MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arlindb | 2025-11-07 22:57:20+00:00
My name is Arlind and i'm a Network Engineer with around 5 years of experience, having worked with companies like AT&T and Spectrum Enterprise. Over the years, I often needed a lightweight way to check if certain IPs or devices were online, without deploying heavy monitoring tools or complex setups.

That’s how Mapnitor started — a small project built to solve that problem for myself first. Now I’m opening it up for others who might find it useful.

What Mapnitor does: Real-time IP ping checks (online/offline) Auto-refresh dashboard Latency graphs & history Simple uptime reports

Coming soon: Email, Slack & Teams alerts Grouping and tags Public status pages

It’s still an early version, and I’d really appreciate feedback from the community — especially from sysadmins and hosting providers who live in this world every day.

Try here https://mapnitor.com

Thanks for reading Always happy to hear suggestions or feature ideas.
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-07 22:57:23+00:00
You can though with some creativity.

There are lots of tools that give a wrong solution that appears correct, and easier ones tend to do that the most.

Plenty of people who needed a real dev team to design an application probably hoped on Dreamweaver, were suddenly able to bumble their way some interface that looked impressive but would never scale (even to the original goal level of scale mind you).

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Any time you have a tool that lowers the barrier of entry to a field, you get a spectrum of people from those who have right-sized expectations and can suddenly do the thing themselves, to people who massively overestimate how easy the field is to master and get in over their heads.

This isn't even a programming thing, off the top of my head Sharkbites get this kind of rep in plumbling

You could argue the RPi did this to hardware, where people are using a Linux SBC to do the job a 555 timer could do and saying that's hardware.

Point-and-shoot, then smartphone cameras, did this and now a lot more people think they can be a photographer based on shots their phone spends more processing power per image than we used to get to the moon on.
by worldfoodgood | 2025-11-07 22:57:34+00:00
That's all I was saying. Valve is way ahead of most of the rest of everyone else. But they are still shady.

We should be ok with pointing at the shady parts of things we like and going, "It would be better if it were not so shady."

Valve is good in many ways! Valve would be better if it didn't profit from getting kids to gamble on skins!
by krapp | 2025-11-07 22:57:43+00:00
No.

Race isn't biological, it's a social and political construct. The social and political construct known as "Asians" comprises about 60% of the global population. Also, IQ is not a measure of intelligence.

There are cultural reasons why some people in some "Asian" countries may do better on average in academics, such as stronger familial bonds, peer pressure and a greater cultural value placed on scholastic achievement, but that's far from proof that "Asians" are genetically and intellectually superior to other races, much less that therefore eugenics (and by extension the white supremacist ideology it was created to normalize, which ironically considered "Asians" to be subhuman) is "proven true."
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-07 22:57:49+00:00
I do not think this is about replacing the current Internet and watching Youtube or Netflix using a mesh network.

It would be more about having a slow, free and backup internet available. Nowadays, we talk a lot of cyber attacks and WW3. I am pretty sure the Internet would be the first thing to go out if things would escalate (at least at the same time as the grid).

I am not sure how long a "modern" society can operate without connectivity. The idea of a mesh network is also very cool.
by int_19h | 2025-11-07 22:57:57+00:00
OCaml is a much more powerful language. Take a look at functors, for example, or modules as first-class values, or GADTs, or its object system that can do type inference from use:

# let foo x = x#frob;; val foo : < frob : 'a; .. > -> 'a = <fun>

F# is often called "OCaml for .NET", but it is a misrepresentation. It is an ML-family language for .NET, but aside from that ML core they don't have much in common.

Whether those features are more valuable to you than the ability to tap into .NET libraries depends largely on what you're doing.
by apparent | 2025-11-07 22:58:01+00:00
I have the gmail app set to only notify me for "important messages," and it pretty reliably doesn't trigger a notification for this junk. I wish I could have it use that system (whatever it's using) to actually flag messages as spam/mass emails.

If it's a seemingly personal message from an unknown sender, send it to spam. If it looks like a mass email (that someone might have signed up for), then put it in the Commercial tab or whatever it's called, so I can set up a filter for it or unsubscribe.
by _old_dude_ | 2025-11-07 22:58:12+00:00
Yes, the version in Java is clearly less elegant. Java has map+lambda and compareTo (<=>) but no tuple assignemnt and no splat.

record AppVersion(int major, int minor, int patch) implements Comparable<AppVersion> { public static AppVersion of(String version) { var array = Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.stream(version.split("\\.")).mapToInt(Integer::parseInt).toArray(), 3); return new AppVersion(array[0], array[1], array[2]); } public int compareTo(AppVersion other) { return Comparator.comparingInt(AppVersion::major) .thenComparingInt(AppVersion::minor) .thenComparingInt(AppVersion::patch) .compare(this, other); } public String toString() { return "%d.%d.%d".formatted(major, minor, patch); } }
by exabrial | 2025-11-07 22:58:23+00:00
I worked for Chance Coach and I don't remember the exact Union they were all a member of. I was worked as a contract employee for Volt Technical Services. I was told I was required to pay dues even though I wasn't a permanent employee, which was an absolute fabrication of a lie told to me by union leaders on the job site I later learned (I was swindled out of a few hundred bucks, but as a teenager I didn't really know any better).

They had several (4 I think?) union-mandated breaks during the day, which I got in trouble for not taking several times. The reason given was if I didn't take my breaks than they could disappear for everyone. I also was willing to do any job given to me, and given that I had some shop and machining experience, was happy to help with any task given, which made me an asset to management as they cold put me in anywhere as needed to help production along, but angered old crotchety employees that didn't want me in their space and were happy doing the absolute minimum to collect their wage.

So yeah, my experience with Unions is they breed mediocracy and pull everyone down that wants to set themselves apart to management. Wages were standardized rather than based on individual accomplishments so there was no incentive to excel.

I'm certainly not "anti-union" but my original comment is that HN thinks Unions are this utopia and in a sober reality they often aren't.
by 555watch | 2025-11-07 22:59:02+00:00
In my country there are obvious clones of known portals with clickbaity titles, visually hard to distinguish from real. Always with some random url. Sometimes just fake news and propaganda, sometimes selling fake things. Under paid sponsorship. Reported them multiple times. Always the response is as follows: we looked at it and found nothing wrong. All the disputes are also killed. So its done on purpose
by inshard | 2025-11-07 22:59:03+00:00
Local businesses with better quality usually have better ratings in maps and better economics—higher margins, repeat customers, lower acquisition costs. And since only nearby places can compete, you get real competition on merit instead of a race to the bottom with faceless actors. Good ads solve a real problem: helping people discover great spots in unfamiliar cities.

Jobs saw something with iAd.

The problem is simple auction mechanics favor whoever has the deepest pockets. A mediocre chain with fat margins outbids an amazing local place, even if the local spot delivers way more value. You’re optimizing for who can pay, not who’s actually good.

To fix this, you weight bids by quality signals like ratings, time spent and repeat visits.

Now ads amplify what’s already great instead of just selling visibility.

Users get better recommendations, good businesses win, and Apple builds trust. That’s how you turn ads from a tax on attention into actual product value—and an improved user experience.
by culi | 2025-11-07 22:59:19+00:00
The dead sea is even more concerning imo. Such an incredible history and unique ecology being lost so rapidly. It's the deepest hypersaline lake in the world but it's being drained at an appalling rate

https://www.haaretz.com/0000017f-ea1a-dea7-adff-fbfb7cbf0000
by upboundspiral | 2025-11-07 22:59:24+00:00
I feel this strongly. From a business perspective, when your competitors expand their revenue avenues through ads you have three options: copy them to catch up, do nothing and perish, or lobby the government for increased consumer protections. The third option isn't being taken, but I believe its the right one for many companies that want to remain customer-centric, and that have real values.
by krackers | 2025-11-07 22:59:30+00:00
>They can't be emergent generation, surely

It is. It's what you get when you RLHF for catchy, agreeable, enthusiastic responses. The content doesn't matter, it's the "style" that becomes applied like a coat of paint over anything. That's how you end up with the corpspeak-esque yet chilling sentences mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845871

What would be nice is for OpenAI to do a retrospective here and perform some interoperability research. Does the LLM even "realize" (in the sense of the residual stream encoding those concepts) that it is encouraging suicide? I'd almost hypothesize that the process of RLHF'ing and selecting for sycophancy diminishes those circuits, effectively lobotomizing the LLM (much like safety training does) so it responds only to the shallow immediate context, missing the forest for the trees.
by lordnacho | 2025-11-07 22:59:34+00:00
> do you really?

That's supporting my view. You might want it, you might not. It's marginal, and now it's cheap.

> look at your competition

LLM does this for you

> this isn't how llm products are marketed

It certainly is. Something like ChatGPT is marketed as a low-risk chat partner, most certainly not pretending to give you medical or legal advice. Talk to it like your buddy, you get buddy responses. Your buddy who has read a few law books but doesn't pretend to be a lawyer.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-07 22:59:45+00:00
Think of it similar to alcohol laws. E.g. in the US you don't just want kids to be unable to buy alcohol when their parent is present, you want the point of access to participate in that restriction or it won't work in practice because getting 100% of kids to have good judgement all of the time (or watching them constantly for their whole life) is not realistic. At the same time, many states still have laws allowing alcohol consumption by minors in the presence of their parent because it's really hard to get everyone to agree on a universal binary cutoff with no exception.

In practice, the law does help greatly in spite of not being a mathematical proof the minor will no longer get alcohol because of "parenting well" alone and almost all parents are fine with the restrictions, even in places without the flexibility, because they've come to see and agree with the level of harm over the years. Ie. there is a point enough parents agree strongly enough that the common good of children is accepted over the rights of a parent to decide their child's welfare - it's just usually a hogh bar (e.g. how far punishment can go before it turns into abuse, as another example).
by Aurornis | 2025-11-07 23:00:28+00:00
Last time I checked, this was basically folklore. There were some allusions to Francis Crick experimenting with LSD, but their DNA work predates that.

Psychedelic proponents like to claim that LSD helped Francis Crick discover the double helix, but every time I go looking for a source it's a circular web of references and articles that cite each other or, at best, claim that Crick mentioned to a friend that LSD helped him.
Show HN: DeepShot – NBA game predictor with 70% accuracy using ML and stats
by Fr4ncio | 2025-11-07 23:01:17+00:00
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by freefaler | 2025-11-07 23:01:40+00:00
It's a general trend with hired managers who optimize for their bonuses. Also many founder led companies when they got sold to the shareholders are also optmizing for that. Some founder led companies are optimizing for something else, not profits only, but that's rare and that's what Jobs had the leeway to do when he got back to the almost bankrupt company. Current minions will try to squeeze more profit from any screen the incentives are such that they'd do that.

Enshitification is possible where there is some kind of lock-in and the pain of leaving is greater than the level of annoyance of the product. Apple has one of the strongest lock-in ecosystems and it's rational for them to do so.

I'm not sure there is a better way, because max freedom = open source, but that equals mostly subpar experience for the average user. Let's hope for more platforms and data transfer from one to the other.
by benzible | 2025-11-07 23:02:24+00:00
I'm confused. You're commenting on an article where a progressive writer critiques AI as "Dunning-Kruger as a service" and attacks techno-optimism, while claiming progressives can't critique new technology. The author's entire piece demonstrates progressive critique of both AI adoption and "great values of the past" nostalgia - the exact opposite of what you're describing.
by sczi | 2025-11-07 23:02:24+00:00
Nice solution with dataclass! And for a complete comparison with the blog you can also use a library to do it for you. It's not quite in the official python distribution but it's maintained by pypa as a dependency of pip so you probably have it installed already.

>>> from packaging.version import Version >>> Version("1.2.3") > Version("1.2.2") True >>> Version("2.0") > Version("1.2.2") True
by lordnacho | 2025-11-07 23:02:52+00:00
> Let's hope you protect that dashboard well with infra around it, because it will be the front door for people to invade your site.

I was thinking of internal dashboards, but like I said above, if it doesn't really matter, use LLM. If you are building a cockpit for an airplane, yeah, don't just use a fill tool. If you need security, yeah, don't leave the door open.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-07 23:03:00+00:00
They disagree with search engines being fair use?

The general problem is that both the structure of copyright and the legacy media business model were predicated on copying being a capital-intensive process. If a printing press is expensive then reproduction is a good place to collect royalties, because you could go after that expensive piece of equipment if they don't pay. And if a printing press is expensive then a publisher who has one is offering a scarce service in a market with a high barrier to entry.

The internet made copying free and that pretty well devastated the publishing industry, more as a result of the second one than the first. If your product isn't scarce -- if your news reporting is in competition with every blog and social media post -- you're not getting the same margins you used to. But there's no plausible way the incumbents are going to convince people that reporters with a website instead of a printing press need to be excluded from the market so they can have less competition, and that by itself and nothing more means their traditional business model is gone. They're competing for readers and advertisers against Substack and Reddit and the cat's not going back in the bag.

Meanwhile copyright infringement got way easier and that's much more plausible to frame as a problem, so the companies want to sic their lawyers on it, except that the bag is here on the ground and the cat is still over there getting a million hits. There is no obviously good way to solve it (but plenty of bad ways to not solve it) and solving it still wouldn't put things back the way they were anyway.

So their lawyers are constantly under pressure to do something but none of their options are good or effective which means they're constantly demanding things that are oppressive or asinine or, like the anti-circumvention clause in the DMCA, own-goals that tech megacorps use against content creators to monopolize distribution channels. Which is why it's an epidemic. If you can see the target the pressure is on to pull the trigger even when all you have is a footgun.
by ghc | 2025-11-07 23:03:29+00:00
Doesn't desert greening assume that desertification is something that can be reversed in the first place? I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on rain shadow deserts like this one, because there's no water or soil in the first place. Case in point: the greening of the surrounding area (Coachella Valley) is only made possible by unsustainable water use, and properties quickly revert to desert scrub flora when not constantly attended to.
by Mars008 | 2025-11-07 23:03:42+00:00
> I don't want to be too harsh on the study authors

Well, I'll do it for you. There is much of attention grabbing bull*it. For example I've seen on LinkedIn study claiming 60% of Indians daily using AI in their jobs, and only 10% of Japanese. You can guess who did it, very patriotic, but far from the reality.
by v3xro | 2025-11-07 23:04:04+00:00
Perhaps the focus of the team behind the compiler has changed over the years - but there is still backwards compatibility (via TaSTy), the new syntax changes are not mandatory (for the moment) and when they do become so there will be a fully automatic (and correct) rewrite. There are new libraries exploring "direct style" but you can still use cats-effect or ZIO if you prefer. If anything, Scala has a "too much choice" problem (and kinda a community one).
by dpark | 2025-11-07 23:04:05+00:00
The question for all the browser developers is not “can we feasibly support this feature” but “is it worth it to support this feature”?

Because they must address the security problems, there is no zero-cost solution to maintain compatibility. They either abandon it or rewrite it which comes with support costs forever.

I understand you believe they made the wrong choice and I understand why you feel that way. But according to their calculus they are making the right choice based on how widely used the feature actually is.
by matiasmolinas | 2025-11-07 23:04:14+00:00
I've been thinking about Wabi.ai's vision and Claude Imagine's approach: "software that doesn't exist until you need it."

What if instead of downloading 50 different apps, you just described what you wanted and an AI generated a personalized interface on the fly?

I built a proof-of-concept using LLMunix (pure markdown agent framework):

• UI-MD format: Markdown-based UI definitions (like HTML, but for LLMs)

• Memory-first architecture: Every UI is personalized to your context

• One shell app: Renders any UI-MD in real-time

• No compilation: Generate and display in seconds

Example: "Create a morning briefing app"

→ System queries your preferences (location: SF, interests: tech)

→ Fetches weather, calendar, news in parallel

→ Generates personalized markdown UI

→ Mobile shell renders it instantly

The POC includes:

- 5 specialized agents (memory, UI generation, weather, calendar, news)

- FastAPI backend with RESTful endpoints

- Complete UI-MD specification

What's interesting:

1. Everything is markdown (agents, tools, UI definitions)

2. No app downloads needed after the initial shell

3. Fully personalized from day one

4. Apps "learn" from your usage patterns

5. Share/remix apps as markdown files

What's missing:

- The actual mobile shell

- Real API integrations (weather, news, calendar)

- Multi-user backend infrastructure

- Real-world testing at scale

I'm sharing this to:

1. Test if this approach is fundamentally sound

2. Invite discussion on the architecture

3. Find collaborators interested in building the missing pieces

4. Explore if this could disrupt traditional app distribution

Key questions I'd love to discuss:

• Is markdown the right format for LLM-generated UIs?

• How do we handle complex interactions (forms, animations)?

• What about offline functionality?

• Privacy implications of centralized personalization?

• Business model: Who pays for compute?

• Could this work for web, not just mobile?

The code is open source, fully documented, and ready to run: https://github.com/EvolvingAgentsLabs/llmunix/tree/feature/n...

Quick start:

https://github.com/EvolvingAgentsLabs/llmunix/blob/feature/n...

I'm particularly interested in hearing from:

- Mobile developers

- Anyone who's thought about personal software

- People building LLM agents

- UX researchers interested in adaptive interfaces

- Anyone skeptical of this approach (challenge my assumptions!)

Thoughts?

Is this the future or am I missing something fundamental?
by ethmarks | 2025-11-07 23:04:24+00:00
> There is nothing totalitarian about constraining societal harm.

Of course not. The problem is that the only way to enforce AI regulations is through totalitarian means.

You can easily regulate OpenAI and Gemini and whatnot, but then people will just use local AI models. The barrier to entry for using local AI models is basically zero because software like Ollama make it trivially easy to set up, and small LLMs can run on an iphone or a laptop.

The only way to actually prevent "unauthorized" AI usage is to control digital communications to prevent LLM weights from being distributed and to ensure that no "black market" AIs are being trained or used.

And if you're already scanning digital communications for LLM weights, why not also scan it for other forms of wrongthink?. Hey presto, now you have totalitarianism.

I don't think that LLMs fall into the category of an infohazard in the way that Bostrom defines it. It presents a risk, but not one severe enough to justify universal surveillance. Bostrom is talking about AI that can make bioweapons, not ones that gives false confidence to incompetent people.
by baobun | 2025-11-07 23:04:30+00:00
It would help to know what it is you are not loving with Mint+Cinnamon... My picks for a beginner-friendly batteries-included Linux dist for KDE:

- You can install KDE on Mint without switching distro or reinstalling[0]

- Debian (caveat: packages can be out of date if you need the latest-greatest of something)

- Fedora (caveat: two major OS upgrades per year can feel like a chore)

- EndeavourOS (caveat: Requires a bit more expertise and grease to properly maintain)

- Aurora (caveat: Still young project and I'd still consider it a bit experimental and adventerous)

- kubuntu (caveat: snaps. Accept them or learn how to disable)

KDE Linux is a thing and something to keep an eye on but it's still in alpha/beta and probably not ready for your use just yet.

[0]: Caveat: it's possible that some DE service might not be disabled properly from your old setup and conflict with KDEs variety if you keep the cinnamon packages around