MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-11-24 20:04:44+00:00
I think legacy schooling just needs to be reworked. Kids should be doing way more projects that demonstrate the integration of knowledge and skills, rather than focusing so much energy on testing and memorization. There's probably a small core of things that really must be fully integrated and memorized, but for everything else you should just give kids harder projects which they're expected to solve by leveraging all the tools at their disposal. Focus on teaching kids how to become high-agency beings with good epistemics and a strong math core. Give them experiments and tools to play around and actually understand how things work. Bring back real chemistry labs and let kids blow stuff up.

The key issue with schools is that they crush your soul and turn you into a low-agency consumer of information within a strict hierarchy of mind-numbing rules, rather than helping you develop your curiosity hunter muscles to go out and explore. In an ideal world, we would have curated gardens of knowledge and information which the kids are encouraged to go out and explore. If they find some weird topic outside the garden that's of interest to them, figure out a way to integrate it.

I don't particularly blame the teachers for the failings of school though, since most of them have their hands tied by strict requirements from faceless bureaucrats.
by amarant | 2025-11-24 20:04:51+00:00
I find the take a quirk in how the state of the art assistive technology works is reason for privacy fear mongering to be tired, unimaginative, and typical of today's journalism that cares more for clicks than reporting fact.

It's a very interesting quirk of a immensely useful device for those that need it, but it's not an ethical dilemma.

I for one am sick and tired of these so-called ethicists who's only work appear to be so stir up outrage over nothing holding back medicinal progress.

Similar disingenuous articles appeared when stem-cell research was new, and still do from time to time. Saving lives and improving life for the least fortunate is not an ethical dilemma, it's an unequivocally good thing.

Quit the concern trolling nature.com, you're supposed to be better than that
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-11-24 20:05:10+00:00
My point is that "blindly continuing" is not a great default if you "don't care". If you continue, then you first have to be aware that a multithreaded program can and will continue after a panic in the first place (most people don't think about panics at all), and you also have to know the state of the data after every possible panic, if any. Overall, you have to be quite careful if you want to continue properly, without risking downstream bugs.

The design with a verbose ".lock().unwrap()" and no easy opt-out is unfortunate, but conceptually, I see poisoning as a perfectly acceptable default for people who don't spend all their time musing over panics and their possible causes and effects.
by toast0 | 2025-11-24 20:05:41+00:00
If they're concerned about performance, yeah. OpenBSD doesn't do the basics that you need to get the most out of your SMP hardware; there's no way to set cpu affinity at least from userland, and it's clear that this sort of work is not a priority for OpenBSD; it's not easy work, but FreeBSD has done it. Beyond CPU affinity, you also need your network structures setup to reduce lock contention, things like fine grained locks, hashed subtables and/or "lockless" tables, configuring the NICs as close as possible to one queue per core and keeping flows on the same queue which is pinned to a single core so that the per flow locks never contend and don't bounce between cores.

Ubuntu/Linux do have reasonable performance, but I think they prefer PF firewalls, so that makes Linux a non-option for firewalls.

Personally, I don't really care for PF, but it offers pfsync, which I do care for, so I use it and ipfw... but I need to check in, I think FreeBSD PF may have added the hooks I use ipfw for (bandwidth limits/shaping/queue discipline).
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-24 20:05:45+00:00
Yeah, it's a perfectly fine place to land. My objection is completely to claiming to be 100% open source when it isn't; if they'd just said 99% open source, or that everything they'd written was now open, then I wouldn't mind (or at least, I'd view it as unfortunate, but I wouldn't be upset with them).
by hunterbown | 2025-11-24 20:06:03+00:00
Hey HN, I posted this a few weeks ago - honestly, it didn't even have tests and definitely didn't work - thank you to the commenter that let me know - haha. Wanted to share it again now that it's in a better place.

Hegelion uses dialectical philosophy to force an AI to argue with itself —thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

What I've found is that it's really helpful for complex topics where a single-pass answer falls apart under scrutiny. It seems to force some sort of slow thinking that doesn't ordinarily happen and ideas progress over the response.

I don't have hard data on hallucination reduction yet, and it can definitely spiral into recursive LLM land on certain topics. But it also produces genuinely novel responses I haven't seen before from these models -- more confident but still limiting in its confidence if that makes sense. Confidently unconfident!

Runs as an MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code), Python agent, or just copy the prompts.

Curious what use cases you find for this and what kinds of answers you get.
by ximeng | 2025-11-24 20:06:30+00:00
With less token usage, cheaper pricing, and enhanced usage limits for Opus, Anthropic are taking the fight to Gemini and OpenAI Codex. Coding agent performance leads to better general work and personal task performance, so if Anthropic continue to execute well on ergonomics they have a chance to overcome their distribution disadvantages versus the other top players.
by wasting_time | 2025-11-24 20:06:47+00:00
Compared to working with iptables, PF is like this haiku: A breath of fresh air, floating on white rose petals, eating strawberries. Now I'm getting carried away: Hartmeier codes now, Henning knows not why it fails, fails only for n00b. Tables load my lists, tarpit for the asshole spammer, death to his mail store. CARP due to Cisco, redundant blessed packets, licensed free for me.

(From https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-pf&m=108507584013046&w=2 )

Nftables has improved the situation on Linux somewhat, but PF is incredibly intuitive and powerful. A league of its own when it comes to firewalling.
by magicalist | 2025-11-24 20:07:06+00:00
Their standards position is still neutral; what switched a year ago was that they said they would be open to shipping an implementation that met their requirements. The tracking bug hasn't been updated[2] The patches you mention are still part of the intent to prototype (behind a flag), similar to the earlier implementation that was removed in Chrome.

They're looking at the same signals as Chrome of a format that's actually getting use, has a memory safe implementation, and that will stick around for decades to justify adding it to the web platform, all of which seem more and more positive since 2022.

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#jpegxl

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539075
by cube2222 | 2025-11-24 20:07:06+00:00
Nice! Feature #2 here is basically an implementation of the “write code to call tools instead of calling them directly” that was a big topic of conversation recently.

It uses their Python sandbox, is available via API, and exposes the tool calls themselves as normal tool calls to the API client - should be really simple to use!

Batch tool calling has been a game-changer for the AI assistant we've built into our product recently, and this sounds like a further evolution of this, really (primarily, it's about speed; if you can accomplish 2x more tools calls in one turn, it will usually mean your agent is now 2x faster).
by TheCraiggers | 2025-11-24 20:07:42+00:00
> it sends the message that GrapheneOS can be pushed around and manipulated: A slight hint of a threat and they flee.

Somehow I doubt France thinks they "won". What they wanted was a back door into the OS. Not only did they not get that but they lost what little bargaining power they had when gOS left France.

> it sends a message of inexperience in business, negotiation

You don't negotiate with terrorists. Obviously France isn't a terror organization but the point is the same: you don't play their game. You play your own.

Leaving the country is exactly that.
by runako | 2025-11-24 20:08:01+00:00
It is a freedom we had at the beginning of 2025 to purchase goods from more countries with lower taxes, I don't understand your response. This cannot be in debate.

I agree with you that US citizens have a different suite of freedoms than those enjoyed by citizens of other countries.

But it's just factually incorrect to say that the economic freedoms of all US citizens (and residents) have not been curtailed this year.
by hacker_homie | 2025-11-24 20:08:14+00:00
We can only use technical solutions to this problem for so long.

The real issue is that the public wants a right to digital privacy.

The state would not like you to have that because they are lazy and want to be able to look at your messages.

Because they have convinced themselves that messages are a crime.

This is a political problem not a technical one.
by thomas_fa | 2025-11-24 20:08:23+00:00
FractalBits is an S3-compatible object storage system designed for high performance and low latency. Using our custom-built fractal ART metadata engine, it delivers up to 1 million 4K read IOPS for single bucket with p99 latency ~5ms, at significantly lower cost than AWS S3 Express One Zone. Unlike standard S3, FractalBits provides native atomic rename support for both objects and directories. We are happy to open source our API server implementation (which support both actix and axum framework) today and welcome any feedback!
by Closi | 2025-11-24 20:08:43+00:00
Terrence Tao seems to think it has it's use in finding solutions for maths problemms:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115591487350860999

I don't know enough about maths to know if this classifies as 'improving on existing results', but at least it was a good enough for Terrence Tao to use it for ideas.
by comboy | 2025-11-24 20:09:54+00:00
> The patients could accurately indicate whether an object was present in the left visual field and pinpoint its location, even when they responded with the right hand or verbally. This despite the fact that their cerebral hemispheres can hardly communicate with each other and do so at perhaps 1 bit per second

1 bit per second and we are passing complex information about location in 3d space?
by tialaramex | 2025-11-24 20:10:00+00:00
On a typical modern 64-bit Linux for example they're 40 bytes ie they are 320 bits. So yeah, unnecessarily bulky.

On my Linux system today Rust's Mutex<Option<CompactString>> is smaller than the pthread mutex type whether it is locked and has the text "pthread_mutex_t is awful" inside it or maybe unlocked with explicitly no text (not an empty string), either would only take like 30-odd bytes, the pthread_mutex_t is 40 bytes.

On Windows the discrepancy is even bigger, their OS native mutex type is this sprawling 80 byte monster while their Mutex<Option<CompactString> is I believe slightly smaller than on Linux even though it has the same features.
by microtonal | 2025-11-24 20:10:07+00:00
I'm surprised how many people are happily buying and using WiFi smart lamps from questionable origin. It would be somewhat hilarious if Western internet gets sabotaged by lightbulbs in the case of a military conflict.

But yeah, it's hard to secure home networks. One step would be if expert users and ISP boxes would make a separate WiFi network/VLAN for IoT devices. Second, there should be more regulation and education about not connecting crap devices to your network and/or Western sellers (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) should be liable if they continue selling a device once it is known that it is malicious.
by morkalork | 2025-11-24 20:10:23+00:00
There was that whole Russian operation paying blogs, influencers and other alt-media personalities in the run up to the election that was investigated. Nothing came of it and no one cared. I lost all faith in anyone being reasonable at that point. People want to hear what they want to hear, you can tell about how it's a psyops all you want, they still don't care.
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-24 20:10:44+00:00
I'm like this too. It's an incremental system that given enough time converges on the tidy state. I can take something to the foot of the stairs that I know needs to go up there, and then when I later go upstairs I can deposit at the top of the stairs, then when I'm accessing the linen closet I'll glance over and be like oh yeah, some of those items belong in here, I'll put them away now and get the others later. In some ways it's a permission structure to do part of a task without feeling like you're now chained to completely finishing it before you can do anything else.

This all drove my ex nuts though; from her perspective the whole thing was an exercise in deck-chair rearrangement that only served to increase overall entropy while in the intermediate states.
by kingstnap | 2025-11-24 20:11:26+00:00
Having had some experience teaching and designing labs and evaluating students in my opinion there is basically no problem that can't be solved with more instructor work.

The problem is that the structure pushes for teaching productivity which basically directly opposes good pedagogy at this point in the optimization.

Some specifics:

1. Multiple choice sucks. It's obvious that written response better evaluates students and oral is even better. But multiple choice is graded instantly by a computer. Written response needs TAs. Oral is such a time sink and needs so many TAs and lots of space if you want to run them in parallel.

1.5 Similarly having students do things on computers is nice because you don't have to print things and even errors in the question can be fixed live and you can ask students to refresh the page. But if the chatbots let them cheat too easily on computers doing hand written assesments sucks cause you have to go arrange for printing and scanning.

2. Designing labs is a clear LLM tradeoff. Autograded labs with testbenches and fill in the middle style completetions or API completetions are incredibly easy to grade. You just pull the commit before some specific deadline and run some scripts.

You can do 200 students in the background when doing other work its so easy. But the problem is that LLMS are so good at fill in the middle and making testbenches pass.

I've actually tried some more open ended labs before and its actually very impressive how creative students are. They are obviously not LLMs there is this diversity in thought and simplicity of code that you do not get with ChatGPT.

But it is ridiculously time consuming to pull people's code and try to run open ended testbenches that they have created.

3. Having students do class presentations is great for evaluating them. But you can only do like 6 or 7 presentations in a 1 hr block. You will need to spend like a week even in a relatively small class.

4. What I will say LLMs are fun for are having students do open ended projects faster with faster iterations. You can scope creep them if you expect expect to use AI coding.
by agentifysh | 2025-11-24 20:11:32+00:00
again the question of concern as codex user is usage

its hard to get any meaningful use out of claude pro

after you ship a few features you are pretty much out of weekly usage

compared to what codex-5.1-max offers on a plan that is 5x cheaper

the 4~5% improvement is welcome but honestly i question whether its possible to get meaningful usage out of it the way codex allows it

for most use cases medium or 4.5 handles things well but anthropic seems to have way less usage limits than what openai is subsidizing

until they can match what i can get out of codex it won't be enough to win me back

edit: I upgraded to claude max! read the blog carefully and seems like opus 4.5 is lifted in usage as well as sonnet 4.5!
by behnamoh | 2025-11-24 20:12:01+00:00
This is what I've been talking about for a few months now. the AI field seems to reinvent the wheel every few months. And because most people really don't know what they're talking about, they just jump on the hype and adopt the new so-called standards without really thinking if it's the right approach. It really annoys me because I have been following some open source projects that have had some genuinely novel ideas about AI agent design. And they are mostly ignored by the community. But as soon as a large company like Anthropic or OpenAI starts a trend, suddenly everyone adopts it.
by Pxtl | 2025-11-24 20:12:52+00:00
AFAIK downconverting to jpeg is only an option for legacy jpegs that have been upconverted to jpegxl though. Many jpegxl images likely won't support downconverting if they were created as jxl from the get-go.

Basically, jpeg->jxl->jpeg is perfectly lossless conversion, but a newly-made jxl->jpeg is not, even if it doesn't use modern jxl-only features like alpha channels.

With that in mind I'd actually prefer if those were treated as separate file-formats with distinct file-extensions (backwards-compatible jpeg->jxls vs pure-jxl). The former could be trivially handled with automated tools, but the latter can't.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-11-24 20:12:52+00:00
I think part of the reason AI is having such a negative effect on schools in particular is because of how many education processes are reliant on an archaic, broken way of "learning." So much of it is focused upon memorization and regurgitation of information (which AI is unmatched at doing).

School is packed with inefficiency and busywork that is completely divorced from the way people learn on their own. In fact, it's pretty safe to say you could learn something about 10x by typing it into an AI chat bot and having it tailor the experience to you.
by keernan | 2025-11-24 20:13:07+00:00
>After adjusting for changes in the age composition of the U.S. population, researchers found that the prevalence rate of neurological diseases and disorders has remained stable over time, with only a 0.2% decrease between 1990 and 2021.

>Over the same period, deaths from neurological diseases and disorders declined by 15%, meaning more people are living longer with these conditions. As a result, the number of years lived with disability increased by 10%.
by havblue | 2025-11-24 20:14:00+00:00
It would be difficult. Aside from the characters and the cast, one of the biggest heroes of the movie was the script. It was dense with irony, jokes about the noir genre, straight man/funny man jokes and physical humor. You don't need the original cast to make a new Chinatown comedy with toons. It's a matter of assembling a story that's interesting and funny, with associated recognizable cartoon characters.
by ruralfam | 2025-11-24 20:14:04+00:00
I recently (last week) used Nano Banana Pro3 for some specific image generation. It was leagues ahead of 2.5. Today I used it to refine a very hard-to-write email. It made some really good suggestions. I did not take its email text verbatim. Instead I used the text and suggestions to improve my own email. Did a few drafts with Gemini3 critiqueing them. Very useful feedback. My final submission about "..evaluate this email..." got Gemini3 to say something like "This is 9.5/10". I sorta pride myself on my writing skills, but must admit that my final version was much better than my first. Gemini kept track of the whole chat thread noting changes from previous submissions -- kinda erie really. Total time maybe 15 minutes. Do I think Gemini will write all my emails verbatim copy/paste... No. Does Gemini make me (already a pretty good writer) much better. Absolutely. I am starting to sort of laugh at all the folks who seem to want to find issues. Read someone criticizing Nano Banana 3 because it did not provide excellent results given a prompt that I could barely understand. Folks that criticize Gemini3 because they cannot copy/paste results. Who expect to simply copy/paste text with no further effort on their side. Myself, I find these tools pretty damn impressive. I need to ensure I provide good image prompts. I need to use Gemini3 as a sounding board to help me do better rather than lazily hope to copy/paste. My experience... Thanks Google. Thanks OpenAI (I also use ChatGPT similarly -- just for text). HTH, NSC
by speff | 2025-11-24 20:14:06+00:00
Most of what I learned in college was only because I did homework and struggled to figure it out myself. Classroom time was essentially just a heads up to what I'll actually be learning myself later.

Granted, this was much less the case in grade school - but if students are going to see homework for the first time in college, I can see problems coming up.

If you got rid of homework throughout all of the "standard" education path (grade school + undergrad), I would bet a lot of money that I'd be much dumber for it.
by yannyu | 2025-11-24 20:14:17+00:00
As much as I hated schooling, I do want to say that there are parts of learning that are simply hard. There are parts that you can build enthusiasm for with project work and prioritizing for engagement. But there are many things that people should learn that will require drudgery to learn and won't excite all people.

Doing derivatives, learning the periodic table, basic language and alphabet skills, playing an instrument are foundational skills that will require deliberate practice to learn, something that isn't typically part of project based learning. At some point in education with most fields, you will have to move beyond concepts and do some rote memorization and repetition of principles in order to get to higher level concepts. You can't gamify your way out of education, despite our best attempts to do so.
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-24 20:14:22+00:00
Checking the comments of a couple of posts, I noticed their lengths seem to be too uniform. E.g. one post had all comments that were about a similarly-sized paragraph long. Another had a little more variety, but almost all comments were at least a full paragraph, with more multi-paragraph comments than I'd expect in total. Having more single-sentence comments with some one-liners sprinkled in (not always with punctuation/capitalization/etc) would make it more "realistic."
by timschmidt | 2025-11-24 20:14:26+00:00
Unix CLI utilities have been all text for 50 years. Arguably that is why they are still relevant. Attempts to impose structured data on the paradigm like those in PowerShell have their adherents and can be powerful, but fail when the data doesn't fit the structure.

We see similar tendency toward the most general interfaces in "operator mode" and similar the-AI-uses-the-mouse-and-keyboard schemes. It's entirely possible for every application to provide a dedicated interface for AI use, but it turns out to be more powerful to teach the AI to understand the interfaces humans already use.
by apparent | 2025-11-24 20:15:15+00:00
Yeah I don't need 30 days, but starting out at a week with AOD puts a pretty low ceiling on future battery life. Appreciate the pointer though.

In thinking further, I realized that the buttons are actually a pretty good moat against the big tech company competitors. Their UIs are all about touchscreens, so they'll never have as many/useful buttons as Pebbles do.