MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noosphr | 2025-10-29 18:35:26+00:00
Word from 2004 works better than the office 365 version.

I've used it in the last three years to automate document generation in an enterprise because the latest versions of word:

1). Randomly break during automatic updates you can't really turn off.

2). Automatically upload everything to the cloud even when you tell them no.

This isn't the 90s when closed software was better. We are firmly in the enshitification stage of windows and office. Open source is better and is the only sane choice for enterprise.

Those are not words I thought I'd ever write in 2005 or 2015, but here we are.
by rsanek | 2025-10-29 18:36:09+00:00
It bums me out to see much of the reaction here questioning whether this will last. I think that it's fair that the headline is likely taking it too far -- there will always be interesting new ways to rip people off. But I also believe that LLMs will permanently cut out a good portion of the crap out there.

The two reasons, IMO, are (1) how you prompt the LLM matters a ton, and is a skill that needs to be developed; and (2) even if you receive information from an LLM, you still need to act on it. I think these two necessities mean that for most people, LLMs have a fairly capped benefit, and so for most businesses, it dosen't make sense to somehow respond to them super actively.

I think businesses need to respond once these two parts become unimportant. (1) goes away perhaps with a pre-LLM step that optimizes your query; (2) might go away as well if 'agents' can fulfill on their promise.
by jppope | 2025-10-29 18:36:16+00:00
> "Offload a massive illiquid investment onto the public so that investors make their fund"

This is what it looks like to me. Crazy growth numbers to bump the valuation and public interest, go public, gradually let the company shift into irrelevancy after major owners have cashed out.

The smoke and mirrors part here is that no one except the AI research community knows what the ML/AI capabilities will look like in 5 years. What that means is that the general public is probably going to eat up this IPO. Probably a better move to hedge by buying Microsoft, but whatevs.
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by grouchy | 2025-10-29 18:36:32+00:00
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by jacobgkau | 2025-10-29 18:37:55+00:00
People usually mention Evernote when Bending Spoons is brought up, but I also know them as purchasing Meetup (after it was already sort of struggling) and, more recently, entering an agreement to purchase Vimeo (of which I'm a paid user).

AOL was already a husk, and has been arguably since they got rid of the triangle logo. It was already owned by a private equity firm, Apollo Global Management, as a subsidiary of Yahoo!. Some of the still-relevant tech news sites like TechCrunch and Engadget were apparently moved from AOL to being directly under Yahoo! a few years ago. So I'm not too worried about AOL, but it's interesting how often I've heard about Bending Spoons in relation to brands I know over the past few years.

(Edit: AOL deleted all of my childhood emails back in the 2010s-- on an account that had previously been part of a paid AOL family subscription for years-- after I failed to sign into my account for more than 6 months, which also contributes to my current feeling that it's dead to me.)
by yubblegum | 2025-10-29 18:37:56+00:00
From the book jacket:

Anyone who asks for this volume, to read, collate, or copy from it, and appropriates to himself or herself, or cuts anything out of it, should realize that (s)he will have to give answer before God's awesome tribunal as if (s)he had robbed a sanctuary. Let such a person be held anathema and receive no forgiveness until the book is returned. So be it, Amen! And anyone who removes these anathemas, digitally or otherwise, shall himself receive them in double.
by runjake | 2025-10-29 18:38:38+00:00
I wanted uBlock Origin Lite to win, but based on my personal experience with uBlock Origin Lite, 1Blocker, and Wipr, I find that 1Blocker blocks far more on the sites I visit. uBlock Origin Lite and Wipr are roughly equal in second place. YMMV.

It helps to run everything by Cover Your Tracks[1], too.

1. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
by quantumHazer | 2025-10-29 18:38:42+00:00
there is also Normal Computing[0] that are trying different approaches to chips like that. Anyway these are very difficult problems and Extropic already abandoned some of their initial claims about superconductors to pivot to more classical CMOS circuits[1]

[0]: https://www.normalcomputing.com

[1]: https://www.zach.be/p/making-unconventional-computing-practi...
by dancc | 2025-10-29 18:38:49+00:00
Someone wrote about Bending Spoons' history and playbook:

https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/bending-spoons-operating-ma...

I enjoyed this part:

No On-Call Rotations: Bending Spoons aims to build systems so reliable that they eliminate the need for on-call rotations. This is unusual in the tech industry, where on-call duties are standard to promptly address system issues.

For most of their products, they have no on-call schemes at all. Engineers are encouraged to think through all corner cases to ensure robustness, knowing there is no fallback like an on-call team.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-10-29 18:39:19+00:00
Actually I was very active in criticizing both the Obama and Biden administrations, attending town halls, etc. to criticize their blaming of problems on immigrants. However what they were doing was literally enforcing the immigration laws as they were. That should not in any way be confused with the brutality, cruelty, sadism, criminality, and scale of what is happening now- which has nothing to do with immigration, which was the point of my comment.
by LogicHound | 2025-10-29 18:39:27+00:00
> It's incredible interesting,

You don't think that.

> if anything else, that I feel the same about you and could have written exactly the same thing as you seem to lack real-world experience, and probably are a bit younger than me, judging by what you wrote.

IME, those who start claiming the other person lacks real world experience as an argument (like you did), is normally making up for the fact that they don't.

> But instead, probably better to stop here and acknowledge we won't get to anything interesting after all, so thank you for your time, and maybe see you around :)

We can't get to anything interesting because you ignore what you don't want to engage with. There were a huge number of presumptions you make without even realising it in your statements.

I also want to know why you think that developers are more rational? You never gave a rationale other than what boils down to "I think other people are dumb, and developers are smart". That was your entire argument.
by chrisgeleven | 2025-10-29 18:39:32+00:00
This wasn't an immediate ER situation, at least directly (yet). More of a if this procedure doesn't get done now, at some point in the relatively near future, there will be multiple ER situations, almost certainly multiple hospitalizations, and one of those might go past the point of no return.

And the insurance still played games. Like, it's in your best interest to pay once and get this situation resolved in a scheduled/controlled manner than wait for multiple emergency hospitalizations AND have to pay for this in an emergency situation...you're probably talking at least 2x cost if not more.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-29 18:39:55+00:00
For all the shit that PE gets, what you described is probably the best outcome possible from the POV of shareholders. If done well it should increase earnings per share. It's perhaps the best you can hope for in a situation where the company has been in decline for 5 years and you have no levers to effect change as a small shareholder.

This only works profitably because the users let themselves be stepped on, of course. But then again users who put their notes into a remote company's computer are those kind of people.
by godelski | 2025-10-29 18:39:56+00:00
I hate to break it to you, but Palantir was founded 11 years before Winter Soldier came out. It was commentary on the current world and near Sci-Fi, not a far off warning. We've been operating under surveillance capitalism for over 2 decades now. Which is probably why it doesn't get mentioned. People had already acclimated to it being the unacceptable yet inevitable future while doing their best to perpetuate it while voicing disdain.
by ourguile | 2025-10-29 18:40:38+00:00
I know you're being sarcastic, but I believe there's a legitimate argument in demonstrating that the administration is contributing to circumstances that would lead to this exact response.

I can envision these exact same sentiments coming from the national guard, ICE, CBP, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Guardsmen...
by CamelCaseName | 2025-10-29 18:40:42+00:00
Can someone explain to me what Sam Altman is doing to be so far ahead of everyone else in terms of navigating these high stakes roles?

This happened at YC and a number of other places too, he goes into situations with nothing and comes out on top despite all odds.

Is he that skilled an operator, negotiator, or manipulator or something?
by visekr | 2025-10-29 18:40:47+00:00
yes! although the techniques aren't perfect.

I'm using a YOLO-WORLD-XL object detection model. Lets me detect objects using text. This is the initial filter that scans for agents - once those are detected and outlined with bounding boxes the entire image and each cropped bounding box are then sent to chatgpt to confirm if the image looks legit. Once image passes those checks - I create image embeddings of each agent using CLIP and those are stored in a vector DB, and each agent is then compared to the DB and matched.

The matching system isn't perfect - but I think good enough to get the point across and can be easily tuned with more data! Happy to take suggestions here - I just spun this up over the weekend
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-29 18:40:48+00:00
The "Blades" experience [0] where instead of navigating between pages it just kept opening things to the side and expanding horizontally?

Yeah, that had some fun ideas but was way more confusing than it needed to be. But also that was quite a few years back now. The Portal ditched that experience relatively quickly. Just long enough to leave a lot of awful first impressions, but not long enough for it to be much more than a distant memory at this point, several redesigns later.

[0] The name "Blades" for that came from the early years of the Xbox 360, maybe not the best UX to emulate for a complex control panel/portal.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-29 18:40:59+00:00
Or, put more succinctly, Wilhoit’s Law (which is framed as about “conservatism” rather than “fascism”, but the latter can be viewed as, within the context of the description, a complex of ideas which includes the former as its central element):

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-10-29 18:41:16+00:00
> if your using the right services, if someone asked you tomorrow to scale 100x you likely could during the workday.

"The right services" is I think doing a lot of work here. Which services specifically are you thinking of?

- S3? sure, 100x, 1000x, whatever, it doesn't care about your scale at all (your bill is another matter).

- Lambdas? On their own sure you can scale arbitrarily, but they don't really do anything unless they're connected to other stuff both upstream and downstream. Can those services manage 100x the load?

- Managed K8s? Managed DBs? EC2 instances? Really anything where you need to think about networking? Nope, you are not scaling this 100x without a LOT of planning and prep work.
by shawnshin | 2025-10-29 18:41:25+00:00
I’m Shawn, indie dev. I kept failing with every focus app out there, so I built one that actually works.

Why don't use other apps? 1. Easy to bypass: Uninstall → force stop → back to scrolling 2. Fighting alone: No emotional connection. Just you vs. impulse 3. Boring lock screen: Black & white timer = instant snooze

So I built "Wipet" Focus with Pet! > "You can’t quit… your pet is focusing with you."

1. Pick 30/60/120/240 min session → Your own pet appears on lock screen (eating, napping, cheering!) 2. Try to unlock? → Pet gives you a real-world mission → Healthy dopamine, zero scrolling - “Say one compliment to a friend or parent and come back!” - “Take 3 deep breaths” - “Go to the bathroom and return!” 1. Complete session → Pet grows (Age/Level up + Cookies for next session!)

Result?: 15min focus & doomscrolling → 90min focus Your own pet won’t let you quit.

If you are interested in, try "Wipet" on appstore ! And I am curious about belows.

- Ever tried emotional accountability in focus apps? - What pet would you pick? and what name?

Feedback = gold for an indie dev!

Thanks for reading!
by hopelite | 2025-10-29 18:41:41+00:00
Thanks. I had not considered whether that is the market. It seems that it is really Apple causing that black market too by locking down the parts market and preventing and thwarting repairability, i.e., thereby creating and driving the black market of people who will replace chips and parts.

The solution strikes me as being to make repairability easier and cheaper by flooding the market with parts/components. Someone may say that Apple prefers selling new Apple products, but the repairing is not only still happening in the black market, but they are also not getting a cut of it under this state. Am I missing something?
by mrtimo | 2025-10-29 18:41:59+00:00
I'm using DuckDB WASM on github pages. This will take about 10 seconds to load [1] and shows business trends in my county (Spokane County). This site is built using data-explorer [2] which uses many other open-source projects including malloy and malloy-explorer. One cool thing... if you use the UI to make a query on the data - you can share the URL with someone and they will see the same result / query (it's all embedded in the URL).

[1] - https://mrtimo.github.io/spokane-co-biz/#/model/businesses/e... [2] - https://github.com/aszenz/data-explorer
by mkmccjr | 2025-10-29 18:42:54+00:00
Just tried this out, and my mind is blown: https://platform.sturdystatistics.com/deepdive?fast=0&q=camp...

I did a google search for "camping with dogs" and it organized the results into a set of about ~30 results which span everything I'd want to know on the topic: from safety and policies to products and travel logistics.

Does this work on any type of data?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-29 18:43:16+00:00
It's supposed to be obvious I would not be in favor of removing what others often refer to as "clutter" :)

The aux storage areas are not where the overlaid layers of equipment on and around the benches would be as immediately useful. Plus, most importantly the storage rooms are supposed to already be full to the gills so you can hardly walk inside them ;) Containing equipment from which thousands of hours of learning has been gleaned beforehand.

In both, you often need as much stuff squeezed into a small space as possible before you can come near the goal line.

I'll take scientific progress that's good enough to emerge from the lab over a "clinical" appearance of the lab itself any day.
by kiitos | 2025-10-29 18:43:32+00:00
this article is confusing, it appears to conflate graphviz (an umbrella term/tool that collects a set of layout engines and output formats) with both dot (a specific layout engine) and sstangl/iongraph (a specific tool that transforms a particular SSA/AST input format to a specific dot output format)

it also seems to conflate how a DAG is expressed, with how that expression is rendered

strange
by ancarda | 2025-10-29 18:43:39+00:00
I really hope this is going to be entirely optional, but I know realistically it just won't be. If Rust is any example, a language that has optional async support, async will permeate into the whole ecosystem. That's to be expected with colored functions. The stdlib isn't too bad but last time I checked a lot of crates.io is filled with async functions for stuff that doesn't actually block.

Async clearly works for many people, I do fully understand people who can't get their heads around threads and prefer async. It's wonderful that there's a pattern people can use to be productive!

For whatever reason, async just doesn't work for me. I don't feel comfortable using it and at this point I've been trying on and off for probably 10+ years now. Maybe it's never going to happen. I'm much more comfortable with threads, mutex locks, channels, Erlang style concurrency, nurseries -- literally ANYTHING but async. All of those are very understandable to me and I've built production systems with all of those.

I hope when Zig reaches 1.0 I'll be able to use it. I started learning it earlier this month and it's been really enjoyable to use.
by shawnshin | 2025-10-29 18:43:55+00:00
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by Veserv | 2025-10-29 18:44:00+00:00
They are proposing custom hardware on both ends talking a custom hardware network protocol. That is a enormous amount of complexity in comparison to a custom software stack on bog-standard hardware. I would expect advantages to justify that level of complexity.

However, people like yourself talk about these hardware stacks as if they have clear advantages in performance and latency and isolation. They make uncurious and dismissive comments without evidence that this level of results is only achievable with dedicated hardware.

The only consistent conclusion I can come up with is that everybody just uses really bad software stacks which makes these dedicated hardware solutions seem like major improvements when they are just demonstrating performance you should expect out of your software stack. The fact that this is considered a serious improvement over RoCE which is itself viewed as a serious improvement over things like the Linux kernel TCP software stack lends support for my conclusion.

I make comments on various posts about network protocols to see if I am missing something about the problem space that actually makes it hard to do efficiently in a software protocol. Mostly I just get people parroting the claim that a performant software solution is impossible due to easily solved problems like loss/recovery/retransmission instead of actually indicating hard parts of the problem.

And as for what would be useful hardware I would go with a network with full 64K MTU and hardware copy offload with HBM or other fast bus. Then you could pretty comfortably drive ~10 Tb/s per core subject to enough memory/bus bandwidth.
by triceratops | 2025-10-29 18:44:03+00:00
Age verification doesn't have to be perfect or even cryptographically secure. We don't demand it for alcohol or tobacco: carcinogenic, addictive substances that cause (in the case of alcohol) impaired judgment leading to deadly accidents. There's no justification for online age verification to be more invasive or stringent than what's done today for buying alcohol or tobacco IRL.

My proposal is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141744
by jameslk | 2025-10-29 18:44:09+00:00
TFA:

> OpenAI had spent months making the case that it was the economic heart of the California economy—and would be willing to leave if Bonta blocked its plan to convert to a simpler corporate structure.

https://x.com/sama/status/1983223056668746218:

> California is my home, and I love it here, and when I talked to Attorney General Bonta two weeks ago I made clear that we were not going to do what those other companies do and threaten to leave if sued.

Hmmm...
by cacozen | 2025-10-29 18:44:12+00:00
The vending machine mention is about this paper from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

The gist is: Claude AI successfully ran a shop by itself! - Actually a vending machine - Actually a mini-fridge in our office - Actually it gave lots of discounts and free products on our slack - Actually it hallucinated a Venmo account and people sent payments to God-knows-who
by mock-possum | 2025-10-29 18:44:15+00:00
For what it’s worth, I did think it was an interesting line of thought -

The thing about LLM-generated content is that in order to get tracking it can’t look like it. Can’t read like it, can’t use the wording or the style of prose. It’s too much of a turnoff, it provokes revulsion.

You’re better off doing the opposite - use the LLM to help you with your initial content, then finish it yourself, taking care to remove the ‘tells’
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-29 18:44:18+00:00
Google cloud run or cloudflare workers it is.

Personally I am thinking more and more about hetzner, yes I know its not an apples to orange comparison. But its honestly so good

Someone had created a video where they showed the underlying hardware etc., I am wondering if there is something like https://vpspricetracker.com/ but with geek-benchmarks as well.

This video was affiliated with scalahosting but still I don't think that there was too much bias of them and they showed at around 3:37 a graph comparison with prices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dvuBH2Pc1g

Now it shows how contabo has better hardware but I am pretty sure that there might be some other issues, and honestly I feel a sense of trust with hetzner I am not sure about others.

Either hetzner or self hosting stuff personally or just having a very cheap vps and going to hetzner if need be but hetzner already is pretty cheap or I might use some free service that I know of are good as well.
by chankstein38 | 2025-10-29 18:44:21+00:00
Amen! This touches on my biggest frustration. Product marketing doesn't market anymore. For so many products you can't find any specific information unless you go look at reddit or reviews or something. Half the time you can't even see a real picture of the item in a room or serving its purpose because listings are so filled with photoshopped garbage. They want you to spend sometimes hundreds or thousands on something without even being told an accurate set of dimensions or ever seeing it actually in use.

It's really disgusting. The problem is sometimes you need these things. We were recently shopping for an oven and it was like that. Lots of photoshopped images, it says "5 burner" but doesn't actually mention the 5th burner is just a warming burner except if you can see the one picture where the dial looks different from the others.

It's just ok for corporations to scam people now it seems. I don't know what to do about it but I'm very sick of dealing with it.
by CivBase | 2025-10-29 18:44:31+00:00
That's great, but you've missed my point. I get payed more in the US, so I can afford the extra cost for university. And once that university bill is paid, I can pocket the extra.

There are still reasons why high university costs can be a problem. Teachers, for example, don't get paid near enough to be able to cover university costs in a few years like I was able to. But becoming a teacher requires just as much investment.

But even then, the cost of college loans is far more manageable for even teachers than an unexpected $195k visit to the hospital. University cost is a problem in the US, but I don't think it's comparable to the problem we have with health care costs.