MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thunky | 2025-11-16 19:16:40+00:00
> If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously.

You guaranteed that you wouldn't get recognition by keeping the idea to yourself. Your victimization was by your own design, and it stayed where it started: in your head. And ironically you were the one being passive agressive and showing bias towards your coworkers.
by GrzegorzWidla | 2025-11-16 19:17:02+00:00
There are roughly 5 areas of which combined cover 80+% of things you can control.

1. Exercise (aerobic and strength, doesn’t have to be much but more is better). 2. Diet (mostly whole foods, mostly plants, low saturated fat). 3. Prevention (regular check ups and following doctor’s advice). 4. Meaning / purpose (either being passionate about your job or having such hobbies outside of it). 5. Friends and community.

This isn’t too much. By many that’s the bare minimum for having a satisfactory life.
by notatoad | 2025-11-16 19:17:02+00:00
for your first one, if you're just feeding docs into a chatbot prompt and asking for a summary, i think that matches what the article would call a "chatbot product" rather than a summarization product.

fireflies.ai is interesting though, that's more what i was looking for. i've used the meeting summary tool in google meet before and it was hilariously bad, it's good to hear that there are some companies out there having success with this product type.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-16 19:17:15+00:00
> For example, it can be very handy in many situations for a contained object to have a back-pointer to its container.

That's not a true cycle, it's just a back link for which "weak" reference counts suffice. The containment relation implies that the container "owns" the object, so we don't need to worry about the case where the container might just go away without dropping its contents first.

(Edit: I agree that when dealing with a truly general graph some form of tracing is the best approach. These problem domains are where tracing GC really helps.)
by MikeKusold | 2025-11-16 19:17:32+00:00
> I'm struggling to understand how something like this can be reproduced consistently across environments. How would you package this inside a Git repo? Can it be managed through GitOps?

I manage my podman containers the way the article describes using NixOS. I have a tmpfs root that gets blown away on every reboot. Deploys happen automatically when I push a commit.
by seemaze | 2025-11-16 19:17:42+00:00
What realllly irks me is that Apple did not even make the new AirPods Pro 3 backwards compatible with iOS 18. Features that are available with the AirPods Pro 2 on iOS 18 were not available with the APP3. SAME iOS device, SAME H2 chip, but I was forced to upgrade to (the dumptser fire of a release) iOS 26 to maintain feature parity with the APP2 in an all Apple ecosystem.

So f*ing steamed. Still. And Apple support had no clue and kept telling me it should all 'Just Work'.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-11-16 19:17:47+00:00
> This doesn’t work well because savvy users can manipulate the chatbot into calling tools. So you can never give a support chatbot real support powers like “refund this customer”, ...

I would disagree with this.

Part of how security is handled in current agentic systems is to not let the LLM have any access to how the underlying tools work. At best it's like hitting "inspect" in your browser and changing the web page.

Of course, that assumes that the agentic chatbot has been built correctly.
by ethanfox | 2025-11-16 19:18:11+00:00
I kept getting annoyed switching between apps just to check email, look at my calendar, or find a file in Drive. So I built something simple: an AI assistant you text.

How it works:

* You get a dedicated number * Text it like a normal person: “What’s on my calendar tomorrow?” * Hooks into your Google Calendar, Gmail, Drive, etc. * Works on any phone (RCS). No app download.

What makes it different:

* It keeps a persistent session so context carries across messages * If you want a fresh thread, just start with “new chat” * Your actual messages are stored privately, but the system keeps a *clean, anonymized parallel thread* for the AI — e.g.,

*“Lisa’s birthday at 1234 Main St on Sept 14 at 7pm”* becomes *“Party on Sept 14 at 7pm”* The assistant then re-fetches the real details from your calendar when you ask.

* Basically you get two threads: your real one in Messages and a stripped-down version the AI uses for logic and memory * RCS support today (iMessage obviously not possible) Examples:

* “Any important emails?” → shows your key Gmail messages * “Send me the Q3 proposal” → pulls it from Drive * Others can text your number to check when you’re free (you whitelist who can)

*Early access is $5* (locks in $7/mo forever vs $10/mo).

What features would make this something you’d actually use?
by westurner | 2025-11-16 19:18:21+00:00
2025-11: https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-quantum/latest/using/backends/... :

> Ion Trap QPUs: IonQ, Quantinuum

> Superconducting QPUs: Anyon Technologies/Anyon Computing, IQM, OQC, Quantum Circuits, Inc.

> Neutral Atom QPUs: Infleqtion, Pasqal, QuEra Computing

> Photonic QPUs: ORCA Computing, Quantum Control Systems, Quantum Machines
by gyaneshgouraw | 2025-11-16 19:18:46+00:00
Writing PR descriptions can be tedious. Sure, you could ask Copilot chat manually or use snippets to generate them, but this is a one-click solution once set up.

The extension generates structured PR descriptions from your staged changes or recent commits and opens them in a markdown editor for quick review and editing. It’s a one-click solution with no setup beyond GitHub Copilot, supports custom templates, and integrates neatly into VS Code’s UI. Current limitations: requires Copilot, works only in VS Code, and still needs a quick human review.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-11-16 19:18:57+00:00
Yeah, there are two batteries, the one in the earbuds and the one in the container. There's no way in BLE to transmit both values - and choosing either one is lying to the user about something.

It's not uncommon (at least for me) to have a low earbud battery level (because I've just binged Slow Horses) or a low container battery (because I've just charged the earbuds from the container for the third time and drained the container). There's a suggestion above that you should "just choose the lowest one because 99% of the time that's what you're interested in", except that's not true in the second case.

I'm fairly sure that if you could report both, then Apple would report both using this hypothetical standard method, but since you can't, and there's no easy way to just "choose one" without misleading the user about something, they choose to do it properly, even though that means it's an Apple-only thing.
by runarberg | 2025-11-16 19:19:21+00:00
I see this is confusing, this segment I wrote a long time ago and I felt I had to justify why I chose to write an asciimath dialog instead of just picking LaTeX (and doing what Temml did years later).

I suppose I should change the title to say “Why an AsciiMath Dialog” and then add another subsection “Why not AsciiMath”.

The short answer is that AsciiMath is an excellent language IMO but a rather lacking implementation. Shortcomings of this particular dialog are raised in a different thread here, but for me personally the biggest issue was in the output format. AsciiMath is pretty tightly integrated into each implementation (like MathJax) instead of just outputting standard MathML. I also altered the dialog a bit, e.g. the matrix notation is a bit different in mathup, and I also add the possibility to use whitespace to group sub-expressions (similar to typist).
by nekusar | 2025-11-16 19:19:56+00:00
I work in IT, but I also do stuff in historical studies. I dont want to dox myself, cause I just want to chat here anonymously.

In the Americas and Europe, Christianity is the fundamentalist scourge. We all know of Israel, of fundamentalist Judaism. Middle East? You guessed it, 4 of the 5 major sects of Islam are fundamentalist. And moving further East, we see extreme caste-ism and Fundamentalist Hinduism.

China rooted out Fundamentalist Buddhism with Tibet. In 1953, 700,000 of an estimated total population of 1,250,000 were serfs - effectively enslaved peoples on the land attached to the land-lord. Usually a lama, or a priest in Buddhism. This is a case where an oppressive fundamentalist religion was rooted out, and almost a million people were freed.

Im also well aware of all the damage Christianity and Islam did through the millennia in Europe. The priesthood collectively held back science, arts, literature, and countless other things because of "demons, devils, satan". And that only got worse with Dante's Inferno, which somehow got collapsed as bible stories, but really is a fanfiction.

We also see fundamentalist christian hatred flood everywhere with <GASP> more anti-woman sentiment with Witch Trials held basically everywhere. Even had executions up in Holmavik Iceland, to of which a museum was made to commemorate their witch trials. And everyone knows of Salem Massachusetts. Estimates of 30-60000 women were executed in these sham trials, and was predominantly women targeted here.

Perhaps it was too narrow to just blame christians, although the USA is a "christian nation" and what I'm most exposed against my will. No, the problem is fanaticism and fundamentalism. Its one thing to say "My religion says I cant do (action)." and a whole different thing to say "My religion says YOU cant do (action)". All the fundamentalists demand both.
by d--b | 2025-11-16 19:20:08+00:00
Ok so this argues that alchemists would destroy the value of gold by creating loads of it, and that's what's going to happen to AI artists. A bit of a stretch IMO, but whatever.

So instead what they should have done is to buy tons of lead, and make people believe it was actually as good as gold. So people would buy it from them, cheap at first, but then they would rise the price slowly, and those people who had bought first would have made a profit, triggering others to buy lead at an even higher price, and making the alchemists a ton of money.

The play was crypyto mining, not AI art.
by Jcowell | 2025-11-16 19:20:20+00:00
> If the person they were quoting claimed to have been abducted by sasquatch, you could still make these two points. Would you still be arguing that it doesn't reflect poorly on the BBC to put that false claim into a headline?

No? That’s a very good headline for an article about someone who believes that they were abducted by a Sasquatch. It would be a missed opportunity for a newspaper to NOT do.
by ncr100 | 2025-11-16 19:20:50+00:00
Royal we.

This is part of the problem with Flock, IMO. Lack of adherence to or support of norms. Psychopathy actualized as a corporation.

The societal impact of disruption of trust, of personal privacy, is under-appreciated by the corporation. It's concerned with winning profit.

(Meta) It's an inspecific argument I'm lazily laying out, yes, however the problem is ridiculously obvious.

We should not have to ask to be respected, and here we are.

Democratic decline (both the systems and participation in), truth, self respect/understanding of one's own rights ... those qualities are dying at the relentless toxic, ethically under-explored capitalization of our laws and resources. (Especially USA, compare to corporate social responsibility countries, I suspect)

Tech disruption is amazing to watch, and participate in, like a fire consuming the forest. "But what about the children?"
by solatic | 2025-11-16 19:21:08+00:00
AMP is an internal proprietary fork of Cortex, they're not up-streaming their changes, also in large part due to the scalability limits of Cortex's design. It has the same scalability limitation I described earlier with the lack of a Kafka-like component to soak up ingest floods.

> Multi-petabyte

Sheer storage size is a meaningless point here, as longer retention requires more storage. There may or may not be compaction components that help speed up queries over larger windows, but that's irrelevant to the point that the queries will still succeed. I have no doubt that any of the solutions on the table will handle storing that much data.

The real scaling question is how many active timeseries the system can handle, at which resolution (per 15 seconds? per 60 seconds? worse?), and no, "we scale horizontally" doesn't mean much without more serious benchmarks.
by skulk | 2025-11-16 19:21:19+00:00
> Besides the functional approach

Nitpick, but emacs and emacs lisp don't seem remotely "functional" to me insofar as expressing computation in terms of pure functions and immutable datatypes. The core datastructures that an elisp program interacts with (buffers, variables) are all mutable and functions (setq, buffer-string, etc) are decidedly impure.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-16 19:22:03+00:00
> If you insert a readme as an input to a derivation that does a build, nix will assume that the compiled binary depends on it and when you fix a typo in the readme and rebuild you'll end up with a duplicate binary build in the nix store despite the contents of the binary not actually depending on the text of the readme.

One my issues with Nix is the black box that is the store, and maybe it's just my system, but over time I find it full of redundant files / orphans and no obvious way to flatten it or clean it safely without breaking something.

I wonder how flox solves this.
by lkey | 2025-11-16 19:22:51+00:00
You did not read the article, and it shows.

You: "help", "That’s >- presumably <- why her parents sent her to a reform program."

The article: | [her parents] were so conservative they wouldn't even let Mariona wear trousers.

| "For them, it was a scandal, a stain on the family," she says. "After that, they wouldn't let me out."

| [after she ran away] They immediately reported her as an underage runaway to the authorities, and the moment Mariona was about to board a boat back to Barcelona, she was arrested.

| Mariona wasn't given any explanation [for sending her away] - she only remembers her parents' rage.

| her [second] escape was short lived. Within hours she was bundled into a car with her father and an uncle, and driven back to Madrid.

| Now aged 20, she vowed to never live with her parents again.

| "We suffered a lot too," [her father] told her when she asked him about the family decision to have her locked up in Madrid.

Her parents only care about themselves, 50 years ago and today, if you can't see that, there's something wrong with you.

~~

You: "My point is the story is disjointed and sad, but there is little cohesive theme"

The purpose of the article and the film, as written in the article, which you did not read:

| Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted were incarcerated, assuming the blame for their own abuse. Orphans and abandoned girls might also find themselves living behind convent walls.

| The film has contributed to a groundswell of calls for the interned women to be formally recognised under the law as victims of Spain's dictatorship.

| "Women come and tell their stories – it's like a door opened to something unknown, and that's very powerful," says Marina. "People think what happened in their own home was an isolated incident. We try to say: this history isn't individual, it was systematic."

| Her mother Mariona still doubts her memory sometimes.

| But, she says, "seeing it all reflected in the film, that gives it the weight of truth."
by bitpush | 2025-11-16 19:23:08+00:00
I have a theory, and it is somewhat controversial but as much as I try to refute it internally I can't seem to come up with better arguments.

I'm sharing it here hoping to get a convincing counter argument.

The privacy emphasis we had for the past 6-7 was solely because of lack of tech innovation. The best innovation we had during the period was crypto which was mostly scummy. The moment LLMs came out, everyone forgot about privacy

Here's my supporting observation.

- a year or so back, we'd have wanted privacy focused IDE, browser, Notepad, todo list etc.

- launch something with that selling point and nobody wants it right now

- privacy focused tools (ddg etc) are losing steam, and innovation focused ones (AI in this case) like Perplexity is winning.

Privacy will come back as a main selling point, once we've exhausted with innovation. Here's my even more spicier take - don't trust proponents of privacy to push tech innovation forward.

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I've worded the comment not to be dismissive but to start a conversation. If you're down voting please let me know what your thought process is.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-16 19:23:55+00:00
One of the problems of our time being discussed on a website that exemplifies another one of the problems of our time: I am skeptical that any benefit is going to come from an article on a content-mill-like platform written in that tiresome and bloated LinkedIn style that, even if it came from a human, is indistinguishable from AI slop.
by echelon | 2025-11-16 19:24:43+00:00
> One other thing I haven’t mentioned is image generation. Is this part of a chatbot product, or a tool in itself? Frankly, I think AI image generation is still more of a toy than a product, but it’s certainly seeing a ton of use. There’s probably some fertile ground for products here, if they can successfully differentiate themselves from the built-in image generation in ChatGPT.

This guy is so LLM-biased that he's missing the entire media gen ecosystem.

I feel like image, video, music, voice, and 3D generation are a much bigger deal than text. Text and code are mundane compared to rich signals.

These tools are production ready today and can accomplish design, marketing, previz, concept art, game assets, web design, film VFX. It's incredibly useful. As a tool. Today.

Don't sleep on generative media.
by westurner | 2025-11-16 19:24:44+00:00
FWIW, tequilahub/tequila supports a number of QC/QPU APIs as well. Currently supported quantum backends from the tequila README: https://github.com/tequilahub/tequila#quantum-backends

> Qulacs (recommended), Qibo, Qiskit [IBM], Cirq [Google, SymPy], PyQuil QLM (works also whith myQLM), [ and CUDAQ [NVIDIA]]

> Quantum Chemistry backends: Psi4, Madness, PySCF
by Cosi1125 | 2025-11-16 19:24:56+00:00
Little would prevent attacks by APTs and other powerful groups. (This, btw., is one of the few facets of this problem that technology could help solve.) But a trivial change: a hard requirement to sign up (=send a human-composed message to one of the moderators) to be able to participate (or, in extreme cases, to read the contents) "automagically" stops almost all spam, scrapers (in the extreme case), vandalism, etc. (from my personal experience based on a rather large sample).

I think it's one of the multi-faceted problems where technology (a "moat", "palisade", etc. for your "tribe") should accompany social changes.
by samtheprogram | 2025-11-16 19:25:59+00:00
Indeed, it's directly contributed to burgeoning administrative costs in universities through the Federal Student Loan program, and related the devaluing of college degrees.

It's probably helped in some aspects too, but the student debt crisis was created by the DOE. And most everyone can agree that college costs have ballooned in the US while the value of the degrees have decreased.

It's a perfect example of the worst of both worlds of government guarantees in a capitalist society, like Amtrak and US health care. It eliminates many aspects of competition and blurs incentives while remaining in a economy where decisions are profit-driven.
by GrzegorzWidla | 2025-11-16 19:26:12+00:00
The phrasing is important as the discussion about personal decisions needs to start from acknowledging it’s a poison, which was not the case for the last centuries. We’ve had narration that some wine and beer is safe and that was incorrect.

Chocolate is beneficial in moderation as far as we know so not sure why you brought it up. So is consexual sex with repeat partner.
by robinhoodexe | 2025-11-16 19:26:42+00:00
First, congrats on the release. I’ve looked at flox and devenv for nixifying our container builds. Our distribution of languages is about 40/30/20/10 of Python, F#, R and nodejs.

A dilemma I’m facing is that the win from nix in terms of faster builds and smaller images would be largely from python and R images (where the average size is often 1Gi or larger). However, the developers that use Python or R are less likely to “get” the point of Nix and might have a steeper learning curve than F# developers (where the builds are quite efficient).

That was the context, my question is, how’s the integration with Flox and R/RStudio? I know there’s Rix[1] for managing R packages with Nix.

[1] https://github.com/ropensci/rix
by oneplane | 2025-11-16 19:27:01+00:00
> In other words, you're completely fucked if you brick your install. I consider iBoot a direct user-hostile downgrade from UEFI for this reason.

That's a bit of a creative perspective, isn't it? You have no control over the UEFI implementation of your vendor, same can be said for AGESA and ME, as well as any FSP/BSP/BUP packages, BROM signatures or eFused CPUs. And on top of that, you'll have preloaded certificates (usually from Microsoft) that will expire at some point, and when they do and the vendor doesn't replace them, the machine might never boot again (in a UEFI configuration where SecureBoot cannot be disabled as was the case in this Fujitsu - that took a firmware upgrade that the vendor had to supply, which is the exception rather than the rule). For DIY builds this tends to be better, Framework also makes this a tad more reliable.

If anything, most OEM UEFI implementations come with a (x509) timer that when expires, bricks your machine. iBoot2 is just a bunch of files (including the signed boot policy) you can copy and keep around, forever, no lifetimer.

Now, if we wanted to escape all this, your only option is to either get really old hardware, or get non-x86 hardware that isn't Apple M-series or IBM. That means you're pretty much stuck with low-end ARM and lower-end RISC-V, unless you accept AGESA or Intel ME at which point coreboot becomes viable.
Show HN: ResendForward – OS server and UI for use with Resend.com inbound
by lsherman98 | 2025-11-16 19:27:50+00:00
With Resend's new inbound feature I wanted to build a simple application that handles processing webhook events and forwarding emails for multiple applications. Right now Resend requires you to implement that logic in each new application.

repo - https://github.com/lsherman98/resendforward

live - https://resendforward.com

Built with react + pocketbase, extremely simple to self host.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-16 19:28:08+00:00
I’m saying it’s fine for Apple to make first party tech that only works either their other tech.

Samsung not being able to make a phone to work with Apples first party accessory isn’t the problem.

The problem is Samsung can’t make a watch that functions on par with the Apple Watch on iPhones.

Having first party, integrated accessories is fine. Locking out third party accessories is the issue.

Whatever Apple makes first party for the iPhone , third parties should also be able to make for the iPhone with the same level of access and functionality.
by falseprofit | 2025-11-16 19:28:54+00:00
Let’s say there are three options: {soon, later, not at all}. Ruling out only one to arrive at {later, not at all} implies less knowledge than ruling out two and asserting {later}.

Awareness of a fundamental limitation would eliminate possibilities to just {not at all}, and the phrasing would be “never”, rather than “not soon, if ever”.