MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-10-20 16:07:45+00:00
> If youre not Netflix then just sudo yum install postgresql and pg_dump every day, upload to S3.

database services such as DynamoDB support a few backup strategies out of the box, including continuous backups. You just need to flips switch and never bother about it again.

> Has worked for me for 20 years at various companies, side projects, startups …

That's perfectly fine. There are still developers who don't even use version control at all. Some old habits die hard, even when the whole world moved on.
by EGreg | 2025-10-20 16:07:50+00:00
I feel completely the opposite way.

When you speak or do anything, you focus on what you’re going do next. Your next action. And at that moment you are relying on your recent memory, and things you have put in place while doing the overall activity (context).

In fact what’s actually missing from AI currently is simultaneous collaboration, like a group of people interacting — it is very 1 on 1 for now. Like human conversations.

Diffusion is like looking at a cloud and trying to find a pattern.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-20 16:08:06+00:00
I was very hopeful for ntfs3, but unfortunately I think it was doomed from the start because of the ill blood built during the initial "code donation" regarding code quality, egos, and general stability.

Ntfsplus looks very promising based on this email and what's been done already. Something as "simple" as writing an fsck utility (something linux never had for ntfs) tells me that the author actually cares about real world usage. And that makes me very hopeful!
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-20 16:08:12+00:00
> Is there a reason why AI cannot be far better than Google at providing results to queries?

No, but there is a reason to suspect that other AI has a big challenge there, and that is that Google is a trillion dollar company who is a leader in both search and AI and whose investment in AI has always been significantly about both improving its ability to respond to queries and avoiding needing queries in favor of proactively supplying information.

And also that the most productive means of using AI to respond to queries about material facts continues to rely on something search-like supporting an LLM for grounding.

> Furthermore, it appears that Google just sells off placement to the highest bidder, and these AIs could easily beat that by giving free AI access in exchange for nibbling at the queries and adding a tab of 'sponsored results'

Google already provides free AI access, uses it by default to respond to most queries, and puts it above the sponsored results, with a link to go into a more focussed AI interface for further exploration.
by seer | 2025-10-20 16:08:30+00:00
If you somehow manage to get magnetic fields involved, so you are not afraid of friction with the cable itself, at 1.3 max apparent acceleration/deceleration (after a turnover) and including earth’s gravity you get 116min to geostationary.

If you account for various inefficiencies like taking it slow in the lower atmosphere Ant whatnot, it still should be in the matter of hours. So totally feasible and even comfortable.
by giobox | 2025-10-20 16:08:37+00:00
Good for you! This of course doesn't help in the situation where a dependency author retroactively changes the licensing state of a component, or reconfigures the project to rely on a new external dependency with differing license states (experienced both of these too!).

Having the landing page explain the motivations of the authors vis-a-vis open source goes a long way to providing the context for whatever licensing is appearing in the source repos, and helps understand what the future steer for the project is likely to be.

There are loads of ostensibly open source projects out there whose real goal is to drive sales of associated software and services, often without which the value of the opensource components is reduced, especially in the developer tooling space.
by noelwelsh | 2025-10-20 16:08:59+00:00
"Your childhood just leveled up" as a tagline is pretty revealing. I'm not sure where the company goes after they have mined all the nostalgia. I like the statement "[t]his isn’t tech that controls you. It invites you to play, learn, and create" but I'm struggling to think of how that converts into a long-term product line. I wish them success though. More diversity would be nice!
Show HN: Visual autocomplete for drawings (real-time Human-AI interaction)
by olwal | 2025-10-20 16:09:00+00:00
I've been interested in real-time Human-AI interaction for a while. This project is a prototype closed-loop drawing system, like "visual autocomplete" for drawings. The idea is that the user just draws along with the AI, without disrupting the flow through manual text prompting.

It works by AI continually observing and responding to live drawing on a canvas. A vision model (using Ollama) interprets what it sees, and that description drives real-time image generation (StreamDiffusion).

For real-time performance, this project is built in C++ and Python, leveraging the GPU for Spout-based texture sharing with minimal overhead.

Reusable components include:

- StreamDiffusionSpoutServer: lightweight Python server for real-time image generation with StreamDiffusion. Designed for interfacing with any Spout-compatible software and uses OSC for instructions.

- OllamaClient: minimal C++ library for interfacing with Ollama vision language models. Includes implementations for openFrameworks and Cinder.

The "visual autocomplete" concept has been explored in recent papers (e.g., arxiv.org/abs/2508.19254, arxiv.org/abs/2411.17673).

Hopefully, these open source components can help accelerate others experimenting and advancing this direction!
by hakunin | 2025-10-20 16:09:08+00:00
I don’t think 10% of anything would be considered relatively small even if we talk about 10 items: literally there’s only 10 items and this 1 has the rare quality of being among 10. Let alone billions of devices. Unless you want to reduce it to tautology, and instead of answering “why it’s not benchmarked” just go for “10 is smaller than 90, so I’m right”.

My point is, I don’t think any comparative benchmark would ever exclude something based on “oh it’s just 10%, who cares.” I think the issue is more that Apple Vision Framework is not well known as an OCR option, but maybe it’s starting to change.

And another part of the irony is that Apple’s framework probably gets way more real world usage in practice than most of the tools in that benchmark.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-10-20 16:09:15+00:00
My systems didn't actually seem to be affected until what I think was probably a SECOND spike of outages at about the time you posted.

The retrospective will be very interesting reading!

(Obviously the category of outages caused by many restored systems "thundering" at once to get back up is known, so that'd be my guess, but the details are always good reading either way).
by The_SamminAter | 2025-10-20 16:09:27+00:00
His tinkering did not trigger a data breach, it was already taking place, unencrypted, over the air. Anyone with a cheap SDR could do this, and indeed, hospitals in my area are doing the very same thing (despite previously being investigated for it and ‘stopping’). Having reached out to seemingly eager administration at these and being subsequently ghosted, I am at a loss of what to do. I know enough that hosting it will probably go extremely poorly for me. The data broadcasted right now has PII, but during covid had an exceptional amount of information. It’s not clear where this data is coming from, as the local hospital pagers are the old phone-type, but maybe Cerner is broadcasting it all for some reason?
by nradov | 2025-10-20 16:09:52+00:00
You picked a bad example. JPMorgan Chase has itself violated the law many times: for example, they willfully violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in thousands of cases. So fuck those guys for being scammers themselves. There are no clean hands here and in that instance I absolutely blame the "victim". Like if an armed robber steals cash from a drug smuggler, the smuggler shouldn't expect sympathy from anyone.

My comment is specific to JPMorgan Chase. While I know that I would not fall prey to similar scams, I am not endorsing victim blaming in general.
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-20 16:09:57+00:00
While this is true (and the price for the new device is still extremely reasonable) by 1983 you could buy a C64 for $199 (in the US anyway).

This price reduction was the difference maker in allowing my family to (barely) afford to buy me a C64 in late 1983 (and this is what I learned to code on, first in MS BASIC, then in 6510 assembler).
by briandw | 2025-10-20 16:09:57+00:00
I love seeing these simple experiments. Easy to read through quickly and understand a bit more of the principles.

One of my stumbling blocks with text diffusers is that ideally you wouldn’t treat the tokens as discrete but rather probably fields. Image diffusers have the natural property that a pixel is a continuous value. You can smoothly transition from one color to another. Not so with tokens. In this case they just do a full replacement. You can’t add noise to a token, you have to work in the embedding space. But how can you train embeddings directly? I found a bunch of different approaches that have been tried but they are all much more complicated than the image based diffusion process.
by vinhnx | 2025-10-20 16:10:19+00:00
I submitted and reply to "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)" thread 7 days ago and receive out-of-expectation response. So, I will put my project here. Not totally vibe code, I prefer the term AI-assisted.

I'm currently building my own coding agent, VT Code. VT Code is a Rust-based terminal coding agent with semantic code intelligence via Tree-sitter (parsers for Rust, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java) and ast-grep (structural pattern matching and refactoring).

It supports multiple LLM providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenRouter, Z.AI, Moonshot AI, all with automatic failover, prompt caching, and token-efficient context management. Configuration occurs entirely through vtcode.toml, sourcing constants from vtcode-core/src/config/constants.rs and model IDs from docs/models.json to ensure reproducibility and avoid hardcoding. [0], [1], [2]

Recently I've added Agent Client Protocol (ACP) integration. VT Code is now a fully compatible ACP agent, works with any ACP-clients: Zed (first-class support), Neovim, marimo notebook. [3]

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode

[1] https://crates.io/crates/vtcode

[2] https://docs.rs/vtcode

[3] https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/agents

Thank you!
by taeric | 2025-10-20 16:10:35+00:00
I'm curious what makes you so confident on this? I confess I expect that people are often far more cognizant of the last thing that the they want to say when they start?

I don't think you do a random walk through the words of a sentence as you conceive it. But it is hard not to think people don't center themes and moods in their mind as they compose their thoughts into sentences.

Similarly, have you ever looked into how actors learn their lines? It is often in a way that is a lot closer to a diffusion than token at a time.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-20 16:10:49+00:00
Ya, I totally believe that cloud platforms don't need a single point of failure. In fact, seeing the vulnerability makes me excited, because I realize there is _still_ potential for innovation in this area! To be fair it's not my area of expertise, so I'm very unlikely to be involved, but it's still exciting to see more change on the horizon :)
by ArtemZ | 2025-10-20 16:10:56+00:00
Political propaganda on HN?

Comparing contemporary politicians or policies directly to Hitler/Nazism is an emotionally powerful move, but the article uses it inconsistently and without clear criteria. At times the author admits differences (no expansionism, different social base), then asserts equivalence (e.g., linking Trump/Netanyahu to Hitler). Without explicit criteria for what counts as “Nazism” (ideology, methods, goals, scale), these comparisons become rhetorical hyperbole rather than an analytical tool.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-20 16:11:44+00:00
Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt.

If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything different and maybe perhaps possibly better.

Instead we all get tracked forever.
by card_zero | 2025-10-20 16:11:45+00:00
Nobody knows what percentage. Besides, people want more than to be fed, sheltered, and protected from violent attacks. Undoubtedly they are often wrong and want ridiculous pointless things, but nobody knows exactly which things are the wrong things. That's why we have a diverse society of idiots, all trying different things.

What intrigues me is that all of it is considered "economic activity", and counts toward GDP and is considered beneficial, even flower arranging and witchcraft accessories and cloud-connected sneakers. Somehow that assessment ends up being correct, because nobody knows for sure which parts are bullshit.
by butz | 2025-10-20 16:12:38+00:00
I wonder if it is deliberate choice to not include scrollbar? Is it due to limitations of UI widgets, or nowadays scrollbars are part of website, as some websites are very happy to set scrollbar size to "too narrow for comfortable use" or even remove it altogether. To end on positive note: is there a way for an average developer to try and fix this issue, thus doing my own share of contributing? Where should one start?
by motorest | 2025-10-20 16:12:51+00:00
> The idea you can click your way to a highly available, production configured anything in AWS - especially involving Dynamo, IAM and Lambda - is something I've only heard from people who've done AWS quickstarts but never run anything at scale in AWS.

I'll bite. Explain exactly what work you think you need to do to get your pick of service running on Hetnzer to have equivalent fault-tolerance to, say, a DynamoDB Global Table created with the defaults.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-20 16:13:47+00:00
I think there is a wide range of ways to "turn something in the head into words", and sometimes you use the "this is the final point, work towards it" approach and sometimes you use the "not sure what will happen, lets just start talking and go wherever". Different approaches have different tradeoffs, and of course different people have different defaults.

I can confess to not always knowing where I'll end up when I start talking. Similarly, not every time I open my mouth it's just to start but sometimes I do have a goal and conclusion.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-20 16:14:37+00:00
> Vaccines contain tiny amounts of aluminum that are comparable to what infants ingest through breast milk or formula. During the first six months of life, babies receive about four milligrams of aluminum from vaccines, 10 milligrams from breast milk or 40 milligrams from regular formula.

This seems a bit disingenuous. There is a difference between eating something and injecting it into directly into your bloodstream.

I don't believe that it makes aluminum in vaccines dangerous, mind you. But I do believe that disingenuous claims (by officials, scientists, and journalists) are the reason the anti-vax movement has become so strong over the past 5 years.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-20 16:14:44+00:00
To many people involved in browser development there is a distinction between the "browser" (Chrome and Firefox, but also Opera, Brave, Arc that don't develop their own engine) and the "web engine" (Blink, WebKit, Gecko).

Servo is currently more of the latter than the former as it's UI is a pretty minimal one that is mostly useful for testing and doesn't much of the niceties that users expect of a modern browser (bookmarks, history, password manager, etc).

I do agree that it's confusing for most people though.
by KallDrexx | 2025-10-20 16:15:16+00:00
Fwiw that's not necessarily true, because if Sonnet ends up using reasoning, then you are using more tokens than GPT-4 would have used for the same task. Same with GPT-5 since it will decide (using an LLM) if it should use the thinking model for it (and you don't have as much control over it).
by troupo | 2025-10-20 16:15:34+00:00
> Calling hooks "traditional" in relation to signals seems fine, lest that word be relegated in time to whatever you in particular care about at this juncture.

"Traditional" hooks are 6 years old. I think it's to early to call it traditional. Given that literally everyone else looked at this "tradition" and chose differently. Namely, signals.

Signals were popularized by SolidJS, but SolidJS's Ryan Carniato will keep telling you that what everyone calls signals now has its roots in libs like KnockoutJS from 2010. And everyone has been busy using signals for the past three years.

Given the amount of frameworks that implement signals today (including monsters like Angular), it's React who's not following tradition.
by ferguess_k | 2025-10-20 16:15:41+00:00
I think the problems are:

1) If you try to optimize in the beginning, you tend to fall into the over-optimization/engineering camp;

2) If you just let things go organically, you tend to fall into the big messy camp;

So the ideal way is to examine from time and time and re-architecture once the need arises. But few companies can afford that, unfortunately.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-20 16:16:03+00:00
You do see drive failures, but they’re less common than they used to be, almost every drive my guys install is an ABB drive and they’re pretty reliable.

You are correct about soft-starters being a lot simpler and requiring less maintenance, as it’s more or less just another contactor inside a regular across-the-line starter with some extra control wiring to handle the extra contactor. Adding an inverter, rectifier, and solid state electronics does make the complexity much higher.
by markfeathers | 2025-10-20 16:16:42+00:00
From my perspective they spread FUD about open source licensing. QT core is LGPL3. Many applications would be fine with using LGPL3 in commercial applications. Read QT's landing page on licensing, and fossa has a good block post on requirements.

https://www.qt.io/qt-licensing

https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-101-lgp...

>And everytime I end up confused about it.

I think this is the point. If you're making a real application you may pay for the licensing to avoid the uncertainty/risk.
by hakunin | 2025-10-20 16:16:47+00:00
The short answer is a tool like OwlOCR (which also has CLI support). The long answer is that there are tools on github (I created the stars list: https://github.com/stars/maxim/lists/apple-vision-framework/) that try to use the framework for various things. I’m also trying to build an ffi-based Ruby gem that provides convenient access in Ruby to the framework’s functionality.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-20 16:16:59+00:00
It's just too far of an analogy, it starts in the familiar SWE tarpit of human brain = lim(n matmuls) as n => infinity.

Then, glorifies wrestling in said tarpit: how do people actually compose sentences? Is an LLM thinking or writing? Can you look into how actors memorize lines before responding?

Error beyond the tarpit is, these are all ineffable questions that assume a singular answer to an underspecified question across many bags of sentient meat.

Taking a step back to the start, we're wondering:

Do LLMs plan for token N + X, while purely working to output token N?

TL;DR: yes.

via https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language....

Clear quick example they have is, ask it to write a poem, get state at end of line 1, scramble the feature that looks ahead to end of line 2's rhyme.
by hunglee2 | 2025-10-20 16:17:11+00:00
Can't see any movement on rare earth unless a commensurate roll back of 50% rule, which placed something like an additional 10,000 Chinese companies on the entity list. It's a quite simple equation for Beijing - if US wants decoupling, then decoupling it is.

Soybean Beijing might buy, you can stockpile this or make it into products which can also be stockpiled. As for fentanyl, China does not export fentanyl so unclear what measures could be taken which would satisfy unreasoned demands, might just have to make something up here.
by heyjamesknight | 2025-10-20 16:17:13+00:00
> We don’t yet understand the full physics of the brain, and we don’t fully understand LLMs either. That’s the point. The same kind of ignorance applies to both. Yet both produce coherent language, emotion like responses, creativity, reasoning, and abstraction. When two black boxes show convergent behavior under different substrates, the rational conclusion isn’t “one is impossible.” It’s “we’re closer than we realize.”

No. The LLM does not produce emotion-like responses. I'd argue no on creativity either. And only very limited in reasoning, in domains it has in its training set.

You have fundamental misunderstandings about neuroscience and cognitive science. Its hard to argue with you here because you simply don't know what you don't know.

Yes, the human brain is the machine we're describing. And we don't describe it very well. Definitely not at the level of understanding how to reproduce it with bitstrings.

I'm glad you're so passionate about this topic. But you're arguing the equivalent of FTL transit and living on Dyson Spheres. Its fun as a thought experiment and may theoretically be possible one day, but the line between what we're capable of today and that imagined future is neither straight nor visible—certainly not to the degree you're asserting here.

Will we one day have actual machine intelligence? Maybe. Is it going to come anytime soon, or look anything like the transformer-based LLM?

No.
by notahacker | 2025-10-20 16:17:32+00:00
Unless we're using it for humans the transit time isn't that big a deal; "last mile" orbital transfer times are often measured in days anyway.

That "last mile" bit is going to entail independent propulsion anyway. Getting to the altitude if the ISS is a mere 10 hour trip at a sedately 40kph which isn't unpleasant even for humans, but the ISS orbits at nearly 29000kph (as will you if you let go of the space elevator at that altitude) and the velocities are only half as scary at the far end, so your rendezvous anywhere other than one specific point in geo is going to be complicated. But you've saved the fuel costs of escaping the earth's atmosphere that's rather significantly more than the fuel costs of other bits of your satellite mission, including reentry. (At least until the costs of building and maintaining and protecting the elevator are factored in, but who knows what unobtanium costs?)
by michaelsbradley | 2025-10-20 16:18:26+00:00
It’s LGPL mostly, with some non-core libraries that are GPL or use other licenses:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/licensing.html

Over the years it has been noted by many that Qt’s wording and warnings about the LGPL amount to spreading FUD or outright misinformation in what seems like an attempt to scare managers and C-suite folks into buying commercial licenses “just in case”.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-20 16:18:36+00:00
> Would you like to link to the reddit app or a violent FPS game not flagged as NSFW on F-droid? I don't believe either of those actually exists.

...all of them? (AFAICT)

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.btmura.android.reddit/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/au.com.wallaceit.reddinator/

Actually, let's do it the other way: Can you point to a single reddit app that is marked NSFW?