MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdtancsa | 2025-11-26 13:45:47+00:00
dropping off the bus is the best case fail really. Its more annoying when writes become slower than the other disks often causing confusing performance profiles of the overall array. Having good metrics for each disk (we use telegraf) will help flag it early. On my zfs pools, monitoring disk io for each disk, smartmon metrics help tease that out. For SSDs probably the worst is when there is some firmware bug that triggers on all disks at the same time. e.g. the infamous HP SSD Failure at 32,768 Hours of Use. Yikes!
Show HN: ChatIndex – A Lossless Memory System for AI Agents
by LoMoGan | 2025-11-26 13:45:55+00:00
Current AI chat assistants face a fundamental challenge: context management in long conversations. While current LLM apps use multiple separate conversations to bypass context limits, a truly human-like AI assistant should maintain a single, coherent conversation thread, making efficient context management critical. Although modern LLMs have longer contexts, they still suffer from the long-context problem (e.g. context rot problem) - reasoning ability decreases as context grows longer.

Memory-based systems have been invented to alleviate the context rot problem, however, memory-based representations are inherently lossy and inevitably lose information from the original conversation. In principle, no lossy representation is universally perfect for all downstream tasks. This leads to two key requirements for defining a flexible in-context management system:

1. Preserve raw data: An index system that can retrieve the original conversation when necessary.

2. Multi-resolution access: Ability to retrieve information at different levels of detail on-demand.

ChatIndex is a context management system that enables LLMs to efficiently navigate and utilize long conversation histories through hierarchical tree-based indexing and intelligent reasoning-based retrieval.

Open-sourced repo: https://github.com/VectifyAI/ChatIndex
by niemandhier | 2025-11-26 13:46:07+00:00
Not only Hollywood has it wrong:

A good part of our cultural vision of Rome and Greece was influence by wishfully thinking of renaissance and enlightenment intellectuals that sought legitimacy for their ideas.

The rediscovery of Cicero’s letters had huge influence on statecraft in renaissance Italy.

It’s telling that in more modern times we project ourselves on Rome in a different way.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-11-26 13:46:09+00:00
its not the law but a cost

software is unique field where project can be a problem that no matter how much money you throw, there is something that we can "improve" or make it better

that's why we start something small, a scope if you want call it that way

of course start something small or dare I call it simpler would result in more technical debt because that things its not designed with scale in mind because back to the first point
by KomoD | 2025-11-26 13:46:20+00:00
Well, I think it's less about the t-shirts themselves and more about how much effort and money was spent on them.

> The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!

> allocate nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts?

That's a lot of their money just to give out some t-shirts but I get that it's marketing in a way.
by willis936 | 2025-11-26 13:46:34+00:00
I don't think that they are. The term life, as it's currently defined, is not very useful. The reality is that there is a very colorful spectrum of microscopic biology and that a single bin of "alive" and "not alive" is like trying to paint the mona lisa with a single pixel.

This scishow video gives a good look at the tip of the iceberg.

https://youtu.be/FXqmzKwBB_w
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-26 13:46:48+00:00
Maybe you are lasering in on a term we use to describe software, but they are talking more broadly about maintaining open source (lower case, btw) collaborative software.

- https://lkml.org/

- https://www.postgresql.org/list/

Though I have to be very charitable to grant your point.

Even your examples support their point of "people who want to make software better for everyone, not just for themselves or a select few". Stallman just cared about code, like fixing his printer, and not a whole social movement?
by ineedasername | 2025-11-26 13:47:03+00:00
>For the foreseeable future, there are hard limits on what AI can bring to the table in controlling and managing the myriad intersections and trade-offs

?? I don’t think if thinks stopped advancing in terms of significant model improvements that actual utility would be saturated for a while. We have barely begun to consolidate potential into the tooling, use cases, knowledge sharing and depth of that knowledge throughout the workforce on how to make best use.

If someone is looking at AI as a monolith in thing and thinking “oh, silver bullet to the problems of enterprise software etc” then, I really don’t know what to say except that’s on them, not on any true big claims being pushed unless you’re breaking out the long ladders to pick those cherries, or listening to people whose background and placement within things clearly makes them a bad messenger.
by traceroute66 | 2025-11-26 13:47:38+00:00
> exactly what's the problem with re-inventing?

Because their blog makes a big song and dance about the items I quoted above as the answer to their self-imposed question "why the heck do we need a new browser?".

They are saying "we need a new browser" because "Zero telemetry, privacy‑first access has been lost".

However the reality is that zero-telemetry has NOT been lost. It is there in Firefox Focus, Mullvad Browser and doubtless others too.

Therefore, I quite rightly am returning to their question "why the heck do we need a new browser?".

Because "there are no zero telemetry browsers" is factually incorrect as an answer to their headline question.

At the very least they should address their competitor products and why they consider themselves different. Don't just bury your head in the sand and pretend your product has no competitors.

But really they should have picked a better headline topic to base their blog on.
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-26 13:47:39+00:00
I think it was more sandbagging than snowballing. The pain was spread out, and mostly delayed, which kept the economy moving despite everything.

Remember that most of the economy is actually hidden from the stock market, its most visible metric. Over half the business is privately-owned small businesses, and at the local level forcibly shutting down all but essential-service shops was devastating. Without government spending, it's hard to imagine how most of those business owners and their employees would have survived, let alone their shops.

Yet we had no bread lines, no (increase in) migratory families chasing cash labor markets, and demands on charity organizations were heavy, but not overwhelming.

But you claim "a country should handle a pandemic better..." - what should we have done instead? Criticism is easy.
by CapmCrackaWaka | 2025-11-26 13:48:03+00:00
Kagi sure does keep me on my toes. I love it. I won't be using this at all, but I appreciate it exists. If you opened one on the East Coast I could see myself visiting.

To all those calling this bizarre - I agree, BUT I also think Kagi is in the perfect position to do weird stuff like this. Their products are high impact but, to be blunt, easy to ditch. If the company gets too weird for me I can just effortlessly use a different search engine / browser. So, I encourage them to try weird stuff while they are small and have a small footprint. I love the idea that a company is doing stuff like this.
by housecarpenter | 2025-11-26 13:48:03+00:00
My impression (as a dilettante programmer without relevant credentials) is that there isn't really any question about whether mathematical structures can be rooted in set theory, or can be expressed as extensions of set theory. Disputes about foundations of mathematics are more about how easy or elegant it is to do so. (And in fact my impression is they're mostly about subjective, aesthetic considerations of elegance rather than practical considerations of how hard it is to do something in practice, even though the discussion tends to be nominally about the practical side. Quite similar to disputes about programming languages in that respect.)
by codedokode | 2025-11-26 13:48:12+00:00
> repeat the same thing the fucking guy is talking but just with flashy text on screen

This have been a thing on Japanese TV since long ago, doubling down on the punchlines with subtitles or adding a comment or comeback (conveniently, Japanese text takes less space that Western text, so the characters can be relatively large). So I think they just copied it.
by dsego | 2025-11-26 13:48:13+00:00
It's more like a comic book, you define the layout and the elements slot into that. You can define how many rows and columns your comic has and then you can make some panels fit exactly into one spot, or you can have panels that span more than one row or column. So it's more of a 2d design system.

https://l-wortley0811-dp.blogspot.com/2010/10/comic-layoutsj...
by kafkaesque | 2025-11-26 13:48:31+00:00
"Learn how to avoid peak traffic hours." Most people living in Bangkok cannot do this. Also, a very high percent of the time, the Icon Siam area is extremely congested (even on weekends). Yes, you can avoid living in or going to that area, but there are also very few nice areas in Bangkok in general.

Most don't have the luxury of the flexibility to avoid certain areas and/or certain peak travel times (which in BKK are many throughout the day)
by AdhemarVandamme | 2025-11-26 13:49:08+00:00
“world” is derived from “were” + “eald” (old), and meant “the age of humans”, which was distinguished from the age of the Gods, when the Æsir and Vanir dominated, and the age of the Jötnar.

I find it interesting how the term shifted from a (mythical) temporal concept to a spatial concept, to now often a social concept (e.g. the Fourth World).
by keiferski | 2025-11-26 13:49:19+00:00
This is a really cool idea and definitely encourages me to use Kagi, which I’ve never tried before. Belgrade is an awesome city, absolutely worth a trip (while working at their hub.)

The business model reminds me a bit of Revolut, which comes with some various benefits like one day a month at a WeWork. It’s not the primary business but it makes me feel like more of a “member” and less just a bank customer.

The people claiming that Kagi should stay in their lane don’t understand the dynamics of being a niche business with a massively more successful competitor. Technical power users aren’t going to keep you alive, building a club-like feeling while also having a solid product will.
by menaerus | 2025-11-26 13:50:06+00:00
Can you give an example what exactly was copied? I ask because I took a look into MR and original repo, and the conclusion is that the tool only copy-pasted the copyright header but not the code. So I am still wondering - what's wrong with that (it's a silly mistake even a human can make), and where is the copyright infringement everyone is talking about?
by everdrive | 2025-11-26 13:50:40+00:00
>In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process? To share our most intimate thoughts and connections with them?

Generally speaking people just cannot really think this way. People broadly are short term thinkers. If something is convenient, people will use it. Is it easier to spray your lawn with pesticides? Yep, cancer (or biome collapse) is a tomorrow problem and we have a "pest" problem today. Is it difficult to sit alone with your thoughts? Well good news, Youtube exists and now you don't have to. What happens next (radicalization, tracking, profiling, propaganda, brain rot) is a tomorrow problem. Do you want to scroll at the end of the day and find out what people are talking about? Well, social media is here for you. Whether or not it's accidentally part of a privatized social credit system? Well again, that 's a problem for later. I _need_ to feel comfortable _right now_. It doesn't matter what I do to the world so long as I'm comfortable _right now._

I don't see any way out of it. People can't seem to avoid these patterns of behavior. People asking for regulation are about as realistic as people hoping for abstinence. It's a correct answer in principle but just isn't going to happen.
by vacuity | 2025-11-26 13:50:56+00:00
As I said here[0], although I can't speak for what @Dylan16807 intends, invariants required by unsafe code are required exactly to the extent that some code can alter the invariants (the module boundary). In this sense, Rust's unsafe is just a particular example of encapsulation, where all notions of invariants in programming have the same essence.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030407
by colmmacc | 2025-11-26 13:51:48+00:00
I don't think it's nefarious but it is sabotage. There's long been an implicit assumption that optimization should be more important than safety.

Yes, languages do lack good mechanisms to mark variables or sections as needing constant-time operation ... but compiler maintainers could have taken the view that that means all code should be compiled that way. Now instead we're marking data and section as "secret" so that they can be left unoptimized. But why not the other way around?

I understand how we get here; speed and size are trivial to measure and they each result in real-world cost savings. I don't think any maintainer could withstand this pressure. But it's still deliberate.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-26 13:52:35+00:00
I work remote and i hate it, sitting all day is killing me, my 5 minute daily stand-up is nowhere near enough social interaction for a whole day's work. I've been looking for a role better suited to me for over a year, but the market is miserable.

I miss having jobs where at least a lot of the time i was moving around or working directly with other people. More than anything else i miss casual conversation with coworkers (which still happened with excruciating rarity even when i was doing most of my programming in an office).

I'm glad you love programming and find the career ideal. I don't mean to harp or whine, just pointing out your ideals aren't universal even amount programmers.
by traceroute66 | 2025-11-26 13:52:47+00:00
> I dropped firefox 9 months so after they updated their privacy policy and removed "we don't sell your data" from their FAQ.

"Firefox" != "Firefox Focus"

Please do not conflate the two.

> it doesn't seem like I'm able to install sponsorblock, ublockock origin etc on iOS firefox

There are other options though. For example a DoH DNS profile pointing at DNS servers that do that for you (for example Mullvad's `adblock.dns.mullvad.net` DNS servers).
by pkphilip | 2025-11-26 13:52:56+00:00
But can this software monitor patients via CCTV and see if any of them are about to faint and call ER proactively for them? No? then your bid for the project will be discarded! :)

What about the CCTV monitoring software needing to verify if there are women in a particular room and trigger an alarm when too many men enter the area - I am not kidding, but this was really in the spec!
by srean | 2025-11-26 13:53:41+00:00
Can't for obvious reasons. But no specialized libraries used. The usual Python stack that comes packaged for any respectable OS distribution these days, mixed in with other close-to-the-metal languages for performance or API compatibility reasons.

Look up nonparametric statistical process control and you will find useful papers. The algorithms are actually quite simple to implement. If the algorithms are not simple then probably they are not worth your time. The analysis in the paper might be complicated, don't worry about that, look for simplicity of the algorithms.
by dathinab | 2025-11-26 13:54:07+00:00
I wouldn't say "least".

technical there are many "non energy drinks" which have no less caffeine or other wake-up effects as energy drinks.

But funnily one of the ways Red Bull works is by giving you Vitamin B12 and Magnesium,

which are commonly on a slight deficit in, case where people take energy drinks. They can lead to a noticeable feeling of boosted energy in a similar time as caffeine takes effect (ironically Caffeine takes 15-30min to take effect, anything before is either something else or a placebo effect...). In general if you have problems with low energy in the morning taking B12+Magnesium alongside the breakfast is a things worth trying out (just maybe not by drinking a Red Bull :=) ).
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-26 13:54:38+00:00
I mean imagine if Google opens a free coworking space in NYC. Well maybe not free but do $10/month. How big do you think it would need to be?

The point here is that it is far away from where it is likely to see huge demand because if it was not the fact that this is selling dollar bills for a cent would bite them immediately. It is a marketing and publicity thing, and maybe a recruitment thing: friends of employees can now come hang out.

Or look at it as if Google or Microsoft or whoever sponsored a random hackerspace.
Show HN: LLM-models – a CLI tool to list available LLM models across providers
by ljubomir | 2025-11-26 13:54:48+00:00
I built a simple CLI tool to solve a problem I kept running into: which exact model names are actually available through OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI APIs at any given time?

The APIs themselves provide this info, but I got tired of checking docs or writing one-off scripts. Now I can just run:

$ llm-models -p Anthropic

and get the current list with human-readable names.

Installation:

macOS: brew tap ljbuturovic/tap && brew install llm-models Linux: pipx install llm-models Windows: pip install llm-models

Built with help from Claude Code. The tool queries each provider's API directly, so you get real-time availability rather than stale documentation.

Open to feedback and happy to add more providers if there's interest!
by zero-st4rs | 2025-11-26 13:55:18+00:00
I'm not sure if you wrote this with AI, but could you provide examples?

Knowledge is shaped by constraints which inform intention, it doesn't "drive it."

"I want to fly, I intend to fly, I learn how to achieve this by making a plane."

not

"I have plane making knowledge therefore I want and intend to fly"

However, I totally understand that constraints often create a feedback loop where reasoning is reduced to the limitations which confine it.

My Mom has no idea that "her computer" != "windows + hp + etc", and if you were to ask her how to use a computer, she would be intellectually confined to a particular ecosystem.

I argue the same is true for capitalism/dominant culture. If you can't "see" the surface of the thing that is shaping your choices, chances are your capacity for "will" is hindered and constrained.

Going back to this.

> What's yourself without your material possessions and social connections? There is no such thing as yourself without these.

I don't think my very ability to make choices comes from owning stuff and knowing people.
by voxic11 | 2025-11-26 13:55:26+00:00
Yes courts have found that game mods, even if they don't directly include any content from the original game in their distributable, count as derivative works under copyright.

> The ruling continues to apply to the legal status of video game modding, with mods viewed as derivative works that require the consent of the copyright holder. While this may legally limit the creation of mods, machinima, broadcasts, or even cheats, many game developers have authorized and encouraged some of these activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Star_v%2E_FormGen_Inc%2E
by bentt | 2025-11-26 13:55:31+00:00
I really don't understand why there are not sites that curate Youtube videos? Like, present basically the same recommendation UI, but just hand pick cool videos around different topics? Hell, it could even be like Reddit with voting... but the algorithmic recommendation engine that Youtube uses is NOT aligned with my interests. It's aligned ONLY with my behavior. I want to learn! I want to explore! I do NOT want to get corralled into the same videos as everyone else just because they are engaging.

I'll give you an example. I'm super into game development. I also love the NBA. NBA videos are posted nearly every day and I click on them. Gamedev videos, not so often. So what do I get? Tons of NBA content because that's what I click on in my recommended. What I want, though, is for the recommendations to think about what I would _like_ to watch and not just what I _do_ watch. I think a curation site would help alleviate this problem, especially if I could steer it more than Youtube's.
by danaris | 2025-11-26 13:55:46+00:00
> Don't worry about where AI is today, worry about where it will be in 5-10 years.

And where will it be in 5-10 years?

Because right now, the trajectory looks like "right about where it is today, with maybe some better integrations".

Yes, LLMs experienced a period of explosive growth over the past 5-8 years or so. But then they hit diminishing returns, and they hit them hard. Right now, it looks like a veritable plateau.

If we want the difference between now and 5-10 years from now and the difference between now and 5-10 years ago to look similar, we're going to need a new breakthrough. And those don't come on command.
by KomoD | 2025-11-26 13:55:48+00:00
> The business model reminds me a bit of Revolut, which comes with some various benefits like one day a month at a WeWork. It’s not the primary business but it makes me feel like more of a “member” and less just a bank customer.

It doesn't come with those benefits, you're paying more to get them. It's just banking + random subscriptions bundles basically.
by MayeulC | 2025-11-26 13:55:55+00:00
As far as I know, these don't have programmable IOs (PIO), though, which may make it more difficult if you want fine timing control of your GPIO, such as "bit-banging" (not really with PIO) arbitrary protocols. And they have much lower power consumption.

Fair point though, the price difference isn't much, an the Pi Zero are much more capable.
by zonghao | 2025-11-26 13:56:02+00:00
I think this might be why, during the reasoning process of GPT and Gemini, even for purely English prompts the model may choose to think in Chinese. That may make it easier for the model to express what it means, and thus be more conducive to its reasoning. Of course, a better way to reason is to think in vector space rather than by producing tokens that humans can read.
by quixventure | 2025-11-26 13:56:13+00:00
Like so many others, I saw the video the last time it was on hn and, again, like so many others, I went in thinking, what do I need this for and ended the video thinking... Ok, I gotta try this!

And I use it every day now...

I have been fighting annoying Samba issues with MacOS and a Linux NAS for years now, but CP just works. I can EASILY move files around and its really fast.

But the stuff that keeps me from going back to Dufs or FileBrowser are the music player and picture viewer... They.. Just work... No overhead, I can have a link that just starts playback with no extra fuss, it works really well for my use case.

I do not love the UI, but it works once you get used to it. I have a lot of pretty software that does the opposite for sure!