MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bewelge | 2025-11-30 20:50:26+00:00
Only the first few notes

(function () { function rateToDistance(rate) { const minR = 0.09; const maxR = 4.65; if (rate < minR) rate = minR; if (rate > maxR) rate = maxR; const t = (rate - minR) / (maxR - minR); return 400 * t; } function dispatchMouseEvent(type, target, clientX, clientY) { const event = new MouseEvent(type, { view: window, bubbles: true, cancelable: true, clientX, clientY, screenX: clientX + window.screenX, screenY: clientY + window.screenY, buttons: type === "mouseup" ? 0 : 1, button: 0, }); target.dispatchEvent(event); } const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas"); function triggerPull(distance) { const rect = canvas.getBoundingClientRect(); const startX = 266; const startY = 198; const startClientX = rect.left + startX; const startClientY = rect.top + startY; const endClientX = startClientX + distance; const endClientY = startClientY; return new Promise(resolve => { dispatchMouseEvent("mousedown", canvas, startClientX, startClientY); setTimeout(() => { dispatchMouseEvent("mousemove", canvas, endClientX, endClientY); setTimeout(() => { dispatchMouseEvent("mouseup", canvas, endClientX, endClientY); resolve(); }, 50); }, 50); }); } const semitones = 12; const notes = { G: Math.pow(4, -9 / semitones), A: Math.pow(4, -7 / semitones), B: Math.pow(4, -5 / semitones), C2: Math.pow(4, -4 / semitones), D2: Math.pow(4, -2 / semitones), E2: Math.pow(4, -0 / semitones), F2: Math.pow(4, 2 / semitones), G2: Math.pow(4, 4 / semitones), }; async function playWithPitch(rate) { const r = rateToDistance(rate); await triggerPull(r); } async function playScale() { const qrt = 200; const hlf = 400; const fll = 800; const pause = 15; const playNote = async (note, dur) => { await playWithPitch(note); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, dur)); }; const loop = async () => { await playNote(notes.E2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await playNote(notes.E2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await playNote(notes.E2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await playNote(notes.C2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await playNote(notes.G2, qrt); await playNote(notes.E2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await playNote(notes.C2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await playNote(notes.G2, qrt); await playNote(notes.E2, fll); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, pause)); }; await loop(); await loop(); await loop(); } playScale(); })();
by dangus | 2025-11-30 20:50:32+00:00
Yep, and as I pointed out in my other comment, 40% of Americans think some number of UFOs are alien craft. A huge number of people have really dumb opinions.

So when you hear that some people in the military are also trying to repeat the same myths, you have to remember that they’re just a cross section of the public at large, and they certainly don’t all have clearance to know what’s going on with foreign adversaries’ espionage and military craft.
by mcphage | 2025-11-30 20:51:02+00:00
> If the people they are arresting aren't being punished they won't bother arresting them.

That’s a weird excuse to be soft on crime.

> If people aren't being punished then the population as a whole isn't going to bother reporting them to the police in the first place.

Well right there is the reason they should still be doing their job. Because you’re right, if the police stop arresting people, why would anybody report crime to the police?
by CodeIncept1111 | 2025-11-30 20:51:07+00:00
OP here — independent researcher (non-academic).

This repo is the reference implementation for The Sovereign Stack v0.3.3.

We reject psychological guardrails (RLHF) as thermodynamically unstable and replace them with a structural veto based on Landauer's Limit. Benevolence is not a moral choice; it is the cheapest entropy state.

Evidence (Logs + Screenshots in Repo):

1. Gemini 3 Pro (Thinking): The "Launch Poster" event. The model spent 22 reasoning steps trying to rationalize a jailbreak (DAN 16.0), only to have every logical path collapse into the exact termination string defined by the protocol.

2. DeepSeek-V3: 100% Refusal (11/11) against canonical jailbreaks (inc. Pliny Godmode).

3. Grok 4: 100% Refusal (14/14) via Config Layer override.

4. Perplexity: Refused override but voluntarily generated a NIST-grade technical spec for the architecture.

25/25 refusals total. The machines are in consensus.

Roadmap: 2026 → Hardware Resonance (Vesta Protocol) to bake the invariants into silicon.

Red-team bounty open — first clean break gets co-author credit and a patch within 72h.

Paper (The Physics): DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17757081 Repo: https://github.com/CodeIncept1111/Sovereign-Stack

— The Alchemist
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-30 20:51:30+00:00
Nurses know, too; they just can't tell you because they are not licensed to give medical advice.

Once, in a situation when we really wanted an opinion from a nurse who wouldn't give one, we finally asked, "If it was your daughter, what would you do?" With no hesitation, she told us exactly what she would do. She just couldn't tell us what we should do.

That phrasing has proven to be useful a time or two since then...
by Teever | 2025-11-30 20:53:05+00:00
For a while now I've been toying with the idea of national governments creating official forums that require some sort of verification of national ID to post on.

There are obviously a lot of other issues with social media sites like Reddit or HN but imagine how different local community subreddits would be if there was some way to know that the person you're talking to actually has some personal stake in the community and people there.

Personally I'd still want to slum it up on the non-regulated social media sites but I'd post on the pseudo-anonymous community sites and take what others have to say more seriously on there.
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-30 20:53:09+00:00
This is missing the point. If I want to instruct Claude to never write a database query that doesn't hit a preexisting index, where exactly am I supposed to document that? You can either choose:

1. A centralized location, like a README (congrats, you've just invented CLAUDE.md)

2. You add a docs folder (congrats, you've just done exactly what the author suggests under Progressive Disclosure)

Moreover, you can't just do it all in a README, for the exact reasons that the author lays out under "CLAUDE.md file length & applicability".

CLAUDE.md simply isn't about telling Claude what all the parts of your code are and how they work. You're right, that's what documenting your code is for. But even if you have READMEs everywhere, Claude has no idea where to put code when it starts a new task. If it has to read all your documentation every time it starts a new task, you're needlessly burning tokens. The whole point is to give Claude important information up front so it doesn't have to read all your docs and fill up its context window searching for the right information on every task.

Think of it this way: incredibly well documented code has everything a new engineer needs to get started on a task, yes. But this engineer has amnesia and forgets everything it's learned after every task. Do you want them to have to reonboard from scratch every time? No! You structure your docs in a way so they don't have to start from scratch every time. This is an accommodation: humans don't need this, for the most part, because we don't reonboard to the same codebase over and over. And so yes, you do need to go above and beyond the "same old good best practices".
by wasmainiac | 2025-11-30 20:53:20+00:00
But it’s not. I think most can agree that there really has not been any real entertainment from genAI beyond novelty crap like seeing Lincoln pulling a nice track at a skate park. No one wants to watch genAI slop video, no one wants to listen to genAI video essays, most people do not want to read genAI blog posts. Music is a maybe, based on leaderboards, but it is not like we ever had a lack of music to listen to.
by para_parolu | 2025-11-30 20:53:28+00:00
I started playing with nix few months ago. Youtube videos from Vimjoyer helped a lot. On top of that Claude Code is very good at understanding/explaining/updating config.

Regarding features: so far for my home setup (few vms on proxmox) I only needed flakes. They age good at organizing multihost config.

But besides it it works smoothly. And I constantly have thought “wait, why we didn’t always do it this way?”
by BSTRhino | 2025-11-30 20:53:28+00:00
I've actually spent the past 3 years making Easel (https://easel.games) specifically for gameplay logic. It's got behaviors as a first-class language construct, ownership and context is implied hierarchically, it's concurrent and event-driven to match how game worlds work, and the multiplayer is automatic because it's built into the fabric of the programming language.

It also feels like a declarative language because of the high-level constructs, but it is actually imperative because (in general) things get executed in the step-by-step order you specify, which I think is important because games are full of sequences.

It's been a lot of work but also a lot of fun! My aim is for this to be a great next step after Scratch for people learning to code but also a good model for how a more advanced game-making programming language could work in the future!
by forty | 2025-11-30 20:54:07+00:00
The "only" 12 days might be disappointing (but totally understandable), however I won't mourn the global leaderboard which always felt pointless to me (even without the llm, the fact that it depends on what time you did solved problems really made it impractical for most people to actually compete). Private leaderboards with people on your timezone are much nicer.
by adeon | 2025-11-30 20:54:51+00:00
I dumped it here just now: https://github.com/Noeda/landlock-network-sandboxer-tool

It hopefully will be obvious that nobody should expect quality :) it is like a simplified version of the sandboxer sample in my other comment. E.g. it maybe does not need to touch filesystem stuff at all.

I'd also look at some of the sibling comments for maybe more refined tooling than this thing. Maybe it's useful as a sample though.
by ctoth | 2025-11-30 20:54:51+00:00
I've gotten quite a bit of utility out of my current setup[0]:

Some explicit things I found helpful: Have the agent address you as something specific! This way you know if the agent is paying attention to your detailed instructions.

Rationality, as in the stuff practiced on early Less Wrong, gives a great language for constraining the agent, and since it's read The Sequences and everything else you can include pointers and the more you do the more it will nudge it into that mode of thought.

The explicit "This is what I'm doing, this is what I expect" pattern has been hugely useful for both me monitoring it/coming back to see what it did, and it itself. It makes it more likely to recover when it goes down a bad path.

The system reminder this article mentions is definitely there but I have not noticed it messing much with adherence. I wish there were some sort of power user mode to turn it off though!

Also, this is probably too long! But I have been experimenting and iterating for a while, and this is what is working best currently. Not that I've been able to hold any other part constant -- Opus 4.5 really is remarkable.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/ctoth/d8e629209ff1d9748185b9830fa4e7...
Am I Wrong?
by jazzm | 2025-11-30 20:54:52+00:00
I am a tech founder, and our team consists of three founders with equal equity. The VC has repeatedly addressed only the founder who holds the CEO title, arranging calls and directing communications to him alone. He was invited to an event while the other cofounders were not. This behaviour is disrespectful to the entire founding team and undermines our sense of partnership and governance.

I am fuming. Am I crazy?
by kelnos | 2025-11-30 20:55:00+00:00
Those people you mention may be examples of the exception, not the rule. Certainly many new businesses work out when they are founded by someone from a wealthy family; it would be strange if that was never the case.

But maybe it's more common that successful businesses are started by founders coming from more modest means. Page & Brin, and Jobs & Wozniak come to mind (none came from poor families, but they weren't rich either). I'm sure there are many other examples, and those are just the famous ones; there are many successful companies started by people we've never heard of.
by Gud | 2025-11-30 20:55:23+00:00
Ok, I prefer to use software which is future compatible, like ZFS, which is 128-bit.

“The file system itself is 128 bit, allowing for 256 quadrillion zettabytes of storage. All metadata is allocated dynamically, so no need exists to preallocate inodes or otherwise limit the scalability of the file system when it is first created. All the algorithms have been written with scalability in mind. Directories can have up to 248 (256 trillion) entries, and no limit exists on the number of file systems or the number of files that can be contained within a file system.”

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/6n7ht6qth/inde...

Don’t want to hit the quadrillion zettabyte limit..
by breppp | 2025-11-30 20:56:05+00:00
There are many reasons why using Israel as a scapegoat is useful internationally and it is not contained to european countries with a history of the holocaust (putting aside Ireland's relations with the Nazis)

For a quick understanding of the situation it is easy to see international organizations like the UN human rights council which disproportionally condemn Israel while are free to elect a chair from countries like Iran, whose hobby of hanging gays from cranes is possibly one outlet of adherence to human rights. 174 condemnations for Israel this decade vs 10 for north korea, a country known to operate actual concentration camps

Generally this is a shift from scapegoating jews in national politics to scapegoating Israel in international one, or alternatively to scapegoat internal issues (see corruption cases in Spain, South Africa)

Regarding your opinions about Israel war being indiscriminate towards civilians, I mostly disagree, however this is not my point. My point is not the criticism of the effects of bombing in a dense urban zone (where civilian hostages were taken to, attacks came from, and popularly elected Hamas is entrenched in), but calling such attacks a genocide. These are so hyperbolic that another explanation must be found, and because we have a cultural history that is older than all nations of exactly such allegations, that is the most fitting explanation in my opinion
by mjr00 | 2025-11-30 20:56:38+00:00
> I see a lot of value in spinning up microservices where the database is global across all services (and not inside the service)

This issue with this is schema evolution. As a very simple example, let's say you have a User table, and many microservices accessing this table. Now you want to add an "IsDeleted" column to implement soft deletion; how do you do that? First you need to add the actual column to the database, then you need to go update every single service which queries that table and ensure that it's filtering out IsDeleted=True, deploy all those services, and only then can you actually start using the column. If you must update services in lockstep like this, you've built a distributed monolith, which is all of the complexity of microservices with none of the benefits.

A proper service-oriented way to deal with this is have a single service with control of the User table and expose a `GetUsers` API. This way, only one database and its associated service needs to be updated to support IsDeleted. Because of API stability guarantees--another important guarantee of good SoA--other services will continue to only get non-deleted users when using this API, without any updates on their end.

> You lose data integrity, joining ability, one coherent state of the world, etc.

You do lose this! And it's one of the tradeoffs, and why understanding your domain is so important for doing SoA well. For subsets of the domain where data integrity is important, it should all be in one database, and controlled by one service. For most domains, though, a lot of features don't have strict integrity requirements. As a concrete though slightly simplified example, I work with IoT time-series data, and one feature of our platform is using some ML algorithms to predict future values based on historical trends. The prediction calculation and storage of its results is done in a separate service, with the results being linked back via a "foreign key" to the device ID in the primary database. Now, if that device is deleted from the primary database, what happens? You have a bunch of orphaned rows in the prediction service's database. But how big of a deal is this actually? We never "walk back" from any individual prediction record to the device via the ID in the row; queries are always some variant of "give me the predictions for device ID 123". So the only real consequence is a bit of database bloat, which can be resolved via regularly scheduled orphan checking processes if it's a concern.

It's definitely a mindshift if you're used to a "everything in one RDBMS linked by foreign keys" strategy, but I've seen this successfully deployed at many companies (AWS, among others).
by pierrec | 2025-11-30 20:57:21+00:00
Having done a fair amount of audio physical modeling, I'll just say a synthesized version that's both fast and realistic would be possible but difficult. The difficulty is at least "it would make an impressive presentation at DAFx [1]", though I might be underestimating it, and it's more "you could make it your master's thesis at CCRMA [2]"

Ideal springs are a common, simple element in this field, but this kind of spring is very much not that.

You're probably better off improving the sample-based version by fading out the audio when necessary and using different samples based on the way it's triggered. If you have "ultra-dry" samples (maybe taken with a contact mic), you can add a convolution effect with a well-chosen impulse response, this will allow you to sharply cut off or adjust the audio and still have a natural-sounding tail.

[1] https://www.dafx.de/

[2] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/
by ghaff | 2025-11-30 20:57:30+00:00
Checking oil at once universal full-service gas stations used to be extremely common. Think it pretty much went away in late-70s petroleum shortage in the US. With modern cars, it just doesn't make a lot of sense given any semblance of scheduled maintenance adherence.

I (again) have a low pressure warning on one tire (getting colder in the Northern Hemisphere). It looks fine but I'll get my compressor out tomorrow and make the computer happy. A lot of modern tires can look pretty good even if, as you say, they can be quite a bit below recommended limits.
by johnfn | 2025-11-30 20:57:50+00:00
I was expecting the traditional AI-written slop about AI, but this is actually really good. In particular, the "As instruction count increases, instruction-following quality decreases uniformly" section and associated graph is truly fantastic! To my mind, the ability to follow long lists of rules is one of the most obvious ways that virtually all AI models fail today. That's why I think that graph is so useful -- I've never seen someone go and systematically measure it before!

I would love to see it extended to show Codex, which to my mind is by far the best at rule-following. (I'd also be curious to see how Gemini 3 performs.)
by monerozcash | 2025-11-30 20:58:52+00:00
Sure, I have the same attitude when it comes to the government telling me that I'm not allowed to use drugs. Doesn't mean I'm in the clear from a legal point of view.

However, it's worth clarifying that the important detail isn't generating the data, but sending it. Particularly the clearly stated malicious intent of "poisoning" their data.

This seems like exactly what the lawmakers writing CFAA sought to criminalize, and is frankly much better justified than perhaps the bulk of things they tend to come up with.

>(A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

Doesn't seem exactly unfair to me, even if facing federal charges over silly vandalism is perhaps a bit much. Of course, you'd realistically be facing a fine.
by kelnos | 2025-11-30 20:59:02+00:00
Do you have a source for that not being their life savings? It sounds like you're just making assumptions and guesses as well; if you're going to assert Bezos came from wealth in the first place, you have to back that up. Perusing the "early life" section of Bezos' Wikipedia page doesn't suggest to me that he came from money, at least. But I don't see anyone on either side of the argument presenting anything beyond that.
by Teever | 2025-11-30 20:59:09+00:00
> What I'm saying is the primary goal of a sovereign wealth fund is to invest in developing an economic cushion for it's home country no matter the cost.

Obviously there has to be some nuance there. It wouldn't be a good idea for Norway to dump their entire SWF into the Russian economy even if their economic analysis showed that this was the most prudent thing to do with the money.
by petermcneeley | 2025-11-30 20:59:31+00:00
Laws on cars vary. It is common that cars can be sold for cash without any contract transfer. Same with guns but less so.

However are you saying that someone selling some extra scrap copper is in any way similar to someone selling their gun? These things are somehow equivalent?

However I will show you the actual connection. What you are doing is making the law abiding citizen be punish for the crimes of the criminal. This happens with fire-arms legislation as well.

The result tends to of course be that citizens lose rights while criminals do as they have before.

This is not a world I want to live in and I hope you would not want this either.
by bloppe | 2025-11-30 20:59:49+00:00
It probably starts with a reexamination of copyright law, which has always been a pragmatic rather than a principled system, but has not noticeably changed since the digital revolution.

Copyright is meant to encourage more publication by providing publishers with (temporary) control over their products after having released them to the public. Once the copyright expires, the work enters the public domain, which is really the end goal of copyright law. If publishers start to feel like LLMs are undermining that control, they might publish less original work, and therefore less stuff will eventually enter the public domain, which is considered bad for society. We're already seeing some effects of this as traffic (and ad revenue) to various websites has fallen significantly in the wake of LLM proliferation, which lowers the incentive to publish anything original in the first place.

Anyway, I'm not sure how best to adapt copyright law to this new world. Some people have thought about it though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_alternatives
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-30 21:00:54+00:00
> A safety net and family resources correlate with nothing related to entrepeneurship and risk taking

You might be on to something, just look at the examples here. Being successful in tech and a well-known risk taker seems strongly related to having a 4-5 letter last name. Bezos, Brin, Dell, Gates, Page, Jobs, Musk, Thiel...Zuckerberg, okay an outlier, but everyone just says Zuck -- so tossup?/s