MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rafaelmn | 2025-11-20 07:42:06+00:00
This was true since Claude Sonnet 3.5, so over a year now. I was early on the LLM train building RAG tools and prototypes in the company I was working at the time, but pre Claude 3.5 all the models were just a complete waste of time for coding, except the inline autocomplete models saved you some typing.

Claude 3.5 was actually where it could generate simple stuff. Progress kind of tapered off since tho, Claude is still best but Sonnet 4.5 is disappointing in that it does't fundamentally bring me more than 3.5 did it's just a bit better at execution - but I still can't delegate higher level problems to it.

Top tier models are sometimes surprisingly good but they take forever.
by articsputnik | 2025-11-20 07:42:29+00:00
There's also an accompanied blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/19/how-i-automate-my-subs...

I really like how he automates his newsletter off of his blog, notes, TIL, etc., but it's also amazing how complicated it is. Imagine the blog would be on Markdown, nothing of this is needed as the "content" would just be locally for a Claude to read, it could do the SQL-query with a cmd-line instead, or you could build a small wrapper around if you want. Plus if the Newsletter supports Markdown, too (I use Listmonk), then the conversion would be straight forward too, also with no bugs.

This inspires me to automate one day more of my newsletter too, maybe as I have everything in place for it. And I automate blog post to send out automatically, but not a collection of notes and blogs.
by xondono | 2025-11-20 07:42:49+00:00
> Most of the harsher regulations only come into effect when the company hits a specific size.

That’s very market and country specific. Spain makes more than 1k tweaks to it’s food regulations each year, which would kill lots of restaurants if they were to be in compliance.

The result is that everyone tries to make as much money as they can and build a “inspection fund”, because you’re guaranteed to get a fine if inspected.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-20 07:43:02+00:00
If you can't pay, there is already bankruptcy for that. Nothing else is needed really. You can't expect to walk away from a loan with zero hit to your credit.

Also, it is really hard to sympathize with people walking away from huge loans for which they put down nearly nothing. The way things are today, you could severely overpay for a house with a loan that you put almost nothing down for, then walk away when the market crashes. That is not the kind of behavior that should be incentivized. As if that isn't bad enough, the very low down payments allow people to qualify for higher loan amounts, which drives up housing prices.
by Peteragain | 2025-11-20 07:43:52+00:00
Okay they're dead, but I think the interesting thing here is the relationship between hardware and the way mathematicians (potentially) think about problem solving. The established practices massively constrain the solutions we find, but I do wonder what a Turing Machine would look like if FPGAs had been around in 1930. FPGAs keep getting used to implement processors, but using one to make a c interpreter and then using it to run a vision library is probably not the best way to use FPGAs to recognise tanks with a drone. Which is, presumably, what a Zala Lancet is doing with it's FPGA.
by inejge | 2025-11-20 07:44:35+00:00
> Wasn’t the “open” at the time meaning “open system” as a system that is open for external connections (aka networking) and not so much open as in “open source”?

Networking was the initial impetus, but the phrase came to include programming interfaces, which is why POSIX was considered such a big deal. The idea was to promote interoperability and portability, as oposed to manufacturer-specific islands like those from IBM and DEC.
by sschueller | 2025-11-20 07:44:53+00:00
I want to switch to SimpleX Chat[1] but at the moment there are issues with battery usage on android devices because of the way notifications are done. I hope this[2] or some other solution get merged soon even if there is a slight impact on anonymity.

[1] https://simplex.chat/

[2] https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/pull/6205
by ifh-hn | 2025-11-20 07:45:45+00:00
Anything "smart". Can't avoid TVs unfortunately.

Electric vehicles. I don't have a problem with the concept but similar to the above, you can be held hostage with a change in software. And the second hand market is a joke.

Nearly all web frameworks, especially for app development.

All social media, cryptocurrency, and most tech pushed by big tech to general consumers.
by mazambazz | 2025-11-20 07:45:57+00:00
I've seen you make the comment about the OS being open-sourced a lot. But this largely has nothing to do with the OS. This is a conversation about infrastructure and data. The concern (from what I gathered and will condense greatly) is that Core will take in all the current app data and infrastructure setup, duplicate it themselves, move themselves off of Rebble, and continue developing on it privately.
by monerozcash | 2025-11-20 07:46:23+00:00
> The term "agent" in TFA's headline is causing confusion. The actual source quote says "intelligence personnel".

Even the article body inexplicably continues to use those terms interchangeably.

A CIA agent is typically a foreign individual who has been recruited to provide information to the CIA. However, “asset” is probably the more commonly used term. They are not “intelligence personnel.”

A CIA Specialized Skills Officer would be someone that might get to engage in James Bond/Jason Bourne style antics.
by toastal | 2025-11-20 07:47:04+00:00
Both XMPP (via OMEMO) & Matrix use libsignal for double-rachet encryption—so they have the same encryption properties. The biggest practical differences for the average user in my opinion is XMPP has a separate concept for DMs (not a 2-user room with encryption like Matrix), XMPP allows encryption to be both enabled then later disabled, & Matrix offers better resilience as messages & attachments get synced to all servers a room (which has a massive downside of resources, storage sizes, & moderation; if a server goes offline, you still have a history of the chat but if someone shares something explicit, such as CP, it will propagate thru the network & there is no way to delete it across nodes).

One of the better comparisons out there: https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/systemvergleich/xmpp-matri...
by theodedra | 2025-11-20 07:47:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Nano Prompt UI, a Chrome side panel that runs entirely on-device using Chrome’s Gemini Nano API.

What it does

Side panel chat UI that sits next to whatever tab you’re on

One-click “Summarize tab” (7 bullets) using the page’s text content

Multiple chat sessions with rename / duplicate / export to Markdown

Prompt templates, image attachments (downscaled in-browser), mic input, and read-aloud replies

Why I built it I wanted something like the ChatGPT sidebar, but:

no accounts or servers

safe to use with NDA’d docs or internal tools

still usable when I’m offline / on flaky Wi-Fi

How it works

Chrome MV3 extension with side panel UI

Uses chrome.ai.languageModel / Gemini Nano for all completions (no network calls)

Simple heuristics to decide when to include page context vs just answer the question

Sessions + settings (temperature, top-K, custom system prompt) are stored locally in chrome.storage

No backend; I don’t run any servers and nothing is sent off-device

Limitations

Requires a recent Chrome build with the on-device model enabled (details in the README)

Only tested on desktop Chrome so far

Context/window size is whatever Chrome exposes for Nano right now, so huge pages get truncated

Repo (with install + flags): https://github.com/theodedra/nano-prompt-ui

I’d love feedback on:

UX of the side panel vs popup

The way I’m handling page context (when to include tab text, when not to)

Any ideas to keep it privacy-first but more powerful (better summaries, code workflows, etc.)

Happy to answer implementation questions in the comments.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-20 07:47:35+00:00
The market itself optimizes for creating companies that are accountability sinks, for obvious reasons.

Regarding that guy, it’s because generally people have two approach to the market: to some the market is just a tool to an end goal, an economic system like any another, it has to be evaluated and corrected to serve that goal if it deviates. To other people, there is no goal, the market is philosophically always right, because it is an economic extension of individual liberty (which is debatable of course, I think Locke was not a proponent of laissez-faire for example).
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-20 07:48:05+00:00
This is a Google notebook on multimodal transcription from a training session they do: https://colab.research.google.com/github/GoogleCloudPlatform...

It goes through the video analysis process and terminology step by step. You need to say "timecode" instead of "timestamp" so the LLM aligns better to AV-stuff more than programming (weird, right?)

Basically you need two to three passes to get a proper transcription

1. just listen and identify voices, give them some kind of ID 2. Maybe watch the video and see if the people have name tags on the table in front of them or there's an on-screen overlay (news or interviews) 3. Last pass, go through the transcription and map voices+ids to actual names
by red75prime | 2025-11-20 07:48:50+00:00
And what is the point? "We know that a microwave is not a grill, but pushy advertisers insist otherwise?" The analogy is plainly wrong in the first part. We don't know.

The second part is boring. Advertisers are always pushy. It's their work. The interesting part is how much truth in their statements and it depends on the first part.
by dist-epoch | 2025-11-20 07:48:52+00:00
> I’d be saying that in a few years there are going to be a lot of huge farms of GPUs going very cheap if you can afford the power. People could be looking at whether those can be used for anything more interesting than the huge neural networks they were designed for.

Author falls into the same trap he talks about in the article. AI is not going away, we are not going back to the pre-AI world.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-20 07:49:35+00:00
> Not to mention: banks are fiercely regulated FOR A VERY GOOD REASON. And all these stablecoin issuers are effectively unregulated banks.

They're not. In the US stablecoins are regulated by the Genius Act and in the EU by MiCA. That's why interest in stablecoins is growing. The Genius Act mandates 1:1 backing of coins to treasuries or cash so the stablecoin custodians make money from treasuries and enjoy a risk free yield.

> I like crypto conceptually, but I'd love to finally see a use case that isn't just a regulatory workaround or recursive (something that shuffles other crypto around without an world-facing application).

I mean there's plenty but it's only interesting if you like finance. I've come to the conclusion that HN may have liked finance when it was populated by more startup folks but now that it's another tech forum, the average reader here doesn't really care for finance.

Prediction Markets are a big cryptocurrency usecase. There's also novel financial instruments like perpetual futures (patio11 is gonna write a Bits about Money post about them if you're curious.) From the sovereign currency perspective of Bitcoin, to the privacy of ZCash and Monero, to the subdivisibility of assets on programmable chains like ETH, the novelty is in the finance. If you're not into fintech then yeah you'll find the usecases all boring.

If you're curious about the tech there is a lot of interesting stuff around iterated consensus though.
by frm88 | 2025-11-20 07:49:55+00:00
A 10 second look: the garage place for one car is an extra 20k. The heating is 27 years old, so are the bathroom installations and the kitchen. I, personally don't want to sit on a 27 year old loo. To get this on to a modern level - at least another 50k.

Edit: I just checked on the laws etc. 2-wire electric installations are no longer allowed and property owners are obligated to renew them. In this case that would have to be done in the complete house with all other owners. Congratulations, there go another 50k.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-20 07:51:28+00:00
The goal there is similar to why the US state department sponsored the Tor project. They want a democratic society in Russia, and they want the Russian people to have friendly views of the west. The objective wasn't so much to teach them their ways, but to establish rapport with the journalism community in Russia. Journalists decide if for example Putin's power grabbing and dictatorship is covered as a negative or a positive thing. That rapport goes a long way with influencing their unavoidable bias. I think "influence" is correct, not "propaganda" unless there was specific messaging being disseminated.

Also, look up "confucius institutes" all over the US and the world setup the Chinese government to do something similar.
by mmooss | 2025-11-20 07:51:31+00:00
> We have this (reasonably) rigid definition that grants the appearance of specificity. But there are almost surely UPFs that are fine and there are probably non-UPFs that cause the same problems as UPFs.

Not "almost" or "probably"; both are certain: Any description of reality fails on those standards. Always, there are exceptions and edge cases: 'We have this (reasonably) rigid definition that grants the appearance of specificity. But there are almost surely X that are fine and there are probably non-X that cause the same problems as X.'

To meet your standards, we would need a list of every food and its status - and that couldn't be created without impossibly extensive research.

That's why humans use imperfect models and categories - reality is too complex. The most specific, usable category seems to be 'ultra-processed foods'.

> So what is the benefit of saying "avoid UPFs" over "avoid junk food?"

Good question. Both categorizations will be flawed, but maybe UPF is a better fit or easier for people to understand.
by mattmanser | 2025-11-20 07:52:00+00:00
It's just not true, it is not ready.

Especially Claude, where if you check the forums everyone is complaining that it's gone stupid the last few months.

Claude's code is all over the place, and if you can't see that and are putting it's code into production I pity your colleagues.

Try stopping. Honestly, just try. Just use claude as a super search engine. Though right now ChatGPT is better.

You won't see any drop in productivity.
by hulitu | 2025-11-20 07:52:10+00:00
> If so, it seems as if Windows is undergoing a Waylandization. "Yeah, we went ahead and

The Wayland idea looks very similar to a Microsoft brain extract: "trust us, it will be the best when it is ready", "your program doesn't work ? update to latest version", "we have updates: we disabled some things which worked before".
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-20 07:52:29+00:00
Unfortunately, the racist worldview on display in those chats is extremely widespread- and you are in a uniquely small privileged group if you’re neither on the receiving or delivering end.

A lot of middle class and wealthy people are victims of trauma. If you grow up in a house with violently racist and hateful authoritarian parents you will be deeply traumatized, and likely end up just like your parents. Wealth does not protect people from emotional trauma.
by kikimora | 2025-11-20 07:52:40+00:00
What is BTC inflation? How much BTC was printed by government in recent years? And of course - how much it grew in value?

In other words: * deflationary nature * independence of any government * speculation

Governments will keep printing money. Stock market is only good in US (check Japan and China). Bitcoin is good alternative investment in places where options primarily limited to property.
by cess11 | 2025-11-20 07:52:46+00:00
The movie doesn't do the book justice. In the book Nedry leads an on-shore team of developers, implied to be high-end competence based in Cambridge. The reason he is the only one on-site is because InGen don't want knowledge about the dinosaurs to leak before they launch the park, so the team basically develops from false or deficient premises and Nedry is the one who can compensate for this.

Nedry is a contractor and presumably reasonably payed, but the job would be awful regardless of how much money he'd make. He's alone, the rest of the on-site employees regard his technical wizardry with deep suspicion and his work habits with disgust. His boss, Hammond, can't stop himself from interfering. Dodgson gives him a way out, in the form of a large cash payment at an airport.

In the book Hammond is a truly ruthless businessman and it makes quite decent satire of the character. When he says things like 'no expense spared' or 'I like kids' it's more like it's coming from an Elon Musk on a stim bender than the warm and aloof Hammond of the movie. In the book, when Hammond comes under pressure he reacts with rage, like when they've realised that Nedry is gone and that Arnold will have to go through the source code himself. At that point Hammond is screaming expletives at his employees, who calmly respond that he instead should go to the cafeteria and get a coffee.

It should also be added that according to the book the reason the park fails is not because it has a single point of failure, but that it is a complex system and inherently uncontrollable. To some extent this shows in the Malcolm character in the movie as well but they do very little with this except having him deliver a few one-liners and the chaos talk with the water drops early on.
by toast0 | 2025-11-20 07:53:10+00:00
I've managed a couple thousand servers with ECC. The vast majority had zero reported errors the whole life. Of those that reported errors, there were a few categories:

Some reported a couple errors a day for months (maybe years?) but worked fine.

Some ramped up error counts over hours or days.

Some went from zero to lots in one step.

A few managed to hit uncorrectable errors; sometimes just once.

For a small number of correctable errors (< 10/day), there was no action needed, or one uncorrectable, but that kind of failure is what drives people without ECC crazy; some of the machines that hit an uncorrectable only did it once and were fine. The other ones we'd replace ram for. A small number of daily errors or a single uncorrectable were less common than the ones that got their ram swapped. I don't know for sure if uncorrectables correlated with many correctable errors, because correctable errors were only reported hourly ... if it was a step change to bad ram, it's likely to halt before a reporting interval, so no report. Unless the correctables were several a second, the impact of corrections isn't obvious.
by ergocoder | 2025-11-20 07:53:23+00:00
And the answer should be self-served, ideally, with an automated authoritative self-served approval. It could have a lag time of a few days or even a week for a person to approve.

Apple App Store review is a nightmare but still better than these regulations. They say yes or no clearly.

These EU regulations are more like: if you fuck up, you wouldn't know until the sentence might be really really high.
by vanderZwan | 2025-11-20 07:53:30+00:00
> Every regulation has some unforeseen consequences.

This argument would feel a lot less insincere if the people who always trot it out also used it every time something gets deregulated.

> Most of the time it's impacts are worse than the effect we wanted to regulate from the start.

Are they though? Or do you only hear a disproportionate amount of complaints because of manufactured consent? Because I sure as hell don't trust the talking heads on TV backed by billionaires who don't like to see people push back at their greed and lust for power.
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Ask HN: How do you build a "trust layer" for your platform?
by gokulnair2001 | 2025-11-20 07:54:03+00:00
I'm trying to understand how different teams handle platform integrity and user trust as they scale.

For those running consumer apps, marketplaces, fintech products, or any platform with significant user activity: How do you currently build your “trust layer”?

Specifically: -> How do you detect fake users, bots, device farms, or automated signups? -> What early signals do you rely on to identify suspicious behavior? -> Do you collect any behavioral, device, or network-level data to make trust decisions? -> How much of your stack is home-grown vs third-party? -> What worked well and what didn’t as you scaled? -> If you rebuilt your trust/fraud pipeline today, what would you change?

I’m trying to learn from real experiences across different industries anything you can share (architecture, failures, lessons, tools you wish existed) would be super helpful. Thanks!
by raffraffraff | 2025-11-20 07:54:16+00:00
I think that everybody looks back with rose tinted specs. Off the cuff, I'd say that the BBC isn't as honest and transparent as I thought it was back in the 80s, 90s.

Then I remember the Jimmy Saville cover-up. Britain's pound shop/ dollar store Epstein.

> senior managers were not told of complaints about Savile because of an "atmosphere of fear" which still exists in the BBC

Written 10 years ago and still true today. It's just that the lies de jour depend on who currently holds political and (to a far grater extent today) cultural power. The elites, in a modern cultural sense, are not necessarily people with traditional money and power (royalty, politicians, famous stars and billionaires). Undoubtedly they have power, but these days that type of power doesn't protect you from the mob. Today, power is wielded by people who claim to have none, yet somehow set the tone on social media (moderation rules), influence rules within universities, influence charities and NGOs, and from there, media outlets. Politicians today are just landing to all. The BBC has is right up there with all the other liars.