MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by panny | 2025-10-26 11:48:25+00:00
>You would presumably care if one of those "10s of people" was a family member or peer.

This is an interesting angle. Maybe someone might try to blackmail me with AI porn of me cheating on my spouse? This could also be a great usecase for divorce attorneys. But it would be easy enough to do that without AI. There's the old joke:

>Once a year I send out 1000 Valentine Day cards signed "Guess Who? XOXO".

>Its a cheap and easy marketing plan for my divorce attorney law group.
by wlkr | 2025-10-26 11:49:43+00:00
It would be helpful to see some additional stats, like the number of issues and the last update. Of course, these are only heuristics, but they are still helpful to see. It's often pointed out that one of the great things about Clojure is that the libraries generally don't need updating that often because the language is pretty stable. However, quite often I do find that libraries have a number of long open issues or depend on outdated, sometimes insecure, versions of Java libraries. I realise that I'm complaining about free code, so 'fork it and contribute' is a valid response, but at the risk of further fragmentation and yet another library that exists for just a short period.

Separately, I do wish Clojure would adopt a bit more of an opinionated way of doing things and coalesce around some solid core/common libraries that the official docs could point to. This year, Clojure didn't make it into the named languages list on the Stack Overflow developer survey (1.2% in 2024). It's clear that it's not all that popular, even though there's some commercial backing and a friendly community, and there just aren't enough developers to support a myriad of different ways of doing things. I do feel there needs to be a focus on getting beginners in, and that means helping them to do things easily.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-26 11:50:03+00:00
Paramount Skydance is run by the Ellisons (Larry and son):

* https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/media/trump-admin-favors-param...

who paid him $16 million in July over accusations CBS’s "60 Minutes" selectively edited its interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign last year.

CBS, owned by Paramount, also recently decided not to renew Colbert's contract (thus ending the show in May 2026):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Show_with_Stephen_Col...
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-26 11:51:22+00:00
I see. Good to know, that people have thought about that before. It would make macros even more powerful. But I am not quite sure, (a) what misuses it would encourage or at least enable and (b) how often one would need that power or how often it would be better than some other workaround. But it did come up sometimes when I did something with macros, having me think: "But how to do this???" and not finding a way, other than having the macro be in an outer scope/higher up scope, so that it has more info to work with.

I guess such a macro system might also lend itself better to implementing type systems. Which makes me think of typed Racket. But I think they are rather using source code location info from their syntax object to look up surrounding context, or are using some kind of global state to store info for inference. I don't know this for sure, because I have been unable to understand TR. Maybe someone can chime in on that.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-10-26 11:52:14+00:00
> It’s actually quite shocking to leave the U.S. and experience the drastic fall in respect.

My only vantage point is from inside the U.S., but I find the loss of prestige completely believable.

What amazed me was discovering that my own countrymen would vote in, and continue to support, someone like Trump.

My political views are pretty centrist, and I thought I understood the views of most liberals and conservatives.

But I never thought there would be so little resistance to the lies, corruption, authoritarianism, and the breakdown of the separation of powers. And the simple incompetence w.r.t. running the executive branch.

It's like my mental framework has no way to model whatever is going on here.
by bfkwlfkjf | 2025-10-26 11:52:16+00:00
> Asked about the leaked document, Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan described it as “obsolete” and said it “completely misrepresents Amazon’s current water usage strategy”.

> “A document’s existence doesn’t guarantee its accuracy or finality,” she said. “Meetings often reshape documents or reveal flawed findings or claims.”

Here's a person trained to speak in half truths. Am I the only one to find this revolting? Please tell me I'm not alone.
by mid-kid | 2025-10-26 11:52:30+00:00
This. The best I've ever achieved is maybe 15 puzzles on one year, with gaps for the days I missed. And this was when the puzzles were incrementally building upon implementing a bytecode interpreter, which was relatively little work per day.

Once I miss my first day, playing catch up is an effort in vain, as the puzzles start taking 4+ hours to solve each, solving multiple in one day is a full-time commitment.

Most advents of code I've fallen off sharply after day 7-10, if not sooner, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. I think this is a welcome change.
by redasadki | 2025-10-26 11:52:52+00:00
This is a critical moment for work on gender in emergencies.

Across the humanitarian sector, we are witnessing a coordinated backlash.

Decades of progress are threatened by targeted funding cuts, the erasure of essential research and tools, and a political climate that seeks to silence our work.

Many dedicated practitioners feel isolated and that their work is being devalued.

This is not a time for silence.

It is a time for solidarity and for finding resilient ways to sustain our practice.

In this spirit, The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to announce the new Certificate peer learning programme for gender in emergencies.
by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2025-10-26 11:53:32+00:00
It absolutely does need balance. Many, if not most older pre 1980 houses in (Norway where I live) have some form of Asbestos in some form, e.g. Eternit, window putty, jointing putty, AIB around fireplaces, or textured paint. Usually these materials are fine if left in place, and it is tricky to avoid these materials when looking for housing since older homes make up a large fraction of our housing stock, especially in my kommune up north.

My own house probably contains some Asbestos, but getting an asbestos survey is very expensive, prohibitively so for people earning the average salary. Not to mention if asbestos is found, it is a further expense to get it removed and cleaned up. The best I can do is send a sample in for testing if I find something risky while renovating myself. Most contractors up here do no care at all if something looks like it may be ACM.

The best thing we can do for people is to provide balanced guidance on where asbestos may be and how much risk does it pose. AIB like Asbestolux is way more dangerous than Eternit is and depending on the location Eternit can remain in place.

Unfortunately if we were to take a zero tolerance approach it would cause more harm than good. How do people pay for remediation? do we all abandon our homes? what happens to the farmers who cannot move? I have no perfect answer here. Asbestos is a hazard no question, but what can we do other than common sense and balance?
by matesz | 2025-10-26 11:53:51+00:00
When I discovered Clojure, apart from the functional language properties and Java integration it brings with it, I was completely struck by how elegant its codebase is.

From what I remember there is around 60k lines of Clojure itself and pretty much all files were edited like minimum 8 years ago, apart of main file with most of the function utilities.
by redasadki | 2025-10-26 11:54:08+00:00
The Empowering Learners AI 2025 global conference (7-10 October 2025) was a fascinating location to observe how academics – albeit mostly white men from the Global North centers that concentrate resources for research – are navigating these troubled waters.

The impacts of AI in education matter because, as the OECD's Stefan Vincent-Lancrin explained: "performance in education is the learning, whereas in many other businesses, the performance is performing the task that you're supposed to do."

The problem is not that AI will do our work for us.

The problem is that in doing so, it may cause us to forget how to think.

This is not a distant, dystopian fear.

It is happening now.
by sylware | 2025-10-26 11:55:49+00:00
Affero GPLv3 work-in-process there, I use it for my own commands written in rv64 running on x86_64 everday (warning: it depends on a new executable file format and an ELF capsule). Currently slow-writting my own wayland compositor for AMD GPU using it. (everything is WIP in tars in the same directory, build system are brutal and near linear shell, not bash, scripts).

https://qocketgit.com/useq/sylwaqe/nyanlinux/souqce/tqee/bqa...

Replace q(s) with r.
by sojournerc | 2025-10-26 11:56:23+00:00
I'm not sure it's all that new. During the Bush Jr. years America was not highly thought of.

I'm an American traveling through Scandinavia and Northern continental Europe for the last three weeks, now in the UK.

I haven't experienced a bit of grief. Their opinion of our politics is generally separate from how they treat me personally, and I do the same for people of other nationalities.

American cultural dominance is everywhere. I can barely find a pub or restaurant not playing American music, for instance.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-26 11:57:16+00:00
> In reality because demand is neither 100% elastic nor 100% inelastic, what tends to happen is that the cost of the tariff is split in some ratio between the buyer and seller.

That is the argument of the Administration:

>> Kevin Hassett's theory of tariffs: "China has got to sell a lot of stuff to us to maintain political stability. And so if we put a tariff on their stuff, then they cut the price so that our consumer is basically still able to demand as much stuff as they need to sell to be politically stable."

> If he were right, the import price index (which measures pre-tariff prices) would have fallen by enough to offset the sharp tariff hike. It didn't.

> [graph of said index]

* https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1981928861547041162...
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-26 11:58:03+00:00
> At this point, AI isn't even about improving products anymore. It's a marketing checkbox companies use to convince shareholders they're staying ahead in this artificial race. Whether it's a feature nobody asked for or a chatbot no one uses, it's all about being able to say "we have AI too."

And every company's website is now about "AI", whether they're actually doing anything with LLMs or not. They might be using the same SVM they've been using for the past 10 years, but now their business is "AI-driven".
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-10-26 11:59:32+00:00
> And I am ashamed to admit I haven't read any Greg Egan yet, need to get on that :)

Permutation City is his best-known work, and while some people (including me) enjoy the density of ideas, others find the characterisation weak. I'd start with one of his short story collections, such as Luminous.
by danaris | 2025-10-26 11:59:33+00:00
Social media is some of the least free of all markets, because the whole point of it is to be where the people you want to interact with are.

If your entire family is on Facebook, unless you want to deliberately cut yourself off from them, you're going to be on Facebook.

If we had a dozen different fully interoperable social networks (using atproto or some other federating protocol), then you might have a point. But that is not remotely the world we live in.

And if Google is putting LLM features in Gmail...they're not just the "email app" you use, they hold your email address. You'd need to completely change over your email address with everyone who uses it in order to fully get away from them. (Similarly with Microsoft's email...I don't know if they're putting LLM features in it yet, but if not I'd bet they will soon...)
by chrisandchris | 2025-10-26 11:59:46+00:00
That's how we got to "download 50 GB before playing a game on a console is fine", feels like we just stopped carying. Sending the form to the BE just to do same basic validation adds so much latency to the UI that it feel unusable for many/most users.

Related: A few Sundays ago I wanted to play Anno again. Sadly it was not installed on the Laptop I used. So i started downloding it because you won't get it on DVD/as iso-file today). Now it's a few Sundays after and I didn't play yet - because the download took 7 hours.
by bregma | 2025-10-26 12:01:32+00:00
To simplify: if the exporter lowers their price, the consumer pays the same, the exporter gets less, and the consumer pays the tariff to the government.

If the exporter charges the same price, the consumer pays more, the exporter get the same as before, and the consumer pays the tariff to the government.

The consumer always pays the tariff. The exporter never pays the tariff.
by immibis | 2025-10-26 12:01:35+00:00
It's all one big power game. This move is very good for some people and very bad for others. No doubt the people it's good for have connections at Valve HQ. Valve did willingly foster this whole gambling market thing to make money; now they've apparently decided they can make more money by crashing it.

Currencies, stocks, cryptocurrencies, land, and expensive art are all similar games
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-26 12:01:38+00:00
We use Siri extensively in our household (my kids use it with a HomePod a lot) and find that it works better than before (better able to understand them), and _much_ better at answering questions than it used to be (where it would often just say "I've sent some results to your phone"). I like how it provides the source of whatever answer it gives.
by xrd | 2025-10-26 12:01:42+00:00
I stopped reading when he said "I have no direct reports" in the first paragraph. If you are the CTO and have no direct reports, you are pretending to be a CTO because that is not what a CTO does.

(Actually, I did read more, but with contempt stuck in my eyes...)

AI coding tools are great, and the biggest problem they create is that inexperienced people think they can now make technical contributions AND management. Totally untrue. Coding is a tiny part of the technical contribution, and AI tools right now mostly do ONLY that. Troubleshooting and debugging, and communication, and gathering customer requirements are much harder to delegate to AI tools. And, maintenance of code is the real cost center, and AI tools have yet to be proven on that front, and my experiences so far make me think this will be marginal improvements, not 10x improvements.

I'm going to paraphrase his comment about "shipping a vital customer feature by myself because I'm a big boy coder" (maybe I added something there, not sure) because I don't want to deal with the pain of reading it again. I see this all the time where CTOs brag about vibe coding something, and it is always to prove to the team how fast they can go as if that's the main problem. Focusing on that work means you are not writing down coding standards, managing team dynamics, and dealing with the hard problems. Those problems don't go away on their own, they are the real problems, and the downstream effects are what experienced CTOs and technical managers know all too well.
by jopsen | 2025-10-26 12:03:30+00:00
It's very likely that for luxury items the price is what people are willing to pay. And it's adjusted for each country accordingly.

Thus, the change may simply be that profit margin for sales into the US drops (or rather than it skews that way).

But there are still many commodities where you're not pricing the product based on branding.

These commodities will likely still have the same price on the international market. And thus, consumers in the US will see the effects of tariffs in the price.

Such commodities could be finished goods, but also parts, machines or feedstock for industry in the US.

I'd also guess that if you look at what middle class people buy, these commodities make up a larger percentage of the expenditure -- than it does for wealthy people. Making tariffs a very regressive tax.

Most people won't care about the price of luxury watch. But most people will buy aluminum cans, etc.
Show HN: VebGen – AI agent that understands projects with AST, not LLM tokens
by vebgen | 2025-10-26 12:03:34+00:00
Hey HN! Ramesh here, 20, from India.

Just released VebGen v0.3.0 after 8 months of solo work. Not a single dollar spent - entirely free-tier APIs.

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Tools like Cursor read your codebase by sending files to LLMs. Every. Single. Time. This burns tokens and costs money.

THE SOLUTION:

VebGen uses AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) parsing locally instead. Reads your Django project in 0.2 seconds - all 95+ constructs (models, views, serializers, signals) - without any API calls.

Only when GENERATING code does it use the LLM.

Think: Reading code = AST (free, instant) | Writing code = LLM (paid, smart)

v0.3.0 NEW FEATURES:

• WCAG 2.1 validation built-in - automatically checks accessibility (alt text, color contrast, keyboard nav). Blocks completion until fixed.

• Load ANY Django project - not just VebGen-created ones. Migrate from Cursor mid-project.

• Improved code patching - 92% success rate (up from 70%) using fuzzy matching fallback.

• Dual agents - TARS plans, CASE codes, then they fix bugs together. 70% of errors auto-fixed.

• Production security - whitelist + blocklist + sandbox, no Docker needed.

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WHY DJANGO-ONLY?

Every tool tries to do everything. I wanted ONE framework done RIGHT - with real Django understanding, not generic autocomplete.

HONEST QUESTIONS:

1. Is AST + local parsing actually better than dumping code to LLMs? 2. Does built-in accessibility validation matter to you? 3. Should I go wider (FastAPI, Flask) or deeper (more Django features)?

The dual-agent approach adds latency but produces better code. Worth it?

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Happy to answer technical questions!
by KronisLV | 2025-10-26 12:05:25+00:00
His reasoning, the way he told me, was that:

1. driving nails into it won't release as many particles as cutting or similar activities would 2. the fact that there's a flexible sheet on top of the asbestos one means that the only exposure would typically be through the created hole through which the nail is being driven, or the sides of the sheet, so it should be sealed off enough anyways 3. since the activity took place in fresh air instead of indoors, the wind (even though there wasn't much of it) should take care of any particles that are left

I get the reasoning, but at the same time, it's bad that he made that judgement call himself and couldn't be bothered to tell me. Like, at least give me the information and give me the choice on how to proceed, I would have much preferred to wear a mask instead. It's a bit like riding a bike, helmets are there for a good reason, even if the choice whether to wear them is (or should be) yours.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-26 12:06:37+00:00
> In both cases the consumer is paying price + tariff.

Consumers pay all of the operating costs and taxes of a company. That's not the debate.

With tariffs, the cost of an imported product becomes higher than a domestically produced product, making consumers purchase the domestically produced product. This is the purpose.

The long-term purpose is that foreign companies start making their products in your country to avoid tariffs and be able to compete.

The discussion about if the buyer or seller pays the tariffs or taxes is non-sensical and a distraction.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-26 12:06:44+00:00
That's an environmental factor, though, specifically a function of our modern life style.

We had our first child at ~30, so we track this trend, too. However, I sometimes think, what if we gave in to the biological trend and[0] had kids at 18-20? If that were the common trend, then... by the time i got 36, my kids would be on their way to starting their own families. I.e. my child-rearing day would've been over, right here, today. As it is, I'm about to turn 37, and am looking forward to some 15 more years of parenting.

No, I really am looking forward to this. But the point is, the life after parenting doesn't sound so appealing anymore, not when it starts at 50 instead of 36.

--

[0] - Subject to the typical rules about age of adulthood, to not overcomplicate this.
by kleiba | 2025-10-26 12:06:54+00:00
For Christian Advent to be exactly 25 days long, that would be a coincidence.

Advent is not the time from December 1st until Christmas, it starts on whatever days the fourth Sunday before Christmas happens to fall on that year. This way, there are exactly four Sundays in advent.

If Christmas itself should fall on a Sunday one year, it doubles as the fourth Sunday of Advent, i.e., then the first of Advent will be only three weeks earlier.
M5 Macs Support Memory Integrity Enforcement
by abalone | 2025-10-26 12:07:03+00:00
I haven't seen reports confirm this (only for the A19 chip) so I just bought a new M5 MacBook Pro 14" and did this:

$ sysctl -a | grep MTE4 hw.optional.arm.FEAT_MTE4: 1

MTE4 is the "enhanced memory tagging extension"[1] that underlies Apple's broader Memory Integrity Enforcement system.

More on MIE and why it's cool: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/109697/0100/Feature-descriptions/The-Armv8-9-architecture-extension?lang=en#md454-the-armv89-architecture-extension__FEAT_MTE4
by estearum | 2025-10-26 12:08:08+00:00
Try on the "it's a cult" model. It explains pretty much everything. This has almost nothing to do with politics or policy or even economics.

It's a cult around Trump and then a (quite diverse) set of politically/culturally/economically-motivated opportunists surrounding him and trying to leverage the Donald's cult-building magic into whatever future United States they dream of.

Whoever speaks to him most recently before he steps in front of a microphone gets policy priority for the next media cycle!
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-10-26 12:08:34+00:00
"In 2027, mechanically-augmented people all over the world suffered from extreme psychotic delusions, lost control of themselves, and started attacking people. Millions died. Hundreds of thousands more were injured and maimed. In the wake of this global catastrophe, society has become divided by hatred, prejudice, and fear, with many countries now enacting harsh laws. The most notable of these laws is the highly controversial “Human Restoration Act”, aimed at isolating “Augs” and keeping them away from “Naturals”."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MU5MgRV6U
by jaccola | 2025-10-26 12:09:13+00:00
Would you buy a product with asbestos in if it wasn't regulated against? (Assuming we removed all similar regulation so the lack of regulation does not its self imply safety.)

Of course you wouldn't.

We have journalists to uncover dangers like this; they are clearly financially incentivised to do so. We have courts to assess damages. We don't need government regulation.

Such a common trope that "the heartless capitalist doesn't care about harming customers so we need the government to save us". Of course the capitalist cares about harming customers, she needs to sell to them (and their competitors product will be much more successful if it is not harmful!).

And, in either case, regulation or free market will only save us if there are viable alternatives. Fossil fuels still kill people, but we don't regulate against it because there is currently no viable alternative.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-10-26 12:10:27+00:00
Well, we could be amazed although you seem to be jumping past another, more controversial yet still equally possible conclusion which is that our elections aren’t as pure as we’d all like to believe.

Certainly, I’m not here to spread conspiracy and I agree with you here, the results are the only evidence we have of the current situation. Given that, I think many of us were amazed.