MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quuxplusone | 2025-11-30 16:58:52+00:00
Sure, but the headline wasn't "Google CEO says ‘vibe coding’ made software development ‘so much less like a video game.’" In fact since many people think video games are enjoyable, making software development less gamelike might make it less enjoyable.

(But would further gamification make it more enjoyable? No, IMO. So maybe all we learn here is that people don't like change in any direction.)
by tguvot | 2025-11-30 16:59:24+00:00
There is spying and there is spying

Back in august IDF banned Chinese cars from entering bases

https://www.jns.org/report-idf-bans-chinese-cars-from-bases-...

And now banned then from used by officers

https://securityboulevard.com/2025/11/why-israel-just-banned...

I wonder what IDF knows
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-30 17:00:03+00:00
Hooke's law is what's not not perfect physics, but an idealized version of a spring. No real spring (that we'd recognize as a spring) actually obeys it perfectly, because there is damping and friction and a bunch of things that Hooke's law does not factor in.

To get somewhat more realistic model of a spring, you a damping term, which turns it into an ODE[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-spring-damper_model
by superkuh | 2025-11-30 17:00:55+00:00
It's 1 step forward 2 steps back with this "server side rendering" framing of the issue and in practice observing Microsoft Github's behaviors. They'll temporarily enable text on the web pages of the site in response to accessibility issues then a few months later remove it on that type of page and even more others. As that thread and others I've participated in show this is a losing battle. Microsoft Github will be javascript application only in the end. Human people should consider moving their personal projects accordingly. For work, well one often has to do very distasteful and unethical things for money. And github is where the money is.
by balamatom | 2025-11-30 17:01:04+00:00
I think we should expand this spectrum of simulacra to include Geesesee (which once used to mean Generalized Cargo Cult)

Imagine a post-apocalyptic scenario where people keep the tradition of following Polly the Robot in a ritual tour of Labs of Eemaeetee - but none remember what the sounds made by Polly used to refer to, or indeed that they referred to anything. That wouldn't preclude humans to learn to reproduce Polly's liturgy, or even burn at the stake curious folk trying to decode its ancient meaning.

Well, I think we've already been there for a while.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 17:01:48+00:00
I think what you're saying is plausible, although I don't necessarily buy it in this particular case. I personally never expected the TP thing.

But more to the point, though, let's assume your right. Is it right for our leaders to manipulate our behavior by lying to us? For me, it seems like the minute that starts happening, we're a democracy in name only. The fact that the government is "of the people" is really then just a technicality.
by giarc | 2025-11-30 17:01:49+00:00
I think these graphs are just too unreliable. If I set it to Past 90 Days, there's a blip on Sept 6, 2025 with a value of 28. The next data point isn't until Nov 27, 2025 and it goes up to 100. If I then set it to Past 12 Months, the only data is in Nov and there is nothing for Sept. Then, even more interestingly, if I change it to "News Search" (instead of Web Search) and set it to Past 12 Months, the biggest spike is actually May 18-24, 2025 where the value is 100 and the Nov blip is only 9. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=CA&gprop=news&q...

EDIT - that was set to Canada. If I set it to Worldwide the values change obviously.
by Deboujee | 2025-11-30 17:01:51+00:00
Uni3C with SAM 3D turns a single image into a clean 3D model with a tight workflow. SAM 3D first masks the subject, removes background noise, and protects edges. Clean masks give Uni3C better geometry for the next stage. The pair outputs common formats such as OBJ, FBX, GLB, and USDZ for smooth handoff to Blender, Unity, or Unreal. A five step flow keeps results consistent, prepare the image, run SAM 3D for masking, generate the mesh in Uni3C, export, then clean up inside your 3D package. High resolution source photos, clear separation from background, and simple lighting reduce artifacts. This approach suits product shots, props, and simple scenes where speed and volume matter more than micro detail.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-11-30 17:01:51+00:00
Why are images and video a complete waste? This makes no sense to me.

Right now the generators aren’t effective but they are definitely stepping stones to something better in the future.

If that future thing produces video, movies and pictures better than anything humanity can produce at a rate faster than we can produce things… how is that a waste?

It can arguably be bad for society but definitely not a waste.
by daveguy | 2025-11-30 17:02:49+00:00
Stable coins fail when there's a run on the bank. Crypto is a wild west of unregulated banking. They have essentially become tools for money laundering and scam enablers, so it might take a while. But eventually the general public will say "no thanks" to a pain in the ass version of regular money. When the rush to the exits happen, the ~7 txn/s limit of Bitcoin will become painful.
by boulos | 2025-11-30 17:03:22+00:00
I can't seem to find the 2007 webpage (maybe it was one of the wiki-based ones?) but the 2008 syllabus looked very hands on: https://web.archive.org/web/20081208171743/http://stanford.e...

I never took 193p, but I always found 148 to be hands on, and I made it very hands on for the year I contributed: https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184434/https://graphics.... .

I regret that we put my subdivision assignment as the last one, and we allowed students to skip one assignment. Most students skipped it, but those that did the work thought it was super cool to have their own subdivision tool for making smooth meshes.
Show HN: AI agents that validate your product idea by talking to real users
by Matzalar | 2025-11-30 17:03:23+00:00
I built a tool to solve a problem I kept running into: I was making product decisions based on guessing instead of real users. I kept building stuff nobody wanted as I was usually wrong.

So, I built HolyShift: AI agents that validate product ideas by talking to real people on Reddit, HN, X, and LinkedIn … then generate a detailed GTM and “Should we build this?” report.

No synthetic data (ChatGPT). No predictions. Only real conversations from real people.

What it does • Posts platform-native questions (where allowed) • Collects real reactions, objections, pricing signals • Clusters feedback into themes (pain, demand, adoption, pricing …) • Runs a monitoring agent for sentiment analysis • Produces a short validation report (PRD + GTM)

All actions are rate limited and reviewed by a human for compliance.

How it works (technicals) • Multi-agent pipeline (intake → landscape → engagement → monitoring → synthesis → report) • Platform specific prompting (HN vs Reddit vs LinkedIn …) • Real-time sentiment + clustering via embeddings

Link https://www.holyshift.ai (Early beta)

What I’m looking for • What should stay human vs automated? Should we automate this 100%? • How do you do your product validation? Do you talk to your potential users (and who?) before you build?

Happy to answer anything.
by randerson | 2025-11-30 17:03:39+00:00
As someone with a septic tank, I'd rather spend more on a system that won't fail and won't kill anyone. I'd grumble while paying so much but I'd still do it. Just like I'd rather pay more for a car from the over-regulated EU than one for half the price from a country with no safety or quality regulations.

I realize I don't speak for the more cash strapped population, and I agree that overbearing regulation can be a problem. The problem is not regulations themselves, which save lives, but the perverse execution of new regulations in countries like the US (often written by market leaders to cement their moat, with the power of lobbying.)
by Zigurd | 2025-11-30 17:03:49+00:00
Everything between your ears is an electrochemical process. It's all math and there is no "creative boundary." There's plenty to criticize in AI hype that we're going to get to machine intelligence very soon. I suspect a lot of the hype is oriented towards getting favorable treatment from the government if not outright subsidies. But claiming that there are fundamental barriers is a losing bet.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-30 17:04:09+00:00
> Is this not rational behavior?

Yes, and it is also demonstrated by the Flynn Effect. [1]

About "A Case Against Education": Caplan draws on the latest social science to show how the labor market values grades over knowledge, and why the more education your rivals have, the more you need to impress employers. He explains why graduation is our society’s top conformity signal, and why even the most useless degrees can certify employability.

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
by ENadyr | 2025-11-30 17:04:10+00:00
Agreed. Ran the comms for my burning man camp and everyone kept getting confused with the channels mess among other usability issues. I like where Mesh core is going, just wish the repeater nodes could run on gateway hardware so they don’t become the choke point with a half-duplex radio (bs like 8 full duplex channels on the RAK wireless gateway)
by hereme888 | 2025-11-30 17:04:15+00:00
recent results like PEFT-Bench (arxiv.org/abs/2511.21285) found that while SFT is efficient for formatting, it actually degraded Llama-3-8B's reasoning on math and code tasks compared to the base model.

So is RL required to preserve those logic circuits?

There seems to be a trade-off in compute-efficiency and format vs intelligence
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-30 17:04:26+00:00
This crap is being done because of EU rules. It's "for your protection." The vehicles are being secured from you.

https://www.coro.net/blog/what-new-eu-cybersecurity-rules-me...

https://www.dw.com/en/new-eu-cybersecurity-rules-push-carmak...
by Fnoord | 2025-11-30 17:04:30+00:00
This website is very liberal with regards to freedom of speech, and while hosted in USA it isn't part of FAMAG, and non-partisan. While the USA is under attack from radical right, it has been before (Dubya).

The thing with citizens of Russia and China who reside in their respective authoritarian country is they cannot be held legally accountable.
by danaris | 2025-11-30 17:04:45+00:00
That seems like a radical reading of the text.

It is impossible for every citizen to fully understand every scientific issue. Part of living in a society—in fact, one of the primary purposes of living in a society—is having different people specialize in different things, and trusting each other to actually be good at what they specialize in.

None of this implies that people don't know enough to vote.

Indeed, to the best of my knowledge, the available evidence suggests that a major part of the problem right now is people's votes being suppressed and people being poorly represented by their supposed representatives (both due to deliberate gerrymandering, and more simply due to the fact that the size of the House of Representatives was capped in the early 20th century, leading to one person representing hundreds of thousands or more, rather than the ~10k or so each they represented prior to the cap).
by alamortsubite | 2025-11-30 17:04:50+00:00
Early in the pandemic, my girlfriend paid hundreds of dollars for a respirator to use in an emergency at her job at the hospital. It was a basic Honeywell respirator, but one of the few the hospital could approve for her to use. The same respirator costs ~$40 on Amazon today.

I'm an airline brat and have flown millions of miles and been in two emergency landings involving fires. If you're ever in a similar situation, you and everybody around you better hope the crew sticks to protocol rather than worrying about bruising your precious long-term trust.
by andai | 2025-11-30 17:05:26+00:00
And the gray stuff is often the most interesting comments, it just says it in a way people don't like! (Or says something they aren't willing to hear...)

Well, not the majority, obviously, but some real gems do get lost in there.

I guess an "I am psychologically unprepared to confront the implications of this post" button wouldn't get much use though ;)

The downvotes are so funny though. I posted a bad joke yesterday (it was very on the nose) and got my deserved downvotes. Then I posted the same thing in Latin and got a bunch of upvotes. Form over function...
by cogman10 | 2025-11-30 17:06:16+00:00
> subsidize mortgages on houses that should have been repossessed

But that's also not what happened.

What we did is buy back junk assets from banks to keep the banks from going under. The only way it really "subsidized" mortgages is in that it kept banks afloat which allowed them to keep issuing mortgage loans.

People, particularly people that fell for predatory lending, still lost their homes. The people that were mostly aided by the bailout were investors who bought snake oil mortgage backed securities which had fake credit ratings applied to them.

And the reason people take a dim view on this is because it really was only people with significant assets in the first place that saw a benefit from these government interventions. A direct result of the regulation was it became a lot harder for a few years to get a home loan unless you had significant assets behind you.

That's not to say some percentage of these interventions didn't help everyone. It's always messy. But it is saying that a lot of people would have been in a much better situation had the government, instead of bailing out the banks and investors, taken that same money and given it directly to the citizenry. Even the banks and investors would have ultimately been in a better position as people would have ultimately taken that money and spent it on things like their mortgages which they fell behind on.
by Kerrick | 2025-11-30 17:06:34+00:00
> as a starting point

That's the thing... Agile processes do position themselves as a starting point, and suggest that once the team understands it by living it (but not sooner!) they might adapt it and customize it.

From The Art of Agile Development, 2nd Edition by James Shore et al. (the most recent eXtreme Programming book, if you will):

> As a result, although it’s tempting to customize your Agile method from the beginning, it’s best to start with a by-the-book approach. The practices that are the least familiar are the ones that are most tempting to cut, but they’re the ones you need most, if you’re really going to be Agile. They’re the ones that involve the biggest change in philosophy.

> Mastering the art of Agile development requires real-world experience using a specific, well-defined Agile method. Start with a by-the-book approach. Put it into practice—the whole thing—and spend several months refining your usage and understanding why it works. Then customize. Choose one of the rough edges, make an educated guess about what happens, and repeat.

From The Scrum Book by Jeff Sutherland et al.:

> It’s important to understand the rules, and it’s even useful to follow them most of the time. But reading the rulebook of chess won’t make you a great chess player. After learning the rules, the player then learns about common strategies for the game; the player may also learn basic techniques at this level. Next is learning how to combine strategies you learn from others while maybe adding some of your own. Ultimately, one can transcend any formalism and proceed from the cues one receives from one’s center, from one’s instinct. [...]

> Some day, long from now, you may even outgrow these patterns as you evolve them and define your own. There are no points for doing Scrum, and these patterns are the gate through which a highly driven team passes on the road to the top echelons of performance.
by lovrok23 | 2025-11-30 17:07:04+00:00
I'm curious about the guardrails here. In my experience trying to use LLMs for user research, they tend to be "yes man" often hallucinating features or agreeing to user requests that aren't actually on the roadmap just to keep the conversation flowing.

how do you constrain the agent to stick strictly to the facts of the product hypothesis without making stuff up to please the potential customer?
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-30 17:07:06+00:00
It's not magic. It's neural syntax. And nothing trapped by computation is occurring. It's not a model, it is the world as actions.

The computer is a hand-me-down tool under evolution's glass ceiling. This should be obvious: binary, symbols, metaphors. These are toys (ie they are models), and humans are in our adolescent stage using these toys.

Only analog correlation gets us to agency and thought.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 17:07:13+00:00
What would you have had Faucci do during #1 & #2?

I'd have him not lie. At a minimum, if he thought that the truth would drive counterproductive behavior, he should have at least kept his mouth shut.

But as a public servant, one of the leaders in our democracy, I think he owes it to us to actually tell us the truth, even when it doesn't seem to serve his immediate goals.

HN is usually pretty positive on democratic principles, that it should be We The People driving rather than elites. But when the democracy is being steered behind the scenes, being misled into provoking us into the behaviors that the elites think are best for us, then that democracy is in name only. Functionally we've then become an oligarchy.
by vel0city | 2025-11-30 17:07:44+00:00
I went to Carvana to get some idea on what my car might be worth. I gave them the license plate, and it gave me a questionnaire about specific trim and options along with asking about the current mileage. I couldn't remember the exact figure so I guessed rounded to the thousand. The app complained and wouldn't take it as they knew the mileage which was some 150ish miles more. Apparently my car has reported the mileage last time I drive it, which has been about an hour before.

Carvana knew exactly how many miles I had driven within an hour of me driving my car.
by Groxx | 2025-11-30 17:07:53+00:00
this is great news, but:

>To avoid commingling, sellers have long had the option to apply a unique, seller-specific Amazon barcode — known as an FNSKU (Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit) — to every product. This ensures their inventory is tracked and shipped separately.

... is that really all that was necessary all along? I can see that being a problem for, like, 10 cents worth of stuff, but a lot of the commingling complaints have been around expensive items. It's not zero cost of course, but for your average $30+ thing it doesn't seem very difficult to justify.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-30 17:08:10+00:00
Yeah only the DOS façade of Windows NT is well known. Under that skin lurks some pretty wild late-1980s concepts. One of the core things to understand is that a lot of the features are based on a reverse map of GUIDs to various actions, and resolution of these map entries pervades the UI. That's why you can put {hexspew} as the name of a shortcut on the Windows desktop and have it magically become a deep link to some feature that Windows doesn't otherwise let you create a shortcut to, and also why you can just add things to the control panel which doesn't seem like it would be an intentional feature. And these actions can be named symbols inside DLLs, so they can do literally anything the OS is capable of doing. This is also why Windows has always been ground zero for malware.
by danaris | 2025-11-30 17:08:39+00:00
What condescension?

Can you point to prominent examples of it from a nontrivial number of major figures in the actual sciences? (As in, not in pop science, nor media figures merely reporting on science.)

Personally, I've never seen this supposed condescension. I've seen a lot of people claim it exists, but so far as I can tell, it's just a meme, a self-reinforcing narrative. Its only external support seems to be that people are upset that they can't actually understand scientific papers without....spending time learning what the terms mean and possibly getting a background education in the subjects they're talking about.

But that's not condescension. That's just scientists doing science and people expecting everything in the world to be simple enough to be understood in a sound bite.
by 65 | 2025-11-30 17:09:04+00:00
My theory is public state schools will become much more prestigious, as non extremely rich kids will find spending $75k on tuition to just not be worth it when you can go to your local state flagship for a fraction of the price. Plus, most of the most prestigious schools in other countries are public schools (e.g. UT and UBC in Canada, Oxford and Cambridge in the UK).

As an example, when I went to college tuition prices were already ridiculous. I got in to some good schools but ended up going to my local state flagship purely because of price. I was able to pay off all my loans and have a good job as a software engineer. Compared to my brother who went to a private school, he is 3 years older than me and makes the same amount of money as me, and is still paying off his loans.

Of course where I live in NYC there's still this smugness from those private university grads when they hear where I went to school. As though the US News and World Report rankings are some kind of way of deciding your self worth. Wow, you school is ranked #36 and mine at #42? You must be a smarter and more valuable person than me! Except... we work at the same place and live in the same area. But I don't have any loans to pay. I guess for some people it's not about the cost.
by jmspring | 2025-11-30 17:09:18+00:00
One concern the post brings up - single point of failure. Yes, in this case, blah blah big company microsoft blah blah (I don't disagree, but..). I'm more worried about places like Paypal/Google/etc banning than the beast from Redmond.

Self hosting, it's still a single point of failure and the article arguing "mirroring", well... it allows redundancy with reads but writes?

It's an interesting take on a purist problem.
by WJW | 2025-11-30 17:09:41+00:00
Haskell values are immutable, so it creates a new state on each iteration. Since most of these "game of life" type problems need to touch every cell in the simulation multiple times anyway, building a new value is not really that much more expensive than mutating in place. The Haskell GC is heavily optimized for quickly allocating and collecting short-lived objects anyway.

But yeah, if you're looking to solve the puzzle in under a microsecond you probably want something like Rust or C and keep all the data in L1 cache like some people do. If solving it in under a millisecond is still good enough, Haskell is fine.
by itishappy | 2025-11-30 17:10:21+00:00
Humanity currently produces 30 TWh, with roughly 60% of that from fossil fuels. You connect 10 mining rigs. There are two options for what happens to the world's power generation:

1. You affect the mix! Your rigs create new solar and decommission coal plants! The world is cleaner!

2. You claim a "clean slice" of the existing mix. You feel good because you use only solar, but MRI machines still use power, so their mix is now "dirtier" without changing the actual state of the world.

In real systems, it's probably a combination of the above. I assume our decisions only meaningfully matter by exerting market pressures over longer timescales.
by rayiner | 2025-11-30 17:10:30+00:00
No, the benefits of university are from smart people who can earn enough during summers to pay reasonable tuition if schools weren't set up as four-year vacations with lavish amenities. When I went to Georgia Tech, in-state tuition was about $2,400 per semester, or about $20,000 over four years (in 2024 dollars). It was a spartan, 1970's experience--like European universities often are today--but it was quite affordable for students who could earn that much at summer internships. And it's not just for engineers. My wife put herself through the University of Iowa, studying business and german literature, in 5 semesters by nannying.