MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bawolff | 2025-11-10 11:09:20+00:00
Sure, but translating that movement to actual policy change usually depends on how much uninvolved people are sympathetic to the protestors, which usually involves how rational the protestors are precieved as. Decision makers are affected by public sentiment, but public sentiment of the uninvolved public generally carries more weight.

Thats why the other side usually try to smear protests as being crazy mobs who would never be happy. The moment you convince uninvolved people of this, the protestors lose most power.

> Rational arguments come later, and mostly behind closed doors.

I disagree with this. Rational arguments behind closed doors happen before resorting to protest not after. If you're resorting to protest you are trying to leverage public support into a more powerful position. That's about how much power you have not the soundness of your argument.
by digest | 2025-11-10 11:09:48+00:00
Been working on https://usedigest.com

- It's a personalized newsletter for you

- All data aggregated from sources around the web

- News, weather, newsletters, social media posts, reddit, youtube, etc. all appear in your digest.

- Launching a mobile app as well now but this will be slightly different than the web app. It will use AI to automatically prepare your daily digest based on preferences/settings you give it during onboarding. Each day when you wake up you'll receive a notification of digest being ready, and it will contain all the content you care about for the day ahead (meetings, weather, health data, commute data, news, etc).
by oliwarner | 2025-11-10 11:09:50+00:00
It's important to note that nationalising ship building was a last-ditch parachute for hundreds of thousands of manual workers, not the cause of its decline.

Decades of state subsidy of it both directly and of its suppliers had failed and taking it on was far cheaper for the country than letting it and British Steel, and the National Coal Board all simultaneously fail.
by vintermann | 2025-11-10 11:11:10+00:00
Bah, I'm of the opinion that if the intelligence agencies were asleep at the wheel, that might well be an improvement.

But I do think that you're right in that the time of the frigate and aircraft carrier is over, and we'll all more likely to die either from a nuclear missile or from a 50 gram autonomous drone. I agree: the national security argument is hollow.

There are other reasons to build ships though, and some degree of self-sufficiency is always sensible.
by FuckButtons | 2025-11-10 11:11:22+00:00
This seems, either naive or wishful thinking. The ‘normal means’ of transferring power and status as far as I recall from most history I’ve read usually involves some sort of massive war. Sometimes this ends well for the rising power, other times they wind up finding their fortunes being reversed. Even when things don’t wind up being so dire, it’s not very often you see complete forgone conclusions in international relations, especially between countries separated by a body of water.
by voidUpdate | 2025-11-10 11:11:25+00:00
Generally, these sorts of devices struggle to fit in normal trouser pockets, especially women's pockets, but I'm happy that I managed to find women's jeans that actually have reasonable sized pockets, at least big enough to fit my pixel 7a in the front pocket. Still might be a bit small for this though. My hoodie pockets would probably hold it just fine though.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-10 11:12:08+00:00
Which specific facts and feeling are you talking about?

Also, regardless of which, both facts and feeling don't matter in the real world. What actually matters is the enforcement at your disposal that you can use to uphold either of them, typically by force and violence. Because facts without force backup to match are always destroyed by feelings that have the superiority on force projection and violence.

Like for example, Galileo was right in his facts, however that didn't stop the church from burning him at the stake. And the world of today is really no different. Like Ghaddafi and Saddam didn't in fact have WMDs, however that didn't stop Bush and Obama having them killed over made up bs, and getting away with it.
by drawson5570 | 2025-11-10 11:13:38+00:00
I discovered that AI models can extract their own knowledge through self-reflection and transfer it to other models via natural language strategies. The student models actually surpass their teachers.

Results from scheduling task: - Student baseline: 12% - Teacher (Claude 3.5): 82% - Student after transfer: 86.7%

The framework lets you transfer ANY capability (Python coding, math, reasoning, etc.) in ~50 lines of code. Includes working examples and complete documentation.

Technical approach: Teacher learns via Linguistic RL (reflection → strategy extraction), then student learns via LoRA fine-tuning on teacher-generated curriculum.
by aadv1k | 2025-11-10 11:14:36+00:00
Hey, thanks for your comment :) I had a look at your blog, it's looks really useful and high quality! I will go through it with vim open on the side and a nice coffee

Yeah and I'd agree with your point. One BIG critique I have for my own 2-year-past code was that I did not know how to do dynamic heap allocation very well, hence you may have seen everything is stack allocated lol

Particularly egrigeous example:

typedef struct ListingItem { char lTitle[CONFIG_MAX_PATH_SIZE]; char lDate[CONFIG_MAX_PATH_SIZE]; char lContent[CONFIG_MAX_FILE_SIZE]; char lPath[CONFIG_MAX_PATH_SIZE]; int lOrder; } ListingItem;

(I had read "clean code" by uncle bob at the time, so I was trying to emulate clean code I saw in the book. Needless to say, pretty good example of the nuance needed when writing clean code haha)

So with the V3 release, I am re-writing the markdown compiler for instance, and being a bit more mindful of the structure

Example: https://github.com/Aadv1k/kevlar/blob/markdown-compiler-rewr...

I think once I am done I will create a separate "Show HN" post to get valuable feedback (like this one!) from smarter folks than me. Once again, thanks for the fantastic blog :) will be sure to go through it

Cheers!
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-10 11:14:50+00:00
You are complaining that developers can't keep up with vibe coded features. The solution might actually be more AI.

There's an opportunity to automate some of the QA traditionally done manually. I tried this last week on our main app (not some toy thing):

(turn on agent mode in chat gpt)

"Hey put on your QA hat and test <url> with <user> and password. Give me detailed feedback on UX, bugs, etc."

I was being lazy here with my prompting. But it works shockingly well on anything browser based. It will start using whatever you point it at and do things that normal users might do. Obviously, you can give it more detailed guidelines on what to test, what to ensure is working, etc.

I got a pretty detailed report back and most of it was valid/constructive. I'm planning to do more of this. It beats developers doing QA (they are too biased usually and seem reluctant to do it) and we don't have any dedicated QA people. Manual QA can be very expensive. I don't think the need for that totally goes away, but you should probably focus that on the most valuable/hardest things to test.

In any case, it's pretty cool to watch Chat GPT explore a UI and attempting to use features. It's very thorough and it seems to figure out workarounds for UX issues as well when things don't work as expected. This is exactly the kind of stuff that developers testing their own UIs are blind to. They know where to click and don't even think about it.

A related issue is actually updating documentation and marketing material with up-to date screen captures and screenshots. Annoyingly, Chat GPT doesn't allow me to save the videos it takes of the AI using the browser. But that stuff could actually be documentation gold. Doing this manually is very tedious.
by elcritch | 2025-11-10 11:15:09+00:00
The steering committee folks sound like a microcosm of a communist poliburo. Aiming for who can be the most offended over imaginary slights.

I'm glad as An American tax payer that we're not funding an organization with such petty politics and discriminatory behaviors.

Tim sounds similar to John Carmack recent she post about Meta:

> I wish I could drop (so many of) my old internal posts publicly, since I don’t really have the incentive to relitigate the arguments today – they were carefully considered and prescient. They also got me reported to HR by the manager of the XROS effort for supposedly making his team members feel bad

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
by yetihehe | 2025-11-10 11:15:25+00:00
- List of available tags would be even cooler.

- When you select some tags, list can overflow horizontally and first column with tags is only partially visible. Happened to me when selecting "hardware" tag.

- When you select prev/next or tag, list could scroll to top

- It also often picks up irrelevant comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421459
by Thev00d00 | 2025-11-10 11:15:30+00:00
A few people commenting that some of their collection "doesn't exist in any DB", the best way to fix it is to add it to Musicbrainz[0] yourself!

I have found that adding things to Musicbrainz is actually pretty easy (and if you are so inclined like me, pretty rewarding and fun).

Streaming releases (and Bandcamp) you simply drop the release URL into Harmony[1] and it does most of the work for you.

Musicbrainz can represent nearly everything musically related and its all freely licensed, a very cool thing to exist.

Most (non-destructive) edits are auto-applied, whilst the rest go through a 7 day voting period (they are still applied by default unless someone votes against). The barrier to entry is very low.

0. https://musicbrainz.org/

1. https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/
by troupo | 2025-11-10 11:15:43+00:00
> They’re biodegradable in an industrial composter, and similar conditions are incredibly unlikely in nature. So they are, effectively, not biodegradable.

Just like every plastic marketed as biodegradable. I feel like most of the "biodegradable"/"eco-friendly" products rushed to the markets in the wake of stricter regulations are worse for the environment since they either require significantly more resources (especially water) to produce, extremely complicated special setups to dispose of, or even both.
by dontlaugh | 2025-11-10 11:15:44+00:00
Easier deployment helped, but nowadays it’s common to put a single Go executable in a container anyway. .net core doesn’t have much if any disadvantage there.

Go was made by Google flawed, but with clarity of purpose and consistently usable libraries.

.NET spent years forked into framework and core and unclear open source future.

Java struggled to scale down and Oracle caused similar distrust as Microsoft.
by scott_w | 2025-11-10 11:15:46+00:00
> Certainly, if one takes the view that all large organisations are mediocre, the British Empire is unambiguously an example of "large organisation".

Absolutely! I think all governments can safely fall under "large organisation" as it's pretty much necessary.

> Just to check, the Empire podcast by Anita Anand and William Dalrymple?

That's the one.
by kijin | 2025-11-10 11:15:48+00:00
> Humans can produce noise, but humans using LLMs can produce orders of magnitude more of it.

Absolutely agreed. Which is why I'm more concerned with the qualities and intentions of the human who is using the LLM, than whether not an LLM is being used at all. Like any technology, an LLM is a force multiplier. Garbage in, more garbage out.
by energy123 | 2025-11-10 11:16:02+00:00
Small island countries shouldn't build their own ships only because they can't due to their size. But they probably should have sovereign manufacturing of asymmetric deterrence tools like anti-ship missiles.

Friends aren't good enough, unless you have a mutual defense treaty, they aren't real friends and can't be counted on. Look at Ukraine struggling to get Tomohawks and ATACMS now, or struggling to get tanks and jets, due to fear of escalation.
by sothatsit | 2025-11-10 11:16:32+00:00
The outcome is not the same!

If it is unintended, then when we notice it happening we will change course. We will see that the specific gene edits had negative effects, and we will avoid those gene edits in the future. The effect size will probably also be a lot lower than if you were specifically aiming to make people as agreeable and authority-following as possible.

Additionally, the people with the gene edits would only make up only a small percentage of all the people in a society. They will get some form of herd immunity when combined with people born naturally, older generations, and people without the gene edit.

This is a dramatically different situation to someone intentionally trying to engineer a servant class.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-11-10 11:16:33+00:00
Oh good question so there is a neighborhood, we’re surrounded by playgrounds and parks with other children and in the summer it’s surprisingly easy to keep busy. I did get her a bit of a kit (flip phone, radio, skates, nice bag) and she is quite outgoing. This area is expensive (not upper class but price-wise) but it’s very dense and safe landscape for a child.
by zachd | 2025-11-10 11:16:49+00:00
https://stretchmytimeoff.com

An algorithm to optimise vacation days using public holidays and weekends. Especially relevant at this time of year.

I created it a year ago and received quite some comments on the Show HN post[1]. Last weekend I updated it to work for end of year planning and adding fixed days off, which seems to solve most of the feedback. It was done with Cursor in agent mode.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118039
by short_sells_poo | 2025-11-10 11:17:40+00:00
You touch on the core issue of the UK, but there's both a cultural and policy aspect.

1. As you say, an aging population has placed the entire country into a gridlock - the pensions system as it stands is ridiculous and unsustainable. Unfortunately, it is an almost immediate political suicide to even attempt to reform it. Young people are disillusioned and wield little monetary or political power. The old generation has all the cards, and are actively destroying their children's future for their own short term benefit. They have mortgaged their children's future, which they won't get to see, for the short period of time they still have remaining. 2. There's no investment culture in the UK. Literally everything and everyone is rent seeking. Want a retirement? Buy property and rent it out. Want a pension? Pension funds just buy gilts - government bonds. Very little money goes into productive assets. This creates a vicious cycle where money is simply siphoned away from the little productivity that remains to an ever growing number of rent seekers.

There's no easy way out of this. One generation will effectively have to give up their welfare, but nobody wants to do this (understandable). The UK cannot afford to be the welfare state it wants to be.
by mgpalmer | 2025-11-10 11:17:56+00:00
Great work by the HIBP team as usual but I am puzzled by something, maybe someone can shed light on it?

I'm managing a domain search dashboard for a company, and for one domain all the recent stealer log breaches contained addresses with the domain - but all the local/user parts were bogus - for example, fabuchoy@example.org where fabuchoy was never a user, the email never existed.

So nothing is in danger but where do these bogus addresses come from? Is someone just trying to log in somewhere with random addresses (with our domain) and then the (failed) login attempt gets sniffed by some malware and ends up in the breach dumps? Or are the cybercriminals just padding their dumps with made-up addresses?
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-11-10 11:19:48+00:00
Nice answer - all of the above aligns with my experience.

I use sonnet a lot more than openai models and its speed means I do have to babysit it more and get chattier which does make a difference, probably you are right that if I was using codex which is on average 4-6 times slower than claude code that I would have more mental bandwidth to handle more workstreams.
by asimpletune | 2025-11-10 11:20:15+00:00
I agree with all of this.

The original discussion was regarding there's no such thing as a zeroth X, and what I've been trying to say this whole time is sure there is, it's the beginning. Which is why you start counting time from 0.

Interesting about patient-O though. I didn't know that.

My previous comment may have seemed snarky, but that wasn't my intention. I tried to originally write something that didn't seem sarcastic but it was just long.

The best way to explain my point was to just to agree and then list the contradictions that arise, e.g. The day starts at 12:01 since there's no zeroth minute, etc... and that unfortunately has the effect of looking like snark.
by mikerbrt2000 | 2025-11-10 11:20:18+00:00
I’m working on an AI-powered page optimizer for SaaS & eCom sites: https://peakagent.ai

No complex setup – drop in a script, keep your existing stack

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Continuously tests and routes traffic to the best-performing variants

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Would love feedback, tear-downs, or ideas for must-have features before you’d trust this on your main pages.

PS: Deeper ad→page→revenue attribution + personalization by segment coming soon.
by paulf38 | 2025-11-10 11:21:52+00:00
I wrote a series of articles for ACCU overload back around 2012 to 2013. This was in 6 parts. Introduction https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/108/floyd_1930/ Basic memcheck https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/109/floyd_1913/ Advanced memcheck https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/110/floyd_1905/ Cachegrind and Callgrind https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/111/floyd_1886/ Massif https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/112/floyd_1884/ Helgrind and DRD https://accu.org/journals/overload/21/114/floyd_1867/

More recently I wrote another one DHAT https://accu.org/journals/overload/33/185/floyd/

The videos on YouTube are mostly crap. Here are a couple of good ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDiEe9hxC4&lc=UgwLVU1SO1BUz... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6AN0ks2q0A&lc=UgwQSQzkCtMRO...
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-11-10 11:22:33+00:00
> This really is just a storm in a waterglass. Nothing like the hundreds or tens of thousands of flash and java applet based web pages that went defunct when we deprecated those technologies.

Sure, but Flash and Java were never standards-compliant parts of the web platform. As far as I'm aware, this is the first time that something has been removed from the web platform without any replacements—Mutation Events [0] come close, but Mutation Observers are a fairly close replacement, and it took 10 years for them to be fully deprecated and removed from browsers.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationEve...
by FuckButtons | 2025-11-10 11:22:59+00:00
Here’s the thing though, if china keeps on alienating all of it’s export markets by variously undercutting them, monopolizing strategic resources and then embargoing them, stealing technology and dumping excess capacity from its industrial sector, it may find itself with no more export markets to sell to.

Human societies are, in general, fairly well attuned to collective action against a perceived collective threat, that’s what we evolved to do after all. And unlike the USSR, China has done a fairly bad job of building any soft power that it could use to modify public opinion.
by zipy124 | 2025-11-10 11:23:04+00:00
The trick in the UK and other commenwealth nations like australia is that you can't get leverage on buying the actual stock, but instead you can use contracts-for-difference (CFD's) which are bets on stock prices. In the US you used to have bucket shops which operated on the same principle many decades ago.

Since we have stamp duty (a tax on share purchases), it is massively advantageous to use CFD's especially if you can find a provider who doesn't offer leverage, so your downside stays low. In addition since it is legally classed as gambling, earnings are not taxed which offers a nice tax advantage over stocks or options if you're investing more than £20k a year (the max you can invest tax-free a year in the UK in an ISA).
by glenstein | 2025-11-10 11:23:39+00:00
Those had good rationale for deprecating that I would say don't apply in this instance. Flash and Java applets were closed, insecure plugins outside the web's open standards, so removing them made sense. XSLT is a W3C standard built into the web's data and presentation layer. Dropping it means weakening the open infrastructure rather than cleaning it up.
by sofixa | 2025-11-10 11:24:01+00:00
> Brexit was a good first step.

Not really. The UK having a forum in the EU or not really doesn't change the size of the British society and the complexities of its governance. It only made a million small and medium and large things more complicated, for no benefit at all.

It will go down in history as one of the biggest debacles ever. The fact that the people who pushed for it like Farage are still listened to is bone chilling. He was wrong about everything before, why does anyone still believe him?
by prouast | 2025-11-10 11:24:22+00:00
Thanks! Curious under what circumstances the respiration was off - were you standing or sitting down? I can usually see the resp wave go up and down as I breathe while sitting down.

I have written up a technical report on the validation here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27028 This validation is based on several datasets, which all have gold standard ground truth from contact PPG and RESP from chest straps and/or impedance pneumography (from ECG)
by cedilla | 2025-11-10 11:24:26+00:00
If there were that many, why do people only list the same handful again and again? And where are all the /operators/ of those websites complaining? Is it possible that installing an XSLT processor on the server is not as big a hassle as everyone pretends?

Again: this is nothing like Flash or Java applets (or even ActiveX). People were seriously considering Apple's decision to not support Flash on iPhone as a strategic blunder due to the number of sites using it. Your local news station probably had video or a stock market ticker using Flash. You didn't have to hunt for examples.
by barrkel | 2025-11-10 11:25:34+00:00
Direct kinetic war between nuclear powers is pretty much unthinkable - mutual annihilation if either core territory is threatened. Instead, wars happen through proxies or direct attacks on non-nuclear powers, and then you need the ability to project power short of a nuclear response.

Russia can't prevent aid to Ukraine with nuclear blackmail. The US can't defend Taiwan without ships - it can't use nuclear blackmail itself. And if it doesn't defend Taiwan, not only is Western prosperity threatened, but the entire structure of allies that the US built after WW2 crumbles into a chaos of small parties more easily picked apart.