MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-06 16:37:13+00:00
Talking to people is not actually possible at clubs because it's just too loud. So, it's oddly perfect for introverts in that sense. Nobody goes there to talk.

It's why I never liked clubs I prefer small bars where you can talk to people. I've been in Berlin for 16 years now and there are plenty of those bars around. Even now that I no longer drink alcohol, I still enjoy going there.

But I never saw the point of the club scene here. I don't actually mind some of the music and there are some nice Berghain playlists on Spotify that I listen to occasionally. I just never felt any need to actually go there. Just not my thing. My impression of talking to people that do go to these things is that it's a lot about just being seen there or being able to brag about having been there. And then there are of course a lot of people that just go nuts and do that for the whole weekend while taking lots of pills. Also not my thing. But live and let live as far as I'm concerned.

Berghain particularly doesn't just let everybody in. People queue for ages and can then get told off for looking wrong or whatever. Elon Musk famously got an access denied there once. Not cool enough. Which I find hilarious. But the prospect of being vetted like that is a definite turn off for me. I just don't like that kind of snobbishness.
by lunias | 2025-11-06 16:37:31+00:00
I'm a contractor. I've worked at 11 different companies since 2010. Here is what I have observed: Engineers are happier when their managers are also skilled engineers. Of the companies that I've worked at, only 3 operated this way. The 3 that "got it right" were small to mid-size companies (and they all got acquired a year or two after I started).

Imagine if 70% of all foremen on construction sites were accountants by trade that don't even own or use a screw driver or a hammer in their personal life. That's pretty much the situation at most places where they use software to support their business, but their business is "not software". This is of course the perspective of a non-engineer, as an engineer would be quick to point out that their business is increasingly dependent on the software; How exactly will you make money when your website is down and your infrastructure is failing?
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 16:37:39+00:00
To escalate, you need to have a better idea of the issues to know who to escalate to. Plus this is turning into a personal issue (quitting) so a forum isn't appropriate for that part. Asking to talk on the phone is a perfectly reasonable, appropriate, and sensitive way to find out more and figure out how to most helpfully address things. A phone call is the first step in escalation. I honestly don't understand your negative read here. Things don't get 100% addressed immediately in a single exchange. Communication is a back and forth process and this is an entirely appropriate initial response from a customer service manager.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-06 16:37:54+00:00
That is very funny. "AI" corporations are funding a scraper to subvert paywalls:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835090

The FBI should investigate the "AI" companies and also the demise of Suchir Balaji, a copyright whistleblower who according to a sloppy local police investigation committed "suicide" hours after being seen cheerfully collecting a doordash delivery on CCTV.
by RobinL | 2025-11-06 16:37:56+00:00
In the UK, you can go on an agile tariff that does exactly this. I'm on one.

It's quite fun (and educational) with the kids to work out when to put the car on to charge, when to run the dryer etc, looking at the few days ahead forecasts.

Last month, we paid 11p per kWh on average, which is less than half what you'd pay on a standard tariff, and it's nice to be doing something good for the environment too. It's particularly satisfying to charge up the car when tariffs go negative.

Here's today's rates (actuals): https://agilebuddy.uk/latest/agile

Here's a forecast: https://prices.fly.dev/A/
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-06 16:38:04+00:00
Teeth are still susceptible to mechanical wear, and as life expectancy is inching towards 90 (at least among wealthier people in wealthier countries), dentists will have a lot of work to do anyway.

The societal standard matters more than raw incidence of cavities etc. Three generations ago, it was considered absolutely normal to have dentures in your fifties. Nowadays, middle class people tend to die with (heavily fixed, but still their) teeth and some implants in their mouths.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-06 16:39:20+00:00
Talking face-to-face about what though? Apparently it's about "what you're struggling with", not "what we fucked up". There's a complete inability to admit any fault in this message, so the conversation is already primed to be bullshit. I would expect such a conversation to be a waste of my time and would never agree to it.
by Daishiman | 2025-11-06 16:39:32+00:00
> During the last spike, the eemian, it was about 2 celcius warmer than today. Roughly 100,000 years ago, and that's roughly all we do expect to happen now. Life was thriving

Yes, because life can adapt in 100k years at a rate that it cannot in 100 years. And that life did not particularly care for preserving thousand-year-old human settlements.

> Great place to start with flames.

I am not the OP but if the point above flew you by then consider how much you have thought about the matter.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-06 16:39:34+00:00
AlphaEvolve isn't an LLM - it's an evolutionary coding agent that uses an LLM for code generation.

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...

This is part of Google/DeepMind's "Alpha" branding (AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold) of bespoke machine learning solutions to tough problems.

It sounds like AlphaEvolve might do well on Chollet's ARC-AGI test, where this sort of program synthesis seems to be the most successful approach.

I find Tao's use of "extremize" vs "maximize" a bit jarring - maybe this is a more normal term in mathematics?
by pacman1337 | 2025-11-06 16:39:42+00:00
Don't believe is lie, it is looking like the AI race is gonna be China + regular people verses rich oligarchs. American corporations including NVIDIA are just trying to extract as much money i.e, trying to empowered themselves at the cost of humanity. China is open sourcing their AI and creating their chips based on RISC-V to benefit all humanity.
Show HN: A League of Legends Drafter
by hide_on_bush | 2025-11-06 16:39:48+00:00
Hi! With the LoL Worlds going on, I created a drafter - train solo or with a friend! My goal was to build small (1MB page which is 2/3 images and 1/3 fonts) and with hypermedia. Stack: Sanic + Datastar + SQLite + Redis I explain my code in video if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk0ubrZYVU
by bee_rider | 2025-11-06 16:39:52+00:00
This is the “smart grid” idea, right? We just haven’t fully explored it yet.

Something I firmly believe is that there’s a ton of low hanging fruit for timing our energy use better. It is just hidden by the desire to present a uniform energy price.

Like why not run our water heaters when power is cheap? Then if that became a thing, we might even be interested in larger water heater tanks. Batteries cost per volume, you only pay for the surface are of a metal tank!
by everybodyknows | 2025-11-06 16:39:56+00:00
A parallel to AI-slop has existed for generations now out here in meatspace: Administrative/legal people on the periphery of a technical field (though possibly alas, at the top of the org's command chain) who do not at all understand what technical terms signify, but having seen hundreds of sentences produced by real experts, become able to themselves string together plausible-looking assertions.
by FarmerPotato | 2025-11-06 16:40:24+00:00
Ouch.

I remember my high school went big on Gradebusters software--text entry on the Apple IIe (80 column required!) of course that was all keyboard driven.

Tab tab down space down space down down down space.. that was taking attendance.

One problem with GUI is that pointer-warping is unnerving, we don't have facilities like "I clicked, now warp the pointer to the next target" but that's commonplace with text UI.

There's no TAB button on a mouse.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 16:40:52+00:00
The style of communication seems perfectly fine to me. It's acknowledging there's a problem, apologizing as much as they can before they have the real facts, and offering to communicate over the phone to figure out what's really going on. I honestly don't know what more you want from someone who is a customer service manager. Not the leader of the team who built the translation product.
Show HN: I'm moving to a Scottish island to build a startup. I'm not joking
by kalturnbull | 2025-11-06 16:40:58+00:00
As the end of my fixed term NHS contract approached, I did the sensible thing and started interviewing for my next product manager role. Then something clicked.

I’m 29 with no dependents, have a modest amount of savings, and I’ve been dreaming of my route back to the startup world. I’m not saying this is my last chance, but it feels like a window of opportunity.

There’s a lot of debate on side hustling vs a full time ‘burn the boats’ approach. After a couple of years of the former, I’m ready to try the latter. (Though in my case it’s a ferry, and I don’t think CalMac would appreciate me burning it.)

But the fact is, Edinburgh’s an expensive place to bootstrap a business, and frankly, this city is just too much fun. I will be back, but what I need for now is a focused retreat. Somewhere I can exclusively work, exercise, eat, and sleep. And somewhere that can extend my financial runway.

I grew up visiting the Hebrides and I can’t explain the almost spiritual effect that place has on me. Admittedly I go in the summer when it somehow looks like the Mediterranean. But I don't mind the cold. I just know it’s where I need to be for this.

So, what am I building?

Introducing bother.now, my answer to the poor UX of bloated project management tools that I’ve had the displeasure of using as a PM.

It’s live and you can try it with no account required upfront.

I’ll be sharing occasional updates from the island on X (@kalturnbull). Here’s hoping I have a decent internet connection.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-06 16:41:03+00:00
We need to preserve data. The FBI is trying to kill data.

We can not allow the FBI to work for Evil here. I actually think there should be a human right to data. With that I mean, primarily, knowledge, not to data about a single human being as such (e. g. "doxxing" or any such crap - I mean knowledge).

Knowledge itself should become a human right. I understand that the current law is very favourable to mega-corporations milking mankind dry, but the law should also be changed. (I am not anti-business per se, mind you - I just think the law should not become a tool to contain human rights, including access to knowledge and information at all times.)

Wikipedia is somewhat ok, but it also misses a TON of stuff, and unfortunately it only has one primary view, whereas many things need some explanation before one can understand it. When I read up on a (to me) new topic, I try to focus on simple things and master these first. Some wikipedia articles are so complicated that even after staring at them for several minutes, and reading it, I still haven't the slightest clue what this is about. This is also a problem of wikipedia - as so many different people write things, it is sometimes super-hard to understand what wikipedia is trying to convey here.
by bachmeier | 2025-11-06 16:42:16+00:00
> If you approach the question of how these people achieve the things they do with a bias towards tooling then you'll come to the conclusion that it plays a big role in their success.

I think the point of the author in your quoted text is that you want to avoid the tools getting in your way. If you're a writer, you become successful by writing good stuff. That's harder to do if your OS crashes and you have to click through a bunch of menus while you're writing. That's the reason so many bloggers adopted markdown 10-15 years ago - writing in plain text meant the tools got out of their way. It's not about the tools making you more productive, it's about using tools that don't make you less productive.
by seg_lol | 2025-11-06 16:42:53+00:00
> The BBC’s “In Our Time” began in 1998 as a Radio 4 program with low expectations: Scholars and experts would discuss, but not debate, a new topic each Thursday at 9 a.m. Within five years, it reportedly had 1.7 million weekly listeners. A quarter-century later, its podcast archive offers “more than a thousand episodes,” as the host, Melvyn Bragg, reminds me each time I queue up a new one.
Ask HN: How far can we push the browser for large-scale data parsing?
by platypii | 2025-11-06 16:42:54+00:00
How far can we push the browser as a data engine — not just for visualizations, but for curating and querying large datasets? Do we need traditional backend architectures?

I wanted to see what happens when we treat the browser like part of the data stack, using pure JavaScript to load, slice, and explore datasets interactively. That experiment led to a small set of open-source tools — Hyparquet and HighTable. They’re designed to test the limits of browser-native data processing to see where the browser stops being a thin client and starts acting like a real data engine.

Curious what others think about the future of browser-first data tools:

- Where do you see the practical limits for client-side data processing? - What would make browser-based architectures a viable alternative to traditional data stacks?
by tuhgdetzhh | 2025-11-06 16:43:04+00:00
Since you refer to the darkweb. The gov has extensivley studied Tor and likely has zero day exploits for the Tor browser and operates a bunch of Tor relays. Given enough time and effort it is very much possible for state actors to identify Tor users.

But unless you are a high profile gov target, Tor protects you well.
by entropi | 2025-11-06 16:43:12+00:00
And I feel like the difference between, say;

- Paying for a ticket/dvd/stream to see a Ghibli movie

- Training a model on their work without compensating them, then enabling everyone to copy their art style with ~zero effort, flooding the market and diluting the value of their work. And making money in the process.

should be rather obvious. My only hypothesis so far is that a lot of the people in here have a vested interest in not understanding the outrage, so they don't.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 16:43:18+00:00
> This is completely backwards. The CEO is not expected to manage intercultural communication. You know whose job that is? The community manager.

Sorry, you're wrong. Intercultural communication is very much a core skill for the CEO of a global organization. They're expected to know how to communicate appropriately so some international deal doesn't get torpedoed due to a faux pas.

> The community manager for Indonesia wouldn't be expected to manage communication with Japan

Right. So on that, we agree.
by jerf | 2025-11-06 16:43:40+00:00
I didn't make heavy use of it, but I did sometimes use "It's not X, it's Y" or some closely related variant. I've had to strike that from my writing, because whether or not it makes anyone else cringe, it's making me cringe now. My usage doesn't even match the ones the LLMs favor, my X & Y were typically full clauses with many words rather than the LLM's use of short, punchy X & Ys... but still. Close enough. Can't write it anymore.

I'm still using bullet lists sometimes, as they have their place, and I'm hoping LLMs don't totally nuke them.
by davisr | 2025-11-06 16:43:57+00:00
You can use CSS for interactive-esque things like that. Use JS for all I care, just don't make it mandatory. You /could/ refresh the page with new values. You /could/ paginate your flow. You won't, because you'd rather spend 50 hours getting your JS to work right, than 5 hours writing some PHP.

Pity.
by Mashimo | 2025-11-06 16:44:02+00:00
The cheaper ones are great, because they don't connect to an app or wifi. Mine just has a remote with a timer. Like I wrote you, mine has been going for 6 or 7 years.

I'm not trying to convince you to buy one, I'm trying to explain why you have one. Because YOU said that you don't understand it. I'm trying to explain my needs. No need to shame me.

Of all the household items i have, the robot vacuum I would certainly buy again.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-06 16:44:38+00:00
That's actually an interesting take. I have not thought about it from that point of view. It's kind of strange how people in the same government come up with orthogonal decisions - the left hand doesn't know what the right hand does and vice versa.

Clouflare actually does have a point. If you censor xyz, then you may also censor some businesses that are legitimate and pay taxes.
by simonw | 2025-11-06 16:45:15+00:00
The more time I spend working with LLMs and coding agents to help me build software the less scared I am for my future career.

They let me work so much faster, but that's because they are amplifying my existing skills and experience.

I'm confident I will be able to run rings around non-software-engineers who have access to the same tools for may years to come.

There is so much more to building software than knowing how to write code.
by jerf | 2025-11-06 16:45:56+00:00
There is no "LLM style".

There is a "default LLM style", which is why I call it that. Or technically, one per LLM, but they seem to have converged pretty hard since they're all convergently evolving in the same environment.

It's trivial to prompt it out of that style. Word about how to do it and that you should do it has gotten around in the academic world where the incentives to not be caught are high. So I don't call it "the LLM style". But if you don't prompt for anything in particular, yes, there is a very very strong "default LLM style".
by immibis | 2025-11-06 16:46:13+00:00
It's probably illegal for a business to take anonymous cryptocurrency payments in the EU. Businesses are allowed to take traceable payments only, or else it's money laundering.

With the caveat that it's not clear what precisely is illegal about these payments and to what level it's illegal. It might be that a business isn't allowed to have any at all, or isn't allowed to use them for business, or can use them for business but can't exchange them for normal currency, or can do all that but has to check their customer's passport and fill out reams of paperwork.

https://bitcoinblog.de/2025/05/05/eu-to-ban-trading-of-priva...
by saurik | 2025-11-06 16:46:30+00:00
Which is what the provider themselves have, by definition. The people who run these services are literally sitting next to the box day in and day out... this isn't "provably" anything. You can trust them not to take advantage of the fact that they own the hardware, and you can even claim it makes it ever so slightly harder for them to do so, but this isn't something where the word "provably" is anything other than a lie.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-11-06 16:46:46+00:00
Yeah it seems fake, if it’s not already the number 1 priority for all the relevant decision makers at Mozilla by the second week of proven on the record disastrous changes… then none of them have any credibility left such that a community manager could make a difference. Regardless of how genuine or concerned they may be.

Even the most charitable interpretation would still implicate at least a few dozen at Mozilla to be deceivers and/or intriguers or turning a blind eye to it.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-06 16:46:50+00:00
> They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced.

It's not "Nature" (informally "Plain Nature") It's one of the related journals by the same publisher

> nature > humanities and social sciences communications

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I'm ignoring all these post, the ones that say "yes" and the ones that say "no". It will be solved in a few years. Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1002/
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-06 16:46:59+00:00
Gotta admit, I agree with the title (still reading it).

https://www.wordnik.com/words/bullshit

The one I care about (near the bottom of the page); really, the only meaningful use IMO, except it can also be a noun:

> verb speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths

It's "without regard for facts or truth".
by danans | 2025-11-06 16:47:05+00:00
Not free, but PGE has started an hourly variable rate plan pilot:

https://www.pge.com/en/account/rate-plans/hourly-flex-pricin...

However, they aren't taking net metering customers yet, but if you end up spending more on the hourly variable rate plan, they'll refund you to the same you would have spent on the regular time of use rate plan.
by benfrancis | 2025-11-06 16:47:08+00:00
I am excited to share that the W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group has published the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket sub-protocol, a dedicated real-time protocol for the Web of Things.

The Web Thing Protocol provides a WebSocket sub-protocol for monitoring and controlling connected devices over the Web, and I believe could be a key enabling technology for an open ecosystem of IoT web services.
by hlassiege | 2025-11-06 16:47:11+00:00
Fair point. I realize that "enshittification" has a more specific meaning in English (I'm french). My bad I was using it in a broader sense, connecting it to my previous company (700 people, I co-founded it in 2012).

I was thinking more about all the factors that increase product complexity, and it's far from being just about shareholders:

* The more people you add to a company, the more complexity you add because inherently, everyone wants to leave their mark. In the end, some people see themselves grow because they contributed to this or that new feature. Doesn't matter if it's redundant. Doesn't matter if 10 months later you realize it adds nothing. I've unfortunately seen this pattern repeat itself over and over.

* The bigger a company gets, the more it needs to respond to increasingly specific use cases. A salesperson tells you their client needs this. Customer support tells you a portion of your users are asking for that. Either you have enough perspective to say it doesn't fit your vision, or you don't, and you try to please everyone. But it's a huge source of complexity. And I could cite tons of examples from my old company.

And just to be transparent, I am using my blog as a journal, with short posts. I was not expecting that much traffic and I totally understand that it's maybe not as deep as you would expect ^^
by lelanthran | 2025-11-06 16:47:40+00:00
> I'm finding the difference just between Sonnet 4 and Sonnet 4.5 to be meaningful in terms of the complexity of tasks I'm willing to use them for.

That doesn't mean "not plateauing".

It's better, certainly, but the difference between SOTA now and SOTA 6 months ago is a fraction of the difference between SOTA 6 months ago and the difference 18 months ago.

It doesn't mean that the models aren't getting better, it means that the improvement in each generation is smaller than the the improvement in the previous generation.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-06 16:48:28+00:00
I really wish there were more examples of 9p and Filesystem like apps. Suckless also had wmii window manager that I used for years, but then and now, there was very little examples of what the 9p interface looked like.

Chicken Scheme has a 9p module, that happens to have some real world examples, in Scheme. Scroll down a tiny bit: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/9p#data-directory-listing

Really wish there were better references to share for this stuff. This still feels like one of the most user-empowering paths computing has to expose itself, utterly universal & already with some user-savy right there.