MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psychoslave | 2025-11-13 09:22:59+00:00
For some application certainly. Instant messaging of course has many strong point in term of what is to be dealt with. Short messages, photos, quick visios.

But to edit large document, visualize any large corpus with side by side comparison, unless we plug our mobile on a large screen, a keyboard and some arrow pointer handler, there is no real sane equivalent to work with on mobile.
by gmac | 2025-11-13 09:23:10+00:00
OK, but words are not only for compiler-writers. As someone who encounters your compiler, if it targets an output language at a similar level as the input language it will give me a headstart in understanding what it does if I see it referred to as a transpiler rather than simply a compiler.

Overall, I find this discussion very odd. It seems like a kind of deletionism for the dictionary. I mean, what's the use of the word 'crimson'? Anything that's crimson is also just 'red'. Why keep 'large' when we have 'big'? You could delete a large percentage of English words by following this line of thinking.
by coolfox | 2025-11-13 09:25:21+00:00
it feels incredibly dumb now, getting some really basic questions wrong and just throwing nuance to the wind. for claiming to be more human, it understands far less. for example: if I start at a negative net worth how long until I am a millionaire if I consistently grow 2.5% each month? Anyone here would have a basic understand the premise and be able to start answering, 5.1 says it's impossible, with hand holding it will insist you can only reach 0 but that growth isn't the same as a source of income. further hand holding gets it to the point of insisting it cannot continue without making assumptions, goading it will have it arrive at the incorrect value of 72 months, further goading will get 240 months, it took the lazy way out and assumed a static inflation from 2024, then a static income.

o3 is getting it no problem, first try, a simple and reasonable answer, 101 months. claude (opus 4.1) does as well, 88-92 months, though it uses target inflation numbers instead of something more realistic.
by bergsteiger | 2025-11-13 09:26:00+00:00
Very cool to see this on the front page - Don's "The Most Efficient LEDs!" site at https://donklipstein.com/led.html is a great resource, since it is very hard to come by reliable information on early commercial devices!

We used some of this data to trace progress in LED development for our recent Nature Energy paper on technology spillovers in solid-state lighting: https://doi.org/g9kcjd.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 09:26:36+00:00
> numbers-driven development has been a huge issue for a long time now

Ever since UX and UIs started to be driven mainly by metrics and numbers, I felt something started going wrong already. Since then (the decades...), I've learned about "McNamara fallacy" which seems to perfectly fit a lot of "modern" software engineering and product management today:

> The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy) [...] involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
by maccard | 2025-11-13 09:26:43+00:00
> There's a real issue for both Valve and the game dev if this happens. The public isn't going to take this key doesn't work or worse my game stopped working after I bought it and blame nebulous credit card fraud, they're going to blame Valve and/or the dev

It's actually worse than that. G2A have a "consumer friendly" approach whereby if your code doesn't work, they'll basically just take your word for it and give you a new one. In effect what it means is they don't really care if the codes are stolen/duds, they'll just go through _more_ to avoid them having a chargeback against them.
by oersted | 2025-11-13 09:26:52+00:00
I don't understand what the issue is: a transpiler is a compiler that outputs in a language that human programmers use.

It's good to be aware of that from an engineering standpoint, because the host language will have significantly different limitations, interoperability and ecosystem, compared to regular binary or some VM byte-code.

Also, I believe that they are meaningfully different in terms of compiler architecture. Outputting an assembly-like is quite different from generating an AST of a high-level programming language. Yes of course it's fuzzy because some compilers use intermediate representations that in some cases are fairly high-level, but still they are not meant for human use and there are many practical differences.

It's a clearly delineated concept, why not have a word for it.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-13 09:27:38+00:00
>we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified.

This is exactly the right thing to do and the best possible outcome. Google is correct that arbitrary Software installation can be harmful to users, especially those with limited technical knowledge. At the same time there are many users who want to install software freely and should be able to do so.

The compromise of a clear and unambiguous warning of the potential dangers, which the user is then allowed to accept, seems very good and the right thing to do.
by jama211 | 2025-11-13 09:28:24+00:00
95% of products in the world are just as unnecessary as this one. It’s literally just a random a phone bag of which there are literally many products made by other companies that are MORE expensive than this one. HN just sees apple + pretentious and starts frothing at the mouth.

It’s very easy to just not buy it, sheesh. Touch grass people.
by richardfeynman | 2025-11-13 09:28:25+00:00
"Both statements are beyond doubts. Could you be so kind as to point the disinformation I’m allegedly spreading?"

Sure StopDisinfo910. You're spreading the following disinformation:(1) that the IDF establishes control lines arbitrarily; (2) that these lines are always unpublished and invisible; (3) that the IDF purposefully shoots innocent palestinian civilians; (4) that the IDF has a bloodlust that leads it to want to kill even their own hostages.

1. The IDF does not establish what you call "no go zones" arbitrarily. You wrote: "We are talking of an army arbitrarily establishing no go zone in the middle of streets" The lines the IDF establishes, for example the yellow-line, are not arbitrary but rather the result of extensive negotiation and both tactical and strategic considerations.

"and then having snipers shoot down civilians crossing these imaginary lines" First, the lines are not "imaginary" - they're very real, which is why people get shot when crossing them. Second, can you prove that snipers shot down innocent civilians specifically? You say they are civilians - are you able to distinguish them from palestinian militants, who fight without uniform? Do you have a video that shows the IDF sniper shooting an innocent civilian with a time, date, geolocation data? If so, what were the names of the people who were shot? Third, in all wars crossing frontlines is going to be fatal, civilian or militant. Try walking around Pokrovsk right now, or in the DMZ. You'd get the same result. There's nothing different about crossing an IDF line.

". An army so blood thirsty they shot their own defenceless hostage who came in front of them with hands raised." Do you really thing bloodthirst is what caused the IDF to kill their own hostages? How do you square that with the fact that they're willing to risk so much to save and recover hostages? A more likely explanation is that the IDF mistakenly thought the escaped hostages were palestinian militants. They were in a warzone, military age men, and the IDF thought the escaped hostages were trying to lure them into an ambush -- the same type of ambush that killed many other IDF soldiers in booby trapped buildings. Friendly fire is a fact of war, it doesn't prove bloodlust.

Gaza is the most filmed war in history. If the IDF were massacring civilians en masse, as Hamas did on October 7, there would be many clear videos of these massacres, with both the IDF soldiers and the innocent civilians in view. There's none.

"Both statements are beyond doubts. " I have reasonable doubts about them, and the onus is on you to prove your quixotic explanations about "arbitrary lines" and the like. as you can see, so they are not.
by imtringued | 2025-11-13 09:29:09+00:00
That's the thing about this. Calling things "world models" is only done to confuse people, because "world" is such a loose word. In this scenario the meaning is "3d scene". When others use it, they may mean "screen space physics model". In the context of LLMs it means something like "reasoning about real-world processes outside of text".
by benchly | 2025-11-13 09:29:23+00:00
First, define in detail what "success" looks like to you in relation to what you are trying to do. Be specific, here, because that yard stick varies from person to person, profession to profession, etc.

As an example, I consider myself a pretty successful controls technician because I have a good reputation in the circles I run in, generally get the job done quickly so my customer can get back to work and stop losing money and my work hasn't resulted in anyone getting hurt (a very real possibility in my industry). I have almost no social media presence.

My friend is in real estate, and he has spent years building a client base that feeds itself on referrals by making himself very open, accessible and interactive on nearly every social media platform that most people use daily. He is also quite successful and has cultivated a reputation for trust and honesty because of his social media presence.

To define success, it's important to understand what it is you want to accomplish.
by tempfile | 2025-11-13 09:29:32+00:00
> isn't it much faster

No. Radioactive materials decay at the same rate no matter what you do to them.

> the effects of the uranium is largely mitigated

Very different from decaying faster. It's possible that by covering it in algae you block the radiation from escaping. But the algae is still going to have to sit there for 10000 years without moving before the waste is decayed. You're better off sticking it inside lead.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-11-13 09:29:53+00:00
True, but it's funny how C-level people at these companies mention the apparently ever-increasing percentage of their code that is written by LLMs every chance they get, but can't even maintain a relatively simple Windows application.

Zuck, six months ago: “Within 12 to 18 months, most of the code will be written by AI. And I don’t mean autocomplete.”

Meta, today: "Maintaining this basic Windows app is just too much work."
by Simulacra | 2025-11-13 09:30:00+00:00
Working from home has its benefits, that nearly all of us celebrate, but it also has many negatives that - imo - tend to be ignored for fear of disrupting the WFH fan base. I am always seeing my colleagues over Zoom, and everybody I work with is always over Zoom, and it's led to almost a version od estrangement. I'm not there to bump into people in the hallway, to go to lunch with people, I'm all by myself at home. That's great because I can set my own schedule, don't have to use an alarm to wake up, work in my bathrobe, all those great things… I just wish there were some people around. Half the time I wish my company would make me return to the office, because I think then I would have a real opportunity to get those spontaneous connections and build those interpersonal connections..
by greggyb | 2025-11-13 09:30:07+00:00
I'd argue pipes are even more powerful with multi-core machines. You get parallelism for absolutely free. No thread pools to manage, no async, no channels, no new abstractions. Just the same pipe that works in the same way it did 50 years ago.

But because each step of the pipeline is a separate process, you get the N executables of the pipeline all able to run on separate cores.

I am not trying to say that every workload will benefit from this, or that such coarse parallelism is optimal for all use cases. But the fact that it is free with no changes to the pipe, the pipeline, or any of the executables is incredible.
by Pterjudin | 2025-11-13 09:30:43+00:00
I’ve been deep inside the Void codebase for months, and it became clear the project had huge potential but wasn’t being pushed to where it could realistically compete with tools like Cursor. So instead of waiting for it to evolve, I decided to pick it up and drive it forward properly.

I’m continuing the work as CortexIDE — a more focused, more aggressive evolution of Void with one goal: make an open-source editor that can hit Cursor-level capabilities without locking people into a closed ecosystem.

Key focus areas:

A cleaner, more reliable Chat → Plan → Diff → Apply workflow

Multi-file agent edits that don’t break or hallucinate

Repo-aware retrieval using tree-sitter + local vector DBs

Safe apply (auto-stash + rollback) to avoid nuking your repo

Local model support without telemetry

Leaner UI and faster feedback loops

Fully open development, transparent roadmap

It’s still early, but progress is fast because the foundation was already strong — it just needed someone to treat it like a serious product instead of a side experiment.

If you want to follow along, contribute, or test the direction:

https://github.com/OpenCortexIDE/cortexide

Happy to hear feedback — especially the brutal kind. This is meant to become a real alternative, not another half-finished “AI editor clone.”
by sunaookami | 2025-11-13 09:31:03+00:00
Reminds me of this 2013 story where they moved to native Java for Android and hit limits with e.g. too many methods and instead of refactoring or just not bloating their app they hacked some internals of the Davlik VM while it's running during app install: https://engineering.fb.com/2013/03/04/android/under-the-hood...
by oktoberpaard | 2025-11-13 09:31:03+00:00
Thanks for the correction. So only the part about legal tender was correct, which is probably what I was confused with. The relevant part:

> The one and two cent coins will remain legal tender, and retailers can choose whether or not to participate. The Netherlands cannot declare the smallest coins worthless on its own in Europe; this must be arranged in Brussels.

The government page about this: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/betalingsverkeer/vr...

> Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.

What do you mean with this? Surely the Lidl and Aldi don’t give exact change by default in the Netherlands in 2025?
by constantcrying | 2025-11-13 09:31:32+00:00
Sure, it doesn't matter to the customer. But it matters if the problem is going to be solved.

Valve can not solve it. The only way it can be solved is if game studios create anti cheat software, which are effective and can be used within a Linux environment. This will only happen if companies see a profit motive to do this, which will happen if the market is large enough.
by acdbddh | 2025-11-13 09:31:41+00:00
As much as I love hacking with various things, there are reasons why I buy "closed products" for myself and for my family. I like to do hacking when I want it (with ESP32, rpi etc). I don't want to be forced to serve as a free IT support guy anytime someone presses a wrong button.

When it comes to gaming consoles, I want them to serve reliably to my family. The game console must be fun, optimized for best experience and should not break. Will that be possible with an open platform where anyone can install anything?
by avar | 2025-11-13 09:33:09+00:00
> he also addressed the packing problem, saying[...]

If we're going to take this "packing problem" a tad more seriously, then the notion that someone might spend on the order of $2.5 billion on micro-SD cards for their station wagon (assuming 1TB at $100/card), but isn't in a position to contact an SD card manufacturer to solve this problem for them is a bit absurd.
by saidinesh5 | 2025-11-13 09:33:12+00:00
Out of curiosity, Does anyone know where exactly does the bloat of the electron come from in terms of ram usage, compared to a "native toolkit"?

Because just parsing html/xml/some declarative ui description to create a scenegraph and pushing it to the GPU is something I'm sure even native frameworks like Qt do.

Yet I can feel the latency in vs code vs. say sublime text.

It's tempting to blame the huge js blobs trying to create an application abstraction over a document object model but i feel like there should be more to it than just that...
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-11-13 09:34:12+00:00
1) Are some intelligent people with the power over hundreds of millions, billions even, that sure that AI will pay off?

2) Is it all a gamble by not-that-intelligent people that have power over those billions?

3) Is it intelligent people knowing this will never work, just pretending for the grift, ripping off 2)?

It's fascinating and I can't wait to see how it's ending, despite knowing there is no happy end possible anymore. Either most people are replaced by AI and society as we know it ends or there is a gigantic crash waiting.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-13 09:34:41+00:00
>My feeling is that birth rate could be solved in properly authoritarian country.

Socialist Romania did all that during communist rule and it exploded spectacularly 30+ years later when communism ended, that we're still feeling the negative backlash effects today.

The answer to birth rate issues, is not more forced government intervention, but less to none of it. The reason we're in a mess in the west is the governments putting too many thumbs on the economic and regulatory scales for far too long, manipulating the natural order of life. Modern industrialized highly skilled societies are detrimental to human biological reproduction.

If you built an economic system where kids need to leave the parents' village to go spend time grinding studying and upskilling till their mid 20s in a big city and then working till their mid 30s before they afford to move out of shoebox, with their parents nowhere near to help with childcare, you can't be surprised demographics collapse. As per the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child.

You can't fuck with mother nature and not have it fuck you back. It's Newton's Third Law.

Plus, contrary to Reaganomics, the economy can't grow infinitely and neither can the population. Everything created by man eventually has a plateau and an end. So then why not reform the dated and broken "infinite growth" Ponzi-scheme economic system now towards a more sustainable model, instead of delaying its inevitable failure with stuff like 50 year mortgages and unlimited migration?
Show HN: Akashi Notari – On-chain Proof of Existence for any file in 60s for <$1
by takeshi_w | 2025-11-13 09:35:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a simple tool to solve a problem I've faced as a developer and freelancer: how can you definitively prove a file (like code, a contract, or a design) existed at a specific time?

It's called Akashi Notari, and it’s a simple utility for creating an on-chain "Proof of Existence." It lets you anchor any file's cryptographic hash on the blockchain (supports Base, Ethereum, Optimism). And costs less than a dollar.

The main focus is privacy and simplicity:

- *100% Private:* Hashing (SHA-256) is done entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your computer. Only the calculated hash is sent to the blockchain. - *Fast:* The whole process, from file drag-and-drop to a confirmed transaction, takes about 60 seconds. - *Verifiable:* As soon as the transaction confirms, you get a PDF certificate with the hash, timestamp, and a direct link to the on-chain transaction for verification.

I built this as a "poor man's copyright" or a simple notarization tool for:

- *Freelancers:* Proving when a deliverable was completed. - *Creators:* Timestamping IP (art, music, manuscripts) before sharing it. - *Anyone:* Timestamping contracts or records without the cost and hassle of traditional notaries. Maybe some commit-reveal scenarios.

The workflow is just:

1. Drag/drop your file. 2. Connect a wallet. 3. Confirm the transaction. 4. Download your PDF certificate. 5. Prove anytime in the future that your file existed using simple instructions in PDF

You can try it out here: https://akashi-notari.com/ You can also retrieve/verify existing certificates here: [https://akashi-notari.com/certificate-retrieval](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://akashi-notari.com/ce...)

I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks!
by pimeys | 2025-11-13 09:35:18+00:00
https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter

> Does not support resolutions and colour spaces greater than 4k60 4:2:0 8-bit colour.

This is kind of annoying if you want 4k60 4:4:4 and 10-bit HDR.
by rifty | 2025-11-13 09:35:44+00:00
It felt like the headset hardware had reached a sweet spot for the moment, but with this announcement the software situation is now also going to be reaching a similar place. Now we have a continuity of freedom with a PC OS on the headset away from home as well as the full mobility of a untethered headset display with the full power of a stationary PC at home. Can't wait to see what dev's do with this.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-11-13 09:36:27+00:00
Where I live, WhatsApp is the standard. 100% of people have it installed, minus some hermits who have never heard of the Internet.

My parents know how to use WhatsApp and have it installed. My sister and her family, too. My friends, their friends, the scammer trying to explain to me how to access the crypto I apparently lost track of on their platform, my former coworkers, my current coworkers, the people I interact with for my freelance work, the government's road safety alerts, my ex-girlfriend who still has a bunch of my clothes, my neighborhthey areood group informing me when I need to put out the trash-they're all on WhatsApp.

It's the network effect. Even to get my family group on Signal, I'd have to get twenty people to install Signal, probably visit some of them to help them with the setup, do it again every time they switch phones, and so on. And they'd probably still default to WhatsApp because that's what they know.
by nchmy | 2025-11-13 09:36:32+00:00
Why does the title of this post not match the title of the article? Why use "homeless" when they used the euphemism "no fixed address"?

Though, why does the article even talk about his living situation? If he had an address, would they have published it?

And why call it a "joy ride"? That implies something reckless, when it sounds much more like he literally was just doing it for the joy of it. The whole thing went very well - police and passengers were patient and collaborative, and the guy did a good job, dropped people off at their stops, and even rejected someone whose pass was expired.

I hope rather than make his life even worse, they find him a path towards being a bus driver and having an address. He'd likely be a better driver than many actual ones, who are disgruntled or worse.
by mgaunard | 2025-11-13 09:36:32+00:00
The native client had features the web one didn't have, like video calls, so it was actually the one leading features-wise.

I guess it's because they decided to make the web client first-class, and instead of maintaining a native client for each platform (windows, mac, linux...) they opted to just serialize all non-mobile uses (which probably aren't that important to them to begin with) to web.
by psychoslave | 2025-11-13 09:36:34+00:00
Do you mean, USA Military–industrial complex?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...

https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/ar...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mark-zuckerberg-jo...