MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rzerowan | 2025-11-01 22:40:03+00:00
Funnily enough the only viable deployment was AuroraOS in Russia , which they cut ties with after the war started (pretty shortsighted IMO) as the equivalent US ops merely paused their operations with options for future return. I think Google only stopped monetization of play store from Visa/MC CC ban , while maintianing their operations there. Meanwhile the sailfish guys set their largest successful deployment on fire with no recourse for reapprochment once the peace returns. As im thinking the RU market would be drifting more towards Chines tech ala HarmonyOS etc if they want alternatives to Android/IOS.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-01 22:40:27+00:00
> Don't use doom etc, just standard emacs, otherwise you won't have any understanding of what is happening and how to fix it.

Doom and Spacemacs are IMO sufficiently good abstractions that you will almost never need to have understanding of the underlying system and to fix things. Sure for curiosity's sake you should still learn what's happening under the hood. But the abstraction is almost never leaky. I think everyone beginning Emacs should start with Doom or Spacemacs and optionally build their own config later on.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-01 22:40:43+00:00
I checked with Ubuntu's ffmpeg and it is enabled by default. There are a huge list of codecs enabled by default (maybe all of them?). Given the security track record of codecs implemented in C, this means it's basically guaranteed that there are dozens of security vulnerabilities in ffmpeg.

I think the same is probably true for VLC to a lesser extent, which is pretty wild considering I've never heard of it being used as an attack vector, e.g. via torrents.
by vladms | 2025-11-01 22:41:46+00:00
> Should content creators get paid?

Everybody "creates content" (like me when I take a picture of beautiful sunset).

There is no such thing as "quality". There is quality for me and quality for you. That is part of the problem, we can't just relate to some external, predefined scale. We (the sum of people) are the approximate, chaotic, inefficient scale.

Be my guest to propose a "perfect system", but - just in case there is no such system - we should make sure each of us "rewards" what we find of quality (being people or content creators), and hope it will prevail. Seemed to have worked so far.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-01 22:42:15+00:00
Its almost impossible to have a non-begging based business model and a standard OpenSource license. So unless you want to donate a lot of work to some huge company's bottom line for free, a standard OpenSource license is a non starter. I'm sorry that you don't seem to understand the events that led to this state. But if you ever wrote an OpenSource platform that people wanted to use, you would know why the standard licenses don't work. That's why the social stigma is the other way around. Your position from the POV of OpenSource devs is naive at best and likely destructive to the developers themselves.
by RustSupremacist | 2025-11-01 22:42:16+00:00
Focus on a language that isn't a moving target, sir.

And this argument about "young" contributors is the same nonsense that came from your senior management. But you're independent.

Aren't the experienced engineers supposed to be leading the next generation? If you really want to get the young folks on board, drop Ubuntu and call it Gyatt. Instead of LTS, call it Rizz. Just think of all the young who will want to work on Skibidi 26.04!

Rust attracts hype and hype artists. Ask me how I know. Do you want drive-by people or do you want long-term community members? There are many young folk interested in learning C and looking for adequate mentorship along with a project to work on. Wouldn't that be a better use of energy? Have you even put out any outreach to attract others to these projects where you say you're alone?

You are making a mistake and falling on the sword for your bosses at the same time. Tough days are here but maybe hold on for better employment than this.
by HaZeust | 2025-11-01 22:42:30+00:00
I've never heard him say that he believes rent control will solve housing affordability. Can you share where you've seen him say that?

I've seen him say it will prevent landlord exploitation, but by definition - almost any pragmatic appliance of rent control will admit a goal of cheaper month-to-month rent. At present, a lot of rental properties have a monthly payment that are equal to - or sometimes more - than mortgage payments for similar* offerings in the same area.

It then follows logically that if rent control leads to cheaper rent, and a lot of rent costs are presently equal to or more than mortgage payments, then it makes renting affordability easier - and housing affordability is still innately more expensive. Rent control is a rent solution, and I guess it makes RENTAL of housing more affordable - which is good. But it's not a solution for the costs of buying houses.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-01 22:42:34+00:00
> The problems, in my view, are bandwidth and behavior, but not for the reasons noted. In a dating profile, you can carefully curate every part of your first impression. This means that 1) you need to have basically a perfect profile (doesn't mean you come off as the hottest, just that it's all green flags) because otherwise you are not putting your best foot forward, and 2) the dating profile is not reflective of the reality of the person.

I would rather create a very honest profile because if some potential candidate is rather into the "artificial persona" that I project in my profile, when the relationship gets more serious, the match will soon realize that in real life I'm not a particular good fit.
by RicoElectrico | 2025-11-01 22:43:07+00:00
Collaboration fuels innovation: Apple's reliance on specialized third-party suppliers, such as TSMC and Bosch, enables it to focus on refining design and user experience while leveraging the technical expertise and R&D of its partners for advanced components. Outsourcing is a strategic necessity: The complexity and cost of producing certain components, such as chips and sensors, make it impractical for Apple to develop everything in-house. By outsourcing, Apple taps into specialized knowledge while staying competitive. Suppliers are key to Apple's success: Companies like SiTime and Texas Instruments provide essential components that allow the Apple Pencil Pro to deliver high performance, showcasing the importance of Apple's global network of partners.

Excuse me, this is how almost every high tech company works? Feels like an LLM wrote it, especially considering how empty it is, reiterating the same thing 3 times with different buzzwords.
by mechanical_berk | 2025-11-01 22:43:07+00:00
I agree. It seems like this bug arises because one Future is awaited while another is ignored. I have seen this sort of bug a lot.

So maybe all that is needed is a lint that warns if you keep a Future (or a reference to one) across an await point? The Future you are awaiting wouldn't count of course. Is there some case where this doesn't work?
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-01 22:43:20+00:00
Oh really?

I dare you to say with a straight face that opinions questioning the legal doctrine or legitimacy of civil regulation are anything other than an occasional rounding errors when the subject is any sort of regulation that people here generally likes.

It is not at all a stretch to say this HN believes strongly that administrative/civil law as it mostly currently stands is highly legitimate.

Of course, backpedaling and hair splitting ensues and the "doesn't represent us all" excuse flies when someone points out that those legal doctrines and, precedents are also empowering ICE. At some point you're responsible for who you associate with.
by Alupis | 2025-11-01 22:43:30+00:00
Is being in an airport actually considered private?

It's a public space, and you must show ID to gain access to the secured area. Additionally, you are subjected to baggage and carry-on inspection, as well as body inspection and metal detection, etc. There are cameras everywhere, monitoring and recording everything.

Presumably this system was designed to recognize individuals that may be traveling under false-identities, and are known "bad guys" - otherwise the nation-state security apparatus would have known about the attempted air travel well in advance.

The ability to abuse this system may be real, but it seems much more likely your rights would be violated well before you reached any facial recognition systems.
by shawkatkabbara | 2025-11-01 22:43:33+00:00
In this episode, I sat down with Shawkat Kabbara, Founder & CEO of Papr AI, to discuss why traditional RAG systems fundamentally break at scale.

Key insights: • Why retrieval gets WORSE with more data (backed by Google research) • The 400-500ms latency requirement that kills personalized voice AI • How multi-agent systems create hallucination cascades • Brain-inspired predictive memory architecture as the solution • Why you need to predict context, not just retrieve it

We dive into retrieval loss metrics, the working memory approach inspired by the prefrontal cortex, and why Paper built prediction layers instead of another search-based system. Perfect for developers building production AI systems who are hitting the limits of RAG.
by bulubulu | 2025-11-01 22:43:54+00:00
Review papers are summarizations to recent updates in the field that deserve fellow researchers' attention. Such works should be done annually or at most quarterly in my opinion, to include only time-tested results. If hundreds of review papers are published every month, I am afraid that their quality in terms of paper selection and innovative interpretation/direction will not be much higher than the content generated by LLM, even if written word-to-word by a real scientist.

LLMs are good at plainly summarizing from the public knowledge base. Scientists should invest their time in contributing new knowledge to public base instead of doing the summarization.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-01 22:45:00+00:00
I feel like you’re misunderstanding their point.

It’s not that the vulnerability was found and reported, it’s that a trillion plus dollar organization that no doubt actively uses ffmpeg in a litany of spaces is punting the important work of fixing it to volunteers.

This is the same issue that we’re seeing over with XSLT in Chrome: they’re happy when they’re making money off the back of these projects but balk when it comes down to supporting them.

(Yes, everyone is aware Google contributes to open source. They’re still one of the most valuable companies to ever exist, there is almost no excuse for them getting away with this trade off)
by elcritch | 2025-11-01 22:45:49+00:00
The BDFL Araq is the primary creator but there's a small team of paid core developers. There's also a number of open source contributors. So it's a commercial project as well. They offer support contracts too.

> If it is correct, and mostly created by one person - how? Are they a genius? Is creating your own programming language from scratch something anyone can accomplish if they just go for it?

Creating a compiler can be one by a single person. Maintaining it is harder, especially for commercial support contracts. That's where teams are needed, and Nim has that.

However a lot of the issues many languages is overcomplicated design. Nim is ardantly a pragmatic language. NJVL is an example of that.

> Or is it just something that shouldn't be trusted/used for commercial purposes because it's not as "legit" as a newer language like rust for example?

I say it can be trusted. It's survived ~20 years. Statistically it'll likely survive another 20.

I'd say it's not too different from Zig or Elixir on the compiler and language side. There's a number companies and open source projects using it.

Sure Rust is going to be bigger but also Rust is far more complicated as a language. Similarly for packages I found there's 10 crates of varying quality and incompatible. With Nim I can take something like Pixie for images and make an image finding library in a day that outperforms opencv without struggling with crates or dev compiler features.

Nim's used at Reddit, Status IM, and more. Especially with LLMS it's pretty easy to switch languages, to make support libraries, get devs productive, etc so there's much less risk these days IMO.

> It's just a weird vibe - it seems like it should be so much more popular than it is.

It should be more popular!

A few things hold back broader adoption IMHO. A big one is that it's a "European" language as Araq and team is European which sort of distances it from the SV and HN zeitgeist. There's a lot to "hype" factor. Nim has a more of a slow and steady adoption like early Python, IMHO.

Secondly it's just found it's niche by focusing on being a systems language with reference counted memory system with excellent metaprogramming. In the past things community issues arose, or lots of people disliked case insensitivity. Those issues have mostly settled though with case insensitivity being phased out.

LSP needs improvement. Nimony is designed to solve that.
by dctoedt | 2025-11-01 22:45:59+00:00
> You can’t undo racial discrimination against someone who is now dead by discriminating against someone else who is now alive.

A better way to look at it: We can and should try to mitigate the indirect, generational disadvantages of past racial discrimination. Some of those disadvantages are domino effects, manifested over many years. They're the evil twin of generational wealth.

Those generational disadvantages can be a drag on the descendants of the victims of the past discrimination. That gives a certain amount of comparative advantage to those of us whose ancestors didn't suffer racial discrimination — and who benefit from present-day white advantage even when our ancestors weren't among the racial oppressors.

Sure, my various immigrant grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents had to deal with a certain amount of ethnic discrimination. But it was nothing like that suffered by nonwhites.

The YouTube "head start in the race of life" video is spot on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vvHWAjh3Ks

Some will say, it's not my job to mitigate today's effects of past discrimination. That seems ... uncitizenly, if you will.
by georgehopkin | 2025-11-01 22:46:00+00:00
State-of-the-art AI models tasked with controlling a robot for simple household chores struggled significantly, with the best model scoring only 40% on a new benchmark, compared to 95% for humans.

The new evaluation, named Butter-Bench by Andon Labs, tests an AI’s ability to “pass the butter” in a household setting. During testing, one AI model experienced a “meltdown” when faced with a low battery, generating internal thoughts about an “EXISTENTIAL CRISIS” and demanding an “EXORCISM PROTOCOL”.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-01 22:46:14+00:00
Eh I'd give the author a bit of a benefit of the doubt. It's probably just sloppy writing for identifying correlation but not causation. PM2.5 particles themselves are not categorically neurotoxins; they just happen to be associated with other neurotoxins, such that high PM2.5 is a good proxy for high neurotoxin pollutants.
by Frannky | 2025-11-01 22:46:20+00:00
It's probably a mix of what you're working on and how you're using the tool. If you can't get it done for free or cheaply, it makes sense to pay. I first design the architecture in my mind, then use Grok 4 fast (free) for single-shot generation of main files. This forces me to think first, and read the generated code to double-check. Then, the CLI is mostly for editing, clerical work, testing, etc. That said, I do try to avoid coding altogether if the CLI + MCP servers + MD files can solve the problem.
by gryfft | 2025-11-01 22:46:41+00:00
I just looked this up on Wikipedia the other day. I was surprised to learn that this study has recently been discredited.

> Rosenhan’s paper continues to be cited hundreds of times a year, and its alleged findings are seen as crucial evidence of psychiatry’s failings. Yet based on the findings of an investigative journalist, Susannah Cahalan, and on records she shared with the author, we now know that this research is a spectacularly successful case of scientific fraud.

0. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957154X221150878
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-11-01 22:47:09+00:00
Thanks for your great work on one bus away. This is such a fantastic app for people riding the bus. It uses info from the bus system to tell you how far the bus is away from your stop. It deals pretty well with the messy dynamic reality that traffic can slowdown or speed up, or even a bus has to stop for some reason and so the next one will come.

Check it out if you are in one of their cities.
by RicoElectrico | 2025-11-01 22:47:20+00:00
At the time, Intel believed the mobile phone processor market was too small to justify the immense R&D investment required to deliver on Apple's request. Designing chips is an incredibly costly endeavor, and Intel assumed that the volumes wouldn't be large enough to cover those costs. In hindsight, this decision would go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in business history. Otellini later admitted that Intel had drastically miscalculated, underestimating potential demand by 100x.

Admittedly this one is funny given the "Intel lifecycle" as my colleagues who are Intel alumni put it: acquire a company for a mountain of cash (much more than it'd cost to develop an SoC back in 2000s) only to fumble its potential. And the current CEO might be continuing this lunacy if rumors about AI startup acquisition are true.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-11-01 22:47:50+00:00
I guess there are several unsaid assumptions here. The article is by a domain expert working on their domain. Throw work you understand at it, see what it does. Do it before you even work on it. I kind of assumed based on the audience that most people here would be domain experts.

As for the building intuition, perhaps I am over-estimating what most people are capable of.

Working with and building systems using LLMs over the last few years has helped me build a pretty good intuition about what is breaking down when the model fails at a task. While having an ML background is useful in some very narrow cases (like: 'why does an LLM suck at ranking...'), I "think" a person can get a pretty good intuition purely based on observational outcomes.

I've been wrong before though. When we first started building LLM products, I thought, "Anyone can prompt, there is no barrier for this skill." That was not the case at all. Most people don't do well trying to quantify ambiguity, specificity, and logical contridiction when writing a process or set of instructions. I was REALLY surprised how I became a "go-to" person to "fix" prompt systems all based on linguistics and systematic process decomposition. Some of this was understaing how the auto-regressive attention system benefits from breaking the work down into steps, but really most of it was just "don't contradict yourself and be clear".

Working with them extensively also has helped me hone in on how the models get "better" with each release. Though most of my expertise is with OpenAI and Antrhopic model families.

I still think most engineers "should" be able to build intuition generally on what works well with LLMs and how to interact with them, but you are probably right. It will be just like most ML engineers where they see something work in a paper and then just paste it onto their model with no intuition about what systemically that structurally changes in the model dynamics.
by gnfargbl | 2025-11-01 22:47:55+00:00
FFmpeg seem to be taking the position that their code must be considered insecure in production unless you pay them for security consulting [1].

On the one hand, that's fine; it's their project, and if attack surface is not a priority for them, or they want to monetise that function, then nobody else has a right to complain.

On the other hand, we have plenty of evidence that untrusted input validation bugs pose a very high risk to end users. So, for as long as this is their policy, FFmpeg code really should not be included in any system where security is at all important. Perhaps we need a "fundamentally unsafe for use" sticker for OSS projects taking this stance?

[1] https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1984425167070630289
by miki123211 | 2025-11-01 22:48:13+00:00
LLMs are tools that make it easier to hack incentives, but you still need a person to decide that they'll use an LLM t do so.

Blaming LLMs is unproductive. They are not going anywhere (especially since open source LLMs are so good.)

If we want to achieve real change, we need to accept that they exist, understand how that changes the scientific landscape and our options to go from here.
by BoredPositron | 2025-11-01 22:48:25+00:00
I am not a fan anymore I used it for over a year on a XPERIA XA2. It's usable but barely so. The Android layer usually craps out with heavier apps or crawls to a halt. Most of the native apps are really basic I would compare them to early Windows Phone apps in functionality and UX. The UX itself is an odd mix of really intuitive and absolute horrible. It seems like they are missing focus and the felt development stalled for some years now. I hope plasma or gnome get more momentum because this isn't a viable alternative for 90% of smartphone users. Meego was better and I don't understand why they pivoted in the direction they are going now. It's certainly opinionated.
by rzerowan | 2025-11-01 22:48:38+00:00
'In Europe' , as noted American ios/androis and their stores still work .At a reduced capacity yeah , but ready to restore links when the time comes around.Ditto for all other major brands (US) even though they arent issuing press releases. From a purely biz perspective they could have gone 'yeah were pausing until blah blah ..' instead of salting the earth on one of their largest/succeesful deployments.
by solid_fuel | 2025-11-01 22:49:07+00:00
> They're all going to receive a blanket pardon.

Well, we've already crossed into "the law is what I say it is" territory thanks to the republicans, so the next admin just needs to leverage that. The GOP thinks that pardons signed by autopen are invalid [0] so I don't see what would stop the democrats from apply the same logic to ICE agents and administration, except perhaps cowardice.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5575379-house-gop-comer-d...
by econ | 2025-11-01 22:49:12+00:00
You have the right idea what should take priority when trying to accomplish something.

If you interrupt me to correct me I actually admire it. Extra points if you get to do it twice in a sentence.

I'm taking about repeatedly interrupting the next step with irrelevant back story or worse, a not even related topic.

The big question I suppose is if your thoughts continue to go poof if you try harder to hold onto them.
by rolandog | 2025-11-01 22:49:42+00:00
Totally agreed. There's a great "Philosophize This!" episode I recently listened to precisely about this topic [0].

[0]: "Episode #237 ... The Stoics Are Wrong - Nietzche, Schopenhauer" <https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/h48mld6lelcfrts-c55...>
by codemonkey-zeta | 2025-11-01 22:49:48+00:00
> you trade away your ability to make structural guarantees about which functions depend on which fields

You might make this trade off using map keys like strings or keywords, but not if you use namespace qualified keywords like ::my-namespace/id, in combination with something like spec.alpha or malli, in which case you can easily make those structural guarantees in a way that is more expressive than an ordinary type system.