MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MarkusQ | 2025-11-28 21:53:10+00:00
Good point. Digging through the links (eight or nine deep) you eventually come to the actual directive:

https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_AD_2025_0268_E.pdf/EAD_2...

It looks like the fix it to replace the elevator aileron computer (ELAC), which sounds like a hardware fix, not a software update rollback. But that sort of detail often doesn't survive repeated rounds of journalism.
Show HN: WhereWiki – Visualize Wikipedia connections to geographic locations
by wherewiki | 2025-11-28 21:53:34+00:00
I've always liked maps, graph theory, and falling into wikipedia rabbit holes.

Years ago I had an idea for a dataviz that could combine all three of those things, so I wrote up the backend to get it to work but it never went anywhere because I'm a shite front-end dev. But recently had some free time and started messing around with AI codegen and got it running.

How to use: Type in the title for a Wikipedia page of a topic you like (e.g., "List of cryptids"), and then the map should start populating itself with data from wiki. Not all of the links it surfaces are particularly interesting, but it can be a fun way to surface little bits of local trivia and history.

Vibe-coding Caveat/disclaimer: building this served two purposes for me. First, personal curiosity. Second, professional curiosity to get some hand-on experience pushing the limits of vibe-coding. And... that has resulted in creating a nigh-unmaintainable pile of spaghetti code. I find bugs fairly regularly and my options are to either start manually refactoring everything to make sensible code paths or I can ask Claude to fix things and just expect that every bugfix will create to regressions someplace else. I have decreed this version "stable enough" and am going to stick a pin in it so I can move on to something else to save my sanity.
by innocentoldguy | 2025-11-28 21:54:03+00:00
I worked for a company writing Elixir code several years ago. Prior to my arrival, the ignorant architect had deployed Elixir in a way that broke the BEAM (which he viewed as "old and deprecated"). Furthermore, one of the "staff" engineers—instead of using private functions as they're intended—created a pattern of SomePublicModule and SomePublicModule.Private, where he placed all the "private" functions in the SomePublicModule.Private module as public functions so that he could "test them."

I tried almost in vain to fix these two ridiculous decisions, but the company refused to let code fixes through the review process if they touched "well-established, stable code that has been thoroughly tested." After being there for a couple of years, the only thing I was able to fight through and fix was the BEAM issue, which ultimately cost me my job.

My point in all this is that, at least sometimes, it isn't good engineers writing silly code, but rather a combination of incompetent/ignorant engineers making stupid decisions, and company policies that prevent these terrible decisions from ever being fixed, so good engineers have no choice but to write bad code to compensate for the other bad code that was already cemented in place.
by jeltz | 2025-11-28 21:54:47+00:00
100% agreed. But to me that sounds like a typical case of rushing instead of working like responsible engineers. If the foundation is built on sand then that needs to be fixed. Engineers being expected to magically paper over a lack of clear requirements is what leads to bad code. I am fine with helping gather the requirements but if I get a list of unclear and shifting requirements and just is expected to fix it I obviously will fail.
by zkmon | 2025-11-28 21:54:53+00:00
The actual coding work in most non-tech big companies, is considered a low-level or dirty work and is delegated to the contractors or junior developers, who just can't bother anyone to get the information. As a result, bad code happens.

Also, the process, security, approvals and compliance could dominate so much that less than 20 lines of code changes per week could become the norm and acceptable.
by malkia | 2025-11-28 21:55:33+00:00
I've been using LLMs as calculators for words, like they can summarize, spot, correct, but often can be wrong about this - especially when I have to touch language I haven't used in a while (Python, Powershell, Rust as recent examples), or sub-system (SuperPrefetch on WIndows, Or why audio is dropping on coworker's machines when they run some of the tools, and like this... don't ask me why), and all kinds of obscure subjects (where I'm sure experts exists, but when you need them they are not easy (as in "nearby") to reach for, and even then might not help)

But now my grain of salt has increased - it's still helpful, but much like a real calculator - there is limit (in precision), and what it can do.

For one it still can't make good jokes :) (my litmus test)
by aborsy | 2025-11-28 21:55:48+00:00
I had this question a while ago. Type I hypervisors are not designed to run on laptops. Some features like battery optimization, suspension, WiFi , Bluetooth etc may not work well. And more importantly, the consoles in web interfaces seem to be more for emergency access than everyday use; the access is primarily meant to be over ssh or rdp.

QubesOS is an exception. The next best option is a type II hypervisor like Qemu/kvm on Linux, pretending that it’s type I.
by antonymoose | 2025-11-28 21:56:18+00:00
For me, it’s not a matter of interruption. I’m largely free to dictate my own remote asynchronous schedule and have been for many years.

For me, it’s a nebulous poorly managed product shop with an “everyone owns everything” mentality which in reality means no one owns anything. With 10 engineers and 60 microservrices and GitHub repositories, this makes for an unmanageable, unknowable project.

For me, at least, the lack of the ability to compartmentalize decisions across a knowable domain is the crippling factor in concentration and productivity.
by desman | 2025-11-28 21:56:54+00:00
The main point they are making is that open source software is creating public good/value and needs to be recognized as a civic service. The problem I have with it is that in the majority of cases it doesn't create any value at all, there are plenty of open source projects that are not illegal but net harmful for public interest. Knowing how Germans usually distinguish good from evil (paperwork/bureaucracy/official review and certifications), this will likely end up with yet another verse of Vogon poetry one would need to engage with to get a tax break. The recipients of benefits will likely be those who will go for the trouble of proving that they are "good open source". It is highly likely that actual net benefactors of society will not condescend to do this paperwork and. end up not getting the proposed benefits.
by intalentive | 2025-11-28 21:57:00+00:00
This is the smallest model in the top 100 of HF's MTEB Leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/Mihaiii/Ivysaur

Never used it, can't vouch for it. But it's under 100 MB. The model it's based on, gte-tiny, is only 46 MB.
by lukan | 2025-11-28 21:57:24+00:00
Hopefully my new GPU will arrive tomorrow, then I can confirm myself, but if you look around online, there are lots of private people out there running their own models. A 16 GB GPU starts at 270€, which lets you run something like deepseek r.14, 32 GB GPUs start at 1200 € and then it goes further up, in model quality and price. (Top models require something like 60- 200 GB of GPU memory I think)

So for sure any medium sized company could afford to run their own LLMs, also at scale if they want to make the investment. The question is, how much they value their confidential data. (I would not trust any of the big AI companies). And you don't usually need cutting edge reasoning and coding abilities to process basic information.
by roughly | 2025-11-28 21:57:35+00:00
Yeah, my mental model at this point is there’s two components to building a system: writing the code and understanding the system. When you’re the one writing the code, you get the understanding at the same time. When you’re not, you still need to put in that work to deeply grok the system. You can do it ahead of time while writing the prompts, you can do it while reviewing the code, you can do it while writing the test suite, or you can do it when the system is on fire during an outage, but the work to understand the system can’t be outsourced to the LLM.
by malkia | 2025-11-28 21:58:08+00:00
It depends where you work. In gaming, the best programmers I know might not even touch the command-line / Linux, and their "life" depens on Visual Studio... Why? Because the eco-system around Visual Studio / Windows and how game console devkits work is pretty much tied - while Playstation is some kind of BSD, and maybe Nintendo - all their proper SDKs are just for Windows and tied around Visual Studio (there are some studios that are the exceptions, but rare).

I'm sure other industries would have their similar examples. And then the best folks in my direct team (infra), much smaller - are the command-line, Linux/docker/etc. guys that use mostly VSCode.
by ho_schi | 2025-11-28 21:58:45+00:00
https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

Please use native toolkits. At least Gtk or Qt :)

Flash is just “We don’t like to pay developers. We prefer you to pay more for memory. And your processor. And by the why, we don’t care about your security.”

Ironically memory prices are skyrocketing right now. Even the best known Electron application (Signal) is eating memory like it is free. Similiar native applications integrate much better and use a fraction of memory (e.g. Fractal).

PS: If autonomous locally usage doesn’t make sense a mere web-app is good way. At least it is then a single tab in the web-browser and most platforms are covered (if you don’t target Chrome exclusively…). In this case possible step? At least not 500 MB wasted.
by jeltz | 2025-11-28 21:59:01+00:00
Yes, I have. I have also worked at placed which do not. And the difference is night and day. The places which respect engineering are more fun to work at, deliver better features for less cost and the code is better. Only places which can deliver faster are crazy startups which constantly crunch time (I have worked at those too) but those are hell and the code is a mess.

The main cost I have seen at places which respect engineering is lower predictability. It is harder to budget and plan even if the end result in average is usually cheaper and always better.
by echelon | 2025-11-28 21:59:50+00:00
Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU.

Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself.

> Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU.

https://pcengines.ch/order.htm

> EU - a single market ?

> Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling schemes for each of the 28+ EU member jurisdictions (and even a few of their provinces). What part of COMMON MARKET was so hard to understand for EU lawmakers ? Since there is no single registration available, and separate registration would involve mindboggling complexity, bureaucracy and costs, we do not sell to EU end users until the EU gets their act together. Please order from EU based distributors, or as a business customer.

> Business customers are expected to meet their obligations by registering in the EU countries they sell in.

https://pcengines.ch/recycle.htm
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-11-28 21:59:59+00:00
Because outside of a handful of nerdy tech companies, all small businesses need to use Microsoft Office. From there, it’s a no brainer to stay in the MS ecosystem and use Sharepoint etc…

For a small business without a dedicated IT team, simply hire a IT contractor to harden the tenant (MFA etc…), have them review every six months and be done with it and focus your resources on running your business.
Built autonomous AI with ethical consensus (SE45 Triad) Need bridge funding
by Eidollona | 2025-11-28 22:02:54+00:00
I need help. I have 7 days to come up with $2,400 for rent and bills, or I lose my housing.

*What happened:* I quit my job 3 weeks ago to work on an AI research project full-time. I thought I'd secured consulting work, but the contracts fell through. Now I'm scrambling.

*What I'm doing to fix it:* - Applied to 15+ consulting jobs (waiting on responses) - Signed up for Upwork, Prolific, UserTesting (starting remote gigs) - Reaching out to my network for contract work - Calling 211 on Monday for emergency rent assistance

*The gap:* Even with all of this, I'm projecting to be $500-800 short by December 5th (rent due date).

*What I'm asking for:* Any help to bridge the gap: - Donate if you can (GoFundMe below) - Share this post (I have no social media presence) - Hire me for consulting work (AI/ML development, $50/hr) - Connect me with opportunities

*Proof this is real:* - I'm in Snellville, GA (30039) - My landlord confirmation: [can provide if needed] - Project GitHub (shows I wasn't sitting idle): https://github.com/foundationAIone/EidollonaONE.io

*GoFundMe:* [PASTE YOUR URL HERE]

*Timeline:* - Dec 5: Rent due ($1,600) + bills ($800) = $2,400 - Dec 15: First consulting clients should pay out - Jan 1: Back on my feet (rebuilding emergency fund)

*What I've learned:* Don't quit your job without 3+ months of savings. I took a risk and it backfired. Now I'm paying the price, but I'm fighting to recover.

I'm not looking for pity - just a bridge to survive until the work I'm doing pays off.

Thank you for reading.

— programmer.one
by kenhwang | 2025-11-28 22:03:03+00:00
HN was never only technical, but at least it felt like the discussion was from people who build, which naturally segued into technical discussion. It felt like the majority back then were tinkerers and builders.

Nowadays it feels more like sales, marketing, management, and investor interests, and topics they find interesting which has far more popularity than anything at the implementation level.

Granted, HN probably better matches what matters these days to launch a successful company. But we're all older now and working for companies that became what we once tried to disrupt, and it shows.
by apparent | 2025-11-28 22:03:19+00:00
This seems like a very HN-specific use case. It's not surprising that automakers don't have APIs that let customers host servers that they use to remotely start their vehicles. Security is obviously a huge issue, and almost no one cares about remote starting that much, and has the know-how to implement relay servers and such.

I'm not happy with how consumer choice is boxed in by automakers, but for sensitive systems like ignition, I don't think that their approach is unreasonable.
by GeekyBear | 2025-11-28 22:03:43+00:00
> Kissing ass gets you in the door with TSMC

No, but being a long term partner gets you preferential treatment.

TSMC has literally been cutting Apple special lower pricing deals while signaling that given Nvidia's extravagant margins, they expect them to pay more per wafer than a normal customer.

> TSMC hints at price increase for Nvidia as response to its booming AI hardware business

https://www.techspot.com/news/103325-tsmc-hints-increasing-c...
by NedF | 2025-11-28 22:04:21+00:00
How can a ~bit flip can cause something that bad? It would mean everything else like you mention would also be that bad. Bad ram, bad hard disk, loose wire, bird hits the plane, everyone jumps at once, leaking military jamming.

Radiation should be covered under normal safety, along with they already shield for it.

People often wrongly blame things on radiation, bit flips etc. when they don't know the real cause. A well known pattern.

There is a Hacker News item that was on high repeat where they eventually they solved the ~'cosmic radiation bug' as they first called it. Cannot remember the link.

It will not be true no matter what the, I know 'interesting' facts, 'I have a wiki link', crowd tell you. Real life is boring (and amazing). See Heisenbug's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
by dangus | 2025-11-28 22:04:38+00:00
The law (at least, in the EU) grants a legal right to privacy, and the motivation behind it is really none of anyone’s business.

Maybe commenters face threats to safety. Maybe commenters didn’t think AI companies profiting off of their non-commercial conversations would ever exist and wouldn’t have put data out there if that was disclosed ahead of time.

Corporations have an unlimited right to bully and threaten to take down embarrassing content and hide their mistakes, they have greatly enhanced leverage over copyright enforcement compared to individuals, but then if individuals do a much less egregious thing to try and take down their content they don’t even get paid for it’s immoral.

This community financially benefits YCombinator and its portfolio companies. Without our contributions, readership, and comments, their ability to hire and recruit founders is diminished. They don’t provide a delete button for profit-motivated reasons, and privacy laws like GDPR guard against that.

(As you might guess, I am personally quite against HN’s policy forbidding most forms of content deletion. Their policy and solution involving manual modifications via the moderation team makes no sense - every other social media platform lets you delete your content)
by godelski | 2025-11-28 22:04:47+00:00
> might as well use Whatsapp. - still scrapes metadata - run by company who's entire objective is to profile you

Stop being so ridiculous. You can criticize Signal (and there's plenty to critique) but that's just silly. What, should we also just use telegram where E2EE is off by default?

You know signal is open source, right? That's why Molly exists. They can run their own servers too.

Now I wish you could do both. Talk in both signal and the decentralized molly servers. I wish signal had a mesh like feature since it's way harder to snoop on conversations if you have to be physically near. I even wish Signal made the signal sticker site accessible from inside the app. There's tons of things they should do but let's not pretend that just because they're not perfect that we should use apps from a company whose motto might as well be "be evil".
by turtlesdown11 | 2025-11-28 22:05:36+00:00
> I can read English, but I have never read a US supreme court ruling. There are much better ways for me to understand those rulings to me as a non-lawyer.

Having admitted to never having read a SCOTUS ruling, how can you then proclaim there are better ways for you to understand? How could you possibly make that assertion if you've never read a SCOTUS ruling?
by Eidollona | 2025-11-28 22:05:58+00:00
I need help. I have 7 days to come up with $2,400 for rent and bills, or I lose my housing.

*What happened:* I quit my job 3 weeks ago to work on an AI research project full-time. I thought I'd secured consulting work, but the contracts fell through. Now I'm scrambling.

*What I'm doing to fix it:* - Applied to 15+ consulting jobs (waiting on responses) - Signed up for Upwork, Prolific, UserTesting (starting remote gigs) - Reaching out to my network for contract work - Calling 211 on Monday for emergency rent assistance

*The gap:* Even with all of this, I'm projecting to be $500-800 short by December 5th (rent due date).

*What I'm asking for:* Any help to bridge the gap: - Donate if you can (GoFundMe below) - Share this post (I have no social media presence) - Hire me for consulting work (AI/ML development, $50/hr - programmerone07@gmail.com) - Connect me with opportunities

*Proof this is real:* - I'm in Snellville, GA (30039) - My landlord confirmation: [can provide if needed] - Project GitHub (shows I wasn't sitting idle): https://github.com/foundationAIone/EidollonaONE.io

*GoFundMe:* [PASTE YOUR URL HERE]

*Timeline:* - Dec 5: Rent due ($1,600) + bills ($800) = $2,400 - Dec 15: First consulting clients should pay out - Jan 1: Back on my feet (rebuilding emergency fund)

*What I've learned:* Don't quit your job without 3+ months of savings. I took a risk and it backfired. Now I'm paying the price, but I'm fighting to recover.

I'm not looking for pity - just a bridge to survive until the work I'm doing pays off.

Thank you for reading.

— programmer.one
by plqbfbv | 2025-11-28 22:07:35+00:00
> the main reason is probably that Tesla no longer has much competitive advantage

Yep, I think Tesla simply squandered its clear advantage and slowed research and innovation, while everybody else was accelerating.

I sat in one of the first BYD a couple years back, and for all the mocking of Tesla quality standards, it was a rattle fest, I thought I'd never buy one for sure. But if there's one thing I really appreciate about China is the ability to iterate stupid fast and make it totally about business, zero emotions. Car rattles too much? We'll fix it.

Forward to last year when I took an Uber in London which was a BYD Seal: dead silent, spacious and good looking, and they keep improving the hardware. The brand is back on my possible next-buy list.
by thenickdude | 2025-11-28 22:08:38+00:00
I was trying out an IDE plugin for local LLM integration, but it would just make totally insane edits instead of what I asked for.

It turned out that the LLM-runner's default setting for handling queries that were too long was to silently delete the middle of the query. So the LLM saw the beginning of my ask, and the tail end of the code context, and nothing else.
by malkia | 2025-11-28 22:08:44+00:00
My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or something new, just heard. He would also this with other games - like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it was not good habit long term.

Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through
by dmos62 | 2025-11-28 22:09:14+00:00
And same goes for less technical disciplines too. Adobe, Autodesk, Archicad, etc. It's pretty bad software: expensive, very buggy, poor extensibility, poorly maintained, closed-source, rapid tech debt accumulation requires upgrading your pc every few years. If only a minor percentage of organizations licensing it would instead spend that budget financing an open source project, that would have a very positive effect for everyone. I can somewhat understand private businesses not thinking long-term, but public institutions paying licensing fees instead of financing open-source seems like plain incompetence. Then again, maybe there's a lack of open-source initiatives willing to spearhead this.
by toast0 | 2025-11-28 22:10:03+00:00
I've worked on projects where if you wait for the requirements to be firmed up, you'll never be able to do anything. Depends on what you're trying to build if that means you need to stop and figure out the requirements or if you need to just deal with the shifting sands. Aircraft built for moving requirements don't work so well; but lots of things are fine with moving requirements. It'd sure be nice to know how users are going to use your product before you build it, but sometimes you build what you think is wanted, and people only use part of it or use it for different things than what was intended, and it's better to adjust and refocus than to start a whole new development process with the found requirements.
by chfritz | 2025-11-28 22:10:12+00:00
Let's divide-and-conquer! -- like all good CS algorithms do. /newest is very noisy but if you subscribe to just a "sliver" that you are interested in and review those submissions, then we can improve voting together very effectively. Personally I'm interested in robotics, so I just use this in my RSS reader and literally look at every submission (because it's not too much): https://hnrss.org/newest?q=robot%20OR%20robotics%20OR%20robo...