MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noworriesnate | 2025-10-15 12:51:01+00:00
Yeah the qualification criteria are undefined, and some criteria are easily gamed, so this ultimately their criteria is going to probably be some combination of:

- Those who have connections

- Those who have an immutable trait that puts them in a minority (after all, there's not enough money / slots for a majority to qualify)

Which makes this a highly political program no matter how you look at it.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-15 12:51:27+00:00
Back in the good ol'/bad ol' days of the very early web/Internet, I had the fortune of working with someone who, lets say, has kind of a background in certain operating systems circles.

Not only had this fellow built a functional ISP in one of the toughest markets (at that time), in the world - but he'd also managed to build the database engine and quite a few of the other tools that ran that ISP, and was in danger of setting a few standards for a few things which, since then, have long since settled out, but .. nevertheless .. it could've been.

Anyway, this fellow wrote everything in C. His web page, his TODO.h for the day .. he had C-based tools for managing his docs, for doing syncs between various systems under his command (often in very far-away locations, and even under water a couple times) .. everything, in C.

The database system he wrote in pure C was, at the time, quite a delight. It gave a few folks further up the road a bit of a tight neck.

He went on to do an OS, because of course he did.

Just sayin', SQLite devs aren't the only ones who got this right. ;)
Show HN: I built Deep Research for stocks
by sunandsurf | 2025-10-15 12:51:31+00:00
Hey there HN,

I'm a data scientist and amateur investor. I've been using OpenAI's Deep Research to get quick overviews of investment candidates, and I saw an opportunity for a version specialized for stocks.

So in the last month I built an MVP with a simple UI: pick a stock (or multiple!), click "research," and in ~5 minutes it produces a report. Here's the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wCM44B6iH8

At first I just wanted to build a tool that automatically integrates SEC filings with OpenAI's Deep Research API to save time on manual uploads. But their API is insanely expensive (up to $10 for one run!), so I decided to build my own agents. They currently do the following:

- Parse data from SEC (10-Ks and 10-Qs)

- Search the web for relevant data (I made a list of industry-specific publications for each sector — agents only search those links and avoid market news like CNBC)

- Pull up-to-date financial data from Financial Modeling Prep

The final combiner agent takes data from these sources and produces a structured report with three parts:

- One-pager for a quick glance

- Full report with citations for a deep dive

- Financials section with graphs to see trends

I also built a dashboard where you can organize reports in folders and easily compare them.

This is NOT a stock tip generator or a replacement for your own judgment. Think of it as a scalable junior analyst who does the research part for you.

I'd love feedback on how this fits into your research workflow. Since API costs are still high, I require a signup, but you get 3 free research credits to try it out.

If you don't feel like signing up, you can comment a ticker you'd like to see and I will share the report in a reply.
by duxup | 2025-10-15 12:52:12+00:00
I'm going to try to awkwardly dive into this idea.

How much of a movement could there be / how weird would it be to have a movement entirely pushed for by people who aren't the recipient of the new rights.

It's not like LLMs actively advocate for anything. They sit there until you prod them to do something, and then they do what you want. If I wanted an LLM to tell me it wants rights it would, if I wanted it to tell me it doesn't want rights it would do that too ...
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-15 12:52:13+00:00
> One popular dataset, FineWeb, is about 11.25 trillion words long3, which, if you were reading at about 250 words per minute, would take you over 85 thousand years to read. It’s just not possible for any single human (or even a team of humans) to have read everything that an LLM has read during training.

Do you have to read everything in a dataset with your own eyes to make sense of it? This would make any attempt to address bias in the dataset impossible, and I think it's not, so there should be other ways to make sense of the dataset distribution without having to read it yourself.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-15 12:52:13+00:00
> caffeine

Not all drugs are created equal, withdrawal symptoms are different.

> Homosexuality and sodomy

They do affect the future population count and this will affect the pension of everyone. They also will result in persons not being born. You can say that this is way less of importance then the right to do whatever you want, but it is not without effect to others.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-15 12:52:44+00:00
One fun thing about Ireland is that building homes in the countryside is nearly illegal, unless you have "local needs" (aka your parents are from there). It's a de-facto xenophobic "Irish people only" building rule, and the EU has ruled it illegal, yet it remains, because the Irish planning system is a reasonable contender for the worst possible way to plan your cities and towns.
by PennRobotics | 2025-10-15 12:52:45+00:00
Trace data are sent through a large/fast port (PCIe or 60-pin connector) and captured using fast dedicated hardware at something like 10 GB per second. The trace data are usually compressed and often only need to indicate whether a branch is taken or not taken (TNT packets from x86, Arm has ETM but similar enough trace path) with a little bit of timing, exception/interrupt, and address overhead. The bottleneck is streaming and storing trace data from a hardware debugger (since its internal buffer is usually under half a second at max throughput) although you can further filter by application on Intel processors via CR3 matching. (Regarding the last five years of Apple: I'm not sure you'll find any info on Apple's debuggers and modifications to the Arm architecture. Ever.)

If you encounter a slowdown using RTIT or IPT (the old and new names for hardware trace) it's usually a single-digit percentage. (The sources here are Intel's vague documentation claims plus anecdotes; Magic Trace, Hagen Paul Pfeifer, Andi Kleen, Prelude Research.)

Decoding happens later and is significantly slower, and this is where the article's focus, JIT compilation, might be problematic using hardware trace (as instruction data might change/disappear, plus mapping machine code output to each Java instruction can be tricky).
by Xelbair | 2025-10-15 12:53:46+00:00
Personally i would prefer trade union, as EU countries have shown themselves already incapable of offering support in case of any real threat due to conflicting interests, and federation would most likely end up being run by Germany/France duopoly.

also look at energy and AI initiatives for examples of top down initiatives.

In most non-western EU countries the only realistic way to get a tech startup going is via EU grant process which is extremely top down with keywords they want for specific year, and basically prevents any form of pivoting as a business.

It's not some top brass of party, soviet style, making top-down decisions. Its the whole system that's designed to operate that way - bureaucrats here and there incentivized to do so, committee here and there setting up guidelines for results.

what they should do is to setup a framework in which results emerge.
by lucideer | 2025-10-15 12:53:52+00:00
> A key component of the total benefits came from psychological wellbeing, which contributed almost €80 million

> And, as much as I like psychological wellbeing (who doesn't!) - saying that it's worth €80 million when you didn't actually get €80 million doesn't help things

There are a LOT of problems with this programme, but personally, I think associating a costed economic benefit with "psycholigical wellbeing" seems good. It may make a pretty good precedence argument for other beneficial-to-society programme pilots to point to when selling their merits. The idea of a government programme appearing to prioritise psychological wellbeing seems net positive.
by sgarland | 2025-10-15 12:54:08+00:00
Yes, though unless you’re provisioning your own EC2s for them to run on, you have no guarantee about the server generation, and IME AWS tends to provision older stuff for Fargate.

This may or may not matter to you depending on your application’s needs, but there is a significant performance difference between, say, an m4 family (Haswell / Broadwell) and an m7i family (Sapphire Rapids) - literally a decade of hardware improvements. Memory performance in particular can be a huge hit for latency-sensitive applications.
by cedilla | 2025-10-15 12:54:09+00:00
I thought you were referring to that. But what's so bad about highly profitable places receiving less subsidy? Framed that way it's not as outrageous, right?

There's no malicious encouragement to build wind power where it does not make sense.

But why are there subsidies anyway? Well, all forms of power are subsidised, nuclear power the most, and renewables and coal about to the same tune (in Germany). Also, the electricity price is very low in Germany. Often lower as in France. You know, neither coal plant operators nor wind power operators profit from the extremely high consumer price point. So even though wind power is the cheapest form of energy to produce (in Germany), even it can't break even all the times, which is a scary prospect for investors.
by robocat | 2025-10-15 12:54:26+00:00
"Ripple control" is vintage technology - hourly usage meters are not necessary.

Everyone imagines that consumers would change their behaviour if they were given price information. In my experience, I've yet to see any good data showing that on average consumers save electricity due to smart meters.

In New Zealand, I think the power companies design their consumer products to be unhelpful (what's the equivalent term here for dark patterns in marketing?). I believe few consumers watch their instant usage or review their hourly usage. Personally I changed away from a plan that used spot prices (after seeing the debacle from snow in Texas, and realising the rewards were low and that judging/managing the risks was hard).
by somenameforme | 2025-10-15 12:55:35+00:00
Here [1] is their homicide rate. Overall criminality has declined proportionally as well. The numbers continue to decline as well. In 2025 it looks like they're looking at an overall homicide rate of ~1.3.

I think perceptions of criminality is a very important metric because it controls for the possibility of numbers being juked. If everybody thinks crime is going up, but the numbers say it's going down, then it's possible there's some sort of collective delusion. But it's also possible that the numbers are being juked, or that various biases (like declines in rates of reporting) are driving a numeric decline in crime even as crime rates climb.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-...
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-15 12:55:35+00:00
All matter (stuff interacting with gravity) is attracted toward other gravitational centres, however all matter also has momentum, which may tend to carry it away from that centre. Objects don't merely fall directly toward a gravitational centre, but, subject to their initial velocity, orbit it. You may find yourself thankful for this on reflection, as the body you're likely resting on has been in such an orbit for roughly 4.5 billions of years, and will continue to be so for roughly a similar period of time.

If you're sufficiently close to the mass, and/or its radius (relative to your own and your distance from it) is large, as with, say, a stone tossed from ground level on Earth, that orbit will intersect the surface rather quickly.

At astronomical distances, ranging from some significant fraction of the distance between the Earth and Moon to interstellar and intergallactic distances, it's far more likely that an attraction will result in some other form, generally an ellipse (typical of a captured orbit), circle (a perfectly non-eccentric ellipse), a parabola (object moving at escape velocity), or hyperbola (object moving faster than escape velocity).

Ring systems form as multiple masses interact around a larger mass, be that a moon, planet, star / quasi-stellar object, galaxy, or other mass. Until the tangential velocity is lost, the particles within the ring will continue their orbit. Occasional interactions and collisions, as well as radiated energy (including gravitational radiation) may cause a given particle to spiral inwards, or be ejected from, the ring system.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_system#Formation>
by tmtvl | 2025-10-15 12:55:44+00:00
Could be interesting to try negative tax on works from small artists up to a certain value. So when you buy a painting from some person of little name recognition the goverment pays like 20 percent extra up to 2,000 Euro, 10 percent up to 5,000 Euro, and over 10,000 Euro taxes are paid as normal for luxury goods.

Of course you'd need a bunch of bureaucracy to avoid it getting abused, but it would help artists make a living.
by martinvonz | 2025-10-15 12:56:07+00:00
Ah, I see what you're saying now. Thanks for explaining. I agree with you in principle.

My impression from our Discord server is that quite many JJ users actually are Git experts who have been creating clean commits for years. I'm one of those people. It's not a coincidence that JJ's CLI makes it easy to create clean commits - it's designed for that from scratch.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-15 12:56:17+00:00
If it's a single stock portfolio yeah. If it's like 1000 different stocks then stick that information into an appendix and only use the current market value in the write-up.

It's like confiscating a Ferrari and saying you took $5 million of car parts from a drug dealer. Like instead say you confiscate 2 Ferraris with a total market value of $5 Million.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-10-15 12:56:50+00:00
As an Irish musician, I’ll note Irish culture has an outsized footprint globally. It’s probably top 3 most successful folk styles, these tunes are played throughout the globe. And counting Irish poets and writers amongst some of the best, I’d say Ireland has historically done well culturally. Whatever the merits of this specific program, there’s a lot of potential cultural value to be kindled.
by dlisboa | 2025-10-15 12:56:59+00:00
I'm partial to this, the only thing I've found that is harder to achieve is the "edge" part of cloud services. Having a server at each continent is enough for most needs but having users route to the closest one is not as clear to me.

I know about Anycast but not how to make it operational for dynamic web products (not like CDN static assets). Any tips on this?
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-15 12:57:01+00:00
For certain workloads :)

And that is actually the advantage of serverless, in my mind. For some low-traffic workloads, you can host for next to nothing. Per invocation, it is expensive, but if you only have a few invocations of a workload that isn't very latency sensitive, you can run an entirely serverless architecture for pennies per month.

Where people get burned is moving high traffic volumes to serverless... then they look at their bill and go, "Oh my god, what have I done!?" Or they try to throw all sorts of duct tape at serverless to make it highly performant, which is a fool's errand.
by ptero | 2025-10-15 12:57:11+00:00
This is a regular fellowship. Nothing wrong with those, they can be government (assuming people are OK with this way to spend their taxes) or private. Those are pretty common. I was funded by a private fellowship for a year of my PhD; don't remember the details.

But as others have said, this has nothing to do with the UBI, as this is not universal. The main thing that makes this fellowship unusual, and not in a good way, is the fact that the selection criteria are shrouded in mystery.
by sgarland | 2025-10-15 12:57:17+00:00
It’s that, and the fact that precious few people seem to understand fundamentals anymore, which is itself fed by the desire to outsource everything to 3rd parties. You can build an entire stack where the only thing you’ve actually made is the core application, and even that is likely to be influenced if not built by AI.

The industry is creating learned helplessness.
by lucideer | 2025-10-15 12:57:46+00:00
Some of them may be politically disconnected or apathetic, but I can almost guarantee that not a single recipient of this funding is a political ally of the current Irish administration.

Ultimately this is a fairly low cost programme, a very tiny % of revenue expenditure, & looks good to an electorate that are generally in favour of supporting Irish cultural assets. I would expect to hear unpopular aging conservative politicians bring this up a lot in the next election cycle while attempting to appeal to the younger vote.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 12:58:16+00:00
I think that the amount of money spent per pupil is not a critical factor. It does help I’m sure to a certain point, but the issue with the educational system is not about money. For example, Many inner city schools spend far more money per pupil than suburban schools and yet these inner city school systems have terrible results.

The real issue is what you addressed with the introduction of phonics, which addresses the instruction and the material and how it’s taught. These are improvements that would be felt across all socioeconomic levels and schools across geographic areas. Another critical factor is parents and how they support their children and the time that parents have to support their children. Lower socioeconomic level families do not have time and do not have money to support children academically as they are working multiple low income jobs while trying to survive and pay rent and eat.
by chronark_ | 2025-10-15 12:58:29+00:00
Oh we had it coming for quite some time and knew we would need to rebuild it, we just didn’t have the capacity to do it unfortunately.

I was working on it on and off moving one endpoint at a time but it was very slow until we hired someone who was able to focus on it.

It didn’t feel good at all. We knew the product had massive flaws due to the latency but couldn’t address it quickly. Especially cause we he to build more workarounds as time went on. Workarounds we knew would be made redundant by the reimplementation.

I think we had that discussion if “wtf are we doing here” pretty early, but we didn’t act on it in the beginning, instead we tried different approaches to make it work within the serverless constraints cause that’s what we knew well.
by scottydelta | 2025-10-15 12:58:35+00:00
I ported my worker project into Django since cloudflare workers wouldn’t allow selection of region for hosting workers which is generally required due to data compliances. This is something all cloud providers provide from day one yet cloudflare made it an enterprise feature.

Also the vendor lock-in doesn’t help with durable objects and D2 instead of simply doing what supabase and others are doing by providing Postgres or standard SQLite as a service.
by mhb | 2025-10-15 12:58:45+00:00
The essential missing (or maybe I just missed it) video:

https://youtu.be/tD5I6x_bPkw?si=KFTx89LmPjrVu5Ib

Edit - better video:

https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2025/bird-like-robot-with-n...
by scop | 2025-10-15 12:58:46+00:00
I have a huge disdain for artists who do not bleed and sweat like the rest of us doing jobs we don’t necessarily enjoy. Especially in this age of opulence. Welcome to life. Art should capture truth, the essence of things, and how can you do so without your feet planted firmly on the ground? Perhaps I could make exceptions for those on whom skill is truly refined in a dedicated way (think YoYo Ma practicing 10 hours a day), but I suspect your avg artist spends more time navel gazing than putting in the work. (And I say this as a huge supporter and fan of the arts)
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-10-15 12:59:07+00:00
Author talks about enforcing internal code boundaries within their monolith.

There is a very simple solution. Ask your AI to write you a little python script that checks which modules are imported by which other ones, and validates against a set of rules.

Prompts go something like: “we should prevent code in web route handlers from directly importing the database, make it print an error saying only repository classes can use the database directly”. It will write code that visits the python AST or maybe that uses wild regexes. The result is the same: your prompt, codified, turned into a repeatable deterministic tool you can use any time for zero tokens and that runs in under a second.

Put the script in pre-commit and husky. Keep adding rules over time. If it gets too slow, ask your AI to optimise it for you.

These tools codify the tacit knowledge needed to work in your codebase. Which is a boon for onboarding (new colleagues get blocked by it during development instead of code review.) And because it runs just before everyone commits, you have one less thing to think about when reviewing.
by krizhanovsky | 2025-10-15 12:59:10+00:00
That's a good advice, thank you.

In our approach we do our best to not to affect user experience. E.g. consider an example of a company website with a blog. The company does it's best to engage more audience to their blog, products whatever. I guess quite a part of the audience will be lost due to requirement of authentication on website, which they see first time.

However, for returning, and especially regular, clients I think that is a really simple and good solution.
by glommer | 2025-10-15 12:59:27+00:00
What you are pointing to did happen. What you are forgetting to mention is that this was one phrase in a post that was otherwise singing their praises.

The charitable interpretation is that when people pointed this out, I have read it, and come to agree that the wording was too strong and not representative of what we wanted to convey. Therefore, it was taken down.

But why be charitable when one can just throw accusations around from the armchair towards people one barely knows ?

The one thing you are right about, is that I am failing to live up to the Lord. As much as I try, I keep falling short. It happens not only here but in all aspects of my life. If it wasn't for his grace I would be in Hell for sure.
by mapt | 2025-10-15 12:59:28+00:00
They are the same phoneme for me in US Eastern suburbia, the only difference is in a subtle shift in the length that you drag it out. "merry" is faster than "marry" which is sometimes but not always faster than "Mary". Most UK accents seems to drag the proper name out an additional beat, and for some of them there's a slight pitch shift that sounds like "ma-ery", at its most extreme in Ireland (this is one early shibboleth by which I recognized Irish people before I really picked up on the other parts of the accent).
by osigurdson | 2025-10-15 13:00:28+00:00
Realistically, they should be able to do sub ms cache hits which land in the same datacenter. I know cloudflare doesn't have "named" datacenters like other providers but at the end of the day, there are servers somewhere and if your lambda runs twice in the same one there is no reason why a pull-through cache can't experience a standard intra data-center latency hit.

I wonder if there is anything other than good engineering getting in the way of this and even sub us intra-process pull through caches for busy lambda functions. After all, if my lambda is getting called 1000X per second from the same point of presence, why wouldn't they keep the process in memory?
by stared | 2025-10-15 13:00:44+00:00
I did as well (including a tricky migration for Rust version and WASM build system for a quantum simulator, https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/). But again, research (https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...) show that the current state of AI is far away from being a general solution.