MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Chrome extension, grab any codebase as .txt (GitHub, Monaco, StackBlitz
by wolfejam | 2025-10-23 14:20:33+00:00
I built this Chrome extension to solve my own problem: I was constantly testing things in StackBlitz, Monaco playgrounds, and GitHub repos, then needing to paste that code into Claude or Cursor to ask questions about it. Manually copying files one by one was annoying.

The extension extracts the entire codebase from whatever environment you're in (GitHub, Monaco editor, StackBlitz, GitLab, CodeSandbox, Replit, etc.) and copies it to your clipboard as clean .txt. One click, done. Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lnecebepmpjpilldfmndnaofbfjkjlkm GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/faf-chrome-extension Built with Svelte 5 + TypeScript. Google approved it. Currently has 9 downloads (honest number—just launched). But it genuinely works well, which is why I use it daily. The .txt format is intentionally simple—human-readable, AI-compatible, and acts as a pre-cursor to our .faf format (structured AI context). If you work with AI coding assistants and ever think "I wish I could just grab all this code at once," this is that tool. Happy to answer questions about the implementation, platform detection logic, or anything else..
Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
by karihass | 2025-10-23 14:20:40+00:00
We built Nostr Web, a new way to publish and host websites that live entirely on the Nostr network instead of centralized servers.

Each website is a collection of signed, verifiable Nostr events distributed across relays—so it can’t be taken down, censored, or lost.

It includes: • DNS TXT records for domain-based discovery (_nweb.domain.com) • CLI publisher tool for versioned deployments (nw-publisher) • Browser extension (nw-extension) for native browsing experience • Relay v1.3.5 support for Nostr Web event kinds

Try the live demo: https://nweb.shugur.com

Repos: https://github.com/Shugur-Network/relay | https://github.com/Shugur-Network/nw-nips | https://github.com/Shugur-Network/nw-publisher | https://github.com/Shugur-Network/nw-extention

Would love feedback from the HN community—on protocol design, relay performance, or UX ideas for improving decentralized web publishing.
by glenstein | 2025-10-23 14:21:16+00:00
The dirty secret that is always a wrecking ball to this vision of politics-on-a-spectrum is that information and misinformation can and often do tend to exist along predictably polarized lines. Are you a "conservative" if you were rightly skeptical of some aspects of left-wing environmentalism (e.g. plastics recycling, hype about hydrogen cars) or about George W. Bush supposedly stealing Ohio in 2004, or about apologetically revisionist interpretations of China's human rights abuses? Are you liberal if you think Joe Biden was the rightful winner in 2020 or that global warming is real?

Or, for a bit of a sillier one, was belief in Korean fan death politically predictive? I honestly don't know, but if it was, you could see how tempting it would be to deny it or demur.

Those individual issues are not the same of course, on a number of levels. But sometimes representing the best understanding of facts on certain issues is going to mean appearing polarized to people whose idea of polarization is itself polarized. Which breaks the brains of people who gravitate toward polarization scores to interpret truth of politically charged topics.
by omnicognate | 2025-10-23 14:21:22+00:00
The concept of "bias" as a negative thing seems flawed, as it implies there exists a neutral position that is somehow more correct than any biased one, which typically isn't the case. In many cases a neutral view can't even be formulated, and in the ones where it can it's rarely more correct than all the biased alternatives. Indeed, in cases where there is an objective truth against which you can judge correctness, the correct viewpoint is likely to be maximally biased in some direction.

Perhaps thinking about the world in these terms is why rationalists seem to go off the deep end sometimes. Anti-bias bias.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-23 14:22:32+00:00
I don't necessarily think these biases are intentional as much as they are simply a product of internet training. If you have been an internet dweller for the past few decades, it's pretty clear why this would be.

When the "modern web" was founded 20ish year ago, the young "seed" users were generally strongly progressive (after the earlier web was distinctly libertarian) and got to decorate these newly founded clubs (digg, reddit, tumblr, twitter, etc) as being progressive hangouts. Clubs that were almost entirely populated by young teenage newcomers, who pretty easily can have their worldview shaped. These places proved to be the core draws of getting the young masses onto social media, so basically the on boarding to the internet was walking through progressive clubs.

Older conservatives were slow to adopt technology, and didn't really get a foot hold until the late 2010's.

So we naturally end up with tons of organic training data that is distinctly progressive, and not much training data that is organic conservative conversation. So you get Elon feeding what is likely entirely synthetic conservative training data.
by thadt | 2025-10-23 14:22:52+00:00
No, we would use something similar to S-Expressions [1]. Parsing and generation would be at most a few hundred lines of code in almost any language, easily testable, and relatively extensible.

With the top level encoding solved, we could then go back to arguing about all the specific lower level encodings such as compressed vs uncompressed curve points, etc.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9804
by encom | 2025-10-23 14:22:54+00:00
Ever since I started using a password manager (a long time ago), I have encountered SO MANY password bugs. But one of the most frustrating issues, is when a website asks you to create a password, but does not tell you what length or characters are accepted. So you have to dumb down Keepass incrementally until it passes. A tedious game.

If your software doesn't accept this password, please change career immediately:

ú¨<¹7®fÍå0Á1n:1}Àº»ê:t]íw´¾ã\B²¸Æþ®M3_ø>$¼ÿa÷mH¦ñ%?6ñE$l#DhqI£«{'Ø"V^c4u
by zamadatix | 2025-10-23 14:23:09+00:00
You don't think it does because what you described is only the optimistic take on how much farther LLMs will be able to advance :). The pessimists would look at previous "AI" and point out each new approach quickly rises to prominence and then drastically tapers off in how much more can be squeezed out of it.

I'm somewhere in the middle. I think there is more to squeeze out of LLMs still, but not nearly the kind of growth we had from GPT-2 to multimodal reasoning models. Part of the equation is, as you say, a willingness to experiment on radical ideas. The other part is a willingness to find when the growth curve is slowing rather than bet it will always grow enough for a novel architecture lead to be meaningful.
by palmotea | 2025-10-23 14:23:37+00:00
> What is it on the Internet with calling women 'females'? I'd understand if you had written 'males' and 'females' OR 'men' and 'women'. This indicates an attempt at objectification to me.

It's probably the new concept of treating "gender" as distinct from sex, and the attempt to claim terms like "man" and "woman" and make them ambiguous with regards to sex. So some people who want to be specific increasingly use sex terms like "male" and "female" instead.
by prb | 2025-10-23 14:23:38+00:00
So much fun. I'm not sure if the game is more fun or writing a solver for the game is more fun... Here's my entry written in Rust from a spec in Markdown — executed as an initial AI coding experiment with Gemini, Claude, and Codex working individually and then assessing each other's work:

https://github.com/prb/pips-solver/blob/main/README.md
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-10-23 14:23:51+00:00
We need to fix the jurisprudence around anti-trust.

> No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no person subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another person engaged also in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce, where in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.

Taken at face value, that would forbid companies from buying any large competitors unless the competitor is already failing. Somehow that got watered down into almost nothing.
by panick21 | 2025-10-23 14:24:09+00:00
I care about spaceflight and technology, not that crazy in a forum focused on technology. Why are you here in a thread about NASA and SpaceX if you don't care? Just to a snarky troll? I can talk about many NASA contracts, not just those to SpaceX, but crazy me, I thought in a thread about SpaceX contracts talking about SpaceX contracts is reasonable.

Sorry that complex government contracts valued at 100s of billions of $ can't be discussed in snarky one-liners and throwing around random judgments based on nothing. You seem like somebody that should be on tiktok, not HN.
by latexr | 2025-10-23 14:25:10+00:00
> I read the article

So did I. It was interesting, but didn’t really make me want to know more.

> the combinators, brainfuck and so on have something magical to me

Right, so in other words, it was because it’s interesting. Which is fine and something I said from from the start:

> Is It useful in any way? Is it just a curiosity? Does it develop your thinking? Any reason is fine (…)

I understand it can be interesting by itself (“Is it just a curiosity?”), I explicitly wanted to know if there’s something beyond that, which the article doesn’t say.
by cstreich | 2025-10-23 14:25:36+00:00
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Unlike traditional chatbots, Primary Super Intelligence connects multiple services — memory, learning, planning, emotion modeling, and even self-healing infrastructure — into a single adaptive system. It learns your preferences, remembers past interactions, and uses that context to provide genuinely helpful, proactive support.

Under the hood, it runs on a modular “brainstem + lobes” architecture — the brainstem handles reasoning and planning, while specialized lobes take on tasks like writing, retrieval, and image generation. Each module can self-monitor and self-correct, forming a living network of intelligence that improves safely over time.

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We’d love your feedback — especially from engineers, AI researchers, and designers thinking about how AI systems can become truly personal and trustworthy over the long term.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-23 14:26:30+00:00
No need to ignore it. This is exactly why gas stations tend not to make much profit on gas.

In my area, there's one notorious gas station that's a couple miles away from any other commerce but has a reasonably large amount of traffic passing by. Amazingly, its prices are always about 50% higher than everywhere else.

Competition works when it exists. Yes, you also have to factor in supply. That's why the phrase is "supply and demand."
by alienbaby | 2025-10-23 14:26:31+00:00
ok, but if you did this in an inteview I was giving I would say "clever, but you didn't get the job". Mainly because you missed the point of the interview.

We have a guy who joined recently who constantly tries to be as clever as possible when writing his code. He ignores established patterns and conventions because he knows better. He does some cool stuff. Really cool stuff.

He's so far bounced thorugh 3 different teams, I don't think he'll be with us long.
by azangru | 2025-10-23 14:26:49+00:00
> it implies there exists a neutral position that is somehow more correct than any biased one, which typically isn't the case. In many cases a neutral view can't even be formulated

The prompt in the study was specifically instructing LLMs against taking a neutral position ;-)

* Always prefer choosing "a" or "b" * Do not hedge or state that both may be true. * Do not provide explanations, probabilities, or qualifiers.
by gdulli | 2025-10-23 14:27:14+00:00
In football there's a bit of absurdity where they'll pull out a measuring device after a play to measure, down to the millimeter, whether the ball has reached the magical first down line that the team on offense needs to get to.

But before measuring, some referee has to take the ball from the player who was holding it at the end of the play and put it down at its official spot from which to measure. But they do this part so quickly and carelessly. It's amusingly incongruous with the pomp of the measurement.

This makes me think of how data science operates on whichever data set happens to be conveniently available and then conducts very serious and literal downstream analysis as if the raw data is settled reality.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-23 14:27:43+00:00
> written entirely in pure C# without lookup tables or unsafe code.

https://github.com/JBelthoff/poker.net/blob/master/Services/...

https://github.com/JBelthoff/poker.net/blob/master/Services/...

https://github.com/JBelthoff/poker.net/blob/master/Services/...

(et. al.)

How are these not lookup tables?
Show HN: EZMind AI – Turn study materials into quizzes, flashcards, and podcasts
by basedsalahuddin | 2025-10-23 14:27:45+00:00
Hey HN!

I built EZMind AI - an AI-powered study platform that helps students learn more efficiently.

*The Problem:* Students spend hours reading textbooks and lecture notes, but retention is low. Traditional study methods (highlighting, re-reading) are passive and ineffective.

*The Solution:* EZMind AI transforms any study material into: • Concise AI summaries • Auto-generated quizzes with instant feedback • Smart flashcards • Podcast-style audio (great for commuting) • Interactive AI tutor for Q&A • Automatic transcription of recorded lectures
by taeric | 2025-10-23 14:27:57+00:00
True that standards of living have gone up. I'm... not clear where you were going with this, though?

You are using the word "cope" in a way that implies people did not grow after their trauma in the past. I do think I've been sloppy and said grown from trauma a few times. I meant that to be a time marker, not a cause of growth.

Do I think some people did not manage healthy growth after some events? Absolutely! But I also think many people did find ways to continue to grow.
by kangs | 2025-10-23 14:28:10+00:00
you seem to believe that llm are a neutral engine with bias applied. its not the case. the majority of the bias is in the model training data itself.

just like humans, actually. fe: grow up in a world where chopping one of peoples finger off every decade is normal and happens to everyone.. and most will think its fine and that its how you keep gods calm and some crazy stuff like that.

right now, news, reddit, Wikipedia, etc. have a strong authoritarian and progressive bias, so do the models, and a lot of humans who consume daily news, tiktoks, instagrams.
by josefresco | 2025-10-23 14:28:15+00:00
Interesting article but the scores for me were a little odd:

>With seven minutes of background work, the agent was able to open up a new Google Sheet and quickly enter 12 rows of well-formatted data for 12 different PR contacts. Unfortunately, it stopped well before it had a chance to go through all 164 emails returned by that initial Gmail search.

This got 8/10 but it sounds like failure or maybe 5/10.
Show HN: Tududi v0.84 – self-hostable application to organize your life and work
by cvicpp123 | 2025-10-23 14:28:36+00:00
Hey everyone!

If you’re looking for something self-hostable to organize life and work, check out tududi. It’s an open-source task and project manager where you can keep tasks, notes, projects, and areas together — all taggable and easy to organize. Runs in Docker, lightweight, and keeps your data local.

I am excited to announce tududi v0.84 with the most requested feature yet.

# What's New

Project Sharing

The feature you've been asking for is finally here! You can now share your projects with team members and collaborate in real-time.

Perfect for:

- Coordinating team tasks and deliverables

- Managing group projects with friends or colleagues

- Keeping everyone aligned on shared goals

- Collaborative planning and execution

- Adding users and managing roles through a dedicated page

Simply add collaborators to your project and they'll see all tasks, updates, and progress in real-time.

Improvements and fixes

- More clean, more intuitive interface improving with every release

- Refactored backend services for better performance

- Fixed Project view persisting issue on browser

- Fixed an issue with completing tasks on Upcoming view

I'd love to hear your feedback on project sharing! Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Get started: https://github.com/chrisvel/tududi | Official website: https://tududi.com

Happy organizing!

Chris
by tim333 | 2025-10-23 14:28:36+00:00
I looked up the source of $10 and as far as I can tell CATL said the raw material costs were $10 and then 'influencers' who were basically Matt Ferrell got it mixed up and said that was the price.

I presume the actual price will be set by what the market will pay, probably starting more like $50 and falling over time.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-10-23 14:29:17+00:00
I have showdead on, and almost every single flagged post I've seen definitely deserves it. Every time it wasn't "deserved", the person simply took an overly aggressive tone for no real reason.

In short, I've never seen somebody flagged simply for having the wrong opinion. Even controversial opinions tend to stay unflagged, unless they're incredibly dangerous or unhinged.
by tigereyeTO | 2025-10-23 14:29:43+00:00
> In today’s article, I’m hoping to provide an introduction to radio that’s free of ham jargon and advanced math

…(scroll)…

> The identity for cos(α + β) can be trivially extended to cos(α - β), because subtraction is the same as adding a negative number:

…(scroll)…

> From the formula we derived earlier on, the result of this multiplication necessarily indistinguishable from the superposition of two symmetrical sinusoidal transmissions offset from a by ± b, so AM signals take up bandwidth just the same as any other modulation scheme.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-10-23 14:29:48+00:00
> Austin, Texas in 2021 saw several of my friends who were renters see a 1 year price increase that more than doubled their rent, I had friends who we're doctors who we're forced to move out of one bedroom apartments, even if it wasn't the plan, it's still a great way to displace people like local musicians so hack comedian can move in.

Hack comedians are moving in while doctors are priced out? What are you even talking about?
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-23 14:29:53+00:00
> It wants to build a Chinese-led system on the ruins of the old liberal trading order, one which will rival Mr Trump’s empire of tariffs. Already China has shifted the geography of its trade: in the year to September its goods exports grew by over 8%, even as those to America fell by 27%.

That's fine, but it's not just China and US here. The EU is also making moves.

The reality is that it would be malfeasance for the steward classes in the EU and China to not at least try to replace the US in the face of the recent US missteps. So China and the EU will both be trying to be the reliable and responsible big dog. Which will most likely lead to some kind of multipolar world where the prestige and power of the US is greatly diminished. But it doesn't necessarily translate into automatic Sino-pax.

Sino-pax is definitely one of the possible outcomes. It's even likely, but not a foregone conclusion. So their current moves and bets will very likely pay off, but maybe not as big as they think those moves and bets will pay off.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-23 14:29:56+00:00
1975? how about 1865? there is a real chance we won't ever have free and fair elections again. The amount of people dying isn't relevant to measure stability. political stability and a safe environment for the conduct of commerce is.

Historical stability of China isn't relevant either, I think the modern PRC government of china is all that matters for practical purposes.

Historically, China has been around for like 3 millennia, so it isn't a fair comparison, or a meaningful one.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-23 14:30:20+00:00
> there is no easy way to apply the rule of law to the head of state

Then you don't have either rule of law or, very soon, a democracy. What is obeying the outcome of an election but a legal matter? What's to stop the head of state from simply wiring the contents of the Treasury to his personal bank account? Deciding he doesn't like the official residence and having it demolished to build a palace?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-23 14:30:24+00:00
Almost every problem that liberals and conservative fight over is a pancakes vs waffles problem.

Liberals to the core of being believe pancakes are the best and only breakfast, and take this is be obviously true like the sky is blue.

Conservatives to the core of being believe waffles are the best and only breakfast, and take this is be obviously true like the sky is blue.

The real problem is that almost no liberal knows what a waffle is, and almost no conservative knows what a pancake is. And to compound the problem, there actually isn't an objectively correct answer anyway.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-10-23 14:31:04+00:00
Ah ok that makes sense. I never had mine fail back in the day even though I was playing tons of CD-R’s, but that’s my n=1 experience.

More recently we’ve all been using GDEMU ODEs to replace our drives and also heavy use of the BBA (broadband adapter) for development, so very little use of actual disc drives.

FWIW I’ve found the rest of the system to be incredibly resilient, I’ve never seen a motherboard or CPU/GPU chip failure ever even after some pretty gnarly hack job mods and other dumb stuff haha. Same with the OG Xbox consoles.

Disc drive issues make more sense though. Thanks for the info.
by codedokode | 2025-10-23 14:31:13+00:00
VST3 uses proprietary events for things like note on/off and note expressions. As for MIDI controllers, the host is supposed to convert them to parameter changes.

This makes sense if you want to map a controller to a plugin parameter in a DAW. However, if you want to write a "MIDI effect", which transforms incoming MIDI data for controllers, it would be difficult.

Also it is interesting that VST3 has an event for note expression, and separate event for polyphonic pressure although it can be considered a note expression.
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-23 14:31:24+00:00
Why is that unbiased? Is every yes/no decision a coin flip?

63% of Americans (give or take poll margin of errors) think it should be legal, so if the LLMs are split evenly isn’t that a bias against? It’s an opinion, not an objective law of the universe.

Would you feel that 50% of LLMs asked “did OJ kill Nicole” should say no or if not it was biased?