MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VEBee | 2025-11-15 02:47:12+00:00
> If I remember correctly, she admitted that her ban was justified. But also, she didn't just do "some bad stuff", she did a lot of it - there's even a recent #meta thread referencing this exact post.

I think I've read through the #meta post you're referencing and commented in it and yeah, but it still wasn't a spree. It was not a lot of it? cite your sources as well

> > That's good but again, make an announcement in hackclub? > Zach did.

Where?

> I'm more inclined to trust Chris than an anon account that straight up denies that internal conversations happened. You also seem to be regurgitating posts from earlier without seeing Chris's context.

Well yeah, I'm on a throw away as I don't want to be deanon'd. If you really want to talk contact https://hackclub.slack.com/team/U09Q734PGUU, it's an alt I have. Where did I deny internal conversations as well? And wdym regurgitating posts without Chris' context? I literally broke his reply down point-by-point?
by esseph | 2025-11-15 02:47:45+00:00
You don't starve 41 million people even if you think there is some corruption, that's absolutely inhumane shit. Enemy of humanity shit.

Sometimes I wish we could go back to just living in Dunbar -sized groups.

If a hunter came back to the tribe and people start gathering around to eat and the hunter said "A few of you in the past have taken too much meat for themselves without doing their fair share.. I suspect. Nobody is gonna eat until we figure this out."

You know what would have happened? The village would have taken that hunter and thrown them off the cliff onto the rocks, because that motherfucker was a problem and a danger to the rest of the tribe.
Show HN: ThinkReview open source browser Copilot GitLab and ADO PRs(Ollama)
by jkshenawy22 | 2025-11-15 02:48:08+00:00
Over the last few months I’ve been building a lightweight, open-source “copilot” that runs directly in your browser and helps you review Pull Requests / Merge Requests without sending code to any external service unless you choose to.

ThinkReview just gained two major updates:

1. *It is now fully open source* 2. *It now supports Ollama, so you can run LLMs locally for private code reviews*

---

## What is ThinkReview?

ThinkReview is a browser extension that attaches itself to the native PR/MR UI in:

- GitLab (self-hosted or SaaS) - Azure DevOps - GitHub - Bitbucket

Instead of acting like CodeRabbit, CodeAnt, or CI-connected bots that auto-comment on your PRs, ThinkReview does something different:

- It gives you a *private chat window* attached to the diff view. - You can ask the model questions about the MR, explore logic, identify potential bugs, or generate draft comments. - The AI doesn’t post anything automatically — you stay in control.

This works well for developers who still do most of their reviewing in the browser and don’t want a noisy bot writing public comments.

---

## Demo (GIF)

<img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/thinkgpt.firebas..." width="600" />

---

## Why open source?

A lot of early users (especially from companies running self-hosted GitLab) asked for:

- transparency around where code goes - the ability to self-audit - control over model choice - contributions and community fixes

Repo: https://github.com/Thinkode/thinkreview-browser-extension

It’s built with standard browser APIs and a small LLM integration layer, so it’s very hackable.

---

## Ollama Support (local LLMs)

As of v1.4.0, you can point ThinkReview to your local Ollama instance. This lets you run any supported model:

- Qwen Coder - Llama 3 - DeepSeek - Codestral - Any other Ollama model

### Why this matters

- Your code *never leaves your machine* - Zero cost - Works cleanly with self-hosted GitLab / air-gapped setups - No API keys, no vendor lock-in - You can swap models instantly

If you prefer speed, you can still use cloud LLMs; if you prefer privacy, Ollama works surprisingly well (tested ~50s on a Mac Mini M4).

---

## Installation

Works on any Chromium browser:

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/thinkreview-ai-code...

No backend server required. Configuration is minimal.

---

## Looking for feedback

HN has a lot of people who:

- review PRs daily - care about developer ergonomics - run self-hosted GitLab - have thoughts about local vs cloud LLM workflows - like hacking on browser extensions

If you try it, I’d love feedback on:

- UI/UX improvements - additional provider integrations - other platforms to support - performance / caching ideas for local LLMs

Discussions / issues: https://github.com/Thinkode/thinkreview-browser-extension or https://thinkreview.dev/contact

Thanks for reading, *Jay*
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-15 02:48:59+00:00
> You avoided the important part, there is no market for hardware that can play Nintendo Switch games and there is no market for software providers on Nintendo Switch.

There is a market for these things. Nintendo sells hardware that can play Nintendo Switch games and people buy it. That's a market.

It seems like you're trying to claim that a monopoly isn't a market, but how can that possibly be how antitrust laws work? Your argument is that they don't apply to something if it is a monopoly?

> And they are legally allowed to do that.

That's just assuming the conclusion. Why should it be legal for them to exclude competitors from selling software to their customers? The obviously anti-competitive thing should obviously be a violation of any sane laws prohibiting anti-competitive practices. The insanity is the number of people trying to defend the practice.

Consider what it implies. 20th century GE could have gone around buying houses, installing a GE electrical panel and then selling the houses with a covenant that no one could use a non-GE appliance in that house ever again, or plug in any device that runs on electricity without their permission. They could buy and sell half of all the housing stock in the country and Westinghouse the other half and each add that covenant and you're claiming it wouldn't be an antitrust violation.

Apple wouldn't have been able to get their start because they'd have needed permission from GE or Westinghouse for customers to plug in an Apple II or charge an iPhone and they wouldn't get it because those companies were selling mainframes or flip phones and wouldn't want the competition. If that's not an antitrust violation then we don't have antitrust laws.

> If they did they would be declaring all locked down hardware effectively illegal.

It's fine for hardware to be locked down by and with the specific permission of the person who owns it. But how is it even controversial for the manufacturer locking down hardware for the purpose of excluding competitors to be a violation of the laws against inhibiting competition? It's exactly the thing those laws are supposed to be prohibiting.
by gremlinunderway | 2025-11-15 02:49:06+00:00
i dont get this blindspot by lots of developers parroting this uber technocratic nonsense.

There's no such thing as some apolitical, objectively best approach to a technical problem. Instead of arguing about specific merits about specific issues people throw out this big wide handwave about how "idea X is simply technically the wrong choice", as if this is a legit position to have.

Take a philosophy course for god's sake before you engineer us all to death.
by ankuranand | 2025-11-15 02:51:02+00:00
UnisonDB is a log-native database that combines storage and streaming into one system — no CDC, no Kafka, no separate message bus.

It uses WAL-based replication with B+Tree storage to fan out writes to 100+ edge nodes in sub-second latency. Every write is durable, queryable, and instantly available as a replication stream.

Built for Edge AI and distributed systems where data needs to live close to computation. Supports: - Multi-model storage (KV, Wide-Column, LOB) - Atomic multi-key transactions - Real-time change notifications - Namespace isolation for multi-tenancy

We benchmarked it against BadgerDB and BoltDB using redis-benchmark — results in the README show competitive write/read throughput with consistent replication performance even at 100+ concurrent relayers.

Open source (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/ankur-anand/unisondb

Would love feedback on the architecture and use cases!
by throw1111221 | 2025-11-15 02:52:04+00:00
Just because it was a design goal doesn't mean it succeeded ;)

From Russ Cox this time: "Q. What language do you think Go is trying to displace? ... One of the surprises for me has been the variety of languages that new Go programmers used to use. When we launched, we were trying to explain Go to C++ programmers, but many of the programmers Go has attracted have come from more dynamic languages like Python or Ruby."

https://research.swtch.com/gotour
by billy99k | 2025-11-15 02:54:07+00:00
Sure. Black markets are cheaper than legal weed, because they don't have to pay taxes due to heavy regulations.

There have been multiple studies in Colorado and California that have shown that black markets aren't shrinking, but expanding.

Legal weed and other drugs creates more demand, and the black market picks up these extra customers.

This was easily predicted by me and many other people, before legalization.

I suppose it's why I'm making more money than ever in this economy and most other people are getting laid off.
by mbreese | 2025-11-15 02:54:29+00:00
Ironically, the most Linux on ARM I have experience with is from a VM on my Mac. It wouldn’t be perfect , but it’s pretty good for working with ARM. You aren’t emulating the CPU architecture, but you are running under virtualization.

I’m just thinking that the Mac Mini might also be better for that usecase, even with the virtualization in place. If you need to support a specific processor, you probably want to work with that exact processor. But if you want to use any ARM, a virtualized Linux running on a Mac isn’t a bad option.
by moron4hire | 2025-11-15 02:54:33+00:00
If anything were ever invented that looked like "reactionless drive", I'm betting dollars to donuts the idea it was reactionless would be short-lived and eventually it would lead to updates in our understanding of matter and what reaction means. Like, maybe some day someone discovers a way to emit gravitons. IDK, I'm sure someone thought the idea of emitting photons without the use of a chemical reduction reaction was preposterous at some point in time, too. But then the reaction would be with space itself. By the end of it, it still wouldn't be "reactionless".
What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?
by gooob | 2025-11-15 02:55:23+00:00
literal shower-thought i had tonight as i was thinking about how at work we all don't like dealing with our helm charts because the syntax and structure ends up looking so ugly and it just feels wrong (not to mention the multiple different approaches of handling kubernetes resources in multiple different pipelines.

i try to see beyond any initial repulsion to weird looking code because i know that it may be super functional. but it got me thinking: what makes code beautiful? what makes code "high quality"? (other than that it results in a working, performant, and robust software program obviously).

so i'm curious -- can you show me the best code you've encountered? it can be a small snippet or it can be a "slice of a library" or an architecture etc. have you written anything yourself that you are super proud of?
by OneLessThing | 2025-11-15 02:55:44+00:00
Good job. It’s early 2000s level stuff but it’s still exciting when it’s happening on your desk. There are lots of options in this scenario outside of bypassing ASLR so I do find it odd to be the main feature of the title, but a fun read nonetheless.

It’s fun working on targets with a less established research history. And I love a soup to nuts writeup, Thanks.
by ngruhn | 2025-11-15 02:56:52+00:00
Ok so the Irish guy got punched in the face after doing that:

> as O'Brien is seen calling officers 'genocide supporters' and accusing one of 'acting like a Nazi'.

If you scream at peoples faces and insult them, you risk getting punched in the face. Police or not. Would be more professional to ignore that. But this is not a state systematically coming after you for voicing opinions. If you want to see a real example of that, look no further than Hamas.
by cryptonector | 2025-11-15 02:57:33+00:00
What you're saying is nonsense. I don't even know who Steven Pinker is. Poverty two hundred years ago was way worse than poverty today in most of the world -- this is a self-evident fact to anyone with even a passing knowledge of history. No running water, no water mains, no sewers -- these things meant death from cholera and other diseases for many children, and that's just for starters.
by xethos | 2025-11-15 02:57:35+00:00
Standing on the street holding a bag open, and catching a fish falling from the sky one time, would also be an absurdly good catch rate no matter how long I had to wait - it's just that shit of a system

Only half the conversations being a waste of law enforcement's time is also an impressive rate - we all recognize that it's just a shite system that is bound to have a lot of false positives.
by Centigonal | 2025-11-15 02:58:16+00:00
Let's be pragmatic about this. Chat Control and this new thing are not post-hoc rationalizations, they are attempts to justify a proposed change.

If this posited wannabe-surveillance state wanted to institute ubiquitous surveillance, it would just unilaterally do so a la PRISM. To our knowledge, they have not done this and are instead trying to rationalize the creep of surveillance somehow, which indicates that public opinion around these initiatives still matters. Public opinion is something we can all influence. Maybe discussing the legalese is a waste of time, but discussing the rhetoric and how to combat it definitely isn't
by culi | 2025-11-15 02:59:51+00:00
The majority of deaths in Gaza are women and children. Nearly 70%.[1] The reason we talk about "women and children" in Gaza is because Israel can accuse any adult man of being a militant. Statistics from Ukraine are harder to get but according to the OHCR,[2] we know that 39% of non-combatant casualties are women and less than 5% are children. What percent of total deaths are civilians is the hard part, but in Donbas about 25% of casualties were civilian.[3]

(.39 + .05) * .25 = .11

So we have a 70% women/children rate vs about a 11% (very very roughly calculated) women/children rate. Yes the nature of these conflicts are extremely different.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/meeting-summaries/2023/07/ukraine-c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain...
by roywiggins | 2025-11-15 03:00:10+00:00
My task today for LLMs was "can you tell if this MRI brain scan is facing the normal way", and the answer was: no, absolutely not. Opus 4.1 succeeds more than chance, but still not nearly often enough to be useful. They all cheerfully hallucinate the wrong answer, confidently explaining the anatomy they are looking for, but wrong. Maybe Gemini 3 will pull it off.

Now, Claude did vibe code a fairly accurate solution to this using more traditional techniques. This is very impressive on its own but I'd hoped to be able to just shovel the problem into the VLM and be done with it. It's kind of crazy that we have "AIs" that can't tell even roughly what the orientation of a brain scan is- something a five year old could probably learn to do- but can vibe code something using traditional computer vision techniques to do it.

I suppose it's not too surprising, a visually impaired programmer might find it impossible to do reliably themselves but would code up a solution, but still: it's weird!
by muzani | 2025-11-15 03:00:13+00:00
Cursor has been doing this in production since the start of 2025. You give it instructions or heck, a screenshot of a bug. It searches for relevant code based on the problem. It searches in an area around the code, for tests, behaviors. If you've written a comment pointing to Jira on a certain bug that this code is responsible for fixing (instead of writing a test), it can check that ticket for expected behavior. It may write tests to fill in these gaps or it may just write the code. Then it runs the tests if possible. If a test fails, it compares to the new code. It writes new code and reruns tests.

Tool-use is common in most of the major AI models now and it's really the differentiator between how they perform when writing code. Few write correct code the first time. What makes them different is the ability to read and modify complex code across multiple files, without being told which files.

I think by next year, we could see this extend across the UI domain - it writes code, runs it, views the UI, critiques the results, then tweaks things like font and whitespace. I did a prototype mid-year which would even show it to a user, and it would talk them through what they liked or didn't like. But you can even chain it between multiple LLMs (designer, programmer, customer roles) and it would fit your definition.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-11-15 03:01:04+00:00
> Hamas started a war with Israel by invading it, slaughtering and raping hundreds of civilians at the music festival and in their homes

Could you provide conclusive evidence for that? Could you provide even cases of formally filed rape allegations? [1] Yes I know that a lot of Israeli media people made the accusation, but there's no reason to repeat something that no proof was given for.

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250106-no-rape-allegatio...
by emilfihlman | 2025-11-15 03:01:35+00:00
https://github.com/zabbly/incus/issues/89#issuecomment-30764...

I mean sure, it's the UI component only, and not on the lxc repo but the Zabbly one, and maybe they treat things widely differently depending.

But it's the same developer for both, and I'm willing to bet it's a similar mindset for projects.

And I swear I had a similar experience with regards to some other incus issues where there was a similar response about changes.
by eulgro | 2025-11-15 03:02:01+00:00
I live in Canada. Minimum wage is 16$/hr where I live, that gives around 32k$/yr. At 3200$/yr 10% might be stretch, but I could probably make it work without relying too much on social services. It wouldn't be comfortable, but I would survive.

For example working in a place where I can get some free food, 500$ for food is manageable. 2400$ rent/services (e.g. rural areas with roommates) and 300$ misc. Always walk for transportation. Yes, it's a stretch.
by EstanislaoStan | 2025-11-15 03:03:30+00:00
Ideally, reduces cognitive complexity because you don't have to think about the staging area anymore, just commits.

I recently started trying it out at work and I like how fluent it makes what would be more advanced git operations like squashing and rebasing.

Issues I've run into have been understanding its version of branches (bookmarks), understanding its merge conflict indicators, and its lack of respect for git skip-worktree.
by geeksinthewoods | 2025-11-15 03:04:46+00:00
lol. I keep on hitting my usage limits but I haven't upgraded my Claude Code CLI... so I just continue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jmWnPfgtik

[End] --- for the visuals, reflect on the lyrics... think about AI learning more about how its thinking interacts with manifolds... ⎿ Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 3pm. /upgrade to increase your usage limit.

> now let's continue
by imiric | 2025-11-15 03:05:46+00:00
> LLMs are great, but they're not (yet?) as capable as our best and brightest (and in many ways, lag behind the average human) in most respects, so why would you expect such genius now ?

I'm not expecting novel scientific theories today. What I am expecting are signs and hints of such genius. Something that points in the direction that all tech CEOs are claiming we're headed in. So far I haven't seen any of this yet.

And, I'm sorry, I don't buy the excuse that these tools are not "yet" as capable as the best and brightest humans. They contain the sum of human knowledge, far more than any individual human in history. Are they not intelligent, capable of thinking and reasoning? Are we not at the verge of superintelligence[1]?

> we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the output of people using them.

If all this is true, surely we should be seeing incredible results produced by this technology. If not by itself, then surely by "amplifying" the work of the best and brightest humans.

And yet... All we have to show for it are some very good applications of pattern matching and statistics, a bunch of gamed and misleading benchmarks and leaderboards, a whole lot of tech demos, solutions in search of a problem, and the very real problem of flooding us with even more spam, scams, disinformation, and devaluing human work with low-effort garbage.

[1]: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
by VEBee | 2025-11-15 03:06:58+00:00
> This is the same person who attempted to extort Hack Club out of thousands by using an airtable token they previously had (all tokens have since been examined as to whether they are truly necessary).

I could be wrong, but I don't think that was OP.

> Popular request is for the program to be expanded. I don't know about the "resounding no".

Do a poll then. I for one agree with that and don't think that most people would report it.

> > teenagers are positioned as "independent contractors" to avoid employment protections, holiday pay, and wage floors. this isn't "scrappy nonprofit" energy - it's child exploitation dressed up as opportunity. > > It isn't a full-time job.

It quite literally is?

> Recently, email sending has been revamped, and there are tools to subscribe to individual mailing lists.

That I'll give you. They did recently revamp that and make it be functional.

> Criticism isn't ever censored - there's anonymous reporting, a public forum channel for feedback (which only has temporary threadlocks upon very inflammatory or irrelevant discussion), and you can discuss it anywhere else within the Slack.

Not true. Thread locks are often for 6 months to a year and the posts often aren't even inflammatory, just anti-HQ.

If you do want to actually talk more, contact me on my alt at https://hackclub.slack.com/team/U09Q734PGUU.
by anonnon | 2025-11-15 03:07:43+00:00
Before you start supplementing with manganese, know that excessive manganese exposure (usually occupationally) is a recognized contributing risk factor for the development of a Parkinson's-like movement disorder:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5272970/

https://www.e-jmd.org/journal/view.php?number=335
by kragen | 2025-11-15 03:08:32+00:00
The WebMD page is about calomel, mercuric chloride, and perchloride of mercury, not metallic mercury; the body text is clear about this, but the title is wrong. It describes all kinds of poisoning symptoms that don't occur with metallic mercury. So too for the mercury section of the Science Museum web page, except for a brief mention of attempts to treat with mercury vapors. And neither of them seems very credible.

My source did not note that people tried liquid mercury.
by ajross | 2025-11-15 03:10:09+00:00
To be clear: I don't "favor" anything. I was making a point about the demographic that is upset, and a connection as to why. Social policy is hard, but things don't get better by perpetuating inequality. Surely you agree with that part?

Groypers (to continue to wave the label as a broad brush) aren't actually poorer than their compatriots. They're not even poorer than their ancestors, really. They're mad because everyone else is doing so much better than their ancestors.

Again, when you see someone cite a statistic that "You used to be able to afford a home with one working class income", you're being fed a line. That wasn't ever possible (until the last two or three decades) unless that income was being paid to a white man.