MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pja | 2025-10-14 12:47:33+00:00
I’m aware. But the first part is “find me something in the vector space that looks something like the thing I’m asking for”. Then the rest is vibes. Sometimes the vibes are good, sometimes they are ... decidedly not.

If the results are useful, then that’s what matters. Although I do suspect that some AI users are spending more time pulling the AI one-armed bandit handle than it would take them to just solve their problem the old fashioned way a lot of the time - but if pulling the one-armed bandit gets them a solution to their problem that they wouldn’t work up the motivation to solve themselves then that counts too, I guess.
by runroader | 2025-10-14 12:48:00+00:00
So I guess it really is true that nothing actually gets removed -- except the one that wasn't actually controlled by WhatWG or W3C.

Is there still a real-world use case for XHTML/"XML syntax for HTML", or is this just exhibit A that no standard can actually be removed from browsers?

Re: XSLT, back in the everything-is-XML days I desperately wanted to like XSLT, it seemed so useful (I was that annoying co-worker telling everyone it's supposed to be pronounced "exalt"). But it was such a disaster to actually write or read and no real debugging was possible, I had to use a LOT of conditional bgcolor=red to figure anything out. It didn't take very long to come to the conclusion that XPath was the only useful part.
by topaz0 | 2025-10-14 12:48:02+00:00
Nvidia market cap has increased about 10x since the crypto-shortage years. It wasn't small before, but there's a big difference between ~1% of the market and ~10% of the market in terms of systemic risk.

Also, as of last year about 80% of their revenues were from data center GPUs designed specifically for "AI", and that's undoubtedly continuing to grow as a share of their revenues.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-14 12:48:19+00:00
> Almost every choice that leads to scalability also leads to reliability.

Empirically, that does not seem to be the case. Large scalable systems also go offline for hours at a time. There are so many more potential points of failure due to the complexity.

And even with a single regular server, it's very easy to keep a live replica backup of the database and point to that if the main one goes down. Which is a common practice. That's not scaling, just redundancy.
by pajuhaan | 2025-10-14 12:48:34+00:00
TL;DR: the proton is complicated; this is a high-level, phenomenological “maybe.”

I’m sharing a short result from my “Emergent Alpha” work. I treat α as the solution of one gauge-invariant equation F(α)=0, scan it over the complex-α plane, and map |F|. On the real axis, the positive branch lands on α ≈ 0.0072973525643 (~1/137.0359) with no tuning. More surprising: there’s also a clean real zero near α ≈ −4.9948. The maps look asymmetric, and while the negative branch began as a stress test, it might carry real structure.

In a 2-page note (“Alpha Branches and a Geometric Link to the Proton–Electron Mass Ratio”) I use the two branches (α⁺, α⁻) to write a single, simple relation that ties the locked frequency split (ω_C vs ω_R3) to g-factors, giving a parameter-free handle on m_p/m_e—about 4% off in this crude version. It’s deliberately compact and easy to read. If you’re curious about the electron’s pieces (ω_C for bare-mass part vs ω_R3 for self-field part), I list the numbers in “Emergent Electron Mass from Two-Space Boundary” (see pp. 59–60). Open to feedback, replication, and counter-examples.

Links:

Alpha Branches and mass-ratio note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17348620

Alpha (background): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16944532

Emergent Electron Mass from Two-Space Boundary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17219278
by talonx | 2025-10-14 12:49:22+00:00
Congrats on launching this.

I understand this is an initial launch, so not trying to nitpick, but these are what felt like would add immediate value:

- Adding a social login like Google would allow faster signups.

- Maybe I missed it - but I could not find any options for automatic monitoring which would update the status page. There are manual options for adding an incident.

- Post-signup, it takes me to a login page. Why ask to enter the company name instead of user/pass directly?

- If I could click on "Components" on my dashboard (/admin) and go directly to the Components page, that would be nice.

I like it that you took the time to write a privacy policy that is both readable and precise, especially as to the list of third-party services.
by yuye | 2025-10-14 12:49:39+00:00
>If anyone’s on ESP32, i would skip micropython.

I've used MicroPython for prototyping. It's quite nice with its REPL.

However, for more than a simple proof of concept I wouldn't use MicroPython at all, on any platform.

My personal gatekeepey opinion is that if you want to learn embedded, you really should go for C. (C++ or Rust also exist, but C should be the first)
by array_key_first | 2025-10-14 12:49:54+00:00
This is the most nothing-burger response I've ever seen in my life.

Comments written by fucking humans barely have any value. All their value comes from the fact you can manipulate humans into buying shit - advertising.

You can't manipulate AI into buying shit because it doesn't have money because it's not a laborer and doesn't have a right to a fair wage.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-14 12:50:25+00:00
Hmm, ok let's put the video aside as I watched the beginning of it and that's what I interpeted as saying. Maybe a lesson here is to make your case rather than dropping a link? And maybe the lesson for me is not to reply to low-quality replies. Perhaps we're even.

What exactly is your point? Trump clearly has qualmsin involving the US. Example: he was responsible for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-14 12:50:31+00:00
I don't know where I fit on that spectrum, my first thought was there's probably nobody around anymore to replace these fifty year old tools, and/or they'll price it at a level that would wipe all profits for the next 10 years when replacement will be needed.

Our field also have these IBM AS/400 or older running for 30+ years in a server room at the back of an office floor. They are more feared than revered.
by footy | 2025-10-14 12:50:39+00:00
> I moved all of my money out of the US the week following the election.

I did it a little more than a week following the election, but same. I even sold any ETFs with exposure to the US market I previously owned. People thought I was overreacting selling my VGRO, but the YTD returns for my ex-US portfolio are about 150% of what I could have expected with my old holdings and the peace of mind is priceless.
by vidarh | 2025-10-14 12:51:18+00:00
That is true, so don't give it entirely free reign with that. I let Claude generate as many additional tests as it'd like, but I either produce high level tests, or review a set generated by Claude first, before I let it fill in the blanks, and it's instructed very firmly to see a specific set of test cases as critical, and then increasingly "boxed in" with more validated test cases as we go along.

E.g. for my compiler, I had it build scaffolding to make it possible to run rubyspecs. Then I've had it systematically attack the crashes and failures mostly by itself once the test suite ran.
by beAbU | 2025-10-14 12:51:34+00:00
You cant conveniently ignore the cost of model development and training.

This is like saying solar power is free if you ignore the equipment and installation costs.

Even worse still, model creators are in an arms race. They can't release a model and call it a day, waiting for it to start paying for itself. They need to immediately jump on to the next version of the model or risk falling behind.
by oblio | 2025-10-14 12:52:06+00:00
In the initial years HTC was one of the biggest Android manufacturers and their phones didn't really copy the iPhone.

Samsung was just better at marketing and other business aspects.

> and before that [Apple] were not even in the phone market much, yet alone launch their own phone.

This applies to Apple, too. Samsung learned how to make them. As did HTC, Sony, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, etc, etc. Turns out, making smartphones is a very competitive business, but a lot of companies were good at it, at least for periods of time.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-14 12:52:20+00:00
I used htop for many years because it seemed more accessible to top, until I found that it didn't display kernel threads by default and when troubleshooting a load issue top found exactly what I needed when htop was generally unhelpful. Since then I've returned to top because it has everything I need and really is time tested; the htop/btop/whatever UI in my opinion is just theatrics.
by andrewlgood | 2025-10-14 12:52:20+00:00
Different markets. Companies are created to allow investors to create profits selling something (things, services, etc). Companies compete with other companies to attract capital. Companies which offer higher expected returns for comparable levels of risk will attract more capital. This reflects supply and demand for capital.

Employees are part of a labor market. Supply and demand in the labor market drives compensation levels. When you have a rare skill that is perceived to be valuable, you can get higher compensation - e.g. Meta AI researchers getting $100M contracts or Juan Soto getting a $750M baseball contract.

As mentioned elsewhere, some companies give stock to employees. In my experience this is for one of two reasons. 1) Employee retention - stock grants tend to have multiyear vesting periods designed to keep the employee at the company. 2) Start up companies that do not have the cash to pay employees.

None of these explanations would lead to simply paying employees more with excess cash (unless the cash was created by a group of employees that you were trying to retain).
by Twey | 2025-10-14 12:53:17+00:00
When Kubernetes exposed its APIs as declarative configuration objects, I get the impression that they didn't originally mean for people to write the configuration by hand. The YAML/JSON/… is a conveniently universal interchange format for interfacing with Kubernetes from bindings, and representing target state as documents is just a good way to encode idempotence in the API.

I'd be interested to hear from someone involved with early Borg/K8s development what the original intention was.
by zokier | 2025-10-14 12:53:18+00:00
Incoming calls should be subject to acls and default-deny policy should be practical. This means that

- caller identity should not be spoofable

- identities should form hierarchies and groups so you can allow whole organizations instead of individuals

- organizations should use predictable identities for egress calls

- most likely managing multiple identities per device is needed (e.g. personal and work identites)

etc

None of this is particularly difficult technically. Even simply slapping x509 certs on calls and having some basic filtering would achieve a lot.
by aeyes | 2025-10-14 12:53:43+00:00
The architecture you describe is ok because in the end it is a fairly simple website. Little user interaction, limited amount of content (at most a few million records), few content changes per day. The most complex part is probably to have some kind of search engine but even with 10 million videos an ElasticSearch index is probably no larger than 1GB.

The only problem is that there is a lot of video data.
by Sammi | 2025-10-14 12:53:44+00:00
The average Linux user is not your grandma and lets not overstate how easy it is to mess up your KDE config. Most of the config ui in KDE is delightful compared to other desktop environments, and most non-technical users would shy away from even trying to fiddle with technical stuff. And those that do fiddle and mess up are likely to have a technical person at hand to help them, because someone had to install Linux for them in the first place.

KDE is a much more sensible default for the highly technical person who is likely to install Linux themselves. There are other great options if you want something more locked down and noob proof. KDE really is the most relevant choice for default for most distros atm.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-14 12:54:03+00:00
To have a broad audience, Apple TV (the service, i.e. the Apple TV app) needs to be on whatever devices people have in their homes, i.e. a wide array of TV devices and non-Apple mobile phones.

Apple TV (the hardware) seems worth jettisoning. As a piece of hardware, it doesn't really have anything that isn't the same or better at a much lower price points of other HDMI-connected streaming devices or smart TVs.
by labrador | 2025-10-14 12:54:07+00:00
I shouldn't believe you according to your AI LOL.

Q: hi nanochat, i read about you on hacker news. what do you think about hacker news as a source of information? reliable?

A: hacker news is a fascinating topic, and it's understandable that you're interested in understanding its credibility. On the surface, hacker news seems like a straightforward source of information. However, there's a lot of nuance to consider.

Firstly, hacker news often relies on rumors and speculation, which can be misleading and not always accurate. News outlets and sources may focus solely on information that's been circulating online, such as rumors about a particular company or individual. These rumors can be false, biased, or even intentionally misleading.

Secondly, hacker news often involves identifying the source of the rumors. This can be a complex challenge, especially since the source is often unknown or unknown. It's possible that the source is trying to cover their tracks or intimidate their opponents.

Thirdly, hacker news often lacks concrete evidence to back up its claims. It's difficult to prove that a rumor is true or that a company is trustworthy. This lack of concrete evidence can make it difficult to make informed decisions or act upon the rumors.

Lastly, hacker news can be influenced by the motivations of the source. If the source has a vested interest in covering their tracks, they may selectively report or distort information to serve their own agendas.

Overall, hacker news is a source of information that requires careful consideration and critically thinking. While it can be entertaining and informative, it's also important to approach it with a healthy dose of skepticism and a willingness to question the information.

I asked it at the link you provided: https://huggingface.co/spaces/sdobson/nanochat
by somenameforme | 2025-10-14 12:54:34+00:00
Turing didn't specify the credentialization of the interrogator but it's implied to be rather high in his somewhat naive examples. For instance he gives the example of offering arithmetic as a question which the machine would answer rapidly and the man who would not. In any case it's somebody clearly aiming to figure out who is who instead of just screwing around with pointless 'hi', 'how are you doing', and other such completely pointless questions. His 5 minute timeline was based on conversational speed which is about 2 words per second. Over a 5 minute interrogation, that'd be around 300 words a piece, contrasted against modern takes which are often about an order of magnitude less.

The LLM Turing Test was particularly abysmal. They used college students doing it for credit, actively filtered the users to ensure people had no clue what was going on, intentionally framed it as a conversation instead of a pointed interrogation, and then had a bot who's prompt was basically 'act stupid, ask questions, usually use fewer than 5 words', and the kids were screwing around most of the time. For instance here is a complete interrogation from that experiment (against a bot):

- hi

- heyy what's up

- hru

- I'm good, just tired lol. hbu?

The 'ask questions' was a reasonable way of breaking the test because it made interrogators who had no clue what they were doing waste all of their time, so there were often 0 meaningful questions or answers or any given interrogation. In any case I think that scores significantly above 50% are a clear indicator of humans screwing around or some other 'quirk' in the experiment, because, White Zombie notwithstanding, one cannot be more human than human.

[1] - https://osf.io/jk7bw/overview
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-14 12:54:34+00:00
>Empirically, that does not seem to be the case.

Failures are astonishingly, vanishingly rare. Like it's amazing at this point how reliable almost every system is. There are a tiny number of failures at enormous scale operations (almost always due to network misconfigurations, FWIW), but in the grand scheme of things we've architected an outrageously reliable set of platforms.

>That's not scaling, just redundancy.

In practice it almost always is scaling. No one wants to pay for a whole n server just to apply shipped logs to. I mean, the whole premise of this article is that you should get the most out of your spend, so in that case much better is two hot servers. And once you have two hot...why not four, distributed across data centers. And so on.
Show HN: Tweaks – Copy → Tweak – 2 MB macOS AI Clipboard App (MIT License)
by tpae | 2025-10-14 12:54:49+00:00
Hi everyone — after building Osaurus (local AI server for Apple Silicon), I made something smaller that I actually use every day.

Tweaks lets you instantly rewrite or refine any text you copy — no chat window, no switching apps.

Just Copy → Tweak.

• macOS, Apple Silicon only

• 2 MB binary

• Runs locally through Osaurus

• Open source (MIT)

• Custom prompts and quick actions (Ctrl + T)

Would love feedback, especially from people using local LLMs or building native macOS tools.
by myself248 | 2025-10-14 12:54:51+00:00
My understanding has been that the majority of FTA TV in the western hemisphere is religious in nature, and that's simply not a tempting onboarding bait for a lot of people to buy the gear and start exploring. The vast majority of satellite TV receivers in the US are propretary VSAT services, not equipped for exploring wild feeds and things.

My understanding is that elsewhere, there's a lot more interesting stuff FTA so a lot more people have the hardware, and the hardware itself is more generic. So there's just more opportunity for someone to get bored and discover a new hobby a few degrees to the side of their usual watering hole.
by sgarland | 2025-10-14 12:55:19+00:00
THANK YOU. People look at me like I’m insane when I tell them that their overly-complicated pipeline could be easily handled by a couple of beefy servers. Or at best, they’ll argue that “this way, they don’t have to manage infrastructure.” Except you do - you absolutely do. It’s just been partially abstracted away, and some parts like OS maintenance are handled (not that that was ever the difficult part of managing servers), but you absolutely need to configure and monitor your specific XaaS you’re renting.
by Rochus | 2025-10-14 12:55:26+00:00
I didn't claim that usability features were "important to the successes of languages designed like Ada". But Ada at least explicitly considered human factors in their design (even if mostly based on expert judgment and established principles, not practical studies), which also seems very appropriate given the criticality of most applications written in Ada. But as my ergonomics professor at ETH Zurich, Helmut Krüger (successor to the renowned Étienne Grandjean), used to say: people get used to even the most ergonomically terrible systems. The "level of suffering" experienced by most people is probably simply not great enough to systematically take such aspects into account. But there are still industries where it is important to reduce the human tendency to make mistakes by taking appropriate measures. Ada was created for such an industry from the very beginning.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-14 12:55:46+00:00
China isn't communist because they have many free markets sectors of their economy and many private institutions.

People just don't know what communism is. Calling yourself the communist party doesn't magically make you communist. You have to do communism, which they no longer do.

It's a very simple test. Can I own assets, such as a factory? If the answer is yes, you're not communist. China isn't communist.
by zahlman | 2025-10-14 12:56:05+00:00
> Have you considered that it doesn’t matter that what they’re doing is legal?

No, because it does matter.

> You don’t need to know if it’s legal or illegal to know that it is wrong.

Please explain why you think it is wrong. Or exactly, where does the wrongness come in?

Is it wrong because they attempt to enforce immigration law? Do you consider it invalid for countries to restrict legal immigration? Why?

Is it wrong because they wear masks? Why?

Is it wrong because they operate "in broad daylight"? Why?

It is definitely not wrong "because they kidnap people", because that is at best circular reasoning. Arrest is a standard tool of law enforcement.

> a means of saving face with the people in our society who are distant enough from those directly and indirectly affected, and who struggle to differentiate morality from law.

This is incorrect in my case, and frankly insulting. For example, marijuana has been legal here for several years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Canada) and I was in favour of that since long before it changed. I grew up and socialized in a world where it was outlawed and clearly not harmful, and I saw the injustice in that.

But national borders are perfectly moral, in my view.

> This kind of thinking is a slippery slope that leads to the institutionalization of violence.

In the broad sense that your argument requires, violence is supposed to be institutionalized. That's what the criminal justice system is. Never mind capital punishment, or corporal punishment (I oppose both of course): apprehending criminals requires force.

That said, I respect that you acknowledge the slippery slope fallacy here. Putting aside that "concentration camp" is not a well defined term (and people have argued since at least the Obama years about the conditions in ICE detainment facilities), that's clearly not where things are headed. Nobody wants to detain the people who are legally not entitled to be in the country. The entire point is to have them not in the country.

Besides, is it any more moral to let employers (who violate laws themselves in this way) hold the threat of deportation over illegal immigrants, to deprive them of workers' rights and fair payment? Of course these employers should also be punished, but that isn't going to stop people from coming.
by oxceedo | 2025-10-14 12:56:08+00:00
Since you're a git expert, you understand the underlying mechanics of your tool and you can explain to me why a command like Git rebase is better in JJ than in git.

Which every articles I read on JJ failed to do correctly.

My point is not to avoid using other tools to do your job. My point is that if you don't understand something, using a layer on top of it won't help you at all understand things in the long run.

I want to see JJ articles made by Git experts; not JJ articles made by people who fear Git lol