MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-18 17:19:41+00:00
I actually agree that racial hatred is likely not the the lens he personally sees the world through, the article and my parent comment make it clear that his motivations come from an authoritarian personality that will excuse almost anything for a strong leader- but racism is absolutely the lens MAGA sees the world through, and his worldview does justify working with and enabling them. There is a long history of minorities supporting racist authoritarian movements when it will make them money or offer some perceived protection: freemen slave catchers in the antebellum south, free black people working for the confederate army. The Association of German National Jews and The German Vanguard were Jewish pro-NAZI groups. In this case, the hate is mostly targeted at hispanic and middle eastern people, so he might feel safe (for now), but it is a dangerous association, because once they feel they've eliminated the "threat" from those groups, they will go after others.

During the civil rights movement in the USA, the white supremacist terrorists rebranded themselves as caring about other non-race based issues for plausible deniability when they started to lose widespread political support, with terms like law and order, immigration, and states rights, but it was only ever the thinnest of pretenses because it was still the same people doing the same things. If you're familiar with MAGA supporters, or have seen the numerous leaked private text scandals from MAGA leaders, you will know they are openly racist and racial hate motivated in private among each other, and only put on the pretense of other issues in public forums. They're not just labeled Nazis and racists by their political opponents, but proudly use those terms to describe themselves in private. You can see with the Trump administration, e.g. firing judges willing to hear legitimate asylum cases from people with brown skin, while actively supporting asylum cases from white people in South Africa- while claiming their actions are about enforcing immigration law. The thin pretense of other concerns falls apart immediately upon inspection, but they are hoping enough people don't inspect too hard, that they can retain political power.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-18 17:19:45+00:00
I was disappointed to see an endless stream of nearly identical mini PCs using it while the options for an actual laptop remained "do you want one of two small touchscreen tablet?". Even Framework only made it available in mini PC form factor!

That said it wasn't too hard to grab a HP ZBook Ultra G1a 14, just not the ideal model I had in mind. The hardware is great though!
by counters | 2025-11-18 17:20:31+00:00
Yeah, it's underplayed in the the writeup here but the context here is important. The "sharpness" issue was a major impediment to improving the skill and utility of these models. When GDM published GenCast two years ago, there was a lot of excitement because the generative approach seemed to completely eliminate this issue. But, there was a trade-off - GenCast was significantly more expensive to train and run inference with, and there wasn't an obvious way to make improvements there. Still faster than an NWP model, but the edge starts to dull.

FGN (and NVIDIA's FourCastNet-v3) show a new path forward that balances inference/training cost without sacrificing the sharpness of the outputs. And you get well-calibrated ensembles if you run them with random seeds to their noise vectors, too!

This is a much bigger deal than people realize.
by activey | 2025-11-18 17:20:38+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I’ve been working on a small desktop tool called RasterFlow, a node-based image editor focused on procedural textures, compositing, and real-time visual debugging.

It lets you build images using a graph instead of layers. You can generate noise, gradients, grids and patterns, combine and mask images, preview intermediate nodes, detach viewers, and export any node’s output. I built it mainly for technical artists and game-dev workflows (e.g. mask maps, channel packing) but it works well for general experimentation. It runs on both linux, osx and windows.

I’d love feedback - especially on UX, performance, and missing features.

Link: https://rasterflow.io

Cheers!
by mattnewton | 2025-11-18 17:21:02+00:00
That’s how it turned out, but IIRC at the time of OpenAI’s founding, “AI” was search and RL which Google and deep mind were dominating, and self driving, which Waymo was leading. And OpenAI was conceptualized as a research org to compete. A lot has changed and OpenAI has been good at seeing around those corners.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-18 17:21:10+00:00
Yeah, great point.

I was considering working on the ability to dynamically generate eval questions whose solutions would all involve problem solving (and a known, definitive answer). I guess that this would be more valuable than publishing a fixed number of problems with known solutions. (and I get your point that in the end it might not matter because it's still about problem solving, not just rote memorization)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-18 17:21:19+00:00
"Having probed 1.3 million open DNS resolvers using the IP-based discovery mechanism, we identify 313k IPv4 and 8.4k IPv6 recursives returning one or more SVCB records with DDR configurations (or DDR records in the remainder of this article)."

Unclear how "resolvers" is defined

It is doubtful to me there are 1.3M "resolvers" on the open internet as I understand the meaning of that term. But without providing the methodology or raw data it's impossible to verify the authors' conclusions

Perhaps some of these "resolvers" are actually "forwarders" that forward queries to an "upstream" resolver (and possibly manipulate responsees)

"The target name field (e.g., one.one.one.one) contains the domains of designated endpoints, indicating the providers behind these services."

Perhaps "providers" refers to the upstream resolvers
by golergka | 2025-11-18 17:22:32+00:00
As somebody who worked on two IDEs which didn't fork VSCode but still used Monaco for code editing views, I think forking VSCode is almost always the right solutions for a new IDE. You get extensions, familiarity and most importantly, don't waste valuable time on the boring stuff which VSCode has already implemented.

Nothing bad with using code other people made open. Our whole industry is built on this.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-18 17:22:54+00:00
> However it being an obvious idea once stated does not mean people intuitively enact that idea, especially prior to hearing it. Thus the need to label the approach

This has some truth to it and if EA were primarily about reminding people that not all donations to charitable causes pack the same punch and that some might even be deleterious, then I wouldn't have any issues with it at all. But that's not what it is anymore, at least not the most notable version of it. My knee jerk reaction to it comes from this version. The one where narcissistic tech bros posture moral and intellectual superiority not only because they give, but because they give better than you.
by rglover | 2025-11-18 17:22:56+00:00
If you want to feel something with software, leave the industry and never look back, saving programming as something you do for your own joy/reward (I'm not being hyperbolic—I'd argue we're in the early days of the web's "dark ages").

Unfortunately, once money came into the picture, quality, innovation, and anything resembling true progress flew out the window.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-18 17:23:00+00:00
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in this demo video of the user instructing the model to use `git bisect` to find a commit (https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-developer-goog-blog-asse...), doesn't this actually showcase a big issue with today's models?

In the end, the model only ran `git bisect` (if we're to believe the video at least) for various pointless reasons, it isn't being used for what it's usually used for. Why did it run bisect at all? Well, the user asked the LLM to use `git bisect` to find a specific commit, but that doesn't make sense, `git bisect` is not for that, so what the user is asking for, isn't possible.

Instead of the model stopping and saying "Hey, that's not the right idea, did you mean ... ?" so to ensure it's actually possible and what the user wants, the model runs its own race and start invoking a bunch of other git commands, because that's how you'd find that commit the user is looking for, and then finally does some git bisecting stuff just for fun, it had already found the right commit.

I think I see the same thing when letting LLMs code as well. If you give them some work to do that is actually impossible, but the words kind of make sense, and it'll produce something but not what you wanted, I think they're doing exactly the same thing, bypassing what you clearly instructed so they at least do something.

I'm not sure if I'm just hallucinating that they're acting like that, but LLMs doing "the wrong thing" has been hitting me more than once, and imagining something more dangerous than `do a git bisect`, it seems to me like that video is telling us Gemini 3 Pro will act exactly the same way, no improvements on that front.

Also, do these blog posts not go through review from engineering before they're published? Besides the video not really showcasing anything of interest, the prompt itself doesn't make any sense and would have been caught if a engineer who uses git at least weekly reviewed it before.
by Yizahi | 2025-11-18 17:23:32+00:00
This is benefit of bundling, I've been forecasting this for a long time - the only companies who would win the LLM race would be the megacorps bundling their offerings, and at most maybe OAI due to the sheer marketing dominance.

For example I don't pay for ChatGPT or Claude, even if they are better at certain tasks or in general. But I have Google One cloud storage sub for my photos and it comes with a Gemini Pro apparently (thanks to someone on HN for pointing it out). And so Gemini is my go to LLM app/service. I suspect the same goes for many others.
by a2128 | 2025-11-18 17:23:33+00:00
When you run apt upgrade or pacman -Syu that's exactly what you're doing. The files are replaced on your drive while everything else continues running. Generally it won't affect execution of existing software, because they're all already loaded into memory, but some software might crash or get weird behavior as they try to access their files on the drive and those files have been updated, and newly launched programs will use different library versions than other programs which may cause weirdness. You still need to reboot in the end to stop running old stuff that's still in memory such as kernel or existing programs but it's a normal reboot without any extra delay. Canonical does provide Livepatch for Ubuntu Pro for servers that want to update the kernel with security updates without rebooting.

Fedora decided this isn't super stable so they actually went and implemented something similar to Windows updates called Offline updates, where updates are performed after a reboot in a special mode where you can't do anything with your computer while it updates for like 10 minutes, but they give you an option to disable this and do instant updates like described above instead.

I think the most interesting innovation are immutable distros, which handle updates entirely differently. They will build an updated image while the system continues running and make it ready so that next reboot will just boot into the updated image. It avoids the partially-updated-system instability entirely and it also makes reverting a broken update instant and easy because you can just boot into the old image (there's usually at least two images). This exists in Fedora Silverblue (OSTree) and Vanilla OS (ABRoot) and AFAIK Android also followed this update pattern with A/B partitions (although they now iterated on this slightly to squeeze a few extra gigabytes out of storage).

I honestly don't know why Windows still sticks to their antiquated offline update system when better options exist and everyone always complains about the way they do updates and they have billions of dollars at their disposal, but I guess lack of any real competition to Windows in the PC operating system market has led to such stagnation
by icyfox | 2025-11-18 17:23:42+00:00
I'm not sure how concerned people should be at the trend lines. If you're building a product that already works well, you shouldn't feel the need to upgrade to a larger parameter model. If your product doesn't work and the new architectures unlock performance that would let you have a feasible business, even a 2x on input tokens shouldn't be the dealbreaker.

If we're paying more for a more petaflop heavy model, it makes sense that costs would go up. What really would concern me is if companies start ratcheting prices up for models with the same level of performance. My hope is raw hardware costs and OSS releases keep a lid on the margin pressure.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-18 17:24:12+00:00
That's not how it works. They can write whatever they want on the packaging. It's the final assembly that's compliant. They're covering their ass in case you put their 5W bulb in some application they've never heard of where it technically fits but a 2.5W bulb was supposed to be used or something.

It's like how aftermarket brake hoses all say "off road use only" despite pretty much all of them vastly exceeding the FMVSS for brake hoses.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-11-18 17:24:48+00:00
The security you get is not free. The price you pay is functionality. Can't buy subs or buy apps on the app store. Forget about using banking apps on your phone and resign yourself to use Whatsapp with no cloud backups.

Imo, installing a Google app on your phone is living under the influence of Google. The apps can still run in the background and collect and ship info about you. Less influence sure, but still a ton if they get to run background services.
by 0xfeba | 2025-11-18 17:25:08+00:00
> Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior.

This is one of my pet peeves.

I've categorized it into what I believe are the main causes:

1. People just don't know as well today that the blue indicator means you're blinding people

2. People with newer cars which will automatically turn off the headlights, including the brights, when you turn off and leave the car.

3. People with older cars where the low-beams are burned out or broken

I've been tempted to purchase digital billboard space to raise awareness. Eg., "If this blue indicator is on, you're blinding everyone".

And/or, get a mirror on my trunk that I can adjust the angle of from inside the cabin to reflect back high-beams at the driver.

Mostly I'm hoping that automatic high-beams, like some Ford trucks I've seen do well, proliferate more!
by eth0up | 2025-11-18 17:25:16+00:00
I happened to be working with Claude when this occurred. Having no idea what exactly what the cause was, I jumped over to GPT and observed the same. I did a dig challenges.cloudflare.com and by the time I'd figured out kind of what was happening, it seemed to have... resolved itself

I must say I'm astonished, as naive as it may be, to see the number of separate platforms affected by this. And it has been a bit of a learning experience too.
by bradlys | 2025-11-18 17:26:00+00:00
> But letting go and—crucially—reengaging with new goals, was found to restore purpose and well-being.

Seems everyone here is kinda missing the point. It looks to be less about giving up and more about engaging with new goals. You find X goal is too hard to achieve and give up but also decide to pursue Y goal that is more achievable (and still has some fulfillment to it).

I get that but doesn’t seem anything too radical… If I have impossible to achieve goals then I’d naturally be upset. Spending time on goals I feel I can accomplish is almost always going to be more fulfilling than doing ones that feel impossible.
by kulahan | 2025-11-18 17:26:01+00:00
I remember, when shopping for a car, the salesman told me about an Alpina model he had with laser headlights so intense they weren't even legal for new builds anymore. It's a selling point in some vehicles.

Still, the idea that you should give headlight illumination control to the idiot behind the wheel is insane to me. Is it not a regulated height? Maybe that explains why it's a nightmare to drive at night anymore.
by fodkodrasz | 2025-11-18 17:26:05+00:00
Also, the plastic headlight “lenses” on many cars tend to get cloudy and develop micro-scratches over time. This reduces the efficiency of the low beams, and instead of fixing the problem, many drivers of older cars simply drive with their high beams on, which creates even more glare for everyone else.

Nothing is really repairable, of course, so replacing these parts is out of the question — it’s prohibitively expensive for many owners of older cars to replace the whole headlight units, especially since there are no penalties for driving around like this. Polishing the lenses is risky and usually only a short-term solution.
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-18 17:26:36+00:00
As the parent said, actual anti-gravity is world-changing technology. It's telling the very laws of nature to go fuck themselves, you're gonna do what you want, even if all of known physics says it's impossible.

Working at a higher conceptual level is just project management. You're the legislator giving out unfunded mandates rather than the agency staff that has to figure out how to comply. There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity.

That said, I suspect this is really meant to allude to https://xkcd.com/353/.
by pooyamo | 2025-11-18 17:27:12+00:00
Zed team is writing their own in-house GUI stack [1] that leverages the computer's GPU with minimal middleware in-between. It's a lot of work short-term but IMO the payoff would be huge if they establish themselves. I imagine they could poke into the user-facing OS sector if their human-agent interaction is smooth. (I have not tried it yet though)

[1]: https://www.gpui.rs
by zzyzxd | 2025-11-18 17:27:36+00:00
Teslas are the worst offenders in my area. I don't own one but I looked up online out of curiosity, and saw many owners complained because they got flashed a lot. Turned out the factory settings for the headlight angle was too high. They went to the menu and adjust the angle down by "2-3 clicks" and they reported never got flashed again.
by briga | 2025-11-18 17:27:56+00:00
Every big new model release we see benchmarks like ARC and Humanity's Last Exam climbing higher and higher. My question is, how do we know that these benchmarks are not a part of the training set used for these models? It could easily have been trained to memorize the answers. Even if the datasets haven't been copy pasted directly, I'm sure it has leaked onto the internet to some extent.

But I am looking forward to trying it out. I find Gemini to be great as handling large-context tasks, and Google's inference costs seem to be among the cheapest.
by toast0 | 2025-11-18 17:28:13+00:00
Edit: sorry, I shouldn't post US rules on a UK topic. For penance, a fact about lighting in the UK, reverse lights weren't required until 2009!

There are rules. FMVSS [1] says lower beam headlamps must be mounted between 55.9 cm and 137.2 cm above the ground, and upper beam headlamps must be mounted not less than 22 inches nor more than 54 inches. The height ranges match, but are specified in different units

But that's a big range.

These rules end up being the stick used to regulate vehicle lifts and lowering; you could lift a vehicle higher, or drop it lower but very few people will do the work to relocate the lights.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p... Table 1-A, seach in page for 'Expand Table' cause I couldn't find a good way to navigate.
by alecco | 2025-11-18 17:28:17+00:00
Yeah my business account was forced to pay for an AI. And I only used it for a couple of weeks when Gemini 2.5 was launched, until it got nerfed. So they are definitely counting me there even though I haven't used it in like 7 months. Well, I try it once every other month to see if it's still crap, and it always is.

I hope Gemini 3 is not the same and it gives an affordable plan compared to OpenAI/Anthropic.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-18 17:28:25+00:00
Agreed, there's a price to be paid for stepping off the well-trod path when it comes to dev tools/methodologies and OSes. The truth is that he'd have had a worse time in MacOS or Linux than in Windows, which is usually pretty fanatical about continuing to support old APIs and run old applications.

Also agreed that he isn't asking for help and doesn't appear to want it. Still, this sucks.
by btown | 2025-11-18 17:28:45+00:00
Ah, but what happens when your plugins need to themselves be configured for different client deployments?

You add a few flags, then you need to figure out backwards compatibility as your plugin evolves (which involves defining prioritization rules between options), then those rules get complex enough to have conditionals (say, for granular traffic patterns), which means you have a DSL. And when the DSL gets complex enough, it needs an entire Software Development Lifecycle, which means it's effectively hard-coded. Or, you have people fork the plugin, which is a hard-code in and of itself.

All in all, you don't avoid the "configurability clock," you just decentralize it!

The real problem is that clients inevitably have conflicting needs that cut across any modularization barriers you might think to build. When a configured plugin can have spooky action at a distance, perhaps under-tested due to configuration, is it truly modular? Thus, the clock emerges.
by gxara | 2025-11-18 17:28:45+00:00
It started as a personal need. During my master’s, I felt I needed a note-taking tool that helped me explicitly visualize connections between different topics, something like a graph view. (I wasn’t aware of Obsidian at the time.)

Then I became a bit obsessed with creating something visual and compelling (like Miro) but also deep in content, behaving more like a knowledge base.

Miro is also very expensive (at least here in Brazil), so maybe NodeLand can become a more affordable alternative for individuals and small teams.
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-18 17:28:56+00:00
In grade 9 I had to do a book report that compared two books by the same author and I chose Moby Dick and Billy Budd.

My teacher tried to talk me out of it, but I insisted and ultimately she let me do it because Billy Budd is very a short novella.

To this day, Moby Dick is still my second favorite book of all time (with my all time favourite being The Lord of the Rings). I only read it once, 20 years ago, for a book report but it really stuck with me.
by cluckindan | 2025-11-18 17:29:06+00:00
Exactly. In addition to general insomnia, people who suffer from persistent nightmares due to PTSD or other reasons will sleep restfully.

And with nightmares I’m not referring to bad dreams in general, but to horrific nightmares where a person is re-experiencing their trauma in various ways, not necessarily remembering their dreams afterwards.

Imagine sleeping eight hours but waking up more tired than when you went to sleep and in full panic mode without even knowing why. After months and years, it gets pretty tiring.

Being able to not be afraid of going to sleep is a lifesaver and can keep those people functional in their lives.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-18 17:30:13+00:00
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