MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nowittyusername | 2025-10-15 22:58:27+00:00
My existing project is very similar to this with some other goodies. I agree with the author that focus on systems versus LLM's is the proper next move. Orchestrating systems that manage multiple different llms and other scripts together can accomplish a lot more then a simple ping pong type of behavior. Though I suspect most people who work with agentic solutions are already quite aware of this. What most in that space haven't cracked yet is the dynamic self modifying and improving system, that should be the ultimate goal for these types of systems.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-15 22:59:38+00:00
Acrobat also installs this weird service that tries to upload all the pdf files you open, regardless of what you do, you cannot shut it down or disable.

I was in charge of the electronic document management system of a university, and kept having issues with deleting pdf files after opening them. The error said the files were still in use, and exiting Acrobat didn't solve the issue either. Apparently, the background service keeps the file open to upload it, and I had to forcefully close open files just to delete pdf files.

Acrobat is abusing a standard, portable document format, and trying to become synonymous with it, despite being very hostile against users.
by jimkleiber | 2025-10-15 22:59:44+00:00
I'd suggest legislation. It's like when hotels or rental car companies tack on additional fees and consumers hate it but don't have much incentive to cooperate to change it. Consumers don't unionize much, but maybe we should?

But maybe not legislation, because it might upset a ton of people. Any time a social media site goes through and seems to get rid of bots, people complain about how many "followers" they've lost. The fake user/clicker situation is quite pervasive, and a lot of parties, not just the advertising networks, benefit from the inflated numbers.

But it can be so insidious..."wow, that video got 1M YouTube views? Must be very popular!" Orrrr a lot of those views were from bots? Who knows?

So maybe a better approach than legislation is to talk about how the ad/bot fraud can both help us and hurt us and not demonize one side but see how we all may be implicated in it somehow. Maybe that will help us to be more aware of the problem and not fight against people, but try to work together to solve it.
by roadbuster | 2025-10-15 22:59:58+00:00
I used to send inquiries to Google about their policies on political ads. This is partly because, in 2024, they said they were implementing "pauses" on certain types of political content:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/tech/social-media-election-ad...

I discovered two things. First, Google doesn't care about being consistent, hypocritical, or, really, anything. Second, Israel creates new ad accounts with Google, runs campaigns, then shuts them down. Here's one advertiser ID which I saved in my bookmarks:

https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR122591225072...
by paganel | 2025-10-15 23:00:43+00:00
Just copy-pasting from their pages on wikipedia, noticing stuff, as it happens.

More from the noticing department, here's Brin kissing Trump's posterior a month or so ago [1], which shows that no matter who the CEO might be Brin (and I guess Page, too) still call the shots at Alphabet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUDgEaAjmY&t=46s
by bsder | 2025-10-15 23:00:46+00:00
> Anyone using these models to do something at scale is paying maybe 100X over would it would cost in compute to run deterministic code to do the same thing

That's fine if the person wouldn't be able to write the code otherwise.

There are lots and lots of people in positions that are "programming adjacent". They use computers as their primary tool and are good at something (like CAD), but can't necessarily sling code. So, a task like: "We're about to release these drawings to an external client. Please write a script to check that all the drawings have author, project, and contract number that matches what they should for this client and flag any that don't." is good AI bait. Or "Please shovel this data from X, Y, and Z into an Excel Spredsheet" is also decent AI bait.

Programmers underestimate how difficult it is to synthesize code from thin air. It is much easier to read a small script than to construct it.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-15 23:01:24+00:00
I'm not convinced that such a direct message does anything. Wouldn't be more effective to run Gaza restaurant ads, implying that there's food everything is fine but even Gazan don't help each other, so why you should care?

I'm saying this because my observation with all that propaganda going on in social media since many years is that they are not this direct, instead they imply stuff and work to create certain framing.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-15 23:01:27+00:00
My company provides me with the top tier license for Bluebeam Revu, an amazing PDF editor geared towards the construction industry. It handles everything you can think of flawlessly, it can extract PDF tables into Excel spreadsheets, markups of all kinds, measuring, counting, resizing; adding, removing extracting, and collating sheets, pasting in photos from the clipboard, and so much more. It’s the best piece of software I use at work, and I’m thankful for it every day.

The construction industry is very strange and mostly runs on emailed PDFs (plans, proposals, submittals, etc) and Excel spreadsheets. Sometimes these PDFs are organized in Procore.
by DarkmSparks | 2025-10-15 23:01:28+00:00
I examined the information.

Im criticising the idea that scientific findings can be undermined with accusations of undesirable sexual preference.

They cant, to think they can and try to do so is stupidity of the highest order, I would have loked an actual review of the book, even though i didnt expect to find, nor did i find one in the sources.

The only reason I checked the sources was to confirm that stupidity continued in the sources and that they contained nothing of value.
by tamimio | 2025-10-15 23:01:56+00:00
> The result has been a huge increase in bots and "legitimate" accounts farming engagement with rage bait and other content that makes X unbearable.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-man-ai-bot-maga

I am glad they will turn it off, these grifters can starve and die for all I care.
by adidoit | 2025-10-15 23:02:33+00:00
https://x.com/sayashk/status/1978565190057869344

AI agents have been developed for complex real-world tasks from coding to customer service. But AI agent evaluations suffer from many challenges that undermine our understanding of how well agents really work. We introduce the Holistic Agent Leaderboard (HAL) to address these challenges. We make three main contributions. First, we provide a standardized evaluation harness that orchestrates parallel evaluations across hundreds of VMs, reducing evaluation time from weeks to hours while eliminating common implementation bugs. Second, we conduct three-dimensional analysis spanning models, scaffolds, and benchmarks. We validate the harness by conducting 21,730 agent rollouts across 9 models and 9 benchmarks in coding, web navigation, science, and customer service with a total cost of about $40,000. Our analysis reveals surprising insights, such as higher reasoning effort reducing accuracy in the majority of runs. Third, we use LLM-aided log inspection to uncover previously unreported behaviors, such as searching for the benchmark on HuggingFace instead of solving a task, or misusing credit cards in flight booking tasks. We share all agent logs, comprising 2.5B tokens of language model calls, to incentivize further research into agent behavior. By standardizing how the field evaluates agents and addressing common pitfalls in agent evaluation, we hope to shift the focus from agents that ace benchmarks to agents that work reliably in the real world.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-10-15 23:02:37+00:00
Couldn't disagree that FF has its deficits, IME it's not the best browser for videoconferencing. OTOH FF provides top-quality developer tools. And AFAIK preserves user privacy better than certain other browsers, Chrome being the poster child for the issue. FWIW FF remains unique and influential.

Ultimately judging what's "best in class" depends on exactly what criteria are applied. How old is the saying "one man's meat is another's poison"?

Anyway, the class of browsers is perhaps the most volatile in the software world, top of the heap changes constantly. But within it there are good examples of quality open-source programs and some that are not free at all. We decide on our own terms which among them is the "best".
by taink | 2025-10-15 23:03:03+00:00
The initial sale never has and never will be the issue with non free software; in fact, they can sometimes be acquired free of charge. I get your sentiment and I agree with you that some software can indeed be proprietary without being predatory or abusive.

I think there is an issue with your definition of "user freedom". What do you mean by it?

Stallman, when defining free software, does not bother with standards or terms: he relies on his own definition of what "user freedom" means and from there states that free software is software that is not restrictive of this freedom.

Free software simply does not restrict what the user can do with a program. It is not a matter of interest. People that choose a free license when they publish something (and respect the license's terms, obviously) are voluntarily letting go of their ability to restrict the user's usage of the program.

The issue I would have with "non-predatory" or "non-abusive" non-free software is that it does not allow me to fix problems I might have with the program. But this is only a problem I have. In other contexts, maybe a user needs to send (modified or otherwise) copies to other people of the software without being able to make sure the author agrees that this transaction is ok.

Fundamentally, non-free software restricts the user's freedom, even if it fully respects what the user would want to do. Similarly, a typewriter that can only output English text would restrict your freedom to type anything beyond English text (which is not something you would care about if you only wanted to write English).

That's the idea anyway. What do you think?
by dylan604 | 2025-10-15 23:03:06+00:00
> Acrobat is abusing a standard, portable document format, and trying to become synonymous with it, despite being very hostile against users

What? They're just extending the portability by uploading the files to the cloud so you can view them from anywhere! /s

I'm assuming/hoping that's all it is in whatever this uploading is. Did you find out why it was uploading files, and more importantly, where?
by observationist | 2025-10-15 23:03:12+00:00
It's been rising steadily for years, it's just usually presented as being something other than antisemitism, with a whole lot of clueless enthusiasts who don't understand the team they've decided to back. It's so bizarre to see the actual, unironic embrace of nazism and Hitler by significant figures in the causes the American left so passionately embraces.

I'm half convinced there's some 4chan troll billionaire trying to pull off the most outrageous cognitive dissonance of all time.
by tooltalk | 2025-10-15 23:03:25+00:00
>> that they are just as guilty of human-trafficking Cambodian brides, that some Koreans who were 'rescued' from a scam center don't actually want to go home

They don't want to go home because they fear the Chinese criminal gangs would follow them home in South Korea where they were recruited in the first place by Korean-speaking Chinese for debts they accrued while they were held captive. Others also fear they could also be held liable for participating in their fraud -- even if they were forced -- not because they love getting beaten.
by hopelite | 2025-10-15 23:03:57+00:00
Does anyone know if this David Dodda is even real?

He is a freelance full stack dev that “dabbles”, but his own profile on his blog leaves the tech stack entry empty?

Another blog post is about how he accidentally rewired his mind with movies?

Also, I get that I’m now primed because of the context, but nothing about that linkedin profile of that AI image of the woman would have made me apply for that position.

Lately, has everyone actually seen that image of the woman standing in front of the house??? I sure have not and it’s unlikely anyone has in post-AI world. Sounds more like AI appeal to inside knowledge go build report.
by fragmede | 2025-10-15 23:04:03+00:00
Even if you don't learn Chinese, I've been consciously adding http://v2ex.com to my doomscrolling regimen and running it through Google translate. It's a popular Chinese webforum, and while I wouldn't say it's exactly Chinese HN, it's a close enough approximation. It's interesting to see I have some of the same concerns and questions as someone halfway around the world in a totally different language and culture.

Here's an example from the front page, English title is: As a backend programmer writing front-end with the help of cursor, what is the most suitable front-end framework/solution

The comments mentioned all the usual suspects, Angular, Vute, React, next, etc.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1165949

One thing that some users here would appreciate is their footer:

• Please do not copy and paste AI-generated content when answering technical questions
by asdff | 2025-10-15 23:04:11+00:00
I can confirm this is not the case. I don't use crossover but crossover is wine. I use kegworks which is also wine. It is a pain in the ass. Steam app runs like garbage over wine. Games like tf2 I got more consistent fps on my 2012 mac which can run it natively than I do on this 12/16 whatever core 4ghz beast. I used to get like 90fps pegged in that now even on low graphics configs I'm barely doing 50fps and losing frames like crazy when there's a lot of action.

Most games just flat out do not work that I've tried. Plenty will stop you with anticheat.

About the only sorts of games that actually work well over WINE on this rig (m3 pro) are ones that came out 15 years ago.

Native games like no mans sky actually got worse over time. When I first got this mac I was so impressed by the performance of nms even though its an old game at this point. I could run it entirely on ultra. Then nms put out an update and that ended, back to medium-low and no AA unless I want to experience pervasive graphical glitches like flashing purple.

Other games have some internal lock to their fps I'm not sure why even as native mac games. This is true for cities skylines. It is capped at 40fps, maybe through rosetta layer limitations? I'm not sure.
by gryphonclaw | 2025-10-15 23:04:14+00:00
Logistics breakdown is a good way to put it. There is enough food entering to prevent starvation, but a combination of 1. Gaza being a war zone 2. Looting by Hamas and Tribe-related gangs 3. Insufficient distribution stations and 4. Pressure by Bibi's far-right coalition partners to limit food entry has combined to cause some level of starvation. From what I've seen so far, its not homogeneously distributed across the strip, but rather concentrated in areas that are isolated and cut off from regular supply routes, like Gaza City was in the North.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-15 23:04:16+00:00
Didn't realize Brazil has Schengen access! That's wild (in a good way)!

Out of curiosity, why don't we see the same degree of Brazilian immigration to the EU then versus the US?

Is it solely economic (ie. a Brazilian accountant is more likely to demand a salary significantly higher that that back in Brazil by moving to the US versus an EU state)?
by goulvenclech | 2025-10-15 23:04:43+00:00
I'm working on a new side project, Sampo. A pragmatic tool suite to automate changelogs, versioning, and publishing—even for monorepos across multiple package registries.

The core features are already there, Rust (crates.io) support is stable, JavaScript/TypeScript (npm) support is almost done, and Erlang/Elixir/Gleam (Hex) will follow. I’ll publish a blog entry soon, on the project’s philosophy, what I’ve learned, and what’s next

It’s live on GitHub! If it looks useful, please leave a star.
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-15 23:04:46+00:00
Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!
by Topfi | 2025-10-15 23:05:19+00:00
As added context to ensure no benchmark gaming, here a quite impressive Shitaki Mushroom riding a rowboat: https://imgur.com/Mv4Pi6p

Prompt: https://t3.chat/share/ptaadpg5n8

Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning High) 178.98 token/sec 1691 tokens Time-to-First: 0.69 sec

As a comparison, here Grok 4 Fast, which is one of worst offenders I have encountered in doing very good with a Pelican Bicycle, yet not with other comparable requests: https://imgur.com/tXgAAkb

Prompt: https://t3.chat/share/dcm787gcd3

Grok 4 Fast (Reasoning High) 171.49 token/sec 1291 tokens Time-to-First: 4.5 sec

And GPT-5 for good measure: https://imgur.com/fhn76Pb

Prompt: https://t3.chat/share/ijf1ujpmur

GPT-5 (Reasoning High) 115.11 tok/sec 4598 tokens Time-to-First: 4.5 sec

These are very subjective, naturally, but I personally find Haiku with those spots on the mushroom rather impressive overall. In any case, the delta between publicly known benchmark and modified scenarios evaluating the same basic concepts continues to be smallest with Anthropic models. Heck, sometimes I've seen their models outperform what public benchmarks indicated. Also, seems Time-to-first on Haiku is another notable advantage.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-15 23:05:21+00:00
There are people who think it is a crime and there are people who don't. Having something being a crime and not prosecute it hard enough makes both factions unhappy. The claim is that starting to prosecute a crime lightly leads to a shift in mentality in the society, which leads to people who don't perceive it to be a crime. This will eventually lead to it being inevitable that it is allowed. The policy claim is that you need to prosecute it harder before it comes to late. (I am inclined to agree to these claims.) The fact that you refer to it as "criminalization" seams to be evidence, that it is already too late.

My personal opinion, which wasn't stated yet, is that after a phase of lax regulation the problems become excessive, which leads to a larger part of the population to agree to a harder regime. After some time nobody remembers these things so it tends to become lax again. In other words I think this is going in circles, so I don't think we need to try it this time. Have a middle way and help thus who can't get off by themselves.
by themadturk | 2025-10-15 23:05:46+00:00
My wife uses the previous gen iPad Pro 11 inch for all her computing. Yes, her use is lightweight, and she rarely uses the file system.

It think one of the points of popularity for the iPad is that it's the same (in most respects) as an iPhone, but bigger. The smartphone has become the default computing and communication device for billions of people. My wife can certainly use her iPhone, but she almost never does; the iPad fulfills that need for her. She plays Balatro, Simon's Cat, and Angry Birds, reads and writes email, reads, browses the web, watches video on her iPad.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-10-15 23:06:24+00:00
Adjust your definition of a “real career” as one making over 150k. Another adjustment is thinking 4 months is a long time, especially given you know you could improve interviewing.

Check out data fields. I’m in data analytics, no I don’t make 150k, but it’s a good living and I consider it real. I do a lot of good and save government a lot of money with my tech skills.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-10-15 23:07:05+00:00
that's not all there is to it, but I think that "the rest of it" is just additional fine tuning.

Benchmarks are good fixed targets for fine tuning, and I think that Sonnet gets significantly more fine tuning than Opus. Sonnet has more users, which is a strategic reason to focus on it, and it's less expensive to fine tune, if API costs of the two models are an indicator.
by afandian | 2025-10-15 23:07:08+00:00
The app switching behaviour is really infuriating. Selecting a window and having all the app’s windows come to the fore, obscuring the window from another app is still annoying, 20 years on.

And then when you full-screen a window, switch to another app for a moment, and then you can’t find it without delving into the ‘window‘ menu.

First world problems. But daily annoyances.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-15 23:07:34+00:00
Here is a rather convincing answer about why not require user approval for internet access in Android applications. From the Android developers themselves.

https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ci4tdq/were_on_...

I don't know about "running in the background" but Android work using "intents", which mean an app can be woken up effectively at any time, so "don't allow app to run in the background" may not do what you expect.
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 23:08:23+00:00
Not intended as sarcastic: how is that working out for you?

It's easy to say "Oh, I'll just use my phone in a healthy way in the future" while pouring yourself another drink. I can quit when I want mindset.

I quit. It's very difficult. I had to come back out of the real need for a smartphone today. I noticed the patterns that the author described very quickly slipping back into the day by day.
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-10-15 23:09:10+00:00
> Let’s take a pause here for a second - the ‘CanIndex’ and ‘SupportsIndex’ from the looks are just “int”.

The PR for the change is https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28913 - The details of files changed[0] shows the change was made in 'numpy/__init__.pyi'. Looking at the whole file[1] shows SupportsIndex is being imported from the standard library's typing module[2].

Where are you seeing SupportsIndex being defined as an int?

> I have a hard time dealing with these custom types because they are so obscure.

SupportsIndex is obscure, I agree, but it's not a custom type. It's defined in stdlib's typing module[2], and was added in Python 3.8.

[0]: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28913/files

[1]: https://github.com/charris/numpy/blob/c906f847f8ebfe0adec896...

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Support...
by NoPicklez | 2025-10-15 23:09:44+00:00
Interesting how one of the measures was to raise the BMI from 30 to 40 as one measure of being Obese. Yet its also mentioned that you could have a BMI under 30 but be obese. And yes they're adding in a different measure to pick that up, but I don't see why it should be raised from 30 - 40, unless there is a large cohort of people who present with a BMI of 30 but have significant muscle mass to make the label of obese incorrect.

I'd rather the BMI figure be overly cautious than not cautious enough. I'd say if most people have a BMI of 30 it not because of muscle mass, but due to a lack there of.
by dwd | 2025-10-15 23:09:47+00:00
Acrobat Reader lets you do a lot of potentially bad things with ActiveScript in a PDF once the user allows it.

I worked on a PDF form that was distributed widely within a Gov department. It would be routinely saved locally and emailed half completed up the managerial chain for sign-off on the request.

It had a lot of dynamic fields so you had to allow it to run macros.

The first thing it did was check the version of the just opened form and replace it with the latest PDF from the department's server.

It also had save/resume functionality which would only work in Acrobat Reader at the time.

Edit: Shout out to Inkscape which I find is a handy replacement for Illustrator and doing minor fixes to PDFs.
by asdff | 2025-10-15 23:09:48+00:00
As they should. Those are like 10 year old games.

The trend I see that is more concerning is that previously mac friendly game devs have already abandoned the platform. Valve no longer maintains mac os builds of their games like cs or tf2. City skylines 1 had a first party mac release but City skylines 2 skipped mac os.