/copy by running a system command. I was surprised that of all the programming tasks, a copy/paste felt challenging for the agent.
by mock-possum | 2025-10-09 06:34:02+00:00
- same sex marriage should be treated equally to heterosexual marriage - the tradition of gender being strictly tied to genitalia at birth should be abolished, with individuals able to change gender (and genitals) at their whim

Oops Americans don’t agree on queer rights and equality oops

- everyone should be treated equally and afford equal protection under the law, regardless of where they were born or what the colour of the skin is or what their genitals look like

Oops oops
by icelancer | 2025-10-09 06:34:55+00:00
The VOID VR was the greatest fusion of VR + reality. CAD-mapped laser tag warehouses while wearing a VR headset and backpack computer. Near-perfect immersion. COVID sadly killed it. Was a beautiful thing - so happy I got to try it out. Even ended up buying a lot of the defunct equipment off eBay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oad_t6k3w5c
by XorNot | 2025-10-09 06:36:59+00:00
What you're missing is that real value can be created in these exchanges - Nvidia really makes chips for example.

The issue is that it's an industry of investment which exists solely to power more investment in AI - the entire chain is still assuming that someone will eventually pay for this.

At the end of the day all that money leaks out to employees and suppliers...but no one those people transact with may have any interest in buying what was produced.
by kmarc | 2025-10-09 06:37:09+00:00
There are certain professions where the compilation process is (ab)used to optimize to a point where these bugs seemingly surface more often.

In the HFT sphere i haven't talked to a company that hasn't reported (bragged about finding) a super weird gcc/clang bug.

Well, also, at my last job we used a snapshot version of the compiler, bc... Any nanoseconds matters.
by darkwater | 2025-10-09 06:37:28+00:00
If we had a knife that most of the time cuts a slice of bread like the bottom p50 of humans cutting a slice of bread with their hands, we wouldn't call the knife useful.

Ok, this example is probably too extreme, replace the knife with an industrial machine that cut bread vs a human with a knife. Nobody would buy that machine either if it worked like that.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-09 06:37:52+00:00
“Code module” is a generic phrase used in many programming languages, not just C++.

Your pedantry over what is an extremely useful and highly productive language, for which there is ample evidence of actual utility, belies a feeble attempt to justify what I believe is your fundamental failure to have actually shipped products in any language, whatsoever. Not just C++. I doubt you ship anything at all, given your proclivity for tripping over your lack of understanding.

Which languages have you used to ship real products to your users?
by tjansen | 2025-10-09 06:37:56+00:00
Agreed with the points in that article, but IMHO the no 1 issue is that agents only see a fraction of the code repository. They don't know whether there is a helper function they could use, so they re-implement it. When contributing to UIs, they can't check the whole UI to identify common design patterns, so they re-invent it.

The most important task for the human using the agent is to provide the right context. "Look at this file for helper functions", "do it like that implementation", "read this doc to understand how to do it"... you can get very far with agents when you provide them with the right context.

(BTW another issue is that they have problems navigating the directory structure in a large mono repo. When the agents needs to run commands like 'npm test' in a sub-directory, they almost never get it right the first time)
by eesmith | 2025-10-09 06:38:10+00:00
That aluminum is not in the upper atmosphere. Quoting https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89909-7.pdf

> ... the satellites are mostly aluminum; most meteoroids, in contrast, contain less than 1% Al by mass 25 . Thus, depending on the atmospheric residence time of material from reentered satellites, each mega-constellation will produce fine particulates that could greatly exceed natural forms of high-altitude atmospheric aluminum deposition, particularly if the full numbers of envisaged satellites are launched. Anthropogenic deposition of aluminum in the atmosphere has long been proposed in the context of geoengineering as a way to alter Earth’s albedo 26 . These proposals have been scientifically controversial and controlled experiments encountered substantial opposition 27 . Mega-constellations will begin this process as an uncontrolled experiment 28 .

Or from https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adr9689

> Concerns are mostly focused on aluminum, the most common component in satellites. If the disintegrated metal ends up as aluminum oxide or hydroxide, it can react with hydrogen chloride — the main reservoir of chlorine in the stratosphere, a hangover from the days of chlorofluorocarbons — to produce aluminum chloride. Hydrogen chloride is a relatively safe repository for chlorine, but aluminum chloride is easily split apart by light, freeing the chlorine to destroy ozone. Metal aerosols could also seed the creation of more polar stratospheric clouds, which catalyze reactions that liberate destructive forms of chlorine. “One can speculate, but without critical laboratory measurements of the chemistry, it’s very hard to know [the effects],” says John Plane, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Leeds. ... “You have to wonder whether [SpaceX] is creating a major problem 30 years from now,” Lionnet says.
by olalonde | 2025-10-09 06:38:47+00:00
> I cannot understand how Chinese news consumers cannot see this.

What are they supposed to see? There are no news about it because it doesn't exist. You're free not to believe me but I guarantee that if you ask anyone in China about the "social credit score" as depicted in the West (e.g. "you lose points for jaywalking", or "can't go to certain places if your score gets too low", etc.), you will get blank stares. In fact, most people are probably even unaware that they have a "credit score", unless they have applied for a mortgage.

That said, I agree that the Wikipedia page is bad.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-09 06:39:23+00:00
This should be a warning to anyone providing function in any way similar to what Discord is doing. Do not keep PII longer than you legally have to. Don't have to keep it at all? Delete it. Leave a redacted record such as "Image verified by x, removed on x after unban" or something simple if you must. Remove PII from ticketing systems especially on a platform like Discord where users want to be private by design.
by Vipsy | 2025-10-09 06:39:23+00:00
Coding agents tend to assume that the development environment is static and predictable, but real codebases are full of subtle, moving parts - tooling versions, custom scripts, CI quirks, and non-standard file layouts.

Many agents break down not because the code is too complex, but because invisible, “boring” infrastructure details trip them up. Human developers subconsciously navigate these pitfalls using tribal memory and accumulated hacks, but agents bluff through them until confronted by an edge case. This is why even trivial tasks intermittently fail with automation agents. you’re fighting not logic errors, but mismatches with the real lived context. Upgrading this context-awareness would be a genuine step change.
by 112233 | 2025-10-09 06:39:49+00:00
Thank you for these links! Their "circuits" research is fascinating. In the example you mention, note how the planned rhyme is piggybacking on the newline token. The internal state that the emergent circuits can use is 1:1 mapped to the tokens. Model cannot trigger an insertion of a "null" token for the purpose of storing this plan-ahead information during inference. Neither there are any sort of "registers" available aside from the tokens. The "thinking" LLMs are not quite that, because the thinking tokens are still forced to become text.
by themafia | 2025-10-09 06:39:54+00:00
> Words have meaning in context

And you do recognize the context of those words was 15 years ago at this point?

> was exactly a Ponzi scheme in that sense, even if it wasn't a deliberate scam

There are better terms of art to describe the scenario. If we lacked for those words I might grant you this point, but since we don't, I find the description lacking in precision if not completely faulty.

> the more "normal" reason that they just don't gain traction.

Is that actually the "normal reason" most businesses fail? I'm not sure it is.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-09 06:40:08+00:00
I very much do blame the corporations and governments that push for these kinds of policies in some way or another.

We see things like this, which happen about as often as fucking rainfall in a mountain forest, and then also see the ever increasing push towards ID verification by corporations and government organizations that pinkie-promise to secure or not retain any of the personal data you were wrist-burned into handing over to them.

What a toxic mix of garbage that becomes. The result is crap like the above, making the internet ever worse and basic personal data security (to not even speak of lofty things like digital privacy and using the internet anonymously) pretty much null and void even if you really do try to take the right steps.
by sph | 2025-10-09 06:41:22+00:00
I appreciate the effort that went into this rant a lot (I need to reread it after coffee has fully kicked in), and it touches some ideas I’ve accumulated over the years.

If you still feel in sharing mood, feel free to post links to interesting papers or proof of concepts in the space for further education.

EDIT: I quite like your idea of making the kernel unaware of threading, though I'm not sure how to go about implementing that. This is more radical than the other great idea of moving the scheduler and the concept of time(sharing) itself to userspace (I've seen a few talks about it on YT, I forget the name of the project that explored this avenue). So effectively ring 0 should only have to deal with enforcing capability security, while everything else lives in userspace.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-09 06:41:45+00:00
Point #2 cracks me up because I do see with JetBrains AI (no fault of JetBrains mind you) the model updates the file, and sometimes I somehow wind up with like a few build errors, or other times like 90% of the file is now build errors. Hey what? Did you not run some sort of what if?
by fodkodrasz | 2025-10-09 06:42:23+00:00
I have SMB2/SMB3 with mandatory encryption.

I'd use the Finder to browse files, and for that it is terribly slow. Also without extra config in SAMBA it does litter the whole disk with DS_Store crap. I remember it was very slow that way, but have set up extra config in SAMBA (pear extension I think). Its extreme slowness may also be related to the workarounds to avoid that crap being not fully correctly configured. Also copying is comically slow, to get 4 files totaling 50kbytes can take 20 seconds sometimes. Same from a windows laptop takes sub second time.

Overall I'm underwhelmed by MacOS/iOS, this being one minor annoyance in the list. Windows and Linux both perform well and work well out of the box with my proven simple setup. (No AD)

Samba in MacOS might speed up things, but I bought that machine to get stuff cone more effectively than from Linux, and so far it didn't prove its value. Right now I'll not bother with that, as I feel that would have even worse OS level integration. Thanks for the advice nevertheless, much appreciated.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 06:42:33+00:00
I don't think they're as bad as snake oil.

I taught at one for a year and a good number of my students (it was above 50% last time I took a pulse) had life-changing career switches.

I think what people don't realize is that the student is really the difference maker, and that it really takes a lot of effort, dedication, and interest to succeed.

I think it's possible some of these folks could have "self-taught" their way to the same technical proficiency, but it would've taken longer, and they wouldn't have had as much of a professional network of alums, sponsors, etc upon completion.
by Tor3 | 2025-10-09 06:42:40+00:00
contrails can be detected, at least when they disperse a bit. And as they linger it's even easier. What's difficult anyway you look at it is to detect the actual airplane, at the point where it's at at the moment.

Note that the Starshield satellites aren't able to cover all of the earth all of the time, far from it.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-09 06:42:41+00:00
> NATO would have wiped the floor with the Russian military

Considering my interests and those of my country I would like to believe, but reality do not provide much support for such hopes.

> and it's surprising considering what a juggernaut everyone claimed the Russian military was pre-war.

It is true, but they improved immensely during 3 years of intense conflict (the same for Ukraine). On the other hand NATO has most experience in bombing people in Africa and Middle-East.

War with Russia wouldn't be the same as battle of Timbuktu.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-10-09 06:42:58+00:00
> LLMs don’t copy-paste (or cut and paste) code. For instance, when you ask them to refactor a big file into smaller ones, they’ll "remember" a block or slice of code, use a delete tool on the old file, and then a write tool to spit out the extracted code from memory. There are no real cut or paste tools. Every tweak is just them emitting write commands from memory. This feels weird because, as humans, we lean on copy-paste all the time.

There is not that much copy/paste that happens as part of refactoring so it leans to just using context recall. It's not entirely clear if providing an actual copy/paste command is particularly useful, at least from my testing it does not do much. More interesting are repetitive changes that clog up the context. Those you can improve on if you have `fastmod` or some similar tool available: with it you can instruct codex or claude to perform edits with it.

> And it’s not just how they handle code movement -- their whole approach to problem-solving feels alien too.

It is, but if you go back and forth to work out a plan for how to solve the problem, then the approach greatly changes.