MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aydyn | 2025-10-14 15:35:56+00:00
If you dont believe even his mother, theres tons of other evidence. The anti fascism messaging on his bullets. The text messages to his partner saying a Kirk was full of hate.

> I mean, hell, you've got to have a screw or two loose to think a political assassination is going to somehow lessen--let alone stop--anti-gay and/or anti-trans sentiment. Run that idea past pretty much any left-leaning politician, activist, or political junkie, and they'll tell you you're a moron, likely right before giving the FBI a call.

Straight cope and Im pretty sure I dont need to say why.
by tdeck | 2025-10-14 15:35:57+00:00
The story isn't the hallucination, it's that people are using this shit in risky ways and ignoring the known problems with it. Engineers knew well before 1981 that building this [1] wasn't safe, but that didn't stop someone from building it. When it collapsed, it was a story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
by rank0 | 2025-10-14 15:36:23+00:00
Don’t get me wrong, I am highly skeptical. I also am genuinely curious because it seems to be in their best interest to delete these records for a few reasons:

1. Adherence to their own customer-facing policy. 2. Corporate or government customers would CERTAINLY want their data handling requirements to be respected. 3. In my experience at $MEGA_CORP, we absolutely delete customer data or never maintain logs at all for ML inference products. 4. They’re a corporation with explicit goal of making money. They’re not interested in assisting LE beyond minimum legal requirements.

But still I wonder what the reality is at OpenAI.
by mbesto | 2025-10-14 15:36:43+00:00
> In my opinion one of the biggest reasons we won't see manufacturing come back to Western countries is that we still believe this is how most factories operate.

Not really, American manufacturing is already automated. Manufacturing jobs have steadily decreased[0] while output has increased (or stayed steady) in manufacturing since the early 2000's [1]. There is only one reasonable explanation for this -> automation.

While it is true that the Chinese are indeed automated their manufacturing, it still doesn't negate the fact that companies like Foxconn still have 200k employees in China.

IMHO the real reason you'll never see manufacturing come back to the USA is because you can't convince people who are already in less manually intensive labor conditions to go back to more manually intensive labor conditions. Said differently, it's easier to get someone who's family has spent decades doing back breaking work in a rice paddy to work in a factory for slightly better pay than it is to do the reverse.

[0] - https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling...

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GOMA
From Pipeline Sprawl to Table-Based Data Flows: ETL with Pub/Sub for Tables
by immortan_dag | 2025-10-14 15:36:47+00:00
Pub/Sub for Tables is neither a replacement for messaging systems like Kafka, nor a substitute for OLTP or OLAP databases.

It's a declarative approach to data flows, applying publish /subscribe semantics to tables rather than messages or events.

Why tables?

Because nearly all data used in analytics, whether it originates from APIs, logs, streams, or files—eventually becomes tabular. Starting from tables, rather than converting to them later, allows metadata to stay intact throughout the lifecycle. This means semantics can be preserved end-to-end, enabling better trust, alignment, and clarity across the organization.

This is the foundation we are building at Tabsdata.

Tabsdata is an open-core system for managing data flows around immutable, versioned tables. It provides:

* Declarative data publishing, transformation, and subscription

* Full lineage and provenance for every table and update

* Free-form Python transformations in a controlled, reproducible environment

* A Rust-based core for safety and performance

* Python bindings for developers

* Both a browser-based UI and a comprehensive scriptable CLI

Here is a short overview and demo we shared recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCZIRC9khmA

More details on the project:

https://tabsdata.com

We are still early and would deeply value your feedback, pushback, or suggestions. If you have dealt with pipeline sprawl, loss of trust in data lineage, or the burden of orchestration, please share your thoughts.

What resonates? What does not? What would make something like this more useful in your world?
by aquova | 2025-10-14 15:37:06+00:00
I scoffed when I first read this, but the more I think about it, the more that might be correct.

Mario 64 had third-person camera movement, but it was with the N64's C-buttons, and had fixed angles, not free movement. Since it didn't have a second joystick, that rules out the N64 (some games did allow you to use a second controller as a second analog stick, but I don't think any third person games did so).

Likewise, the Dreamcast didn't have a second stick, so it's ruled out too. That basically leaves us with the PS1 or an early PS2/Gamecube game. Apparently Quake II on PS1 did allow for the second stick to aim, but that's not third person. The closest I can find is Ico on PS2, which allowed for analog stick camera movement, but I think only in the horizontal direction. Mario Sunshine might well be the first for full camera angle movement, which honestly really surprises me.
by dspillett | 2025-10-14 15:37:21+00:00
Underline was already reducing in use away from handwritten work (I still use it on handwritten notes today, as I think do many people), before hyperlinks were a common UX element outside of academia.

It was common on typewritten works mainly because it was easy and reliable - just backspace and press the underscore key. Italics were not an option on typewriters and other daisy based printers and bold wasn't as easy (to get a good result you needed to go back multiple times), at least not without an electronic typewriter (which often automated underline and bold). With word processors and dot-matrix printers (even on some electronic typewriters) bold (sometimes multiple levels of bold) and italic became more practical, as did changing font size for titles, so we had more options and people increasingly preferred others over underlining.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-14 15:37:35+00:00
Exactly.

These days you're better off giving it to a university with strings attached. Sure, they might piss a bunch of it away, but when you account for the dollars on the subject you care about after taxes are leeched out it's still more efficient than building out research within the confines of a for-profit entity that gets taxed at such.

This is why we no longer have corporate research labs and damn near every university is bristling with BigCo funded stuff.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-14 15:38:01+00:00
I’m not sure, most of the people I know who like true crime/murder porn are not exactly “morose”. (But I do find their interest unsettling.)

When I was a kid, some teens who were into darker themes (not all but definitely some) had a phase where they were interested in serial killers. It always struck me more as shallow “edgy teen” posturing than anything else. After Columbine this demographic moved on to other interests, as even a performative interest in real-world violence could lead to official harassment.
by catigula | 2025-10-14 15:38:09+00:00
Misinformation about medical science is infinitely tempting even to credible thinkers partially because certain elements of that world have worked overtime to discredit themselves (think opiate safety fraud as a primary example), but also partially because science is messy and cumbersome.

For example, credible thinkers, including many people reading this, likely believe psilocybin and ketamine are credible treatments for mental illness when the evidence is incredibly thin and low quality and these are clearly dangerous substances in many regards.

The temptation to think there are suppressed secrets in the world (there are, in fact, suppressed secrets) is near infinite.
by leprechaun1066 | 2025-10-14 15:38:14+00:00
Another way to look at it is everything a LLM creates is a 'hallucination', some of these 'hallucinations' are more useful than others.

I do agree with the parent post. Calling them hallucinations is not an accurate way of describing what is happening and using such terms to personify these machines is a mistake.

This isn't to say the outputs aren't useful, we see that they can be very useful...when used well.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-14 15:39:08+00:00
I think you're right, but the two collide over the question of whether police have the right to be able to access your stuff, or merely the right to try to access it.

In the past, if you put evidence in a safe and refused to open it, the police could crack it, drill it, cut it open, etc. if all else failed.

Modern technology allows wide access to the equivalent of a perfectly impregnable safe. If the police get a warrant for your files, but your files fundamentally cannot be read without your cooperation, what then?

It comes down to three options: accept this possibility and do without the evidence; make it legally required to unlock the files, with a punishment at least as severe as you're facing for the actual crime; or outlaw impregnable safes.

There doesn't seem to be any consensus yet about which approach is correct. We see all three in action in various places.
Ask HN: Blogs / Sites / Channels for agentic coding topics
by d_sc | 2025-10-14 15:39:28+00:00
Hey HN,

I _really_ like reading blogs on agentic coding/claude code topics that are exploring new ideas and discussing advanced topics on agentic coding.

Jesse's recent few articles on his blog blog.fsck.com is a good example of what I'm looking for. Reading articles like these are really inspiring, educational, enjoyable and exciting.

Geoffrey Huntley's blog at ghuntley.com is another one that I really enjoy reading when he posts a new article.

Whether it's a blog, an aggregator site or youtube channel, if you know of authors/content creators that are really into this space I'd really appreciate your suggestions.
by ethin | 2025-10-14 15:39:40+00:00
Is this really something new? If memory serves, Telegram has had it's own crypto since the beginning, and I don't remember anything about it ever being audited by... Well, anybody?

Granted, I don't know how MTProto actually works all that well, but IMO Telegram should've just used Noise or something. Would've saved them a lot of trouble. Although that doesn't really resolve the underlying problem that people think Telegram is secure when it's not (i.e., you have to explicitly enable E2EE and it's off by default), at least last time I checked. I haven't used telegram in years so my knowledge might be out of date though.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-14 15:39:46+00:00
“We know from Bell’s theorem [7, 8] that any locally causal model that correctly describes observations needs to violate measurement independence. Such theories are sometimes called ‘superdeterministic’ [9, 10]. It is therefore clear that to arrive at a local collapse model, we must use a superdeterministic approach.”

I only got the first 1/2 of my physics degree before moving on to CS, but to me this reads as “We know eternal life can only be obtained from unicorn blood, so for this paper we must use a fairytale approach.”
by UncleOxidant | 2025-10-14 15:40:07+00:00
> The rush to fill brand new high energy intensive data centers with hardware that has commercially useful lifetimes measured in months (instead of decades for machine tools) seems quite short sighted to me.

There's a sort of collective ADHD where we as a culture or economy collectively chase the latest shiny bauble in the hopes of getting rich without having to expend any effort. It often ends badly for the economy and then we go through a phase where we collectively are forced to slow down and reflect on our mistakes vowing not to repeat them... only to do so a decade or two later. The older you get, the more you notice this pattern. We did it in 2000 with the dotcom implosion and then again in 08 with housing and shady mortgages. This time it's overbuilding AI; putting way too much capital into infrastructure that has short useful lifetime.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-14 15:40:12+00:00
> Of course, if you don't know what you are looking for, it can make that process much easier.

Yes. My experience is that LLMs are really, really good at understanding what you are trying to say and bringing up the relevant basic information. That's a task we call "search", but it is different from the focused search people do most of the time.

Anyway, by the nature of the problem, that's something that people should do only a few times for each subject. There is not a huge market opportunity there.
by lelandfe | 2025-10-14 15:40:22+00:00
In reality, CSS's big changes are a drumbeat pounding monthly: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-wrapped-2023 https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/

Of note from 2023: subgrids, :has, container queries, nesting... And in 2022, cascade layers (plus <style scoped>, I mean @scope, I mean :scope).
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-14 15:40:46+00:00
It’s the same with Custom Properties. There are plenty of situations where they are useful at runtime, but a lot of their use is just a single definition on :root, and people really would be better served by the likes of Sass variables, because they foil all kinds of optimisations. You end up with things like color-mix(in srgb, var(--some-unreasonably-long-name), transparent) where it could have just been #1234567f. Quite apart from the runtime and memory costs, bundle size (even gzipped size) can frequently be reduced drastically by flattening eligible variables.
by ellg | 2025-10-14 15:41:27+00:00
Even the dissector stuff feels so.. broken? unmaintained? The lua api is very annoying to use and python support was removed over a decade ago. Have not used the C API so maybe thats just what most people use and its good, but for my usecase I usually just want to quickly sketch out a view for a custom protocol that I can see in the UI.

I would absolutely love for someone to write a good alternative to wireshark.
by dcchambers | 2025-10-14 15:41:56+00:00
> The rush to fill brand new high energy intensive data centers with hardware that has commercially useful lifetimes measured in months (instead of decades for machine tools) seems quite short sighted to me.

The only way "number goes up" capitalism continues to work is with planned obsolescence and things that need to be replaced regularly. This is a feature of the system, not a flaw. Nvidia (and all of their investors) love the fact that the stuff they make now will be outdated or broken in a few years.

If things last forever and never need to be replaced the only way to continue to increase profits is to have more people buying them. And global population appears to be peaking, at least in western countries, so that's not going to happen.

Is it sustainable? Probably not. But everyone seems to have their heads buried in the sand at the obvious dangers of what we're running into.
by charles_f | 2025-10-14 15:42:02+00:00
I remember when you had to give verisign a few 100 or thousands every year, some random dev would download the thing to their machine and circulate it by email for update. None of the competitors were cheaper either. That day wasn't either better or more secure, less so. Ironically, the solution author is pushing forward (basically self signed) is much worse to prevent mitm attacks.

I somewhat agree with the precept, it's not great that the web is controlled by Google, beyond just tls certs. Something that changed since this was written is precisely that you have alternatives like zerossl.

Saying that letsencrypt doesn't bring any security is plain wrong though. The OWASP top ten doesn't list certificate theft or chain of trust mitm attack, but does have a category for cryptographic failures. My hotel has full control of the wifi, but it hardly has an opportunity to mitm my chain of trust. Same goes for ISP. When you have a cert corresponding to your dns record, it at least shows that you have some control over the infra that is behind that record.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-14 15:42:14+00:00
> For president you have a piece of paper with two boxes on.

Are you not even 18 or have you never voted?

Depending on your state there were about 20 candidates for president [1]. The fact that there's more than 2 has caused issues in the past where famously a candidate listed second on the ballot received a significant amount of votes in a county they were widely disliked [2].

[1]: https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2024

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
by simonw | 2025-10-14 15:42:28+00:00
Where did the "GPT-5o-mini" in this headline come from?

That's not a real model name: there's GPT-5-mini and GPT-4o-mini but no GPT-5o-mini.

UPDATE: Here's where the GPT-5o-mini came from: https://www.thalamusgme.com/blogs/methodology-for-creation-a... - via this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581030

That said, I've been disappointed by OCR performance from the GPT-5 series. I caught it hallucinating some of the content for a pretty straight-forward newspaper scan a few weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/the-perils-of-vibe-cod...

Gemini 2.5 is much more reliable for extracting text from images in my experience.
by rmtnation | 2025-10-14 15:43:06+00:00
Anyone who has played an online game knows about the gray market for trading items for real money (RMT). It's almost always done on Discord, shady forums, or social media, and it's completely based on blind trust. Scams are incredibly common.

Instead of building a complex and legally fraught escrow system, I decided to tackle a simpler, more fundamental problem: reputation.

My project is a dedicated platform for traders to build a public history of their transactions. Here's how it works:

Sellers create a profile and list what they are selling (e.g., "10 million gold in [Game Name]").

Buyers find a seller and contact them to conduct the trade off-platform (in-game, via PayPal, etc.).

After the transaction, the buyer comes back to the site to leave a review and rating for the seller.

The idea is that over time, legitimate sellers will accumulate a strong positive history, making it easy for new buyers to identify who is trustworthy. It doesn't prevent scams on its own, but it provides a data point that simply doesn't exist in a random Discord channel. It's a community-driven approach to harm reduction.

Of course, the immediate challenge is gaming the system with fake reviews. I'm exploring ways to mitigate this, but for now, the value is in aggregating a seller's history in one place.

I'd love to get your feedback. Is a reputation-only system like this useful? What's the best way to fight review manipulation in an anonymous environment?
by kube-system | 2025-10-14 15:43:13+00:00
Well, just because an employer can make reasonable accommodations for one or a few deaf people, doesn't necessarily mean that it would be reasonable or safe for the entire organization to operate in the same way. A "reasonable accommodation" could be something like a modified job role. E.g. you might move someone from a role that can't safely be done while deaf into a role that they could do. That's something that you could do for one or a couple of people, but you couldn't do for everybody.

I do agree with the sentiment that employers should take more efforts to make their jobs enjoyable to do. But some job sites have things that can kill people. The reason that heavy machinery beeps when it backs up is because people died at work before it did.
by zomg | 2025-10-14 15:43:29+00:00
> Tech folks pivoting to medical always throws off some alarm bells to me

Same for me. I've been in the medical device industry for 15+ years now and came from "tech". What a lot of techies under/don't appreciate is that the medical device industry is heavily regulated and moves at a muuuch slower pace than other technologies.

There are lots of regulatory and quality/testing hurdles that you must clear (namely verification and validation testing, in addition to your 510(k) clearance or approval, if PMA) before you can market and sell your device.

I tell customers, on average, a Class II medical device project can take 18-24 months and cost $3M to 4M, minimum.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-14 15:43:29+00:00
The key idea is the model doesn't have any signal on "factual information." It has a huge corpus of training data and the assumption humans generally don't lie to each other when creating such a corpus.

... but (a) we do, and (b) there's all kinds of dimensions of factuality not encoded in the training data that can only be unreliably inferred (in the sense that there is no reason to believe the algorithm has encoded a way to synthesize true output from the input at all).
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-10-14 15:43:56+00:00
You and I both know the US was not interested in forcefully taking over TikTok because of the possibility they could broadcast misinformation about mail in ballots near to election time

That is a crime because it is fraud (election fraud). If this arose on TikTok the great thing is, you can prosecute the creators who post such things. China, by promoting such stuff, in fact would make the prosecution job easier.

People in these comments talk about "influencing" people to have certain thoughts and thus change how they vote by showing them stuff that might change their minds. That is the very idea of free speech itself and it should never be under government control. Not fraud but exposure.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-14 15:44:29+00:00
Do you have a personal grudge against F-droid? If you hate the UI, the UI isn't an end all be all. there is droidify which has a different UI/UX to the f-droid repository https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/ Download this but f-droid is not just the UI but rather it creates reproducible verified/audited android builds which can be installed easier and through multiple alternative frontends including drodify/f-droid official websites etc.

>Companies should cater to customers who want something like FDroid?

Yes. Why not? Can you give me reasons why not because I can give the reasons as to why.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-10-14 15:44:39+00:00
>but also partially because science is messy

It's because human beings are messy! If you feed a person a peanut, they might think it's tasty. If you feed a different person a peanut that person may die, quickly. If a god damn peanut can illicit that range of responses in a healthy human being, imagine literally anything else. Of course there is corruption because so much money is on the line and humans in aggregate are a selfish bunch. One thing I always like to point out is that people who try to follow the science and the latest guidance aren't the ones speaking in absolutes. I'm aware the CDC or FDA have gotten things wrong in the past and will get things wrong in the future, but it's the best system we have. It's the anti-science people who speak in absolutes but then the second the cancer diagnosis comes in they come running back begging big pharma for treatment, they'll even bankrupt their entire family trying to get that treatment. It can't be both ways. This is why it's hard to take skeptics seriously. Not only do they throw a thousand things out there, and maybe one or two is right, they conveniently ignore the other 998 things they got way wrong, but when push comes to shove, they love big pharma and beg for it's treatments.
by wiseowise | 2025-10-14 15:45:47+00:00
I’ve literally never heard that much buzz and excitement about Python tool before. And I’ve seen them all.

All of them had some big issue that prevented it from getting mainstream. Either it was slow, or didn’t work with existing workflow, or had complex configuration, or something that prevented gradual adoption.

uv is universally praised as the second coming Christ in Python world (and for a good reason). So no, I doubt there will be something else. Not only you need to be better than uv, you also need to have community momentum.