MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-11-06 20:17:48+00:00
> One can get a cheap efficient car and have all the time-saving benefits of a car and all the cost-saving benefits of a cheap one.

They could, but they often don't.

The top selling passenger vehicles in the US are a pickup truck, a pickup truck, a small SUV, a pickup truck, a mid-sized SUV, a mid-sized SUV, a pickup truck, then finally a full-sized sedan, then a pick up truck, and then a compact car. I guess we're just all farmers and off-roaders here in the US. Maybe one day we'll get paved roads to commute to our office-based farming jobs, 'till then I guess we really need all that ground clearance.

You think all these people are basing these purchasing decisions of buying those pickup trucks entirely because its the more cost effective option to go get groceries and go to their office job?
by jahsome | 2025-11-06 20:17:55+00:00
If I take the time to organize my thoughts and present them, I want the person to whom I'm presenting them to attempt to respond.

If I failed to make myself clear, at a minimum, presenting me with a list of things needing clarification is helpful for me to take the time to prepare.

"Hop on a call" is to me almost always shorthand for "I don't respect the issue enough to attempt to organize my thoughts ahead of time, but I'll ramble about it and let you pick my brain." Or in the most malicious cases, the other party is seeking plausible deniability.

In my experience it's not that way 100% of the time, but it's damn close.
Show HN: Built live community stats into our blackjack app – built using Vapor
by pompeii | 2025-11-06 20:18:13+00:00
We added a live global feed showing real-time stats across all players: total money wagered, active games, wins/losses, blackjacks hit, and win rates. Everything updates instantly as thousands of players make moves.

Built entirely in Swift—iOS app with SwiftUI and backend with Vapor. Full-stack Swift ecosystem handling WebSockets for sub-100ms latency. The consistency across the stack made development surprisingly smooth.
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-06 20:18:22+00:00
The point is that there isn't anything like the AUMF that authorizes these recent strikes in the Caribbean/pacific. The administration reported them to Congress at the outset, but now that the 60 day limit (on continuing something without Congressional authorization) they've switched to claiming they don't need Congressional authority.

Overbroad application of the AUMF in no way authorizes these actions. The administration claims it has a legal memo articulating why they're OK, but refuses to disclose it, citing security concerns. That's applicable to the specific intelligence they use, but not to legal arguments that supposedly justify their use of force.
by goldenjm | 2025-11-06 20:19:26+00:00
This would be more helpful if it included DeepSeek-OCR, PaddleOCR-VL and MinerU 2.5. In general, I've found that OmniDocBench is a reliable benchmark, perhaps surprisingly because it is made by the same team as MinerU. They updated their benchmark table recently: https://github.com/opendatalab/OmniDocBench#end-to-end-evalu.... There are some other models that score above DeepSeek-OCR as well that I'm not as familiar with.
by ok_dad | 2025-11-06 20:19:42+00:00
Most of the fishing boats we boarded that were suspected to be resupply boats were, in fact, regular old fishing boats. The 1 we found that was a resupply boat had only external signs of fishing, but internally had fuel bladders instead of fish and ice. We, of course, didn't murder those guys or the 4-5 go-fasts we caught: we captured them and turned them over to partner country navies for legal processing.

In other words, most of the boats our intelligence apparatus thought were possible supply boats were simply fishermen. We are definitely killing some innocent fishermen with these strikes, and even if we weren't it's not ethical or legal to murder a bunch of guys selling fuel to drug runners. By the way, all of the drug runners are basically indentured servants or slaves and their families are being held back home as collateral.

Keep thinking you're on the side of right, though, and when you realize the USA is the baddies on this one you will hopefully be horrified at the realization.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-06 20:20:15+00:00
> Are there specific benchmarks that compare models vs themselves with and without scratchpads?

Yep, it's pretty common for many models to release an instruction-tuned and thinking-tuned model and then bench them against each other. For instance, if you scroll down to "Pure text performance" there's a comparison of these two Qwen models' performance: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
by foxglacier | 2025-11-06 20:20:58+00:00
"your citizens" includes your ISPs so you can forbid them from delivering that content to their customers in your country, which is just site blocking. The law could allow consumption of the material but not redistribution within your country so it's not the end user's responsibility but is the ISP's.

What about name suppression for criminal cases? If somebody is charged with a crime but hasn't yet had their trial, or is the victim of a crime such as sexual abuse, some countries will allow judges to forbid publication of their name (in case they turn out to be innocent) so local media can't say who it is but foreign media does and local people all know who it is anyway, defeating the purpose of name suppression. Perhaps we shouldn't have name suppression?
by kazinator | 2025-11-06 20:21:01+00:00
It's all very clear when you mentally replace "LLM" with "text completion driven by compressed training data".

E.g.

[Text copletion driven by compressed training data] exhibit[s] a puzzling inconsistency: [it] solves complex problems yet frequently fail[s] on seemingly simpler ones.

Some problems are better represented by a locus of texts in the training data, allowing more plausible talk to be generated. When the problem is not well represented, it does not help that the problem is simple.

If you train it on nothing but Scientology documents, and then ask about the Buddhist perspective on a situation, you will probably get some nonsense about body thetans, even if the situation is simple.
by uvesten | 2025-11-06 20:21:21+00:00
So, reading the documentation in the [repo](https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk/...) it’s immediately made clear that you should use the Enterprise Edition for production use. (Since the German state is behind this, why not focus on totally free software for production use?)

But what really surprised me are statements like this in the README:

” Nextcloud Enterprise: openDesk uses the Nextcloud Enterprise to the build Nextcloud container image for oD EE. The Nextcloud EE codebase might contain EE exclusive (longterm support) security patches, plus the Guard app, that is not publicly available, while it is AGPL-3.0 licensed.

And

COOL Controller container image and Helm chart: Source code and chart are using Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, but the source code is not public. It is provided to customers upon request. ”

This, according with other paragraphs describing percentages of free and non-free code in certain components really makes me wonder…
by yann-gael | 2025-11-06 20:21:25+00:00
The peer-review process is the heartbeat of academic publishing. It is how researchers ensure that knowledge moves forward through scrutiny, feedback, and validation. Authors submit their manuscripts to journals or conferences, and editors send them to other experts who assess the work's originality, rigour, and relevance.

In this blog, I try to dissect the question: Should the names of reviewers be made public alongside the papers they review?
by detectivestory | 2025-11-06 20:21:26+00:00
Yes, it is a Germanic language. The title is a tongue-in-cheek jibe about how much the English language has borrowed from French and Latin. I believe the majority of English words come from Latin/French although the top 100 most spoken words are generally Germanic. People seem to forget that England was ruled by French speaking people for a long time, and that had a huge impact on the development of the English we speak today.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-06 20:22:30+00:00
I'm tired of this ol' propaganda trope.

* We're leading the world in fusion research. https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-perf...

* Our satellites are giving us by far the best understanding of our universe, capturing one third of the visible sky in incredible detail - just check out this mission update video if you want your mind blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCBFlIpvfQ

* Not only that, the Copernicus mission is the world's leading source for open data geoobservation: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/

* We've given the world mRNA vaccines to solve the Covid crisis and GLP-1 antagonists to solve the obesity crisis.

* CERN and is figuring out questions about the fundamental nature of the universe, with the LHC being by far the largest particle accelerator in the world, an engineering precision feat that couldn't have been accomplished anywhere else.

Pioneering, innovation and drive forward isn't just about the latest tech fad. It's about fundamental research on how our universe works. Everyone else is downstream of us.
by dcliu | 2025-11-06 20:22:51+00:00
That's a strong claim for not looking into it at all.

From a brief glance at the white paper it looks like they are using TEE, which would mean that the root of trust is the hardware chip vendor (e.g. Intel). Then, it is possible for confidentiality guarantees to work if you can trust the vendor of the software that is running. That's the whole purpose of TEE.
by floxy | 2025-11-06 20:23:04+00:00
I'm surprised it is so low. Maybe because it is combining Traditional TV and Streaming into one category?

"watching traditional TV is set to collapse to just 1 hour and 17 minutes."

...I wonder how this breaks down. Is most of it sports related? I don't even know what is offered any more on TV, so I don't know what I'm missing. I'm assuming it is still the standard mix of medical dramas, cop shows, and reality shows? Plus sports, and old people arguing/yelling on the standard Sunday political shows? And I'm Gen X.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-06 20:23:40+00:00
Well, unless the person giving the corporate-sounding reply is the same one who made the decision to activate the translation bot in the first place, then no, it's not just two fallible humans. I have to assume there were multiple fallible humans involved in the process of doing the things that the Japanese user is responding to.

People are talking a lot here about the tone of the discussion, but lets not forget that the only reason the discussion is happening is because someone unleashed a translation bot. That was an actual action that was taken, and that is the root of the issue here, not what anyone said on a forum.
by stdbrouw | 2025-11-06 20:24:31+00:00
In the US income from a hobby can just be added to your personal filing [1] and in Belgium, where I live, there is a similar arrangement for "diverse sources of income" [2]. If you do start a business, in the European Union you're exempt from filing VAT if your yearly revenue is below a certain amount [3]. Europe has also been pretty aggressive in getting rid of licensing requirements for various occupations and trades, certainly a photographer wouldn't need a license here.

I think the trouble you faced, resulted from being at the edge of these kinds of simple systems that do exist -- big enough to need to set up a business, but small enough that hiring an accountant or spending time to familiarize yourself with the legal requirements was out of proportion to the expected revenue. That's unfortunate, of course, but doesn't necessarily reflect on the amount of red tape that exists in general in a country.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/heres-how-to-tell-the-differenc...

[2] https://www.vlaanderen.be/economie-en-ondernemen/een-eigen-z...

[3] https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-exemp...
by devrundown | 2025-11-06 20:24:52+00:00
I read 1-3 hours a day. Usually 1-2 hours reading on my Kindle before bed. Then another hour or so via audiobook while walking, doing chores, in the car etc...

But sometimes I will go through a slump, then see a book that really looks interesting and get into it.

Don't feel bad about starting a book and then not finishing it. Life's too short to read books you're not into.
by more_corn | 2025-11-06 20:25:31+00:00
If only there was a way to deploy solar production at the point of consumption so power didn’t need to be transferred. We’d need large chunks of unused flat surface pointing towards the sky, preferably at an angle. Oh wait we have that on top of every home (coincidentally the south or west face of every roof provides about enough surface area to power most homes). Now we need some cheap way of storing energy produced during the day for use at night. Humm. Got that too. Government don’t even need to pay the full price for this resilience and climate mitigation. Programs offering fractional tax credits have shown great success in increasing deployments of rooftop solar and distributed battery storage.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-06 20:26:08+00:00
An evolutionary algorithm doesn't need a differentiable objective function, but it can't work with a simple "1 if you got it right, 0 otherwise". It is an iterative approach and at each step it needs to be able to distinguish "better" from "worse" candidates. You certainly can't just say to AlphaEvolve "off you go, I'll tell you when you got it right".

Taking the Collatz Conjecture I used as an example just now, you can trivially write an objective function that outputs 1 for a correct Lean proof of it and 0 for an incorrect one, but AlphaEvolve won't be able to work on that. It needs to be able to assess a collection of incorrect proofs to identify the most promising ones for the next step. I don't know how you'd even start on that, and it's certainly not what they've been doing with AlphaEvolve.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-06 20:26:13+00:00
> "People with real questions get roped in by an enthusiastically confirming sycophantic model that will never question or push back, just confirm and lead on."

> That wasn't too buried IMHO

I read that, but still fail to see evidence of a concrete "disaster". For example, are we seeing a huge wave of suicides that are statistical outliers triggered by using Chatbots? Or maybe the worry (unsubstantiated) is that there's a lagging effect and the disaster is approaching.

I suspect the outcomes are going to be less catastrophic; specifically, it seems to me that more people will have access to a much better level of support than they could get with a therapist (who is not available 24/7, who has less to draw upon, is likely too expensive, etc.). Even if there's an increase in some harm, my instinct from first principles is that the net benefit will be clear.
by Majromax | 2025-11-06 20:26:26+00:00
> If OpenAI or Anthropic could squeeze the same output out of smaller GPUs and servers they'd be doing it for themselves.

First, they do this; that's why they release models at different price points. It's also why GPT-5 tries auto-routing requests to the most cost-effective model.

Second, be careful about considering the incentives of these companies. They all act as if they're in an existential race to deliver 'the' best model; the winner-take-all model justifies their collective trillion dollar-ish valuation. In that race, delivering 97% of the performance at 10% of the cost is a distraction.
by aendruk | 2025-11-06 20:26:32+00:00
I use Firefox exclusively. Crashes:

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by jMyles | 2025-11-06 20:27:14+00:00
I'm concerned that, even here on HN, we are underestimating both the magnitude of this looming conflict and also its inevitable conclusion.

The internet is bigger than you and me, and it's bigger than computers. It is an evolutionary force. It is not going to be stopped, and certainly not by states whose popularity and authority are waning so rapidly.

Moreover, the internet keeps as its core function the proclivity to copy and store bytes, and from this very simple mechanism emerges a large set of tools and norms that supplant nearly all of the ways that nation states perpetuate power.

What we desperately need are the elder statesmen and women to stand up and soberly see the writing on the wall, and gracefully deprecate the systems of which they will soon lose control, starting with nuclear weapons.

I don't believe this has to end in violence or acrimony of any kind. But we have run out of time to act like petulant children, crying that somebody took our empire away.

Very soon (ie, in the next couple centuries, maybe sooner), a few small nation states will adopt frameworks of zero IP, allowing all the content of the internet to be housed there, and from there, accessed by the entire planet.

Some other nation states may attempt some kind of embargo or sanctions, but these will obviously fail, just as the attempts by Russia and China to censor the internet within their borders have failed (and are failing with greater volume with each passing day). And before you cry that adoption in China is too low to support this conclusion, consider that the work to resist the GFW has begat some of the best networking tools in the world, with rapidity of evolution increasing, not decreasing. Even if fear and violence can stem adoption for a few decades or even centuries, the toolchain continues to grow and will tip the scales over sufficiently long time scales.

Let's not let this become a world information war. Let's install peace now while it's still easy to do. Let's dispense with IP and live in a world of joyous open access to information.
by gmueckl | 2025-11-06 20:27:21+00:00
Bidirectional powerlines make the grid more stable for tha larger region around most countries because it makes it easier to route around the conflict as far as capacities permit. Not many countries span coast to coast in a way that couldn't be routed around. So that would actually increase the vulnerability of individual countries.

The EU is actually extremely special because its souvereign member states collaborate in almost all areas on a level that is unmatched anywhere else. But the ideological foundation is getting eroded by propaganda and if that assault is effective, Europe will balcanize again and end up experiencing many more armed conflicts.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-11-06 20:27:28+00:00
Markets tend toward monopoly like democracies tend towards dictatorship.

In both cases, we need checks and balances to ensure that does not happen.

When it does, that group tends to be weaker for it in the long run so evolution takes its course.

Changing a failing system is very hard. I agree. Maybe it's not possible. But we need to have some vision of a positive future for the negative to not win by default. Cynicism is self-fulfilling.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-06 20:27:37+00:00
Approximately every home wifi router I've ever used has a class C subnet configured by default, out of the box.

That's enough for over 250 networked widgets to be concurrently connected with IPV4. That's a lot of widgets for one home.

If a person is getting into the realm of having a home with more than 250 networked widgets and addressing is becoming problematic in ways that are beyond their understanding and/or ability, then:

I might suggest that this is roughly equivalent to any other household thing that a homeowner doesn't fully understand (or that they don't want to understand), and that it would be completely fair to remind them that it is perfectly normal and acceptable to hire a qualified person or company to -- you know -- look into that for them.

(It's ok to hire a plumber, or a roofer, or a painter, or a cleaner, or any number of other professionals to help with making stuff work. It's also OK to hire someone to work on the network.)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-06 20:27:42+00:00
> I think people have forgotten how extreme a position this is

If you can forget that a position is extreme, doesn't that imply that it's a relatively unoffensive and reasonable position? For actual extreme positions like "reduce housing scarcity by murdering some category of people" or "mitigate climate change by prohibiting human reproduction", does anyone need to be reminded that they're extreme?

> the idea that once something is on the internet, national law simply ceases to apply and governments should have absolutely zero control over obscene material, IP infringment, harassment, libel, foreign propaganda, money laundering, fraudulent financial services, gambling, and so on - simply because it's hosted in a different country.

Is this any different than the premise of sovereignty to begin with?

If you live somewhere gambling is illegal you can get on a flight to Las Vegas. If you want to buy a gun and go to the range to shoot it, or buy a piece of land where you can keep your gun, you can go to Texas, even though there are countries where guns and private land ownership by non-citizens are illegal. If you want to use certain drugs you can go to certain other countries.

Isn't the extreme position that a country should be able to control what you do even when you're willingly choosing to do it in another jurisdiction? Do the people own the government or does the government own the people?
How to use career break time?
by mahimamanik | 2025-11-06 20:27:54+00:00
I am a software developer, mostly working on AI application layer. I have always worked and never had a career break.

For some reasons, I can't start my job or officially work for next 1-2 months.

I want to learn new things, build, but I can't figure it out on my own.

Can someone please advise what's the best way to use my time and not go crazy?
by soVeryTired | 2025-11-06 20:28:06+00:00
I didn't say it wasn't alarming, I said it wasn't civilization- or nation-ending. Unless you're a tiny island nation, in which case I'll happily retract what I'm saying.

There are degrees of awfulness between "the end of all mankind" and "nothing to see here", but it seems like there's a taboo on calling those shades of grey out when it comes to climate change.
by msy | 2025-11-06 20:28:11+00:00
This is a bizarrely negative take. No residential is being charged negative prices without very, very explicitly joining a plan that exposes them to the direct minute-by-minute wholesale price. Most 'EV' plans include free hours during the day (and much cheaper power in the early hours as well), it's likely it'll be standard within months thanks to this.

They are now also subsidising batteries while should help meet the wave of solar with a wave of distributed storage capacity to smooth out grid demand as well as successful rollout of grid-scale batteries.

This is a generational success story big enough to have geo-strategic implications.