MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dzhiurgis | 2025-11-13 22:18:59+00:00
I wonder what the actual usage will be.

Tesla native maps are miles and eons better (except highway lane markings). When I get a rental car I just can't believe people put up with this and even think it's good lol.

Of course you got Siri (actually works very well over Bluetooth), texting and other apps which some find an absolute must.
by nijave | 2025-11-13 22:19:27+00:00
Datadog log ingest isn't too expensive which will still enrich the logs and can dump to S3 (log archive) where you can use Athena/Trino

Log indexing is $$$, though for sure

Curious on Loki cost. When I priced out ELK at a smaller company it didn't come in much cheaper than $0.50/Gi everyone seems to charge (30 day retention, 2 shards, object storage backups). Back when I worked at JPMC, their internal service was also billed right around there.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 22:19:37+00:00
I've lived in Poland and in Romania as well, you know absolutely nothing about me but at least it's clear where you're coming from.

Major cities in 'my little country' have been bombed to little pieces during WWII, my family lived right next door to a particular bridge, maybe you've seen the movie.

All you will achieve is exactly the thing you are trying to avoid.

You're in Putin's pocket and you don't even know it. Guess who will end up fighting his wars for them? You, your grand children and so on. It's the proximity to Russia that is your problem, not the distance to the western part of Europe.

And I have never and will never make any excuses for what the Dutch have done in the past in their colonies and elsewhere, it is atrocious.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-11-13 22:19:53+00:00
I don't have this problem, but issues like this are always a huge barrier, especially when you want users from a polished code editor like VSCode. Personally, I use it because VSCodium does not support the default Python LSP on my Linux box. I like it, but there are definitely areas that seem rough around the edges. My biggest issue is the size of the font and icons. I use a 4K screen, and while the font is readable, the icons are so tiny that I can barely see them. Since it is a new system, I don't just know where they are like I would if it were VSCode.
by simonw | 2025-11-13 22:19:58+00:00
I used this tool: https://tools.simonwillison.net/terminal-to-html

I made a video about building that here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/23/claude-code-for-web-vi...

It works much better with Claude Code and Codex CLI because they don't mess around with scrolling in the same way as Gemini CLI does.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-13 22:20:55+00:00
It's been slowly increasing in size. Pickups last century were slightly smaller but not dramatically so -- if you look at like-for-like. A bigger driver of size IMO is the appreciate we now have for crew cabs. Those used to be rare to see on the road, now it's regular cabs that are extremely rare.

> When the next F-150 needs three steps to enter

This is mostly an aftermarket thing, and a superduty thing. My Lightning has running boards that are a little awkward to use because it isn't tall enough to justify them. I use them when getting in and out but only because they're otherwise in the way of my leg, not because the truck is hard to just step into.

My kids are old enough right about now that if Ford were to come out with an electric Ranger, I might trade. I do like how the midsize trucks drive (though the Lightning is quite remarkable in how well it drives for a half-ton size truck).
by Aloisius | 2025-11-13 22:21:04+00:00
There is a rather long history of the workings of cryptography products kept secret, so yes, it is entirely possible that the underlying math would have been kept as a trade secret.

It is also possible that it would have never been created in the first place because resources were allocated to other patentable inventions.

Of course, in the case of RSA, a similar algorithm was developed separately by the British government and kept secret for 24 years.
by KraftyOne | 2025-11-13 22:21:18+00:00
There's an observability and workflow management UI: https://docs.dbos.dev/java/tutorials/workflow-management

You can view your workflows and queues, search/filter them by any number of criteria, visualize graphs of workflow steps, cancel workflows, resume workflows, restart workflows from a specific step--everything you'd want.

Currently, this is available as a managed offering (Conductor - https://docs.dbos.dev/production/self-hosting/conductor), but we're also releasing a self-hostable version of it soon.
by freejazz | 2025-11-13 22:21:39+00:00
>Hmm, this is an interesting framing of the lawsuit.

First, it's not a "framing" of the lawsuit. A lawsuit is a number of claims made by one party against the other. In the two California cases, there were no decisions made on claims relating to LLM outputs. In the NYT case, there are claims relating to LLM outputs.

Yes, it could also be about training. But the discovery pertains to the outputs, which is the issue in this case. So even if you apply the holding that training is fair, which I don't see likely to happen in the district courts of the second circuit, you still don't get the result that the person I responded to suggested, which was that this should all be moot because of two decisions in two different cases in California which are not binding precedent in the 2nd circuit, and which also would not dispose of all of NYT's claims.

>So then this case should also be about training. The question then is: did OpenAI intend to have these models be able to regurgitate large amounts of content? Or is it yet another emergent property that nobody anticipated?

Intent is not a required element of copyright infringement, so you'd be wrong there. Plaintiffs can use intent to evidence willful infringement, which they are entitled to do in statutory damages cases, and receive a damages multiplier, which this one is. So OpenAI can't avoid liability based on their intent or a lack thereof. They can only, at best, use 'intent' to establish that NYT's is not entitled to heightened damages.

>So this might come down to intent.

It's always amusing to see people apply completely made up rationales to legal cases based upon their own personal feelings about technologies while completely disregarding, lets say, 100 years of legal jurisprudence.
by pogue | 2025-11-13 22:22:10+00:00
Time is of the essence, so I might just have a chatbot draft me something quickly and edit it or rewrite it to more what I want to say. Just emphasize the main points that even the linked article mentions - hugely bad for business, loss of taxes, bad for veterans, people will just go back to the black market for their needs, etc. I'm kind of surprised I'm not finding sites like NORML have any of those "take action" forms on their site you just fill in and it sends it out to all your representatives automatically.

Regardless, it doesn't need to be something you spend hours pouring your heart into.

Some representatives respond differently than others. I've gotten boilerplate letters back, and I've even had phone calls back with someone from their office. It really just depends.

EDIT: It's already been signed into law, so now they have 1 year to try and remedy the situation... :(

Trump Signs Bill To Recriminalize Hemp THC Products, Years After Approving Their Legalization https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congress-passes-bill-to-recr...
by bawolff | 2025-11-13 22:22:30+00:00
I have no special knowledge but i lean towards more like dot com. AI occasionally does useful things, but nobody really knows what to do with it so people are trying everything and seeing what sticks. Eventually the money will dry up and a lot will fail. However i think chat-gpt-esque things are not going away (the fibre-cable in this metaphor).
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 22:22:46+00:00
> Great idea, great execution on your landing page (the onboarding experience is really well done)

Thank you! As others pointed out here, we admittedly didn't invest much in the "landing page" aspect, but I did work hard to make a great onboarding experience. Glad it shined through

> Since I also have to use Chrome for an extension I'm developing

We're in the same boat, I wouldn't be using chrome if not for this extension. Great to see HN has a strong cohort of Firefox users!

> Out of curiosity, how much, if any, of this did you vibe code?

A lot of the elements of the extension, backend, and even the onboarding page integrations push at the boundaries of what tools like codex and claude code can do right now.

We do believe in the tech (in some regards, the extension is powered by similar tech), and we are power users of both, but we also know when claude code has said "You're absolutely right" one too many times and we need to dig in and get our hands dirty.
by dweekly | 2025-11-13 22:22:50+00:00
A few hours of playing around and I'm suitably impressed.

Claude 4.5 Sonnet definitely struggles with Swift 6.2 Concurrency semantics and has several times gotten itself stuck rather badly. Additionally Claude Code has developed a number of bugs, including rapidly re-scrolling the terminal buffer, pegging local CPU to 100%, and consuming vast amounts of RAM. Codex CLI was woefully behind a few months ago and, despite overly conservative out-of-the-box sandbox settings, has quite caught up to Claude Code. (Gemini CLI is an altogether embarrassing experience, but Google did just put a solid PM behind it and 3.0 Pro should be out this month if we're lucky.)

Codex with 5.1 high managed to thoughtfully paw through the documentation and source code and - with a little help pulling down parts of the Swift Book - managed to correctly resolve the issue.

I remember getting the thread manager right being one of the harder parts of my operating systems course doing an undergrad in computer science; testing threaded programs has always been a challenge. It's a strange circle-of-life moment to realize that what was hard for undergrads also serves as a benchmark for coding agents!
Ask HN: When is it ok to drop support for a platform?
by navs | 2025-11-13 22:23:04+00:00
I recently started a role in a startup focused on building an audience specific social media product. There's a lot to do here and we have a native Android app, a native iOS app, as well as a rather heavy Rails stack. There's also a heavy reliance on third party services that are just costing us way too much and if we want to run lean, I need to replace them or get rid of them entirely.

There's a good portion of the community that loves us, but there's growing frustration with the bugs. Frankly, I understand. No shade to the previous team, but I feel like the priorities were not well balanced.

With an engineering team of one, minimal resources and still pre-revenue, I don't want this product to die. But being realistic, there is absolutely no way that I can build for both iOS and Android. Using AI tools I've been able to do a heck of a lot with just a few days a week. But something has to give.

I'm curious about those who have been in this position, and have had to drop support for a platform. Android gets the most users, but has the most bugs. iOS is just easier for me to develop for while still providing room for resolving the other architecture problems.

What did you do? What would you have done different? Are there examples of startups that have done this and done it right (both PR and engineering)?
by Kuiper | 2025-11-13 22:23:09+00:00
There is a huge audience for AI-generated content on YouTube, though admittedly many of them are oblivious to the fact that they are watching AI-generated content.

Here are several examples of videos with 1 million views that people don't seem to realize are AI-generated:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxvTjrsNtxA

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDnMpuSYic

These videos do have some editing which I believe was done by human editors, but the scripts are written by GPT, the assets are all AI-generated illustrations, and the voice is AI-generated. (The fact that the Sleepless Historian channel is 100% AI generated becomes even more obvious if you look at the channel's early uploads, where you have a stiff 3D avatar sitting in a chair and delivering a 1-hour lecture in a single take while maintaining the same rigid posture.)

If you look at Reddit comment sections on large default subs, many of the top-voted posts are obviously composed by GPT. People post LLM-generated stories to the /r/fantasywriters subreddit and get praised for their "beautiful metaphors.

The revealed preference of many people is that they love AI-generated content, they are content to watch it on YouTube, upvote it on Reddit, or "like" it on Facebook. These people are not part of "the Midjourney community," they just see AI-generated content out in the wild and enjoy it.
by emptybits | 2025-11-13 22:23:27+00:00
In 2019, Musk asked for deposits as he told the world "We created an exoskeleton ... the body and bed on a traditional body-on-frame design don’t do anything useful. They’re dead weight."

MotorTrend describes Tesla's failure well in their Nov 2023 teardown. Read the "Does the Tesla Cybertruck Have an "Exoskeleton?" section. Spoiler: It doesn't. The stainless panels are not load-bearing. The Cybertruck has a conventional unibody chassis.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-fact-checki...
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-11-13 22:23:43+00:00
With Prolog, the proof is carried out by the computer, not a human. A human writes up a theory and a theorem and the computer proves the theorem with respect to the theory. So I ask again, how is carrying out a proof not reasoning?

>> I'm not claiming that reason is incorrect, I'm handwaving it away as irrelevant and academic.

That's not a great way to have a discussion.
by skissane | 2025-11-13 22:23:48+00:00
Programming languages are a bit like natural languages-they aren’t purely systems of formal rules, they are also usage patterns-there are lots of sentences which are formally correct English, but which few English speakers would ever construct-valid syntax and semantics, but stylistically and pragmatically abnormal. In the same way, a programming language is more than just the set of strings accepted by its compiler, it is a culture-language A may produce (in practice) more reliable code than B, not because of its feature set, but due to the cultural baggage that comes with it-but in a broader sense of “language”, that culture is part of the language too.
by jjk166 | 2025-11-13 22:24:11+00:00
The Senate has been nothing but a non-population-proportional version of the House since the 17th amendment. The House was supposed to give voice to the people while the Senate saw to the needs of the nation. The requirement for the house and senate to work together would balance these often competing needs. Direct election of senators is a worst of both worlds situation - democracy where some people's votes count for more than others. Since the 17th amendment was ratified, the legislature has ceded tremendous power to the executive and judiciary as it has become steadily more ineffectual, and public perception of the institution has plummeted. This has only accelerated in recent decades. Abolishing the senate is only one potential form that reform could take, but I don't know how anyone could look at the current situation and not see the need for some type of reform to get the legislative branch back on track.
by henryfjordan | 2025-11-13 22:24:18+00:00
If it was a textile-style-hemp farmer getting the last few bucks out of their crop via a loophole, that I can understand. Not great, but I can rationalize it.

Someone growing the same plant that is regulated by California but decides they don't need testing or licenses is just plain anti-social. You can't not know you're doing something wrong in that case.
by Animats | 2025-11-13 22:24:22+00:00
The specific Sonder hotel mentioned in the article is still listed on the Mariott web site.[1]

"A stay you can count on. Experience travel without the guesswork. While every space is unique, you can always count on the Sonder Standard. All stays feature designer details, keyless entry, fast free WiFi and our 24/7 digital concierge."

Trying to make a reservation returns "Your session timed out, but you can start a new hotel search below."

This badly hurts Mariott's brand. Their page reads as if they stand behind Sonder. Marriott supposedly has about 30 brands, and now you have to ask which of them are fake fronts.

[1] https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/nycho-the-merchant-hot...
by danudey | 2025-11-13 22:24:51+00:00
Go look at the comments on any Phoronix article involving Rust in any way and you'll see that it's 80% rust haters making all the same arguments every Rust hater makes. You can implement the same safety features in C++ and assembly if you know what you're doing! You can still write bugs in Rust! I know someone who tried to learn rust and he accidentally deleted his home directory so everyone may as well stick to C!

It's all nonsense, but it would be hilarious if it weren't so ignorant.
by RyanOD | 2025-11-13 22:25:02+00:00
We had a Commodore 64 and an Amiga back in the 80s. I used to type up books reports and research papers which was really nice.

Once, I got in trouble and had to go home and write sentences. I used the word processor to copy/paste the sentence 500 times (or whatever it was). The teacher was dubious of this, but not fully understanding personal computers, gave in and accepted it.

Win! Win! Win! ...
by bogomipblips | 2025-11-13 22:25:58+00:00
Looking for book time, etc, ford doesn't seem likely to be as high complexity as similar large diesel.. I think the issue is similar to workstation repair vs PC repair.. 5 years learning this is instead of making a similar hourly rate on higher volumes of cars, risking that others are trying to close that gap too and wondering how long that skill as it is stays stably useful.
by Quekid5 | 2025-11-13 22:26:14+00:00
I think it's been a commonly held opinion in security circles for at least 15+ years that the Robustness principle is generally counterproductive to security. It (almost inevitably) leads to unexpected interactions between different systems which, ultimately, allow for Weird Machines to be constructed.

An argument can be made that it was instrumental in bootstrapping the early Internet, but it's not really necessary these days. People should know what they're doing 35+ years on.

It is usually better to just state fully formally up front what is acceptable and reject anything else out of hand. Of course some stuff does need dynamic checks, e.g. ACLs and such, but that's fine... rejecting "iffy" input before we get to that stage doesn't interfere with that.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-13 22:26:21+00:00
When I was in Haneda airport, a machine tells you which of 4 lines to go to and if you have forgotten there is a screen with live camera feed from screen POV and little boxes drawn on top kinda above you with your line.

I thought it was pretty neat, but felt super invasive.

CBP facial recognition is far less invasive. It's not an instance of "rampant facial recognition" in my opinion. There is really no downside, "they" already know you might be at the airport because you booked a ticket, since most US airports don't let to the air side without a ticket. You are already on bunch of cameras inside the airport, including right when:

1) your ID verified by human or by a kiosk

2) when you drop off your bags

3) when you board the plane

4) every other time you have to show your ID or boarding pass

You do you though.
by vagab0nd | 2025-11-13 22:26:35+00:00
> I don't believe for one second that any of the deceased people listed here would want their likeness emulated in such a hollow, mechanical, and inhuman way for all of eternity.

Would the mummy in the Egyptian exhibition want their lifeless body shown to the public for all of eternity? Isn't this how the world always works: once you are dead, nobody really cares about you except maybe your trust and immediate descendants.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 22:27:36+00:00
Yeah, seems wild to me that the hotels can just straight up kick people out immediately like that. Why not let them finish out their stay? Like, it wouldn't have killed Marriott to just eat that cost and generate some goodwill and gain some potential future customers.

Are they really operating on such slim margins that it would have been a threat to their business/chains if they didn't immediately evict and re-book the room(s) out?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 22:28:05+00:00
The solution is simple, right? Ford should be offering paid training and a talent pipeline, to build this talent pool that they supposedly need. Why don't they? Are they willing to spend the investment required? These are the root causes of the system failure imho, everyone (current state, US specific) wants the best talent possible at the cheapest possible cost, on demand with as little long term economic obligation or liability possible.
by itchyouch | 2025-11-13 22:28:10+00:00
While the area under the curve for glp1 administration may be the same, good chance that the story is informing us of a mechanism such as the absorption rate between two different sites.

Slower absorption in the thigh may blunt the immediate peak dosing and the acute hunger effects.

As always, the small details matter. I'd guess that pharmacology also has their own thundering herd problem with the dosing of certain drugs.

One of the interesting bits about pharmacology seems to not be the active molecule as much as the innovations in delivery mechanism.
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 22:28:42+00:00
If I am wrong I challenge you to point at a well specified replacement for PGP with a diversity of competing implementations as a decentralized cryptographic identity and trust system for open source software supply chain signing, authentication, and peer to peer encryption with a variety of smartcard generation, usage, and backup solutions better for every situation PGP is used in today.

Also a solution that significantly reduces attack surface enough to motivate a migration from PGP in all the areas it is used, and a specific strategy to migrate everything to it.

Also form a standards team to maintain the spec to keep all implementations compatible so this work is useful long term.

If all of that happened I would seriously evaluate it and likely even help promote it. Few understand the shortcomings of PGP better than those of us that heavily rely on it!

Until then I suggest improving upon what already exists, or at the very least stop steering people away from the best effort solutions we have today and all the hard work from hundreds of people that go into maintaining them for free.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-11-13 22:29:49+00:00
Cargo is absolutely awful. It might be better than cmake, but it still the worst part about Rust. It’s completely opaque, and intermixes a huge pile of different functionality.

Distributing Rust software is the pain that it is mostly because of how Cargo works. It’s pretty much impossible to sanely distribute something that isn’t a headache for downstream to consume.
by mschwaig | 2025-11-13 22:29:51+00:00
If you make a conventional AI agent do packaging and configuration tasks, it has to do one imperative step after the other. While it can forget, it can't really undo the effects of what it already did.

If you purpose-build these tools to work with Nix, in the big picture view how these functional units of composition can affect each other is much more constrained. At the same time within one unit of composition, you can iterate over a whole imperative multi-step process in one go, because you're always rerunning the whole step in a fresh sandbox.

LLMs and Nix work together really well in that way.