MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cameronh90 | 2025-11-25 14:28:52+00:00
At least for my enjoyment of the Gossip Goblin videos, the world and aesthetics are pretty critical to it. I wouldn't find it at all compelling if it was just someone in their kitchen playing it themselves. I do like those videos with people playing both parts in other contexts (comedy particularly), but for other types of work, the AI generated videos are doing something that can't really be done yourself unless you become a Blender virtuoso.
We built a AI system that scores RW SMBs in 24–48h (curious about feedback)
by rivellium | 2025-11-25 14:28:55+00:00
Over the past few months we’ve been experimenting with a small AI pipeline that scores real-world SMBs (automotive, cafes, services, logistics) within 24–48 hours — using a mix of financial documents, operational metrics, and qualitative patterns.

The surprising part for us was how consistent the predictions became even on messy SMB data, where traditional credit models usually fail. We also discovered that for small businesses, “risk factors” look very different from classic corporate lending: seasonality, owner behavior, local demand spikes, etc.

We’re still learning, and I’m curious if anyone here has tried building something similar or has thoughts on the general feasibility/limitations.

Not trying to promote anything — happy to discuss the technical side, training issues, data quality challenges, modeling approaches, etc.

If useful, here’s the project we’re building around it: https://rivellium.com
by pixl97 | 2025-11-25 14:29:01+00:00
It's like you didn't even read their statement...

>Trying to fix the problems _____ now that they're deeply rooted global issues and have been for decades is hard

The number of people that are already getting out of touch with AI is high. And we know that people have all kinds screwed up behaviors around things like cults. It's not hard to see that yes, AI is and will cause more problems around this.
by hiddencost | 2025-11-25 14:29:10+00:00
Huh?

The bureaucracy is way worse. BCID requirements. MDBs that take 4+ hours to roll out. The Byzantine array of different MDB group types, often with two party control. GDPR company compliance. Tagging proto fields with provenance. Documents are private by default now. Most support happens in chat groups, and is if you're not at deepmind your help requests are getting ignored. Spending a month filing GUTS tickets to get your intern access to basic tools. XManager idle pruning. GCP automated boq setup/teardown tools usually fail and you have to fall back to getting support from a contractor 12 time zones away.
by simonask | 2025-11-25 14:29:16+00:00
I fail to see that there is any material difference. Whether you catch-unwind within a single thread or in a separate thread such that the panic can be resumed on join makes zero difference.

Heck, you can have Drop impls observing the state while unwinding.

A true panic-safe data structure requires serious thought, and mutex poisoning does nothing here - it is neither necessary nor sufficient.
by basisword | 2025-11-25 14:29:21+00:00
I know plenty of people that had kids in their 20's - still didn't 'grow up' until their 30's. Just because they're not partying anymore doesn't mean they still don't act like adolescents when navigating complicated situations they're in (because they're had kids before they were necessarily 'ready') compared with someone in their 30's. I would argue that taking away that time in your late 20's where you can more easily make mistakes and try new things (while also having a bit of stability in terms of money) before having kids will lead to less maturity rather than more long term.
by johnsillings | 2025-11-25 14:29:49+00:00
Hey all, John here. I just wanted to say a big thanks for all the support on this project.

Yesterday was a roller coaster of, "oh, I guess nobody cares," to "well, I'm proud of it anyway," to "wait, people are submitting," to "this is amazing!" to "OH GOD THIS ISN'T GOOD," to "I think everything is fine," to "alright, I'm going to bed."

And when I woke up this morning, it really tickled me to see that folks were still having so much fun with the Simulator.

To say this exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. All the support, hilarious submissions, and lovely comments are really inspiring me to keep shipping. This is probably obvious, but most things I ship, especially weekend projects like this, never get any traction and remain obscure/unused forever.

(Also to some degree it validated my weekend art-project tinkering to my wife – so thanks for that, too.)

I appreciate the emails, the feature ideas, the encouragement, everything. Big hug to the HN community – thank you.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-25 14:30:38+00:00
> Alternatively: do you want to have 4x more capacity at 1/100th the reliability?

If the original drive has sufficient reliability, then yes I do want that.

And the majority of consumers do, too.

Chasing absolute extreme highest powered off durability is not a priority for 99% of people when the drives work properly for typical use cases. I have 5 year old SSDs where the wear data is still in the single digit percentages despite what I consider moderately heavy use.

> I have an old SLC USB drive which is only 512MB, but it's nearly 20 years old and some of the very first files I wrote to it are still intact (I last checked several months ago, and don't expect it's changed since then.) It has probably had a few hundred full-drive-writes over the years --- well worn-out by modern QLC/TLC standards, but barely-broken-in for SLC.

Barely broken in, but also only 512MB, very slow, and virtually useless by modern standards. The only positive is that the files are still intact on that old drive you dusted off.

This is why the market doesn’t care and why manufacturers are shipping TLC and QLC: They aren’t doing a planned obsolescence conspiracy. They know that 20 years from now or even 10 years from now that drive is going to be so outdated that you can get a faster, bigger new one for pocket change.
by leviathant | 2025-11-25 14:31:18+00:00
I was taking to a woman at a party a couple of years ago (an event related to a choir composition that my wife had done), and at some point she mentioned her son was a developer, specifically that he made video games. When I asked if she knew which games he worked on, she said Crash Bandicoot and suddenly I felt like I was talking to Ned royalty. I gushed a bit about what I had read on this blog post, but kept the conversation going so as not to dwell on it.
by vessenes | 2025-11-25 14:31:30+00:00
Released last week. Looks like all the weights are now out and published. Don’t sleep on the SAM 3D series — it’s seriously impressive. They have a human pose model which actually rigs and keeps multiple humans in a scene with objects, all from one 2D photo (!), and their straight object 3D model is by far the best I’ve played with - it got a really very good lamp with translucency and woven gems in usable shape in under 15 seconds.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-25 14:31:49+00:00
Perhaps one of the problems with modern dating is that women expect a man to provide safety, but many men don’t want to be viewed as a source of safety? Me, I am only interested in relationship for companionship, someone with whom I can share interesting experiences, because joy is not complete unless it is shared. But when it comes to safety and security, a partner is on her own. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t do this or that for a partner, but it would be supererogatory. My male friends have a similar complaint, this isn’t just a HN thing.

Again, this is probably an outcome of modernity. I likely wouldn’t think this way as a man, if I didn’t grow up in a modern age hearing that women are strong, they can take care of themselves and no longer depend on men.
by sublinear | 2025-11-25 14:31:55+00:00
Is this not just a cellular automaton? That's well within the usual range of college sophomore lab assignments.

To be honest the student may not necessarily care what the Isling model is, but they don't have to and neither does an LLM. It takes a very modest amount of code to apply some rules and update a grid of pixels. At least when I was in school it was totally normal to expect students to make something like this in an hour.

It's actually kind of ironic that in this case such a simple project now means the opposite of what it did back then. Students got these assignments as a form of encouragement to show that their skills were immediately useful and that more "serious" science need not be so scary.
by taylodl | 2025-11-25 14:31:57+00:00
Your market research has probably provided you with a good sense of your potential customers. Reach out to them explaining how you're satisfying a problem they have for less than they've been spending taking care of it themselves. It also helps to show up at industry events. People are far more responsive when they can see and talk to you in person. It's been a minute since I've worked at a startup and getting a business off the ground but that was the gist of it.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-25 14:32:45+00:00
Enjoying the C# appreciation.

>> C# has an awesome situation in here with its support for value types (ref structs), slices (spans), stack allocation, SIMD intrinsics (including AVX512!). You can even go bare-metal and GC-free with bflat.

There's been a really solid effort by the maintainers to improve performance in C# , especially with regard to keeping stuff off the heap. I think it's a fantastic language for doing backends in. It's unfortunate that one of the big language users, Unity, has not yet updated to the modern runtime.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-25 14:32:53+00:00
> I've had at least one infection that would probably have killed me in the 17th century.

I had a run of 5 years where every summer I'd get bitten by something and it'd get infected requiring antibiotics. Had to do one interview with a right hand that was easily 50% larger than usual, bright red, and emitting a terrifying amount of heat. Luckily it didn't involve any typing...

(Although in olden times I wouldn't have had those infections because I would undoubtedly have died in childhood - fell down the stairs onto my head as a baby, got stabbed through the hand with a pencil at school, allergic reaction to bullrushes, had a thumb sliced open with a rusty stanley knife also at school, cut my knee and elbow open by landing on a milk bottle on holiday, concussed myself jumping a ramp on a bike, cheese-grated myself on the road going over the handlebars when my chain locked, got bitten countless times by cats both pet and feral, had measles, chicken pox, rubella, plus a variety of other illnesses and scrapes etc. all before my teens.)
by daimajia | 2025-11-25 14:32:57+00:00
No worries, these are fair points and I appreciate the honest feedback.

You're right - there are millions of coloring pages out there already. I thought about this too.

On the environmental cost: if no one uses it, I'll simply shut it down to save resources. That's a practical reality check. But if people do use it, then at least it means I've contributed something to kids' entertainment and education.

That said, my long-term vision isn't just "another coloring page site powered by AI." I'm working on integrating more interactive AI features - things like kids describing what they want and getting personalized pages, or uploading their own drawings to transform into coloring sheets. I want this to be something genuinely new and useful, not just a pile of AI-generated images competing with Google Image Search.

Whether I succeed at that differentiation remains to be seen, but that's the goal. Thanks for sharing your perspective - it's a good reminder to stay focused on creating real value, not just more content.
by auspiv | 2025-11-25 14:33:36+00:00
Austin from austinsnerdythings.com here! Posted this last night and went to sleep. Definitely didn't expect to wake up to it #1 on HN this morning!

Some notes that weren't included in this post:

I do have my LEA-M8T generating time pulses at 16 Hz, with a dpoll of -4 in the chrony config. The poll interval of 16 seconds means it gets 256 samples which also improved the stability.

I do also have that mentioned BH3SAP GPSDO sitting next to me on my desk. I had Claude update the firmware to allow "flywheel" behavior so it continues to generate pulses in the absence of GPS PPS. That's coming in another post. Also had Claude update the firmware to spit out TSIP (trimble proprietary protocol) info for lady heather.

Going to go through the comments and answer a couple other things I see.

Happy to answer any other questions!
by ethmarks | 2025-11-25 14:34:10+00:00
As someone who had a college English assignment due literally just yesterday, I think that "the vast majority" is an overstatement. There are absolutely students in my class who cheat with AI (one of them confessed to it and got a metaphorical slap on the wrist with a 15 point deduction and the opportunity to redo the assignments, which doesn't seem fair but whatever), but the majority of my classmates were actively discussing and working on their essays in class.

Whatever solution we implement in response to AI, it must avoid hurting the students who genuinely want to learn and do honest work. Treating AI detection tools as infallible oracles is a terrible idea because of the staggering number of false reports. The solution many people have proposed in this thread, short one-on-one sessions with the instructor, seems like a great way to check if students can engage with and defend the work they turned in.
by aimusubi | 2025-11-25 14:34:13+00:00
I built AIMusubi as a local-first, open-core agentic automation framework that connects an LLM to real network infrastructure (Cisco IOS-XE, Arista EOS, VyOS) using unified intents, adapters, and observability.

It runs entirely locally and supports full agentic loops: observe → decide → act → verify.

GitHub: https://github.com/aimusubi/aimusubi Demo video (Episode 1): https://youtu.be/JpUCajiYZgI

Happy to answer questions
by ta20240528 | 2025-11-25 14:34:16+00:00
'Tibet was absolutely a sovereign nation. I guess it depends what you mean by "recent"'

The rest of the world notes from afar that Hawaii became a US state in 1959, whilst Tibet entered the PRC way back in 1951.

In 1993, the US congress apologised for this - they didn't give it back :)
Show HN: Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication that works at 30–90% sparsity
by vlejd | 2025-11-25 14:35:00+00:00
To get benefits from sparsity, you usually need to have very sparse matrices, impose some structure on the sparsity pattern or have specialized hardware. None of it is the case if you want to rune pruned LLMs on consumer devices. I wanted to see how far can you push it on a GPU and ended up with this. Blog: https://www.grizzlytech.dev/blog/macko-spmv Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13061 Code (example with torch): https://github.com/vlejd/macko_spmv
by auspiv | 2025-11-25 14:35:06+00:00
I do have that as well, but haven't done a write up on it yet. It was a $70 GPSDO from eBay (BH3SAP variant running Fredzo firmware with some changes to enable flywheel (generating pulse in absence of GPS PPS)). I have verified it can feed the Pi for NTP. Believe the STM32 driving the GPSDO can as well but it has no ethernet capability as-is
by croon | 2025-11-25 14:35:15+00:00
I find it curious that the "Twitter Files" were never actually made available anywhere. Anyhow, I checked your link, and the source for your statement, is simply an article containing another statement, namely this:

> “The same day CENTCOM sent the list, Twitter officials used a tool to grant a special “whitelist” tag that essentially provides verification status to the accounts w/o the blue check, meaning they are exempt from spam/abuse flags, more visible/likely to trend on hashtags,” Fang said.

I'd be interested in reading the "Twitter Files" corroborating this. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I am definitely saying the files would be incredibly easy to defend were they simply released for public consumption and not slowly filtered out over time in short tweets by a few reporters selected by Elon Musk.

Is this an unfair take?
by lxgr | 2025-11-25 14:35:30+00:00
Ah, I meant go south in terms of performance, not correctness. Most TCP congestion control algorithms interpret loss exclusively as a congestion signal, since that's what most lower layers have historically presented to it.

This is why newer TCP variants that use different congestion signals can deal with networks that violate that assumption better, such as e.g. Starlink: https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view...

Other than that, I didn't realize that TLS has no way of just retransmitting broken data without breaking the entire connection (and a potentially expensive request or response with it)! Makes sense at that layer, but I never thought about it in detail. Good to know, thank you.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-25 14:35:52+00:00
> Very few people have the technical understanding required to make such a choice. And of those, fewer people still would actually pick SLC over QLC.

There was a period of time when you could still by consumer SLC drives and pay a premium for them. I still have one.

Anyone assuming the manufacturers are missing out on a golden market opportunity of hidden SLC drive demand is missing the fact that they already offered these. They know how well (or rather, how poorly) they sell.

Even if consumers had full technical knowledge to make decisions, most would pick the TLC and QLC anyway. Some of these comments are talking about optimizing 20 year old drives for being used again two decades later, but ignoring the fact that a 20 year old drive is nearly useless and could be replaced by a superior option for $20 on eBay.

The only thing that would change, practically speaking, is that people looking for really old files on drives they haven’t powered up for 20 years wouldn’t be surprised that the were missing.

The rest of us will do just fine with our TLC drives and actual backups to backup services or backup mediums.

I’ll happily upgrade my SSD every 4-5 years and enjoy the extra capacity over SLC while still coming out money ahead and not losing data.
by 13pixels | 2025-11-25 14:36:18+00:00
Hey HN, OP here.

I’ve been seeing the "Jira vs. Linear" holy war play out on my timeline for months. It usually boils down to anecdotal "Jira is slow" vs. "Linear doesn't scale" arguments.

I wanted to see if I could quantify that sentiment using actual data.

I built a Brand Alignment Engine (Delta) to scrape public sentiment (Reddit, G2, News) and measure the gap between a brand’s intended strategy and market reality.

The Tech Stack:

Frontend: Next.js 16 (App Router) + Tailwind v4

Backend: AdonisJS (TypeScript)

Search: Exa.ai (Neural Search to find the high-quality discussions)

Reasoning: Gemini Pro 3.0 (To synthesize the "Vibe Check" into a 0-100 score)

The Findings (Jira vs. Linear): The data actually surprised me.

Linear (Score 94): The sentiment is incredibly high on "Flow" and "Speed," but the analysis flagged a legitimate gap in "Enterprise Reporting."

Jira (Score 91): Higher than I expected. The market respects the "Utility" and "Scale," but the negative anchors are massive around "Complexity" and "Config."

The most interesting datapoint was Linear's new "Form Templates" feature—the AI flagged it as an 85% threat to Jira Service Desk specifically.

It’s a client-side MVP for now (well, mostly—backend handles the heavy lifting). I’d love feedback on the data visualization or the scraping logic.

Cheers!
by kurtswendson | 2025-11-25 14:36:34+00:00
Thank you for saying a carefully researched paper is "just stupid" - this gets at a fundamental design choice.

Here's why surface mounting beats free-flying spacecraft:

Station-keeping problem: Free-flying telescopes need constant propellant for position/attitude control. Over 30 years at Saturn, this is mission-ending. Surface installations sit on bedrock - zero propellant, infinite operational lifetime. Baseline precision: Interferometry requires sub-wavelength distance knowledge (nanometers at 600nm). The paper uses active laser ranging between surface installations to achieve this. Free-flying spacecraft would need the same laser ranging system PLUS propellant PLUS attitude control. Surface mounting eliminates two of those three requirements. Opposite sides of the sun doesn't work:

Solar orbit puts them in Earth's orbital plane, so Earth is rarely aligned for both simultaneously The Sun itself blocks line of sight for large portions of the orbit Solar radiation pressure and gravitational perturbations constantly change the baseline unpredictably You lose continuous observation capability

The "half orbit wait" critique misunderstands the design: The Rhea-Iapetus baseline changes by <1% over the 79-day period (Section 2.3). Laser ranging tracks this continuously in real-time with nanometer precision. You're observing continuously with a precisely known geometry, not waiting for anything. The slow, predictable variation is actually advantageous - it provides multiple baseline orientations for the same target. Power budget: 20 MW transmission power requires megawatt-class nuclear reactors. Much easier to mount on a surface than on free-flying spacecraft. The surface installation trades mission complexity (landing, drilling, deployment) for operational simplicity (no propellant, stable mounting, unlimited lifetime). For a 30+ year mission, that's the right trade.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-25 14:37:39+00:00
* 8 million people to smoking.

The 1990’s saw one of the most effective smoking cessation campaigns in the world here in the US. There have been numerous case studies on it. It is clearly something we are working on and addressing (not just in the US)

* 4 million to obesity.

Obesity has been widely studied and identified as a major issue and is something doctors and beyond have been trying to help people with. You can’t just ban obesity, and clearly their efforts being made to understand it and help people.

* 2.6 million to alcohol

Plenty of studies and discussion and campaigns to deal with alcoholism and related issues, many of which have been successful, such as DUI laws.

* 2.5 million to healthcare

A complex issue that is in the limelight and several countries have attempted to tackle to vary degrees of success.

* 1.2 million to cars

Probably the most valid one on the list and one that I also agree is under addressed. However, there are numerous studies and discussions going on.

So let’s get back to AI and away from “what about…”: why is there so much resistance (like you seem to be putting up) to any study or discussion of the harmful effects of LLM’s, such as AI-induced psychosis?
by instig007 | 2025-11-25 14:37:48+00:00
> Once you get to that point, you might as well create and learn a different language.

Nope, it's still incredibly valuable to be able to c++14 and c++26 two different translation units and then later link them together (all without leaving the familiar toolchains and ecosystems). That's how big legacy projects can evolve towards better safety incrementally.