MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nabla9 | 2025-11-16 11:35:51+00:00
>Exactly. I looked up the statistics, black kids in the US have slower cognitive development (and never catch up), which the study of course attributed to social factors without any evidence, and they had faster motor development! I suspect this means their brains are slower at learning high-level concepts, because the low-level structures are optimized for a shorter time. But they will keep the lead in motor development, because it is easier to learn, and they have more time and attention to practice once they get the structures in place. It could also be that they have an additional set of learning directives in place that adapts them better to a more hunting/running style of life, whereas the Europeans had to adapt for identifying long-term seasonal patterns, delayed gratification for agriculture etc. and CONCEPTS could be layer to layer communicaiton.. are gender differences also a matter of time, and structure of interactions..

Stereotyping Chinese, ... etc. Agh.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-16 11:36:21+00:00
> That is all part of doing the thing called quality software develeopment

It's all part of doing software development on a team that has embraced the trappings of agile, at any rate. Less clear that any of these steps are actually essential to quality.

There are teams who use a workflow that looks more like push-to-merge-queue -> if-tests-pass -> deploy-to-prod, and in my experience this results in significantly higher velocity (provided your e2e tests are actually sufficient to prevent outages).
by zuzuen_1 | 2025-11-16 11:37:58+00:00
I've been building Modulo AI for the past year - an AI system that fixes GitHub issues.

Early versions took 5+ minutes to analyze a single issue.

After months of optimization, we're now sub-60 seconds with better accuracy. This presentation encapsulates what we learned about the performance characteristics of production LLM systems that nobody talks about.

- Strategies for faster token throughput.

- Strategies for quick time to first token.

- Effective context window management and

- Model routing strategies.

If you're interested in building AI agents, I'm sure you'll find some interesting insights in it!

Install and try out our Github application: https://github.com/apps/solve-bug Try Modulo via browser at: https://moduloware.ai

Here are the code examples for the presentation: https://github.com/kirtivr/pydelhi-talk

What performance issues have you been seeing in your AI agents? And how did you tackle them?
by noodletheworld | 2025-11-16 11:38:54+00:00
Hm.

Its an easy trap to fall into to say that people are in hard situations because They Arent Trying Hard Enough.

Your manager might think so.

Your company probably thinks youre not trying hard enough.

…but, there is a also reality, which is overloading people with impossible expectations and then watching them fail isnt helpful.

Its not a learning experience.

Its just mean, and selfish… even when those expectations are, perhaps, self imposed.

If youre in one of these situations, you should ask for help.

If you see someone in them, you should offer to help.

Its well documented that gifted children struggle as adults because they struggle under the weigh of expectations.

The soltuion to this is extremely rarey self reflection about not trying hard enough.

Geez. Talk about setting people up for failure.

The OP literally succeeded by asking for help, yet somehow, walked away with no appreciation of it.
by lobsterthief | 2025-11-16 11:39:48+00:00
You are describing exactly the Dunning-Kruger Effect[0] in action. I’ve worked with some very bright yet less technical people who think the output is some sort of magic lamp and vastly overindex on it. It’s very hard as an engineer to explain this to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
by pqtyw | 2025-11-16 11:39:51+00:00
> if it's good enough for him it's good enough for you

Strange argument. e.g. Warren Buffet allegedly doesn't even have a computer.

Most people don't really have a team of assistants and other subordinates extracting and processing all of the information they might need to make high level decisions. And I'm pretty sure the employees doing that are generally using actual computers rather than tablets for most stuff.
by hopelite | 2025-11-16 11:40:11+00:00
It seems like this may be a good opportunity for someone interested in cars to make a site that evaluates especially EV vehicles for their various tricks and traps like this OP story to hold manufacturers’ feet to the fire, so things like subscription or unlock charges and DLC nonsense is not spread and normalized. I don’t want to give them any ideas, but I would prefer if we avoided things like having to buy blinker credits do you don’t end up pulled over off found at fault in an accident because you ran out of credits to use your blinker.

I for one would love to know if a manufacturer requires expensive hidden costs for services that amount to vendor lock-in. It seems like yet another industry moving into the scammy business model like airlines and hotels, where the prices they show you are never they price you pay.
by dotancohen | 2025-11-16 11:41:18+00:00
Any idea how much latency there is between the beginning of audio being played in an app, and it then coming out the headset?

I use wired headphones to study with Anki (AnkiDroid) because I've found most (inexpensive) Bluetooth headphones require a second or two to begin playing. As I'm dealing with short audio clips, this use case necessitates restarting the "audio playing" situation every few seconds.

Maybe the app developers could "play" quiet audio between these short clips. But barring such a development, I'd like to know if higher quality headphones might suffer from less latency in this regard.
by Etheryte | 2025-11-16 11:43:28+00:00
This is an idea that philosophers have played with in countless varieties, perhaps the one closest to the author's wording is Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of bad faith. Faced with anxiety, guilt or overwhelming weight of responsibility, it's often easier to subconsciously sidestep the problem and pretend you don't have a choice, even if you do. This is not even a conscious decision, it's hard to be aware of our own quirks and biases.
by eigenspace | 2025-11-16 11:43:46+00:00
It's certainly not an existential threat to Playstation, but Xbox certainly has weakened itself enough that yes, this could be another nail in the coffin, given that their plan was to retreat into the Windows ecosystem.

The low specs aren't a problem if it's cheap enough, but for every dollar this goes above the retail price of a PS5 will seriously hurt its mass appeal.

The problem for Valve is that they can't really sell this thing at a console-like discount, because it's a general purpose computer. If this thing is way cheaper than a regular computer of the same spec, corporations will just buy up Steam Machines by the palette load and use them as office machines or whatever (just like what happened to Sony when they allowed the PS3 to boot into Linux and they had to release an emergency update that disabled the linux functionality even though it was an advertised feature).

I really hope this will be successful, but it'll likely be successful in a specific niche. The nice thing though about this niche is that they don't have to hit anywhere near the same sales numbers as a console to be a success because the R&D costs are lower, and games didn't have to be specifically tailor made for it.

E.g. the PS Vita sold more units than the SteamDeck, but the Vita was an unmitigated failure for Sony because unlike the SteamDeck, the Vita needed games to be specifically made for it, whereas the SteamDeck benefits from the entire PC ecosystem so doesn't need the same level of adoption to be a (limited) success.
by pshirshov | 2025-11-16 11:43:48+00:00
From my experience, these cheapo Unifi switches from Flex series are bad.

They heavily drop frames under even moderate loads (well under 2gbit). If you turn on vlan tagging, they won't hanlde more than 0.1gbit.

They work well if you need to connect a bunch of slow iot devices. Don't dare connecting them to a desktop.

The Ultra series of utility switches is rock solid though.
by roenxi | 2025-11-16 11:44:28+00:00
If a generation is ~20 years then 50,000 generations is around a million years. We're talking several times longer than recorded history. In fact, I was curious and looked it up - Homo Sapiens is estimated to be around 300,000 years old [0]. We should be so lucky if there are humans around in 50,000 generations. Just by nature of the amount of stuff that happens, if they have any conception of what the UK was or any idea what happened there then there has been some sort of transcendental enlightenment where there are no longer limits on how many memories a human can retain.

In short, I think you are exaggerating the downsides of maybe a potential 10x cost blowout on the budget of a government project and a trivial amount of waste disposal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution
by masklinn | 2025-11-16 11:44:35+00:00
> Isn't the entire point of SMRs that they are effectively a complete package and it takes very little effort to ship them out and getting them to produce power.

That's the point if / when we have actually working SMRs, with production lines set up. But the limited development of small civilian reactors before the 80s and the 3 decades freeze on most things nuclear means SMRs are only just getting out of research status (e.g. in the US only NuScale's VOYGR are currently certified).
by contrapunctus | 2025-11-16 11:46:48+00:00
I use kmonad to make Space act as Control when held, and it's absolutely life-changing - not just in Emacs, but in all applications.

This is my configuration -

https://codeberg.org/contrapunctus/dotfiles/src/branch/produ...

And here's my blog post about it -

https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/keyboard-machinatio...
by mrsmrtss | 2025-11-16 11:47:40+00:00
> That's just obviously not true. I generate "code snippets" hundreds of times a day that have zero potential to include XSS or SQL injection or any other OWASP vulnerability.

I have witnessed Claude and other LLMs generating code with critical security (and other) flaws so many times. You cannot trust anything from LLMs blindly, and must always review everything thoroughly. Unfortunately, not all are doing it.
Ask HN: Do vibecoders need software control?
by harlequinetcie | 2025-11-16 11:47:53+00:00
Hi HN!

I've been working on a free OSS solution to give business level visibility for vibe-coded/solopreneur/small teams solutions (https://github.com/desplega-ai/business-use).

The idea is simple:

Allow them to understand what's happening in the wild. Without staging/canary/testing environments, or the technical acumen required for sophisticated solutions.

I would love to get some ruthless feedback.

Do you know people with this problem? Are they trying to solve it? How?

How much would you charge for the cloud version?

What is this solution missing?
by RedShift1 | 2025-11-16 11:48:34+00:00
I think I'm gonna keep my by now 13 year old car for a LONG time. Nothing is locked down, no complicated gearbox, no electronic parking brake, no remote control, no subscriptions, plenty of room in the engine bay (can even swap utility belt rollers without having to take out the radiator), and it's all mine and nobody else's. Yes it will cost in maintenance but at least I can at least work on it myself if need be without a computer. And by now the car is unattractive anyway, nobody is going to steal it so I don't need to worry too much about it.
by imiric | 2025-11-16 11:49:08+00:00
Part of the reason why I don't want to buy/drive a car are stories like this. They're practically locked-down computers on wheels, where the manufacturer is in full control of every operational aspect of the machine. The consumer/driver are merely given a choice of how they want to reach their destination, and I suspect even that will eventually be taken away, as we move towards full autonomy and vehicle-as-a-service models.

Is there such a thing as an open source vehicle? Or some approximation of that? Are there manufacturers that are more open to this than others? I realize that giving full control over a 2-ton speeding machine to users might not be the best idea, but surely there is some middle ground here. Or is the only option to buy/use cars built before the "smart" era?
by mkjs | 2025-11-16 11:49:09+00:00
It's not a console you can use as a PC, it's a PC you can use as a PC.

If you want a console you can use as a PC, the next Xbox is rumoured to be along those lines. It will run Windows so you can play Steam, GOG etc but will also run the existing Xbox library natively.

The 70% figure needs to be taken in context, tons of people have Steam installed on old computers that they use for old games. I currently have it installed on three devices, and yes two of them are worse specs than this. But I don't have any intention of upgrading them either, they are just old machines I have hanging around. They do the job if I'm travelling.
by Wurdan | 2025-11-16 11:49:25+00:00
I don't really get why people are calling it a console. It is a PC to me in all the ways that matter, and it's probably going to save me from spending 1500 euros on a mid-range gaming laptop that I don't really need. The only thing that I don't use my ipad for is playing games with my friends in other countries while we chat on discord. And the last 5 games we've played together do benefit from keyboard and mouse controls, but don't have huge spec requirements. And pretty much everything else for which I'd want a bigger screen than my ipad's can be done in the browser, which I can also happily install on the steam machine because it's just a Linux machine with some extra bells. So yeah, it will probably completely replace my need for a PC, and I'd be plenty happy to pay a PC price for it as a result.
by whazor | 2025-11-16 11:49:32+00:00
When I worked on an enterprise data analytics platform, a big problem was docker image growth. People were using different python versions, different cuda versions, all kinds of libraries. With Cuda being over a gigabyte, this all explodes.

The solution is to decompose the docker images and make sure that every layer is hash equivalent. So if people update their Cuda version, it result in a change within the Python layers.

But it looks like Flox now simplifies this via Nix. Every Nix package already has a hash and you can combine packages however you would like.
by lysace | 2025-11-16 11:49:44+00:00
See also: Gazprom, Gerhard Schröder (”Putin’s man in Germany” according to NYT) and the German nuclear power shutdown.

https://atomicinsights.com/gazprom-profiting-mightily-from-g...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-ger...
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-16 11:49:49+00:00
The problem is that nuclear powers profile with fixed output and extremely high CAPEX costs is the opposite to what a modern grid needs.

How would you add an extremely expensive new built nuclear plant to this grid? Would you shut it down for days on end or try to run it as a peaker?

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&...
by irthomasthomas | 2025-11-16 11:50:33+00:00
Anglesey is beautiful[0]. My ancestors came from there and I used to holiday there as a child. Today it is somewhat blighted by those ugly and noisy turbines[1]. I am in favor of this if it reduces the number of onshore turbines on the island.

0 https://www.celtictrailswalkingholidays.co.uk/wp-content/upl...

1 https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/article21841043.ece/ALTERN...
by ameshkov | 2025-11-16 11:51:12+00:00
I tried not to share too much details while we were still in process of figuring out the details.

The legal advice we got was basically “block asap or risk jail time”. Moreover, the risk would still be there even if the complainant is shady or hiding their identity.

So it took us some time to do the digging and make sure that illegal content was removed which was the prerequisite to unblocking.

The digging is not finished btw, we’ll later post a proper analysis of our reaction and the results of the research.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-16 11:51:27+00:00
> Back that up with nuclear providing the base load and you have reasonable energy security.

So you’re saying that we should turn off the nuclear plant?

What do we calculate? A generous 50% capacity factor?

The new built nuclear power now costs ~40 cents/kWh.

It just becomes ridiculously expensive when real world constraints are added.
by pwillia7 | 2025-11-16 11:51:52+00:00
I think it makes sense in the same way we blot out our awareness of 90% of the external stimuli -- There is just too much of it.

We have to choose what to 'deal with' and our capacity for that and awareness of it can change over time.

I also think this goes along with the author's concept of you're not trying since you can kind of snap into awareness and then just do those things sometimes.
by rsunnythota | 2025-11-16 11:51:55+00:00
Thanks for mentioning CyberChef - it's an amazing tool! We actually serve a different use case:

CyberChef is built for cybersecurity analysts who need complex data transformation pipelines (e.g., decode → decrypt → extract → analyze). It's incredibly powerful for that.

HashCodeTools is built for web developers who just need quick, simple tools without the complexity:

Need to format JSON from an API response? → One click Generate a UUID for testing? → Instant Decode a JWT token? → Paste and done Think of it as "CyberChef for everyday developers" - simpler, faster, and optimized for common dev workflows rather than security analysis.

Both tools are great for different audiences!
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-11-16 11:52:04+00:00
Russia basically cancelled their support for the S-300 Turkey bought from them. A lot of the tourists in Turkey were from Russia, that basically stopped. A lot of collaboration projects (IIRC mostly energy) got cancelled/suffered unexplained delays.

Erdogan send a letter of apology to Putin and did a bit of grovelling to alleviate some of that

Most importantly of all: Turkey was left alone by NATO. Yes, there was no great confrontation. But that doesn't mean there is no price to pay. Real life isn't a video game. These kinds of low-level confrontations do not result in large scale war, unless at least one side wants that war. Another example of those is the Kashmir region. There it happens regularly that Indian and Chinese troops fight. That has lead to both sides agreeing not to have those troops have rifles only clubs, but not to a large scale war
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-16 11:52:06+00:00
I’m “on the spectrum,” but I had no idea, until I was in my forties. I just assumed (as did most folks), that I was “eccentric” (or “weird,” for the not inconsiderable number of people that didn’t like me).

Once I did find out, it wasn’t really a huge revelation, as I was already well on my way towards learning to compensate.

I know that the popular outlook, is that folks use “neurodivergent” diagnoses to excuse (and not address) bad social behavior, but that certainly wasn’t the case for me. It was just another data point.

If we’re jerks, then no one will cut us any slack; regardless of a diagnosis. It’s still incumbent upon us, to address the issue.

In my case, I’ve spent my entire adult life in an organization that forces us to work intimately with others, seek out and interact with many types of people, and to look at ourselves, in a harsh, realistic manner.

That naturally encouraged me to address my social issues, regardless of the causes. Eventually, it also forced me to find the cause, but by then, the cure was already under way.
by schmuhblaster | 2025-11-16 11:52:14+00:00
This is my own recent attempt at this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937480

The core idea of DeepClause is to use a custom Prolog-based DSL together with a metainterpreter implemented in Prolog that can keep track of execution state and implicitly manage conversational memory for an LLM. The DSL itself comes with special predicates that are interpreted by an LLM. "Vague" parts of the reasoning chain can thus be handed off to a (reasonably) advanced LLM.

Would love to collect some feedback and interesting ideas for possible applications.
by topspin | 2025-11-16 11:52:54+00:00
This Rolls Royce design isn't all that "small." A RR SMR design is a 470MWe PWR. About half the size of a typical PWR reactor. Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 was 460MWe. Calling this an "SMR" is a stretch, likely for PR purposes.

It's a rather conventional design, low enriched fuel, no exotic coolants. There is a paper on it at NRC[1]. And they've never built one, so if they get it running by the 2030's they'll be doing pretty well for a Western company.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2521/ML25212A115.pdf
by itsdavesanders | 2025-11-16 11:53:26+00:00
I didn’t take it that way at all. I took it as “I was blinded from the actual solution because my vision was artificially narrow due to my past experiences with this person.” They didn’t ask for help, their partner intervened for them with a completely different and more direct approach.

I have a kid going thru this right now. It’s very disheartening and frustrating to see, because even with coaching and help, they don’t see the help and suggestions as solutions because they simply can’t see it. And as a parent you don’t want to have to intervene, you want them to learn how to dig their way out of it. But it’s tough to get them to dig when they don’t believe in shovels.
by Razengan | 2025-11-16 11:54:38+00:00
The real question we should all be worried about is what will happen to their promises of privacy?

Does the public have any recourse if the post-Cook CEO wants to sell all our data to ads/spy companies? You know all the Apple Watches over the world must be a biometrics gold mine that any Dr. Frankenstein would be salivating over…
by michaelt | 2025-11-16 11:55:52+00:00
> I don't think it will ever again beat solar+wind+battery for grid scale carbon-free power pricing.

The problem the UK has is their climate: Northerly enough that solar makes 5x as much power in the summer as it does in the winter, and much more demand for heating in the winter than cooling in the summer.

Batteries are fine for storing solar in the day and using it at night - but much less good for summer-to-winter storage. And the UK isn't exactly eager to start flooding desolate valleys for pumped storage reservoirs either.

Oh, and they don't just need to decarbonise their existing electricity output - they also need to greatly increase their electricity output to hit their goals on EV and heat pump adoption; and they need to lower electricity prices too.

I can see why they'd hedge their bets.