MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by proudestmonkey | 2025-11-18 15:30:45+00:00
“Today the company is announcing that it’s testing fully autonomous trips, sans human driver, in Miami, and plans to do so in Orlando, Florida; Dallas; Houston; and San Antonio in the coming weeks.

For now, the only passengers will be Waymo employees. But the news is one of the final big milestones before the company offers rides to the public in those five cities, which it says it expects to do next year once all the necessary logistics are in place.”

“The five cities that are part of today’s announcement represent only a portion of those where Waymo has announced its intention to add service. Seven more—Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, London, Nashville, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.—are “coming soon” but not yet ready to do without a human driver aboard. Yet another seven—Boston, Buffalo, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Tokyo—are in an earlier stage, where the company is driving and collecting data.”
by mpeg | 2025-11-18 15:31:06+00:00
Allegedly it's already available in stealth mode if you choose the "canvas" tool and 2.5. I don't know how true that is, but it is indeed pumping out some really impressive one shot code

Edit: Now that I have access to Gemini 3 preview, I've compared the results of the same one shot prompts on the gemini app's 2.5 canvas vs 3 AI studio and they're very similar. I think the rumor of a stealth launch might be true.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-18 15:31:08+00:00
> high-trust society that solved coordination problems through legislation

What is the point of being high trust in the first place if you have to have a government violence backed law for everything?

High trust societies don't have governments dealing BS minutia like automobile headlights. That is expensive in all sorts of ways, assuming you even do it right and don't accidentally create some perverse rent seeking bureaucracy or certification group that has incentive to push things in a dumb direction over time. And high trust societies don't need to do that stuff because they're high trust and collaborative in the first place so those problems solve themselves. The big players identify the problem, mostly solve it with some sort of industry standard, and whatever rounding error is left is a nuisance so small it's not worth addressing.

This is how like the overwhelming majority of automotive (and a million other industries too, computer stuff being a particularly relevant one here) stuff was done before regulation and how a lot of the more cutting edge stuff is still done now with the added step of the regulator saying "hey that thing everyone's mostly doing, it's law now, errybody do it" once things settle.

I don't mean to pick on you specifically, the questionable take you're peddling is pervasive all over HN.
by variadix | 2025-11-18 15:31:12+00:00
Depends on the distribution of accidents and the distribution of costs. If P(ddos) * Cost(ddos) < P(no ddos) * P(cloudflare outage) * Cost(cloudflare outage) then you would be better off not using Cloudflare.

This is not considering other issues with Cloudflare, like them MITM the entire internet and effectively being an unregulated internet gatekeeper.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-11-18 15:32:01+00:00
I don't think any company actually sees some future there, at least not with current agentic AI as is. Agentic AI is just in this sweet legal gray area at the moment, where companies make use of their free pass to scrape all the necessary user data they'll ever need. That's my own interpretation on why it's shoved into every existing product out there, as fast as humanly possible, at least.
by neilv | 2025-11-18 15:32:46+00:00
> Most of these sites are not even that big. I expect maybe a few thousand visitors per month.

Incidentally, if you can make a site "static", so far I'm mostly liking AWS CloudFront loaded from S3. After many years serving my site from a series of VPSs/hosters/colo/bedroom. It's fast and inexpensive, and so far perfectly solid.

Deploying consists of updating S3, and then triggering a CloudFront invalidation, which takes several seconds. The two key fragments of my deploy script (not including error checking, etc.), after the Web site generator has spat all the files into a staging directory on my laptop where I can test them as `file:` URLs, are:

aws s3 sync \ --profile "$AwsProfile" \ --exclude "*~" \ --delete \ "$WebStagingDir" \ "s3://${S3Bucket}/"

and then:

aws cloudfront create-invalidation \ --profile "$AwsProfile" \ --distribution-id "$CloudFrontDistId" \ --paths "/*" \ < /dev/null 2>&1 | cat

The main thing I don't like about it (other than the initial setup wizards having a couple bugs) is that it doesn't automatically map `foo/` URLs to `foo/index.html` S3 objects. The recommended solution was to use AWS Lambda, which I did temporarily, and it works. But when I get a chance, I will see whether I can make my deploy script duplicate S3 `foo/index.html` as S3 `foo/` and/or `foo`, so that I can get rid of the worse kludge of using Lambda. Unless CloudFront offers a feature to do this before then.
by CjHuber | 2025-11-18 15:33:02+00:00
If it’s because of that, then honestly it’s as insane as the deepseek thing where all the info was released weeks before but the markt got nervous only when they released an app. I mean info about Gemini 3 is out quite a while now and of course they trained it using TPUs, I didn’t even think that was in question.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-18 15:33:27+00:00
> Do you have any evidence that the cancer is a type that would have been caught by a screening regime currently in place in other countries which is not in place in the US?

Do you have any evidence that it wasn't?

I honestly don't know if earlier detection was possible, or would have helped her out or not. What I can tell you is that given the state of health care in this country, you can bet that my default assumption would be "yes" until proven otherwise.

Starting with the assumption of "no" gives our system more slack than it deserves.
by lxgr | 2025-11-18 15:33:49+00:00
> Nobody wants to be in this situation even if for a personal, small blog.

I would gladly be in this situation if it otherwise lets me remove a large source of complexity, avoid paying a few bucks, and increasing the avoidable centralization of the Internet on my personal, small blog.

Maybe I'd change my mind if it continues happening, or if I didn't have unlimited traffic (which is a very bad idea for many reasons other than DDoSes for personal sites), but otherwise, enabling Cloudflare for a hypothetical without consequences seems like pretty extreme premature optimization.
by fhennig | 2025-11-18 15:34:25+00:00
I think you're misreading the situation in (2). There is still a social contract to return the carts - just because you put a coin them doesn't make that go away.

If your interpretation is true, wouldn't the shop need to have someone there to return all the unreturned carts? I have never seen such a person. Of course, if carts are in the parking lot, eventually an employee might come to return them, but it's not the intended way of handling it.

The 1€ is a deposit, and you lose it if you fail to do what is right, but the social contract to return the cart is still there, just because money is involved, doesn't mean all ethical considerations go out of the window. Returning it is still the right thing to do. The 1€ is there as an incentive for those who would just not return it if it wouldn't cost them.
by DoomDestroyer | 2025-11-18 15:34:28+00:00
> It's silly to the reader (and especially to an adult reader) but it's also obvious why this was present: the comic was meant for kids, and also Marvel never know when they might be getting a brand new reader who is totally unfamiliar with the character.

The same was present in any serials such as Conan.

There is a description of Conan and where he comes from, how black his hair is, how manly he, how he is the "noble savage "etc. every story.

Conan is definitely not for children. It verges on erotica in many of the stories e.g. in one story there is a older woman whipping a younger teenage girl while tied up and it is made known to the reader the teenage girl is "young" with the implication that she is probably 14 or 15.

Also every Conan story typically ends up with him using sheer overwhelming aggression to defeat super natural entities and then escape with the girl.

I with there was more "King Conan" stuff. But it is a property that Hollywood doesn't really understand.
by masklinn | 2025-11-18 15:34:36+00:00
> It is two different storage mechanisms

An irrelevant implementation detail. Interned strings are also stored globally, and depending on implementations interned strings may or may not be subject to memory reclaiming.

> Ruby does not care for efficiency, so there is no point to argue for symbols vs string performance

Which is why Ruby's having symbols is associated with mutable strings, not inefficient strings.

And there's a gulf between not caring too much about efficiency and strings being a linked list of integers, which is what they are in Erlang.
ZkOrigoPlus – Compliance Validator Bridging Bank and Blockchain via ISO20022
by ADCXLAB | 2025-11-18 15:35:05+00:00
I’ve been working on a stateless compliance and validation engine that runs across multiple chains (Ethereum, XRPL, Hedera, Polygon, Stellar, Bitcoin). Everything is processed per-request — no customer records, no logs, no storage. Just deterministic validation.

What it currently does • Wallet + transaction checks (multi-chain) • AML, basic KYC logic, RWA attestation structure • Zero-knowledge proof validation framework • ISO 20022 XML generation (pacs.008, pain.001) • Basic cross-border rules engine • AI/ML advisory layer (optional — model loads from S3 and runs at inference time, no data retention)

Infrastructure • Fully serverless: API Gateway + Lambda • 6 chain validators • 6 compliance modules • Sandbox + production environments • Stateless by design (no PII, no telemetry tracking unless user enables it)

Live Demo • MVP validator: https://mvp.zkorigoplus.com (simple UI showing chain + compliance outputs) • API documentation: https://zkorigoplus.com

What I’m looking for Not trying to sell anything — just want feedback from engineers who’ve built compliance, payments, or chain infrastructure before.

Main questions: 1. Does the stateless approach make sense long-term? 2. Any obvious gaps in the architecture? 3. Is the multi-chain abstraction too broad or reasonable? 4. Should the AI advisory stay optional or be removed entirely?

Happy to share more details if helpful.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-18 15:35:33+00:00
Yeah it's usually a problem with asynchronous UIs. You basically need to simulate a synchronous UI to make the interface seem reliable.

The file copy dialog in modern windows versions also has (had) this weird disconnect between the progress it's reporting and what it's actually doing. Seems very clear one thread is copying and one is updating the UI, and the communication between the two seems oddly delayed and inaccurate.

The progress reporting is very bizarre and sometimes the copying doesn't seem to start immediately. It feels markedly flakey.
by paulorlando | 2025-11-18 15:35:42+00:00
I happened to have been assigned Moby Dick in 9th grade English class. Foolishly put off reading it until the night before the book report was due. Got about 1/3 of the way through and went through life thinking it was boring. Fast forward decades, I'm now reading it for real. It hilarious, it's pause encouraging, I love it! (And I'm still only 1/3 through.)
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-18 15:35:57+00:00
> You think someone would DDoS you because you made a comment like this on HN?

Yes. Welcome to the internet! I don't just think someone would do this. I've seen these things happen. It just takes one person to be pissed off who has got nothing better to do and a few bucks to spare to buy DDoS as a service.
by GodelNumbering | 2025-11-18 15:36:00+00:00
And of course they hiked the API prices

Standard Context(≤ 200K tokens)

Input $2.00 vs $1.25 (Gemini 3 pro input is 60% more expensive vs 2.5)

Output $12.00 vs $10.00 (Gemini 3 pro output is 20% more expensive vs 2.5)

Long Context(> 200K tokens)

Input $4.00 vs $2.50 (same +60%)

Output $18.00 vs $15.00 (same +20%)
by __alexs | 2025-11-18 15:36:07+00:00
I imagine every single customer is provisioned based on some peak expected typical traffic and that's what they base their capital investment in bandwidth on.

However most customers are rarely at their peak, this gives you tremendous spare capacity to use to eat DDoS attacks, assuming that the attacks are uncorrelated. This gives you huge amounts of capacity that's frequently doing nothing. Cloudflare advertise this spare capacity as "DDoS protection."

I suppose in theory it might be possible to massively optimise utilisation of your links, but that would be at the cost of DDoS protection and might not improve your margin very meaningfully, especially is customers care a lot about being online.
by lucianbr | 2025-11-18 15:36:12+00:00
Here's how just one of your proposals has worked out in reality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

Democracy is a complicated difficult thing. If you think you can fix it after a 5 minute reflection, think some more, read more. It's way, way harder than that. A lot of smart people have thought a lot about it, and clearly good ideas are in very short supply. Think more humbly about the subject, please.
by alias_neo | 2025-11-18 15:36:41+00:00
> tend to cast more of their beams into the eye line of anyone coming the other way, particularly in smaller, lower to the ground vehicles

I don't think this is the main issue.

I drive a compact SUV, it has perfectly reasonable headlights, pointed downwards like you'd expect, with more of a dip towards oncoming traffic, like headlights have been for decades.

Despite being in a somewhat high-ish vehicle, I'm constantly blinded when driving at night by what is typically, low sports cars with headlights that are indistinguishable from high-beams.

I have no idea how manufacturers got away with this, and I hope something is done soon to make sure a mandate for them being fixed comes in new vehicles, and as part of MOT for existing ones.

I'm in my 30s, with perfect eye sight, and typically have no trouble driving at night or low light, or even low visibility, but it terrifies me that one day I might hit someone after being blinded by these idiotically bright head lights.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-18 15:36:51+00:00
> what fundamentally differentiates people who simply don’t like Trump for all the legitimate reasons to dislike Trump from the people who go full blown Rachel Maddow is deep-seated liberal universalism

You should know this isn’t me.

I was honestly optimistic for this Presidency. The corruption and lawlessness were annoying. But the masked ICE agents openly defying the law struck a nerve. And now we’re seeing folks like Megyn Kelly advocate for dismissing child rape.

That Trump is acting guilty, and has taken this from a fringe conspiracy theory to something worth considering, is almost besides the point. My condemnation is of the partisan dismissal of the crime per se, not Trump’s involvement.
by mnw21cam | 2025-11-18 15:36:54+00:00
I have never understood why everyone seems to immediately forget everything in their driving lessons as soon as they pass their test. When you're waiting at a red light, you're meant to have the hand brake on (which does not illuminate the brake lights), not your foot on the brake, unless you know that the light is going to turn green very soon, or you're trying to catch the attention of someone coming up behind who looks like they haven't seen that you have stopped.
by apt-get | 2025-11-18 15:36:56+00:00
> Palantir is firmly cemented into military-industrial infrastructure, and business is booming, but Karp is not letting up. He has said he wants Palantir to be as dominant and indispensable as IBM was in the 1960s, when it was the world’s largest computing company and shaped the way government and private companies did business.

I was thinking even before this line that he gives off the impression of really admiring IBM, especially their German stint from 1933 to 1945.
by mingus88 | 2025-11-18 15:37:21+00:00
All cars in the U.S. used the same headlights up until the early 80s. You could literally walk into the auto parts store and buy a headlight to replace yours, regardless of make and model

Somehow we all did ok back then with standard high/low beams from lights which are very dim and warm compared to the harsh white LED lights of today

It seems to me that this is just another example of the arms race of modern cars. You need a big SUV to feel safe on a road full of SUVs and trucks. You need an array of dazzling LEDs to compete with every other car out there. And we all lose.
by everdrive | 2025-11-18 15:37:23+00:00
>However, downplaying the challenges of country road driving is weird.

This is a total non sequitur, but we live in the country, and we had a few friends who had only ever lived in the city. A few of them independently expressed anxiety about visiting us due to needing to drive on "curvy country roads." I'm not making a broader point here, but I'd never heard this concern expressed before and was really surprised that it was a big obstacle for some people.
by diamond559 | 2025-11-18 15:37:23+00:00
So how was I able to make money on both crashes this year and buy the bottom in 2022, how did Burry know it was a bubble in 2008, how did Greenspan know it in the late 1990s? Humans act irrationally, they get overconfident and overreach then things pull back, boom/busts in specific industries and whole economies have happened since the beginning of history. We humans only have so many ways to value a company and us investors all look at the same ones, we have jobs though that require us to put values to these assets for our clients. This is how human emotions and psychology gets into the market. Fama might be right it's impossible to mathematically predict the exact day and time the bubble will crash, but that doesn't mean the obvious bubble we are seeing isn't a bubble.
by rkozik1989 | 2025-11-18 15:37:42+00:00
I don't think its that surprising. Bash is old as dirt and scripts by definition are meant to be simple. Where AI struggles is when you add complexity like object-oriented design. That's when the effect of it trying to solve every problem in a way unique to it just takes shit off the rails. LLMs known design patterns exist but they don't know how to use them because that's not how deep learning approaches problem solving.
by elondaits | 2025-11-18 15:37:43+00:00
I administer a PHP website with very little legit traffic per month, but a few thousand pages probably. The bot traffic is crazy. We're not using Cloudflare for that site, but we're using a local static-page cache... and without it, the site simply can't function.

You don't need to be the target of a dDoS to use a CDN.

Also, using CDNs (Fastly via Github pages, not Cloudflare, in this case) once allowed us to be featured in a very large newspaper without worries, extra expenses, or extra work.
by vegancap | 2025-11-18 15:38:13+00:00
I was at a junction the other day, there was some new Audi EV at the other side of the junction and I couldn't see a damn thing. I've got perfect 20/20 vision, never had any form of eye problem ever in my life, and I was completely blinded. I'm convinced if they'd turned the full beams on, I'd have disintegrated.
by kcplate | 2025-11-18 15:38:14+00:00
Well you missed the point entirely or have deliberately misrepresented what I said. I described how the 2nd amendment is essentially a “force multiplier” for a fractioned military more than a counter to the military.

You mention Kent State, but that actually illustrates to my point. Yes that happened, but do you have specific evidence that the government specifically ordered the guardsmen to shoot the protesters? Newsflash…there was no such order. What you can argue in this case is that the government created an environment where general emotional chaos could create a bad situation, and did.

Even if you had evidence that this was an ordered massacre by the government—-only 29 out of 77 guardsmen fired their weapons. That means nearly 2/3 disregarded orders (which was my exact point if such an order was to be given).

Despite your suggestion of “thousands of occasions” where ordered military has been asked to take up arms against our citizens, I dare you to list another. You might go back to the civil war, but that technically is a special situation where one country for a time became two, and the combatants of those two did not regard the other are fellow citizens. My guess is that you are will be hard pressed to find many other instance where that has happened in the United States.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-11-18 15:38:26+00:00
Stretch It — a smarter, sleeker timer in your menu bar. When you need focus, a quick break, or perfect cooking timing, you shouldn’t open a full timer or task app. Stretch It is a minimalist macOS timer you control with one simple gesture.

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Multi-monitor ready: Works seamlessly across all displays.

Minimalist design: No task lists, labels, or clutter — just a single quick-launch timer.

What sets Stretch It apart:

Lives entirely in the menu bar — always accessible.

Uses a natural, fluid “pull” gesture instead of dialogs or sliders.

Avoids the complexity of task apps; built for speed and simplicity.

Perfect for: Pomodoro focus bursts, micro-breaks, stretching, breathing resets, boiling eggs, steeping tea, or anyone who values a fast, clean, unobtrusive timer.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-18 15:39:17+00:00
I think that school of Java is on the way out. Since it's absurdly backward compatible there's a lot of factoryfactory code still lingering, but I don't see it being written a lot.

Though there are a lot of unfortunate "truths" in Java programming that seems to encourage malignant abstraction growth, such as "abstractions are free", and "C2 will optimize that for you". It's technically kinda mostly true, but you write better code if you think polymorphism is terribly slow like the C++ guys tend to do.
Show HN: Veloland – 2D Indoor Cycling Game
by k-smo | 2025-11-18 15:39:23+00:00
Hi all, it's getting cold outside and I'm starting to use my indoor bike trainer more often. I thought it would be fun to build something that I haven't seen yet - a pixel-art 2D game for smart bike trainers. I figured it could be fun to have a low requirements, super simple game instead of more bloated main stream apps that require pricy subscriptions.

It has limited functionality right now but lets players generate unlimited routes based on target distance, elevation and route profile, and very soon a GPX file import.
by prodigycorp | 2025-11-18 15:39:27+00:00
I'm sure this is a very impressive model, but gemini-3-pro-preview is failing spectacularly at my fairly basic python benchmark. In fact, gemini-2.5-pro gets a lot closer (but is still wrong).

For reference: gpt-5.1-thinking passes, gpt-5.1-instant fails, gpt-5-thinking fails, gpt-5-instant fails, sonnet-4.5 passes, opus-4.1 passes (lesser claude models fail).

This is a reminder that benchmarks are meaningless – you should always curate your own out-of-sample benchmarks. A lot of people are going to say "wow, look how much they jumped in x, y, and z benchmark" and start to make some extrapolation about society, and what this means for others. Meanwhile.. I'm still wondering how they're still getting this problem wrong.

edit: I've a lot of good feedback here. I think there are ways I can improve my benchmark.