MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glenstein | 2025-10-06 08:58:47+00:00
I've seen it several times. He's one where I ask it about baseball teams that don't yet have a hall of fame player:

"Arizona Diamondbacks No inductees wearing their cap.

Randy Johnson is in, but as a Diamondback — so Arizona actually does have one (inducted 2015)."

I asked it to explain what happened and got this, which could be true to how it pulls up info or could be nonsense, not sure:

"Here’s the likely internal sequence:

When you first mentioned the Diamondbacks, my initial retrieval pattern surfaced the “teams without a Hall of Famer” mental list. That list, in my training data, often appears outdated (pre-2015) and still shows Arizona as having none.

A few sentences later, my context pulled up the other knowledge set—Randy Johnson’s induction in 2015 wearing a Diamondbacks cap. That newer, correct fact then overrode the earlier incorrect claim, but because generation is sequential, the earlier error had already been committed to “paper” before the override happened. I corrected mid-stream, but in human terms, it looked like I contradicted myself inside the same paragraph.

This is essentially a knowledge conflict resolution timing issue. I can retrieve and reconcile facts during a single answer, but if the resolution happens after part of the text is already generated, you see the “flip.” It’s not like I “knew it all along but withheld it,” it’s more that multiple memory traces compete, and the most context-relevant one wins—sometimes too late."
by alias_neo | 2025-10-06 08:58:54+00:00
What are your most high powered appliances there?

Thinking about my home (in the UK) the "worst offenders" seem to be things that heat things, washing machine when it's heating water (~2.5kW), electric oven (~2-4kW), kettle (~1-2kW), electric heater (1-2kW).

Outside of those, we could have most other things on in the house and not be using much more than 1kW, though granted I've been very intentional with electrical efficiency with the electrical and electronic devices in our home (by UK standards).
by gyomu | 2025-10-06 08:59:03+00:00
> organisms with ADHD have not failed to reproduce in the past

Yes, that's the real insight. You can be terribly unsuccessful by society's standards and yet immensely successful by evolutionary standards.

If you're broke/in prison/homeless/addicted/(whatever else you want to include) with 6 kids, you're evolutionary more successful than someone who has it all put together with 0 kids.
by tarasyarema | 2025-10-06 09:00:00+00:00
Hey there, been building an MCP to help discover, automate and run E2Es automatically connected to you Cursor / Claude / Codex / etc.

Funny enough, one of the most challenging things while building it was to be able to remotely control the browser that runs locally (been using https://localtunnel.me/ for it), while making sure that it does not impact the user too much.

Also, I wondered if there's someone that is shipping CLIs with an "mcp" command, as seems that having a normal CLI for the funcionatilitie sof the MCP would make a lot of sense + with the option of running it as an MCP if the user wants to.

Have you seen this pattern?

Also, as there's a lot of buzzwording around MCPs, any of you that been using an MCP as a daily driver? For me it was the github one, specially for code search and stuff like that.
by silvand | 2025-10-06 09:00:58+00:00
He had a pretty unfortunate card dealt to him with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Germanys dependence on Russian gas, especially in its industry.

I think the move away from nuclear energy in Germany was a mistake, but one which was decided on way before he came into office. Doubling down on nuclear would have cost a fortune (old reactors weren't maintained well enough to run for longer due to phase out decision after Fukushima & not enough new engineers in Germany). He was in a lose lose situation, I think he did pretty well overall, but was blamed for old decisions (Altmaiers abandonment of German solar industry, heating reform by CDU+SPD) and had bad handling of reports on him in the news.
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-06 09:01:44+00:00
Well Hamas did write they want to kill all Israel. Hamas did slaughter , rape and torture 1200 civilians , children and babies. and take at least another 200? hostage Then paraded some of them thru Gaza. Exactly what response did Hamas expect. Also Trump has said 30,000 of the cira 60000 dead are Hamas fighters.
Show HN: Youcomic.org: AI-powered one-step comic creaction platform
by pikaiqiu666 | 2025-10-06 09:01:57+00:00
YouComic.org is an online platform for creating and sharing comics, designed to provide comic enthusiasts with a space to freely create, showcase, and engage.

Users can publish original comic works, interact with the community, receive feedback, and connect with other comic creators.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-10-06 09:02:08+00:00
> Terraform is there specifically to solve the Aws infrastructure complexity.

I don't know if anyone here remembers the Ant build system, but writing your own Terraform spaghetti strongly resembles the days of Ant, before Maven came along. Teams over-engineering their build pipeline, building "platforms" that other teams must use, an unmaintainable and untestable mess. Time better spent elsewhere.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-06 09:03:07+00:00
An alternative way to throw money at the problem: Instead of trying to further improve accuracy, build out space for more ER beds, and implement continuous monitoring of marginal patients.

Or, build devices to send home with patients which allow for cheap, continuous self-monitoring. That might be a legitimate application of AI actually, if you could use e.g. phone camera tricks to measure more health parameters. Even if imperfect, it could still pick up a few patients who should not have been sent home.
by Etheryte | 2025-10-06 09:03:29+00:00
As a biker, I hate these types of riders with a passion. All street legal bikes come out of the factory with reasonable sound levels, they have to go out of their way to specifically make it uncomfortable for everyone else. Pretty much every one of them is exactly the type of person you'd expect as well, insecure with an intelligence level comparable to a wooden spoon. Personally I tell nearly no one that I ride bikes, because the first assumption is always that you're one of those loud assholes.
by donatj | 2025-10-06 09:03:59+00:00
Huh...

I live in a small town a ways out of the downtown area, so I thought "they're probably only on the highway where I've seen cameras"... Nope, basically every intersection with a stoplight near me is listed as having four nodes. Much more densely than nearby larger cities on the map even...

I don't like that one bit.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-06 09:04:39+00:00
Love some of the juicy pieces out of the story,

> The name QUNIX was a bit too close to the name UNIX for AT&T. The name of the system was changed to QNX in late 1982 following a Cease and Desist by AT&T.

Already not as nice as in the early days.

> While RV1 was limited to just C and x86 assembly language, the company was hard at work on BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal compilers that would utilize common code generators allowing for the mixed-use of languages without losing optimization.

Yet another example of previous polyglot compiler stacks attempts.

> UNIX systems come in more flavours than ice cream.

That was a fun one.
by whizzter | 2025-10-06 09:04:51+00:00
As nice as WebDAV would've been it's probably a non-starter in many scenarios due to weird limits, like Windows has a default size-limit of 50mb.

I'm tinkering on a project where I'd like to project a filesystem from code and added web-dav support, the 50mb limit will be fine since it's a corner-case for files to be bigger but it did put a dent into my enthusiasm since I had envisioned using it in more places.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-06 09:04:53+00:00
More or less. It was a string given its own token by the tokeniser because of the above, but it did not appear in the training data. Thus it basically had no meaning for the LLM (I think there are some theories that such parts of the networks associated with such tokens may have been repurposed for something else and so that's why the presense of the token in the input messed them up so much)
by breakingcups | 2025-10-06 09:05:12+00:00
I've read enough nuanced takes on ADHD medication that I'm very reluctant to even seek a diagnosis because I'm very sure I don't want to depend on them, for a variety of reasons.

It's made me feel like it's not even worth getting a diagnosis because the only clear path forward is medication or eternal struggle with various much-less effective coping strategies. Anyone who can weigh in with their perspective on this is welcome and thanks in advance.
by dmonitor | 2025-10-06 09:06:19+00:00
SRB2K is very frustrating to me for a few reasons

- it is very nearly perfect, but has some minor issues especially in regards to the strength of frontrunning (early leads tend to become unbeatable) - the development team has mostly abandoned it in favor of the sequel, which completely abandons the brilliant simplicity of SRB2K - the development team kind of take a rude approach to the GPL. They don't really accept PRs from the community, and work in secrecy rather than out in the open. They still publish their work, so they comply with the license, but it's a bit lame - The modding community is super weird about reusing other people's code and will pitch a fit if you get caught reusing someone's lua script without their permission.
by anon_cow1111 | 2025-10-06 09:06:22+00:00
See also "glitch tokens"; words that cause unexpected output on some LLMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_token

A notable example was "petertodd" which was a bizarre case studied extensively in a lesswrong article:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petert...
by cess11 | 2025-10-06 09:06:35+00:00
MYCIN was a high profile project, but rule engines in this vein come in handy quite often. With some basic Prolog knowledge and a decent implementation pretty much any set of data files can quickly be turned into an ad hoc 'expert system' lite.

The simplest example and the one I usually bring up is log files, where the primary delimiter is \n and the secondary is likely some whitespace, which can easily be replaced with Prolog delimiters and a bit of decoration. This turns the data into Prolog code which can be consulted as is and complemented with rules abstracting complex queries.

Something similar can be done with JSON files.

https://www.scryer.pl/

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/dcg

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/expertsystems
by bionsystem | 2025-10-06 09:06:37+00:00
Non-ops teams in big corp / public services are often fed up by their own IT (slowness, incompetence) and want to deploy, budget lines for recruiting devops/sysops is sometimes different than software/platform licenses, even if the solution is sub-optimal.

Disclaimer I'm an SRE/sysops and went through a bunch of those projects where sometimes entire department see (often shadow) IT from contractors as the only solution moving forward.
by supermatt | 2025-10-06 09:07:23+00:00
> GPT-5 was trained on phrases from adult websites

Does it really imply they were trained on phrases FROM adult websites, or that those phrases FOR adult sites were common in the training data?

Blogspam, link-farms, affiliate marketing, etc, are extremely common for adult (and gambling) sites and likely result in a lot of data tainted with those phrases.
by klabetron | 2025-10-06 09:08:26+00:00
> Next time I'll see such a response, I probably will quit on the spot; this is unbelievably cruel.

Let me guess: you’d quit but your résumé’s out of date because you, like me, procrastinate updating it?

(Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out; make things miserable enough for you that you’ll quit without having to go through the redundancy process…)
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-06 09:11:19+00:00
Personally i think we would need to see more specialized models RustGPT or ClangCPT or GoGPT. A model tuned for a specific language with proper tooling integration beyond MCP tools. The current general purpose models will always be biased towards what they have training data for, and we're clearly seeing them struggle with these languages. (My personal experience with AI C or Rust code is quite atrocious.)

But specialization restricts target market and requires time to develop. Its currently faar more lucrative trying to make a general purpose model and attract VC funding for market capture.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-06 09:11:47+00:00
It boggles my mind too, I always see these workers blowing leaves for HOURS in my street, you'd be more efficient with a rake, while using 0 gas, and producing 0 noise. Even from the workers perspective, you're just sitting there next to a two stroke engine with no emission filtering the whole day, that can't be good for your lungs. Same thing for removing temporary paint strips or killing weeds, they burn liters of propane slowly moving 50 meters per hour, the best part is that they're often two or three workers per burner, one holding the flamethrower, one pulling the gas tank, one pulling the half melted paint strip. Last time I saw them using a bulldozer to scrape a 10cm wide road paint strip... the amount of energy wasted is insane, we're truly living as if gas was free, unlimited and without side effects
by nopelynopington | 2025-10-06 09:11:50+00:00
I live in a very leafy area with a lot of deciduous forest cover, so we're no stranger to leaves. I have never understood leafblowing. It seems like such busy work. It's not hugely common here but I have seen people carefully shepherding leaves into little piles on pathways, battling against the entropy of a light breeze. I'm sure there's a good reason but it always just seems like the ultimate expression of man trying to conquer nature in every way
by amadeuspagel | 2025-10-06 09:13:30+00:00
Say an alien spaceship landed in China. It has 30 aliens on it. The aliens are weak and small. They have no weapons and carry no diseases. They breed at rates similar to humans. They are bringing no new technology. No other ships are coming. There’s no trick—except that they each have an IQ of 300. Would you bomb the spaceship to kill these aliens?
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-06 09:13:33+00:00
I am with Hezners VPS with dedicated CPU Cores - which gives you more predictable performance. You don't have to worry about hardware failures (especially for harddisks or SSDs) as I would assume Hetzner uses some sort of redundant systems with network-attached, redundant storage. In multiple years, uptime has been great so far with no faiulres, with an exception where they announced that they have to upgrade some routers and the system will not be reachable for a couple of hours - but this came weeks in advance. The host system was also simply not reachable, but not rebooted.

Plus, you have the option of scaling up/down very easily if you do not grow your harddisk size beyond the minimum configuration.
by Poisonbox | 2025-10-06 09:13:39+00:00
That post is some dangerous half-knowledge and simplifications stated as fact.

Yes, Habeck is an interventionist, but his biggest interventions were a direct response to... you know, the war in Ukraine. What did anyone expect? When Putin turned off the gas, was Habeck supposed to just let the free market sort it out while factories shut down and people froze? Those price caps and the Uniper buyout weren't pre-planned. I'm sure he would have preferred to have never been in that situation in the first place.

And the reactor shutdown argument never gets old, does it? The decision to ditch nuclear power was made in 2011 by Angela Merkel. Habeck was just the guy who had to turn off the lights at a party that ended a decade earlier. Remember all those predictions of nationwide blackouts in April 23? Funny how the lights are still on.

The claim about coal usage was true for about five minutes in the winter of 22. It was a temporary panic move to save gas, and since then, coal consumption has dropped to a historic low. It's also funny how renewables—the actual backbone of our energy system, which were on the rise long before Habeck, are framed as a "gamble." The upsides and downsides are very well understood by now. There was never any gambling involved but I guess let's just frame a strategic, well understood, decade long move to renewables as a snap decision gamble.

Look, no one's saying his term was perfect. And yes, the man has charisma, which is apparently a bad thing now?

But calling his term a "disaster" while ignoring the reality of the crises he faced—coming out of COVID, the energy war, is just strange.
by mns | 2025-10-06 09:13:42+00:00
I also left my country years ago and come back once or twice a year. This year the city hall introduced a new parking app that can't be installed on a phone with an app store registered outside Romania, because the freaking parking app has a gambling section and they decided to go with gambling instead of supporting a universal parking app (like the previous one that they had) available also for tourists from outside the country. I called them out on that and said that they can't make it available outside the country because of legal issues with the gambling section....
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-06 09:14:11+00:00
I liked Flightcontrol, found it more reliable and less finicky than Cloud Build + Cloud Run, but it was too expensive for me.

They introduced a cheaper plan since I tried it, but it's missing the main feature that I actually think makes FC worth it (preview environments)

I know not everyone wants to get in on the Vercel Cartel model of excessive free-tier generosity made up for by 1000% markups at scale... but $400/month is tough to swallow when you barely need $50/month of compute to handle your production workload.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-06 09:14:32+00:00
> And funnily enough, nobody objected when Egypt annexed Gaza, and Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1948.

What many people don't realize is that, though no nation objected to the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, no nation acknowledged it either. The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank was accepted by one nation in the entire planet: Iraq. Note worthy that Iraq's king and Jordan's king were brothers.

Noteworthy as well, that while the West Bank was in the hands of Arabs, there were no calls for establishing an independent Palestinian state there. Same in the Gaza strip.

And while I'm on this soapbox, I might as well mention that Jordan was part of the Mandate for Palestine. The Mandate for Palestine divided the land into two entities: Mandatory Palestine which was decided by the British to be the 23% of Palestine designated for the Jews, and Jordan which was the 77% of Palestine designated for the Arabs - the same idea of partition that the UN came up with 27 years later. Only difference being that the UN plan partitioned the 23% designated for the Jews further. And yet in both cases the Jews accepted and the Arabs violently ethnically cleansed the lands of Jews. And before anybody mentions the racist idea "it's Arab land" (is Great Britian white man's land?) it should be clear that Jerusalem was Jewish majority for a century before that time.

Nobody called for a Palestinian state in the West Bank during 1948 to 1967 because everyone in power at the time was aware that there already was a Palestinian state in the Land of Palestine: The Kingdom of Jordan.
by tcfhgj | 2025-10-06 09:14:57+00:00
There was no strong push way from nuclear energy, just a continuation of Germany's general nuclear energy path.

Studies also showed that this had no negative effect on electricity prices.

Core voters of the green party are mostly highly educated people[1]. There are not many more women than men in their voters[2]. I hear the first time about public employmemt, and haven't seen any statistics about that.

Regarding energy he certainly didn't gamble on energy. He gave everything for a transition away from gas and coal and invested in renewable storage systems (short and long term storage) backed by scientific institutions continuously evaluating, planning and simulating the transition of Germanys energy system including related sectors until 2045/2050 [3]. Thanks to storage a renewable energy system can be reliable while highly dynamic. He reduced the time needed to create wind turbines massively as well.

He also prevented a complete crash of the economy and infrastructure caused by the dependency on gas of Putin which greens have not been a fan of, because of ecological issues as well as the danger of Putin which only the greens recognized before Putin started the war on Ukraine.

Rising debt to invest into the future and infrastructure was then plan of the greens, but they got blocked (and medially attacked for it - claiming it was not needed) by the current government which then realized this plan (at least from a high level perspective) with the help of the greens in the opposition, because a simple majority isn't enough for increasing debt.

I am not aware of active acceleration of a decline of the industry beyond the decline which was already in the system for years and the situation we were in due to COVID and the war.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/chart...

[2] https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2021-09-26-BT-DE/chart...

[3] https://langfristszenarien.de/enertile-explorer-de/index.php
by bell-cot | 2025-10-06 09:15:41+00:00
Three major problems to note in the story:

- Lack of any low-intensity monitored recovery option. If the kid could just have been sent home to a traditional worrying mother, who'd been told to watch for certain warning signs - then he very likely would have lived.

- Critical shortages of front-line medical staff. (ER nurses especially noted here. But a dishonorable mention to the computer systems that the residents were fighting against.)

- However short our medical system might be on front-line resources to treat patients needing care - once it's lawsuit time, resources seem plentiful.
by breakingcups | 2025-10-06 09:15:43+00:00
Specifically, because some pirates will put advertisements for other illicit services at the beginning or end of movies and tv shows in its subtitle data where there's a suitable gap. Usually those gaps have silence.

Companies incorporating subtitle data as transcription source of truth training data will thus train their models to output facsimiles of these messages whenever they're encountering prolonged stretches of silence.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-06 09:15:54+00:00
There are specific cultures where titles and steady title progression are Really Important.

Me being from a place where they definitely aren't found this hilarious.

I've had meetings with Principal Architects with less experience than me (title: Backend Programmer).

Bigger organisations really should standardise their titles to specific experience/responsibility/capability milestones so people from other sides of the org can use the title to estimate the skill level of the other person they're talking with.
by deaux | 2025-10-06 09:15:58+00:00
That doesn't seem accurate at all. The big 3 Korean clouds used inside Korea are NHN Cloud, Naver Cloud and now KT. Which one of these is whitelabeled? And what's the source on Samsung SDI Cloud being the "largest Korean cloud"? What metric?

NHN Cloud is in fact being used more and more in the government [1], as well as playing a big part in the recovery effort of this fire. [2]

No, unlike what you're suggesting, Korea has plenty of independent domestic cloud and the government has been adopting it more and more. It's not on the level of China, Russia or obviously the US, but it's very much there and accelerating quickly. Incomparable to places like the EU which still have almost nothing.

[1] https://www.ajunews.com/view/20221017140755363 - 2022, will have grown a lot now [2] https://www.mt.co.kr/policy/2025/10/01/2025100110371768374