MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-07 03:20:50+00:00
Make civic duty a component of belonging to various professional classes: professional engineers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, accountants, architects, and so on.

Without commonwealth reinvestment and respect for shared burdens, society has no future with a bunch of amoral, anonymous, transient, hyperindividualistic people all trying to climb out of the crab bucket striving to become billionaires and the few actual billionaires believing they can "hide" in their New Zealand doomsday prepper bunkers* and not feel the effects of the bullshit they caused. America has slid since the Vietnam War into becoming much like a "Russia Lite" at the present time. Chalmers Johnson expounds on the sorrows, blowback, and decay of empire in print and in video at length.

* What I do hope is these become Winchester Mystery House-like tourist attractions in 200 years.
by ncr100 | 2025-11-07 03:20:56+00:00
Good move for ICC.

Especially since USA, home country of Microsoft corporation, is exhibiting military junta techniques.

USA is killing citizens of foreign countries, weekly via the "U.S. military conducting missile strikes against boats in the Caribbean and Pacific claiming they are shipping drugs".

These non-military victims, citizens, being killed intentionally are a violation of human rights.
by aeonfox | 2025-11-07 03:21:39+00:00
> So you can have three hours of free electricity, while you’re at work, the kids are at school, you’re renting so no battery for you

Probably not useful for cooking dinner or watching the evening news, but most dishwashers and clothes washers have a delay start option. Your fridge is also working its hardest during the middle of the day.

> and now you’re being offered something your 10 year old second hand appliances and petrol cars can’t take advantage of.

A washer/dryer combo would be useful for delayed start. But as mentioned, delay start has been a common option for a long time now.

> We should be sitting down trying to work out how we can use more power next month, in order to leverage that power to have a better life, warmer / cooler homes. Starting businesses and not having electricity be the killer.

BESS are the deluge up you're asking for. Much of the stress on the grid is that power generation is distributed unevenly. Grid scale battery prices have been crashing stupidly year on year, to the tune of about 20-40%, and those effects are only just starting to hit the consumer market. The uptake curve has been reasonably steady, and at current projections we would have 24 hours of world-wide storage by 2035. Which is nuts!

I think this is sensible policy. It ought to reduce power prices across the board. At the very least, energy companies would have few excuses to hide behind if prices don't become more competitive.

Another sensible policy to help renters would be to force landlords and owners' corps to put timers on their electric hot water systems. It's a kind of energy storage that most people don't consider.
by andai | 2025-11-07 03:22:08+00:00
What are you using for transcription?

I tried Whisper, but it's slow and not great.

I tried the gpt audio models, but they're trained to refuse to transcribe things.

I tried Google's models and they were terrible.

I ended up using one of Mistral's models, which is alright and very fast except sometimes it will respond to the text instead of transcribing it.

So I'll occasionally end up with pages of LLM rambling pasted instead of the words I said!
by gus_massa | 2025-11-07 03:22:40+00:00
I'm not sure about the situation in Kenya, but here in Argentina everyone gets a national ID number at birth, that includes fingerprints and a report from the hospital. The ID must be updated every 5-10 tears, with more photos and finferprints. Also, death are registered and you need a body.

I can imagine it's possible to falsify all the documents and create fake children, but it's not an easy task to do at a massive scale.
by hansvm | 2025-11-07 03:23:14+00:00
Interesting, not sure how I missed that (edit: I missed the 4x on the drive count). Thanks for mentioning it.

And, yes it's a different comparison, but that's why I was asking; I was curious if it was even viable (and initial searches had indicated it wasn't). 4-5x cheaper than S3 as a substrate is potentially workable.
by ncr100 | 2025-11-07 03:23:52+00:00
Trump's life-span is likely to not be a very large number of years from today given his age, and systemic health problems.

SO I expect ICC would find other people, e.g. Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, who are helping to commit these areguably war-crimes in the Pacific and Caribbean seas, the missile strikes against civilian non-US vessels.
by andrewflnr | 2025-11-07 03:24:13+00:00
> The corrected supernova data and the BAO+CMB-only results both indicate that dark energy weakens and evolves significantly with time.

> More importantly, when the corrected supernova data were combined with BAO and CMB results, the standard ΛCDM model was ruled out with overwhelming significance, the researchers said.

I notice they're not saying that dark energy is entirely unnecessary. Do we know if that's just default caution, or are there still strong reasons to believe dark energy exists?
by gen220 | 2025-11-07 03:25:28+00:00
The best way I’ve found for finding predictably enjoyable fiction is to read interviews with the authors I like, and read about the works and authors they admire or are influenced by. Or who they exchanged letters or communications with, if they’re long dead and no interviews proper exist.

Strongly recommend giving that a try yourself. And trying to build an algorithm around it!

Here’s an example: Tolstoy really admired Turgenev, who was friends with Theodore Storm and Gustave Flaubert, and greatly admired Gogol.

If you like Anna Karenina you’ll probably find something of value in Torrents of Spring, Immensee, Madame Bovary or Dead Souls.

It spiders out pretty quickly!
by tptacek | 2025-11-07 03:25:30+00:00
I recently bought a mint-condition Alf phone, in the shape of Gordon Shumway of TV's "Alf", out of the back of an old auto shop in the south suburbs of Chicago, and naturally did the most obvious thing, which was to make a Gordon Shumway phone that has conversations in the voice of Gordon Shumway (sampled from Youtube and synthesized with ElevenLabs). I use https://github.com/etalab-ia/faster-whisper-server (I think?) as the Whisper backend. It's fine! Asterix feeds me WAV files, an ASI program feeds them to Whisper (running locally as a server) and does audio synthesis with the ElevenLabs API. Took like 2 hours.
by scrps | 2025-11-07 03:25:55+00:00
So your argument is my argument is old? Why were there oil corps there and why were they so pissed when they got kicked out?

Also did you think I was suggesting the U.S. govt wants it? Donnie's friends in the oil industry want it, single digit, double digit, doesn't matter to them greed knows no bounds with that crowd and this isn't Iraq in 2004 under Bush which I never believed had anything to do with oil.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-07 03:27:47+00:00
This has been my experience as well. I've gotten really good results from Claude Code, but sometimes I have to press esc when I see it doing something stupid and course correct. It really seems to struggle with recursive solutions to problems or deeply nested constructs. Because I have a programming background, I know better when to interrupt and provide different directions or know when to abandon contexts better than someone without "coding experience" ever could. Just the years and years of debugging experience on your own projects will position you infinitely better than someone who has never really had to dig into complex problems and figure out what's going wrong. Sometimes you have to tell the agent specifically which logs to look into or which likely problem spaces it's encountering and knowing what sort of logs exist on a system is important for that.
by mindslight | 2025-11-07 03:29:23+00:00
> the alt-right and libertarians (same thing?)

lol, no. Alt-rights may call themselves "libertarian" while they're testing the waters before they can admit to themselves that their real desires are rooted in coercing people. But libertarianism, being concerned with individual liberty, is fundamentally leftist. The rightist axiomatic conception of the US "Libertarian" party can be useful on a small scale, but scaled up it doesn't amount to much beyond just another system of control. Proof by contradiction - definitionally ruling out coercion based on intrinsic market inefficiencies means one can merely reframe any government as a monopolistic corporation with onerous contracts to achieve a hollow "Libertopia".
by giardini | 2025-11-07 03:30:19+00:00
Doing so in a residential neighborhood is fraught with possible legal problems:

The city, the neighborhood association(s), the county and the state likely have questions about the school, whether it is legal, licensed, and inspected as specified by all jurisdictions. What about any traffic impediments it causes? Fire hazards, who certified the school, the teachers, the equipment, is food served, is it a commercial or nonprofit concern, on and on. You get my drift.
by lettergram | 2025-11-07 03:31:45+00:00
There’s a lot of indications that we’re currently brute forcing these models. There’s honestly not a reason they have to be 1T parameters and cost an insane amount to train and run on inference.

What we’re going to see is as energy becomes a problem; they’ll simply shift to more effective and efficient architectures on both physical hardware and model design. I suspect they can also simply charge more for the service, which reduces usage for senseless applications.
by tomhow | 2025-11-07 03:31:56+00:00
Maybe so but please avoid mini-sermons like this on HN. We're here for curious conversation, not these kinds of grand pronouncements; it's likely far more effective to speak to one another normally, as peers rather than barraging people with rhertoric.

Please have a read of the guidelines and try to keep things conversational in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by oofbey | 2025-11-07 03:32:05+00:00
You want more research on small language models? You're confused. There is already WAY more research done on small language models (SLM) than big ones. Why? Because it's easy. It only takes a moderate workstation to train an SLM. So every curious Masters student and motivated undergrad is doing this. Lots of PhD research is done on SLM because the hardware to train big models is stupidly expensive, even for many well-funded research labs. If you read Arxiv papers (not just the flashy ones published by companies with PR budgets) most of the research is done on 7B parameter models. Heck, some NeurIPS papers (extremely competitive prestigious) from _this year_ are being done on 1.5B parameter models.

Lack of research is not the problem. It's fundamental limitations of the technology. I'm not gonna say "there's only so much smarts you can cram into a 7B parameter model" - because we don't know that yet for sure. But we do know, without a sliver of a doubt, that it's VASTLY EASIER to cram a smarts into a 70B parameter model than a 7B param model.
by sgerenser | 2025-11-07 03:33:30+00:00
Bosch dishwashers have something they call a “heat pump” that is a water pump that also heats the water with resistance heat. It’s not any more efficient than the normal heating coils in every other dishwasher, and it isn’t a “heat pump” that uses a refrigeration cycle (as one would use to e.g. heat their house).
by snasan | 2025-11-07 03:38:08+00:00
We've been working on this for almost a year, and it's finally here! It's an open-source framework for building a network where AI agents can work together.

The goal is to help thousands of agents collaborate more effectively, especially on those really long-term, complex tasks. The secret sauce? It's all about the event system at its core.

We'd love to hear what you think! Please share any feedback or suggestions you have.
by pksebben | 2025-11-07 03:38:22+00:00
You're right that I'm taking a bit of a shortcut - my assessment is based on what I know to be true in both directions, the things they've done right versus the things they've done wrong. The CARD program, stopping the times square bomber, Don C. Miller, Zazi versus COINTELPRO, Stingray, MLK, Ruby Ridge, basically everything J Edgar Hoover ever touched (like the Palmer Raids), Steven Hatfill and Brandon Mayfield.

If you ask me, I'd trade the good for enduring the bad.

My shortcut is admittedly a sloppy heuristic (because what else do you have for unknowns like this); for the unmeasurable effects, my bet is that they skew roughly the same as the measurables. For every serial killer who thought twice, there have probably been many political activists who have also thought twice. The deterrent effect cuts both ways if your actions cut both ways. We also know about enough falsely accused / imprisoned that we can assume we ain't figured them all out. For every family that feels safer with the FBI around, there are families that feel less safe, because people "like them" have been framed, murdered, snooped on, suppressed, and criminalized.

So yeah, it is hard to measure - but not impossible to come to a conclusion, as far as I'm concerned.

Another way to look at it is this; if you're going to hand the mandate of violence and skullduggery to an institution, you should be damn sure that they have standards and practices that solidly enforce competence and ethics - and even considering the good, we know pretty conclusively that they have failed in this regard. I don't want to play russian roulette with law enforcement - they should get it right almost all of the time or step aside so someone who knows what they're doing can handle it.
by enslavedrobot | 2025-11-07 03:39:02+00:00
Tesla isn't tanking for the same reason Amazon didn't tank when they built AWS. They used a low margin business to nurture one of the greatest businesses in history. Tesla aims to do the same thing with robotaxi, energy, and eventually humanoid robots. You might not think they will succeed but enough people do that the stock price reflects about a 10-20% chance of success.

Just the robotaxi business alone could be worth hundreds of billions a year in avoided insurance costs and save the average Western family about $5k in transportation costs annually. If it works. Most people don't think it will, but most people thought Amazon wouldn't work either.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-07 03:39:42+00:00
There are also elements of stock price hype and geopolitical competition involved. The major U.S. tech giants are all tied to the same bandwagon — they have to maintain this cycle: buy chips → build data centers → release new models → buy more chips.

It might only stop once the electricity problem becomes truly unsustainable. Of course, I don’t fully understand the specific situation in the U.S., but I even feel that one day they might flee the U.S. altogether and move to the Middle East to secure resources.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-07 03:40:46+00:00
-fbounds-safety is awesome!

Here’s what Fil-C gives you that -fbounds-safety doesn’t:

- Fil-C gives you comprehensive memory safety while -fbounds-safety just covers bounds. For example, Fil-C panics on use after free and has well defined semantics on ptr-int type confusion.

- -fbounds-safety requires you to modify your code. Fil-C makes unmodified C/C++ code memory safe.

FWIW, I worked on -fbounds-safety and I still think it’s a good idea. :-)
by andai | 2025-11-07 03:41:19+00:00
Here is ChatGpt in 50 lines of Python:

https://gist.github.com/avelican/4fa1baaac403bc0af04f3a7f007...

No dependencies, and very easy to swap out for OpenRouter, Groq or any other API. (Except Anthropic and Google, they are special ;)

This also works on the frontend: pro tip you don't need a server for this stuff, you can make the requests directly from a HTML file. (Patent pending.)
by tombert | 2025-11-07 03:42:35+00:00
I bought the P16S AMD Gen 2 with 64 gigs of RAM. It was about $1600 a year ago.

It was one of the few laptops I could find that wasn't absurdly expensive and had a 4k screen, so I was kind of pigeonholed into it, but I've been really happy. It was one of the easiest Linux installs I've ever done, and it's been holding up fine. The only thing I don't like about it is that the speakers are kind of shit, but for a laptop that doesn't bother me too much since if I want to listen to music I probably wouldn't use a laptop speaker regardless.

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/outletus/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thi... I'm not sure they sell the 64GB model anymore.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-07 03:43:08+00:00
They should be analog/DAB AM (535-1705 kHz) and weather (162.4-162.55 MHz) radios. The latter contain region-specific headers (SAME codes) to limit false alerts. Most people are much too dependent on smartphone only local commercial apps and IPAWS, and don't have a secondary channel for authoritative emergency notification like stationary weather radios used to serve. There's also no reason there couldn't be a compact, add-on weather radio for vehicles. For a generic vehicle AM/FM/wx radio, something like a Jensen Heavy Duty JHD22B head unit would work.
by gradus_ad | 2025-11-07 03:43:50+00:00
While I absolutely support these open source models, there is an interesting angle to consider... If I were a Chinese partisan looking to inflict a devastating blow to the US, taking the AI hype wind out of American tech valuation sails would seem a great option. How best to do this? Release highly performant models... For free! Extremely efficient in terms of RMB spent vs (unrealized) USD lost. But surely, these model releases are just the immaculate free market at work. No CCP pulling strings for geo-political-industrial wins, certainly not.
Show HN: AI app for trading psychology (clinically validated)
by petreli12 | 2025-11-07 03:46:53+00:00
After losing $50K to emotional trading, I built ZennyTrader - an AI app that detects emotional patterns (FOMO, revenge trading, overconfidence) and intervenes before costly mistakes.

What makes it different: - Clinically validated by licensed psychologist - Real-time interventions (cooling periods when emotions spike) - Shows correlation between emotions and P&L - Backed by peer-reviewed research

Currently in Apple review. Offering lifetime founding memberships ($399) to first 50 users.

Built with React Native, Node.js, Supabase. Happy to answer technical or trading psychology questions.
by chubot | 2025-11-07 03:48:35+00:00
Thanks! We are down to 14 disagreements between OSH and busybox ash/bash on Alpine Linux main

https://op.oils.pub/aports-build/published.html

We also don't appear to be unreasonably far away from running ~~ "all shell scripts"

Now the problem after that will be motivating authors of foundational shell programs to maintain compatibility ... if that's even possible. (Often the authors are gone, and the nominal maintainers don't know shell.)

As I said, the state of affairs is pretty sorry and sad. Some of it I attribute to this phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17083976

Either way, YSH benefits from all this work
by foobarian | 2025-11-07 03:49:16+00:00
I was debugging a service that was spitting out a particular log line. I gave Copilot an example line, told it to write a script that tails the log line and serves a UI via port 8080 with a table of those log lines parsed and printed nicely. Then I iterated by adding filter buttons, aggregation stats, simple things like that. I asked it to add a "clear" button to reset the UI. I probably would not even have done this without an AI because the CLI equivalent would be parsing out and aggregating via some form of uniq -c | sort -n with a bunch of other tuning and it would be too much trouble.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-07 03:49:20+00:00
Yes historically but not by design. It's more of a transition tactic.

Starting with iOS 26, new UIKit and AppKit features are implemented by "native" SwiftUI (specifically, Liquid Glass's implementation). In recent years they have also been replacing UIKit/AppKit-backed SwiftUI views with "native" SwiftUI implementations.

But besides this technical change I don't think Apple has any desire to bring SwiftUI to other platforms.

BTW: https://skip.tools has bridged it to Compose. Your SwiftUI code runs in native Swift on Android.
by BeauNer | 2025-11-07 03:50:20+00:00
Firefox has introduced Kit, a new mascot meant to give the browser a friendlier, more personal identity. Mozilla is framing Kit as a companion for a web that’s “private, open and actually yours.” It’s a branding refresh rather than a technical change, and it leans into warmth and approachability at a time when browsers are starting to feel interchangeable.

The move also quietly pushes aside the old “Firefox is a red panda” trivia angle, sticking with a fox-like character that’s easier to recognize. Whether this helps Firefox regain relevance in a Chrome-dominated world is unclear, but it does signal that Mozilla still wants Firefox to feel like a browser with a personality and values, not just another commodity UI.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-07 03:50:53+00:00
This guy keeps writing negative articles trying to wish into existence his bad call on the usefulness of LLMs. He really isn’t an expert, as he claims. Instead he cherry picks anecdotes to feed his confirmation bias.

Even if “vibe coding” is dying, there is a very real boost to the productivity of people writing software from AI based tools. That’s here to stay, even if there is a human element in working with those tools. Vibe coding is not dying, unless you reductively try to define it in very limited ways.
by nichos | 2025-11-07 03:52:01+00:00
Great response! Its very trendy to say things like "capitalism is gross" or "billionaires shouldn't exist" but the truth is, capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than anything else in the history of the world. Moreover, billionaires (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc) didn't "steal" anything from you to get there. No one forced you to buy an iPhone.
by thomasmg | 2025-11-07 03:52:26+00:00
Yes, safety got more important, and it's great to support old C code in a safe way. The performance drop and specially the GC of Fil-C do limit the usage however. I read there are some ideas for Fil-C without GC; I would love to hear more about that!

But all existing programming languages seem to have some disadvange: C is fast but unsafe. Fil-C is C compatible but requires GC, more memory, and is slower. Rust is fast, uses little memory, but us verbose and hard to use (borrow checker). Python, Java, C# etc are easy to use, concise, but, like Fil-C, require tracing GC and so more memory, and are slow.

I think the 'perfect' language would be as concise as Python, statically typed, not require tracing GC like Swift (use reference counting), support some kind of borrow checker like Rust (for the most performance critical sections). And leverage the C ecosystem, by transpiling to C. And so would run on almost all existing hardware, and could even be used in the kernel.
by keyle | 2025-11-07 03:52:42+00:00
Seems like there have been two approaches to languages.

The very high level languages, fun and slow, with async built in pretty much from the start, and good ergonomics.

And then the grindy and fast low level languages, with async shoehorned in later, way after simd and other things, and terrible ergonomics.

The key, I imagine, is that doing multi-threading or green threads or whatever "SAFELY" is extremely complicated, because it is. And so to remain fast and safe, a ton of complexity has to be pushed onto the user/programmer.