MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imtringued | 2025-11-11 13:58:41+00:00
>There's some progress in video generation which takes a short clip and extrapolates what happens next. That's a promising line of development. The key to "common sense" is being able to predict what happens next well enough to avoid big mistakes in the short term, a few seconds. How's that coming along? And what's the internal world model, assuming we even know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0

This has been a thing for a while. It's actually a funny way to demonstrate model based control by replacing the controller with a human.
by subscribed | 2025-11-11 13:58:56+00:00
Trump is a chum with Farage, far right con man and Putin's buddy.

For the reasons unknown BBC is *massively* promoting and platforming far right in the last few times (airtime, framing of the events, promoting party lines as facts, etc).

So Trump in the BBC might be considered beneficial to the far right. This would explain it.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-11-11 13:59:20+00:00
Our management now lets AI rank team members based on our weekly 1:1 documentation which consists of the team members pre-1:1 summary, the 1:1 transcript summary and the manager written response to the pre-1:1 summary.

Since my manager does not read any of that and wouldn't understand it even if he tried I can write down pretty much anything, making outrageous claims about my work and be happy about the highest salary increase in my team.
by slightwinder | 2025-11-11 14:00:25+00:00
> By living in a bubble, she became less knowledgeable on common matters that an average citizen

I would trust an average citizen in those matters even less. We are not talking here about the daily egg-prices or which is the hottest celebrity at the moment. That woman is the leader of the executive branch of a Pan-National Organization. This is by definition a job with problems, which are very far away from the daily dread of the average citizen.

> The proof at hand is the story of her landing in Plovdiv.

What are you talking about? Pretty sure she is not flying here own plane, nor making the technical decision when it lands. Whatever happened there, has no relation to whichever abilities she might have or is lacking.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-11 14:00:32+00:00
I guess it's a technicality because the original option #2 is permanent, while the proposed solution is theoretically temporary (IME this approach will end up being permanent too based on how many companies operate). I actually think more companies should do this pre-emptively; it's very little extra work on the happy path (i.e. 1:1 with upstream) and you're ready to go when you need to deviate or fix and gives you better isolated supply management for your dependencies.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-11 14:00:50+00:00
Zoom in and enhance.

900,000 / 5 = 180,000

As of 2023, there are approximately 285 million registered motor vehicles in the United States, with around 96.9 million of those being cars.[1]

180,000 additional cars is something like less than one tenth of the decrease in registered cars between 2022 and 2023. There were five million fewer registered cars in 2023 than 2022.

900,000 / 50 = 18,000

Which is … random statistic comparison, about the same number of households in Bakersfield CA that are female householder with no husband present (2010 census) [2].

If there’s an argument to be made that AI is putting a significant amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, it certainly isn’t either of these.

1. https://www.consumershield.com/articles/how-many-cars-us

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield,_California
by cpursley | 2025-11-11 14:01:25+00:00
1/3 of hn posts (maybe more) are "look at this thing we built!" or a combo of that with "plus all this VC money!" where op has basically re-invented something that has existed in Erlang since forever. I don't mind all these cool new things (it's why I visit). But personally, I prefer to cut to the chase and just use Erlang (well, in my case - Elixir).
by bluehatbrit | 2025-11-11 14:01:44+00:00
Professionally, my team just made our big new launch of a feedback collection tool - https://www.sunbeam.cx/asklet. It tries to go just a little beyond the "give us a star rating" and collect some more detailed feedback without being too in-your-face or annoying.

In my spare time I've been working on a small service for making sure I remember friends and families birthdays. I think it's really important but with friends all having kids it's becoming more and more to keep track of in the calendar. I'm putting together a small web app which takes in the birthday and sends me a reminder a set amount of time away, with some suggestions for birthday gifts.

The suggestions right now are just ones that I've entered as I've come across ideas throughout the year for people. But I want to try and plug in known interests and see if I can do a better recommendation for myself. I'm hoping to keep it quite small as I don't want to take the spirit out of remembering people's birthdays, but I do want to be more consistent.
by trenning | 2025-11-11 14:01:47+00:00
The people I know from BNSF will tell you that name stands for Better Not Start a Family.

I’ve worked with and known former engineers who left, took lower paying jobs in other industries and not one has ever said I miss it there.

Let’s not even get started on what that industry has evolved into with precision scheduled railroading and the dramatic increase in risk and real derailments that have followed.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-11 14:01:48+00:00
I think it would ease some of my concerns, but wouldn't make me in the camp that believes it should be raced to without thinking about how to control it and plans in place to both identify and react to it's risks.

There are two doomsdays. The dramatic one where they control the military and we end up living in the matrix. And the less dramatic, where we as human forget how to do things for ourselves and then slowly watch the AIs become less and less capable of keeping us happy and alive. Maybe in the end of both scenarios it's similar but one would take decades, while the other could happen overnight.

Accuracy alone doesn't fix either doomsday scenario. But it would slow some of the issues I see forming already with people replacing research skills and informational reporting with AIs that can lie or be very misleading.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 14:01:53+00:00
Well film grain doesn't matter because compression exists, apparently, and may as well be simulated because it's already failed the "purity test" and may as well be algo-noise. That holds for everything else! May as well maximize the compression and simulate all of it then.

[EDIT] My point is "film grain's not more-real than algo noise" is simply not true, at all. An attempt to represent something with fidelity is not the same thing as giving up and faking it entirely based on a guess with zero connection to the real thing—its being a representation and not the actual-real-thing doesn't render it equally as "impure" as a noise-adding filter.
Show HN: I built a Spotify podcast transcript generator with summaries and chat
by jackemerson | 2025-11-11 14:02:35+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm Jack, and I built SpotScribe because I was constantly frustrated trying to reference specific quotes from podcasts I'd listened to. I'd remember hearing something insightful but couldn't find it without scrubbing through entire episodes. Spotify doesn't provide transcripts for most podcasts, so I built this tool to extract them automatically.

Beyond transcription, I added AI summarization to quickly understand key points, and a chat feature so you can ask questions about the episode content and get instant answers. It's been useful for my own research and note-taking, and I'm curious to hear if others find it helpful too.

Happy to answer any technical questions about the implementation.

Link: https://spotscribe.io
by input_sh | 2025-11-11 14:02:56+00:00
Who do you think is responsible for such a dysfunctional government? Is it your average working class person earning about $65k/year or is it billionaires that can throw unfathomable amounts of money at any topic of their interest without it even making a dent in their pocket?

To take a recent example, the median income in New York City is about $79k/year (before taxes), while Bill Ackman alone essentially threw away 21.5x that in his failed attempt to influence the mayoral election.
by 1dom | 2025-11-11 14:03:16+00:00
There's so, so many different reasons in the real world as to why/how details like that end up in front of the customer.

Is OP happy to work for Satan as long as he appears grammatically accurate, polite and concise?

Alternatively, OP is a nightmare to work with because every single other role in the company has to do things in exactly the way the engineers want, otherwise they're careless morons.
by dathinab | 2025-11-11 14:04:08+00:00
> But creating a derivative work based on the song?

1. it wouldn't matter as derivative work still needs the original license

2. expect if it's not derivative but just inspired,

and the court case was about it being pretty much _the same work_

OpenAIs defense also wasn't that it's derived or inspired but, to quote

> Since the output would only be generated as a result of user inputs known as prompts, it was not the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it, OpenAI had argued.

and the court oder said more or less

- if it can reproduce the song lyrics it means it stored a copy of the song lyrics somehow somewhere (memorization), but storing copies requires a license and OpenAI has no license

- it it outputs a copy of the song lyrics it means it's making another copy of them and giving them to the user which is copyright infringement

and this makes sens, if a human memorizes a song and then writes it down when asked it's still is and always has been copyright infringement (else you could just launder copy right by hiring people to memorize things and then write them down, which would be ridiculous).

and technically speaking LLMs are at the core a lossy compressed storage of their training content + statistic models about them. And to be clear that isn't some absurd around five corners reasoning. It's a pretty core aspect of their design. And to be clear this are things well know even before LLMs became a big deal and OpenAI got huge investment. OpenAI pretty much knew about this being a problem from the get to go. But like any recent big US "startup" following the law doesn't matter.

it technically being a unusual form of lossy compressed storage means it makes that the memorization counts as a copyright infringement (with current law)

but I would argue the law should be improved in that case, so that under some circumstances "memorization" in LLMs is treated as "memorization" in Humans (i.e. not a illegal copy, until you make it one by writing it down). But you can't make it all circumstances because like mentioned you can use the same tech to bascially to lossy file compression and you don't want people to launder copy right by training an LLM on a a single text/song/movie and then distributing that...
by mothballed | 2025-11-11 14:04:14+00:00
Reducing speed by 20-30% at scale results in a very large loss of man-years of lives in the form of sitting in a car. Reduced earning capacity, lost time with their families, waking up earlier and risks to health associated with reduced sleep, less theoretical throughput of roadways, reduced money for education/food/childcare when they accidently go too fast for a moment and are fined, lack of discretion in issuing tickets for bona fide emergencies, people suddenly slowing down before camera causing accidents, etc.

The obvious win in places like the US is that being pulled over is one of the most dangerous thing that ever happens to the common person, as they are exposed to a psychopath with a gun who is trained that the most important thing is to optimize every interaction to maximize his chance of 'making it home to his family' and if a policeman shoots everything that moves (up to and including, falling acorns) because he 'fears for his life' he will largely get away with it. So it is a nice alternative to that.
by dmitry_stratyfy | 2025-11-11 14:04:50+00:00
Hi HN, I'm one of the creators. I've been tackling the problem of managing complex business rules for years (especially in fintech), and wanted a lightweight, Python-native tool that was built on a solid theoretical foundation.

We built vector-logic (it's on PyPI) and wrote a hands-on guide for Towards Data Science: https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-rules-engine-from-...

The whole framework is based on a theory we call 'State Algebra,' which we co-authored for arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10326

Happy to answer any questions!
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-11-11 14:04:52+00:00
I am suffering from medium levels of general anxiety and fighting with severe anxiety (panic?) in situations that stress me out, e.g. conflict or interviews. If I know I have those 2 hours beforehand and I can tranquilize myself with the betablocker propranolol which makes the relevant adrenaline receptors in your body immune to all the adrenaline your gland secrete and turns me into a cool and smooth operator.

Choline gives me a severe stiff neck and makes me unable to sleep. I have experimented with many supplements and it was one of the most consistent and unfortunate effects I ever got from one.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-11 14:05:16+00:00
It's fine. Sometimes I get annoyed by websites which require JavaScript to show static text (apparently HTML is too difficult?) or which block me with a 'please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed' (that second one seriously pisses me off when I see it on, for example, the website of the Belgian railways), but by and large I'm fine with just saying 'if it breaks I don't need it'. But I handle my e-mail with isync, mu, and mu4e; and as far as I understand e-mail tends to be a sticking point for those who care for their digital rights. I also don't have Xitter or Facebook or any of that nonsense.

If there's one thing I don't like its the fact that NoScript doesn't integrate with Multi-Account Containers. It would be neat if instead of having to temporarily allow GitHub JavaScript and re-disable it when I'm done; I could just allow GH JS in a GitHub or Microsoft container and it only being enabled in that container.
by jhbadger | 2025-11-11 14:05:19+00:00
"First off, it is really low level. From what I understand, not even the people at Infocom wrote raw zil. Instead, they used Lisp macros that generated zil."

Is there any evidence of this? The standard guide to ZIL (written as an in-house document at Infocom for new programmers [1]) presents it very much as if people would be writing it directly. It's also not that low level, only slightly more low level than Inform 6.

[1] https://archive.org/details/Learning_ZIL_Steven_Eric_Meretzk...
by naps62 | 2025-11-11 14:06:26+00:00
Author here. I did that. I've used Advanced Camera Card for a while now, and the tutorial I link for a doorbell similar to mine does that too.

it's just that the resulting UI is terrible in my opinion (both due to home assistant itself being a bit cumbersome to boot, and because customizing the UI with things like card_mod is a terrible experience)
Abac-engine: Lean zero-dep ABAC PDP at 9.37 µs with minimal PAP UI
by astralstriker | 2025-11-11 14:06:50+00:00
First launch of the ABAC stack I've been running in prod:

*abac-engine (PDP)*: Zero deps, ~4KB gzipped. 9.37 µs warm checks on 100 policies — 26% faster than CASL (6KB, 11.8 µs), 4x faster than Casbin (89KB, 42 µs). PolicyCache handles Vercel cold starts seamlessly.

*@devcraft-ts suite (PAP)*: Minimal admin UI layer — modular React hooks + ShadCN components for policy management/visual builder. No bloat, just what you need.

One-liner: `npm i abac-engine @devcraft-ts/abac-admin-react-ui`

Live docs: https://abac-admin-02-nextjs-app-router.vercel.app/docs Core PDP: https://github.com/astralstriker/abac-engine PAP suite: https://github.com/devcraft-ts

Thoughts on the perf edge over CASL/Casbin? Missing PDP features?
by ethin | 2025-11-11 14:06:59+00:00
Right, but that's what I'm getting at: PDF is just a terrible format all round. People do things with it that have nothing to do with document preservation. We have PDF forms, we have PDFs able to execute arbitrary JS (which can modify the rendering of the document, completely defeating the entire reason for the format existing)... Like IMO the format just has no reason to exist/be used anymore given how bloated and over-complicated it is.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-11 14:07:26+00:00
I agree; there's probably higher value UI work, or something that should be more important to you above this. Examples: Have you ever run your app at 500% in high contrast with no mouse or with a screen reader? What's the happy path for most popular workflows? How many layers bury them with options and edge cases? What language support are you missing?
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-11 14:07:32+00:00
< We can, we just don't want to.

We can't, because we don't want to. Its theoretically possible for the USA to ramp up to be the biggest producer in world, but not quickly. Drones have many parts that aren't produced in the USA at all, so all of those lines would have to be developed from effectively nothing. This is not a fast process. Like that old saying, if you think you might need the wood in the future, you plant the seeds now.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-11 14:07:53+00:00
> It's the "unreasonable" rules that were unilaterally implemented that made car companies panic and finally start competing.

I believe the margin for effective regulation is much smaller than you think.

Sure, the EU could've mandated zero-emission vehicles from 2020 on in, say, 2010. But what would have happened? Carmakers would have made giant losses because their production facilities become worthless overnight (and laid off swathes of people); prices for vehicles and transport would've invariably gone through the roof and it is quite likely that the whole industry would have picked the "wrong" technology to bet on, like fuel cells, synthetic fuel or even hydrogen combustion.

Compare how much pushback you get in the general population against costly pro-climate policy already (very important to look past your own bubble on this!) and it seems clear to me that this would have failed competely (doing great economical damage, possibly a full-blown crisis), and would have probably been rolled back by the next election at the latest.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-11-11 14:08:09+00:00
For context, I'm a geezer who got early access reading Lions' Commentary (6th Edition) and comparing it with 7th Edition source (running on a PDP-/something with no more than 128 KiB RAM). That was 1985, as Unix was spreading its way through universities. SIGSEGV haunts me to this day.

That was a full 40 years ago. And yet, 4th Edition is ancient history even to me.
Request a Parameter Selection Evaluation
by Patternician | 2025-11-11 14:08:11+00:00
Request a Parameter Selection Evaluation of the form b^A mod p^t = r. Email your parameter set in the form (b, p, t, r) where b = base (e.g., 2, 3, 5), p = prime, t = prime-power depth, and r = residue. Example: (2,11,2,1), (3,23,3,3), (5,19,4,2). Each set is processed individually, and you’ll receive the Local Mₜ for each case plus the Combined M if applicable. Non-prime p values are rejected automatically. Supports any base b ≥ 2. Results are derived from a provably correct method, not heuristics.

Christopher Stevens - cwstevens71@gmail.com or visit https://sites.google.com/view/christopherwstevens/home
by mensetmanusman | 2025-11-11 14:08:34+00:00
https://seia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SMI20Q2202024_Ch...

I think they will point to the growth rate of capability and squabble over alternative histories.

Eg. If China was a friendly nation to its neighbors, the world would be more comfortable subsidizing their manufacturing and building out solar faster. https://share.google/images/fR5VmXmlygHn6yL2g
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by clumsysmurf | 2025-11-11 14:08:39+00:00
The other problem with supplementing with too much choline may be elevated TMAO:

"Dietary Choline Supplements, but Not Eggs, Raise Fasting TMAO Levels in Participants with Normal Renal Function: A Randomized Clinical Trial"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8410632/
by Krssst | 2025-11-11 14:08:47+00:00
This means not running infra for half the day (and when the weather goes bad), halving the return on investment of anything relying only on solar. That's definitely a choice but not sure if people are ready for this. Of course storage solves this but storage sounds it is a bigger problem than "put solar everywhere you can".

What's important is the cost of the total electricity production apparatus, seasonal storage and transport included. (and environmental cost and availability, meaning fossil fuels should be avoided)

And, a similar argument could be made that "just a tiny bit of uranium can provide so much power, why are we not using it?" completely disregarding the infrastructure cost of nuclear. So this argument does not make much sense IMO.

(to be clear, I'm not saying we should not do anything, just that it's not as easy as it sounds)
by Rochus | 2025-11-11 14:08:50+00:00
Interesting article. If we don't restrict to Unix-compatible userlands, there are many more impressive operating system kernels written in Pascal or its descendants, e.g. the UCSD p-System, Lisa OS and the Classic Macintosh OS. Windows at least used the Pascal calling convention in its 32 bit versions (though the system itself was not written in Pascal).
by jmyeet | 2025-11-11 14:09:35+00:00
There are actually a ton of problems with the energy use of AI data centers.

1. Exploiting local laws to basically pollute in essentially residential areas. This is what's happening with Grok's Memphis DC [1]. The gas turbines count as "mobile" so don't need the same pollution controls;

2. Domestic electricity production is heavily natural gas dependent. This is significantly better than coal but obviously not as good as renewables. But we are creating all this new demand for natural gas that is going to do nothing but drive up the price for everybody. This isn't just data centers. It's the policy of massively increasing LNG exports; and

3. For those DCs connected to the local grid, dthey are essentially getting residential customers to pay for the infrastructure and to subsidize the energy usage. Thing is, we've been here before [2].

So we have people with less income because company spend is moving to AI and the money those people have is being further eaten away by higher electricity prices. This is going to be a problem long before the CO2 emissions will be.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...

[2]: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/when-crypt...
by jordanb | 2025-11-11 14:09:36+00:00
This is the Californian Ideology in a blog post. The implication that title and intro mean to imply is working for companies that build products that are not evil and hostile to their users.

But the call to action is to.. embed logic in the programs to pluralize properly (in English).

It's possible to write evil software that pluralizes words. It's possible to write beneficial software that does not pluralize words. This blog post is about the color of the bikeshed next to the torment nexus.
by daft_pink | 2025-11-11 14:09:39+00:00
The underlying issue is that there is an unsatisfying risk reward ratio.

Taking Tylenol doesn’t have a huge benefit, but severe autism is a catastrophe.

Even though the causation is not proven, correlation might give you pause to have such a catastrophic result.

There are a lot of people who are not parents discussing this, but as a parent, I don’t think I would let my wife take tylenol during pregnancy.