MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dotancohen | 2025-11-21 23:13:54+00:00
How many tubes does that appear in any codebase you've worked on? Those types of constructions are typically hidden away in "helper functions" that are straightforward to understand and debug. They are certainly not typical in business logic.

Now we have two syntax to be familiar with and maintain. And you just know the clowns are going to come along and convert one syntax to the other because they can, which completely ruins the git commit and you can't tell what actual functionally was changed at a glance. There will be bickering and bikeshedding about "modernizing" codebases.
by asdff | 2025-11-21 23:14:11+00:00
The way they fly you can tell they don't have a lot of flight experience. Really low compared to news choppers following the same pursuit. Juvenile even, at times (1-4)

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1oolm68/lapd_he...

2. https://www.threads.com/@kilodelta/post/C5m373ZOX9Q

3. https://preview.redd.it/jcfdph3aiczf1.jpeg?width=1164&format...

4. https://preview.redd.it/dl7lqa2blbzf1.jpeg?width=1206&format...
Show HN: RSS/Atom Feed Summarizer
by rcarmo | 2025-11-21 23:14:33+00:00
Yes, it's AI. But it's been useful to me to pare down the number of RSS items I read through every day into "stackable" "bulletins" that provide me with enough context to keep abreast of the news, and it's also grown out of a Node-RED flow into a full blown automated publisher, so... might be useful to someone else.
by gizajob | 2025-11-21 23:15:01+00:00
Maybe in mathematics but not in philosophy because eventually you have to decide on the certainties without which the universe cannot be made sense of or reconstructed from proofs.

If I pricked you with a pin, I would be certain that it hurt you and I could know what that sensation would be like if it was happening to me. Yet there is no description or no apparatus that could transmit to me that feeling you are having.

So no we cannot rule it out that computers are having conscious and experiences but from the nature of their being and the type of machine that they are, we can consider that it is not of the same degree as ours. Which is why I made my initial observation - the machine running the spreadsheet or the terminal emulator will never cause me to believe it is having conscious experiences. Just because now that same machine is producing complicated and confusing textual outputs it remains the same type of machine as it was before running the AI software.
by tptacek | 2025-11-21 23:15:12+00:00
You don't. The claims are based on PGS correlations from things like biobank data.

Broken record: this is a brilliant product. It promises a marginal improvement in a volatile stat measured meaningfully only when the grown child applies for college. It's purchased exclusively by parents that were already going to fold space like a Guild Navigator to get their kids into selective universities. Heads: you take the credit for them getting in somewhere they were getting in anyways. Tails: there is no tails.

It's like a financial derivative product where the underlying is upper-class parental status anxiety. There should be a ticker symbol for it.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-21 23:16:17+00:00
> The statistics about home-schooled children don't support the idea that they have horribly inaccurate models of the world guided mostly by religious thinking.

I'd be surprised if any such statistics exist. I've seen studies about the reasons parents choose to homeschool, and various outcomes of homeschooled kids versus public school kids, but none about what particular beliefs homeschooled kids have regarding, say, the age of the Earth.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-21 23:16:51+00:00
There's some chance LLMs contain representations of whatever's in the brain that's responsible for consciousness. The text it's trained on was written by humans, and all humans have one thing in common if nothing else. A good text compressor will notice and make use of that.

That said, digital programs may have fundamental limitations that prevent them from faithfully representing all aspects of reality. Maybe consciousness is just not computable.
by alwa | 2025-11-21 23:17:00+00:00
> For the 1% to matter, there have to be other jobs that LLMs can do as well as a fresh graduate. I don't know, are LLMs like someone the first year out of law school or medical school, or are those schools better than software?

Before looking to medical and law schools, I might look to middle-manager school or salesperson school or bookkeeper school.

I don’t know enough to speculate even beyond those crude guesses, but as I thought about this question, I found it interesting to skim the US’ employment-by-detailed-occupation chart:

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm
by twodave | 2025-11-21 23:17:35+00:00
I agree. I’ve used LLMs to aid in writing out copy and other things, but as a learning tool and not as a way to remove myself from the process. I especially don’t like where businesses are taking this. At least with the old chat bots and such you knew you were in an equivalent of a phone tree. Now it’s hard to tell what’s human and what isn’t, and therefore difficult to know how to interact.
by matiasmolinas | 2025-11-21 23:17:50+00:00
I'm working on LLM OS, an experimental project that explores treating the LLM as a CPU and Python as the kernel. The goal is to provide OS-level services—like memory hierarchy, scheduler hooks, and security controls—to agentic workflows using the Claude Agent SDK.

Right now, this is mostly a collection of architectural ideas and prototypes rather than a polished framework. I’ve included several complex examples in the repo to explore the potential of this approach:

- Qiskit Studio Backend: Re-imagining a microservices architecture as a unified OS process for quantum computing tasks.

- Q-Kids Studio: Exploring how an OS layer can manage safety, adaptive difficulty, and state in an educational app.

- RoboOS: Testing how kernel-level security hooks can enforce physical safety constraints on a robot arm.

These examples play with concepts like execution caching (Learner/Follower modes) and multi-agent orchestration, but the project is very much in the early stages and is not yet functional for production.

I’m sharing this early because I believe the "LLM as OS" analogy has a lot of potential. I'm looking for contributors and feedback to help turn these concepts into a functional reality.

Repo: https://github.com/EvolvingAgentsLabs/llm-os
by mmcclure | 2025-11-21 23:18:40+00:00
I was generous in my estimate for each of the line items. I chose a one room school house as an example because it's easy to grok, and anything larger would be cheaper due to economies of scale.

I would argue that economies of scale don't apply to education in the same way they apply to other businesses at large. Sure, you theoretically get the benefits of scale with central organization, buildings, centralized services, etc, but once you get to the classrooms themselves most of the cost simply scales linearly with the number of students.

This $28k number is false. Most parochial schools charge about $12k.

I'm not sure what we're talking about here anymore. You're using K-8 as the dominating factor for this gotcha a few times in this thread. There are more K-8 parochial schools, yes. "Most parochial schools charge about $12k" is true, unless you're talking about high school. Exactly 1 parochial school is less than $30k (SF Christian, at $16k). From there (limited to religious schools):

- Sacred Heart ($31k) - Archbishop Riordan ($32k) - Saint Ignatius ($34.6) - Sacred Heart ($60k) - Jewish Community School ($65k)

I might have missed some in here since I'm going by names, but given that SF Christian is the cheapest private high school on SF Chronicle's list[1] I don't think that matters for my point.

You started this thread with average cost per student across all SF public school students, which includes special needs, high school, etc, but move to median prices for debate, and structure most of your argument around the cheapest schools (K-8). Mea culpa on my end, though: you are correct that when I was saying "cheapest I've seen," there was an unfair modifier of "cheapest schools on my personal spreadsheet" which is limited to schools within a reasonable commute and that we'd be willing to send our kids to. You're absolutely correct that there are cheaper parochial schools available as long as you only need K-8.

Using averages for private schools, which feels more applicable to your starting premise, private schools in SF average $27k, $28k, and $52k, for elementary, middle, and high school (again, referencing SF Chronicle's data). I still feel comfortable with my original premise that averaging $28k per student across all of SFUSD students is not an absurd number.

So looking at the sticker prices (which I've listed above) may give an inflated view of total income.

Sure, that's fair! But we're not talking about income, we're talking about average cost per kid. We can't actually know the details under the hood, but again, those schools specifically in your list are usually subsidized by a larger religious organization, so the sticker price doesn't truly reflect that cost anyway.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/sf-bay-area-privat...
by softwaredoug | 2025-11-21 23:19:00+00:00
On the RHS, post hype, the second movers could work on the boring, unsexy problems in those domains nobody wanted to solve. And solve them extremely well. Then build a moat around that.

There is also a customer adoption curve of technology that lags far behind the technologist adoption curve. For example video on the Web failed a long time, until it didn't, when Youtube began to succeed. The problem became "boring" to technologists in some ways, but consumers gradually caught up.
by Loughla | 2025-11-21 23:19:47+00:00
See, I never swore off beef, even with that. I took it as a reason to make sure they live their best lives, and to do my best to ensure that their deaths are as quick and painless as possible. I understand the hypocrisy or whatever that might be, but beef has kept my family out of bankruptcy when full time job income has not. I do apologize and thank every animal, for whatever that's worth. It doesn't feel great, but such is life.
by mapt | 2025-11-21 23:20:50+00:00
Basically, letting them run away and then setting up a raid at their house the next morning is safer for everyone. If you can follow them from altitude well enough to do that, you reduce risk dramatically relative to either interception or chase.

> They could learn a few things from the Georgia State Patrol, the undisputed world champions of the PIT.

Why not just open up on them with antitank weaponry? PIT maneuvers are extraordinarily dangerous, especially at high speeds.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 23:21:00+00:00
> We have pushed to a whole generation of people that only the "experts" can have opinion on some fields. I encourage everyone to read papers and have opinions on some of those subjects.

There's nothing wrong with having an opinion on something as a non-expert, as long as those opinions are not acted upon or relied upon as a source of reliable information. Read papers, watch YouTube, browse WebMD, satisfy your curiosity--knock yourself out. But don't undergo treatment without working with an actual expert! I'm not an expert on orbital mechanics, but I have played KSP and have formed various opinions about it. But nobody should be listening to me for advice on how to launch a rocket.

We need gatekeeping for a reason, especially in the medical field which is rife with miracle cures, snake oil, herbal remedies, detoxes, homeopathy, and other forms of quackery.

Believing my "research" is better than my specialist's education is a path back to the dark ages.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-21 23:21:32+00:00
The world is messy for all sorts of reasons, that may not be the way anyone would like it to be but it's the way it is, and imo it's best to learn it when the stakes are low rather than when they're later voting against other classes because they were never exposed to people from them early on, or they're being taken advantage of at work or in an adult relationship.

I wouldn't fault someone for wanting to situate their kids among peers and adults that help them grow at a similar level rather than hinder it, but I think it's also best to be a guiding hand rather than a applicant tracking system when it comes to the non-academic side
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-11-21 23:22:33+00:00
I still get comments along the lines of ‘remember when you had Netflix before Netflix? Man that was awesome, you could have made billions right?’ from former housemates and friends. I had XBMC in the living room connecting to my server which auto downloaded all the latest tv and movies. So to them i had something much better then Netflix well before Netflix got into online streaming.
by munk-a | 2025-11-21 23:22:41+00:00
I will freely admit this - but I have led a localization effort on a mobile game and worked on localization for a desktop application. I am also lucky enough to travel abroad quite a bit and am quite familiar with consumer offerings.

So I would fairly limit my experience to consumer and medium-sized business uses - I have no experience with large corporate translation efforts (the largest would probably be Ubisoft or the Mouse-Ears company's gaming divisions if you consider them large) and even the small mobile game company I worked at had a budget in the millions range. It certainly hasn't been a focus of my career but I feel comfortable standing by my statement above.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 23:22:55+00:00
This is my experience. I played some Xbox here and there and every once in a while fell down the Factorio hole but I wasn’t gaming a ton. I got the steam deck somewhat cause it was cool, and somewhat as retail therapy but now I play it almost every night. I love playing smaller indie games on it, it’s a great device. Compare that to my Switch 2 and I’ve played it about 1/100th of the time I’ve played on the Deck. The Switch 2 is nice and all, just the Deck is way more flexible.

Replaying my favorite GBA/DS/etc games again on the Deck was so much fun. Huge screen for my (older) eyes, ability to speed up/rewind/save slots, and other tweaks if I wanted were all a blast. I played back through some of my favorites as a kid and enjoyment and nostalgia were both off the charts.
by sfpotter | 2025-11-21 23:22:57+00:00
I think this sentence:

> But matrix multiplication, to which our civilization is now devoting so many of its marginal resources, has all the elegance of a man hammering a nail into a board.

is the most interesting one.

A man hammering a nail into a board can be both beautiful and elegant! If you've ever seen someone effortlessly hammer nail after nail into wood without having to think hardly at all about what they're doing, you've seen a master craftsman at work. Speaking as a numerical analyst, I'd say a well multiplied matrix is much the same. There is much that goes into how deftly a matrix might be multiplied. And just as someone can hammer a nail poorly, so too can a matrix be multiplied poorly. I would say the matrices being multiplied in service of training LLMs are not a particularly beautiful example of what matrix multiplication has to offer. The fast Fourier transform viewed as a sparse matrix factorization of the DFT and its concomitant properties of numerical stability might be a better candidate.
by PostOnce | 2025-11-21 23:23:18+00:00
1] delete the text

2] select any handwriting font

3] replace the text

no one will know the font was changed, no skills required.

AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally.

If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.
by HaZeust | 2025-11-21 23:23:45+00:00
- Miami

- Tampa

- Chicago

- Detroit

- Houston

- Memphis

- Cleveland

- Birmingham

- New Orleans

- Pittsburgh

- Indianapolis

- Oklahoma City

Zillow’s September 2024 analysis shows these metros have $150–$450/month lower mortgage payments than rents when you assume 20% down, or 7% on an FHA.
by shoddydoordesk | 2025-11-21 23:24:04+00:00
Buddy, most of these are stolen cars. Do you think they are driving them home and parking it in the driveway?

If you are eluding the cops at 100mph you are a danger to the public, they are not going to let you go home.

>Why not just open up on them with antitank weaponry?

I've heard cops say something similar on body cam footage.
by Loughla | 2025-11-21 23:24:09+00:00
That's a very pessimistic was to view things, I think.

We're only given one chance; rich, poor, all of us. One shot. You have to try to do the best with what you have.

Nothing changes when you have a big loss, only if you let nothing change. My grandpa died at 102. He and Grandma raised me and were my rocks throughout my entire life. Grandma died when I was a teenager, and I only used that to become more sad and selfish (like a teenager). Looking back, the choices I made would've made her sad for me. When Grandpa died, I chose to use his memory to do good things. Now I volunteer with multiple organizations related to aging farmers. I gather stray old people from the area for weekend and holiday get togethers.

Things changed, and my life improved because of my response to loss. The memories are hard, but they're made easier in a community of people who can share them with me.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-21 23:24:15+00:00
https://archive.ph/xGgfL

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Radar attenuation and RCS of sixth-ist gen fighters in different radar bands:

https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/202...

The touted NG replacement Growler pod ALQ-249 doesn't even touch VHF.
by inerte | 2025-11-21 23:24:25+00:00
Jeremy, I tried to comment in the article as to not pollute HN with the usual font complain, but the comment was rejected saying I had to be logged in.

Your text is really hard to read! The "f" looks like a "j"... my brain was all the time "a j is coming" and it made no sense in the word... that's because it's a "f". I had to parse "efficiency" 3 times in the first paragraph because it just reads like "ejjiciency"!
by tcdent | 2025-11-21 23:24:27+00:00
Cursor may have had incredible growth, but so many companies are getting into these early and obvious products to enhance developer productivity, I don't think they're going to be dominant (independently at least) for much longer.

Google is a direct competitor now, every major model company has an agentic coder, tons of people are putting out small enhancements and useful tools to augment all of these.

In terms of creating a viable business, I would (and have) position myself a step or two away from these obvious solutions. Further out in the ecosystem there's a ton of nuance around specific use cases, programming languages, development and deployment environments; all which will be revolutionized (again) in the years to come.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-21 23:25:29+00:00
Well, why should I? Does it bring anything else to the table? After 50 years it doesn’t have the momentum rust has, or the tooling and ecosystem.

In any case, it really isn’t comparable. It doesn’t have a borrow checker, contracts are enforced at runtime not compile time, no move semantics and no smart pointers… I find it strange actually that there is always someone bringing up “what about Ada/SPARK?” in the comments when there aren’t even comparable.
by lordnacho | 2025-11-21 23:25:38+00:00
One interesting thing that happened when my father died was that I got his life story.

It's not the same as getting it from him, of course I asked him questions through the years. But when you talk to someone you've known since forever, you rarely get a summary.

When he passed, his best friend that he'd known since the age of 4 wrote to me. He told me everything about their life together, why my dad made the choices he did, how things tied in with history (war, politics), and mentioned a bunch of other people I knew.
by gmanley | 2025-11-21 23:25:44+00:00
Does it really matter if they take these consumer friendly actions because they know it will get them good press and dedicated consumers? The end result is the same.

Like you touched on, for whatever reason, most large enough companies haven't seemed to figure out this obvious truth. I tend to believe it's because it's harder than it looks, once a company reaches a certain size. Now sure, they are by no means perfect, but I'd like to at least give them credit for being far better than any of the competition, no matter the rational behind it.
by nodesocket | 2025-11-21 23:25:59+00:00
I build my own NAT instances from Debian Trixie with Packer on AWS. AWS built-in NAT Gateways use an absurdly outdated and end-of-life version of Amazon Linux and are ridiculously expensive (especially traffic).

The bash configuration is literally a few lines:

cat <<'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-ip-forwarding.conf > /dev/null net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 EOF sudo sysctl --system sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ens5 -j MASQUERADE sudo iptables -F FORWARD sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i ens5 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -A FORWARD -o ens5 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables-save | sudo tee /etc/iptables/rules.v4 > /dev/null

Change ens5 with your instance network interface name. Also, VERY IMPORTANT you must set source_dest_check = false on the EC2 NAT instances.

Also, don’t assign a EIP to your EC2 NAT instances (unless you absolutely must persist a given public IP) as that counterintuitively routes through public traffic. Just use a auto-assigned public IP (no EIP).

NAT instance with EIP - AWS routes it through the public AWS network infrastructure (hairpinning). - You get charged $0.01/GB regional data transfer, even if in the same AZ.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 23:26:05+00:00
> labor and rent

Labor, who pays a sizeable chunk of their income on rent... and rent, well is rent. Rent is only expensive when demand outstrips supply, and demand keeps being artificially constrained by existing property owners (of which boomers are a large chunk) not willing to take a hit on their property value. Seems like a self-inflicted problem.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-21 23:26:09+00:00
> It is if your goal is to enable spyware and mass surveillance of its users.

Which it is if you are a CIO of a big F500 enterprise. Microsoft provides so many ways to spy on and collect useless metrics from employees using their company issued Windows machines, it's a little insane.

With M365 Copilot (on business tenants), admins can see the prompts & responses of users. Just an FYI for anyone here that might use it at their work. Your employer can see everything you prompt.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2025-11-21 23:26:18+00:00
My Dell XPS had pretty good battery life on linux. Probably better than on windows. But Dell sells the XPS wiht linux preinstalled. So I assume it has a lot to do with the drivers. Many notebooks have custom chips inside or some weird bios that works together with a windows program. I'd say laptops are more diverse than desktop PCs with of the shelve hardware.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-11-21 23:27:33+00:00
>> they mispronounced a lot of words that they had only ever seen in books but never heard out loud

I did that as a kid. Still do. I read more than I talk. Nothing wrong with that.

The flip side would be people who misspell words or get phrases wrong because they've never seen them in books, they've only heard them out loud. They talk more than they read. Nothing wrong with that.

Although both of those might be a clue as to what type of vocations would make someone happy.