MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clickety_clack | 2025-10-14 20:25:12+00:00
It’s not lack of competence. There is an unbelievable weight of regulation in construction now. It would probably take 2 years of planning consultation just to get the idea approved. Then, each facet of the design would have to be coordinated and iterated between several different specialist teams and contractors, with the tree of contractors increasing as each layer of design takes shape. At the end, you also have the labor laws that people are talking about here.

If we weren’t too worried about things falling down and killing people, or about damaging peoples conception of the vibes in a city, we could have the kinds of developer/architect/engineer/foreman outfits that used to build this kind of thing.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-14 20:25:18+00:00
> We think that, because 10k daily users is a big deal for a product, they're also a big deal for a small server, but they really aren't.

Yeah we seem to forget just how fast computers are now a days. Obviously varies with complexity of the app & what other tech you are using, but for simpler things 10k daily users could be handled by a reasonbly powerful desktop sitting under my desk without breaking a sweat.
by hedora | 2025-10-14 20:25:31+00:00
At least the 1950’s. That’s when stuff like asynchrony and interrupts were worked out. Dijkstra wrote at length about this in reference to writing code that could drive a teletype (which had fundamentally non-deterministic timings).

If you include analog computers, then there are some WWII targeting computers that definitely qualify (e.g., on aircraft carriers).
by Animats | 2025-10-14 20:25:54+00:00
That's the market's job. Once AI CEOs start outperforming human CEOs, investment will flow to the winners. Give it 5-10 years.

(Has anyone tried an LLM on an in-basket test? [1] That's a basic test for managers.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-basket_test
by tmountain | 2025-10-14 20:26:17+00:00
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Kinda like the adult equivalent of learning that Santa isn’t real or finding out your parents are getting a divorce. I believe that we put too much faith in our “bedrock institutions” because we were taught to. Now, the facade is gone, and we’re left to figure things out as best we can. I don’t have a clue where the future will take us (nobody does). But, there’s usually some good that comes with the bad, and I do have the feeling that we’re living through history, much more so than I ever thought we’d get to. If we are truly witnessing the downfall of the United States, well… it’s going to be very interesting to say the least.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-14 20:26:23+00:00
People don't understand that LLMs aren't humans. There's a lot of implicit context when humans are communicating. LLMs don't do that.

They do have biases, like if you tell them to do something with data, they'll pretty likely grab Python as the tool.

And different models have different biases and styles, you can try to guide them to your specific style with prompts, but it doesn't always work - depending on how esoteric your personal style is.
by ziml77 | 2025-10-14 20:26:24+00:00
Forgive me sounding like Claude, but you’re absolutely right! I’ve played platformers from that era recently but it’s been a long time since I touched the shooters. I was mixing them up in my recollection. The shooters had a weird mix and for some reason even though Goldeneye had a bunch of control scheme options, none of them let you put all movement on one input and all camera control on the other.
by brightball | 2025-10-14 20:26:59+00:00
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-trump-kennedy-autism-init...

> Third, NIH today is announcing the recipients of the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI), funding 13 projects totaling more than $50 million to transform autism research. ADSI integrates large-scale biological, clinical, and behavioral data with an exposomics approach that examines environmental, nutritional, medical, and social factors alongside genetics.

> Projects employ advanced methods such as machine learning and organoid models, address both children and adults across the lifespan, and establish replication hubs to ensure rigor. Each project includes community engagement to align research with the needs of autistic individuals, families, and clinicians.
by jihadjihad | 2025-10-14 20:27:09+00:00
I think it's counterproductive to provide Chromebooks and iPads to students, but the "excessive use of screens" in my experience is by and large a parenting issue. And it's not just about boundaries around devices, like time limits or app restrictions. It's about setting the right example and providing an environment where reading a book is as stimulating and desirable and encouraged as playing a game every once in a while on an iPad.

It's telling that the second part of your sentence applies equally well to adults as children. And children cannot be held accountable for poor habits that are largely a consequence of their environment.
by graboid | 2025-10-14 20:27:22+00:00
I assume that in most array languages, you also create "words" or however you want to call functions, to reuse code. I wonder about a purely aesthetic issue: how does it look to interleave those symbols with user-defined words that by nature will be much, much longer, i.e. "create-log-entry" or "calculate-estimated-revenue".
by jochem9 | 2025-10-14 20:27:30+00:00
The Dutch government just explicitly denied any foreign involvement, while at the same time acknowledging that a few years ago the export restrictions for ASML were implemented because of US involvement.

Tbh, I don't know what the truth is. I'm a Dutch citizen and what is happening now is unheard of. I don't know what the motivation is and it seems to have happened out of the blue. Maybe the motivation literally is protecting the European semiconductor industry.

I seriously doubt it is aimed against China. Europe is not looking for a trade war, especially now that the US is an unpredictable ally (if they still are) and basically the whole geopolitical situation is shifting. China is also not a topic for Dutch politicians, so it's not winning anyone votes.
by ashton314 | 2025-10-14 20:27:36+00:00
Quin stood up and tossed his long body in a way that made his jacket fly off. He was not a thick-built man but he had muscles from working. He whirled the jacket round to his front and used his thumbs to thrust out a sheaf of tags sewn into the back of the collar. I could see the logo of a company, which I recognized from ten years ago, though they had made it simpler. Below it was a grid of tiny pictures that moved. “Kinagrams. They obsoleted Logotype.”

…

“Why do you suppose it became obsolete, then?” asked Orolo.

“So that the people who brought us Kinagrams could gain market share.”

Orolo frowned and considered this phrase. “That sounds like bulshytt too.”

“So that they could make money.”

“Very well. And how did those people achieve that goal?”

“By making it harder and harder to use Logotype and easier and easier to use Kinagrams.”

“How annoying. Why did the people not rise up in rebellion?”

“Over time we were led to believe that Kinagrams really were better.”

…

“Where were we?” Quin asked, then answered his own question: “You were asking me if I could read, not these, but the frozen letters used to write Orth.” He nodded at my leaf, which was growing dark with just that sort of script.

“Yes.”

“I could if I had to, because my parents made me learn. But I don’t, because I never have to,” said Quin. “My son, now, he’s a different story.”

---------------------------

That section plus Samman's little bit about the "Artificial Inanity" systems that made the internet basically unusable are hitting way too close to home these days.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-14 20:27:43+00:00
Seems like a tempest in a teapot to me. Like people arguing about COBOL or PL/I or something.

Ruby on Rails really did rock my world in 2005 but I got sucked into doing very complex RIAs and the folks I knew whew knew how to deliver applications to customers with RoR all seemed to think by 2011 they couldn't sell that kind of work anymore and they were struggling to do anything at all with Angular then finally found their footing when React came around.

Baby boomers bought motorcycles when they had midlife crises, Gen X software people create a Linux distribution. I really can't bring myself to care, or maybe that's the point -- there's no way you could get people legitimately interested in a new Linux distro but in the age of "equal and opposite backlash" you might see SpaceX mandate it on all their desktops to support the right wing unicause.

In the meantime, all the dogpiling on DHH does nothing to make anyone's job better, address any real inequities in society, stop people from voting for UKIP/Le March/Reform/AfD, etc. Nothing. But a certain ingroup can build its own cohesion by shitting on an outgroup -- purpose of a system is what it does.
by XorNot | 2025-10-14 20:27:57+00:00
Reminds me of my favorite writing prompt that was so good it was it's own story too:

"It’s been publicly confirmed that our galaxy is within the open maw of a massive galaxy-eating beast. The beast can’t move faster than light, so it’ll take hundreds of millions of years for it to finally bite down. This is something that humans will just have to live with"

(I don't think you can actually tell a good story with this, it's a background detail you would put in some other story).
by susiecambria | 2025-10-14 20:28:41+00:00
I found this interesting since these days, the house is filled with heavy duty cardboard boxes holding my mom's peritoneal dialysis supplies. Many many many many boxes. Of solution and minicaps and cassettes and drain bags. I think we are single-handedly supplying a local estate sale company with boxes.

Seriously, wondering with people getting sicker and older, if health-related shipments are up or down.
by Knork-and-Fife | 2025-10-14 20:28:42+00:00
I agree with your assessment on the high end of China's development and the lack of awareness of that from people in the US. But I think the story on the low end /lower class is more interesting and I think there is lack of awareness there too.

Even within the US a lot of upper class people don't know what it's like for lower class people here. It's so easy to slip into homelessness because there aren't reasonable options available to many people to live anymore.

In China they still have a huge amount of their population in a developing stage so they still have ample tools and options and knowledge for how to maintain a reasonable life in a less developed state. So it's easier to fall back to a cheaper lifestyle, and culturally it's easier too.

But in the US were generations removed from these other ways of life, so there's no options or cultural acceptance of not living a highly developed way of life. So people just go straight from a nice house or apartment with modern stuff to being homeless with little to no tools to survive.

Just my probably naive thoughts. Would love to hear others takes on this.
by phailhaus | 2025-10-14 20:28:52+00:00
> I can’t hold that against the type system.

I think we should. Dataclasses have existed in Python for an extremely long time, and yet the type system doesn't support defining your own similar classes. Kwargs have also existed forever, but they forgot to support that and had to add TypedDict's much later. And it still doesn't properly support optional fields. There's a lot of stuff like this in the language which are unbelievably frustrating, because for some reason they implemented the syntax before implementing a typechecker. Everything has been hacked in ever since. I consider python's type system to be a lost cause, just hoping for someone to make the Typescript equivalent for Python.
by SalientBlue | 2025-10-14 20:29:26+00:00
For the purposes of the article, which is to demonstrate how developing an LLM is completely different from developing traditional software, I'd say they are true enough. It's a CS 101 understanding of the software development lifecycle, which for non-technical readers is enough to get the point across. An accurate depiction of software development would only obscure the actual point for the lay reader.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-14 20:29:28+00:00
The inside of the pentagon is probably the worst place to ascertain honest and damaging information about the government.

The most famous of such sources, deep throat, refused to talk about information in the office or on the phone. Instead he would meet in an underground car garage.

This seems imminently sensible if you are disclosing damaging information about powerful and dangerous people doing illegal or immoral things. You’re not going to chat about it in the hallways at the pentagon.

In fact by creating an atmosphere of fear and paranoia through political persecution of the federal workforce they’re going to invite this sort of behavior. People are going to feel afraid and hide their beliefs but will need an outlet. The only reason to persecute people for their political beliefs and lock down transparency is to hide things that people unaligned to your ideology might disclose. They will still be there no matter what you do, they will just go underground in their behavior and take elaborate routes to tell what’s going on - and there will a lot to tell because it’s being hidden for a reason.

The more they dismantle oversight the more violation of ethics and legal requirements will happen - there’s no reason to dismantle the oversight functions unless you have things to hide. The more outrageous it comes, the more flagrant, the more those with discontent and grievance will seek out the press. (Surely there are some people in the government unhappy with how they or their (former) coworkers have been treated by this administration).

This is going to be the most spectacular case over over reach and hubris in our history and the blowout will be extraordinary as it unfolds and collapses around them, and I hope this will revitalize the independent press and investigative journalism - which frankly is not doing poorly already despite perception. There’s a lot of excellent outlets out there. And now increasingly major outlets are becoming independent of government influence once again.
by bigwheels | 2025-10-14 20:29:45+00:00
How does LPDDR5 (This Xe3P) compare with GDDR7 (Nvidia's flagships) when it comes to inference performance?

Local inference is an interesting proposition because today in real life, the NV H300 and AMD MI-300 clusters are operated by OpenAI and Anthropic in batching mode, which slows users down as they're forced to wait for enough similar sized queries to arrive. For local inference, no waiting is required - so you could get potentially higher throughput.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-14 20:29:46+00:00
It's a personality thing.

I know Car People who refuse to use even lane keeping assist, because it doesn't fit their driving style EXACTLY and it grates them immensely.

I on the other hand DGAF, I love how I don't need to mess with micro adjustments of the steering wheel on long stretches of the road, the car does that for me. I can spend my brainpower checking if that Gray VW is going to merge without an indicator or not.

Same with LLM, some people have a very specific style of code they want to produce and anything that's not exactly their style is "wrong" and "useless". Even if it does exactly what it should.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-14 20:29:51+00:00
It's not exactly E2EE. iPhone storage is locked with a 6-digit numeric passcode in most cases, which is basically no entropy. The whole thing relies on hardware security (the enclave). At least in older phones, that just meant security through obscurity since Apple's trade secrets were enough to unlock it, but maybe newer ones can't be unlocked even by Apple.
by buu700 | 2025-10-14 20:30:11+00:00
I think there's an important material difference between the two. China's single party is authoritarian and uncontested. America's two major parties are mildly authoritarian on different axes, but average out to a mostly liberal status quo in practice. The relative chaos and transparency of America's system are what they are, but it isn't an autocracy at this point.

There's also a significant growing political push to transition away from FPTP voting in the US, which would dismantle the current duopoly.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-14 20:30:31+00:00
>that baffles me about the managerial globalists

It's no different from those on HN that yell loudly that unions for programmers are the worst idea ever... "it will never be me" is all they can think, then they are protesting in the streets when it is them, but only after the hypocrisy of mocking those in the street protesting today.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-14 20:30:46+00:00
I agree.

As for the GME thing, the only reason why I sort give it a pass is because it was sort of an unprecedented thing. I am not sure if regulations have been updated to address a future similar incident.

At least it resulted in the "This Is Financial Advice" video from Folding Ideas.

Fascinating watch after following the event back in the day - and losing €1500 because I didn't reach my goal of earning €500 to buy a PS5 with the profit. If shit went up for just one more day I would have reached my goal.

Was a lesson to never try timing anything.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-14 20:30:48+00:00
Not that I know of. In fact, in the past several years, the FDA went out of its way to approve various useless, even harmful, drugs for Alzheimers that cause significant brain bleeds and don't fix anything. These drugs were rooted in the fraudulent and failed beta-amyloid theory. It was known in informal circles for over a decade that this particular theory didn't make sense. Moreover, these drugs have astronomical costs, with their use effectively denying others from legitimate treatments by using up the insurance dollars.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-14 20:30:59+00:00
You're using different words - the top comment only mentioned the reliability of the software, which is only tangentially related to the quality, goodness, or badness of the code used to write it.

Old software is typically more reliable, not because the developers were better or the software engineering targeted a higher reliability metric, but because it's been tested in the real world for years. Even more so if you consider a known bug to be "reliable" behavior: "Sure, it crashes when you enter an apostrophe in the name field, but everyone knows that, there's a sticky note taped to the receptionist's monitor so the new girl doesn't forget."

Maybe the new software has a more comprehensive automated testing framework - maybe it simply has tests, where the old software had none - but regardless of how accurate you make your mock objects, decades of end-to-end testing in the real world is hard to replace.

As an industrial controls engineer, when I walk up to a machine that's 30 years old but isn't working anymore, I'm looking for failed mechanical components. Some switch is worn out, a cable got crushed, a bearing is failing...it's not the code's fault. It's not even the CMOS battery failing and dropping memory this time, because we've had that problem 4 times already, we recognize it and have a procedure to prevent it happening again. The code didn't change spontaneously, it's solved the business problem for decades... Conversely, when I walk up to a newly commissioned machine that's only been on the floor for a month, the problem is probably something that hasn't ever been tried before and was missed in the test procedure.
by alganet | 2025-10-14 20:31:15+00:00
He is. Maybe he's just running with the pack, but that doesn't matter either.

The fact is, we kind of know how to prevent problems in AI systems:

- Good benchmarks. People said several times that LLMs display erratic behavior that could be prevented. Instead of adjusting the benchmarks (which would slow down development), they ignored the issues.

- Accountability frameworks. Who is responsible when an AI fails? How the company responsible for the model is going to make up for it? That was a demand from the very beginning. There are no such accountability systems in place. It's a clown fiesta.

- Slowing down. If you have a buggy product, you don't scale it. First, you try to understand the problem. This was the opposite of what happened, and at the time, they lied that scaling would solve the issues (when in fact many people knew for a fact that scaling wouldn't solve shit).

Yes, it's kind of different. But it's a different we already know. Stop pushing this idea that this stuff is completely new.
Show HN: Pathwave.io – MCP and mobile app to manually approve AI actions
by felipe-pathwave | 2025-10-14 20:31:28+00:00
Hey HN,

On my — very limited :D — spare time, I’ve been working on Pathwave.io — a tool to add a manual approval step to AI automations.

The first version I’m releasing today is focused on that manual approval flow — no payments yet, just secure "approve / deny" operations that can be triggered from your AI or backend via our API. You can check out the docs here: https://web.pathwave.io/docs

How it works:

* Your AI or app sends an approval request through our API

* The user gets a push notification in the Pathwave mobile app

* They can approve or deny in real time

* Your system gets the result instantly

The goal is to create a trust layer for AI actions — first for simple approvals, later for financial and high-risk operations.

I’d love feedback from the HN community, especially around:

* Use cases where you’d want AI to "ask first"

* Thoughts on developer experience from the docs

* Suggestions before expanding to payment integrations

Thanks for taking a look — you can try it out or read the quickstart here: https://web.pathwave.io/docs

— Felipe
by jMyles | 2025-10-14 20:31:49+00:00
> What exactly went wrong? The decline began well before the pandemic, so COVID-era disruptions alone cannot explain it.

The NEAP follows cohorts which are four years apart in age - where (and how, and why) did The Atlantic rasterize this to "the decline"?

...and yes, the NEAP shows that all three of these cohorts suffered terribly from the school closures in parts of the USA, just as every serious expert predicted. The differences in the NEAP math unit are particularly obvious.

It feels very strange to cast this aside with a single sentence and no further analysis.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-14 20:32:32+00:00
>If you don't like autocracy, China is way worse than the US.

as a European who frequently travels to both, in recent history it was at an American airport, not China that I was being asked for my social media profiles and had a 30 minute discussion because they didn't believe me when I told them that I don't actively maintain a social media presence.

Of course China has no free discourse as such, but at least there is a gentleman's agreement in the sense that if I don't stage a protest they'll not bother me, whereas the US now increasingly looks like Latin America, where you need to be afraid of being harangued by some goon squad of people hired off the streets at the behest of some kleptocrat
by thenaturalist | 2025-10-14 20:33:01+00:00
What are they gonna do with their own FAB?

Not release anything?

There'll be a good market share for comparatively "lower power/ good enough" local AI. Check out Alez Ziskind's analysis of the B50 Pro [0]. Intel has an entire line-up of cheap GPUs that perform admirably for local use cases.

This guy is building a rack on B580s and the driver update alone has pushed his rig from 30 t/s to 90 t/s. [1]

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbJy-jhsAA

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1o1k5rc/new_int...