MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by graemep | 2025-11-07 10:49:06+00:00
I think something that Americans, and some British people (usually racists or people who are performatively anti-racist) miss is that the vast majority of us (ethnic minority British people) are well integrated. its easy to focus on the people who are not integrated and take them as the norm.

We do not have the history that people such as black Americans do. Our ancestors came here voluntarily, never faced lynch mobs or segregation or bans on marrying someone of a different race.

It shows in a lot of things. For example, we usually speak the same dialect of English as people from the same background and region - it might be PR or Brummie, but there is nothing that corresponds to Africa American vernacular (some communities do speak an ancestral dialect, of course, but that is different tends to die out over a few generations). As you pointed out ,someone's race is less important in politics (having a non-white PM was nothing like as revolutionary here as having a non-white president in the US).
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-07 10:49:58+00:00
> Alphanumeric data, in the context of QR codes, comes from the following alphabet of 44 characters:

> 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ $%*+-.:

This is wrong: alphanumeric has 45 characters, not 44. It’s missing the second last character, /.

(The slash is important because it makes alphanumeric-mode URLs possible: you can write HTTPS://EXAMPLE.COM/PATH which will be parsed to https://example.com/PATH. No query string or fragment due to no ?&=#, and your server must accept the uppercase path, either serving it or redirecting to the lowercase and then serving that.)

An alphabet size of 45 is the largest that will fit into 5½ bits per character (log₂ 45 ≈ 5.49).
by boudin | 2025-11-07 10:50:57+00:00
I realise my comment is not super clear. I meant that the world seems to stand by because nobody is in position of escalating against the US.

Those operations have nothing to do with cartels and everybody knows that. Nobody knows if those boats are remotely linked to cartels, there's reason to doubt that the US army even does. Cartels are irrelevant here and the murder of random people is not why the world stands by and let this happen.
by ithkuil | 2025-11-07 10:51:46+00:00
Writing linked lists in rust is super easy (just use box, rc etc).

Writingefficient linked lists in rust OTOH requires more advanced concepts.

But that's because the language gives you more guarantees about safety than C++. That safety is not only important for the implementation of your code but also for the memory safety of your code when combined with other code that calls your code
by ahmtyldz | 2025-11-07 10:51:53+00:00
I’ve been working on a new side project for a while — Portfoy, a mobile app that helps you track your stock, crypto, gold, and currency holdings in one clean dashboard.

I built it because I got tired of switching between 4–5 different apps every day just to check how my portfolio was doing. Most tools I tried were either:

Too complicated

Too slow

Or focused on only one market

So the goal with Portfoy was to make something simple, fast, and visually clear:

Add your assets easily

See daily & total P/L instantly

Works with BIST stocks, US stocks, crypto, gold, and FX

Dark modern UI

Cloud sync for portfolios

I originally built this just for myself. Then a few friends started asking for it. Now I’m opening it up publicly.

Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ahmetyildi...

(iOS is coming soon)

Would love your thoughts

If you try it, I’d really appreciate honest feedback — especially on:

UI/UX intuitiveness

Portfolio input flow

Any features you think are missing

I’m actively working on it and iterating daily.

Thanks for reading And good luck to everyone building something right now.
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-07 10:52:51+00:00
Dillo started as a fork of the Armadillo browser which was based on GTK+. It was the next version - Dillo 2 - which was ported to FLTK. The GTK+ version did not support CSS and initially did not support frames/iframes either. I submitted a patch which added support for the latter somewhere around 2003 which was never merged before the port to FLTK but which I have used for quite a while until these features became less important due to the uptake of CSS.
by fennecbutt | 2025-11-07 10:53:10+00:00
Plus I'd say that the smaller context or more specific context is the important thing there.

Even the biggest models seem to have attention problems if you've got a huge context. Even though they support these long contexts it's kinda like a puppy distracted by a dozen toys around the room rather than a human going through a checklist of things.

So I try to give the puppy just one toy at a time.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-07 10:54:01+00:00
And under water construction is expensive. And durable construction in a marine environment is challenging (and makes things more expensive).

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea but they are factors that add to the overall cost. 20$/kwh is very attractive of course. But that's also a number that e.g. CATL is chasing with sodium ion batteries. And they are going to be making those by the gwh/year from next month.
by itsmemattchung | 2025-11-07 10:54:22+00:00
Reminds me of this YouTube video (below) on how difficult it is (nearly impossible) to re-learn how to ride a bicycle when you have the handles are reversed (i.e. pulling left handle bar towards you, the wheel goes to the right)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
by graemep | 2025-11-07 10:54:49+00:00
If you parse that sentence a bit more carefully, and read the article at a whole it is arguing that other democracies, and the US in particular, have a conflict that could credibly escalate to a civil war.

It is an article by an individual academic not "The LSE" - the disclaimer at the top says "All articles posted on this blog give the views of the author(s), and not the position of LSE British Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics and Political Science."

It is not even clear whether the author is endorsing his views, or merely reporting those of former diplomat Barbara Woodword who has written a book on civil wars.
by perlgeek | 2025-11-07 10:55:09+00:00
It sounds quiet inefficient to me. The energy differential comes from the different salt concentrations, so you have to move a lot of water to exploit a relatively low mass differential.

Mentions of efficiency are conspicuously absent from the article.

Another potential problem is marine ecology: pumping high-salt sea water to the top and releasing it en masse might lead to much larger fluctuations in salt concentration than what the ecosystem is used to.

That said, we need many different approaches to solve energy storage, and I hope to be wrong, and that they end up very successful.
by perihelions | 2025-11-07 10:55:37+00:00
> "What do you think they're doing?"

I think they murdered an innocent man, Alejandro Carranza, a Colombian fisherman. The President of Colombia himself personally advocated on his behalf; it's been all over international news. Does this stuff not diffuse into your echo chamber?

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-22/colombia...

> "On the same Saturday, Petro declared that U.S. officials “committed murder and violated sovereignty in territorial waters,” stating that the fisherman identified by RTVC as Alejandro Carranza had no connection to drug trafficking. In subsequent posts, the Colombian president has repeatedly emphasized that Carranza was a “humble fisherman.”"
by iagooar | 2025-11-07 10:55:56+00:00
What a phenomenal launch it has been! Thanks a lot to everyone, for the many ideas and feedback. It has really made me push harder to make qqqa even cooler.

Since I launched it yesterday, I added a few new features - check out the latest version on Github!

Here is what we have now:

* added support for OpenRouter

* added support for local LLMs (Ollama)

* qqqa can be installed via Homebrew, to avoid signing issues on MacOS

* qq/qa can ingest piped input from stdin

* qa now preserves ANSI colors and TTY behavior

* hardened the agent sandbox - execute_command can't escape the working directory anymore

* history is disabled by default - can be enabled at --init, via config or flag

* qq --init refuses to override an existing .qq/config.json
by pas | 2025-11-07 10:57:08+00:00
no, I do believe that Devin-type agents are coming (like OpenAI's Codex) and they are being used to produce code, but currently the bottleneck is code review (curation), and yes it makes sense to try and relaunch with new code (run tests, benchmarks, etc.. and if it's better than the previous then switch over - genetic algorithms are doing exactly this, now the mutator will be smarter than random)

but saying that "since it was possible already many years ago and we are still alive" the whole argument is false doesn't stand up to scrutiny, because the argument doesn't make any claim on speed nor does it depend on it. quite the opposite, it depends on accumulating infinitesimal gains (of intelligence and misalignment).

FOOM (fast take off, intelligence explosion either through deception or by someone asking for a bit too many paperclips) is simply one scenario. also notice that even this (or any sudden loss of control) doesn't depend on the timimgs between first self-improving agent, FOOM, and then death.

like I said the hypothesis is pretty coherent logically (though obviously not a tautology), but the constant factors are pretty important (duh!)

... I think spending time on the LessWrong debates is a waste of time because by 2022 the neuroticism took over and there were no real answers to challenges
by jmb714 | 2025-11-07 10:57:54+00:00
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by andy99 | 2025-11-07 10:59:46+00:00
LLMs are good at fuzzy pattern matching and data manipulation. The upstream comment comparing to awk is very apt. Instead of having to write a regex to match some condition you instruct an LLM and get more flexibility. This includes deciding what the next action to take is in the agent loop.

But there is no reason (and lots of downside) to leave anything to the LLM that’s not “fuzzy” and you could just write deterministically, thus the agent model.
by hiisukun | 2025-11-07 10:59:50+00:00
It's not new, and some people would disagree on some minor elements -- but a good place to start was regularly this blog from approximately Matasano/NCC Group members, called Cryptographic Right Answers [1]. It's very clear, gives straight forward answers in clear fashion -- and with multiple opinions often aligning.

It was updated a few times, I wonder if the equivalent exists for PQ?

Edit/Update: Found the PQ one @ [2], definitely check it out!

Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but perhaps the most controversial element was the regular recommendation of AES-GCM. It certainly has excellent security properties, but also a certain brittleness re: nonces.

[1] https://www.latacora.com/blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right... [2] https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answer...
by donatj | 2025-11-07 11:00:19+00:00
Many people here have echoed similar sentiments, but I really wish they would give you any sort of information so you could have any sort of idea of what got pwned and ideally when. Was it a bank account, or some random forum? As it stands the action of even processing this data was of very little utility.

As with roughly a quarter of the planet, I was in this breach. My 1Password Watchtower is green. I cycle important passwords regularly. Back 10-15 years ago my passwords like most peoples were much shorter and not randomly generated. All of them for everything show up in the passwords search.

The utility of Have I Been Pwned approaches zero the longer you have been on the internet, and I have been on the internet since the late 1990s.

We're left in a place where everyone but the victim knows the compromised account, and that's just kind of absurdly useless.
by _phnd_ | 2025-11-07 11:00:49+00:00
The AI slop epidemic has a simple cause: people are asking LLMs to create instead of using them to amplify. When you prompt "write me a poem about loss," you get generic output because there's no complexity to work with—garbage in, garbage out. But when I fed Claude my raw, messy 33-post Bluesky poem and asked it to unpack what I'd written, something different happened. Like rubber duck debugging, the act of articulating my fragmented ideas to the LLM forced me to see patterns I'd missed, contradictions I'd avoided, emotional layers I couldn't access alone. The LLM didn't create anything—it amplified what was already there by giving me a structured way to externalize and examine my own thinking. The more entropy (complexity, density, messiness) I provided, the more useful the output became. LLMs aren't steam engines that create energy from nothing; they're amplifiers that can only magnify what you feed them. If your AI output is slop, check your input first. The breakthrough isn't in the model—it's in learning to articulate your problem densely enough that the solution emerges in the telling.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-07 11:01:51+00:00
Is this more like the war on Terror, or the war on Christmas?

The US loves to announce that it is fighting in a "war" on some abstract concept, and subsequently that it has won the war for whichever side it decided it was fighting on - and meanwhile the abstract concept remains unchanged.

In practical terms, the US likes two measures, an international measure which doesn't adjust for local costs, so it can say hey, our people could buy enough food and so on in Cairo, so that's not poverty - ignoring the fact that they're not in Cairo and must pay US prices instead; and a US measure developed in the 20th century which assumes poor people don't need telephones, refrigerators, and such "luxuries" only available to the wealthy a hundred years ago.
by internet_points | 2025-11-07 11:03:22+00:00
His https://prison.josh.mn/self page was remarkably interesting and insightful. Some nuggets:

> Contrast what society says rehabilitation is versus what it actually feels like. How much of it depends on luck, personality, or privilege?

> people want linear redemption stories, but real self-improvement is messy, nonlinear, and impossible to A/B test.

> There's a certain freedom in owning your story publicly. People can't weaponize what you've already made peace with.
by vidarh | 2025-11-07 11:03:31+00:00
Even in the case where you need to group steps together in a deterministic manner, you don't need an MCP server for that. You just need to bundle those steps into a CLI or API endpoint.

That was my point. Going the extra step and wrapping it in an MCP provides minimal advantage vs. just writing a SKILL.md for a CLI or API endpoint.
by graemep | 2025-11-07 11:03:58+00:00
> You can start having terrorist organizations that are able to obtain weapons with help from these billionaires to do acts that serve their agenda.

I lived in Sri Lanka during part of its civil war. It started as a terrorism, The backing came not billionaires but ordinary people: rising ethnic tensions caused by terrorism increased the support the separatists had, and an overseas diaspora able to fund them was hugely expanded by people fleeing the civil war - and became more willing to do so in reaction to race riots and the like.

> If a Billionaire finances the shipping a few thousand rifles and explosive to UK in drug induced rage night, will the UK politicians and law enforcement or the intelligence services be able to do anything about that?

I think they would. its a crime, and its very hard to maintain secrecy at the scale needed to distribute large numbers of weapons.

The IRA had thousands of rifles and stocks of ammunition. Islamic terrorists have billionaire backers. Neither has been able to scale up beyond bombings and similar small scale attacks in mainland Britain. The IRA were able to in Northern Ireland, but that was with a large proportion of the population backing their cause (though not necessarily their use of violence).
by thomasmg | 2025-11-07 11:05:02+00:00
You are right, languages with tracing GC are fast. Often, they are faster than C or Rust, if you measure peak performance of a micro-benchmark that does a lot of memory management. But that is only true if you just measure the speed of the main thread :-) Tracing garbage collection does most of the work in separate threads, and so is often not visible in benchmarks. Memory usage is also not easily visible, but languages with tracing GC need about twice the amount of memory than eg. C or Rust. (When using an area allocator in C, you can get faster, at the cost of memory usage.)

Yes, Python is specially slow, but I think it's probably more because it's dynamically typed, and not not compiled. I found PyPy is quite fast.
by defrost | 2025-11-07 11:05:22+00:00
> My argument is that it seems like you haven’t updated your understanding of oil geopolitics for several decades.

Your argument, then, is the GP has a more recent and up to date grasp of geoplotics than the current POTUS?

The same POTUS with a 1930s grasp of tariffs?

What reason exists for the US to "bail out" Argentina? Was that as simple as extending time for those who contributed to the Presidential library fund to claw back their money from Argentina?

Modern geopolitics is all very well and good, but it falls well short of explaining some of blatently century old banana republic stuff going on in the current US administration.
Show HN: Agent Templates – reusable agent definitions across frameworks
by samitugal | 2025-11-07 11:05:47+00:00
I’ve been developing various AI agents for my projects and realized I was constantly rewriting the same logic in different frameworks (Semantic Kernel, LangChain, etc.).

So I built Awesome Agent Templates — a public, framework-agnostic catalog of reusable agent definitions (system prompts, example user prompts, example tools and available mcp servers).

The goal is to make agent design less boring

The repo: https://github.com/samitugal/awesome-agent-templates

Feedback, contributions, or ideas for improving the schema are very welcome.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-07 11:05:49+00:00
>> what problems can I solve, that can be only done with an agent?

> The problem that you might not intuitively understand how agents work and what they are and aren't capable of

I don't necessarily agree with the GP here, but I also disagree with this sentiment: I don't need to go through the experience of building a piece of software to understand what the capabilities of that class of software is.

Fair enough, with most other things (software or otherwise), they're either deterministic or predictably probabilistic, so simply using it or even just reading how it works is sufficient for me to understand what the capabilities are.

With LLMs, the lack of determinism coupled with completely opaque inner-workings is a problem when trying to form an intuition, but that problem is not solved by building an agent.
by joha4270 | 2025-11-07 11:06:51+00:00
They're not dealing with a pressure differential. Or at least I don't think so.

I don't think the Journalist who wrote the article understood the technical details, but from digging a little at their website I think what's going on is they're moving heavy brine up and down, all of it equalized with local pressure.

Despite them describing it as pumped hydro, I think its better framed as a cousin of the "chunk of concrete suspended over a mine shaft" style gravity battery. Replace the mineshaft with water and the concrete with salt.
by binaryturtle | 2025-11-07 11:07:01+00:00
I remember visiting a computer exhibition (CeBIT) in the very early 90s. In one booth they had some of the big Amiga systems (2000, I think) and at some point on of the booth's staff did the 3 finger salute (press 3 specific keys on the keyboard to force a reboot) on one of the machines. The machine was back up in what felt like an instant. I was amazed by that. They probably had setup the whole boot process via RAM (see "RAD" disk on the Amiga), but I hadn't any idea about that back in the days.

Still to this day I think this is how it should be. You want to switch ON your computer and it should be ready for use.

But what do we get? What feels like minutes of random waiting time. My Raspberry PI with Linux which probably eats 10 of those Amiga 2Ks for breakfast shifts through through a few 1000 lines of initialising output… my Mac which probably eats like 50 of those Amiga 2Ks for lunch… showing a slowly growing bar doing whatever… Why didn't this improve at all in the last 30 years?
by metalman | 2025-11-07 11:08:16+00:00
The moons low gravity makes human colinisation questioanable, even say with the wildly difficult many generational job of getting an atmospher (briefly) on the moon

Mars on the other hand appeals to civil engineers, romantics, adventurers, miners, and tycoons and just far away enough to stare at the ringing phone and go, naaaa, if head office wants something bad enough, they can send somebody
by snickmy | 2025-11-07 11:10:45+00:00
That is correct. When that will be available is the hard thing to guess.

There are currently enough production of electricity that is motor based (think about gas turbine, water turbines, etc), so there is a nice benefit of having AC at source and distribution.

The infrastructure needs to change. With an average lifetime of a substation in the 50-75years, it's hard to expect we'll overhaul completely the distribution system over night.

It's also hard for me to understand the power loss between the two scenarios (AC production, ac distribution, ac/dc conversion , dc consumption) and DC production, dc stepup to HVDC, dc distribution, DC stepdown and DC consumption). Even 1% at national scale means millions, so the entire business case might be anchored there. I'm sure there are smarter people than me here that can cast some light on this
by mckirk | 2025-11-07 11:10:56+00:00
My favorite website to see all the relevant climate trends:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/?nhsh=nh

According to that graph we're not currently at the absolute record low (2020 and 2016 were lower apparently), but only because so many of the recent years were record-low years.
by graemep | 2025-11-07 11:11:01+00:00
> companies get the vote based on number of employees

That is the result of recent legislation. Until about 20 years ago companies did not get votes. Individuals got votes by being freemen of the city, usually by being members of a livery company, the descendants of medieval guilds.

> Can’t easily be changed because some of the “rights and liberties” predates written common law and are “senior”.

It can be changed by passing legislation.

I lived in the city (in the Barbican) in the early 2000s and loved it.