MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nhecker | 2025-11-21 14:26:04+00:00
No, I think the human holds a smartphone, is standing 38m away from the board, and is still able to connect to the distant board via the open Access Point it makes available. It's a testament to the communication between the Access Point and the human connecting to it.

FTA:

> In a clear line of sight test with the f32 placed about 3ft off the ground I was able to connect and perform scans/control the LED at roughly 120ft!

Fun fact, at that size the whole f32 is smaller than the wavelength of the radio waves it's using for 2.4GHz WiFi. Not that this is unique by any stretch, but it's still fun to think about. (Edit: formatting)
by pmkelly4444 | 2025-11-21 14:26:19+00:00
hey! the way it works is that the llm is first given snippets in typescript that tell it how to use the various MCP tools. it then can code, in typescript, and execute all of the tool calls in the deno sandbox. so yes, it can only execute javascript, but this isn't meant to be a full arbitrary code execution env like E2B.dev is, this sandbox is only meant to be a place for MCP calls to happen.

we chose typescript because it's the most token efficient way to pass types and signatures to an LLM, with Python and Pydantic there are extra characters passed around
by jen20 | 2025-11-21 14:26:35+00:00
> Do you feel European or British?

English first, European second. Indeed, the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland likely feel the same, and it’s unclear why that union should be considered worthwhile when a larger one is not.

> its hard to feel European if you are not of European origin.

All British-born people are of European origin. That is a simple geographic fact.
by ttoinou | 2025-11-21 14:26:49+00:00
Thank you! Looks interesting and I was thinking of something similar recently. I'm sure there are zillions of use cases for this, it'd be helpful to have a few of them explained on the front page

> pctx optimizes this communication by presenting MCP servers as code APIs

Would be nice to have examples of how this is reduced, if some information was lost in the process and what the tradeoff is
by akst | 2025-11-21 14:26:54+00:00
I was typing that in the shower, but a more complete version of "Do they make a suite of desirable economic activity infeasible or unjustifiable more expensive (relative to the goal of the policy)" is

Does the added benefit or reduced cost of the law outsize any cost or lost benefit from the introduction of the law? This question isn't always asked and in many cases it's only asked after someone picks up on a problem well after the fact.

Understandably you can't always wait for measurements to come in to evaluate a policy, it's also a political environment in which these decisions are made. That fact also leads to reactionary regulation as its the easiest way for leaders to show they're responding to a problem.

Having the ability to gather evidence to assess policy in a timely manner is actually pretty hard without some kind of history of research in the space, and you need to develop institutions that help answer these questions faster and with some level of independence from the government to demonstrate a level of legitimacy. Even in a scenario where evidence continues to come in, saying "the existing legislation is unideal", you'll have people with who have made a living out of the existing regime defend that status quo. And the longer that legislation is in place the harder it will be to challenge those people as they will only become more organised as time goes on, but in a democracy all you need is the people by and large on your side, but an organised beneficiary of the status quo will definitely not go down without a fight.

It's very difficult to generalise stuff like this.
by saghm | 2025-11-21 14:27:03+00:00
> You can’t wear 99 in the NHL now, or 6 in the NBA. Maybe you shouldn’t be able to log in as dmr for the same reasons

I can't tell if this is a serious argument or just relying heavily on the use of "maybe" to get away with expressing something that they know most people will disagree with, but I feel like it's a huge stretch to imply that what makes sense for numbers on maybe a couple hundred professional athletes' shirts when they're playing publicly on televised events would apply at all to usernames for millions of normal on their own private devices. To just call out one of the many obvious concerns: this would presumably break any existing logins (and scripts referencing the home directory). The MLB even took this into consideration when they retired 42 for the entire league in honor of Jackie Robinson; any players currently using the number were allowed to continue using it until they retired, and that's was just out of courtesy rather than any actual necessity.
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-21 14:28:46+00:00
>and China

That's the biggest question of the century. Imagine that EU and China make a deal, and they backstab US and Russia respectively. EU and China are physically so far away from each other that there's no way they'd actually run into direct conflict, meanwhile by backstabbing, both of them could easily get what they want. What I'm trying to say is that if you flipped the alliances and aligned EU with China and US with Russia, Russia would collapse within one battle maximum while EU's support would be just enough to push the 50/50 chance of Taiwan invasion towards decisive Chinese victory. Everyone happy - China becomes the world's #1 superpower, while EU remains undisputable #2 and US gets sent back to lick its wounds. Sure, EU might suffer from severing its ties with the US, but if the alternative scenario is US abandoning EU and the latter facing Russia alone, then this stops being such a crazy idea.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-11-21 14:28:49+00:00
I’m a poor student of music and history but my opinion:

Europe was a civilization in a perpetual state of war with power rarely concentrated, so even concentrated wealth was local and therefor still distributed amongst different kingdoms and nobles.

This means more opportunity and support: One village/patron/noble/king doesn’t like your style? Go travel and find someone else to sponsor you.

I don’t think this was possible elsewhere. East Asia for example—thanks in part to Confucianism—had China dwarfing most of the region, with a stifling top down meritocracy.

And today, China and the United States have incredible sway over the globe I imagine things are stalled.
by Mtinie | 2025-11-21 14:28:52+00:00
In my experience that “blink of an eye” has turned out to be a single moment when the LLM misses a key point or begins to fixate on an incorrect focus. After that, it’s nearly impossible to recover and the model acts in noticeably divergent ways from the prior behavior.

That single point is where the model commits fully to the previous misunderstanding. Once it crosses that line, subsequent responses compound the error.
by cuuupid | 2025-11-21 14:29:08+00:00
This again seems like something trivially automated (and is in other developed countries outside the EU like the US, JP, CN, etc). Why is nobody tackling this in the UK?

Sure it would have been better to do it before the referendum but it seems everyone on that side of the pond has been wallowing in grief for the better part of a decade which should have been more than enough time to remedy the issues. Moving _slower_ than regulation is… certainly a choice.
by Ukv | 2025-11-21 14:29:34+00:00
Observing animals' behavior (in the wild and through experiments like the one here) and studying how their brains work to see that they often have the same kind of mental features as us (including whichever you'd classify as consciousness) - just at varying degrees of sophistication.

Some would argue that "consciousness" is something non-physical that has no impact on the physical world, and so is not physically detectable or responsible for any behavior, but I feel then it inherently cannot be whatever we mean by "consciousness" that we're directly aware of and talking about in the physical world (because that itself is a physical impact).
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-21 14:30:25+00:00
Different cultures have different florescences. Where are the other cultures when Egypt invented hieroglyphics, where were the other cultures, when the Greek were philosophizing, where were the other cultures, when the Mayas flourished. Where were the other cultures, when the Romans played with rethoric. What were the other cultures doing when the Chinese culture flourished.

Also these are not really competing, but more like morphing into another. During the Antique there was trade with India and China, subsahara parts of Africa. The Arabian mathematics was preserved in Greek literature. This was then rediscovered and translated into Latin, which kick-started European philosophy and sciences.

The same is true for religion. Christianity is the mix of Jewry and Greek philosophy. The Greek were heavy influenced from the Egypt culture. The Jews took their knowledge from the Arab peoples in their regions and also part from Egypt. This Monotheism came from earlier Polytheism and earlier natural religions.
by telesilla | 2025-11-21 14:30:47+00:00
https://youtu.be/Ve8MuxS58kQ

https://youtu.be/ILKJcsET-NM?t=3m51s

https://youtu.be/nZb7FcP84CM

https://youtu.be/aAJ4Be5cMWY

and so many more
by saghm | 2025-11-21 14:30:49+00:00
Silly idea: just create those users manually without giving them a home directory? The names won't be available anymore. You could write a short script wrapping useradd (and userdel? I honestly haven't deleted a user in years and can't remember if that's the correct command) and define your own config file to contain the current set of names managed by the tool.
by stavros | 2025-11-21 14:30:52+00:00
For an update, Codex has been massively better for me. I should probably give it another go, especially now with Codex Max, as it has been much better at not getting stuck like this. Give it a go if you get the chance, although with the general caveat that people have massively different experiences with LLMs, for some reason.

I think maybe it has to do something with the prompting style, my hypothesis is that some people's prompting styles fit certain LLMs better. I don't know how else to explain the fact that my very experienced friends prefer Sonnet to Codex, for example, whereas I had the opposite experience.
Show HN: Font of Web: Search Web Design Patterns via Multimodal Embeddings
by sim04ful | 2025-11-21 14:31:27+00:00
Instead of going the tags + categories route, I used the vertex api multimodalembedding@001 model.

How it works When a pin is to be saved, fow's server sends a client-side embed token, with permissions to call the vertex-api directly (through the impersonated access token flow), this returns a f32 512 dim vector.

I store this in a usearch vector db on my $15 VPS.

Usearch doesn't have runtime disk persistence, so I had to write a WAL wrapper around it.

What you can do

The perks of multi-modality is pretty fun: you can currently search for web design patterns via images and text, in combination with other filters - colors, font(s), domain.

Some examples to try:

https://fontofweb.com/search/pins?q=elegant+serif+blog+with+...

single fonts, pairings, or 2+ combos, e.g

https://fontofweb.com/search/pins?family_id=109

https://fontofweb.com/search/pins?q=&family_id=109&family_id...

color search/sorting (done in perceptual CIELAB space not RGB) https://fontofweb.com/search/pins?q=&color=%23ff0000

domain search (filter by site, e.g. https://fontofweb.com/search/pins?domain=apple.com, https://fontofweb.com/search/pins?domain=blender.org)

Appreciate your thoughts, scathe me, praise me, don't hold back, thanks for you time :)
by man8alexd | 2025-11-21 14:32:13+00:00
> he is dismissive of his staff's concerns, he bullies them into submission, and he has a callous indifference to safety.

I suspect that you are sourcing "Midnight in Chernobyl", which is based on Medvedev's book, which is full of inventions.

> a regime that intentionally buries secrets, like them already knowing the unsafe design of the RBMK control rods.

This is an invention in the miniseries. See section 4.1 in the INSAG-7 about the Ignalina phenomenon.

> When the reactor power could not be restored to the intended level of 700 MW(th), the operating staff did not stop and think, but on the spot they modified the test conditions to match their view at that moment of the prevailing conditions.

This is a weak spot in the INSAG-7. The 700 MW was the upper limit, not the lower and this number was put in the test conditions by Dyatlov, who designed the test.

> operating rules were violated, and control and safety rods were placed in a configuration

The only operational rule violated was the ORM margin but there was no indication about this metric in the control room and the operators weren't aware of this violation. They were still prosecuted for this. Criminal investigation against Akimov and Toptunov was closed only in November 1986, six months after their deaths.

> INSAG, with the present report, does not retract INSAG-1, nor does it alter the conclusions of that report except as clearly indicated here.

I love this. "No, no, it wasn't bullshit that Legasov gave us in 1986."

> the operators to invent changes to nuclear safety tests

It is not that kind of nuclear safety test that was sent to them from above. The organization that designed the reactor proposed a new mode of operation but didn't bother to design anything. The changes to the design and testing were prepared locally at Chernobyl NPP, so it was Dyatlov who prepared the test program. Fomin authorized the test. The INSAG-7 report says that regulations NSR-04-74 and GSP-82, which were in force at the time of the accident, did not require the plant managers to obtain approval from someone else. In 1987, Fomin was sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony anyway.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-11-21 14:32:37+00:00
No, I said reselling pokemon cards. That's an example of scalping. You lumped them all together.

Scalpers are only the latest in a long line of wrongly persecuted financial minorities like black market sellers, smugglers, drug lords, pirates, slavers, pimps, and Ponzi scheme entrepreneurs.

Why won't you confront what you actually said? Why are you trying to twist words around instead?
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-21 14:33:25+00:00
Definitely. Usually I'd wait 2-3 weeks for the ecosystem to catch up and iron out the kinks, or do what I did for GPT-OSS, fix it in the places where it's broken, then judge it when I'm sure it's actually used correctly.

Otherwise, in that early period of time, only use the provided scripts/tools from the people releasing the model itself, which is probably the only way in those 2-3 weeks to be sure you're actually getting the expected responses.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-21 14:33:40+00:00
>If I haven't created it myself and yet still have an end product, how have I accomplished anything?

Maybe what you wanted to accomplish wasn't the dimensioning of lumber?

Achievements you can make by using CNC:

- Learning feeds+speeds - Learning your CNC tooling. - Learning CAD+CAM. - Design of the result. - Maybe you are making tens of something. Am I really achieving that much by making ~100 24"x4" pieces of plywood? - Maybe you want to design something that many people can manufacture.
by mjaniczek | 2025-11-21 14:34:01+00:00
I have only had some previous experience with Project Euler, which I liked for the loop of "try to bruteforce it -> doesn't work -> analyze the problem, exploit patterns, take shortcuts". (I hit a skill ceiling after 166 problems solved.)

Advent of Code has this mass hysteria feel about it (in a good sense), probably fueled by the scarcity principle / looking forward to it as December comes closer. In my programming circles, a bunch of people share frustration and joy over the problems, compete in private leaderboards; there are people streaming these problems, YouTubers speedrunning them or solving them in crazy languages like Excel or Factorio... it's a community thing, I think.

If I wanted to start doing something like LeetCode, it feels like I'd be alone in there, though that's likely false and there probably are Discords and forums dedicated to it. But somehow it doesn't have the same appeal as AoC.
by blibble | 2025-11-21 14:34:04+00:00
the entire point is that it was supposed to have a big impact

Boris said it himself in an interview: the treasury pushed for what has become known as the "Boriswave" because of inflationary wage pressures

https://youtu.be/WlR1JSV45X4?t=1410

I think that interview is actually historically notable: the first example of a western leader saying that immigration was deliberately increased to push down wages
by ethmarks | 2025-11-21 14:34:22+00:00
> now you're left with the bajillion other "grey market" models that won't give a damn about that.

Exactly. When the barrier to entry for training a okay-ish AI model (not SOTA, obviously) is only a few thousand compute hours on H100s, you couldn't possibly hope to police the training of 100% of new models. Not to mention that lots of existing models are already out there are fully open-source. There will always be AI models that don't adhere to watermark regulations, especially if they were created a country that doesn't enforce your regulations.

You can't hope to solve the problem of non-watermarked AI completely. And by solving it partially by mandating that the big AI labs add a unified watermark, you condition people to be even more susceptible to AI images because "if it was AI, it would have a watermark". It's truly a no-win situation.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-21 14:34:36+00:00
If they go far enough with it they will be forced to understand it deeply. The LLM provides more leverage at the beginning because this project is a final exam for a first semester undergrad PL course, therefore there are a billion examples of “vaguely Java/Python/C imperative language with objects and functions” to train the LLM on.

Ultimately though, the LLM is going to become less useful as the language grows past its capabilities. If the language author doesn’t have a sufficient map of the language and a solid plan at that point, it will be the blind leading the blind. Which is how most lang dev goes so it should all work out.
by artursapek | 2025-11-21 14:35:05+00:00
Hi HN. I've been working on Revise since May. My goal is to build a collaborative docs editor that can try out new UI/UX paradigms in how people interact with written content now that computers can actually understand it. I think there's a lot of room for innovation when it comes to computer-aided proofreading, document history tracking, and more.

Would love some beta testers and feedback! You can email me art@revise.io if you have thoughts. Thank you.
by Aurelan | 2025-11-21 14:35:11+00:00
Totally agree on the storage. Just added an export option. I was thinking about local storage that in terms of choosing an archive folder but not totally sure what would be intuitive e.g. if you added markup/comments/notes in platform then you might want that before saving (rather than at point of capture).

Yeah, I need to strike a balance with the hard costs. Appreciate the feedback! It's difficult to get something up and running at those numbers (those guys have scale) but hoping I can tailor towards any niche use-cases in the interim because the established players do not release features fast.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-21 14:35:48+00:00
> and I can safely vouch that myself and most of the people I know

That's great, too bad none of those people sit in positions of power or anywhere near your government, because from the outside for the last two decades or more, those ideals are not visible to us at all, neither when we look at the foreign policy nor internal.

I'm sure the tides will eventually turn, but we're talking decades more likely than years, since it's been turning this direction for decades already, and I don't see it tipping the balance in the other way even today or the near-future. GLHF at the very least, I do hope things get better for everyone.
by nkrisc | 2025-11-21 14:35:54+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Someone probably thought it was interesting, and based on the fact it's on the front page and receiving comments, at least some other people agree.
by atonse | 2025-11-21 14:36:14+00:00
Even though my post complaining about google's billing and incoherent mess got so many upvotes, I'll be the first to say that there is nothing basic about "give me money".

Apart from the fact that what happens to the money when it gets to google (putting it in the right accounts, in the right business, categorizing it, etc), it changes depending on who you're ASKING for money.

1. Getting money from an individual is easy. Here's a credit card page.

2. Getting money from a small business is slightly more complicated. You may already have an existing subscription (google workspaces), just attach to it.

3. As your customers get bigger, it gets more squishy. Then you have enterprise agreements, where it becomes a whole big mess. There are special prices, volume discounts, all that stuff. And then invoice billing.

The point is that yes, we all agree that getting someone to plop down a credit card is easy. Which is why Anthropic and OpenAI (who didn't have 20 years of enterprise billing bloat) were able to start with the simplest use case and work their way slowly up.

But I AM sensitive to how hard this is for companies as large and varied as Google or MS. Remember the famous Bill Gates email where even he couldn't figure out how to download something from Microsoft's website.

It's just that they are also LARGE companies, they have the resources to solve these problems, just don't seem to have the strong leadership to bop everyone on the head until they make the billing simple.

And my guess is also that consumers are such a small part of how they're making money (you best believe that these models are probably beautifully integrated into the cloud accounts so you can start paying them from day one).
by graemep | 2025-11-21 14:36:14+00:00
> My comment was in aggregate by origin regardless of profession or skill

It makes no sense to compare the aggregates in countries of origin rather than in the immigrant populations.

Non EU immigrants tended to be higher skilled or well off because that is the only way they could get a visa. Unskilled immigrants could come in freely if they were from the EU and many did.

Therefore your claim that the EU immigrants contributed more to the economy than the non-EU immigrants who replaced them is false if you assume skilled immigrants make a grater contribution.
by franktankbank | 2025-11-21 14:36:14+00:00
Very good retort. I will insist both things happen and our views on it probably come down to life experience and current position.

I've too often seen Dave praised for carrying sacks day in day out instead of placing them on the goddamn conveyor belt. Some have come to doubt the conveyor belts utility when we could all just be carrying the sacks. In fact if we got rid of the conveyor belt we could hire our cousin and brother-in-law to be cool like Dave.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-21 14:36:31+00:00
It is a valid problem but hell it is a very attacked problem. There are thousands of staff scheduling solutions. I think "does the software work for your industry" > the algorithm used. E.g. if the vendor is proven to work for fire-fighters rosters then it is low risk for another station or brigade to adopt. It is other features like HR and payroll integration, access control, working time regulations and law, attendance recording etc. that will make a big difference.