MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Has anyone heard from OpenAI about their Grove application?
by heywoods | 2025-10-09 18:57:04+00:00
Haven’t received any emails from OpenAI about my Grove application and was curious if they are even going to notify us if we weren’t accepted. The signup was borked the first 24hrs but I never received any email receipt my application was received despite the application form saying it was successfully submitted once it was fixed. I’m disappointed the rollout for this program has been so rocky. It certainly doesn’t inspire confidence that Grove will be executed well.
by mamonster | 2025-10-09 18:57:49+00:00
It's not an issue of her being left wing, it's an issue of her being nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature despite being horrible at writing(as in the actual technical skill of writing).

As for reactionaries/conservatives winning, it's basically impossible for someone to win this award as a genuine "reactionary". The last genuine reactionary who won it was Solzhenitsyn, and it would never be awarded to him if they were aware of all of his views.
by gruez | 2025-10-09 18:57:57+00:00
>There's a lot of ways to siphon money out of firms. People declare their car as a "work vehicle", CEOs fly to the beach on the company's jet, etc.

That's why there are specific IRS regulations for this[1]. "Company cars" basically disappeared as a result. Moreover contrary to what you imply, corporate taxes don't really solve this issue either. Corporate taxes are paid on profit, not revenue, and expenses like "work vehicles" or private jets aren't taxed either way.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b
by cat-whisperer | 2025-10-09 18:57:57+00:00
Yeah honestly I don't really care about these benchmarks. Python isn't built for raw performance and that's totally fine! It's the number one choice for prototyping and can do so much, that's what actually matters. I think it's cool they're working on speed improvements though, means my prototype-to-production cycle gets a bit smoother lol.
by yabones | 2025-10-09 18:58:20+00:00
It's a culture problem. The real solution is to teach people to trust their security department.

If there's trust and respect, they'll reach out without fear of reprisal and inform right away when there's a problem.

If there's a culture of punishment, they'll fear the IT gestapo and try to cover up mistakes that could cost them their job.

It really is that simple.
by mattfca | 2025-10-09 18:58:43+00:00
Person A has a net worth of 2B Person A has a loan at 500M backed by their holdings Stocks drop 50%, Net worth is now 1B Person A buys $500m of stocks Market Recovers 100% Person A now has 2B original holdings and 1B gains, $500m owned = 2.5B

Very simple example, and not the only way to do it - but people need to remember net worth being 500B is not 500B in the bank, and at some point the number doesnt matter
by hypeatei | 2025-10-09 18:58:51+00:00
> An insurance company's only goal nowadays is to make as much money as possible

How can that be true when their profits are capped on collected premiums? Look up the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rule to see what I'm referring to. If you wanted to squeeze money out of people, health insurance would be the least appealing industry to do that in since you're required to spend 80-85% of premiums on medical care.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-09 18:59:01+00:00
> Latent reasoning doesn't really appear until around 100B params.

Please provide a citation for wild claims like this. Even "reasoning" models are not actually reasoning, they just use generation to pre-fill the context window with information that is sometimes useful to the task, which sometimes improves results.

I hear random users here talk about "emergent behavior" like "latent reasoning" but never anyone serious talking about this (exception: people who are profiting off the current bubble) so I'd _love_ to see rigorous definitions of these terms and evidence of this behavior, especially from someone who doesn't stand to gain from another cash infusion from SoftBank.

I suspect these things don't exist. At the very most, they're a mirage, and exist in the way a rainbow does. Go on and try to find that pot of gold, eh?
by themafia | 2025-10-09 18:59:02+00:00
We got hit in a similar way. They didn't use HR's account to email but they grabbed the mobile phone numbers of everyone in the directory. They then started a text message campaign, pretending to be our CEO, demanding that employees go to Target and buy gift cards on behalf of a client.

One person actually did fall for it but decided to physically bring the cards to the CEOs office. Thankfully that exposed the attack and effectively halted any damage done.

These criminals are relatively clever.
by dgfitz | 2025-10-09 18:59:42+00:00
I was stuck in a very remote location trying to update vehicle software. I needed both a monitor and keyboard (long story, serial wasn't outputting, no ssh, partition table was hosed) and I had neither a keyboard nor a monitor.

I now carry a little HDMI screen and not one but two portable keyboards with me for all work travel. One of the keyboards is a larger but rolls up, the other is tiny but also has a mouse built into a touchpad.

These devices have saved my bacon more than a few times. Highly recommend.
by cyrialize | 2025-10-09 19:00:11+00:00
A while back I read about a person who made up something on wikipedia, and it snowballed into it being referenced in actual research papers.

Granted, it was a super niche topic that only a few experts know about. It was one day taken down because one of those experts saw it.

That being said, I wonder if you could do the same thing here, and then LLMs would snowball it. Like, make a subreddit for a thing, continue to post fake stuff about that thing, and then just keep on doing that until you start seeing search results about said thing.

I know there are a couple of niche internet jokes like this. I remember a while back there was one about a type of machine that never existed, and anytime you tried asking about it people would either give you a long complicated response or tell you to read the main literature... which were also fake books.
by culll_kuprey | 2025-10-09 19:00:14+00:00
> When you see on tv that 9 out of 10 dentists recommend a toothpaste what do you do? Do you claim that brushing your teeth is a useless hype that's being pushed by big-tooth because they're exaggerating or misrepresenting what that means?

Only after schizophrenic dentists go around telling people that brushing their teeth is going to lead to a post-scarcity Star Trek world.
by motorest | 2025-10-09 19:00:24+00:00
> Regarding containers, nope, I know and love docker, but it's unnecessary complexity for a one person project.

This is a perplexing comment. Can you provide any specifics on what leads you to believe that Docker is a hindrance? I've been using Docker for ages, both professionally and in personal projects, and if anything it greatly simplifies any workflow. I wonder what experience you are having to arrive to such an unusual outcome.
by novocayn | 2025-10-09 19:00:25+00:00
Because running a three-account bot‑net farm is fun :D Okay, jk, please don’t mod me out.

One’s for browsing HN at work, the other’s for home, and the third one has a username I'm not too fond of.

I’ll stick to this one :) I might have some karma on the older ones, but honestly, HN is just as fun from everywhere
by mafik | 2025-10-09 19:01:20+00:00
I guess an exposed battery is more susceptible to short circuit. Imagine you have this in your pocket while in a heavy rain. Battery could short circuit due to water creating conductive connection between battery terminals. It would heat up quickly an maybe even start burning. Still, I prefer 18650 to these flat, lasagna-type cells which swell and can be pierced by any sharp object. Even though the latter has built-in protection and the former doesn't.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-09 19:01:21+00:00
It really puzzles me that people complain about compilation speed in Rust these days: I've worked on pretty big Rust code bases with lots of dependencies also, and cargo check has always been pretty much instant for me, including when I'm traveling and I use my mid-range laptop from 2012! (my main desktop is from 2018, I bought it because my previous desktop, from 2009 struggled to compile servo, mostly due to having too little RAM).

Debug build take a bit longer (a few seconds) on the desktop, while still staying below a minute on the laptop (remember, I'm talking about a 12 years old Clevo laptop, not a recent Macbook). It's definitely not worse than Typescript compilation or even Javascript bundling, yet we pretty much never hear complains about how typescript has too big compile times.

Yes, it could be faster with a different compiler architecture, especially on clean release builds and that would be nice, but it's a very minor annoyance (I don't do a full release build unless I've updated my compiler version, which only happens a few times a year).

The contrast between the discourse and my day-to-day experience on near obsolete hardware is very striking.

(Compilation artifact eating up hundreds of GB of my hard drive are a much, much bigger nuisance in practice, yet nobody seem to talk about that here on HN).
by joshvm | 2025-10-09 19:01:27+00:00
My suspicion is that it's because the feedback loop is so fast. Imagine if you were tasked with supervising 2 co-workers who gave you 50-100 line diffs to review every minute. The uncanny valley is that the code is rarely good enough to accept blindly, but the response is quick enough that it feels like progress. And perhaps an human impulse to respond to the agent? And a 10-person team? In reality those 10 people would review each other's PRs and in a good organisation you trust each other to gatekeep what gets checked in. The answer sounds like managing-agents, but none of the models are good enough to reliably say what's slop and what's not.
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-09 19:01:39+00:00
Influencer definitely doesn’t have a high entry barrier. Grab a camera, a microphone and start streaming your gameplay.

But it’s a sea of blood out there.

Btw if you like tinkering with cars, it’s a good business to offer on-site “suites” — just change tires, change battery and change oil — just do these three and a lot of people including me are going to happily offer you 80-100 CAD. If I go to a dealership, they charge me something around 250 and I need to wait for 4 hours at least, with an appointment.

You don’t need to do the more advanced work that requires heavy equipment, just do these three and maybe also change filters.
by JamesBarney | 2025-10-09 19:01:48+00:00
It's very likely causative. There is just too much evidence for it not to be. All the genes related to amyloid processing are correlated with Alzheimer rates.

The most likely theory I've seen is amyloid causes tau buildup which leads to the majority of the damage. And by the time they give anti-amyloid drugs it's too late and the tau is doing the majority of the damage.

An analogy would be if you have a hole in your house which leads to getting a rat infestation. Once you notice the rat infestation patching the hole isn't going to solve your problem. The hole caused you to get rat shit on your counter, but by the time you fix the hole it's too late to stop the rats from shitting on your counter.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-09 19:02:01+00:00
This is such a profound quote, but most people need more context to understand it. I certainly did when I ran across it a few years ago. I believe our society would be much better if more people did.

Here's a good explanation I found quickly via Google, I'm sure there are others: https://medium.com/mydex/we-can-afford-what-we-can-actually-...
by chfritz | 2025-10-09 19:02:10+00:00
You seem to describe the problem of automated anomaly detection. Many companies tried or are trying to solve this (e.g., Heex), but I don't think anyone has done it definitively. The issue is that "normal" behavior keeps changing, so its difficult to build a model of what is abnormal. And by the time the behavior of the robots in the fleet becomes more stable (in all aspects, physical, electrical, networking, logging, etc.), it's usually easy for the engineers who built it to put in the right metrics and health-monitoring checks to detect issues. So even though theoretically automated anomaly detection sounds like the holy grail of fleet observability, in practice, it's not such a big deal.

So I guess to answer your question, I think yes, the second, better tooling (and a ton of metrics data collected from the fleet with good versioning).
by Archit3ch | 2025-10-09 19:02:18+00:00
Disclaimer: this is early, experimental, subject to change, etc. Notably, there are reports that it doesn't work in Windows. It works here on Mac, but YMMV.

1) Install juliaup following the instructions for your platform from julialang.org

2) Install julia 1.12 with `juliaup add 1.12` and switch to it `juliaup default 1.12`.

3) Start a standard julia 1.12 REPL with `julia --project=.` This is the "Outer" project that will do the compiling (PackageCompiler.jl terminology, might not be necessary now that juliac can run from the command line).

4) Install juliac with `] app add JuliaC`. The ']' character opens the package manager. You might need to add Julia's app location to your PATH in .zshrc with `export PATH="/home/ccp/.julia/bin:$PATH"` and restart your shell (I had this already from earlier attempts with 1.12 beta).

5) Create a new project with `] generate AppProject`. This is the "Inner" project that will be compiled. Put the example AppProject code from the julia 1.12 announcement in src/AppProject.jl

6) Run the example command `juliac --output-exe app_test_exe --bundle build --trim=safe --experimental ./AppProject` while in the "Outer" directory. You should be able to run it as in the announcement `./build/bin/app_test_exe`
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-09 19:02:43+00:00
> To make these rules, the regulator convenes a truth-seeking exercise, in which all affected parties submit evidence about what the best rule should be and then get a chance to read what everyone else wrote and rebut their claims.

More like a forum where expensive lobbyists buy loopholes that make the rules toothless. Rules say companies can't do X, they cry about it and so an exception is carved out where X is allowed for the exact situation one of the corporations finds itself in.

Individual consumers of taxi cab services are not going to governmnet events to "submit evidence". That stuff is expensive and they have far more pressing issues to deal with than watching politics play out in real time. If they're lucky, they'll have some consumer advocacy group making their cases on their behalf.
by mainecoder | 2025-10-09 19:02:54+00:00
the cost of labor is shared the the working class as well , it is not just tha capitalist class that pays for labor that labor cost is in the final cost of all the goods and services you use. These robots make life better, if you don't want to buy a robot that is your choice but do not take the freedom of others to buy ,use make and modify robots.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-10-09 19:02:57+00:00
It's already happened accidentally many times - a popular site (like reddit) posts something intended as a joke - and it ends up scooped up into the LLM training and shows up years later in results.

It's very annoying. It's part of the problem with LLMs in general, there's no quality control. Their input is the internet, and the internet is full of garbage. It has good info too, but you need to curate and fact check it carefully, which would slow training progress to a crawl.

Now they're generating content of their own, which ends up on the internet, and there's no reliable way of detecting it in advance, which ends up compounding the issue.
by razoorka | 2025-10-09 19:03:05+00:00
Exactly! abstraction is the new bureaucracy.

Each layer promises efficiency but adds hidden coordination cost. Ten years ago, a web app meant a framework and a database. Now it’s React → Electron → Chromium → Docker → Kubernetes → managed DB → API gateway - six layers deep to print “Hello, world.”

Every abstraction hides just enough detail to make debugging impossible. We’ve traded control for convenience, and now no one owns the full stack - just their slice of the slowdown.
Ask HN: Does anyone want to take on the payment processing networks with me?
by ziyadparekh | 2025-10-09 19:03:38+00:00
Going out on a limb here

I’ve been working on a prototype payment network that allows people to send and receive payments at a fraction of the cost to traditional rails.

I started working on this when building out the previous fintech I started, Safepay (YC S20) and realized how much value card networks extract from fintechs on both sides, and by extension the businesses that rely on them and thought that there has to be a better way.

I think I’ve found what this could be and the only thing holding me back is finding the right person to take this on with.

So what is it? (Links added below)

The idea is to allow people to make and receive payments through simple aliases. Send money from your Chime account to your friend on Coinbase or pay a merchant using Stripe with your Revolut account. Scan a QR code on a receipt with your banking app after dinner and settle the bill.

In the background we pass messages back and forth between different participants and process net, deferred settlements with stablecoins.

Are you interested?

If you think this could be something you see yourself working on, email me at ziyad@paylias.xyz. You should be technically strong so we can distribute the workload between each other and humble enough to know that this will be a grind that may take a few years to play out. I’m sure there are others thinking or working on this so time is against us.

Thank you for reading and even if this isn’t relevant for you, you could help build a company just by upvoting this and bringing this in front of the right person
by vacuity | 2025-10-09 19:04:03+00:00
This is mostly untreaded territory, true, but I think going to extremes is instructive for moderation. In this kernel or others, abstractions can be created to build back up to what we are used to, but going far afield is necessary to remake the core. I was also thinking about the process of proving out solutions, and my arguments largely appeal to the existing groundwork of seL4 and Barrelfish, though of course they are still fairly unproven. I use many other works for inspiration for smaller parts of the design, such as scheduler activations or Nemesis' self paging, and they're easier to apply to other OSes. It is great to see Linux gradually proving technologies that have long been imagined, such as increasing userspace agency in handling segfaults, and the longstanding question of modular schedulers. The nice thing about principles such as what Parnas described is that they are always worth considering. My ideas must be concretely implemented, but the true benefit will lie in how they inform our understanding of the abstract solution space. I'll be happy if my work leads to more microkernel-like work in Linux!
by whatevertrevor | 2025-10-09 19:04:31+00:00
Not necessarily. In theory, the attestation that someone is of age can be provided by a central service. The central service does not need the website account information to provide a non-fungible certificate, that you show to your service that has no way of knowing who you are from the certificate. All it needs to ensure is the certificate is used only once per account.

You can then prevent certificate forging by forwarding a cryptographic hash of the requester identity (generated by the website client), which will be included in the cert body so the website can verify the attestation was generated for this specific request, and it cannot be randomly reused.

Of course this doesn't solve the problem of using your grandma's id to bypass age restrictions, but I think that problem is worth the cost of privacy gains from corporations not validating IDs directly and screwing up like Discord's vendor did here.
by jtbayly | 2025-10-09 19:04:54+00:00
The language under discussion is the national debt and deficit.

You’re trying to make a political point by changing the definition of words.

I may agree with your point, but pretending like tariffs don’t generate income that bring down the deficit is not the way to argue it. It just convinces people you aren’t arguing in good faith, or don’t understand simple math.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-10-09 19:05:31+00:00
An obligation to pay is always good for the billing side. Think about the sociopathic prices of US pharmaceuticals.

Afaik any other country with mandatory health care also puts a ceiling on prices. In germany, there is a price catalog for any service, with only few exceptions, and doctors/hospitals cannot legally charge anything else for these covered services. Now guess what the US does not have, even thought obama had foreign consultants explicitly advising for it.

Health ensureance companies are certainly not the most altruistic but any profit oriented company trying to cut cost where ever possible is hardly a supprise.
by imiric | 2025-10-09 19:06:02+00:00
> No, I never said they deserve it.

That's the gist of your argument. They're not a "serious business", therefore it's their fault. Let's not mince words.

> It happens, I've helped recover from it, and it doesn't take an AI running amok to do it.

Again, losing a database is not the issue. I don't know why you fixated on that. The issue is that most modern software is buggy and risky to use in ways that a typical business is not well equipped to handle. "AI" can only make matters worse, with users having a false sense of confidence in its output. Thinking otherwise is delusional to the point of being dangerous.
by impure | 2025-10-09 19:06:06+00:00
I looked at the paper. How it's being reported is highly misleading. There were 4 different active training groups. One of the groups benefitted from the training and one of the groups actually got worse. So as a whole phishing training only has a 2% boost. However the message is not that phishing training is useless, only that if applied incorrectly it is useless.
by gmuslera | 2025-10-09 19:07:00+00:00
A bit its like asking when mankind will go burst, looking like it is destroying our environment like there is no end, but hoping that something new magically will fix everything before that point.

Will an AI saving killer app, technology or whatever happens before the bubble burst, or no? It might, a lot of companies with a lot of talented people and deep pockets are working on that, as their near term existence depend on it. But also you can hit rock bottom before finish inventing the parachutes.
by energy123 | 2025-10-09 19:07:00+00:00
Prices are set by supply and demand, which you may choose to label as "power" as a matter of a priori definition, and to some extent that will be a suitable label, but you would be throwing a way a whole deal of explanatory power by insisting on such a rhetorically loaded framing.

> How often is "You should pay me much more, it will make both of us wealthier" a winning argument when asking for a raise?

A great deal. If you don't pay me, I will quit, and you will be worse off, so it's a win-win proposition for you to give me a raise. That's what labor market competition is about.

> They end up with a price because they're mediated in currency, but their differences are far more interesting and economically revealing than their very superficial similarities.

Hence microeconomics, labor economics, financial economics, and the various other mainstream economics disciplines that do try to split those hairs.