MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-10-03 17:59:19+00:00
> Therefore, increasing proportions of people consuming text online will be unwittingly mind-controlled by LLMs and their handlers.

The "and their handlers" part is the part I find frightening. I would actually be less concerned if the AIs were autonomous.

Reminds me of a random podcast I heard once where someone was asked: "if you woke up in the middle of the night and saw either a random guy or a grey alien in your bedroom, which would scare you more?" The person being interviewed said the dude, and I 100% agree. AI as proxy for oligarchs is much scarier than autonomous alien AI.
by ericmay | 2025-10-03 17:59:54+00:00
Yea but the scales don't match. 0-30 isn't very metric, whereas 0-100 is. If you added Fahrenheit to metric I think you'd be much more consistent.

Of course both scales can go above and below the numbers mentioned above, but if you are going to do things based on units of 10 you might as well be consistent.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-03 18:00:06+00:00
> based on both frontier model performance in high-level math and CS competitions

IMO the only takeaway from those successes is that RL for reasoning works when you have a clear reward signal. Whether this RL-based approach to reasoning can be made to work in more general cases remains to be seen.

There is also a big disconnect between how these models do so well in benchmark tasks like these that they've been specifically trained for, and how easily they still fail in everyday tasks. Yesterday I had the just released Sonnet 4.5 fail to properly do a units conversion from radians to arcsec as part of a simple problem - it was off by a factor of 3. Not exactly a PhD level math performance!
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-10-03 18:00:38+00:00
I think there is a big difference from other fads here, listing some from memory - SL, Cloud Computing, Web 3.0, NFC, Big Data, Blockchain, 3D printing, IOT, VR, metaverse, NFTs.

If we plot all of these on a scale of how much it impacted day to day experience of an average user there is something highly unusual about AI. The slop is everywhere, every single person who is interacting with digital media is affected. I don't really know what this means, but this is pretty unusual when compared with other fads.
by halgir | 2025-10-03 18:01:14+00:00
I feel the same way. I've hiked a few times at one of the locations in these photos with my 8 year old son (under close supervision). I think it's a great way to build a sense of responsibility and humility.

Unfortunately, that also makes it inherently more dangerous. Just a month ago, three tourists went missing at that location. [1]

[1] https://local.fo/three-persons-missing-after-visiting-vagar-...
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-03 18:01:15+00:00
the reality is very few workloads have access patterns that SQLite can't support. I would much rather start with a strategy like 1. use sqlite for my beta / single client, 2. duplicate the entire environment for the next n clients, 3. solve the "my application is wildly successful" and SQLite is no longer appropriate problem at a future date. Spoiler: you're never going to get to step #3.
by bilkow | 2025-10-03 18:01:55+00:00
You can run niri from within other DEs, but I'm unsure whether it works well for your use-case. From the docs[0]:

"You can also run niri inside an existing desktop session. Then it will open as a window, where you can give it a try. Note that this windowed mode is mainly meant for development, so it is a bit buggy (in particular, there are issues with hotkeys)."

IIRC in this case the Mod key is by default Alt instead of Super.

[0] https://yalter.github.io/niri/Getting-Started.html
Show HN: Correctify – The everything app for restaurant menus
by GiorgosGennaris | 2025-10-03 18:02:00+00:00
Creating one restaurant menu, especially in big groups, can take up to 4 months and cost hundreds or thousands. We are trying to cut this 10fold by providing a space to collaborate with your team, automate processes with AI and launch print & online menus instantly, from your text.
by ctrlp | 2025-10-03 18:02:11+00:00
Ah, yeah... It makes sense for why the publications push certain writers, but then where is the reader? Are we to assume the public fans are just hypnotized by critics? I wonder how many people take their cues (and taste) from book reviews in the New Yorker et al. More than I'd hope probably. Depressing. This was funny and useful though:

"This is a good example of what I call the andelope: a breathless string of simple declarative statements linked by the conjunction 'and'. Like the 'evocative' slide-show and the Consumerland shopping-list, the andelope encourages skim-reading while keeping up the appearance of 'literary' length and complexity. But like the slide-show (and unlike the shopping-list), the andelope often clashes with the subject matter, and the unpunctuated flow of words bears no relation to the methodical meal that is being described."
by abustamam | 2025-10-03 18:02:18+00:00
I cheekily refer to it as Al (like, short for Albert) because Google seems to love to shove Al's overviews in my search results.

But when I'm being more serious I'd usually just say "I asked GPT"

I have a colleague who just refers to AI as "Chat" which I think is kinda cute, but people also use the term "chat" to refer to... Like, people, or "yall". Or to their stream chat.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-03 18:02:26+00:00
I was using i3/sway for years previously as well (and some awesome, qtile before that). The big difference is window size.

Generally I believe most people like to order their workspacesroughly by topic, e.g. all work related Windows on one, browser or on another, some also do all terminals on one... Now with sway/i3 I often found myself in the situation where I was e.g. on the "browser" desktop and you read something you quickly want to try in, e.g. ipython, or you are working on a latex document and want to briefly open a PDF. In i3 that would reduce the size of your original window, so you end up switching to a workspace (or you manually switch to tabbed tiling) for me the mental overhead was significantly higher and I was ending up creating more and more workspaces just to hold temporary terminals.

This is actually related to why I switched to i3 in the first place, I just felt vertical tiling is the only tiling that makes sense in 95% of the cases and that just worked best in i3. But that comes at the cost that you are limited to only 3-4 tiles per workspace (depending on screensize) now in niri I have infinite theoretically. Which means I spend less mental overhead when I want to open another window (which is really thebgoal of tiling wms in my opinion, reduce thinking spend on window management)
by nxobject | 2025-10-03 18:02:44+00:00
The opportunities are in applications that lead to job opportunities in other departments, especially with the rise of secondary data analysis in other fields… I would sell myself as as a methodologist in a field of application, rather than an economist first.

For example, I do health systems research in an academic medical center. I work with a health economics research unit that doesn’t mint PhDs, but does hire at all stages of the academic career, and there’s been a lot of mobility for their “alums” - just not in traditional Econ departments.
by immibis | 2025-10-03 18:02:46+00:00
Single instance is underappreciated in general. There's a used server reseller near me, and sometimes I check their online catalogue out of curiosity. For only $1000ish I could have some few generations old box with dual socket 32-core chips and 1TB of RAM. I don't have any purpose for which I'd need that, but it's surprisingly cheap if I did. And things can scale up from there. AWS will charge you the same per month that it costs to get one of your own forever - not counting electricity or hard drives.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-03 18:02:52+00:00
There are some bizarre notions in here. I used to be a big picture taker at events like concerts, and I realized that I never look at the things. Why? Because a picture can't really capture the "vibe" of being there - worse, not being present in the moment of the concert means the actual, emotionally charged, memories are diluted because I'm paying attention to my phone. Having the picture often made the memory less distinct in my mind, not more.

Even with a more judicious approach to recording though, the second problem was curation. When you get home with tens or hundreds of photos, what do you do with them? In my experience, either (a) you go through them and clear out all the bad ones almost immediately (same week at least) or (b) they sit around forever gathering dust on a drive somewhere. It's not beneficial to have thousands of photos covering every insignificant event in your life (or hundreds of hours of video). Going through all that stuff is slow, boring, and tedious. Our memories are all about culling the details that don't matter and leaving behind what's important. Our brains do this automatically for us, but who is going to do this work with a massive photo collection? Would I trust AI to do it? Probably not.

There's a golden mean here somewhere, where you have enough photos to spark a memory 20 years from now, but not so many that it becomes a chore to capture and curate them. Capturing every moment is definitely not it.
by bfgeek | 2025-10-03 18:03:27+00:00
One thing to keep in mind when developing these large lists of fonts is that they are generally terrible for performance if the appropriate glyphs for what you are trying to display aren't present in the first font (and the font is available - this isn't an issue if the font isn't available at all).

This is generally more of an issue with non-latin scripts (or when emoji is present for example), and developers adding a font which doesn't have glyph coverage - or sparse glyph coverage.

Chrome/Firefox devtools both have a section "Rendered Fonts"/"Used Fonts" which show which gylphs are used from which font.

Additionally if you are showing non-latin, make sure to language tag your markup: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

`font-family: sans-serif` if not language tagged with incur a similar fallback perfromance penalty (the browser will have to change the "english" sans-serif font, find no glyphs, then use the "other-lang" sans-serfic font).
by jplusequalt | 2025-10-03 18:03:31+00:00
>The genie's out of the bottle. I think it's better that everyone have access to it, and are fully aware of its capabilities, rather than it being unknown to everyone and under the control of specific entities

The majority of people only have access to proprietary models, whose weights and training are closed source. The prospect of a populace that all out source their thinking to Google's LLM is horrifying.
by johnmaguire | 2025-10-03 18:04:32+00:00
1) 20% of homicides involving strangers is still 4,566 deaths per year, or nearly 13 per day.

2) I don't think she is the only refugee to be killed abroad. It is certainly tragic irony, but I don't see why that makes it international news. If anything, this just feels like an extension of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

3) This is by far the most compelling argument you've presented.

I think my problem with framing this as racism (let alone systemic racism - which is what the left complains about) is that the Decarlos Brown Jr. was diagnosed with schizophrenia. More than anything, I think this is a failing of our society to provide mental health for those who need it. And unfortunately, this is not newsworthy.

And yet, in the US, the same party decrying the lack of coverage rejects restrictions on firearm ownership for those with a history of mental health issues (or many other red flags.) e.g. https://home.nra.org/statements/nra-statement-in-response-to...
by bawana | 2025-10-03 18:04:55+00:00
This highlights an unspoken danger of AI. People are up in arms about AI taking jobs in Human Resources, customer service, low level coding, etc. But education will take a massive hit. PhD, masters and even BS degrees will be devastated. Unless an individual has documented real benefits to a bottom line of some business, the CV will be window dressing. The only field that will continue to offer steady employment will be crime.
by WalterSear | 2025-10-03 18:05:04+00:00
By definition, if you don't like to experience it; don't like to witness it, it's not 'ribbing': it's bullying. It's crucial that the person being ribbed is part of the joke, and should be obvious.

It's very common for people to engage in the bullying, thinking that they are just ribbing; perhaps, never having experienced the safety that is required for ribbing.
by jzl | 2025-10-03 18:05:24+00:00
I don’t think any of these are “obvious” lies. Maybe meta offered someone a $75M package and it got reported as $100M. So they can say with a straight face that the reporting is “false”, yet they never countered with any details.

You’re ignoring my point about the legitimate reason people might be getting offers in this stratosphere. No one has debunked or refuted the general reporting, at least not that I’ve seen. If you have a source, show it please.
by orthecreedence | 2025-10-03 18:05:26+00:00
"Expand the surveillance state to unprecedented levels" would be a better title.

I mean seriously? Was this written by an outreach intern at the NSA? I know the world is already going this direction, but holy Christ I'm going to hold out as long as I can from being constantly monitored as I do every little mundane thing through my life.

Do I WANT to remember driving to the store 6 months ago? Do I WANT to remember changing a light bulb 8 weeks ago? There's a reason our brains delete stuff: because most of it is fucking stupid. Why feed this giant malevolent machine even more just so we can have records of all the things nobody gives a flying fuck about?
by 7402 | 2025-10-03 18:05:52+00:00
> Israel isn't a dictatorship and these things can change over time

Indeed, Israel is a democracy, and things have in fact changed over time. These changes in Israeli public opinion have been based largely on the actions of the Palestinians.

There was optimism about peace in 2007, after the withdrawal from Gaza: 70% of Israelis supported the two-state solution. After the Hamas massacres in 2023, there was 70% opposition to the two-state solution.
Show HN: Turn Instagram/YouTube vids or blogs into day-by-day travel itinerary
by shivam-myv | 2025-10-03 18:05:56+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve just launched Map Your Voyage, a web app that converts any travel content—Instagram Reels, YouTube videos, blog posts, etc.—into an editable, day-wise itinerary in minutes.

Tech stack:

Infrastructure: Self setup Kubernetes cluster running on Hetzner Bare Metal servers

Frontend: Self-hosted Next.js

Backend: Golang, Node.js, Postgres, NATS MQ, Memcached

CI/CD: Gitlab CI + ArgoCD

CDN: Cloudflare + Bunny

Try it here: https://mapyourvoyage.com/app/build-itinerary-from-travel-co...

I’d love to hear your thoughts—whether it’s what you liked, what didn’t work, or any suggestions for improvement. Every bit of feedback will help me shape the next steps.

Thanks for taking a look—happy to answer any questions!
by sixo | 2025-10-03 18:05:59+00:00
The weird thing about "The idea of being liked is just as anxiety-producing as being disliked" is that it is an incorrect prediction of reality: actually being liked would. Thinking about it is really a different thing: it overestimates the stakes involved, it mistakenly invents "ideas of people" to do the liking which do not behave like actual people, and is unable to build any self-esteem by imagining people liking you because these imagined people are under your our control; being liked by your own imagined people doesn't "count" the way being liked by real people would...

The human mind is not really designed to handle under-socialization well, and seems to fill in the empty space with imaginary figures which fail to meet its social needs. Taken outside its natural tribal operating regime, it bugs out in all kinds of strange ways.

> the idea of someone examining my own stories and thinking such thoughts about me is extremely distressing

This is a very familiar feeling to me, and in my experience it actually is a fear of being disliked, or more specifically about not being able to control others' reactions to me. But the fear is so great and unapproachable that the mind cordons it "out of sight" of conscious feeling.

It becomes better to not be thought of than to expose myself to the possibility of others seeing me poorly, especially if I'm not able to defend myself and make the case for my being seen with grace. I suspect that it is over-exposure to human meanness and judgement and under-exposure to kindness and grace which brings about this expectation of others' dispositions towards oneself; this perhaps is the reason for the Christian injunction that humans not judge one another--it guards against this particular failure mode of the social mind.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-03 18:06:04+00:00
> Also maybe worth noting that we can always force our (three) font faces everywhere simply by unchecking the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" in settings. Yes, this is nuclear option, but I can attest that I use it time to time, and it is quite usable.

Occasionally I deliberately trial major changes for a week or two. Sometimes I revert, other times I stay. I turned font selection off in this way in early 2020, and never went back, it made the web so much better.

Out of the box, Firefox still loads fonts with certain names, to avoid breaking icon fonts. After maybe six months I decided to nuke that with blocking all fonts in uBlock Origin, and although it made some things uglier, and Material Icons is ridiculously stupid in practice (frankly achieving almost the precise opposite of its stated intent for using ligation) it took until this year before I encountered an actual breakage (a couple of sites not realising document.fonts.load() can throw).

I encourage others to turn off font selection, though I wouldn’t encourage most to block web fonts altogether in the way I decided to.

I also urge developers to shun icon fonts: they were always a bad idea, a dodgy hack, and the time when they had meaningful justifying qualities is now long past.
by immibis | 2025-10-03 18:06:05+00:00
The performance problem in N+1 is (mostly) not in fetching the N rows from disk, but rather from multiplying the network latency by a factor of N. Joins solve this; so do stored procedures.

In general, you want to ask the remote server once for all the data you need, then read all the results. It applies to databases as well as APIs.

Pipelined requests also solve the problem and can be more flexible.

Also, joins can be optimised in different ways. Sometimes the optimal way to do a join isn't to query each row one-by-one, but to do something like (when the rows you want are a large fraction of the rows that exist) making a bloom filter of the rows you want and then sequentially reading all the rows in the table.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-03 18:06:17+00:00
I have seen lots of biased hateful users such as yourself that falsely attempt to discredit valid posts by claiming they're written by AI. It's extremely dumb and evil, is not backed any evidence, and is irrelevant to the post. Even if the post to actually be written by AI, that is no reason to use that assertion to try to discredit it. It ruins an otherwise excellent comment.
by gfodor | 2025-10-03 18:06:29+00:00
It’s not a religious angle, we literally don’t know how or why these models work.

Yes we know how to grow them, but we don’t know what is actually going on inside of them. This is why Anthropic’s CEO wrote the post he did about the need for massive investment in interpretability.

It should rattle you that deep learning has these emergent capabilities. I don’t see any reason to think we will see another winter.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-03 18:07:10+00:00
Users such as him routinely use the AI excuse to try to discredit valid posts without evidence. It is an altogether evil act, attempting to suppress valid discourse. This merits recognizance. I was only mocking this action. Even if something were to truly be written by AI, that is not a valid reason to try to discredit it. It's not okay for anyone to do it. Why ruin an otherwise excellent comment for no reason?
by pixl97 | 2025-10-03 18:07:47+00:00
>And it’s true. Industries have shown time and again that they’d rather send the work to paupers’ hands in countries without rather than automate

I disagree, to the point I'd say the statement is nearly false.

You have to look at what the 'expensive' point of the work is.

In some cases it's electricity, those things generally don't get sent overseas, but instead are highly automated.

In some cases it's waste by product. Those get sent to countries where they don't care if you dump it and poison it.

In some cases it's proximity to other manufacturing of parts you need.

In some cases it's cheap labor without the need for paying healthcare.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-03 18:08:04+00:00
I watched a video by Gary Stevenson the other day and it sheds light on our current issues.

He was a trader for Citibank and for awhile their highest paid trader. He essentially made a fortune (mostly for the bank but also for himself) by betting that after the 2008 GFC inequality would only increase, that we wouldn't go back to "normal".

He says that the best economists in the world are traders. Why? Because they have this big number over their head, their profit and loss ("P&L") that everyone at the bank can see. It also defines their bonus. All the finance and econ people in college are trying to become traders.

Then you have journalists. Any of them with an econ background have basically failed to become traders. Journalists self-select to reflect the views of their organization, famously articulated by Noam Chomsky in an interview [1].

And then you have Econ PhDs. Their only paths are to go work for academia, to produce more Econ PhDs or to work for think tanks and the like, essentially no different to the journalists. They play the same role medical researchers working for the tobacco did in the 20th century.

You see this with the dominance in Western economics academia of the Austrian School [2], which isn't precisely the same as neoliberalism but the differences are nuanced.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGmBSHFuj0

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_school_of_economics
by nexus2045 | 2025-10-03 18:08:41+00:00
Mine is similar to this. In addition the anxiety comes from me thinking that most interactions are banal and more about “trading good vibes and energy” with the other person rather than a genuine deep conversation, and I fear that my facial expressions will reflect what I’m really feeling inside - “ugh can we transition off talking about my weekend or the weather?”. And also because I’m not that witty without alcohol, but it’s almost like most of western small talk is based off of exchanging humor and wit, then laughing very loudly at the punchline. So my anxiety is more to do with not performing well enough to have this stereotypical exchange done smoothly.
by lupusreal | 2025-10-03 18:08:48+00:00
It's not really the radiation from radon itself which is the problem, but rather radon's daughters. Radon is a noble gas, so it's not going to accumulate in you and doesn't get much chance to do damage to people even if they inhale it; they'll just exhale it moments later before barely any of it can decay. But radon's daughters, the chain of atoms which are produced from the decay of radon and each other, aren't gases, so if stagnant air with radon sticks around it's going to 'rain' an atomic dust of radioactive isotopes which can accumulate and, if disturbed, can be inhaled and stick with people.