MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnFen | 2025-11-18 17:48:08+00:00
I'm in the US, and this is what I do, mostly because if I have to include a date in a filename, this is the best format to use. I think it's a good idea to use the same date format consistently, so it's also the one I use in other contexts.

It has never caused any real confusion. Even people who've never seen this format before seem to intuit that when they see the year first, the next number will be the month.

That said, there are some places where the longhand form (e.g. January 1, 2025) is culturally expected and in those situation, I follow the expectation.
by altairprime | 2025-11-18 17:48:26+00:00
Looking at corporate profit levels versus wage levels over the past twenty years, the U.S. as a capitalist country can afford a great deal more of healthcare inflation in order to raise the quality of life for its population.

Should its businesses afford that out of their profits?

Since households can’t afford eggs, much less health care costs, at the wages paid by businesses; so this decision is up to firms rather than households to decide. Founders, your input would especially be appreciated here.
by pflenker | 2025-11-18 17:48:52+00:00
Easy. You have data available which tells you about the most likely travel dates, and you set this as the default. Many booking platforms pick a weekend in 2 weeks or something like that. This predefined field changes the task from entering a date to correcting a date, where the prefilled date is likely close to the desired date and thus requires less input/changes than starting from scratch.
by sqircles | 2025-11-18 17:49:08+00:00
Just make sure you know your state's laws and regulations very well. I had a friend in a mid-western state that was caring for a couple of babies when a tree fell and killed their mother. They were in contact with a licensed rescue to get them to them. The Dept. of Conservation caught wind and showed up at their house, took the animals, walked into their back yard with them and shot them on the spot.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-11-18 17:49:09+00:00
"Mittelstand" in Germany seems to be roughly: below 500 Employees, below 50 Million € turnover. Hetzner makes more like 400 Million € turnover but with 300 Employees. So it's technically above it but they are propably a very tight margin buisness. As such i'd say yes.
by dijit | 2025-11-18 17:49:15+00:00
I get your frustration with patterns in these debates, and you’re right that Israel’s documented crimes: apartheid policies, genocidal violence in Gaza, and blatant violations of international law… stand alone in scale and impunity.

No hypotheticals from opponents come close, and that’s not up for debate. The power asymmetry is massive: nukes, US and EU support (Russia’s more pro-Palestinian, actually, with recent UN pushes for Palestinian statehood), and anti-BDS lobbying make good-faith diplomacy a tough sell without real pressure.

But let’s cut to the core: wrongdoing isn’t one-sided. You have to acknowledge that on the Palestinian side too: rocket attacks on civilians, suicide bombings, and October 7’s civilian massacres are wrongs that can’t be waved away as pure resistance. Both sides have blood on their hands, and denying that keeps the cycle spinning. In the end, it’s all just people: ordinary Palestinians crushed under occupation, and ordinary Israelis living in fear, both wanting safety for their families.

Put yourself in those Israeli shoes; surrounded by states and groups that have historically vowed your destruction, with no other viable homeland to flee to after centuries of global expulsions. You’d feel threatened too, right? That doesn’t excuse Israel’s aggressions, but it explains why zero empathy guarantees endless war.

BDS is a sharp tool; it broke South Africa’s back through isolation, and it could here: boycotts draining the economy, divestment from occupation profiteers, sanctions on war criminals. Ramp it up, build the coalition, associate real costs with the ethnonationalism and imperialism. But to make it stick, humanise the people enough to split internal hardliners from the weary majority open to secular change. Otherwise, you’re just fueling the propaganda you call out. Good talk.. it’s pushed me to think harder.
by tholdem | 2025-11-18 17:49:42+00:00
I am currently using 4 banking apps from 3 different banks on GrapheneOS, they all work just fine. I'm also using WhatsApp and would not use the backup feature to Google Drive even on PixelOS. Uber (haven't tried the for drivers app), and other ride hauling apps also work fine.

Why would I choose LineageOS instead of GrapheneOS? I can't see any benefits in using LineageOS, I only see major drawbacks.

Why is it always 0 or 1 with privacy? Why can't I use GrapheneOS with sandboxed Google Play Services? Seems like the best option. I can still use all the apps I want and also get privacy and security benefits. I only give Google what I want and still get to live like a normal person, without making huge compromises on security, privacy, usability and GrapheneOS has been the most stable OS I've used. More stable than the stock PixelOS.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 17:49:55+00:00
I think we're talking past each other.

> I like immutable structures and use them frequently.

Are you talking about immutable structures in Clojure(script)/Haskell/Elixir, or TS/JS? Because like I said - the difference in experience can be quite drastic. Especially in the context of state management. Mutable state is the source of many different bugs and frustration. Sometimes it feels that I don't even have to think of those in Clojure(script) - it's like the entire class of problems simply is non-existent.
by crawshaw | 2025-11-18 17:50:04+00:00
Has anyone who is a regular Opus / GPT5-Codex-High / GPT5 Pro user given this model a workout? Each Google release is accompanied by a lot of devrel marketing that sounds impressive but whenever I put the hours into eval myself it comes up lacking. Would love to hear that it replaces another frontier model for someone who is not already bought into the Gemini ecosystem.
by epistasis | 2025-11-18 17:50:06+00:00
I've been haunted by this all morning.

Above all this is such massive massive waste of life, of money, of effort.

And to what end? What was the supposed benefit here? Just a bunch of people that know nothing about anything, claiming they want to "save money" by blowing things up.

This is what happens when you put extremely ignorant people in charge of cutting spending. This is the absolute worst sort of Pointy Haired Boss behavior from Dilbert. Absolute ignorance and idiocy driving decisions, with no chance for knowledgable and skilled people to give any input or objection.

We need to have hearings on this sort of thing, both to hold the perpetrators to account, but also to set up some new fences to prevent this sort of thing in the future.
by toast0 | 2025-11-18 17:50:07+00:00
Most US states don't have an inspection regime. Of those that do, it's often just for emissions (and with 2001+ cars, it's increasingly just confirm the check engine light shows up in the light test and turns off when the engine is started, plus check that the emissions computer says ready for test). The driving public does not want to pay for safety inspections.

But yes, if there was a safety inspection, it should include verifying that lights function and that headlights are aimed appropriately. A brightness test might be too complex, but safety inspection would be the place to do it.
by dewey | 2025-11-18 17:52:05+00:00
The mentioned blog post (https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our...) is a pretty great example why using Discord as your main communication tool for an open source project is the wrong choice. The only way to read about the decisions ("Shortly after, Core forked PebbleOS1 away from public maintainership. Back in June, they said that they would merge back periodically2;") is to read the manual transcript they added to the blog post.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-18 17:52:08+00:00
DNS resolution is a shared resource. The DNS client is typically a user-space OS service that resolves and caches DNS requests. What is resolved by one application is cached and reused by another. But at the app level, there are is no deconflicting happening like transport layer protocols. However, the same can be said about IP, IP addresses like name servers are configured system wide and shared by all apps.
by JohnMakin | 2025-11-18 17:52:17+00:00
It is a little bit though, using these lines of thinking it becomes extraordinarily easy to excuse, justify, or even paint as a good thing highly unethical or immoral actions.

For instance -

If I find some sort of fraud that will harm X number of users, but make me Y dollars - if Y > (harm caused), not doing (fraud making me Y dollars) could be interpreted as being "inefficient" with your resources or causing more harm. It's very easy to use the philosophy in this manner, and of course many see it as a huge perk. The types of people drawn to it are all much the same.
by rdtsc | 2025-11-18 17:52:28+00:00
> Simply by declaring that objects are ordered, it becomes the case and it unlocks a whole lot of useful mechanisms.

I wonder what it allows that unordered objects with sorted keys if needed couldn't allow.

To me , it just adds an extra constraint on the programming language, but most of all, I don't like it because it's simply surprising. If the syntax look like a json object it should behave like a json object. Now if it was completely different syntax [a = b, c = d, ...] or something of that sort, or sexp ((a,b), (c,d),...).
by anthk | 2025-11-18 17:52:42+00:00
MPD, Krita, Vim/Emacs/Scite,NSxiv with scripts, any diff tool since the 90's, any file manager since Midnight Commander and so on...

Less stable? MPD supported damn state supported popular science radio streaming channels in Spain like nothing...

Also vidir, entr and jimtcl/awk scripts p0wn your setup any time... I can just remote-mount FS's anywhere and use any local tools as if they where there. I can just spawn builds on directory changes and spawn an editor with a REPL in miliseconds. GUI? Everything it's composable. I can use a mega-complete GUI for MPD that makes Foobar2k blush. I can output audio to an streaming socket (or to plain Icecast) from MPD and plug any audio FX' and whatnot with MPD plugins.

I can push the whole graphical environment down and I could keep playing my music and control the whole music daemon from my phone. Add songs, add radio stream, play/skip, volume up and down... from my damn bathroom.

And OFC I can still code under VTY's and even read PDF's/CBZ's/EPUB's and even watch videos play any game or emulator which uses SDL (a ton of source ports, emulators like mednafen, Doom/Quake ports, Scummvm, DOSBox, PCSXR, PPSPPP)...

That without touching a mouse or switching between GUI's. No RSI, no headaches, no remote GUI tools to mount any crap requiring thousands of click and hurting your wrists and forearms. Everything it's under a directory and managed as it if were part of my hard disk filesystem.

I can edit directory listings with my text editor with the vidir tool, they will show up as a text file. You delete a range of lines, these files are gone. I can search and rename files at crazy speeds and, well, I can spawn any tool with find and iomenu and have a quick search for a file. File managers? Forget it, you keep typing and the fuzzy-finding tool with match the file in milseconds and open the registered tool for that extensions. And this is done with tools that could probably run in the 80's and early 90's. Go figure, I'm computing as if it was in 2040 but with 'prehistoric' tools.

Ah, don't forget that most CLI and TUI tools are scriptable... so you can just forget of even using a computer, 90% of the tasks can complete themselves via cron, the time scheduler under Unix.
by mbirth | 2025-11-18 17:52:46+00:00
Two things I haven’t seen mentioned at a first glance:

- headlight covers fogging up/getting cloudy or even yellowing from sun exposure; these will scatter the light so more of what should go onto the street will be visible by oncoming vehicles

- 3rd party aftermarket LED replacement bulbs; usually illegal and completely mismatching what the mirrors in the headlights were made for, but that doesn’t keep people from buying and using them
by orly01 | 2025-11-18 17:53:26+00:00
Why should it have to be expensive computationally? How do brains do it with such a low amount of energy? I think catching the brain abilities even of a bug might be very hard, but that does not mean that there isn't a way to do it with little computational power. It requires having the correct structures/models/algorithms or whatever is the precise jargon.
by sershe | 2025-11-18 17:53:39+00:00
The very first example about water use is a well known red herring, data center water use is miniscule compared to the production of everyday goods.

It's really amazing when reading this kind of stuff how many people don't appear to realize others don't buy into their cult. The way I see it, "I work for a company that intellectual descendants of the 2nd (or the 1st) most evil ideology invented by man consider evil"
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-18 17:54:03+00:00
This is a pretty predictable response. The problem is, this is a classic "he said, she said" situation. So it's pretty tough to tell whom you should believe, unless you are close enough to the situation to see it first-hand. Clearly someone is not playing nice, but it's not clear which party that is. Sucks for the user community though, either way.
by echelon | 2025-11-18 17:54:14+00:00
There are 8 Google news articles in the top 15 articles on the HN front page right now.

Google being able to skip ahead of every other AI company is wild. They just sat back and watched, then decided it was time to body the competition.

The DOJ really should break up Google [1]. They have too many incumbent advantages that were already abuse of monopoly power.

[1] https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/ - call your reps and tell them!
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-18 17:54:27+00:00
On the surface this is an interesting concept...

The paper however, meh...

No mention of MoE. One would think this is a logical evolution of that but not a mention (that I saw). Its own rubric for the task, Towers of Hanoi, was admittedly weak.

LLM papers are starting to look like the last decade of JS frameworks and Tools. Only with less code and more academics, and thats disappointing, because I think a lack of pragmatism and grounding is now holding the field back...
by jasomill | 2025-11-18 17:54:37+00:00
I was, but my application was less fun: porting Perl code from Windows NT to MS-DOS to integrate with software that required direct hardware access to a particular model of SCSI card.

Worked great, and saved a bunch of time vs writing a VDD to enable direct hardware access from NTVDM or a miniport driver from scratch.

IIRC, the underlying problem was that none of the NT drivers for any of the cards we'd tested were able to reliably allocate enough sufficiently contiguous memory to read tapes with unusually large (multi-megabyte) block sizes.
by Retric | 2025-11-18 17:54:44+00:00
> Generally, they're good for about eight hours.

That’s a function of how aircraft dropped sonobuoys are used. Subs aren’t going to stay still and the ocean is a big place so long lifespans are pointless. However for harbors you want continuous monitoring and so use a different design.

As to talking with satellites, that’s become very efficient at low bandwidth. If your 100W radio is off 98% of the time it doesn’t add up to a lot of energy.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-11-18 17:55:20+00:00
It's incredible that Russia has managed to associate itself with the western left so easily, just by dint of "We're not America" and "Lol remember the Soviet Union? Wasn't that wild?"

Frankly I think the actually association is probably shallower than anonymous internet self-proclaimed leftists would have you think, but it's still impressive how powerful it appears.
by Lio | 2025-11-18 17:55:42+00:00
Not directly linked to "Killer Shark" but for anyone that likes custom mechanical arcade machines I thoroughly recommend Tim Hunkin's two arcade:

https://www.underthepier.com/ in Southwold, Suffolk

https://www.novelty-automation.com/ in Holborn, London

There links pages also cover some other arcades in case there's something closer to you.
by CrazyStat | 2025-11-18 17:56:07+00:00
> Do you have any evidence that it wasn't?

Most types of cancers are not routinely screened for. The post says that the cancer was in her liver and lungs, and neither liver cancer nor lung cancer are routinely screened for (lung cancer screenings are recommended for people with a history of heavy smoking).

> What I can tell you is that given the state of health care in this country, you can bet that my default assumption would be "yes" until proven otherwise.

This is clearly a politically-motivated point rather than one grounded in science or reality. Cancer screening in the US is generally more aggressive, not less aggressive, than in other developed countries. For example, the US has historically recommended annual mammograms starting at age 40, while Europe doesn't start until age 50 and only does them every two years. US guidelines are to start screening for colon cancer at age 45 (c.f. 50 in most of Europe), and the US uses a much more invasive (and costlier) approach to colon cancer screening on top of the age gap.

If anything the US probably overinvests in cancer screening. The evidence in favor of starting mammograms at 40 is extremely dubious, as is the evidence for invasive and expensive colonoscopies (standard US practice) over fecal matter tests (standard European practice) for colon cancer screening.
by qcnguy | 2025-11-18 17:56:21+00:00
Yeah and look at the response to that article ... NYT readers couldn't believe it had been published at all. But you know what I mean.

You are perceiving emotion where there isn't any, just analysis. Maybe it makes it easier for you to dismiss the point. I don't have a position in AMD and don't care what happens to them. It's just obvious what would happen and why they'd be reluctant to swap out their CEO.
by SomeHacker44 | 2025-11-18 17:56:31+00:00
I have the Zbook Ultra G1a since it came out. The USB-C PD implementation is very bad, badly broken. I have not been able to get it to charge or even use anything but the HP 140W charger while on. While off, anything works, but once powered on into Ubuntu (from HP!) of Windows... It does not charge or use the power at all. Even with 140W 3rd party chargers from Anker, Ugreen, Insignia, etc.

Super limits its usability.
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-18 17:56:35+00:00
Not to speak for the other poster, but... That's not a good-faith question.

Most of the problems on the internet in 2025 aren't because of one particular technology. They're because the modern web was based on gentleman's agreements and handshakes, and since those things have now gotten in the way of exponential profit increases on behalf of a few Stanford dropouts, they're being ignored writ large.

CF being down wouldn't be nearly as big of a deal if their service wasn't one of the main ways to protect against LLM crawlers that blatantly ignore robots.txt and other long-established means to control automated extraction of web content. But, well, it is one of the main ways.

Would it be one of the main ways to protect against LLM web scraping if we investigated one of the LLM startups for what is arguably a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, arrested their C-suite, and sent each member to a medium-security federal prison (I don't know, maybe Leavenworth?) for multiple years after a fair trial?

Probably not.
by eknkc | 2025-11-18 17:56:51+00:00
Looks like it is already available on VSCode Copilot. Just tried a prompt that was not returning anything good on Sonnet 4.5. (Did not spend much time though, but the prompth was already there on the chat screen so I switched the model and sent it again)

Gemini 3 worked much better and I actually committed the changes that it created. I don't mean its revolutionary or anything but it provided a nice summary of my request and created a decent simple solution. Sonnet had created a bunch of overarching changes that I would not even bother reviewing. Seems nice. Will probably use it for 2 weeks until someone else releases a 1.0001x better model.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-18 17:57:19+00:00
Looking at your user page, I don't imagine you park your car on the street, do you? A lot of people have to. When (not if) it gets vandalized or stolen, it's nice to be able to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account.

Of course the rest of the justice system has to be firing on all cylinders to make that happen... but still, when you're a crime victim, more information is better than less.
by zone411 | 2025-11-18 17:57:40+00:00
Sets a new record on the Extended NYT Connections benchmark: 96.8 (https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections/).

Grok 4 is at 92.1, GPT-5 Pro at 83.9, Claude Opus 4.1 Thinking 16K at 58.8.

Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 57.6, so this is a huge improvement.
by protimewaster | 2025-11-18 17:57:49+00:00
I finally gave up on PayPal. Years ago, some hardware vendor had a discount for paying via PayPal. I made an account using my real personal info and personal payment cards, and they immediately flagged the account as fraudulent.

I put in a support request and, after some back and forth with support, they eventually, what I think was weeks later, marked the account as legitimate. At least, that's what they said they did. That promo was still going, so I tried it again. PayPal still wouldn't let me pay due to being flagged as fraud. In a follow-up with PayPal, they claimed it would take a few days before I could actually use the account. The promo expired at the end of that day, so I just deleted the account and decided PayPal is a waste of time.
by bijant | 2025-11-18 17:57:52+00:00
It's an artifact of the problem that they don't show you the reasoning output but need it for further messages so they save each api conversation on their side and give you a reference number. It sucks from a GDPR compliance perspective as well as in terms of transparent pricing as you have no way to control reasoning trace length (which is billed at the much higher output rate) other than switching between low/high but if the model decides to think longer "low" could result in more tokens used than "high" for a prompt where the model decides not to think that much. "thinking budgets" are now "legacy" and thus while you can constrain output length you cannot constrain cost. Obviously you also cannot optimize your prompts if some red herring makes the LLM get hung up on something irrelevant only to realize this in later thinking steps. This will happen with EVERY SINGLE prompt if it's caused by something in your system prompt. Finding what makes the model go astray can be rather difficult with 15k token system prompts or a multitude of MCP tools, you're basically blinded while trying to optimize a black box. Obviously you can try different variations of different parts of your system prompt or tool descriptions but just because they result in less thinking tokens does not mean they are better if those reasoning steps where actually beneficial (if only in edge cases) this would be immediately apparent upon inspection but hard/impossible to find out without access to the full Chain of Thought. For the uninitiated, the reasons OpenAI started replacing the CoT with summaries, were A. to prevent rapid distillation as they suspected deepSeek to have used for R1 and B. to prevent embarrassment if App users see the CoT and find parts of it objectionable/irrelevant/absurd (reasoning steps that make sense for an LLM do not necessarily look like human reasoning). That's a tradeoff that is great with end-users but terrible for developers. As Open Weights LLMs necessarily output their full reasoning traces the potential to optimize prompts for specific tasks is much greater and will for certain applications certainly outweigh the performance delta to Google/OpenAI.