MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benzible | 2025-10-21 16:19:32+00:00
Agree for the most part but at the SaaS company I'm at, we've built a feature using LLMs to extract structured data from large unstructured documents. Not something that's been done well in this domain and this solution works better than any other we've tried.

We've kept the LLM constrained to just extracting values with context, and we show the values to end-users in a review UI that shows the source doc and allows them to navigate to exactly the place the doc where a given value was extracted. These are mostly numbers but occasionally the LLM needs to do a bit of reasoning to determine a value (e.g., is this X, Y or Z type of transaction where the exact words X, Y or X will not necessarily appear). Any calculations that can be performed deterministically are done in a later step using a very detailed, domain specific financial model.

This is not a chatbot or other crap shoehorned into the app. Users are very excited about this - it automates painful data entry and allows them to check the source - which they actually do, because they understand the cost of getting the numbers wrong.
by j45 | 2025-10-21 16:19:33+00:00
Premature automation is what causes problems.

Too many people are trying to jump to the end when they don't even have their day to day managed or efficient today can tend to carry forward efficiency in a number of business workflows.

Checking the LLM output is required when it's not consistent, in many cases maintaining the benefit requires the human to know more on the subject than the LLM.
by nikolay | 2025-10-21 16:19:33+00:00
It's obvious that Russia is winning the war in Ukraine - Trump has his military advisers and intelligence, too. It's not that Putin is hypnotizing him to do crazy things! The internal criticism of Putin in Russia is not that he started the war but that he waited so long, that now he's not taking it seriously, and that he's not aggressive enough. There's no one in Russia who's more West-friendly than Putin. People who want him gone don't even realize that he would be replaced by somebody much worse!

And Zelensky is super annoying and has really bad advisors - the entire world is tired of him and his constant begging and rhetoric, and subconsciously people want Putin to smash him like a cockroach so that he just shuts up at last! People have their own problems - Ukraine is last on their mind! Everybody realizes they need to give up territories or this will keep going on until Russia captures most of Ukraine!

Biden started the war, but the Brits want it to continue. And what's worse is that Germany is militarizing and using this as an excuse - nothing good will come out of that! Well, Japan, too - you don't even have to wonder how the sore losers of two world wars want some revenge - Merz is not even hiding it!
by HWR_14 | 2025-10-21 16:19:47+00:00
> Personally I bill the 3h.

So, fraud? If you put a fixed price based on 3 hours, that's of course fine. If you lie about how long work takes you, that's fraud.

Unless your bids are what you bill not what it takes, and you would bill the same 3 hours if it took you 4. In which case it's a fixed price under a different name.
by npodbielski | 2025-10-21 16:19:48+00:00
No, I do not think so. In the linked page there is mention:

"Point a subdomain named ferrondemo of your domain name (for example, ferrondemo.example.com) to either: CNAME demo.ferron.sh or A 194.110.4.223"

This is really strange and make my Spidey sense tingle. If the goal is to just point your domain to this server it should not require DNS auth. Just HTTP is fine. DNS sure if you want optimize reverse proxy, because that would be also possible to do via http auth for every subdomain separately. If you just need some www server quickly pointing your domain to some other dude domain is not the way to go.

This feels weird.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-21 16:19:52+00:00
RSUs actually help mitigate this a bit, because you're not going to qualify for a giant house/apartment with your RSU money, and most places aren't even vesting monthly so you're more likely to treat them like bonuses, rather than inflate lifestyle.

Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's probably harder than if it was just suddenly getting a giant salary.
by pmontra | 2025-10-21 16:20:23+00:00
I've always run GNOME and KDE Connect port called gsconnect [1] works very well. I run it on several Ubuntus and on Debian 11. I run the KDE Connect app on my Android devices. That plus syncthing are exceptionally good tools to link all my devices together.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
by hangsi | 2025-10-21 16:20:27+00:00
There is a mechanism for this, internationally usually named some variant of a Law Commission [0]. The idea is to look for laws that are technically in effect but can rarely or never be applied. For example, the UK Law Commission boasts a repeal of 3000+ acts in its time [1], such as repealing rules for conducting slave trades that were made obsolete in the 1800s but not repealed at the time.

In addition to the sibling comment's mention of the Congressional Review Act for agency oversight, there is a US Office of the Law Revision Counsel [2]. It has an official website [3] which is beautifully old-fashioned, but looks to be purely a resource for accessing the letter of the law and doesn't recount its volume of repeals in the same way.

None of this matters if the insane or counterproductive regulations are deliberate and desirable for the current lawmakers, of course.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_commission [1] https://lawcom.gov.uk/repeals/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Law_Revision_Cou... [3] https://uscode.house.gov/
by aaronSong | 2025-10-21 16:20:28+00:00
ah, I think there's some confusion with the open source version! The OSS Claudable runs everything locally on your machine. This new Clink product runs in the cloud with Daytona sandboxes. sorry for the confusion, we should clarify that better. the 'locally' copy was from the original OSS project description. will update to be clearer about the cloud infrastructure for Clink!
by alistairSH | 2025-10-21 16:20:58+00:00
Is that really true?

An agency can remove a regulation it created. Congress (via the linked law) can also remove a regulation. Congress can also create regulations via legislation (though they typically don't go to that level of detail).

And we have to remember, at one point, every regulation that exists was created to solve a problem / prevent a harm. The cost of removing that regulation prematurely is reintroducing that problem / harm.
by nicktelford | 2025-10-21 16:21:20+00:00
When you use Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs) to connect the layers together, you would start to end up with scaling limits, similar to the problems of elevators in skyscrapers: the more layers you have, the higher the density of TSVs would (presumably) be required.

This is probably not an issue for thermal TSVs, because of the heat spreader layer between each silicon layer, but it would become an issue for power TSVs, as each layer would (presumably) require an independent supply of power.
by Narciss | 2025-10-21 16:22:38+00:00
Depends on what you mean by souless. According to the textbook definition, as someone who’s been into music production for more than 20 years in one capacity or another, and that has listened to innumerable songs across every genre imaginable, agree to disgree.

Not to your liking sure, maybe you think it even sucks. But souless nah
by okejminja | 2025-10-21 16:22:39+00:00
Tried it out, honestly works pretty well.

The data and filtering feel solid, found navigating the table pretty easy. Not in love with the agent, maybe add multiple threads or preserve context between sessions. Needs a bit of polish here and there with UX still.

Definitely gonna take another look when I’m next job-hunting as it looks like it's going to be a time saver. Good job!
by giardini | 2025-10-21 16:23:24+00:00
Driving a taxi may increase your IQ. It increases the size of your brain. Also taxi drivers have healthier brains (less Alzheimer's):

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/harvard-taxi-drivers...

Macguire's original study on taxi drivers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10716738/

BTW it's Fall! So here's to memories - "Four Strong Winds" written by Ian Tyson, sung by Neil Young:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnylI_9rmcs
by bigzyg33k | 2025-10-21 16:23:31+00:00
we don't know if that's due to inherent limitations of the tokenisation of audio, or a byproduct of reinforcement learning. In my own usage, I noticed a significant degradation in capabilities over time from when they initially released advanced voice mode. The model used to be able to sing, whisper, imitate sounds and tone just fine, but I imagine this was not intended and has subsequently been stunted via reinforcement learning.

I don't find the articles argument that this is due to tokenisation convincing.
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-10-21 16:23:44+00:00
In agreement. Large caveats that can explain differing opinions (that I've experienced) are:

* Is really only magic on Linux or WSL. Mediocre on Windows

* Is quite mediocre at UI code but exceptional at backend, engineering, ops, etc. (I use Claude to spruce up everything user facing -- Codex _can_ mirror designs already in place fairly well).

* Exceptional at certain languages, OK at others.

* GPT-5 and GPT-5-Codex are not the same. Both are models used by the Codex CLI and the GPT-5-Codex model is recent and fantastically good.

* Codex CLI is not "conversational" in the way that Claude is. You kind of interact with it differently.

I often wonder about the impact of different prompting styles. I think the WOW moment for me is that I am no longer returning to code to find tangled messes, duplicate silo'd versions of the same solution (in a different project in the same codebase), or strangely novice style coding and error handling.

As a developer for 20yrs+, using Codex running the GPT-5-Codex model has felt like working with a peer or near-peer for the first time ever. I've been able to move beyond smaller efforts and also make quite a lot of progress that didn't have to be undone/redone. I've used it for a solid month making phenomenal progress and able to offload as-if I had another developer.

Honestly, my biggest concern is that OpenAI is teasing this capable model and then pulls the rug in a month with an "update".

As for the topic at hand, I think Claude Code has without a doubt the best "harness" and interface. It's faster, painless, and has a very clean and readable way of laying out findings when troubleshooting. If there were a cheap and usable version of Opus... perhaps that would keep Claude Code on the cutting edge.
by hebejebelus | 2025-10-21 16:24:21+00:00
From the description:

> Introducing our new browser, ChatGPT Atlas.

> Sam Altman, Will Ellsworth, Adam Fry, Ben Goodger, Ryan O’Rouke, Justin Rushing, and Pranav Vishnu introduce ChatGPT Atlas — our new browser. Now available globally on macOS. Windows, iOS, and Android are coming soon.
by jancsika | 2025-10-21 16:24:32+00:00
The feature set commenters here want is insane:

* fast as possible

* LAN, but also WAN when necessary

* in fact how about multi-protocol, and use the fastest protocol that's available on both devices, it's 2025 people!

* work for sending a gargantuan amount of files with possible interruptions (essentially, be rsync)

* be battery efficient, it's 2025 people!

* don't rely on a centralized cloud server, just connect the damned devices to each other

If you think you can hack this together, you should write it for Gnu Hurd because they'll release that well before you're finished
by schoen | 2025-10-21 16:24:41+00:00
I remember being confused as a kid about the "this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation" labels.

I kept reading "must accept" as a technical requirement, somehow like "must not be shielded against" or "must not use technical means to protect against", rather than what I now think is the intended legal sense "does not have any legal recourse against".

It's weird that they phrased it in terms of how the device itself must "accept" the interference, rather than the owner accepting it.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-21 16:24:45+00:00
> Once I graduated from college and started working that completely changed for me, because I finally for the first time had some semblance of agency and real stakes in my life, and wasn't forced to spend all my time with other people my age who were just as lacking in real perspective and experience. Someone gave me real responsibility over something actually pretty important, I could speak up and do and change things in ways that weren't explicitly decided for me ahead of time, it wasn't all just a game anymore.

This is a very helpful way to look at it. Thanks for writing it out.

One of the biggest potential benefits of mentoring programs is that it can expose students to the real world outside of their academic bubble. The hard part for me is trying to break into their bubble and explain that there's more to the world than the mental model they pieced together from snarky Reddit posts. It can be difficult.
by FinnLennard | 2025-10-21 16:24:58+00:00
Yes, in theory even if you were OpenAI you could bake in the URL (would be more useful for your gpt-oss models, and not those where you can intercept traffic anyway)

Currently we have email verification, as well as domain verification implemented. So only someone with an @openai.com email could sign up as a verified provider.

As for the feedback, it is not public. So only you as the provider see the feedback/incident reports in your dashboard. Others can only see how many reports havent been reviewed/resolved.

Think public feedback might be interesting for the future but might scare of some providers.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-21 16:25:28+00:00
For the first ten years of my career, I just assumed my resume would get passed over, that even though I was smart and capable, there was no point in trying to work at top tier places.

I was single and not a lavish spender so I didn't feel external pressure to try all that hard beyond having a low six figures job.

There are plenty of low prestige, mismanaged small companies that will pay low six figures and overwork people.
by pmontra | 2025-10-21 16:25:40+00:00
I can share links to myself with a messenger but it's much faster to share them to a given device and see its browser open a tab to that link. It works inside apps too: I can share a video from phone to tablet (NewPipe, probably YouTube too, it's the Android builtin sharing system.)

I can also stop, resume, control volume of media playing on another device.

I can share the clipboard, send files, use a remote keyboard (I think I disabled it) and ping a device.

It can do a lot more but I'm not using much else, I think.
by nick_ | 2025-10-21 16:25:58+00:00
Space War was great! Briefly in high school a few of my friends and I all had Palm OS devices.

I taught myself to crack palm apps and games, and with Space War I modified the strength of my ship. The IR multiplayer had no validation of parameters so I pranked my friends in an IR multiplayer match by one-shotting them all and zooming across the whole map in one turn! Great times.
by yardie | 2025-10-21 16:26:19+00:00
While listening to Trevor Noah's podcast one of the topics they were discussing was South Africa. Apparently, the apartheid South African government never included Black South Africans in the census. That was how little regard they had for native South Africans they couldn't even be bothered to count how many fellow humans existed in their country. The new government was required to carry out a census in order to know how many MPs were going to be in parliament. And they were blown away by the count. Until then, it was just a guess.

So South Africans not having birth certificates or any birth records is the least surprising.
by inovionix | 2025-10-21 16:26:28+00:00
D-POAF - The First AI-Native Decentralized Software Development Framework (Open Source)

Hey everyone, I’ve just launched D-POAF®, an AI-Native, Secure-by-Design, Decentralized Framework for software engineering. It combines AI orchestration, blockchain-based governance, and collective Proof-of-Value validation.

- GitHub: https://github.com/INOVIONIX/D-POAF - Product Hunt Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/products/d-poaf-framework-2?utm_... - zenodo : https://zenodo.org/records/17350252

D-POAF® introduces a new model of "human-guided, AI-powered" software development open source under Apache 2.0.

I’d love your feedback. What do you think about AI-governed engineering frameworks?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 16:26:34+00:00
> which side of the spectrum enthusiastically chose a little temporary safety over essential liberties?

Autocrats. Both parties contain autocrats.

Republican voters in 2024 could have voted against more of what they saw in 2020. They didn’t. They chose more of it along their party’s lines.

All large groups probably contain autocrats. The measure isn’t whether they exist, but if—and to what degree—they are empowered.
by mothballed | 2025-10-21 16:26:43+00:00
The Church had some parallels to the state in the olden days, in that it was the primary system of social support and welfare.

Identification and segregation is an important element of any welfare system, to prevent the system being destroyed by an unlimited amount of persons drawing aid while only a relatively fixed small pool provide the aid.

The state in the more liberal countries did not usually introduce such measures to make it difficult to live there without ID until the state had pretty much fully taken over the prior job of the church (or family) to provide to the unemployed, sick elderly, etc.

On a smaller scale, imagine back in certain periods of the old days, when families were the main method of social security. If you could not identify who was your own brother or mother, you would constantly being scammed (or even not scammed, just overwhelmed) until you were broke or the system broke.

I don't have any answer how to roll back the nationalistic identification and Orwellian immigration systems without decoupling social benefits from citizenship/residency, or from becoming so incredibly wealthy you just don't care.
by tinkelenberg | 2025-10-21 16:27:00+00:00
I struggled with a complex manuscript for years and tried all sorts of tools from Word to Scrivener in the process with no luck.

Emacs w/org mode was the only program that helped me make sense of the mess and finish the darn thing. I have never seen a program so elegant and yet so powerful, and I am forever grateful it exists if only as a counterweight to the modern tech paradigm.
by transpute | 2025-10-21 16:27:13+00:00
"Using Deep Learning to Eavesdrop on HDMI from its Unintended Electromagnetic Emanations" (2024), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41116682

"Tempest-LoRa: Cross-Technology Covert Communication via HDMI RF Emissions", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483262
by themanmaran | 2025-10-21 16:27:19+00:00
This is certainly something I have felt. The idea of spending a day or two debugging a small problem, coming up with the right regex, or setting up boilerplate is all gone. Now it's 30 seconds, and you're right back to the high level "what do I build next" thinking.

Which is great, and has unblocked so much productivity, but I do miss some of the grunt work. I feel like it helped spawn new ideas and gave you some time to think through implementation.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-21 16:27:36+00:00
The trick here, for the uninitiated, is that “race-based law” or “race law” means the law refers in some way to race. That is legally and logically distinct from “laws that discriminate on the basis of race,” which is how most foreigners read the term.

Here’s a more reasonable point of view: https://cthulhucachoo.substack.com/p/does-south-africa-reall...
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-21 16:28:14+00:00
> That screenshot is very old, for an actual screenshot. For an actual screenshot, you can find one on today's announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

Those do look better admittedly. I still think it looks a bit "Fischer Price" but that is personal taste.

> Btw as one the web developer behind KDE's website, do you mind telling me where you found that screenshot?

Of course. It was on your screenshots page that I found via DDG

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=KDE+screenshots

The first result I go was:

https://kde.org/screenshots/
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-21 16:28:17+00:00
Yeah contracted flat rate and hourly billing are just different. If you’re billing someone for time and not deliverables, it’s not ethical to bill someone for more time than you spend on it because you were more efficient. The ‘right’ way to do it is be able to deliver more than everyone else so you get a lot more work, undercut your competition, and take a bigger market share. If you’re not willing to do that, use a different metric to bill or charge 10x your hourly.
by 12345hn6789 | 2025-10-21 16:28:48+00:00
Hey Greg! Can you clarify that building from source and using in a commerical environment is permissable under the MIT license? I have built from source and yet the program is under "trial mode" currently and looks to have a 30 day ticker of doom. Is this a bug? Is there a flag missing? I cannot find any detailed instructions on setting flags or environment variables to turn this off.

Thanks!
by ValdikSS | 2025-10-21 16:29:01+00:00
>* be battery efficient, it's 2025 people!

It took a long time for me to prove that what KDE does negatively impact the battery life.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441830

The other user even wrote a LD_PRELOAD hijacking library to not recompile the application every time

https://github.com/max0x7ba/kdeconnect-powersave-keepalive
by mentalgear | 2025-10-21 16:29:09+00:00
> Finally, I would like to mention an irony. If you talk with people who use AI agents a lot for software development, they will tell you that the quality of the requirements and the architectural design and documentation make a huge difference regarding the quality of the code produced by the AI agents. Thus, it would be necessary to put more effort into phrasing requirements and designing a good architecture.

> I mean, for at least the last 3 or 4 decades, one of the biggest impediments we had regarding fast and reliable software development were poor requirements and poor architectural design. Human software developers had the same problems with poorly designed and documented requirements and architecture for the last decades, but nobody cared. Instead, the only complaint was that writing software would take too long.
by echelon | 2025-10-21 16:29:10+00:00
In today's hyper saturated world, attention is everything:

- consumer marketing

- politics

- venture fundraising

When any system has a few power law winners, it makes sense to grab attention.

Look at Trump and Musk and now Altman. They figured it out.

MrBeast...

Attention, even if negative, wedges you into the system and everyone's awareness. Your mousey quiet competitors aren't even seen or acknowledged. The attention grabbers suck all the oxygen out of the room and win.

If you go back and look at any victory, was it really better solutions, or was it the fact that better solutions led to more attention?

"Look here" -> build consensus and ignore naysayers -> keep building -> feedback loop -> win

It might not just be a societal algorithm. It might be one of the universe's fundamental greedy optimization algorithms. It might underpin lots of systems, including how we ourselves as individuals think and learn.

Our pain receptors. Our own intellectual interests and hobbies. Children learning on the playground. Ant colonies. Bee swarms. The world is full of signals, and there are mechanisms which focus us on the right stimuli.