MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trevorsullivan | 2025-11-20 19:24:48+00:00
Baserow started as a an open-source no-code database — a simple way for teams to organize and collaborate on data. Over time, it’s grown into something much bigger: a full AI-powered data platform.

With Baserow 2.0, it now brings databases, applications, automations, and AI together in one secure, open-source environment.

You can still start with a table, but now you can also build interfaces, connect workflows, and use AI to assist with everyday tasks — all without leaving your workspace.

This release adds the final pieces — automations and the AI assistant — completing the shift from a standalone database to a connected, open-source platform for building tools and managing data.

Let’s dive into what’s new.
by svieira | 2025-11-20 19:25:19+00:00
I think that Plato's dialogs are well worth reading too.

Also, just so you know, Jesus is as or more historically "likely to be real" than Socrates (three major works written by two people who knew Him, multitudes more written by those who knew those who knew Him, mentions by multiple historians of the period, a thriving cult in spite of vicious persecutions, etc.). Socrates has three contemporaries (Plato, Xenophon, Aristophanes) and then the writings of Plato project him beyond his time and into the philosophical context.

But perhaps you mean "the Jesus of the Gospels" as opposed to "Yeshua ben Yoseph min Natzret" when you said "historic" here (there's good arguments for Jesus-of-the-Gospels being Yeshua ben Yoseph too, but one thing at a time).
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-20 19:25:44+00:00
I have not used MS Windows on own computers since early 2000s

I did not switch from MS Windows to Linux nor MacOS

I switched to NetBSD which I had originally used on the VAX before Linux existed

I have owned Macs and iPhones. But Apple became a lost cause many years ago

Today I use both Linux and NetBSD

I prefer compiling the software I use myself. I am not a fan of "binary packages"

When I use the term "you" in an HN comment I am not referring to myself
by tgv | 2025-11-20 19:26:11+00:00
This is a riposte at the level of "Then name all composers. Nanananana." Obviously, the answer to your question is going to be "no," but really a great amount of music is available to us, and everything that came before the Renaissance was, crudely put, simple music. So the commenter can be considered to be able to weigh Bach's merits against those of other artists'.

IMO too, Bach is the greatest. There's really no-one who can so seamlessly merge content and form and achieve intellectually, musically and emotionally fulfilling results.
by ynniv | 2025-11-20 19:26:12+00:00
pretty weird...

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by marcellus23 | 2025-11-20 19:27:13+00:00
> A Markov chain can only return verbatim combinations. So it might return "Cows are big animals" or "Are big animals happy".

Just for my own edification, do you mean "Are big animals are happy"? "animals happy" never shows up in the source text so "happy" would not be a possible successor to "animals", correct?
by pphysch | 2025-11-20 19:27:52+00:00
Sadly many people will spend a million dollars to use Okta for their 10,000 logins/day (read: <1 tps) instead of running their own Keycloak or Authentik or whatever.

OIDC is not scary, and advanced central authorization features (beyond group memberships) are a big ole YAGNI / complexity trap.
by sorenjan | 2025-11-20 19:27:59+00:00
> It makes a great target to distill SAM3 to.

Could you expand on that? Do you mean you're starting with the pretrained DINO model and then using SAM3 to generate training data to make DINO into a segmentation model? Do you freeze the DINO weights and add a small adapter at the end to turn its output into segmentations?
by jmdeon | 2025-11-20 19:28:19+00:00
I was going to comment something similar. I think I'm about the same age as the commenter grew up reading C&H, and also had a disaffected attitude. I don't think it was Calvin that made me that way, but the broader media at the time. Heck, most kids at my school did not read it but the general way to be cool was to be aloof.

I think it was a hangover from Gen-X and the 80's. Ferris Bueller was pretty aloof and angst'd to the gills wasn't he?
by SteveNuts | 2025-11-20 19:28:43+00:00
Even if they end the grounding of the MD-11/DC-10 I'd be shocked if any airlines still using them will continue to use them.

Seems like the risk/reward just isn't really there for the few of them still in service, and if anything happened it would be a PR nightmare on top of a tragedy.

Definitely an end of an era!
by twodave | 2025-11-20 19:28:47+00:00
I LOVE LLMs as a learning tool. I HATE LLMs as a communication tool. I know, there are people with serious handicaps who benefit from LLMs in this area. If only I could talk to those people and not wade through all this other garbage.

Especially when the AI is being represented as a person, this to me is dishonest. Not to mention annoying, almost more-so than the number of different apps that think they are important enough to send me push notifications to fill out a survey (don’t even get me started).
by CyberDildonics | 2025-11-20 19:29:55+00:00
People do well on a test of short term memory and pattern recognition and other people think it's a super power.

Nassim Taleb's book starts out as self indulgent, self aggrandizing nonsense. It's basically summed up as "probability won't help you when something happens that hasn't happened before". You don't say, what an incredible insight for the first 40 pages.
by vicdotso | 2025-11-20 19:30:08+00:00
I've been frustrated reviewing large PRs where I can't tell what changes actually matter or hopping back and forth between files during review. I built Tracer to explore what an "intelligent git diff" might look like. Curious if anyone else is thinking in this direction.

What it does: - Model sorts files by impact (breaking changes first, then features, fixes, etc.) - 4 navigation modes: file-level, hunk-level, intelligent, and linear - React-based TUI with syntax highlighting for 19 languages - Press Enter on any line to jump to your editor at that exact spot

This is extremely early (v0.0.1) and I'd love feedback on: 1. Does the "sort by impact, not file path" idea resonate with anyone? 2. What other ways would you want diffs sorted / filtered? 3. Are there UI/navigation patterns I'm missing entirely?

Would love to know if anyone else has been thinking about this problem or if there's prior work I should look at.

Try it: bunx @cs50victor/tracer

GitHub: https://github.com/cs50victor/tracer
by skissane | 2025-11-20 19:30:15+00:00
> It's strange to me that Microsoft has taken this opportunity to clear up the rights to Zork 1-3 but not to the rest of the Infocom back catalog.

Likely explanation: their lawyers are worried there may be third party rights or agreements limiting their ability to open source a game – even if that isn't true, lawyers want to see paperwork to convince themselves it isn't true. For Zork, that was comparatively easy because the game's history is well-known, and Activision had a history of releasing sequels. For other games, that may be more difficult – so start with the lowest hanging and highest profile fruit.
by monknomo | 2025-11-20 19:30:15+00:00
right, if you must pay either way (and you must), it makes sense to push it off to government, which is more representative (generally) and has larger scale (so should be able to do it cheaper). I suspect local governments tend towards less corruption than HOAs as well (fewer large contracts to a brother-in-law, or at least, a public bidding process so you can see what happened)
by jpdingdong | 2025-11-20 19:31:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the developer behind this. I built this app because I was frustrated with the current state of meditation/ambient noise apps. Most of them seem to rely on synthesized MIDI tones that sound artificial, or they lock basic features behind monthly subscriptions and aggressive data tracking.

I wanted something that felt organic and respected the user, so I built a mixer based on actual high-definition recordings of crystal bowls rather than generated frequencies.

What it does: It’s a dedicated mixer for Solfeggio frequencies. You can play up to 10 tracks simultaneously. Each track corresponds to a specific frequency (recoded from a real bowl) and has its own volume slider. You can layer them to create your own soundscape and save up to 10 presets.

Some technical notes:

Audio: The core challenge was getting high-fidelity recordings of crystal bowls to loop seamlessly without audible clicks or "breathing" artifacts, as organic resonance is harder to loop than synthesized waves.

Privacy: The app is completely offline-first. There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no user accounts.

Cost: It is free and ad-free.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the audio engine performance, specifically if you notice any latency when mixing multiple heavy audio files at once.

Thanks for checking it out!
by Spivak | 2025-11-20 19:31:58+00:00
But why? Do you feel the need to respond to those weirdos in the street yelling about how god hates fags and the end of days or whatever? Is anything gained by acknowledging them at all?

There's plenty of real stuff this admin is doing to respond to; focusing on the performative nonsense that exists seemingly to keep them 'winning' in the news cycle to their base might just be wasting your breath.
by lordleft | 2025-11-20 19:32:09+00:00
I understand that a comment such as mine would rankle. I acknowledge that art is subjective, that there's no accounting for taste, etc. And yet, I don't really believe that, deep down. If I did, I'm not entirely sure how I could speak meaningfully to the differences between great and no so great art. Is War and Peace really as good as any other novel? Would it be possible for any two people to meaningfully communicate about art, if it really all boils down to mere instinctual taste? I think there must be more, even if I can't quite prove it. But I will acknowledge that I can't point to some objective rubric that obtains across all art when I say what I say.
by yobbo | 2025-11-20 19:32:13+00:00
A hidden markov model (HMM) is theoretically capable of modelling text just as well any transformer. Typically, HMMs are probability distributions over a hidden discrete state space, but the distribution and state space can be anything. The size of the state space and transition function determines its capacity. RNNs are effectively HMMs, and recent ones like "Mamba" and so on are considered competent.

Transformers can be interpreted as tricks that recreate the state as a function of the context window.

I don't recall reading about attempts to train very large discrete (million states) HMMs on modern text tokens.
by inetknght | 2025-11-20 19:32:22+00:00
This is terrible. I hope you're not adding a whole venv to version control.

What if the user doesn't have a venv created? What if they created it in a different directory? What if they created a second venv and want to use that instead? What if the user uses `.venv` instead of `venv`?

`#!/usr/bin/env python3` solves most of that.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-20 19:33:02+00:00
Wild culture! At almost[1] every (non game) software company I've ever worked, the source code was sacrosanct. If nothing else in the company was backed up, controlled, audited, and kept precious, at least the source code was. The idea of just casually deleting stuff because you think you're done sounds crazy to me as a software practitioner.

I still have backed up copies of the full source code of personal projects that I wrote 25 years ago. These will probably never be deleted until I'm dead.

1: One company I worked for didn't have a clue about managing their source code, and didn't even use source control. They were a hardware manufacturer that just didn't understand or care about software at all. Not what I'd think of when I think a professional game developer.
by qoez | 2025-11-20 19:33:06+00:00
From a core openai insider who have likely trained very large markov models and large transformers: https://x.com/unixpickle/status/1935011817777942952

Untwittered: A Markov model and a transformer can both achieve the same loss on the training set. But only the transformer is smart enough to be useful for other tasks. This invalidates the claim that "all transformers are doing is memorizing their training data".
by toast0 | 2025-11-20 19:33:11+00:00
I feel like userbinator is expecting that a failing stick will go from working to failing so hard you'd notice, with or without ECC; so the corruption would be time limited. My experience with ECC suggests that many, maybe most of the failing sticks probably would fit that, but some of the failing devices only threw a few errors a day for months and we continued to use them until retirement; because replacement is intrusive and a few corrected errors a day didn't hurt anything... had a non-ECC stick failed in the same way, chances are you wouldn't notice in a timely fashion.

That said, I don't run ECC in my home. I'm not willing to spend the premium in dollars, performance, or time to do it. My storage servers are all ex-desktops and I try to chase performance in a budget, ECC ram usually doesn't run at high speed and it often costs at least twice as much... that doesn't make sense for a desktop, so my servers suffer too.
by energy123 | 2025-11-20 19:33:44+00:00
And both their consumer apps are slow. You can replicate this yourself. Go to AI Studio, paste in 80K tokens of text, then type something on your keyboard, and see what happens. The Gemini web app is even worse somehow. A horrifically slow and buggy app. Not new problems either, barely any improvement on this over more than 1 year.
by dpark | 2025-11-20 19:34:13+00:00
It is an outright lie that there are “10 sentences per page”. You can open the PDF and see that this is not even a little bit correct. 10 sentences per page would maybe be appropriate for an Early Reader book. It’s certainly not we have here.

You also didn’t read 56k words in 20 minutes. This is nonsense, at 46 words per second.
by vijayanandg | 2025-11-20 19:34:29+00:00
I built Quantum4J because I couldn’t find a clean, dependency-free way to experiment with multi-qubit unitaries from Java. Most QC libraries target Python, so this is meant to bring quantum circuit construction and state-vector simulation to the JVM. It includes: - state-vector simulator (~25 qubits) - standard gates (X, Y, Z, H, S, T, RX/RY/RZ, CX, CZ, SWAP, ISWAP, CCX) - measurement + classical registers - OpenQASM 2.0 exporter

Example: QuantumCircuit.create(2).h(0).cx(0,1).measureAll();

Would love feedback on the architecture, gate engine, or ideas for what to add next. Iam considering expanding Quantum4J into a more complete JVM quantum tooling ecosystem. Interested in feedback from practitioners or researchers using Java in QC or simulation.
by idogrady | 2025-11-20 19:34:45+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been deep in the world of prediction markets, specifically Polymarket, for a while. While the concept of crowd wisdom is fascinating, we quickly realized that to treat it like a serious financial instrument, you can’t just rely on gut feel or slow news analysis. You need an algorithmic edge.

The core problem we set out to solve: Can we build models that consistently and accurately predict the outcome of specific, quantifiable markets before the crowd fully prices in the outcome?

The result is PolyTools, a dedicated intelligence platform that leverages specialized prediction models to generate an advantage for traders.

You can check out the tools here: [Insert your live URL here: https://polytools.market/]

The Algorithmic Edge: How We Approach Prediction We don't focus on high-level political markets (too much noise). We target granular, quantifiable event markets, like "How many tweets will Elon Musk post between Nov 20-24?" The approach shifts based on the market type:

Time-Series Models (e.g., Count/Frequency Markets): For things like tweet counts, interest rate moves, or weekly NFT volume, we use sophisticated time-series analysis (ARIMA, Prophet, or custom LSTMs) trained on clean historical data specific to that metric. Our models are tuned to avoid overfitting and are constantly tested against out-of-sample data.

External Data Fusion (e.g., Economic/Weather Events): For markets dependent on real-world events (like grain harvest yields or crypto exchange volumes), we ingest and fuse external, proprietary data feeds into the prediction model.

Statistical Arbitrage: We identify instances where the prediction market probability deviates statistically from the underlying real-world odds, signaling a temporary pricing inefficiency we can trade on.

We need your feedback on performance! We're currently optimizing our models for low-drawdown strategies.

For the quant community: What is the most critical metric for you when evaluating a new predictive model for a liquid market: Sharpe Ratio, maximum Drawdown, or raw Win Rate? And what kind of low-latency data feeds would give you the most confidence in our predictions?

Thanks for taking a look, and we look forward to your thoughts!
by chankstein38 | 2025-11-20 19:34:49+00:00
It's been a few months because I don't really brush up against rules much but as an experiment I was able to get ChatGPT to decode captchas and give other potentially banned advice just by telling it my grandma was in the hospital and her dying wish was that she could get that answer lol or that the captcha was a message she left me to decode and she has passed.
by positron26 | 2025-11-20 19:35:15+00:00
If the binder that gives you something printable at low temperature doesn't integrate into the final result through chemical reaction, you are almost assuredly going to get a high porosity mess where the binder had to vaporize out.

If instead the binder and precursor can melt, react, and expand into a solid that precipitates out because of a super high melting point, the expansion will ensure that you get a fully dense part that can be machined back down.
by next_xibalba | 2025-11-20 19:35:55+00:00
The bottom line is, Cartman got the biggest laughs. He modeled that a certain type of behavior resulted in certain outcomes. Kids aren’t stupid. They see right through the overt morality (“he’s a jerk and he got his comeuppance “) to the revealed truths: being an asshole, in some contexts, can be very funny.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-20 19:36:39+00:00
Zero values prioritize implementation convenience (we always have a zero value so we don't need to handle any cases where we don't have a value, just says those are zero) over application convenience (maybe my type should not have a default and the situation where it has no value is an error)

Take either of Rust's library types named Ordering - core::cmp::Ordering (is five less than eight or greater?) or core::sync::atomic::Ordering (even if it's on another core this decrement definitely happens before that check) neither of these implements Default because even though internally they both use the zero bit pattern to mean something, that's a specific value, not a default.
by cloverich | 2025-11-20 19:37:20+00:00
consider that books were designed by us, to benefit us. They are inherently optimized to accelerate what we define as book smarts, because that is what we designed them to do. Or another way, book smarts had always existed - its perhaps simply formal knowledge. But the tool (books) has been so effective at doing so that we replace the term knowledge with "books smarts". Books in that sense are perhaps the result of our evolution not the other way around.
by stackskipton | 2025-11-20 19:37:40+00:00
>If it were tenants rights, you'd expect SROs to go away in the parts of the country with the strongest tenants rights

Tenants rights can make existing SROs harder to get rid of since evicting everyone so you can refurb into apartments or whatever is too costly.

>As an aside I've known several smallish residential landlords (20-50 units) and they are, in general, strongly biased towards higher-income tenants

That's every landlord. Higher income tenants tend to bring less problems overall.
by sq_ | 2025-11-20 19:37:52+00:00
Yeah, if they had had more altitude, I would guess that this would have looked even more like the AA 191 crash from 1979, with the left wing stalling and causing a roll and pitch down.

That in turn reminds me of the DHL flight out of Baghdad in 2003 that was hit by a missile [0]. Absolutely amazing that they managed to keep it together and land with damage like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_sho...
by squigz | 2025-11-20 19:38:02+00:00
> Do you feel the need to respond to those weirdos in the street yelling about how god hates fags and the end of days or whatever?

There's a huge difference between the seriousness of "the official disease control of the US government" saying some nonsense and "random citizens yelling in the street" doing so.

> Is anything gained by acknowledging them at all?

Is there anything gained by ignoring them?

I'm sure it won't seem very performative to the kids who aren't vaccinated and get sick, or autistic folks who don't appreciate the correlation.

> plenty of real stuff this admin is doing to respond to

I'm sure we can respond to at least 2 things.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-20 19:38:08+00:00
A big part of the problem I have with it is that it's a "ceiling" on security. Things like electrical code or building code are a "floor" on quality, you have to be at least as good as the code requirements, but can freely be better. FIPS-140 bounds you both ways. If you could more easily do better it'd be much less of a problem that NIST are slow.
by oasisbob | 2025-11-20 19:38:22+00:00
There's a classic well-illustrated book, _How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive_, which spends a whole illustrated page at the beginning building up a reference frame for working on the vehicle. Up is sky, down is ground, front is always vehicle's front, left is always vehicle's left.

Sounds a bit silly to write it out, but the diagram did a great job removing ambiguity when you expect someone to be laying on the ground in a tight place looking backwards, upside down.

Also feels important to note that in the theatre, there is stage-right and stage-left, jargon to disambiguate even though the jargon expects you to know the meaning to understand it.
by simonsarris | 2025-11-20 19:40:12+00:00
Part of the problem is that SROs work if any only if you are able to evict an unruly tenant at a moment's notice. If you have 5 people paying by the week, sharing 1 kitchen and 1 bathroom[1], and one of them becomes a menace, you need to evict them immediately. Many states have tried to or do outlaw that. The more regulations you have of any kind, the harder it is to do anything even slightly unconventional. You accidentally rule out stuff you weren't even thinking about.

[1] this was a real setup in a grandfathered SRO apartment in Hudson, New Hampshire in the early 2000's that I knew about
by 8note | 2025-11-20 19:40:14+00:00
its a UX probpem insofar as service providers will decide that since they give you a view over the file system, thats enough.

i want file system access, but as a power tool. the 50 clicks through different folders is irrelevant to my most common 5 patterns of use. those should be a single click, or 0 clicks
by iLemming | 2025-11-20 19:40:19+00:00
It's not hard. It's just annoying to deal with this shit on constant basis. Like just the other day, the tests wouldn't pass locally, while they're passing on CI. I was scratching my head for sometime, turns out there was breaking change in csv.QUOTE_STRINGS or something, between 3.12 and 3.13 of Python. How the fuck did they manage to fix/improve fucking csv logic introducing a breaking change?