MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perching_aix | 2025-11-14 23:09:18+00:00
It is a tough bargain to be fair, and it is seen in other places too. From developers copying out their stuff from their local git repo, recloning from remote, then pasting their stuff back, all the way to phone repair just meaning "here's a new device, we synced all your data across for you", it's fairly hard to argue with the economic factors and the effectiveness of this approach at play.

With all the enterprise solutions being distributed, loosely coupled, self-healing, redundant, and fault-tolerant, issues like this essentially just slot in perfectly. Compound this with man-hours (especially expert ones) being a lot harder to justify for any one particular bump in tail latency, and the equation is just really not there for all this.

What gets us specifically to look into things is either the issue being operationally gnarly (e.g. frequent, impacting, or both), or management being swayed enough by principled thinking (or at least pretending to be). I'd imagine it's the same elsewhere. The latter would mostly happen if fixing a given thing becomes an office political concern, or a corporate reputation one. You might wonder if those individual issues ever snowballed into a big one, but turns out human nature takes care of that just "sufficiently enough" before it would manifest "too severely". [0]

Otherwise, you're looking at fixing / RCA'ing / working around someone else's product defect on their behalf, and giving your engineers a "fun challenge". Fun doesn't pay the bills, and we rarely saw much in return from the vendor in exchange for our research. I'd love to entertain the idea that maybe behind closed doors the negotiations went a little better because of these, but for various reasons, I really doubt so in hindsight.

[0] as delightfully subjective as those get of course
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-11-14 23:10:13+00:00
"The people writing COBOL and FORTRAN on mainframes - I got my start writing C and FORTRAN on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes - didn’t speak about the joys of programming. They clocked in, clocked out and went on about their lives."

FORTRAN was my first language in the 60s and I ENJOYED using it until "better" languages came along.

I debugged COBOL and once taught SQL to COBOL programmers while refusing to write anything in it.

I had my best fun with mainframe Assembler and CMS Pipelines.
Why isn't everyone using Cerebras?
by tghack | 2025-11-14 23:10:29+00:00
I work at a mid-sized startup dealing with latency issues in customer-facing flows that use LLMs. Using OSS-120B seems preferable to 5-mini or Anthropic models in many cases when we need speed, intelligence, and cost control. Is there some catch here beyond needing to acquire higher rate limits?
by CodingJeebus | 2025-11-14 23:10:45+00:00
For perspective, SNAP constitutes somewhere around 1.5% of the total Federal budget[0], and provides supplemental income for over 41M Americans[1].

So they're making everyone reapply because their disbursement headcount is off by less than 1% (180k vs 41M). It's hard not look at stuff like this and not see gross oppression.

0: https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-federal-gover...

1: https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-closer-look-...
Show HN: CodeMode – First library for tool calls via code execution
by juanviera23 | 2025-11-14 23:11:03+00:00
I’ve been testing a simple idea inspired by Apple/Cloudflare/Anthropic:

LLMs are far better at writing a small program than coordinating multiple tool calls.

So instead of giving the model 10+ tools, I exposed one: a TypeScript sandbox with access to the same interfaces.

The model writes a script → it runs once → done.

What changed - +68% reduction in token use - No multi-step drift or retries - Local models (Llama 3.1 8B / Phi-3) became much more reliable

Repo: https://github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/code-mode

Curious whether others have seen the same thing: Is code execution a better abstraction for agents than tool calls?
by phil21 | 2025-11-14 23:11:29+00:00
Suburbs have a self-selection bias for antisocial behavior and folks who lean that way.

It’s not a 100% thing, but I’ve noticed a strong correlation having lived in a number of suburbs and in city cores. I’ve also spent a decent amount of time in rural parts of America and I totally get what you’re saying. The average rural person likely has a much larger local support network (aka community) than the average suburbanite.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-14 23:11:55+00:00
The new model may or may not be great at handwriting but I found the author's constant repetition about how amazing it was irritating enough to stop reading and to wonder if the article itself was slop-written.

"users have reported some truly wild things" "the results were shocking" "the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do" "exciting and frightening all at once" "the most astounding result I have ever seen" "made the hair stand up on the back of my neck"
by wahern | 2025-11-14 23:12:32+00:00
Italy has a strong north/south cultural and wealth divide, much like the US (at least before the recent cultural reconfiguration). Northern Italy has always been at the forefront of industry, AFAIU, but Italian diaspora largely came from the poorer, southern regions, giving rise to many negative stereotypes of Italians generally outside of Italy; stereotypes many Northern Italians also hold of the southern regions. Of course, free from various structural and cultural barriers these people were eventually able to thrive, just like anyone else.
by octaane | 2025-11-14 23:12:50+00:00
Not possible according to the laws of physics. The closest you can get is a solar sail, but that's not "propellant-less" - photons are the propellant.

If a company thinks they've broken one of the most fundamental laws of physics (momentum transfer), they need to provide some serious evidence, and publish in full so their results can be replicated. A press release on an obscure website isn't how you do it.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-11-14 23:12:54+00:00
> Is the US AI data-centers producing 80% of the world's IT

You've misread it. It's not compared to AI datacenters, it's every type of datacenter, for all types of computing.

In the future scenario you've laid out it wouldn't be cloud AI compute. You wouldn't be able to use HN or send email or pay with a credit card or play video games or stream video.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-11-14 23:13:55+00:00
It seems odd to me that anyone would need an argument in favor of free school lunch. School is mandatory between certain ages and it's free. Let's just make meals free as well.

And I'm not sure how school buses are out of step with "the modern world." What are you proposing? Uber or something?

For the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we sure seem to spend a lot of time discussing why we shouldn't spend money on social causes.
by runako | 2025-11-14 23:14:37+00:00
> the landlords, asset holders, and tech companies

Largest household expense after housing is usually (sometimes indirect) health insurance premiums. For a family of 4, this is running on the order of $30k annually now. That's creeping up on half the median household income (which often requires two workers).

Hiding this very real expense in tax deductions for employers obscures the fact of just how large it is.
by observationist | 2025-11-14 23:14:42+00:00
This might just be a handcrafted prompt framework for handwriting recognition tied in with reasoning - do a rough pass, make assumptions and predictions, check assumptions and predictions, if they pass, use the degree of confidence in their passage to inform what the other characters might be, and gradually flesh out an interpretation of what was intended to be communicated.

If they could get this to occur naturally - with no supporting prompts, and only one-shot or one-shot reasoning, then it could extend to complex composition generally, which would be cool.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-14 23:15:04+00:00
I don't think there is a way around the fact that governments will always want at least "lawful intercept" (with warrants) capabilities.

It's a noble fight trying to get E2EE be compatible with the law. But I think some perspective for privacy advocates is due. People don't want freedom and privacy at the cost of their own security. We shouldn't have to choose, but if nothing else, the government has one most important role, and that is not safeguarding freedoms, but ensuring the safety of its people.

No government, no matter how free or wealthy can abdicate its role in securing its people. There must be a solution to fight harmful (not neccesarily illegal) content incorporated into secure messaging solutions. I'm not arguing for backdoors in this post, but even things like Apple's CSAM scanning approach are met with fierce resistance from the privacy advocate community.

This stance that "No, we can't have any solutions, leave E2EE alone" is not a practical stance.

Speaking purely as a citizen, if you're telling me "you will lose civil liberties and democracy, if you let governments reduce cp content", my response would be "what's the hold up?". Even if governments are just using that as an excuse. As someone slightly familiar with the topic, of course I wouldn't want to trade my liberties and freedoms, but is anyone working on a solution? are there working groups? Why did Apple get so much resistance, but there are no opensource solutions?

There are solutions for anonymous payments using homomorphic encryption. Things like Zcash and Monero exist. But you're telling me privacy preserving solutions to combat illicit content are impossible? My problem is with the impossible part. Are there researchers working to make this happen using differential privacy or some other solution? How can I help? Let's talk about solutions.

If your position is that governments (who represent us,voters) should accept the status quo, and just let their people suffer injustice, I don't think I can support that.

Mullvad is also in for a rude awakening. If criminals use Tor or VPNs, those will also face a ban. We need to give governments solutions that lets them do what they claim they want to do (protect the public from victimization) while preserving privacy to avoid a very real dystopia.

Freedoms and liberties must not come at the cost of injustice. And as i argued elsewhere on HN, in the end, ignoring ongoing injustice will result in even less freedoms and liberties. If there was a pluralistic referendum in the EU over chat control, I would be surprised if the result isn't a law that is even far worse than chat control.

EDIT: Here is one idea I had: Sign images/video with hardware-secured chips (camera sensor or GPU?) that is traceable to the device. When images are further processed/edited, then they will be subject to differential-privacy scanning. This can also combat deepfakes, if image authenticity can be proven by the device that took the image.
by starik36 | 2025-11-14 23:15:11+00:00
The Peter Thiel's part about the current situation not working for young people is right on the money. I am of the age where my kids (and those of my friends) are graduating from college. Every single one of them is having trouble finding work within their profession. Every one.

I've done reasonably well as a developer, having been an architect at several large enterprises. I consider myself a pretty good developer. My kid followed in my footsteps and also became a developer. He is objectively ridiculously good at it. And far faster than I ever was. But it took solid 9 months before he found a job. A one month contract. Which he then parlayed into a full time job, once they saw how good he was.

Compare this with when I graduated. I had a full time job before I received a diploma. It never even occurred to me to worry about finding work.
by SimianSci | 2025-11-14 23:15:48+00:00
No, but I dont think it matters if wealth truly translates as a 1:1 relationship. What matters is that the wealthy specifically invest in the mobility of wealth itself. They will absolutely pay a premium to make the wealth move more easily from one place to another. Many will gladly pay $10 to make $5 more mobile, so to speak.

A prime example of this being many cryptocurrencies which can be argued are a means of making large sums of wealth more portable.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-11-14 23:17:16+00:00
It depends on the region. In dryer regions most golf courses are already on greywater system. Irrigation mainly targets fairways, teeboxes, and greens, while the rough is allowed to go to hell in the dryer months.

Some golf courses also are designed to spread floodwater and protect surrounding development. Golf is sort of a happy bonus on top of that.

Private courses are usually far better irrigated than their public counterparts where even the fairway is liable to be left to dry out.
by api | 2025-11-14 23:17:38+00:00
Anyone publishing a repeatable experiment demonstrating this would be more or less instantly handed a nobel prize, since it would have to unlock new fundamental physics.

It would also totally rock cosmology since you’d have to rework the whole age and evolution of the universe in light of those new physics, whatever they were.

This is almost definitely bunk. Either that or something mundane explained in a ridiculous hypey way.
by Shank | 2025-11-14 23:17:55+00:00
I have a friend with life circumstances that are complicated and she survives on SNAP. Every move like this is detrimental and jeopardizes the ability for her to stay alive. I do not understand or fathom why this program is run in such a cruel, uncaring way. I’m sure there is fraud, but there are many people with permanent disabilities and other things going on who don’t have the capacity to “just reapply” without significant effort. There is no need to do this when they can simply audit the usage.
by anon_cow1111 | 2025-11-14 23:17:57+00:00
I'm having a hard time believing this site is honest, especially with how ridiculous the scaling and rotation of numbers is for most of them. I dumped his prompt into chatgpt to try it myself and it did create a very neat clock face with the numbers at the correct position+animated second hand, it just got the exact time wrong, being a few hours off.

Edit: the time may actually have been perfect now that I account for my isp's geo-located time zone
by hinkley | 2025-11-14 23:18:09+00:00
The JPL had a project called M2P2 that explored using magnetic field lines and plasma to create a solar sail out of ionized gas. The idea being that it can be regenerated in the face of micrometeoroids and other space debris.

Tethers.inc wanted to, among other things, used cables as a drag line to either lower satellites in orbit by absorbing electrical flux from passing through the magnetosphere, or pulse the cable to push against it to raise the orbit.
by doctorwho42 | 2025-11-14 23:18:40+00:00
Wait, your operating system was coded by one single individual? Holy shit that must have taken him 10 life times, if not more!

Wow, you know a person who can mine, smelt, and forge steel into a computer case... While still having time to mine, process, purify, reprocess, and design the whole die process not just for a CPU but GPU's and all matter of electronic components!?!!??!

Holy shit, you know someone who can design, assemble, and launch not one comm sat...but dozen?!?! And he builds the rockets all by himself as well?!?!? And he built the ground stations and infrastructure required to power and connect to them?!!?!

Oh you know a guy who can write a forum.... Yeah that's kind of neat I guess...

But let's be real here. These single individuals did not produce Thousands upon thousands of life times worth of value by their lonesomes. It required standing upon the shoulders of countless individuals, not even taking into account the organizational structures of governments, their utilities, and people long dead who built the world they used to make their billions.
by nmz | 2025-11-14 23:18:50+00:00
Good for extensibility is a claim I've never heard before, I've always found awk's "everything is global scope" as a huge limitation, but if its scripting then I suppose you could just... isolate each script's namespace and take the global namespace as the exported namespace, and since everything is static it really simplifies things further, but lua is still better of course, but if you don't need that much power I suppose it would be even smaller.
by ncr100 | 2025-11-14 23:19:24+00:00
Windows is _always_ a pain in my a*. Every time I boot my windows box it costs me and average of 45 minutes of software updating.

And, FWIW MS's gaming-business is around 10% of its revenue, which is likely to be slowing soon:

- Valve made Steam OS (aka Proton) run on ARM architecture in addition to x86, and Valve also releasing a Steam OS PC to play Windows Games on in addition to its pioneering Steam Deck + clones (https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/virtual-reality/valv...)

- Cross-platform title releases are happening more and more frequently, with MS / XBox owned studio games being released on PlayStation
by accrual | 2025-11-14 23:20:29+00:00
> illustration of how self-insulating people are

I feel like it's such a cultural thing here in the US. There is a pervasive culture of individualism and operating wholly within ones own means. Need help? Don't ask your neighbor for help, ask Our LLM (tm) for only $9.99 a month! I'm being hyperbolic of course.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-14 23:20:59+00:00
Less than one percent of 1.5% of $7 trillion, around $1 billion. Which is a significant sum, no doubt, but that's also less than $3/person in the US. Given the much larger wasted sums by DOD and other parts of the government, it's an amount I can live with. I'd rather see the real waste and abuse get addressed first, but it won't be. Address this, but address it in a way that doesn't cause undue harm to the 40.8 million people that aren't abusing the system.
by amirfarzamnia | 2025-11-14 23:21:16+00:00
I built a JSON Schema–to–Luau type converter in Rust and figured others working with Luau might find it useful.

Luau’s type system is not TypeScript, and most existing tools assume Roblox-specific workflows. This one doesn’t. It’s designed for *standard Luau*, so it works anywhere Luau runs — not just inside Roblox projects.

The tool ingests a JSON Schema file and generates Luau type definitions with full handling of the real JSON Schema feature set:

* Full support for objects, arrays, primitives, enums, const * `$ref`, `definitions`, and `$defs` (never inlined) * `allOf`, `anyOf`, `oneOf` * Required/optional property detection * Constraints preserved as Luau comments (`@minimum`, `@pattern`, etc.) * Clear errors and reasonably strict validation * CLI + library API

Example:

```bash json-schema-to-luau schema.json -o types.luau ```

Input:

```json { "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "age": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 120 } }, "required": ["name"] } ```

Output:

```lua export type Root = { --- @minimum 0 --- @maximum 120 age: number?, name: string, } ```

The converter tries to follow Luau’s actual type semantics rather than pretending it’s TypeScript. Composition becomes real unions/intersections, referenced definitions become exported types, and constraints are kept as comments so they still surface in tooling.

Limitations are documented (tuple schemas, conditional schemas, propertyNames, remote refs, etc.). Number literal enums degrade to `number` because Luau can’t express them.

Crate: `cargo add json-schema-to-luau`

CLI: `cargo install json-schema-to-luau`

Repo: [https://github.com/amirfarzamnia/json-schema-to-luau](https://github.com/amirfarzamnia/json-schema-to-luau)

Would love feedback, bug reports, or ideas for making the output cleaner.
by bittercynic | 2025-11-14 23:21:51+00:00
Absolutely. I work at a school where the food is OK, but just, and the school across the street has very good food. One of our students used to sneak into the other school in the mornings for breakfast. He made the mistake of bringing the food back to our school where people asked questions, and pretty soon the other school knew he wasn't their student and banned him.

Something seems really off to me about different kids within a couple hundred feet of each other getting drastically different quality of food.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-14 23:21:55+00:00
> The fun part has been build tools to turn Claude code and Codex CLI into capable research assistant for that type of projects.

What does that look like? How well does it work?

I ended up writing a research TUI with my own higher level orchestration (basically have the thing keep working in a loop until a budget has been reached) and document extraction.
by computerdork | 2025-11-14 23:22:17+00:00
Well, sure, agree that there is a natural logic to the idea, but to actually go through with something that no one has done before and actually execute it (which as we all from the tech/sci industries here know), and also do it on a large scale and be very successful is an entirely different matter. Yeah, the number of things that need to go right is still pretty high, and at least to me, was extremely impressive. But to each his own.
by exe34 | 2025-11-14 23:22:23+00:00
It's an investment. Every dollar spent returns $62 to the economy[0].

[0] https://www.cbpp.org/blog/snap-food-assistance-is-a-sound-in...

There are much bigger wastes of money. Tax cuts for billionaires for example. Even SNAP itself is effectively welfare for billionaires - it means they don't have to pay a fair wage.
by mlsu | 2025-11-14 23:23:19+00:00
No. It's not the subscriptions or lattes. Those are markets that have real competition.

It's the sectors of the economy that have become consolidated. Food, insurance, banking, healthcare. There is very little competition in those markets and prices are artificially high because huge conglomerates manage to siphon off a larger and larger stake, while preventing small players from offering an alternative either through market power or regulation.

Unlike subscriptions, it does not show up on your credit or debit card statement because the price of everything just goes up by a little percentage here and there.
by Barrin92 | 2025-11-14 23:23:23+00:00
>My TV is the tits

having 50 different flavours of ice cream and a big TV available is a fifteen year olds idea of paradise, but what people actually care about is infrastructure, public health, safety, childcare and progress in the material world.

The US has the problem that the commons and the physical world have been run into the ground, the country has effectively become the Wall-E future.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-14 23:23:24+00:00
People seem to way overcomplicate consciousness, especially in machines.

Where does a running video game exist? It's a simulation in the hardware. Where is the consciousness in a human brain, again it's electrical signals in our brain.

At the end of the day a system is what it does. Once it starts simulating the human mind in ways that appear human then we're at the point of saying a plane has to flap its wings or it's not flying.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-14 23:24:22+00:00
> stock exchanges, banks, toll road operators, financial services and asset management are in … rent-seeking.

This is an absolutely insane take. If you truly believe it, then I propose two tests:

1. You should start a business that provides the same services without rent seeking. If they’re really these low-value things that are just charging high prices, then you should be able to setup very attractive alternatives, make a ton of money yourself, and improve the world in a big way.

2. If you don’t have the energy or willingness to start them yourself, you could limit your use of them to the absolute bare necessity. If you believe they extract value, you could probably do better for yourself by using them less.