MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pansa2 | 2025-11-05 14:39:51+00:00
> in a language subset you're always encountering things you would have in the full language

Exactly. I once pitched the idea of a Python subset (with a different focus, not performance like SPy), and almost every reaction was "will it support <favourite Python feature / favourite library>".

For example, a new language can build its own solution for array math, or maybe that's not something its users need. OTOH many consider a Python subset to be unacceptable if it doesn't specifically support NumPy.

In the end I came to agree with https://pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/20/the-alternative-impl...:

> positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition

> don't go trying to create a subset of Python [...] Do your own thing. That way, you can evolve your system at your own pace and in your own direction, without being chained by expectations that your language should have to match the performance, feature set, or library ecosystem of another implementation.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-11-05 14:40:06+00:00
The actual hardware (or virtual these days) is not the problem, but getting the 5000-10000 services properly connected with auditing, credentials and more is more trouble than most people expect.

Finance is a heavily regulated industry, so there’s a LOT of compliance that needs to happen, like segregation of duty, traceability, accountability, and other ilities.

Yes, it would probably cost less to run on Hetzner (provided their ISO audits are approved by financial authorities), but dynamically spinning up and down servers would cost more.

You also need fallback plans (regulated industry, critical infrastructure, etc).

It has literally taken years to get AWS and Azure approved in EU.
by Grumbledour | 2025-11-05 14:40:44+00:00
It's "Rattenfänger von Hameln" in german, so the literal translation would be "Rat-Catcher of Hamelin".

I do remember him wearing brightly colored patchwork clothing in the stories, but I could not say if that was an integral part of the original fable or just added in retellings to make the character stand out more as a mysterious stranger.
by virtualritz | 2025-11-05 14:41:01+00:00
> [...] I'm using Opus 4.1 which is much better but seems to have much lower usage limits than before Sonnet 4.5 was released [...]

Yes, it's down from 40h/week to 3-5h/week on Max plan, effectively. A real bummer. See my comment here [1] regarding [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604301

[2] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8449
by zamadatix | 2025-11-05 14:41:46+00:00
My only gripe is nearly all common "ultrawide" models should really be thought of as "ultrashort" in that they don't offer more width, just less height.

E.g. a 21:9 ultrawide variant of 4k should really be 5040x2160. Instead they are nearly all 3840x1600. That may well be cost/price optimal for certain folks, I'm not saying it's bad for the product itself to exist, but nobody was looking at a 1600p monitor thinking "man, I wish they'd make a wider variant!" they started with 4k and decided it would be nice if it were permanently shortened.
by alsetmusic | 2025-11-05 14:42:03+00:00
And if you're a shy introvert, putting yourself in uncomfortable social environments will shave time from your life. I'm glad I learned to keep my social interactions more personal. They fuel me when they're one on one or a groups of three. Going to large group events in my 20s was a major source of anxiety, but now I just avoid them (not that they happen so much when you get older anyway).

It makes sense that things that make us happy can improve the way our bodies work because it's been obvious for a while that things that cause stress contribute to bodily wear and tear. But it's worthwhile to find evidence because that's how we do science, so I'm happy it's being considered and studied.
by dietr1ch | 2025-11-05 14:42:57+00:00
I prefer 3 monitors because it eases window management while being cheaper. For gaming I only need one 240Hz+ monitor and for Lan parties I only take that one.

Although for sim racing I've been thinking about getting a single ultra wide and high refresh rate monitor, but I'd probably go for a dedicated setup with a seat, monitor and speakers. It gets pricey, but cheaper than crashing IRL.
by isodev | 2025-11-05 14:43:10+00:00
Apple complied but maliciously in the EU making it very difficult and very expensive to offer apps on alt stores. They also made sure to add scary warnings so one can never offer a normal onboarding flow.

> Apple’s App Store for security

The App Store doesn’t do anything to protect you in that sense. It’s easy to circumvent and these days it’s cheaper to just buy an iOS exploit than go through the trouble of making a shady app.
by dangus | 2025-11-05 14:43:25+00:00
Let’s run down your use cases:

Human-only Internet: why choose this implementation over something simpler? Surely there’s a simpler way to prove you’re human that doesn’t involve 3D avatar construction on a head-worn display that screws up your hair and makeup. [1] E.g., an Apple Watch-like device can verify you have a real pulse and oxygen in your blood.

Court: solution is already in place, which is showing up to a physical courtroom. Clearing backlogs can be done without a technological solution, it’s more of a process and staffing problem. Moving the judges from a court to a home office doesn’t magically make them clear cases faster.

Medical checkups: phone selfie camera

Bureaucratic appointments: solution in place, physical building, or many of these offer virtual appointments already over a webcam.

Web browsing without logins: passkeys, FaceID, fingerprint

[1] yet another male-designed tech bro product that never considered the concerns of the majority of the population.
by uxp100 | 2025-11-05 14:43:35+00:00
Also in the US, never been fingerprinted. Well, I think. You mentioned CA DMV, and I don’t remember a fingerprint, but I did have a California drivers license over a decade ago, so maybe? But most people don’t have security clearance, most are not in the military, most do not have global entry. Also the horse permit one is just funny.
by lumost | 2025-11-05 14:43:52+00:00
The big problem with AI in back-office automation is that it will randomly decide to do something different than it had been doing. Meaning that it could be happily crunching numbers accurately in your development and launch experience, then utterly drop the ball after a month in production.

While humans have the same risk factors, human oriented back-office processes involve multiple rounds of automated/manual checks which are extremely laborious. Human errors in spreadsheets have particular flavors such as forgotten cell, misstyped number, or reading from the wrong file/column. Human's are pretty good at catching these errors as they produce either completely wrong results when the columns don't line up - or the typo'd number is completely out of distribution.

An AI may simply decide to hallucinate realistic column values rather than extracting its assigned input. Or hallucinate a fraction of column values. How do you QA this? You can't guarantee that two invocations of the AI won't hallucinate the same values, you can't guarantee that a different LLM won't hallucinate different values. To get a real human check, you'd need to re-do the task as a human. In theory you can have the LLM perform some symbolic manipulation to improve accuracy... but it can still hallucinate the reasoning traces etc.

If a human decided to make up accounting numbers one out of every 10000 accounting requests they would likely be charged with fraud. Good luck finding the AI hallucinations at the equivalent level before some disaster occurs. Likewise, how do you ensure the human excel operator doesn't get pressured into certifying the AIs numbers when the "don't get fired this week" button is sitting right their in their excel app? how do you avoid the race to the bottom where the "star" employee is the one certifying the AI results without thorough review?

I'm bullish on AI in backoffice, but ignoring the real difficulties in deployment doesn't help us get there.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-05 14:43:53+00:00
Neither copilot nor flow can natively handle audio to my understanding, so there is already a transcription model converting it to text that then GPT tries to summarise.

It could be they simply use a mediocre transcription model. Wispr is amazing but would hurt their pride to use a competitor.

But i feel it's more likley the experience is; GPT didn't actually improve on the raw transcription, just made it worse. Especially as any miss-transcipted words may trip it up and make it misunderstand while making the summary.

if i can choose between a potentially confused and misunderstood summary, and a badly spellchecked (flipped words) raw transcription, i would trust the latter.
by davedx | 2025-11-05 14:44:21+00:00
Humans, legacy algorithmic systems, and LLM's have different error modes.

- Legacy systems typically have error modes where integrations or user interface breaks in annoying but obvious ways. Pure algorithms calculating things like payroll tend to be (relatively) rigorously developed and are highly deterministic.

- LLMs have error modes more similar to humans than legacy systems, but more limited. They're non-deterministic, make up answers sometimes, and almost never admit they can't do something; sometimes they make pure errors in arithmetic or logic too.

- Humans have even more unpredictable error modes; on top of the errors encountered in LLM's, they also have emotion, fatigue, org politics, demotivation, misaligned incentives, and so on. But because we've been dealing with working with other humans for ten thousand years we've gotten fairly good at managing each other... but it's still challenging.

LLMs probably need a mixture of "correctness tests" (like evals/unit tests) and "management" (human-in-the-loop).
by b3lvedere | 2025-11-05 14:44:24+00:00
I have seen lots and lots of different uses for Excel in my line of work:

- password database - script to automatically rename jpeg files - game - grocery lists - Book keeping (and try and not get caught for fraud several years, because the monthly spending limit is $5000 and $4999 a month is below that...) - embed/collect lots of Word documents - coloring book - Minecraft processes - Resume database - ID scans
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-05 14:44:28+00:00
For the example it would be easily caught with PBT by testing the left and right identities for addition.

In general though, the advice is don't excessively dogmatic. If you can't devise a property to test, use traditional testing with examples. It's not that hard. Same way to deal with the problem of end-to-end tests or unit tests not being useful for certain things, use the appropriate test style and approach to your problem.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-05 14:44:48+00:00
> In general, its a good idea to not rely on someone having installed nerdfonts / fonts with glyphs. Or at the very least offer fallback.

This bears emphasis; I sometimes use tools that try to use fancy fonts for icons, and it just gives me unreadable symbols because I don't have the font installed. And you might reasonably say, "just install the font package", but that only works if the font is packaged for my system, and I know what package it's in.
by brazukadev | 2025-11-05 14:44:48+00:00
Ok. Tem algum link de exemplo dos codigos criados ou algum sistema com usuarios pagos rodando? Production-ready? Manda ai pra eu ver. No repo nao tem.

Edit: dei uma olhada nos componentes. Cara, olha seu codigo:

const statsResponse = await fetch('http://localhost:5000/api/dashboard/stats'); const statsData = await statsResponse.json();

localhost hardcoded, me parece bem amador.
Show HN: Benchmark your team's AI coding security posture
by jaimefjorge | 2025-11-05 14:44:54+00:00
Hi HN.

We launched a free AI Coding Risk Assessment tool to help engineering teams and businesses benchmark the security and compliance posture of their AI coding workflows and policies against peers in the industry. This anonymous 24-question survey delivers:

- A 0–100 risk score that measures your AI coding security posture

- A live benchmark that compares your AI-assisted development practices with peers

- A research-based checklist that identifies improvement areas

We're seeing more and more clients signal their concerns about the sudden increase of source code written by AI coding agents that nobody’s fully watching or even knows how to oversee. That’s why we created this open benchmarking tool.

We hope this will help companies identify where they stand, compare themselves to the market, and take concrete, actionable steps to leverage AI at scale.

Thanks for reading, we are keen to hear your thoughts!

Link: https://ai-risk.codacy.com/
by boole1854 | 2025-11-05 14:44:59+00:00
Ok, so this post is a joke of some kind (there was no 1989 version of Blue Prince).

But it raises an interesting question: would it have been possible to implement that upside down floppy disk puzzle in a game?

1. Was it even possible to insert floppy disks upside down? I lived through the floppy disk era in my childhood, but I have to admit I can't remember if the drives would even let you do this.

2. If the answer to #1 is yes, would there be any way of programmatically detecting the floppy-disk-was-inserted-the-wrong-way state?
by ChocolateGod | 2025-11-05 14:45:24+00:00
> I think the European Commission is threading the needle, trying to find a path to uphold the DMA/DSA while not provoking another tariff war.

The EC is also under a lot of internal pressure from member states to calm down on the regulation, as it's considered one reason why Europe is such a bad place to do a tech startup right now.
Show HN: Icebreaker Games tiny library of icebreakers+random question generator
by qqxufo | 2025-11-05 14:46:05+00:00
I kept needing a quick, non-cringey opener for meetings/classes and got tired of scrolling listicles. So I made a small site that does two things:

A concise library of icebreaker activities (group size/time/steps; usable at a glance).

A random icebreaker question tool aiming to be safe and broadly workable.

I’d appreciate blunt feedback:

Which questions feel off or awkward?

What obvious activities are missing?

Is the structure/findability OK? Quick fixes you’d make first?

Generator: https://icebreaker-games.org/random-icebreaker-questions
by b2ccb2 | 2025-11-05 14:46:26+00:00
Here is a picture on Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattenf%C3%A4nger_von_Hameln#/...

I grew up around Hameln and can confirm, that is how he is depicted.

Also a depiction of him from 1592: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattenf%C3%A4nger_von_Hameln#/...

So it is part of the fable.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-05 14:46:40+00:00
Oh this isn't communism. Here are the facts, the Bolsheviks were a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. They originally participated in the democratic process before they took power. Regardless of the fact that they are going through the steps now, the end goal of the DSA is the abolishment of private property. Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, whatever you want to call it, is a uniquely evil ideology that kills millions as they hate anyone with more money. It has not worked a single time it has been attempted. Every single time it has been tried in any form, Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin/Stalin, etc. millions die.
by otikik | 2025-11-05 14:47:19+00:00
The "ground invasion/famine due to blockade" are hypotheticals. They don't have the same weight as 2 real atomic bombs that killed real people. Evidence of plans for those could have been easily fabricated. Even if the plans were real, they could have been cancelled, or not worked.

I do agree that this costed less American lives than other options, and that in war most options are shitty. Inevitably, most involve civilian deaths. But the guy who picks the "let's mass kill civilians" is not going to get sympathy from me.

So no, I don't accept the "more people would have died" argument. Less US soldiers, yes. And it's not like the other side wasn't committing war crimes anyway.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-11-05 14:47:31+00:00
This is the only large true monitor I know of. It used to be branded by Acer, but now it is branded through Viewsonic. We have a bunch at work and everyone loves them. $570 for 43" 4K

https://www.viewsonic.com/us/vx4381-4k-43-4k-uhd-monitor-wit...
by tialaramex | 2025-11-05 14:48:05+00:00
It is certainly an example of why SC22 is a bad idea

The "C++ Standards Committee" is Working Group #21 of Sub Committee #22, of the Joint Technical Committee #1 between ISO and the IEC.

It is completely the wrong shape of organization for this work, a large unwieldy bureaucracy created so that sovereign entities could somehow agree things, this works pretty well for ISO 216 (the A-series paper sizes) and while it isn't very productive for something like ISO 26262 (safety) it can't do much harm. For the deeply technical work of a programming language it's hopeless.

The IETF shows a much better way to develop standards for technology.
by fusslo | 2025-11-05 14:48:28+00:00
Everything I've learned from psychology (and by this I mean watching psychology lectures from Yale and Stanford on youtube and reading the associated textbooks) makes me confident that I will have a short and unhappy life.

Dr Bloom spoke about how your overall mood during college is a good predictor for how happy you'll be as a person throughout your life. He talked about the optimum time to get married is 26. He elucidated the idea of your prefrontal cortex solidifying around 25, making personality changes MUCH more difficult.

Dr Sopolsky spoke about biological markers that may affect human behavior - both inherited and environmentally influenced.

At 35 I am starting to suspect that I may be on the spectrum ( I kinda expected some adult to tell me this as a child, if it's true ).

The males on my fathers side (with the exception of my uncle) do not make it past 67.

My mothers side has inter-generational trauma that I know i've inherited avoidant behaviors that limit my social ability.

So great news.
by yupyupyups | 2025-11-05 14:49:04+00:00
The situation with bitnami is getting fixed, but it takes time for all the holes to be plugged.

I knew bitnami were trouble when I saw their paid tier prices. Relevant article: https://devoriales.com/post/402/from-free-to-fee-how-broadco...

Oh, and it's owned by Broadcom.
by nusl | 2025-11-05 14:49:42+00:00
I feel like it comes down to predictability and overall trust and confidence. AI is still very fucky, and for people that don't understand the nuances, it definitely will hallucinate and potentially cause real issues. It is about as happy as a Linux rm command to nuke hours of work. Fortunately these tools typically have a change log you can undo, but still.

Also Brenda is human and we should prioritize keeping humans in jobs, but with the way shit is going that seems like a lost hope. It's already over.
by bzzzt | 2025-11-05 14:49:43+00:00
Ok, what do you make of this then? https://support.apple.com/en-us/122712

While not perfect, they claim to do security checks and verify some privacy choices. So they do something at least.

As a consumer I can see value in Apple forcing itself in an arbiter role for app payments so they can step in when I have a conflict with an app developer.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-05 14:50:07+00:00
> Apt packages are managed by the OS so its normal they don't get overwritten by tools you download of the internet directly as that could break other apps installed with apt.

I would, however, have expected it to shadow the OS version. That is, I would expect any installer running as your user to install eg. ~/.local/bin/rustc and ignore /usr/bin/rustc (and maybe print a message about making sure that ~/.local/bin takes precedence in your PATH).
by r_singh | 2025-11-05 14:50:13+00:00
> The App Store doesn't do anything to product you in that sense. It's easy to circumvent...

Interesting, their marketing has customers believe otherwise, so I wouldn't have thought that as a noob in cybersecurity.

I've submitted an app to the iOS App Store in the past, and the process is tedious and doesn't seem superficial (unlike the Play Store process, which was completely autonomous at the time), so that's another reason why I wouldn't have thought it.
by dangus | 2025-11-05 14:50:33+00:00
I think this explanation makes the situation sound even worse.

The vision pro’s overall productivity solution is inferior to existing, cheaper technology, and it has to be supplemented by a solution to a problem created by its own design.

Essentially you’re saying that after putting on a double headband device that wrecks my hair, gets me sweaty, strains my neck with weight, and fucks up my makeup, I now have to use a workaround fake avatar because the tech bros who made this product had to say “oh shit, if you have a headset on you can’t be on camera!”

For $3500 I can be in real reality and be surrounded by higher resolution professional monitors and just show my real self on camera instead.
by mothballed | 2025-11-05 14:50:43+00:00
I'm not sure if it's in contention, but efficiency is also important. Life isn't an optimization for health care. At the middle class and below, people are already spending most their earnings on essentials.

Maybe you can alter healthcare so people are paying through the nose (either through highly regulated private entities coupled with incentives/mandates, or through taxes) but more people are covered, and so now they are less able to afford housing, good education, healthy foods, child care, and other stuff. Then they are not necessarily better off.
by Moto7451 | 2025-11-05 14:51:14+00:00
> Developers working over 1gbps Internet connections often don't realize the data gluttony of the software they write.

As a developer and AirBnB owner, what I’ve also noticed is the gluttony of the toolchain as well. I’ve had complaints about a 500/30 connection from remote working devs (very clear from the details they give) which is the fastest you can get for much of the metro I am in.

At home I can get up to 5/5 on fiber because we’re in a special permitting corridor and AT&T can basically do whatever they want with their fiber using an on old discontinued sewer run as their conduit.

I stick to the 1/1 and get 1.25 for “free” since we’re so over-provisioned. The fastest Xfinity provides in the same area as my AirBnB is an unreliable 230/20 which means my “free” excess bandwidth is higher than what many people near me can pay for.

I expect as a result of all this, developers on very fast connections end up having enough layers of corporate VPN, poorly optimized pipelines, a lot of dependency on external servers, etc that by the time you’re connected to work your 1/1 connection is about 300/300 (at least mine is) so the expectation is silently set that very fast internet will exist for on-Corp survival and that the off-corp experience is what others have.
by phpcmsframework | 2025-11-05 14:51:28+00:00
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we deal with user generated content. Sentiment analysis, or the automatic recognition of whether a comment or review or article is positive, negative, or neutral can be considered one of the most powerful applications.

In this tutorial, we are going to develop a basic Joomla content plug-in that is linked to the Open AI API. Each time an article or comment is saved the text will be processed by our plugin and the sentiment will be shown in Joomla where it belongs in the admin.

This can be considered an excellent representation of a merge between AI and the classic PHP CMS systems, such as Joomla.