MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randycupertino | 2025-11-19 14:50:49+00:00
I read a great book about Boeing called Flying Blind by Peter Robinson about the 737 crisis and the downfall of Boeing, its main premise was how a toxic corporate culture took over, removed power from scientists, safety and engineers and gave power to lobbyists and MBA finance types. They pressure regulators to approve the 737 and rush production, skimping on safety and qualifications. The McDonnell Douglas merger poisoned Boeing’s culture as MBA style management replaced an engineering first culture and shifted priorities from “build the safest airplane in the world” to “hit aggressive quarterly targets.”

A key component was the move of corporate HQ and power base from Seattle to Chicago where the execs lived, wrestling it away from the engineers in Seattle. Later they moved their HQ again to Washington DC to be closer to lobbying!
by corpMaverick | 2025-11-19 14:50:50+00:00
IMHO. It is futile to level the field with the wealthy. They will always have the better opportunities, education, connections, etc. They will find a way.

But we should keep trying to give more opportunities to the less fortunate. Better education, remedial classes, free school lunches, child credits, etc. We do that by asking the wealthy to contribute more. Not by taking away their advantages.(e.g. Admission tests)
by ziml77 | 2025-11-19 14:51:16+00:00
> <blank> phone number on <blank> IMEI/IMSI should be allowed to register presence on Jibe

Funny, I more or less said a few weeks ago that SIM cards do not guarantee freely being able to swap numbers between phones more than eSIMs do, because the carrier could tie the SIM's phone number to the IMEI in the backend either way. That was just kinda dismissed as a not being a real threat... and yet here it seems exactly what's happened for the RCS part of your service!
by nbardy | 2025-11-19 14:51:41+00:00
This isn’t gaming the benchmark though. If training on similar data generalizes that’s called learning. Training on the exact set is memorization.

There is for a fact teams creating puzzles to RL against as training environments. As it’s beneficial to RL training and in particular compute efficient if you schedule the environment difficulty throughout training. There was a great recent paper on this. Creating environment data that generalizes outside the environment is a challenging engineering task and super valuable whether it looks like AGC AGI or not.

Also ARC AGI is general enough that if you create similar data you’re just creating generic visual puzzle data. Should all visual puzzle data be off limits ?
by bob1029 | 2025-11-19 14:52:01+00:00
Unity can definitely support scenarios involving 100k+ scene elements. The problem is that you cannot place the art team any meaningful distance away from the development team when using something like ECS. Game objects + components allow for a high degree of decoupling between the art & technology teams, assuming the total # of scene elements is well bounded (<10k).

A custom engine is probably not a bad idea for a city builder. I feel like ECS is a good middle ground because you would need some pattern like this anyways and it would serve as a good reference if you decided to go fully custom.

I would challenge the notion that we couldn't develop an effective city builder within the constraints of a reasonable # of game objects. Players may be compelled to accept an experience that has a significantly smaller world size if the richness within each unit of world space is much higher.
by troupo | 2025-11-19 14:52:19+00:00
> The question here will be how browser vendors show this option.

We know exactly how. Here's Google presenting "more private web". If you click "yes, I'm in", all the tracking options will be turned on: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1664682689591377923

And of course HN (and the industry at large, and journalists) will blame it on "clueless bureaucrats writing regulations"
by gruez | 2025-11-19 14:52:21+00:00
It's possible to criticize something without having the law "on your side". The OP characterizes Apple's action as "unacceptable, censorious overreach", but doesn't claim it was illegal. Once upon a time, slavery was illegal, but it would be daft to oppose emancipation on the basis of "How about slaves sue DOJ and/or slave owners if the law is on their side?".
by rckt | 2025-11-19 14:52:22+00:00
On the GoToSocial website it's clear what it is, how it works and how to get started. The Nostr website seems more like they want me to sign up and start using their server/relay. And I had to spend some time searching for how to set up a private relay. This fact is off-putting. Feels like they care more about their product than about free communication.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-19 14:52:25+00:00
For those who are interested:

I recently read the book "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan, a professional who also helps people leave cults. His approach isn't as much of a "long game" as Ryan and Kelly's approach. One thing that Hassan explains is that MLMs are often very similar to cults, and he also explains the difference between cults and religion.

Another book to read is The Running Grave by Robert Galabraith (pen name for J.K. Rownling.) One of the detectives joins a cult to try and get someone out. The book is well researched and gives an insider's view of a cult.
Show HN: Speaker Analyzer – Get analytics on who spoke how much in your meetings
by mbosch | 2025-11-19 14:53:28+00:00
Hi HN!

We built Speaker Analyzer to solve a simple problem: after long video meetings, I wanted to know who actually spoke, for how long, and how the conversation was distributed. I found myself wondering "did I dominate the conversation?" or "who barely spoke up?" With remote teams using Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, I can now export these transcript files and easily analyze participation patterns.

What we built:

A privacy-first tool that turns your meeting transcript files (*.vtt) into actionable speaker insights in seconds. Just drag & drop your transcript file and instantly see: - Speaking time per person - Word counts and participation percentages - Turn-taking patterns - Visual breakdowns and charts - Most active / least active participants - Export to CSV/JSON (premium)

As far as privacy: - Files are processed in-memory and never stored - Only encrypted speaker names and analytics are saved - No transcript text is retained

Sample output: https://www.speakeranalyzer.com/sample-transcript-analysis.p...

Try it: https://speakeranalyzer.com

I'd love feedback on: - What other metrics would be useful? - Any other meeting platforms to support? - UI/UX improvements

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or privacy approach!
by bodhi_mind | 2025-11-19 14:53:42+00:00
The whole “why I contribute to open source” has been on my mind lately after I published my first open source project and it’s gotten moderate attention from the data engineering community (200 GitHub stars):

TinyETL - Fast, zero-config ETL in a single binary https://github.com/alrpal/TinyETL

The transition from being the sole architect of “my” project into more of a maintainer, organizer, director, has been a unique experience and interesting to reflect on.

What’s the future hold? I really don’t know.
by hbbio | 2025-11-19 14:54:19+00:00
Thanks for adding!

Extending beyond the pelican is very interesting, especially until your page gets enough recognition to be "optimized" by the AI companies.

It seems both Gemini 3 and latest ChatGPTs get a deep understanding of the representation of SVGs that seems a difficult task. I would be incapable of writing a SVG without visualizing the result and a graphical feedback loop.

PS: Would be fun to add "animated" in the short prompt since some models think of animation by themselves. Tried manually with 5 Pro (using the subscription), and in a sense it's worse than the static image. To start, there's a error: https://bafybeie7gazq46mbztab2etpln7sqe5is6et2ojheuorjpvrr2u...
by iLemming | 2025-11-19 14:54:22+00:00
I am not being pedantic, there's critical fundamental conceptual difference that has real implications for how people write and reason about code.

There's performance reasoning, different level of guarantees, and entirely different programming model.

When someone hears "JS has built-in immutability features", they might think, "great, why do I even need to look at Haskell, Elixir, Clojure, if I have all the FP features I need right here?". Conflating these concepts helps no one - it's like saying: "wearing a raincoat means you're waterproof". Okay, you're technically not 100% wrong, but it's so misleading that it becomes effectively wrong for anyone trying to understand the actual concept.
Show HN: We built ChatterBooth, an anonymous app to talk and chat freely
by billyjei | 2025-11-19 14:54:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Billy, co-founder of ChatterBooth. It’s an anonymous app where people can talk or chat freely without judgment.

The idea came in 2020 when one of my co-founders wanted to share about his mom’s cancer recovery but couldn’t. It made us realize how hard it is to open up online. Finally, we released the app earlier this year. We’ve also noticed people venting to AI chatbots just to be heard, but AI doesn’t really get you. ChatterBooth is for real human connection, even if it’s anonymous.

In the future, if there’s enough traction, we want to reward people as Conversation Starters or Accommodating Strangers — small gestures to encourage connection.

We launched on the iOS App Store in 23 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific and have a few hundred downloads so far. It’s still early, still bootstrapped, but it’s been amazing to see real, honest moments happening in the app.

If this kind of thing interests you or you’ve built something similar, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Check out our site and join our Discord if you want to.

Thanks for reading.
by ajross | 2025-11-19 14:54:42+00:00
> You're hand wavy "it's the pandemic" neglects the other evidence provided

There was no significant other evidence. And "hand wavy" is missing the point. There is a bleedingly obvious hypothesis for this effect with huge signal in all sorts of other areas of social policy. I mean, really? The pandemic is visible in every measurable segment of society but somehow not a major factor in education results?

In some sense, yes, Occam's Razor is a principle that embraces "hand wavy" understanding by demanding extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims. And I think it's going to work very well here. Again, for the third time: write it down. In four years this will all bounce back.

What's happening here is actually a different logical fallacy entirely. HN commenters have a distinct ideological bent against new ("woke") ideas in education. And they're willing to ignore things like giant global pandemics to chase their preferred explanations.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-19 14:55:09+00:00
I dunno man, I'm a cyclist, and I live in a big city full of cyclists. I've also used and seen a lot of bike lights in my time. Flashing is often an option, but the default is usually "always on".

Also flashing is really fucking annoying, and I my own experience is that it does notale cyclista more visible or safe. I don't use flashing lights myself, even though I can't see the rear one and eould probably rather be annoying than dead.
by purple_turtle | 2025-11-19 14:55:19+00:00
> I'm begging project leaders everywhere - please read up on the social contract and the consent of the governed.

I do not need consent as I am not governing anyone like king or president governs.

If someone is using my project they are also not really entitled to anything, beyond what stated in license and similar documents if any.

If they dislike it, they can fork my project and go away.

If someone wants to be entitled to anything, they are free to make a contract and pay for service they desire. But while many are happy to demand nearly noone is willing to help. Or even fork project. Instead they make entitled demand and treat open source developers as servants or slaves or their pets.

No, you are not entitled to your preferred governance model to be used in my software project.
by simonw | 2025-11-19 14:55:21+00:00
The best thing I have ever read on this subject is https://harpers.org/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-saves-you-fr... - it is a truly wild ride, profiling David Sullivan, a private investigator who specialized in helping people get their loved ones out of cults and was based in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-19 14:55:40+00:00
It doesn't have to be untargeted. You know the type of content the website hosts, therefore, you know a lot about the type of visitors. You can then charge appropriately for advertising that is targeted at those visitors. Don't show diaper ads on a site called Jalopnik. Instead show ads for Armorall, jack stands, tools, etc. When you visit a media site specializing in content like real houswives or kardashians, don't show the previously suggested ads. Instead, show ads on inane fast fashion, beauty products, luxury items, etc.

Targeted ads are always dumb as they tend to push an item that you've looked into before purchasing, but never realize that item has been purchased and you are no longer interested. They never get that the person researched item but has not looked for some time for item. Let's now advertise accessories for that item. If it was a fridge, show stainless cleaning items, for dishwasher, show ads for different detergents or other kitchen related items. It's not hard. For whatever reasons, they can't do targeted well. Targeted doesn't work as advertised.
by rkozik1989 | 2025-11-19 14:55:41+00:00
Sounds like an antipattern being rebranded as a solution. I shouldn't have to precisely instruct AI on how to solve every problem. I should be able to give it requirements and with its vast knowledge it should be able to understand various design elements within a system like design patterns and make the appropriate change without me needing to tell it to look for those things.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-11-19 14:55:44+00:00
> Couldn't they just keep working on the original game, which already worked really well and lots of people loved?

Of course. If history (and "IME") is any guide, this was all marketing and product manager driven. Creators of all stripes now create the thing THEY want, not the thing paying CUSTOMERS want.

That's perhaps overly cynical and sometimes this is not the case if some new set of features can't be easily done in the architecture of the original, of course.
by lapcat | 2025-11-19 14:55:44+00:00
I wouldn't even call it "nice." Stepping down only 9 years after the introduction of Mastodon seems a bit premature. I wouldn't call it selfish, though some people might. Plus, Rochko did get paid 1 million euros in the transition.

For all I know, Rails and WordPress already have succession plans, or if not, I'm sure they will eventually, as the founders get older. They're still relatively young.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-19 14:55:45+00:00
Because the "Ultra-processed" definition is backwards. It's really more "foods that have statistically significant negative effects on health" than a description of why they do so. Because we don't yet know why they do so, and there are probably multiple causes. It seems like modern processing methods create this property, likely in part because the results are hyperpalatable. "Foods that are bad for you are bad for you" is tautological, so the ultra-processed naming is used for the hypothesis that it's something about the processing that makes them bad for you. This hypothesis seems highly likely, but we don't know what propert(y|ies) of the processing cause the harm, so it's a bad name but useful for discussing the hypothesis.
by deafpolygon | 2025-11-19 14:55:58+00:00
It sounds like that’s what it will do. But that’s not the case. Why don’t you complain to your local ISP? It is likely that they are not upgrading the infrastructure that needs to be upgraded.

It is a way for massive cable companies to bypass local government, and may make the overall network experience worse. It might put local ISPs out of business that have been serving their communities for years.
by gooseus | 2025-11-19 14:56:22+00:00
I remember reading The Guardian back in the oughts when they were winning awards for their UX and they were my go-to answer to the front-end interview question of "Which websites do you admire?"

Ha, they even have their "Website of the year" award linked on their top banner

https://web.archive.org/web/20080704050905/http://theguardia...
by dizlexic | 2025-11-19 14:56:23+00:00
*and hurts design and development of their products... which you bought... because you're complaining about it.

I get in trouble for this a lot, but didn't you as a consumer know what you were getting into? I know I did when I bought into the apple ecosystem.

What's the actual argument? Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones, computers or applications. This boils down to. I use their products by choice, but I want the government to force them to change. Their platform their rules. idk why this is controversial.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-11-19 14:56:32+00:00
I had a fantastic ‘first result’ with Gemini 3 but a few people on social media I respect didn’t. Key takeaway is to do your own testing with your use cases. I feel like I am now officially biased re: LLM infrastructure: I am retired, doing personal research and writing, and I decided months ago to drop OpenAI and Anthropic infrastructure and just use Google to get stuff done - except I still budget about two hours a week to experiment with local models and Chinese models’ APIs.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-19 14:56:56+00:00
Raw dog LIDAR and "old school kalman filters" don't give you anywhere near good enough performance.

Want to know how poor performance looks like in practice? Like Tesla phantom braking but ten times worse. And if you dial it down to avoid false positives, then it stops exerting any control over AI, and you're back to getting your AI to work well.
by not--felix | 2025-11-19 14:57:18+00:00
The question is also meant somewhat ironically, i think everyone who uses rss knows that it is not dead. But i still find it interesting to understand how people use rss and why they stopped. Feeder did something similar, but stopped and I wanted to continue it. https://feeder.co/blog/484-state-of-rss-survey-the-results

I also think that it would be wrong to not disclaim that I develop my own reader, but I am sorry that it looks like an ad, I will reduce this.
by screye | 2025-11-19 14:57:40+00:00
It goes deeper. The problem lies at the source.

> people pushing ideology

University Education programs and as a result teaching bodies have been taken over by ideology.

I believe it is in part because all the teaching low hanging fruit has been established for centuries. So the only 'novel' things the programs can do is talk about discrimination, disparate outcomes and hand-wavey ideas about improving education. The departments have some of the lowest bars for academic professorship and as a result, the quality of research is similarly bad -> terrible.

The war on phonics is the canonical example.

The fault doesn't lie with 'people'. The above mentioned institutions are squarely at fault for making education ideological, and they should explicitly be blamed for the deterioration in student performance.
by Levitz | 2025-11-19 14:58:14+00:00
Whenever you enter a community, you implicitly agree to a small contract with the community. If I enter a running community, it's assumed that I'm not there to talk about cooking pasta, if I sign up to a book club, people will surely get tired of me if I don't stop yapping about music.

There's of course leeway around this, but communities, generally, have purpose, implicit (built by the community) and explicit (what it says on the sign).

We are okay with censorship when it serves to that purpose. We like it when HNs and Reddit delete viagra ads in comments. We don't like it when it runs contrary to or subverts the purpose of the communities. The userbase here would have gotten pretty mad if the threads about Cloudflare yesterday were deleted, as they evidently are of interest regarding current tech, and they would also have been pretty mad if anyone criticizing Cloudflare was banned, as we are supposed to be able to freely comment on such matters.

This is much more common on Reddit, where mods (and users!) will often silence stuff they don't like, even if relevant. This creates conflict regarding the two types of purpose mentioned before.

Now, countries should have as much censorship as they want, this is already patent in hate speech laws around the globe, before anyone brings up the 1st, do note that the US could also (at least in theory) change the constitution if the people so wished. Extreme caution should be taken in this regard though as one does not simply "stop being member of a country".
by riskable | 2025-11-19 14:58:47+00:00
There is a well-known effect where segregating kids into gifted VS non-gifted harms the education of the non-gifted while only having a marginal impact on the gifted:

https://ncrge.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/982/2019/04...

Basically, non-gifted kids learn from the gifted ones. It's that whole, "positive influence from peers" thing.

In the long term, having gifted programs results in a handful of accelerated students and a lot more struggling ones (at the end of mandatory education).
by lan321 | 2025-11-19 14:58:52+00:00
I'd say it's a racket for enterprise but it makes sense for small things. For example, a friend of mine, who's in a decent bit of debt and hence on the hunt for anything that can make some money, wanted to try making essentially a Replika clone for a local market and being able to rent an H100 for 2$ an hour was very nice. He could mess around a bit, confirm it's way more work than he thought and move on to other ideas for like 10$ :D

Assuming he got it working he could have opened service without directly going further in debt with the caviat that if he messed up the pricing model, and it took off, it could have annihilated his already dead finances.
by skopdop | 2025-11-19 14:58:53+00:00
It's interesting that this is a level of tech reductionism that is really common right now and that it's not more openly challenged by engineers. Tough intractable problem? AI. How close are we? Soon! How soon? I don't know, I don't work on that problem.

Of course FSD is solvable with advanced AI and the same applies to all other problems but we don't yet have this level of AI and we don't know how far away we are from reaching it.

Companies that bet on assistive AI solutions (i.e. more sensors to plug AI gaps) will win and have the best chance at eventually reaching the level of AI where additional sensors are no longer needed.

Companies that go all-in on perfect AI have a very, very high chance of failure, not because they're not smart enough, or not driven enough, or are capital constrained, but because they dont fully understand the scope of the problem.

Also worth noting they are heavily incentivised to pump the AI bubble for existential reasons, and so their AI progress forecasts are not trustworthy.
by scottLobster | 2025-11-19 14:58:57+00:00
If you could get every hardware manufacturer in the world onboard with such an interface, perhaps. But even if 90% of them were onboard there would be edge cases that people and companies would demand support for and there goes your standard.

Drivers exist to ultimately turn actual hardware circuits off and on, often for highly specialized and performance-critical applications, and are often written based on the requirements of a circuit diagram. So any unified driver platform would also involved unified hardware standards, likely to the detriment of performance in some applications, and good luck telling Electrical Engineers around the world to design circuits to a certain standard so the kernel developers can have it easier.