MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nsvd2 | 2025-10-16 22:41:31+00:00
Yes, all Rust libraries depended on are statically compiled into the final binary. One one hand, it makes binary size much larger, on the other, it makes it much easier to build an application that will "just work" without too much fuss.

In my personal projects with Rust, this ends up being very nice because it makes packaging easier. However, I've never been in a situation where binary size matters like in the embedded space, for example.

Rust isn't the only language with this approach, Go is another.
by kazinator | 2025-10-16 22:41:38+00:00
I didn't say that using personal anecdotes against generalizations is a "sophisticated debate tactic", LOL. In fact, added a mildly sarcastic commentary in parentheses whose careful interpretation conveys the opposite.

Claude is clearly engaging in classic trolling at this point, putting words into mouths.

People who use anecdotal arguments tend to be dolts who genuinely believe that their experiences are those of most people. "You can't be a programmer, artist or musician because I'm in all those activities and I'm not a Luddite nor trending toward becoming one (and neither is anyone else I know). My reality represents everyone similar to me, but maybe in whatever fields or hobbies you are working in, there are Luddites against AI, so you are generalizing that to everyone."

In no way am I intending to present that as sophistication, rather than a misunderstanding.

So, yes, actually in a way Claude's original analysis has a grain of truth in that someone who uses personal anecdotes in arguments assumes that others are also only proceeding from personal anecdotes (i.e. making a confession and the like) rather than some kind of based generalization. I.e. they operate in a mode in which, unless perhaps concrete data is given from credible studies, everyone's statement is just from their personal anecdotes, like their own.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-16 22:41:41+00:00
I’m kind of in stitches over this. Claude’s “skills” are dependent upon developers writing competent documentation and keeping it up to date…which most seemingly can’t even do for actual code they write, nevermind a brute-force black box like an LLM.

For those few who do write competent documentation and have well-organized file systems and the risk tolerance to allow LLMs to run roughshod over data, sure, there’s some potential here. Though if you’re already that far in, you’d likely be better off farming that grunt work to a Junior as a learning exercise than an LLM, especially since you’ll have to cleanup the output anyhow.

With the limited context windows of LLMs, you can never truly get this sort of concept to “stick” like you can with a human, and if you’re training an agent for this specific task anyway, you’re effectively locking yourself to that specific LLM in perpetuity rather than a replaceable or promotable worker.

Just…it makes me giggle, how optimistic they are that stars would align at scale like that in an organization.
by bilekas | 2025-10-16 22:42:18+00:00
> They have 2 brilliant guys running an incredibly popular site

Well that's not the reality thankfully.

> Now tell me where there's another site with quality this high that's free and keeps its prejudices to a minimum

I agree with you, but I'm biased towards this type of community where there is a real discussion, I've been proven wrong many times here and it never felt personal.

I only put my tinfoil hat o because when something is free these days, it's usually you as the product. I'd never want to lose the community but back in my day there was IRC servers with packed channels, there was Usenet. These days it's a rarity instead of the norm. Maybe I'm just getting too old.
by underlipton | 2025-10-16 22:43:12+00:00
So many neighborhoods could be fixed by adding front/backyard ADUs, converting a handful of houses into commercial amenities tuned for the local community (cafes, small convenience/grocery stores, small libraries/coworking spaces, with minimal parking), and car-inaccessible passthroughs to nearby neighborhoods. There's way too much of a focus on building walkable communities, and not enough on converting existing ones with these small changes that don't disrupt the character in the way huge developments might (and in some cases might lend character to cookie-cutter sprawl that has none).
by Blackarea | 2025-10-16 22:43:36+00:00
I really came to love gleam over the last few months. I appreciate elixir getting a type system and remember that this was the big NoGo for me when I explored it a while back. I'd like to give it another chance some time, but I'm worried that it's like typescript - looks typed on the outside but for many libs and packages the types are just a dynamic/any. Is my fear justified? Beam is amazing btw
Show HN: ETA Guesser (real-time traffic guessing game)
by justbobbydylan | 2025-10-16 22:43:42+00:00
I built a web game where you guess drive time between cities using live traffic. You get scored by accuracy (exponential decay—from ~1000 for a perfect guess), and there are solo and private match modes with leaderboards and detailed stats.

Try it: https://etaguesser.com/

Tech: React + TypeScript, Supabase, Mapbox GL w/ live traffic. Happy to answer anything—game math, anti-cheat, or traffic quirks.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-10-16 22:44:41+00:00
How many of the ideas he proposes would this support? For example, classifying something as a <Keyword> lets you highlight it in the traditional way, but doesn't do much for "highlight different levels of nesting" or "highlight if imported from a different file". Seems like the parallel to HTML means CSTML mostly supports different rendering like screen reading or styling.
by gradeless | 2025-10-16 22:45:11+00:00
Yes it will take many years. This whole thing has already played out with FSF and Replicant. They ended up stuck working on a couple of ever aging devices as many new generations of devices were launched and all the technologies in smartphones evolved.

If people want open devices they should maybe better explore open hardware. Im not talking about devices, like Librem where the schematics are open but the chips, which are the parts which do all the work, are all closed, but rather devices with open silicon.
by amatecha | 2025-10-16 22:45:23+00:00
I was going to say exactly the same! Got a Kobo Clara BW a while ago -- great lil device. Took a while to figure out Calibre, but now that I understand it, it's very convenient. Prior to choosing an e-reader, I took one glance at Amazon's DRM-laden offerings and noped out from that ecosystem completely.
by EnPissant | 2025-10-16 22:45:49+00:00
This is 100% the truth, and I am really puzzled to see people push Strix Halo so much for local inference. For about $1200 more you can just build a DDR5 + 5090 machine that will crush a Strix Halo with just about every MoE model (equal decode and 10-20x faster prefill for large, and huge gaps for any MoE that fits in 32GB VRAM). I'd have a lot more confidence in reselling a 5090 in the future than a Strix Halo machine, too.
by defrost | 2025-10-16 22:46:19+00:00
Flagging ability is scaled - it takes multiple "regular users" with flag privileges to raise a [flag] and further more to tip posts to [dead] (there are other paths to [dead]).

Some users are granted 'instant' [flag] -> [dead] privileges (if they consistently only flag obvious spam), their work is looked at, if they start showing a bias that ability is degraded.

Part of the moderation task at HN is weighting user feedback by looking at individual behaviour.
by Izkata | 2025-10-16 22:46:41+00:00
There used to be, they got rid of it around a decade ago. I think I remember the reasoning was the 1040 was simplified at the same time.

Edit: Yep, 2017 was the last year the 1040ez was around, and the regular 1040 went from 74 lines that year to 18 the following year. The 1040ez for 2017 was 12 lines.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-16 22:47:03+00:00
> To be honest, i wish that Copilot had a 600 token version, instead of the massive jump to 1500. Other option is to just use the pay per request.

Same here. Well, 900 would be a good middle option for me as well. I was switching to the unlimited model for the simple things, but since I don't use all of the premium allotment I started just leaving it on the one that is working best for the job that day.

I guess part of the "value" of Pro+ is the extra "Spark" credits of which I have zero use for. But I simply wanted something that integrated into my ecosystem instead of having to add to/or change it. Also did not want to have to think about how many pennies I'm using (I appreciate that breakdown though! good to know) -- I'll pay a reasonable convenience tax for my time and mental space of not having to babysit usage.
by sanxiyn | 2025-10-16 22:47:16+00:00
Yes, but in fact compensating for bad questions is a skill, and in my experience it is a skill excelled by Claude and poorly by Gemini.

In other words, better you are at prompting (eg you write a half page of prompt even for casual uses -- believe or not, such people do exist -- prompt length is in practice a good proxy of prompting skill), more you will like (or at least get better results with) Gemini over Claude.

This isn't necessarily good for Gemini because being easy to use is actually quite important, but it does mean Gemini is considerably underrated for what it can do.
by adamnemecek | 2025-10-16 22:47:40+00:00
> That's... not how programs usually work. You open something, it's in memory.

What are you talking about? UPDF does it just fine https://updf.com/updf-mac-user-guide/preferences-mac/#3

> Yeah, you shouldn't have 200 PDFs open.

Nah.

> On the other hand, the good news is your Mac still runs fine, consuming 40GB of "memory" even if you've only got 8GB. Since it's just putting it all out to swap on a fast SSD. So why even complain?

I'm aware, however it only works like this in theory. In practice, if the Preview gets to like 60GB, the whole system will get slow until I close it.
by k310 | 2025-10-16 22:47:44+00:00
Recent indictments: [0]

Letitia James. As New York’s attorney general, Ms. James opened an investigation into Mr. Trump on allegations that he inflated the value of his real estate holdings

James Comey: Mr. Comey led the early stages of an investigation into ties between Russia and Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey for his involvement.(From NYT [1])

John Bolton. Bolton has long been a target of Trump's ire since leaving his first administration and publishing a tell-all book.

INVESTIGATIONS UNDERWAY

Senator Adam Schiff. When Mr. Schiff was in the House, he helped lead the first impeachment trial of Mr. Trump in 2019.

Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve governor. Trump in August said he was firing Cook, a member of the seven-person Federal Reserve board of governors that helps shape the nation's monetary policy,

Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor. Christie, an ABC News contributor, was an early supporter of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and served as the head of his transition team, though he has since become one of the president's fiercest critics. "I know Chris better than anybody in the room. I always felt he was guilty," Trump said.

Jack Smith, former special counsel. Smith led the classified documents and Jan. 6 investigations into Trump, "Deranged Jack Smith, in my opinion, is a criminal," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Miles Taylor, former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Taylor ... authored an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times in 2019 claiming that "senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of [Trump's] agenda and his worst inclinations.

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Krebs ... was fired by Trump in 2002 when Krebs contradicted Trump's false claims about election fraud following the 2020 election.

ACCUSED OF CRIMES

Former President Joe Biden

Former President Barack Obama

REVOKED OR THREATENED WITH REVOCATION OF SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION / SECURITY DETAIL

Kamala Harris, former vice president, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden ,Ashley Biden, daughter of former President Joe Biden. ... more

SECURITY CLEARANCE REVOKED

Joe Biden, former president, and LOTS more

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/list-individuals-including-lisa-co...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/07/us/politics/t...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-16 22:47:51+00:00
What bugs me about the chemtrail conspiracies that I've heard about is that distributing toxins from planes is probably about the worst practical way to distribute them. If you really want to put stuff into the water supplies then it's surely far more efficient and cheaper to hire a load of people to dump the chemicals straight into the reservoirs. It's also indiscriminate which isn't likely to be useful - why poison everyone within potentially wide areas subject to wind conditions?
by skydhash | 2025-10-16 22:48:07+00:00
For me it would be like this:

mixed reduce(function fun, array arr, mixed|void zero) { if(sizeof(arr)) zero = arr[0]; for(int i=1; i<sizeof(arr); i++) zero = ([function(mixed,mixed:mixed)]fun)(zero, arr[i]); return zero; }

I only want to isolate blocks (around 10 lines at most) then I can dive in if necessary. I'm using minimal syntax highlighting in Emacs, but I can do fine without.
by emrahsaglik | 2025-10-16 22:48:54+00:00
I've been building Lume.pics, a small tool for creating photorealistic product photos for e-commerce. The idea is to have a visual layer between AI and human so people can control the scene more directly instead of relying on prompts. You can adjust things like background, lighting, props and framing without needing to be technical.

It's still early, but it's live. Everyone gets 10 free credits per month, and I can add more if anyone here wants to try it. I'd really like to hear what people think, especially from folks who build tools or work with product photos.
by godelski | 2025-10-16 22:49:34+00:00
It still surprises me how slow so much of Windows and OSX are. It is absolutely bonkers how slow so many things are[0]. Even more given how many people don't realize how fast everything can or should be. People will fight hard to justify why they don't have basic optimizations. Much harder than it would be to actually implement them...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944352
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-16 22:49:41+00:00
> Firefox had 30% market share in 2010, I would hardly call that "niche", especially for a browser that didn't come bundled with your operating system or have the marketing power of the world's default search engine.

In 2010 Firefox 3.5 had a estimated global market share of 15-20%. BTW nobody thought any of the stats were accurate at the time as they were easily skewed. Some counters would report 30%, but it was an estimate and not a reliable one.

On the sites I was building, which were mostly travel sites, e-commerce and later gambling. Firefox was maybe 5-10%. I am also no in the US. I just didn't see anything like what was reported in site stats for the things I was working on.

Later on it was IE and Chrome and Firefox was still at maybe 10%. I really cared about compatibility and web standards at the time and made every effort to make sure that the sites work. So I knew it wasn't a "the site doesn't work in this browser".

> It also had an outsized impact on the web because it was a popular with developers for doing web development.

So people that used the net heavily used Firefox and people that didn't tended to use IE. So on some sites Firefox usage would be far higher than it would otherwise be.

e.g. People using IE might only use the internet for online shopping, checking mails, so visiting an online shop, booking a flight etc. Whereas many Firefox users would be using Social media, Blogs, Forums or YouTube more heavily. So you will see two completely different pictures depending on what your site's audience would be.

That is why the statistics can be misleading.
by seabrookmx | 2025-10-16 22:49:46+00:00
I'm not sure if you're joking, but if not this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how Rust (and C) are used in the kernel.

Much like how you don't have the C stdlib when writing kernel code, Rust is used with the no_std option. You do not use cargo and do not have access to crates.

You'd likely have to rewrite half of tokio to use kernel level abstractions for things like sockets and everything else that interacts with the OS.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-16 22:49:51+00:00
Fusion rockets can not get away with lower efficiency. Either you are using the fusion reaction as a direct propulsion source, in which case it needs to beat chemical rockets at producing thrust, or you are using it as a power source for electric propulsion, in which case it needs to beat other power sources for energy efficiency. In fact, the problem is so much worse for propulsion, because not only are you concerned about fuel efficiency, you are also concerned about mass.

Right now it takes a building the size of 3 football fields to house the only machine that has ever achieved ignition of a controlled fusion reaction (ie the energy released by the fusion fuel exceeds the energy put into the fuel). This is several orders of magnitude below the point where the energy produced by fusion exceeds the energy needed to run the machine, which is the absolute bare minimum you need to do anything useful. Fusion power output scales with size - keep making your reactor bigger, and you will eventually reach any desired level of power output. The challenge of fusion for power production is making a big enough power plant while remaining economical. Luckily economics is relative - so long as a massive power plant is preferable to the drawbacks of other power sources like pollution or limited fuel, it can be justified.

But for propulsion, you don't just need to satisfy investors, you must overcome gravity. Make your reactor bigger and your mass increases. More mass demands more propulsive power demands a bigger reactor. This is especially the case for launching from planets, where thrust to weight ratio is king, but even for deep space propulsion mass budget is a chief concern (and you still need to get that thing into space somehow). Not only do you need to make a fusion reactor that is competitive with other power sources in terms of efficient power generation, you need to do so with a comparable power density. Further, the only thing fusion really has going for it over fission - that it doesn't produce long lived radioactive waste - is entirely useless when you are flinging stuff out into the void, so you can't even justify a low power density reactor with reduced fuel mass.

No matter how much fusion advances, fission will always be decades ahead and fundamentally simpler. The only form of fusion propulsion that realistically could find practical application is the one form of fusion power humanity has already learned to harness - thermonuclear explosives.
by porphyra | 2025-10-16 22:49:55+00:00
Honestly, food delivery from restaurants is one of these things that is a big economic mismatch. The restaurant is spending tons of money on their nice dining room and part of the price of the food is supposed to be the experience of eating there. Yet, when you are ordering delivery, you are getting a subpar dining experience, plus you have to cover the additional cost of transporting the food. This means that someone is getting squeezed --- the restaurant is not getting paid enough, the delivery person is getting paid peanuts, or the buyer is having to pay a ludicrous price for the food.
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-10-16 22:50:58+00:00
To me, the docs answer it pretty clearly. The defined directories persist until you destroy().

The part that's unclear to me is how billing works for a sandbox's disk that's asleep, because container disks are ephemeral and don't survive sleep[2] but the sandbox pricing points you to containers which says "Charges stop after the container instance goes to sleep".

https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/concepts/sandboxes...

https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/concepts/sandboxes...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/faq/#is-disk-pe...
by zmmmmm | 2025-10-16 22:51:03+00:00
Yep, the ecosystem is well on its way to collapsing under its own weight.

You have to remember, every system or platform has a total complexity budget that effectively sits at the limit of what a broad spectrum of people can effectively incorporate into their day to day working memory. How it gets spent is absolutely crucial. When a platform vendor adds a new piece of complexity, it comes from the same budget that could have been devoted to things built on the platform. But unlike things built on the platform, it's there whether developers like it and use it or not. It's common these days that providers binge on ecosystem complexity because they think it's building differentiation, when in fact it's building huge barriers to the exact audience they need to attract to scale up their customer base, and subtracting from the value of what can actually be built on their platform.

Here you have a highly overlapping duplicative concept that's taking a solid chunk of new complexity budget but not really adding a lot of new capability in return. I am sure the people who designed it think they are reducing complexity by adding a "simple" new feature that does what people would otherwise have to learn themselves. It's far more likely they are at break even for how many people they deter vs attract from using their platform by doing this.
by avidiax | 2025-10-16 22:51:10+00:00
It was quite common to have a codebook that might list several numbers or words used to substitute for places, individuals, actions, etc.

These also existed for corporate entities. A concern might have their own codebook such that the telegraph office would not be privy to their internal business.

They would also use codebooks as a type of compression, since the telegraph company charged less for sending English words as opposed to enciphered characters, and obviously, there are many uncommon words that could substitute for longer common phrases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codebook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication...
by vessenes | 2025-10-16 22:51:22+00:00
Thanks for the summary. I noticed from the announcement you trained on parallel tool calling to save on serial round tripping. This is awesome.

Most LLM coding is so slow that you're permanently out of flow state, and in 'manager' state right now - I'm interested in a future where you've got enough fast low TTFT support that an engineer could maintain flow state and have sort of super power type productivity at the same time, and this tool makes me think of that.

That is, it looks fast enough to be used as a sort of sidebar info tool, as in "what you're coding might need / refer to these other parts of the codebase" -- effectively increasing an engineer's working memory. Super cool. And obviously useful for an AI engineer as well. Thanks for the writeup!
by tptacek | 2025-10-16 22:52:16+00:00
Correlation != causation. Your correlation can identify a hugely important effect without pinpointing its mechanism. In this case: I think it's very likely that ultraprocessing has not-very-much to do with food health, but UPF foods tend to be hyperpalatable and low-satiety, which almost certainly does. The ultraprocessing isn't what's making the foot hyperpalatable or low-satiety (the macronutrient mix and sweetening is).

The previous comment was pointing out that there's an agreed-on definition of what "ultra-processing" means. There is. But there is no such agreement on mechanistic effects of ultra-processing.