MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Ball X Pit Companion – Free Guides and Tips for the Roblox Sports Game
by aishu001 | 2025-11-04 14:35:23+00:00
Built https://ballxpit.net/ for BallXpit players tired of scattered game help—no sign-ups, just actionable tools: Match win strategies (nail late-game comebacks, optimize team plays). Player build tips (stats, gear picks to speed up progression). Weekly event breakdowns (fresh for this round’s challenges). Made by a fellow player—feedback on adding stats trackers or team comp ideas?
by jacquesm | 2025-11-04 14:35:24+00:00
I think the main question is whether or not you want to reach your goal and see programming as a means to an end or as the end itself. Usually, even when working on my own projects I have a goal, and the software is just a means to an end. So I tend to work on my own as though I am a team of one rather than that I am working 'just for myself'. This means I set up a whole pile of superstructure that isn't strictly a requirement, force myself to try to abstract as cleanly as I can think of and even refactor my code (when there is no project lead telling me to do so), write tests and abstain from trying to be too clever because it gives me better and faster results.

I'd imagine a chef or a competent musician would still use their hard won skill when cooking for themselves or making music for their own enjoyment.
by ilamont | 2025-11-04 14:35:58+00:00
Enderman pointed the finger at AI, claiming it was AI that linked his secondary channel to a foreign channel, and subsequently terminated his accounts.

Not surprised at all.

Hallucinations or other AI-generated garbage are already causing problems on Amazon's back-end systems used by third-party sellers. Here's one example: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...

As platforms and service providers deploy deeply flawed AI in the name of improving efficiency and cutting staff costs, we're going to see many more cases like this, with real impacts on people and businesses.
by kamaal | 2025-11-04 14:36:05+00:00
>>Houses shouldn't be investments.

People keep saying things without understanding what that means. Only reason why anyone even wants a home is because its profitable to them on the longer run. Else renting works.

Either way the demand for home ownership will be way less if you simply tell people they will make big losses on that purchase.

That said, now imagine how housing works in a world where no one wants to buy a home, but everyone wants to rent one. That is you want to rent a resource which no one is building at the first place.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-04 14:36:58+00:00
I mean, the issue is not learning the language. It's the best practices, the standard libraries, the language idioms, etc. A week is a tad unreasonable.

A week to learn syntax? Sure. But to really be a fully operational battle-station engineer in a new language stack is probably 6 months to a year.

I would however expect people to be able to submit code reviews for e.g. bug fixes and small features after two to three weeks.
by mirekrusin | 2025-11-04 14:37:25+00:00
Because they're incentivized to delay it, ideally until resolved, this way their SLA uptime is 100%. Less of reported downtime is better for them so they push it as much as possible. If they were to report all failures their pretty green history would be filled with red. What, are you going to do, sue them? They can do it so they do.
by richhhh | 2025-11-04 14:37:37+00:00
It does if any of his customers ever care about maintaining the kind of code after his death.

Code is read more than it is written, and most of us don’t and wouldn’t write in this style. This could mean he’s much smarter than the rest of us, or he could just be a jerk doing his own thing. In either case I’ve never had a good experience working with coders who are this “clever”. Real brilliance is writing code anyone can understand that remains performant and well tested. This is more like the obfuscated Perl contest entries. I guess it’s cool that you can do it, but good sense dictates that you shouldn’t.

As to OPs endeavor to understand this style, it is an interesting learning approach, but I think reading a lot of code in many styles that are actually used by more than one guy is likely to get make you “smarter”.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-04 14:37:48+00:00
> What if we found that humans actually do it in the same way?

We know that humans don't – or, at least, aren't limited to this approach. A quick perusal of an Organization for Transformative Works project (e.g. AO3, Fanlore) will reveal a lot of ideas which are novel. See the current featured article on Fanlore (https://fanlore.org/wiki/Stormtrooper_Rebellion), or the (after heavy filtering) the Crack Treated Seriously tag on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search[sort_column]=k...). You can't get stuff like this from a large language model.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-04 14:38:32+00:00
This feels too linear. Machines are great at ingesting huge volumes of data, following relatively simple rules and producing optimized output, but are LLMs sufficiently better than humans at finding windy, multi-step connections across seemingly unrelated topics & fields? Have they shown any penchant for novel conclusions from observational science? What I think your ratio misses is the value in making the targeted extrapolation or hypothesis that holds up out of a giant body of knowledge.
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2025-11-04 14:38:42+00:00
I find this a bit disingenuous.

If I visit a buffet looking for a healthy snack, but 90% of the dishes are fast food, then I'll probably spend a lot of time looking through the fast food, and may even eat some as the best worst option.

Similarly, I have found the overall content pool to have significantly worsened since Musk's takeover. The algorithm keeps serving me trash. It doesn't mean I want trash.
by sshine | 2025-11-04 14:38:57+00:00
> I believe the case is that you're welcome to paint a picture perfectly copying Studio Ghibli, but you cannot sell it.

Technically, you can't, but there's no way to enforce copyright infringement on private work.

You can paint a Studio Ghibli-style painting -- the style isn't protected.

These rules assume that copying the style is labor intensive, and righteously rewards the worker.

When an LLM can reproduce thousands and thousands of Ghibli-style paintings effortlessly, not protecting the style seems less fair, because the work of establishing the Ghibli-style was harder than copying it large-scale.

I'm in the "don't fight a roaring ocean, go with the flow" boat:

If your entire livelihood depends on having the right to distribute something anyone can copy, get a stronger business.
Show HN: Duron – Library for Building Durable AI Agent and Interactive Workflows
by brian14708 | 2025-11-04 14:39:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a library called Duron that provides the core building blocks for a durable execution engine, built on deterministic log replay and a custom asyncio loop.

To better support interactive workflows—such as human-in-the-loop interactions, streaming progress updates, and real-time inputs—I'm experimenting with two new primitives: signals and streams.

Key features:

- Asyncio-native: Custom asyncio loop that works seamlessly with standard primitives like `asyncio.timeout`, `asyncio.gather`, and `asyncio.sleep`

- Minimal dependencies: Zero external dependencies, pluggable log architecture for easy integration

- Interactive workflows: Streams and signals enable real-time communication between workflows and host applications

- Stateful effects: Generator-based effects with automatic checkpointing and state accumulation

Example use cases:

- Building custom durable workflow engines with minimal overhead

- Interactive workflows requiring human approval or external triggers

- AI agents with long-running conversations that persist across restarts

GitHub: https://github.com/brian14708/duron

I’m still iterating on the API design and stress-testing durability guarantees. Feedback, critiques, and ideas for real-world use cases are all welcome!
by subjectsigma | 2025-11-04 14:39:17+00:00
It’s not that hard to see?

1. The president promotes a false narrative that the election was stolen. Media makes sure every single person in America gets coverage of this 24/7.

2. A protest happens with potential for violence.

3. President then gives a speech which wavers back and forth between calling for peace and saying inflammatory things which could escalate.

4. The media makes damn sure every single person hears the bad parts. Some media outlets go as far to edit the speech to make it seem worse than it is.

5. Everyone on one side thinks “Well, this is what the president is calling for” and everyone on the other side thinks “If they’re doing this we need to fight back ourselves”

The media has made every bad thing happening in politics worse
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-04 14:39:42+00:00
Just wanted to chime in that, at my company, we have some policies that impact when we actually update our status page to show that we have an outage. Without going into details, the policies deliberately slow down our reporting of downtime: We (engineering) need to have a clear understanding of what the problem is before we say there is a problem publicly.

I've personally challenged some details in these policies, which I won't discuss publicly. What I generally agree with is that it's important to have a human in the loop, and to be very thoughtful about when to update a status page and what is put there.
by kakacik | 2025-11-04 14:40:02+00:00
We could have kept that creative environment (that seem to just disappear without any alternative to this day) while leaving videos to evolve as they did.

People here complain like they have issues with long term memory, but reality was - there was no real web video before. That apple had more issues than others was problem that should have been contained to apple walled garden alone. World was, is and will be much larger than that.
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-04 14:40:03+00:00
Musk's own lawyers did the work for us.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/tech/twitter-files-lawyers/in...

> “Nothing in the new materials shows any governmental actor compelling or even discussing any content-moderation action with respect to Trump” and others participating in the suit, Twitter argued.

> The communications unearthed as part of the Twitter Files do not show coercion, Twitter’s lawyers wrote, “because they do not contain a specific government demand to remove content—let alone one backed by the threat of government sanction.”

> “Instead,” the filing continued, the communications “show that the [FBI] issued general updates about their efforts to combat foreign interference in the 2020 election.” The evidence outlined by Twitter’s lawyers is consistent with public statements by former Twitter employees and the FBI, along with prior CNN analysis of the Twitter Files.

> Altogether, the filing by Musk’s own corporate lawyers represents a step-by-step refutation of some of the most explosive claims to come out of the Twitter Files and that in some cases have been promoted by Musk himself.

Don't worry, though. Under Musk's leadership, free speech is well protected. Just ask https://x.com/elonjet, which Musk specifically promised (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456) to protect! They would never ban a news story just because it was from a hack! (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-bloc...)
by freespirt | 2025-11-04 14:41:05+00:00
Abstract: This article examines the United Kingdom's current economic trajectory under the Labour government, analysing the confluence of rising unemployment, deteriorating business confidence, and impending fiscal measures. Drawing on official statistics, business sentiment data, and practitioner insights, we explore the unprecedented challenge facing Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the 26 November 2025 budget. The analysis integrates quantitative economic indicators with qualitative assessments from business operators to present a comprehensive view of the UK's fiscal crossroads.
by bluGill | 2025-11-04 14:41:07+00:00
A union works best when workers see they are all in it together. There are lots of unions, but it is much harder for them to be powerful when members see defecting as helping them. There is a reason unions are most common in labor areas where everyone is the same. You can't be a better bus driver than someone else (either you are bad enough to fire or you are as good as everyone else). The assembly line is as good as the worst/slowest person on it, so there is no advantage in being faster at putting bolts in, or whatever you do (unions can sometimes push safety standards, but also comes from others who have the union take credit)
by bmn__ | 2025-11-04 14:41:23+00:00
Reply intended to user zwnow who is banned by HN, so I cannot reply directly.

You confuse intent with reality. The social software under discussion was abused immediately for the criminal purpose of spreading falsehoods about men, both with malicious intent and wilful negligence, which is particularly egregious because the victims were not made aware of the slander. Even if they wanted to defend themselves, they were prevented from doing so because of the institutionalised sexism, men are banned from participating on grounds of their sex alone. The proof for this is in the leaks. You failed to take this into account and hence got downvoted into oblivion, not for the reason you claim.

The other facts you write about are part of a different narrative, they are not directly relevant to kanwisher's proposition.

IMO, we should not have any tolerance for platforms that are designed for gossip because of the boy-cries-wolf effect in backlash because it means if a woman is a genuine victim, people will take the priors into account and most will assume she's a liar, too, and this lets the perpetrators off the hook. I do not want to live in such a society. The way out of this is holding women accountable, they should be punished for criminal behaviour with immediate and drastic consequences, and tenfold so for their enablers. The problem would stop overnight.
by dataguy_ | 2025-11-04 14:42:16+00:00
Location: South America

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Technologies: PostgreSQL, GCP, BigQuery, Looker Studio, Python, FastAPI, ElasticSearch, Neo4j

Résumé/CV: Please email me

Email: nothingcomeseasy@protonmail.com

4+ years as a Data Analyst and Generalist with strong experience in analytics, pipelines, and product-oriented data work.

Past year working with semantic search, document parsing, entity extraction, audio transcription, and classification workflows using LLMs.

Highlights:

Semantic search and re-ranking (Neo4j + Elasticsearch + embeddings)

LLM + OCR pipelines for extracting structured data from PDFs/images

Whisper-based audio transcription with post-processing and hallucination detection

Ran experiments comparing different models in terms of accuracy, time and pricing. Published internal docs + dashboards (Looker Studio, BigQuery)

Always happy to collaborate on practical, data-driven problems. Feel free to reach out!
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-04 14:42:17+00:00
This is akin to "Show a human an optical illusion that exploits their physiology".

LLM's be like "The dumb humans can't even see the dots"[1]

[1]https://compote.slate.com/images/bdbaa19e-2c8f-435e-95ca-a93...
by a3w | 2025-11-04 14:42:32+00:00
LLMs still claim that 7.0 is newer than 8.0, i.e. have zero reasoning about what numbers below 12 mean.

Today I tried telling it that my fritz.box has OS 8 installed, but it claimed that the feature will only ship once I installed 7, and not with my older version of 8.
by mirekrusin | 2025-11-04 14:42:45+00:00
So there is access to "degraded functionality" from start (the "3-15" of "degraded functionality" one) - people are asking why not share THAT then?

Nobody cares about internal escalations, if manager is taking shit or not - that's not service status, that's internal dealing with the shit process - it can surface as extra timestamped comments next to service STATUS.
by chawyehsu | 2025-11-04 14:42:58+00:00
It seems few people are aware of how customizable nano actually is. Usually, they use nano with the default preset for quick bootstrapping tasks and then switch to vim without hesitation. While vim/neovim are certainly very powerful, nano remains my go-to editor for many quick terminal operations. I've customized it quite a bit[1], especially the key bindings, though the defaults are already excellent.

[1]: https://github.com/chawyehsu/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nano...
by nkohari | 2025-11-04 14:44:03+00:00
There was a real attempt earlier this year to move to BlueSky, but it's become even worse than Twitter for different reasons.

BlueSky's definitely gotten a lot of the technical side of things right (as compared to the fediverse, the complexity of which blocks mainstream adoption). Unfortunately, it's also now an incredibly unpleasant place to be unless you want to swim in constant political ragebait. Twitter also has a mountain of awful shit, but for whatever reason I've been able to curate my feed enough that I don't usually see it.

They're both mostly unpleasant, and we'd all probably be better off not using either, but I still find myself going back to Twitter because there's nothing better. Same way I feel about Reddit, honestly.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-04 14:44:12+00:00
Bloat is always bad.

That said, all of engineering is a tradeoff, and tradeoffs mean accepting some amount of bad in exchange for some amount of good.

In these times, though, companies seem to be very willing to accept bloat for marginal or nonexistent returns, and this is one of the reasons why, in my opinion, so much of the software being released these days is poor.
by dagss | 2025-11-04 14:44:35+00:00
It's rather seldom that humans arrive at solutions through rigorous reasoning. The word "think" doesn't mean "rigorous reasoning" in every day language. I'm sure 99% of human decisions are pattern matching on past experience.

Even when mathematicians do in fact do rigorous reasoning, they use years to "train" first, to get experiences to pattern match from.
by taneq | 2025-11-04 14:45:12+00:00
Yep, you're getting it. Same power, same efficiency, same power dissipation, smaller motor, smaller dissipative area, higher temperature.

The other assumption I probably should have stated is that the two motors are made of similar materials with similar temperature limits. We know the ambient temperature and we know the maximum temperature of the materials used. So for a component made of those materials, existing in that ambient temperature, with an additional heat load proportional to the waste heat in the motor...

The ability to shed heat (assuming similar forced fan cooling, as we were) determines the amount of power we can deliver to the device without increasing its temperature.
by dahart | 2025-11-04 14:45:42+00:00
Here you’re talking about only perception, and not physical color. You could use 100 dimensional spectral colors, or even 1D grayscale values, and still have the same result. So this example doesn’t have any bearing on whether a 3D color space works well for humans or not. Do you have any other examples that suggest a 3D color space isn’t good enough? I still don’t understand what you meant.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-04 14:45:45+00:00
> Many tech publications write as if they’re showing off, and you just end up feeling tired after reading them.

I like this honestly because this shows that I learned something intelligent. On the other hand, if I don't feel exhausted after reading, it is a strong sign that the article was below my intellectual capacity, i.e. I would have loved it if I could have learned more.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-04 14:46:00+00:00
There are no true and untrue claims about how the brain works, because we have no idea how it works.

The reason people give that humans are not auto-complete is "Obviously I am not an autocomplete"

Meanwhile, people are just a black box process that output words into their head, which they then take credit for, and calling it cognition. We have no idea how that black box that serves up a word when I say "Think of a car brand" works.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-04 14:46:02+00:00
I cannot prove that I have will to act of course.

I don't think free will in that sense is particularly relevant here though. The fact is that a worm and I are both alive in a way the model is not. We seek self-preservation. We are changeable. We die. We reproduce and evolve.

In my mind a set of LLM weights is about as alive as a virus (and probably less so). A single celled organism easily beats it to earning my respect because that organism has fought for its life and for its uniqueness over uncountably many generations.
by gaoshan | 2025-11-04 14:46:17+00:00
all of my incidents of losing consciousness were absolute voids to me. Once I apparently hit the back of a car on my bike and I just kind of woke up with no idea what had happened (I say "apparently" because I don't really know... I was riding my bike and suddenly I was laying on the side of the road, no in between. The other time my father punched me in the face, knocking the back of my head into the corner of a metal oven hood. I remember that but then the next thing was coming to on the ground with him over me, hands around my neck squeezing. Nothing whatsoever in between the start and end of events.
by mk89 | 2025-11-04 14:46:19+00:00
Not sure why it's so bad what the person wrote.

There are studies showing how objectively bad Facebook and Instagram are for people, leading them to depression and so on. Isn't this hitting the fabric of our society? Our youth has severe issues also because of Zuckeberg, probably even more than due to Musk.

Or is the fabric of our society only what's convenient to pick, such as whatever you guys dislike about Elon?

Social media the way these companies run it is s** from all point of views.
Show HN: MyPasswordChecker – Quantum & Free Password Strength Checker
by Jack321 | 2025-11-04 14:46:42+00:00
MyPasswordChecker - Free Password Strength Checker and optional Quantum Password Strength Checker with Phonetic Password builder. API for all 3 services available @ https://mypasswordchecker.com/password-api OR for documentation visit https://mypasswordchecker.com/docs
by pie_flavor | 2025-11-04 14:48:57+00:00
The app consistently shows me things that I want to see from the social circle around the people I follow and the topics they talk about. Alternative platforms like Threads are worse at this; the platform I hear the most about, Bluesky, brags about not having this. Maybe the Twitter experience varies by which topics you are interested in, you might get served more slop the more mainstream topics you follow. But the reason I have not quit due to unusability is because there isn't any unusability.
by jmye | 2025-11-04 14:49:02+00:00
> OTOH, Trump just straight up lied to them. He said he'd protect their jobs, but coal jobs in his first term continued to decline at the same rate they did during Obama's. He did nothing for them.

Populism in a nutshell. Those coal miners didn't want to hear about how they could learn something new and do something new, even if it was better. All of that takes effort and work.

One person tried realism, the other told them what they wanted to hear and gave them someone else to blame for why they weren't as rich as they thought they should be. And then the rest of us get harangued with "why won't you listen to all of these people" when we have, extensively, and what they're literally saying is antithetical to everything this country stands for (to say nothing of what their 'heartfelt' religious/moral beliefs supposedly stand for).
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-04 14:49:13+00:00
>> a great many time consuming pleasantries.

It makes me sad that pleasantries are viewed by some as a time-consuming chore. You can recognize that person who really cares about how you are doing or what you did on the weekend, and it makes you warm inside. You don't need to shoot the shit for 30 minutes, but human interaction is what builds community, and most of us like that; all of us need it.