MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saberience | 2025-11-04 15:45:18+00:00
So you're arguing that "running around in the jungle" is equivalent to feeding the entirety of human knowledge in LLM training?

Are you suggesting that somehow there were books in the jungle, or perhaps boardgames? Perhaps there was a computer lab in the jungle?

Were apes learning to conjugate verbs while munching on bananas?

I don't think I'm suggesting anything crazy here... I think people who say LLM training is equivalent to "billions of years of evolution" need to justify that argument far more than I need to justify that running around in the jungle is equivalent to mass processing petabytes of highly rich and complex dense and VARIED information.

One year of running around in the same patch of jungle, eating the same fruit, killing the same insects, and having sex with the same old group of monkeys isn't going to be equal to training with the super varied, complete, entirety of human knowledge, is it?

If you somehow think it is though, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
by nness | 2025-11-04 15:45:59+00:00
That was my first impression when I picked it up -- the game strongly suggests you start from the start, and re-loading a pre-Space Age save will result in many things breaking. I gave in and started over, worried I'd need to spend dozens of hours just building up to where I was before.

But this wasn't the case — Space Age isn't only new content, but a complete re-balance of the original game. It is far far less grindy and requires much less baby-sitting of production.

Your first space platform, the ships, and the planets, are best thought of as unique Factorio-inspired puzzles. Each planet is like a Factorio game-mode to solve, with its own restrictions to design around.

I think those who have hundreds of hours in the base-game have to un-learn of the base game to pick up the DLC. Many of the complaints are pointed at the tech tree changes — they wanted an expansion on what was there, not a recreation. But for me now, I wouldn't recommend Factorio without Space Age.
Show HN: I got fired so I built a bank statement converter
by matherslabs | 2025-11-04 15:46:17+00:00
I recently got fired and decided to channel my energy into something productive. Over two weeks, I spent 16-hour days building a tool that converts Australian bank PDFs into clean, reliable CSVs, tailored specifically for Aussie banks.

Most Aussie banks only provide statements as a PDF, and generic converters often fail: columns drift, multi-line descriptions break parsing, headers shift. Existing tools don’t handle it well and I wanted a tool that just works.

To get started, I used my own bank statements to build the initial parsers. There was a "duh" moment when I realised how hard it is to get more realistic test data. People don't just hand over their financial ledgers. This solidified my core principle: trust and privacy had to be the absolute top priority.

I initially tried building everything client-side in JavaScript for maximum privacy, but performance and reliability were poor, and exposing the parsers on the front-end would have made them easy to copy.

I settled on a middle ground: a Python and FastAPI backend on Google Cloud Run. This lets me balance reliability with a strict privacy architecture. Files are processed in real-time and the temp file is deleted immediately after the request is complete. There is no persistent storage and no logging of request bodies.

My technical approach is straightforward and focused on reliability:

- I use pdfplumber to extract text, avoiding complex and error-prone OCR.

- I apply a set of bank-specific regex patterns to pinpoint dates, amounts, and descriptions.

- A lookahead heuristic correctly merges multi-line transactions. Each parser is customised to its bank's unique PDF layout quirks.

The project is deliberately focused. Instead of supporting hundreds of banks with mediocre results, I'm concentrating on a small set to get them right. It currently supports CommBank, Westpac, UBank, and ING, with ANZ and NAB next. The whole thing is deployed on Cloudflare Pages and outputs clean CSVs ready for Excel, Google Sheets, Xero, or MYOB.

It was a fun challenge in reverse-engineering messy, real-world data.

Try it out here: https://aussiebankstatements.com

I'd love to hear feedback. If it breaks on your statement, a redacted sample would be a huge help for improving the parser.

I'm also curious to hear how others here have tackled similar messy data extraction challenges.
by somehnguy | 2025-11-04 15:46:21+00:00
In the last few months I've seen many advertisements for a device they call the "Super Box" - it's essentially an (Android based?) IPTV device with every channel imaginable. The people I know with them paid around $300 and there isn't a monthly fee.

I have a hunch they're trading free TV for becoming a residential proxy unknowingly. Would love to capture network traffic from one and see what's really going on.

The fact that people are willing to buy these super sketchy devices and plug them into their networks without a second thought is kinda scary.
by iainmerrick | 2025-11-04 15:46:45+00:00
This is a pretty tired argument that I don't think really goes anywhere useful or illuminates anything (if I'm following you correctly, it sounds like the good old Chinese Room, where "a few slips of paper" can't possibly be conscious).

Yes it is more complex, but it's nowhere near the complexity of the human or bird brain that does not use clocks, does not have "turing machines inside", or any of the other complete junk other people posted in this thread.

The information in Jira is just less complex, but it's in the same vein of the data in an LLM, just 10^100 times more complex. Just because something is complex does not mean it thinks.

So, what is the missing element that would satisfy you? It's "nowhere near the complexity of the human or bird brain", so I guess it needs to be more complex, but at the same time "just because something is complex does not mean it thinks".

Does it need to be struck by lightning or something so it gets infused with the living essence?
by philipallstar | 2025-11-04 15:46:48+00:00
Yes - it wasn't with respect to Trump. It was silencing negative stories about Biden and his son that was the proximate issue, and the general silencing of mostly Republican voices by mostly Democrat voices (though sometimes it went the other way, it was much less frequent[0].

[0] https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil...
by observationist | 2025-11-04 15:46:51+00:00
It's not about right or wrong, it's about how many lawyers you can afford. If you can afford lots of lawyers, you can run out the clock, drain your opponents budgets, craft laws and lobby for their passage, and all sorts of creative ways of getting around doing the right thing.

A random creator in China in the early oughts wouldn't have a chance in hell against Nike or any other big corporations, trademark and copyright isn't and wasn't set up for foreign citizens to leverage IP against domestic entities. Without starting with a big legal team and a US corporation and having all the reams of paperwork and registrations and forms in triplicate, he just wasn't playing the same game. He should have been reimbursed or gotten a royalty, from a moral standpoint, but he didn't have any valid legal standing.

A court tried to be generous in the interpretation of the law in order to grant him his first victory, and that would probably have been a good precedent, but the law isn't really designed to be flexible like that - it's very rare that "the right thing" ends up congruent with how the law works in practice.
by sebstefan | 2025-11-04 15:47:29+00:00
Ok I get the confusion

The framing of the debate is not using your terminology so this isn't useful

Being a farmer isn't owning a farm, it's doing the farming. Farmhands are farmers. This is the definition that most people have, and if we use your definition, the entire debate doesn't make sense. Remember we're talking about a game, and the game is called "replacing the farmer", in which you don't play a humanoid android handing out cash to a previous owner to buy a farm and then sitting on his ass paying out farmhands. The game is about automating the farming. There is no reference to ownership.
by cryptonym | 2025-11-04 15:48:12+00:00
Some people genuinely believe agentic coding works great and they mastered it. Someone who PR a simple feature with its own DSL probably is on that team and won't see the issue with their way. They may think you are too old and resist AI. They probably would tell you if that's too much for your old fashioned coding skills, then just use an agent for the PR.

If you think that way, who cares about the code and additional DSL? If there is an issue or evolution required, we'll let AI work on it. If it works, just let it merge. Much cheaper than human reviewing everything.

I hate it, maybe I'm too old.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 15:48:49+00:00
Building multicardz - Trello reimagined with a row dimension for true 2D organization, handling any operation on 1M cards in under a second.

Showcases genx.software (declarative HTML that extends htmx's philosophy to client-side concerns). Drag-and-drop, formatting, accessibility - all via HTML attributes instead of React boilerplate. 150ms total load time, 50 divs, 1600 lines CSS, perfect Lighthouse scores.

Soft launching both late November (early availability for HN readers).
by raxxorraxor | 2025-11-04 15:48:59+00:00
The Gaza page in question is not very good though. To be honest, this is one of the most eggregious pieces of bad information on Wikipedia I have seen yet.

Don't take my word for it, look up the sources yourself. The formality at least is decent, so you can look up the sources most statements in the article itself are based on.

In that context, I think "neutral tone" can quite safely be read as an euphemism.

There is no good solution to solve this dilemma specifically, good to see that Wales still cares.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-04 15:49:01+00:00
Dunno, I wonder if there are conflicts in their like mission statement around how this is all going? On the one hand if Elon leaves, Tesla stock craters back to a normal company. But that kills both investors and Elon. Does Norway divest itself before the correction? Or does Wall street fundamentally sort of ignore the risk for a while, thinking Elon will never truly be gone. Twitter had a different CEO for a while.
Show HN: Oodle – Unified Debugging with OpenSearch and Grafana
by kirankgollu | 2025-11-04 15:49:08+00:00
Hey HN -

Kiran and Vijay here.

We built Oodle after seeing teams forced to choose between low cost, great experience, zero ops, and no lock-in. Even with premium tools, debugging still meant switching between Grafana for metrics, OpenSearch for logs, and Jaeger or Tempo for traces - copying timestamps, losing context, and burning time during incidents.

So we decided to rethink observability from first principles - in both architecture and experience.

Architecturally, we borrowed ideas from Snowflake: separated storage and compute so each can scale independently. All telemetry - metrics, logs, and traces - is stored on S3 in a custom columnar format, while serverless compute scales on demand. The result is 3–5× lower cost, massive scale, and zero operational overhead, with full compatibility for Grafana dashboards, PromQL, and OpenSearch queries.

On the experience side, Oodle unifies everything you already use. It works with your existing Grafana and OpenSearch setup, but when an alert fires, Oodle automatically correlates metrics, logs, and traces in one view - showing the latency spike, the related logs, and the exact service that caused it.

It’s already in production across SaaS, fintech, and healthcare companies processing 10 TB+ logs/day and 50 M+ time-series/day.

We’ve both spent years building large-scale data systems. Vijay worked on Rubrik’s petabyte-scale file system on object storage, and I helped build AWS S3 and DynamoDB before leading Rubrik’s cloud platform. Oodle applies the same design principles to observability.

You can try a live OpenTelemetry demo in < 5 minutes (no signup needed): https://play.oodle.ai/settings?isUnifiedExperienceTourModalO...

or watch a short product walkthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdYWDG3dRkU

Would love feedback - what’s your biggest observability pain today: cost, debuggability, or lock-in?
Show HN: Convosphere – GeoChat app to talk with people nearby anonymously
by jothetaha | 2025-11-04 15:49:08+00:00
Convosphere is a location-based chat app where you can join local conversations, events, and meet people nearby — all without sharing personal data.

Main features: • GeoChat: join or create chats within a custom radius. • TrustScore: reputation system to keep conversations safe. • Events: discover or host local activities. • AI integration: Sfera AI curates local news and creates events based on them. • Teleport mode: explore chats from any city.

Available for Android, iOS and Web: https://convosphere.app

I'd love to hear feedback, especially about improving onboarding and local discovery.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-04 15:50:00+00:00
"Reality has a well known liberal bias."

Researchers Find That Higher Intelligence Is Correlated With Left-Wing Beliefs - https://futurism.com/neoscope/left-wing-beliefs-intelligence - April 13th, 2024

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101831 - Intelligence, Volume 104, May–June 2024, 101831
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-04 15:50:07+00:00
I did not find this article informative. Did TxO not bring in the amount of rewards to justify the risk and expense? Is A16Z only going to back traditional, albeit hard-working, white, upper-crust startups with Stanford, MIT and Berkeley grads at the helm? Are there not many people with good ideas in traditionally under served populations? This article left me wondering. I suppose that's the nature of unbiased, factual reporting - you only get the verifiable, boots on the ground information.
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by uvaursi | 2025-11-04 15:50:39+00:00
> The diode might be the most neglected component in the electronics curriculum today.

Nonsense like this is why I don’t read lcamtuf. His “electronics 100” falls short of any standard-issue books - today and in the past. And you can open any of them up and very often the very first thing they discuss is the Diode, not only because it’s an “easy” case to begin understanding semiconductor materials (as opposed to tube diodes), but because it forms the basis of understanding more complicated semiconductor devices and why they work the way they work.

I’ve been wholly unimpressed by lcamtuf’s output on this subject because he’s trying to teach but doesn’t know how. He’s trying to come across as smart but his covering of the subject matter is dwarfed by someone like Forrest Mims, which is amusing to think about.

Pick up a book by someone like Melvino or Floyd. They cover analog, digital, computer systems, all sorts of shit. Even the old NEETS books along with technician manuals are a godsend. NEETS approach is particularly good because it moves between phenomena and application in a broad spectrum, which is what helps for concepts to stick.
by Jackpillar | 2025-11-04 15:50:48+00:00
I truly don't know what to even say. It is futile to relitigate the uncontested reality that there are a wide array of significant advantages to living near cultural, technological, and economic centers that are adjacent to your profession. You live alone in this area where this isn't obvious. I'd even posit you would be more successful than you already are if you lived closer.
by slightwinder | 2025-11-04 15:50:50+00:00
> understanding in a reasoning sense means classifying the thing and developing a deterministic algorithm to process it.

That's the learning-part I was talking about. Which is mainly supported by humans at the moment, which why I called it proto-intelligence.

> If you don't have a deterministic algorithm to process it, it isn't understanding.

Commercial AIs like ChatGPT do have the ability to call programs and integrate the result in their processing. Those AIs are not really just LLMs. The results are still rough and poor, but the concept is there and growing.
by yawaramin | 2025-11-04 15:51:07+00:00
I don't think the takeaway from Hickey's talk is just a blind 'simple is always good, easy is always bad'. It's actually important to offer 'easy' affordances in some cases. Htmx operates at a specific level of abstraction. This abstraction has been carefully chosen to work to create apps in a certain way. It's like a shortcut for creating a simple kind of hypermedia-driven app with some easy conveniences. I think this is a significant and important point in the design space.
by michael1999 | 2025-11-04 15:51:19+00:00
This is so weird:

> Most Americans expect political violence to keep growing in the United States and believe that it is likely a political candidate will be assassinated in the next few years.

Like, there have already been several assassinations! Were Gabby Giffords, Steve Scalise, or Melissa Hortman no politicians? The water is getting pretty hot.
by chairmansteve | 2025-11-04 15:52:07+00:00
I am.... For what it's worth.

There are a few old FinTwit people who have migrated over. Mark Dow, IvanTheK. It works for me.

And Mastodon works too, once I had customised my feed. There are a lot of makers on it, and Cory Doctorow. I did have to filter out the "activists", but twitter has the same activist problem.

Believe me, you can live without Twitter.
by rob74 | 2025-11-04 15:52:18+00:00
> Conversely if you're able to have a fulfilling, empathetic relationship with Claude, it might help people form fulfilling, mutually-empathetic relationships with the humans around them.

Well, that's kind of the point: if you have actually used LLMs for any amount of time, you are bound to find out that you can't have a fulfilling, empathetic relationship with them. Even if they offer a convincing simulacrum of a thinking being at first sight, you will soon find out that there's not much underneath. It generates grammatically perfect texts that seem to answer your questions in a polite and knowledgeable way, but it will happily lie to you and hallucinate things out of thin air. LLMs are tools, humans are humans (and animals are animals - IMHO you can have a more fulfilling relationship with a dog or a cat than you can have with an LLM).
by dylan604 | 2025-11-04 15:52:46+00:00
You guys have sent me down memory lane. Hopefully, I don't forget when I have free time to search, but hopefully I can find this to play in an emulator somewhere. This was the very first game I ever bought even though I didn't have an Amiga but had one that was very accessible.

edit: couldn't wait. did the search. it's very much available to play online. hello rabbit hole...
by itsoktocry | 2025-11-04 15:53:27+00:00
I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic.

I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.
by panarky | 2025-11-04 15:53:38+00:00
> how many accidents (with Tesla at fault)

It's not just about fault.

Waymo has a well deserved reputation for vastly reducing the frequency and severity of accidents where it is at fault.

But if you look at the data for all crashes, regardless of fault, it's clear that Waymo also reduces the frequency and severity of crashes where other drivers are at fault.

Waymo's "we got hit by someone else" crashes are substantially lower per mil, probably on the order of 50% to 70% reduction, not just the crashes it causes.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-11-04 15:53:42+00:00
Unfortunately, life isn’t that simple. I tried that and gotten beaten up and punished by the school for starting a fight. Multiple times. The bullies never got punished. This happened at two different schools.

I had difficulty explaining what happened due to being neurodivergent, so I was always punished. And my parents weren’t able to help me.
by ivanmasha | 2025-11-04 15:53:43+00:00
Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: c# / .NET, SQL server, Python, AI/ML , microservices and API in general Résumé/CV: upon request Email: ivanmasha@yahoo.com I am a senior back-end engineer with nearly 30 years of industry experience, backed by a rigorous mathematical education in Russia. Throughout my career, I have consistently chosen roles that required deep algorithmic thinking and exposure to advanced computational problems. My background includes implementing neural networks, genetic algorithms, and other classical AI techniques long before they became mainstream.

Currently, I am rapidly up-skilling in modern machine learning and AI frameworks while working on two personal projects. My plan is to be fully interview-ready within the next 3-4 months, although I am confident I can immediately contribute in a real-world engineering role today. I bring decades of experience in complex systems, high-performance backend development, and a disciplinarily mathematical approach to software engineering and AI.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-04 15:53:43+00:00
I'll be honest, I don't think Space Age was all that good as an expansion. The developers really focused on giving the player new types of logistics challenges to solve, but that was never what I wanted. I wanted the same Factorio gameplay, but with more stuff to build. So out of the four new planets, the only one I actually enjoyed building on was Vulcanus (because it plays pretty much like vanilla Factorio but with new recipes). The lead dev is also well known for disliking logistics bots and wishes they had never been added to the game. And the expansion shows that, with (again) three of the four planets having mechanics to make use of bots more difficult if not outright impossible (Aquilo).

All in all, the developers have a very different vision of what makes the game fun than I do, and that meant the expansion wasn't much fun for me. If I play the game more in the future, I'll probably do so with the expansion disabled.
by hnuser151515 | 2025-11-04 15:53:58+00:00
I have 5 years of experience working with Terraform in complex, critical business settings across multicloud environments, including Chinese cloud providers. I'm based in Poland. My background includes infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and building reliable systems with Java and Python. I haven't used OCaml in production yet, but I have solid functional programming experience and I'm eager to learn. Is commercial experience with Ocaml hard requirement?
by jelder | 2025-11-04 15:54:02+00:00
That would be equivalent to demonetizing the entire web. Free content would win out over paid content regardless of quality. As the old adage goes, "when you're getting something for free, you're the product being sold." Only sites making money by, shall we say, "indirect" means would be able to survive. A search engine which prioritizes free content over paid would become nothing but a propaganda engine.