MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-22 21:00:28+00:00
> It's implantation should be abstracted away from the main agent loop. Whether the tool call is deterministic, has human input, etc, is meaningless outside of the main tool contract (i.e Params in Params out, SLA, etc)

Up to a point. You're obviously right in principle, but if that task itself has the ability to call into "adjacent" tools then the behavior changes quite a bit. You can see this a bit with how the Oracle in Amp surfaces itself to the user. The oracle as sub-agent has access to the same tools as the main agent, and the state changes (rare!) that it performs are visible to itself as well as the main agent. The tools that it invokes are displayed similarly to the main agent loop, but they are visualized as calls within the tool.
Show HN: HN Buffer – A read-it-later site for your HN favorites
by shaarmar | 2025-11-22 21:00:28+00:00
Hello!

I’ve been reading Hacker News for years and have a bad habit of favoriting articles but never actually going back to read them. I finally built hnbuffer to scratch my own itch and help me work through that backlog. I also mainly built this as an excuse to learn/use some of the languages/frameworks/tools since I have another backlog of things I wanted to try too.

It syncs your favorites into a queue with a reader mode and swipe gestures. The streak tracking is something I'm still experimenting with.

Note: It requires an HN login to scrape the favorites list (credentials are client-side only, not stored).

Let me know what you think!
by crazygringo | 2025-11-22 21:00:39+00:00
What's your source for saying that most people fail to understand that social welfare programs come from taxes? The concept of where government money comes from is such an obvious fact, I don't understand how you can claim most people don't understand it. People go to work for a paycheck, they pay taxes, and they understand money doesn't grow on trees. This is adulting 101.

And no, "subsidized" means a portion of something is covered by someone else, but not necessarily all of it. E.g. a subsidized cafeteria at work may mean all the food is 50% of cost. Subsidized can mean fully subsidized, but that's a special case.

So subsidized is not more precise, it's actually much less precise. "Free" continues to be the accurate and correct term.

You're taking a right-wing political stance against current levels of social spending, which is your prerogative, but there's no need to change perfectly fine language to do so. Even if we called it the mouthful of "fully subsidized childchare", that's not going to make it any less popular.
by dang | 2025-11-22 21:00:57+00:00
It's not an "interesting framing", it's bog-standard boring: HN has guidelines for commenting and you broke them.

You may be falling into the common error of assuming that the moderation comment expresses an opposing opinion about the topic you care about*, but in fact it has zero to do with this, except insofar as when the topic is divisive, there is an additional guideline:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by abustamam | 2025-11-22 21:01:06+00:00
That's a good point, but the model could still work.

I think it comes down to trust. If something bad happens to my kid when my neighbor or friend is taking care of her, am I gonna sue them? Furthermore, if they give me their kid, would they sue me if something bad happened? Is it worth burning the bridge of friendship over a mistake? There's a number of different factors at play of course, but if I trust my neighbor / friend / parent / sibling enough to take care of my kid, I hope they trust me enough to know that I would try to resolve any issues privately and not get courts involved. Maybe the worst thing that happens is that a certain neighbor doesn't get to watch my kid anymore.

Of course if there's actual abuse or something criminal, then yeah by all means get the courts involved. But if it was something minor that blows over quickly then no need to escalate.

As an example, my mother in law was helping out for the first two weeks after my daughter was born. One day, my daughter had hiccups. My MIL said "I'm gonna fill a bottle of water to give to her" and I'm like "you will do no such thing, babies cannot have water. It's formula or breast milk." Later, on a cold night, she put a blanket (not swaddle) on my daughter, and a stuffed animal in her crib, and I'm like "babies cannot have loose stuff in their cribs, it's a choking/suffocation hazard."

My point is that I'm not gonna sue my MIL for being a bad caretaker, I'm just not gonna trust her to be a caretaker unless she took some infant safety courses. But I would trust a neighbor who I know has taken infant safety courses because they recently had a newborn or something, and trust that they'd do their best with my kid as I would theirs.
Show HN: A privacy-first, client-side toolbox (PDF, Imgs, Dev) no server uploads
by immineal | 2025-11-22 21:01:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Linus. I built this toolbox because I was tired of searching for "PDF Merger" or "Image Compressor" and having to upload sensitive files to random servers filled with ads and tracking.

The goal was to build a suite of utilities that runs 100% client-side using WebAssembly and standard Web APIs.

Features: - PDF Tools (Merge, Split, Watermark) using pdf-lib/pdf.js - Image Tools (Compress, Resize, EXIF strip) using JSZip and Canvas - Dev Helpers (JSON/SQL formatting, JWT debugging) - 0% Server-side processing - PWA support (works offline)

It’s built with Vanilla HTML/JS (no build step required) and hosted via simple FTP. No analytics, no cookies.

Source code (GnuGPLv3) is here: https://github.com/immineal/linu-li

I’d love to hear your feedback on the implementation or ideas for other client-side tools I should add.
Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs
by straydusk | 2025-11-22 21:02:34+00:00
I created vibescaffold.dev. It is a wizard-style AI tool that will guide you from idea → vision → tech spec → implementation plan. It will generate all the documents necessary for AI coding agents to understand & iteratively execute on your vision.

How it works: - Step 1: Define your product vision and MVP - Step 2: AI helps create technical architecture and data models - Step 3: Generate a staged development plan - Step 4: Create an AGENTS.md for automated workflows

I've used AI coding tools for awhile. Before this workflow (and now, this tool), I kept getting "close but not quite" results from AI coding tools. I learned that the more context & guidance I gave these tools up front, the better results I got.

The other thing I have found with most tools that attempt to improve on "vibe coding" is that they add abstraction. To me, this just adds to the problem. AI coding agents are valuable, but they are error-prone - you need to be an active participation in their work. This workflow is designed to provide a scaffolding for these AI agents, while minimizing additional abstraction.

Would love feedback on the workflow - especially curious if others find the upfront planning helpful or constraining.
by lvl155 | 2025-11-22 21:02:54+00:00
This problem is so much worse when you look at server mobo configurations that basically jumped from 8 to 12 slots. Meaning you need 50% more sticks to saturate versus Epyc 7003/2. I was hoping to build a Genoa-X server for compute and ram cost just went bonkers (that’s on a nearly 2-yo system). I decided to shelve that idea.
by juped | 2025-11-22 21:03:09+00:00
They're not logistic, this is a species of nonsense claim that irks me even more than claiming "capabilities gains are exponential, singularity 2026!"; it actually includes the exponential-gains claim and then tries to tack on epicycles to preempt the lack of singularities.

Remember, a logistic curve is an exponential (so, roughly, a process whose outputs feed its growth, the classic example being population growth, where more population makes more population) with a carrying capacity (the classic example is again population, where you need to eat to be able to reproduce).

Singularity 2026 is open and honest, wearing its heart on its sleeve. It's a much more respectable wrong position.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-22 21:03:15+00:00
Interestingly the Awinc aw88399 smart amplifier chip at the core of this issue allegedly got supporting in 6.7, in 2023. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Sound

I have a couple old-ish Samsung Galaxy Book x86 tablets that have a similar issue, that I have never quite goaded myself into trying to reverse engineer. I'd love some better material on trying to reverse engineer windows drivers: presumably maybe running windows in qemu with some kind of intercepting pass through?
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-22 21:03:36+00:00
Hence my mention of the need to tailor their request. Obviously they would need to assert some sort of criminal activity connected with the protest to get a warrant, but it's not as if cops are unfamiliar with amplifying or even provoking such, and exaggerating the level of danger in their warrant application.

This might seem like a cynical take, but you can see stories almost weekly of border patrol officials admitting to lying about claims of criminality; here are two recent examples:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patrol-commander-admitted-l...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5616287-charges-dro...
by pfdietz | 2025-11-22 21:03:55+00:00
MSRs have some attractive features, but they also have significant drawbacks.

The most pressing is that fissionable material is spread throughout the fluid, so fission and decay of fission products is occurring right up to the edge of the fluid. The walls and pipes containing the molten salt, and anything dipped into the salt, are exposed to unmoderated neutrons. One can shield using (say) graphite, but then damage to that (and soaking up of radioactive materials) become issues.

The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge was near the end of its radiation exposure lifetime when the program ended.

Contrast this to light water reactors. These are designed so that no lifetime component sees unmoderated neutrons. There's a thick barrier of water between the fissioning fuel and the reactor vessel wall and the support structures for the fuel bundles. The bundles themselves are exposed, but they are replaced for refueling and are not lifetime components.
by jfghi | 2025-11-22 21:04:19+00:00
So far the agentic stuff seems focused on shopping. Online shopping is remarkably seamless and optimized for me so the potential productivity gain is not enticing.

I’ve encountered a number of errors dealing with LLMs so would be wary of the results.

I also think there’d be an incentive to enshittify by having vendors pay to get preferential prioritization from the LLM. This could result in worse products being delivered for higher prices.
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-22 21:04:54+00:00
>I’m not cruel because I think society operates best — in terms of human outcomes — if incentives and disincentives are tied to decisions in ways that maximize the likelihood and benefit of personal responsibility.

And how did personal responsibility make housing unaffordable?

>Parents need to be responsible for their children. The state should only step in if they fail in their responsibility.

How neat and tidy.

>How is it folks like yourself can understand these concepts across a myriad of domains, including things like wildlife and their rehabilitation, and the importance of fostering self-sufficiency, but not this?

What are you talking about? Everyone who's poor and powerless should be helped. More importantly, though, they shouldn't be taken advantage of by wealthy interests. That includes animals, that includes expectant mothers who don't make enough money to survive because the "money to survive" dial was cranked up to 100 in the last five years. But please, lecture us some more about how that's HER fault.

>It’s not kindness to create people dependent on the state, or to advantage businesses that do not pay a living wage by subsidizing their employees.

It's also not kindness to raise their rent for no other reason than you can.

>Hell, look at what we’ve done to the cost of education by creating government-backed loan programs that simply allow universities to charge as much as students can afford to mortgage from their future.

And we could end it all tomorrow by saying "the US government must fund university education". You know, like they do in Europe, or like we did a few decades ago in the United States. You're pointing to a radically predatory policy decision, designed to benefit rich people, and saying: "See? Government doesn't work!" But that's "conservatism" for you: say government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it.

I don't know if you truly believe that education costs would come down if we stopped shunting students into indentured servitude (guess which loans are the only ones that can't be discharged in bankruptcy? What a curious law of the universe that must be!), but if that's the case, then I have a fabulous bridge I'd be willing to part with for a modest price.

I will never stop fighting against people who wield the power of the state to punch down and then point the finger at those same people and blame them. It's disgusting, it's abhorrent, and it must stop.
by verdverm | 2025-11-22 21:05:05+00:00
> I’m referring to the actual moderators of this website removing posts from the front page.

This is what you said. There has only been one until this year, so now we have two.

The moderation patterns you see are the community and certainly have significant time factors that play into that. The idea that someone is going into the system and making manual changes to remove content is the conspiracy theory
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-22 21:05:09+00:00
> there’s no reason I know of to suspect the ‘age-wealth point’ of the collector is particularly relevant.

All I mean is I think there's a bump around the time something particularly nostalgic intersects enough of the nostalgia-havers getting rich enough to bootstrap somes things into valuable-because-valuable territory. Comics, movies, etc. You could explain some of this Superman price that way, but you can't explain a recent increase in da Vincis, for example. I suspect quite at lot of 5/6 figure comic book sales that then bump the magic-number editions into the millions are buoyed by people who have done fondness for comics they had as children.

On the other hand, I think that eventually "the story" is merely an excuse for the price and whatever it is just valuable for the sake of being a member of a class of items that are demonstrably unique, irreplaceable and that can have particularly useful properties as a store of immense value. I really doubt that an Saudi prince dropping half a billion on a da Vinci, probably fronting for MBS, really gives a hoot about da Vinci's "story" at all other then his name underpins a really advantageous wealth store. I also doubt anyone else who might pay that and support the price does either.

There's an established, global industry based around curating what does and doesn't "count" for these purposes. NFTs obviously have massive parallels with paintings and comic editions in terms of provable uniqueness, attestable sale prices and clear ownership, but failed to convince the curators and break into the stratospheric market where it actually makes sense to assign value-due-to-value. Perhaps partly because proving the above points isn't a fully public process, but it's itself carefully gated by physical access and social connections.
by coryrc | 2025-11-22 21:05:31+00:00
> Yes, fifteen tons, we know that song.

What society mass-moved individuals from menial work to better work?

Many societies have made generational improvements: children raised with more opportunity, but I'm not aware (hey, I'm ignorant of a lot) of any that moved significant numbers of menial laborers themselves up significantly in standard of living besides the USA post-WWII or new technology (electricity, plumbing).

Parents usually sacrificed so their children have better lives, not themselves. The USA is currently an interesting example of the opposite.

I haven't heard of mass movements of farmers into professional work late in life. The immigrant story of America is the parents sacrificed for their children to do better. Why would existing citizens want to bring in large number of unskilled people and give them better jobs than themselves? I'm not aware of such generous circumstances working out.
by staticman2 | 2025-11-22 21:07:05+00:00
This isn't a good fit for the phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Grandparent's report is hard to verify, not extraordinary.

These drugs are approved based on statistical safety profiles in limited trial populations, not on a scientific consensus that absolutely nobody on Earth will ever experience a unique adverse reaction.

Also, I never said that you, the reader, had an obligation to change your worldview based on Grandparent's report.
by bccdee | 2025-11-22 21:07:08+00:00
> This is not primary content

In a forum, the discussion IS primary content. That's the problem: Reddit has shifted away from being a discussion forum toward an endless-scroll content feed.

> Here we're all nobodies to everyone else. For my part I try to remember that fact - and get to the point.

Kind of an odd turn of logic. If being a nobody devalues your anecdotes or tangents, then it equally devalues your point. If, conversely, your point can be valuable in and of itself, then your anecdotes and tangents can be valuable in and of themselves too.

> Yes, here we can scroll past it, but [...] This is not primary content (that's at the top).

Incidentally, you don't have to scroll past anything to reach the content at the top of the page. It's at the top of the page.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-22 21:07:27+00:00
Setting the temperature to 0 doesn't make an LLM non-probabilistic. Once again, LLMs are inherently probabilistic. All setting the temperature to 0 does is make it always choose the highest probability token instead of using a weighted randomization. You'll still get endless hallucinations and the same inherent limitations, including the inability to reliably simulate a turing machine.

As for the rest of your post, you are again, consciously or not, trying to say 'give me a calculable function that isn't a calculable function.' I obviously agree that the idea of trying to 'calculate' consciousness is essentially a non-starter. That's precisely the point.
by dang | 2025-11-22 21:07:41+00:00
They key word in your comment is "certainly".

People are constantly (over)interpreting this "mods are against my side" bias into what we do (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but I can tell you for sure without knowing which side you're on (or what the topic even is) that people you disagree with feel just as strongly that we're clearly/obviously/certainly against them and that we tilt the field towards you. It is by far the most consistent phenomenon I've observed in years of doing this job.

Why? Because everyone, including the people on your side and the people on the opposing side, reads meaning into random subsequences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion), place strong emphasis on the datapoints they most dislike, and often don't even notice the counterexamples (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

You're right, of course, that moderation is uneven, but the chief reason for that is that we don't come close to seeing everything. Beyond that, we no doubt have our biases (though different mods have different ones), but we also work hard at suspending them when moderating and have many years of practice at doing so. Many of our "you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly lately" replies are addressed to commenters whose position on an underlying topic we actually agree with.

I would never claim that we are perfect at being even-handed—this is impossible—but it's nothing as crude as what you think you're seeing here. That explains why the people you're most implacably opposed to also believe they're seeing the same thing, just in the opposite direction.
by spacecadet | 2025-11-22 21:08:57+00:00
I just tend to avoid anyone who attempts this position. They often have too narrow a definition of "smartest" anyways... and that is why avoiding the belief that someone is the smartest person in any given group enriches the experience for everyone. This goes for oneself or even perceiving someone else as. We have something to learn from everyone, if we open our eyes, minds, and hearts.
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by xpe | 2025-11-22 21:10:10+00:00
> Company prices resources within itself completely arbitrarily.

I wouldn’t phrase it this way — to me, this implies unpredictability and/or a lack of rationale. Perhaps you simply mean “internal managers at companies do not necessarily price resources using market mechanisms” which I would agree with.

Many fields of study give insight to the various kinds of distortions that arise from human psychology and negotiation, etc.
by intelec1 | 2025-11-22 21:11:22+00:00
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We break down the company’s internal presentation, examine tenant stories from Charlotte, analyze how courts operate in red states, and follow how profits from evicting vulnerable families are transformed into investments in infrastructure and development projects in occupied territories. From American Landmark to Elco, from North Carolina to Jerusalem — this is a global story about the invisible responsibility of capital and how financial decisions in one country reshape the lives of people in another.

In the end, we ask the key question: Do investors, pension funds, and everyday savers really know what their “stable” real-estate investments turn into? And where is the line between legitimate profit and exploitative gain?
by captn3m0 | 2025-11-22 21:11:39+00:00
> India's director of air safety announced that an explosion in the cargo hold apparently caused the crash of an Air-India Jumbo jet last June, killing all 329 people aboard the flight from Canada to Bombay

I forgot what tab opened and I assumed that the report for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_171 was out. Took me a few minutes to realize this wasn't the same crash.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-22 21:11:44+00:00
I dunno -- it's not like you know people in your neighborhood the way humans used to know members of their tribes. And I've known people in the neighborhood who seemed totally normal and safe, and then got arrested for something shocking. We're not spending all day long with even our next-door neighbors, let alone the ones five blocks away.

Having standards in training, operation, and oversight of childcare seems just as important as safety standards in the food supply. Even though everybody cooks at home, you're not allowed to run a restaurant without certifications and inspections either. And thank goodness.