MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Apreche | 2025-11-28 15:27:51+00:00
There is already a way to completely avoid writing SQL strings in your application code, and it’s not even an ORM.

In your SQL database create lots of views and functions. Don’t be shy. There is no limit to how many you can make. Every single time your application needs to do a parameterized query, have it call an SQL function instead.

This method probably increases how much SQL you have to write overall. But it allows you to completely separate the SQL from whatever other programming language you are using. All the SQL exists in one area with whatever framework you have for handling schema migrations. Your application code now interacts with the database via an API of functions you have designed and never actually builds a query.
by bgrigore | 2025-11-28 15:27:57+00:00
Hey HN,

Companies need to make a lot of video content, and after talking to a bunch of them, most either rely on CapCut or have an internal team editing videos in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. The problem is that CapCut isn’t really built for businesses. Most of their templates and assets work great for individual creators, but in a company context, you don’t really use splashy transitions or meme templates.

We talked to a lot of social media managers about their workflows, and the same problems kept coming up: captions that don’t line up, cutting silences takes forever, resizing videos for each platform is a pain, and even just creating a first draft of a project takes way too long.

So we built Rendley (https://rendley.com), a video editor made specifically for companies, that takes all that feedback into account. It works right in the browser, syncs everything in the cloud, and is fast and intuitive. We launched about two weeks ago, and we’ve got a bunch of new features coming soon.

We also have a free tier with no watermark, so you can try it out without limitations.

We built it on our own infrastructure (https://rendleysdk.com) and used React.js for the frontend. We’ve done a lot of optimizations to make sure it runs well even on older devices. If you want more technical details about how it works, I can share those too.

If you have any questions about the product or any feedback, feel free to write them below, and I’ll be more than happy to answer them.
by pdimitar | 2025-11-28 15:28:12+00:00
My hypothesis is that general computing frameworks are the next big thing. The powerful GPUs have been mostly black boxes for way too long. A lot of clever people will not want to just throw them away or sell them second-hand and will try to find better ways to utilize them.

I might very well be super wrong. F.ex. NVIDIA is guarding their secrets very well and we have no reason to believe they'll suddenly drop the ball. But it does make me think; IMO a truly general GPU (and open + free) compute has been our area's blind spot for way too long.
by hopeful_coder | 2025-11-28 15:28:23+00:00
No it's not related to trading, although I do retail trading sometimes but this time I took a bet by leaving my cushy tech job as a software engineer to pursue building something on my own and now it has been a few months and I have realised that my job was something that gave my life a routine and purpose, without it I feel a bit lost and my time is mostly wasted in overthinking.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-11-28 15:28:51+00:00
I see the danger of corporations "reimbursing" people to work on very specific plugins and extensions, that coincidentally match the requirement of the corporation, at 12€/hour to evade taxes, social security contributions and minimum wage. As a German, I oppose that petition since "open source" is a vaguely defined term, and might not be clearly seperable from commercial work.
by ashton314 | 2025-11-28 15:30:27+00:00
A analogy: For the same reason why natural wood is more beautiful than plastic. Natural wood gets its beauty from little faults and irregularities. The process of growing a tree takes a long time and thereby is more valuable. A plastic facsimile can be made to look similar and be cheaper to produce, but it lacks the unique grain and quality of the wood.

It’s not just the end product that matters. The process and intent behind its genesis matters too.
by npodbielski | 2025-11-28 15:30:33+00:00
It is just a saying my dear friend. I added link because I was not sure how known it is in other countries - if at all.

But of course some HN commenter had to do: 'well actually...'. :D If I would write something like: 'Better late than never' would you be correcting me too? 'Well actually studies shows that it is better never...'

I recommend some chilling with a nice cup of tea.
by simion314 | 2025-11-28 15:30:49+00:00
Yeah, so is not shitty for those claimed X11 devs to drop X11 since is hard and make a spreadsheet with a specification of a subset of X11 , then let other suckers implement it and maybe some other suckers create specifications of the missifng part they refused or were incapable to create. Probably all was exactly as Red Hat planned, if it works for GNOME then the rest is ignored or if it does not work for the rest then is a bonus.
Show HN: A place to share and validate app ideas through community voting
by heartbeat9 | 2025-11-28 15:31:06+00:00
Built this to scratch my own itch: where do you share half-baked app ideas and gauge interest? This is a Hacker News clone, but instead of news stories it's app ideas—problems worth solving, automation opportunities, or tools that don't exist yet. Upvote what resonates, discuss feasibility in comments. Hoping it becomes a repository of validated demand.
by robocat | 2025-11-28 15:31:18+00:00
I'll be more precise.

I see safety procedures in New Zealand that appear to be expensive safety theatre to me where contractors are clearly incentivised to increase regulations because they get paid to enact the safety protocols.

Whenever I get a warrant-of-fitness (safety certification) for my car, it is clear that many of the rules are about safety, however it is also clear that there is no balance against the cost of those rules. I notice many cars in other countries that would not pass our safety standards, so you have to wonder exactly how unsafe other countries are (like Louisiana)?
by strangescript | 2025-11-28 15:31:35+00:00
LLMs write all my code now and I just have to review it. Not only has my output 3x'ed at least, I also have zero hesitations now tackling large refactors, or tracking down strange bugs. For example, I recently received a report there was some minor unicode related data corruption in some of our doc in our DBs. It was cosmetic, and low priority, also not a simple task to track down traditionally. But now I just put [llm agent on it, to avoid people accusing me of promoting] on it. It found 3 instances of the corruption across hundreds of documents and fixed them.

I am sure some of you are thinking "that is all slop code". It definitely can be if you don't do your due diligence in review. We have definitely seen a bifurcation of devs who do that, and those who don't, where I am currently working.

But by far the biggest gain is my mental battery is far less drained at the end of the day. No task feels soul crushing anymore.

Personally, coding agents are the greatest invention of my lifetime outside the emergence of the internet.
by trashb | 2025-11-28 15:32:03+00:00
> AI speeds me up a tremendous amount in my day job as a product engineer.

Sure, there are specialized and non-specialized models.

I was asking if you've measured your "tremendous speed-up" using AI or you just feel like it is a "tremendous speed-up". As the research indicates you may feel like you are sped up 20% while you are actually 20% slower. I'm not saying that you don't actually have a speed-up from AI.
by cholantesh | 2025-11-28 15:32:08+00:00
In my professional network, people mostly just reshare and like things their peers are doing or that they want to boost engagement for (mainly job postings, which they also post occasionally).

I _do_ have acquaintances I made outside of working life on LinkedIn, though - the only two that are really active are a mechanical engineer who mostly just posts about robotics and someone in marketing. I don't know if it's because I'm just really good friends with the latter person, but I've never felt annoyed reading their posts; they mostly seem to just talk about enjoying conferences or new externally facing projects - ad campaigns, large-scale promotions, etc - wherever they are currently working. I don't know if part of that is they're in the EU and the culture for marketers there is different?
by andix | 2025-11-28 15:32:40+00:00
There was a lot of talk about reaching "peak AI" in early summer of this year.

I guess there is some truth to it. The last big improvement to LLMs was reasoning. It gave the existing models additional capabilities (after some re-training).

We've reached the plateau of tiny incremental updates. Like with smartphones. I sometime still use an iPhone 6s. There is no fundamental difference compared to the most current iPhone generation 10 years later. The 6s is still able to perform most of the tasks you need a smartphone to do. The new ones do it much faster, and everything works better, but the changes are not disrupting at all.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-11-28 15:32:50+00:00
> You're reading too much into this

OP is not reading too much into this. You are being naive if you think that this is not the intended goal of this law.

Everyone who has looked at this proposal know that the 'changes" made to the latest draft are not real changes and that voluntary scanning with repercussions is the same exact thing as mandatory.

If a robber walks into your house and ask you to give all your cash and threatens to break your legs if you don't do it, did you give your money voluntarily or was it forced by the threat of violence?

Either something is mandatory and if not done, should be punished accordingly or something is voluntary in which case, then if someone does not do it there are no repercussions.

You can't say that something is voluntary and but that there would be repercussions if that thing is not done. It does not make sense.

Yet that is exactly what this law says. High risk companies should prevent the spread of CSAM but they are not forced to do it, except that if they don't do it then bad things will happen to them but don't worry it's not mandatory.

Those are just weasel words by politicians. Nothing more.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-28 15:33:03+00:00
>pirating a movie they couldn't afford is just

I wish this argument would die. It's so comically false, and is just used to allow people to pave over their cognitive dissonance with the real misfortunes of a small minority.

I am a millennial and rode the wave of piracy as much as the next 2006 computer nerd. It was never, ever, about not being able to afford these things, and always about how much you could get for free. For every one person who genuinely couldn't afford a movie, there were at least 1000 who just wanted it free.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-28 15:33:47+00:00
a16z seems to view turning society into a dystopia as a goal, so that makes sense. Their portfolio includes:

- DoubleSpeed, a bot farm as a service provider, allowing customers to orchestrate social media activity across thousands of fake accounts to create artificial consensus on the topic of their choice. Never pay a human again!

- Cheddr, the TikTok of sports gambling, whose differentiating feature is allowing users under 21. Place live in-game bets with just a swipe!

- Coverd, a new type of credit card where you can wipe off bills by betting on your favorite gambling games in their app. No VPN required!
by vidarh | 2025-11-28 15:33:51+00:00
Looking at a few of them, a few obvious problems are apparent.

Firstly, it takes a rather liberal idea of how close the basins need to be to each other to be viable.

Secondly, most of the ones I looked at would require extensive relocation of existing populations and/or large-scale infrastructure changes, such as re-routing important roads.

The first few I looked at also do not have a sufficient water supply nearby - you'd face either covering them or you'd quickly run into problems of evaporation that you have little ability to replenish/replace.

A lot of the ones I quickly looked at would also face "fun" issues such as no nearby infrastructure such as roads to bring in construction materials.

I have no idea how many suitable locations there are on that map, but it seems pretty apparent it is a small fraction of the ones marked before you even consider how many would be politically unviable because of public resistance to the environmental destruction.

To be clear, I'm not at all opposed to investigating pumped storage, but it's also not nearly that simple.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-28 15:34:33+00:00
You speak as if the Commission and Council are somehow divorced from ne national governments of the member states.

Those are not Lovecraftian entities that came from undersea. Their members are appointed from the national governments. If you dislike how your country position itself on those organs, this should change your view on how the ruling parties in your country took decisions at the EU level.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-11-28 15:35:03+00:00
matt-bornstein's commits in that repo do often start off with ai-generated descriptions which he then edits down. there are notes on some commits that say things like "AI GENERATED NEED TO EDIT". the other contributors' changes don't have these tells.

while it should come as no surprise to have software written by llms, if these books are in fact just picked by llms then what's the point of this list?
by dsmurrell | 2025-11-28 15:35:32+00:00
A lot of products are giving some agent instructions as a guide to using them... e.g. https://electric-sql.com/docs/agents

This really helps if they've had large version changes and the coding agents (without a search) only know about the old docs.

In that sense, adding prompt instructions for Spikelog feels like a natural extension of this trend. I mainly added them to share what worked for me when integrating another product with Spikelog.
by bradley13 | 2025-11-28 15:36:05+00:00
Yet another argument for UBI, this time because "AI".

The author misses one important, cold-blooded point: Why should someone receive UBI?

Present social systems are based on the idea that a few people are down on their lick. So you help them until they get back on their feet. Some few people make welfare their career, but that is a minority.

If nearly everyone is getting UBI, you have to ask: where is that much money coming from? If it exists, why would those few people/corporations/whatever agree to part with it? They must be immensely powerful, so why wouldn't they just say "no"?

The world is not a utopia. UBI is not going to happen. Not even because of AI.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-11-28 15:36:40+00:00
Yeah, I agree. We will see what happens.

Words are just words as far as I know but the prospect of leaving the EU for Signal would really send a strong message to all those who still believe that the EU is better in terms of privacy than the US.

As far as I am concerned this is the nail in the coffin for the EU privacy advocates/ evangelists.
by berkes | 2025-11-28 15:37:50+00:00
Indeed, this solution is in some way even worse.

It teaches people to trust "Currently NonEvil Company™" to do the good thing.

First, and obvious problem is that this "trains" us to rely on brands to protect us. And to keep doing this. Companies may have different interests than their consumers. Ideally and sometimes these interests are aligned. But nothing guarantees this remains so. Companies will "Become evil", if only because they are sometimes legally forced to by governments or shareholders.

Second, is that this teaches people not to be responsible but to leave that to companies or technology. Which works if e.g. Apple and Meta are the only providers. But falls apart the moment Focebook glasses, Apelle Gear or Rang Doorbell is available on temu. And becomes worse when HP, Dell, Samsung, IBM and other legitimate producers start competing in the space. We've now been trained that what the first companies did was "The Good Thing", but lack the social structure, laws, or even common sense to manage a world in which this self-constraint of the companies no longer applies.
by rekabis | 2025-11-28 15:37:58+00:00
This won’t happen - at least, not successfully and without the company collapsing - because AI is bullshit.

To me it is four things in particular:

1. How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been demonstrated across all industries from software developers to radiologists. Most experience a 10-20% erosion in their skill set within the first 12 months of AI use, but others in the study groups have seen up to a 40% erosion in their skill sets.

2. How AI use shuts down critical thinking, and makes users more stupid. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been clearly demonstrated by MRI scans of the prefrontal cortex while users are actively using AI.

3. How AI use makes the user slower. This is the only user point that is not 100% coverage, as slightly less than 2% of the most senior and skilled users show a slight increase in work completed… after more than 12 months of using AI. Projections have been made on the other 98%, and almost all of them will likely never work faster with AI than without it, regardless of training or experience.

4. The gratuitous hallucinations, which are only increasing in scope and severity with every AI generation. It arises entirely from the constraints the AI are rewarded with - providing no answer is weighted just as negatively as a wrong answer - and depending on the model being examined, anywhere from 60-80% of all responses are hallucinatory or incorrect in some fashion.

60-80% of all responses. That’s bad.

In prior decades, any corporate solution with such performance/output would be laughed clear out of the boardroom. You cannot build a business where a majority of output is downright wrong or false. A political movement, fine; conservatism seems to be flourishing worldwide-wide with this “feature” as a core advantage. But businesses?

But because capitalism is desperately seeking a solution to what they perceive as a problem - how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour - AI is being adopted hand-over-fist.

After all, the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
by amiga386 | 2025-11-28 15:38:06+00:00
- archiver format to stow multiple files in one; your actual files (in your choice of format(s)) go inside

- files can be individually extracted, in any order, from the archive

- thousands of implementations available, in every language and every architecture. no more than 32KiB RAM needed for decompression

- absolutely no possibility of patent challenges
by machomaster | 2025-11-28 15:38:31+00:00
Why?

I understand the need to disclose sponsored content. Or if the manufacturer had veto-power or any say in the content.

I even understand that it is good to tell if the product was given for free or the trip was paid, even when they had no say in the content.

But I don't understand why anyone would need "I use affiliate links" caveats. This is useless info wasting space and reading time akin to "this website displays ads in order to stay alive". What does writing this (otherwise observable facts) actually accomplishes? What benefits does it bring?
by mindslight | 2025-11-28 15:40:29+00:00
> push to expand rather than diminish state funded media like CPS, PBS and NPR

I don't see why. If they were not planning on taking over the place long term, then they'd want to decrease state capacity not increase it. ( Furthermore in the US, corporate media conglomerates make up most of what we'd traditionally consider state run media )

> reduce the right to keep and bear arms

Why exactly? In this context, small arms mainly just give the population more tools to harm each other as the place falls apart.

> increase regulation and taxes to damage domestic industrial capacity and reduce competitiveness

Regulation has been increasing for decades. But even overbearing regulations are a downright level playing field for innovation compared with having to bribe the administration (with money and political prostration) to avoid becoming the target of capricious attacks under the color of law.

> invest $100B into TSMC Arizona or push Japanese car manufacturers and European pharmaceutical companies to build domestically

These are beneficial, but it feels like we're back up against the limits of continuity and showmanship. Complete repudiation of constructive investment (eg CHIPS Act) would raise eyebrows. And a few big state-directed investments here and there aren't going to reverse the tariff assault on our distributed industry. Furthermore unless the economic bargaining power of workers drastically changes for the better, foreign-owned factories in the US are still going to result in most of their generated wealth leaving the US. And without that, the main benefit of domestic factories (nationalization in a time of need) is fundamentally abhorrent to the US political environment no matter who is in power.
by threecheese | 2025-11-28 15:41:04+00:00
Looks like Google has packaged dotprompt into a Python library, might allow you to make the codebase leaner: https://github.com/google/dotprompt/tree/main/python/dotprom...

I think you mentioned elsewhere that you dont want to have a lot of dependencies, but as the format evolves using the reference impl will allow you to work on real features.
by sph | 2025-11-28 15:41:11+00:00
> The fever is not essential to the immune system

Nonsense. From Wikipedia:

Fever is thought to contribute to host defense, as the reproduction of pathogens with strict temperature requirements can be hindered, and the rates of some important immunological reactions are increased by temperature. Fever has been described in teaching texts as assisting the healing process in various ways, including:

- increased mobility of leukocytes

- enhanced leukocyte phagocytosis

- decreased endotoxin effects

- increased proliferation of T cells

[...]

Studies using warm-blooded vertebrates suggest that they recover more rapidly from infections or critical illness due to fever.

---

Fever makes your immune system work better, and many pathogens don't like the higher temps.
A 27M parameter model beating LLMs on reasoning tasks
by SteadySurfdom | 2025-11-28 15:41:17+00:00
I came across this HRM (Hierarchical Reasoning Models) explainer, and it claimed some wild numbers. It claims to beat LLMs like 3.7 sonnet and o3-mini on reasoning tasks like Sudoku, 30X30 mazes, and ARC-AGI. Here is the explainer: https://towardsdatascience.com/your-next-large-language-model-might-not-be-large-afterall-2/

I am currently working in a product-based startup and am working on automating PCB design. It also requires some hardcore reasoning, as in knowing that USB connectors should be at the edge of the board, inductive and capacitive loads should be apart, all while optimizing the routing length.

I wanted to ask if this is a viable approach to solving my use case? Think this would work out? Because I did see some similarities with the problems HRM solves better than LLMs, and my use case.
by dsmurrell | 2025-11-28 15:41:38+00:00
I used Cursor and Opus 4.5. What made it faster for me was symlinking in a few on-going projects that I've been working on which gave Cursor a reference for how I set things up in these projects.

I also have this method for helping Cursor see the realtime output of services I'm running while developing locally which really speeds things up: https://foundinglean.substack.com/p/the-best-improvement-ive...

This substack is pretty new for me, but I'm planning on sharing more things there which may (or may not) help others. Next article there will just be sharing the symlinking setup (not rocket science - but some people don't know ln -s exists).