MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SirHumphrey | 2025-11-05 14:28:20+00:00
Well, you could already do, sort of. Even the best stocked library in the world has it's limits and even the largest printed encyclopedia cannot reach anywhere near the breath of information on Wikipedia and no technical library has as many articles as PubMed.

We switched from techno optimism to techno pessimism - for some good reasons - nevertheless internet brought to the table revolutionary capabilities not only for evil but also for good.
by martin-t | 2025-11-05 14:28:45+00:00
Yes, but notice what you are describing are all negative incentives.

When automation produces value for the company, the people automating it should capture a chunk of that value _as a matter of course_.

Even if you argue that you can then negotiate better compensation:

1) That is uncertain and delayed reward - and only if other people feel like it, it's not automatic.

2) The reward stops if you get fired or leave, despite the automation still producing value - you are also basically incentivized to build stuff that requires constant maintenance. Imagine you spend a man-month building the automation and then leave, it then requires a man-month of maintenance over the next 5 years. At the end of the 5 years, you should still be getting 50% of the reward.
by TulioKBR | 2025-11-05 14:28:57+00:00
Pelo seus comentários da pra perceber e ter a certeza de que eu já achava.. você é só mais um. O projeto está aí, mesmo que você diga que seja alucinação.. abra o repositório faça o commit ( se souber por que pelo seus comentários acho difícil) em seguida dê seu prompt. Depois me diz aqui.. ou pode apenas ler os componentes e como foram criados( se souber ler também) o problema é que se fosse uma empresa como Lovablle que provavelmente você usa, lançar algo assim você aplaudiria... mas como é claramente um brasileiro, do seu mesmo país, você falando algo que não sabe tendo a oportunidade de testar isso para mim só diz uma coisa VOCÊ É UM QUALQUER.

Abra, faça commit, faça seu teste totalmente gratuito e se a arquitetura que o sistema gerar for comum como qualquer outra IA cria, você está certo.. eu estou alucinando junto com IA.. mas para mim que já uso a minha plataforma, você é só mais um falador e provavelmente sem competência.
by snek_case | 2025-11-05 14:29:47+00:00
It might also be something like: people who experience relatively little psychological distress are optimistic, and also live longer.

We don't like to talk about it, but there is a biological component to how happy or anxious someone is. Not to say that everyone is doomed to be a certain way because of their genetics, but I've known people who are basically never sad, and it's not because they've found some kind of secret of happiness. I have a friend who has the temperament of a golden retriever.
Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
by urnicus | 2025-11-05 14:29:49+00:00
Is anybody still using TUI applications for business?

My family company is a wholesale distribution firm (with lightweight manufacturing) and has been using the same TUI application (on prem unix box) since 1993. We use it for customer management, ordering, invoicing, kit management/build tickets, financials - everything. We've transitioned from green screen terminals to modern emulators, but the core system remains. I spent many summers running serial and ethernet cables.

I left the business years ago to become a full time software engineer, but I got my start as a script kiddie writing automations for this system with Microsoft Access, VBA, and SendKeys to automate data entry. Amazingly, they still have a Windows XP machine running many of those tasks I wrote back in 2004! It's brittle, but cumulatively has probably saved years of time. That XP machine could survive a nuclear winter lol.

I recently stepped back in to help my parents and spent a day converting many of those old scripts to a more modern system (with actual error-handling instead of strategic sleep()s and prayers) using Python and telnetlib3. I had a blast and still love this application. I can fly around in it. Training new people was always a pain, but for those that got it—they had super powers.

This got me thinking: Are other companies still using this type of interface to drive their core operations? I’m reflecting on whether the only reason my family's business still uses this system is because of the efficiency hacks I put in place 20+ years ago. Without them, would they have been forced to switch to a modern cloud/GUI system? I’m not sure if I’m blinded by nostalgia or if this application is truly as wonderful as I remember it.

I’d love to hear if and how these are still being utilized in the real world.

P.S. The system we use was originally sold by ADP and has had different names (D2K, Prophet21). I believe Epicor owns it now (Activant before).

P.P.S. Is anybody migrating their old TUI automation scripts to a more modern framework or creating new ones? I’m super curious to compare notes and see what other people are doing.
by tpoacher | 2025-11-05 14:29:58+00:00
Simple. I don't know emacs that well :) I didn't even know emacs had a terminal mode until I looked this up; my main experience with emacs was when I was writing prolog and the IDE was emacs based. I didn't find it as nice to use back then so I never gave it a serious shot.

By comparison nano is everywhere and was super-simple to configure and spruce-up with custom functions, so it just stuck with me.

As for other competitors, when comparing to vim, I find it much simpler to use, and to the surprise of most vim users I speak to, equally powerful (at least for my needs).
by xyzzy123 | 2025-11-05 14:30:12+00:00
Ok yep, fair. My comment was about using copilot-ish tech to generate plausible looking spreadsheets.

The kind of things that a domain expert Brenda knows that ChatGPT doesn't know (yet) are like:

There are 3 vendors a, b, c who all look similar on paper but vendor c always tacks on weird extra charges that take a lot of angry phone calls to sort out.

By volume or weight it looks like you could get 100 boxes per truck but for industry specific reasons only 80 can legally be loaded.

Hyper specific details about real estate compliance in neighbouring areas that mean buildings that look similar on paper are in fact very different.

A good Brenda can understand the world around her as it actually is, she is a player in it and knows the "real" rules rather than operating from general understanding and what people have bothered to write down.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-05 14:31:02+00:00
Here's a case that was taken all the way up to the ECHR where they upheld a blasphemy conviction of somebody who called Mohammed (who fucked a 9 year old) a pedophile: https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/e-s-v-a...

The "where exactly" is the "western europe" from the comment I replied to. Sure, you can't be convicted of blasphemy everywhere there, but the fact that you can be charged with a crime that most sane people assumed hadn't been a thing since the Spanish Inquisition anywhere in Europe is pretty shocking.
by resonaX | 2025-11-05 14:31:09+00:00
Thanks — that’s exactly the problem we’re trying to solve. Traditional personas go stale fast, and most survey data is self-reported, not behavioral.

On hallucinations and bias: We handle it in three ways right now —

Grounding in real data: Each twin is built using structured + unstructured data (LinkedIn profiles, CRM notes, messaging, etc.), so the LLM has contextual grounding rather than free-form guessing.

Feedback calibration: Every time users compare twin feedback with real user insights (e.g., call transcripts or campaign results), that feedback loop fine-tunes how the twin weighs language patterns and priorities.

Cross-model validation: We run prompts through multiple models and look for consensus — if the outputs diverge too much, the system flags it for review rather than showing one “confident” but wrong answer.

It’s still early, but the goal is to make twins that drift with real customer data — not just sit frozen like static personas.
by 1gn15 | 2025-11-05 14:31:28+00:00
This thread is a dumpster fire. Piracy is still illegal; Anthropic had to pay for damages. Training has been ruled several times to be not copyright infringement because nothing is reproduced (no, the Harry Potter thing doesn't count). Then you have someone here using a racial slur and not being flagged.

Let me be crystal clear:

Large company pirates stuff: illegal (Anthropic)

Little guy pirates stuff: illegal (though most get away with it)

Large company trains model: legal (Anthropic)

Little guy trains (fine-tunes) model: legal (Civit trainers)

Why the hell are people still repeating the same old shit about "oh so the big guy can ignore laws"? What the fuck is going on?

Also: if copyright enforcement is really getting weaker (no it's not, the article's premise is wrong in the first place), good.
by microtonal | 2025-11-05 14:31:31+00:00
They have such a moat that if they open sourced their entire OS stack today nobody would be able to do anything with it except by buying their hardware.

That doesn't make much sense, XNU and the layers above it are very portable, they went PowerPC -> x86 -> x86_64 -> ARM64 after all. They also supported multiple different GPUs in the Intel era.

If the entire OS stack was open sourced today, we would have forks running on standard Intel/AMD CPUs in a week. They wouldn't have the same optimized power management, etc. But I think it would have a good chance of wiping out desktop Linux within a brief period.

macOS/iOS are part of the moat.
by giarc | 2025-11-05 14:32:19+00:00
I agree - having watched many people use Excel over the years, I'd say people often overestimate their skills. I see three categories of Excel users. First there are the people that are intimidated by it and stay away from any task involving Excel. Second are the people that know a little bit (a few basic formulas) and overestimate their skills because they only compare themselves to the first group. And the third group are the actual power users but know to keep that quiet because otherwise they become the "excel person" and have to fix every sheet that has issues.

I don't know if AI is going to make any of the above better or worse. I expect the only group to really use it will be that second group.
by danaris | 2025-11-05 14:32:52+00:00
I work with a small university psychology department, and one of our recently-retired faculty made a several-decade study of charisma, particularly among political leaders.

Her primary theory is that it is built out of a combination of formidable and approachable traits/behaviors. Naturally, there is a fair amount of personal variability in what we perceive as "formidable" and "approachable", so what seems charismatic will vary from person to person; it's not fully objective.

But her theory is that this is why you can have people who are, objectively, more repugnant still read as charismatic, and people who are very pleasant read as less charismatic: the latter may be very approachable, but they don't have enough formidability to synthesize that into charisma, while the former add just enough approachability that they can.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-05 14:33:03+00:00
> It's not what you think it is though. It's choose the right words in the right places under the right context.

That's approximately what I thought. I want to be sure. Anyway, the details are very important.

> I appreciate the input and the skepticism too.

Let's say 20% skepticism and 80% it sounds like a good idea. I'm not using AI models too much, so it's hard for me to evaluate it. Let's hope someone else can give requested and unrequested feedback.
by panxyh | 2025-11-05 14:33:07+00:00
I see now that it probably wasn't, but "nothing" is an overstatement.

And knowledgeable and helpful responses can be AI, so there might be a fallacy somewhere in your offence-taking. Are you offended when people do that in general, or only when they are wrong?

I do appreciate the effort put into writing a good comment.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-11-05 14:33:13+00:00
“This machine doesn’t need my family photo collection synced to it” is .stignore. It’s a bit confusing because .stignore is more like .git/info/excludes than .gitignore in that it’s not synced between machines[1]. (If you wanted a synced ignores file then you need to #include that file from each machine’s .stignore manually.) And what’s ignored on one machine doesn’t then need to be ignored on the others, which will still sync it between themselves in that case. So no pretty checkboxes, but echo /Photos >>.stignore on the machine in question and you should be good (including to delete the Photos subdirectory on that machine).

[1] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
by Levitz | 2025-11-05 14:33:35+00:00
There's a variety of reasons.

You don't have a human to manage. The relationship is completely one-sided, you can query a generative AI at 3 in the morning on new years eve. This entity has no emotions to manage and no own interests.

There's cost.

There's an implicit promise of improvement over time.

There's an the domain of expertise being inhumanly wide. You can ask about cookies right now, then about XII century France, then about biochemistry.

The fact that an average worker would be fired if they perform the same way is what the human actually competes with. They have responsibility, which is not something AI can offer. If it was the case that, say, Anthropic, actually signed contracts stating that they are liable for any mistakes, then humans would be absolutely toast.
by svat | 2025-11-05 14:34:11+00:00
I actually think it's a lovely paper (and he obviously intended to publish it, and put a lot of effort into compiling and editing it) and illustrates the nature of his writing very well: he's managed to be encyclopedic about all the topics he chose to discuss, while still having it be very personal (the matter at stake is one of programmers' style and preferences after all). This blog post (https://blog.plover.com/prog/Hoare-logic.html) calls it “my single all-time favorite computer science paper” and here's a recent HN thread with at least two others agreeing it's a great paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416265

I've posted a better scan here: https://shreevatsa.net/tmp/2025-06/DEK-P67-Structured.progra...
by Retric | 2025-11-05 14:34:28+00:00
None? Nobody puts airports inside city centers and metro areas don’t just have dense urban housing. The common solution in many land strapped cities is for airports to rout aircraft over water often by building airports on reclaimed land.

What generally gets areas in trouble is locations that used to be a good get worse as aircraft get larger and the surroundings get built up. The solution is to send larger airplanes to a new airport, but it’s not free and there’s no clear line when things get unacceptably dangerous.
by talkingtab | 2025-11-05 14:34:33+00:00
I bought an Apple II and then a SoftCard. I was trying to learn 'C' and there was a compiler on CPM (Borland) but not on the Apple II.

It is always hard to go back and understand what it was like before an event. Like the Velvet Revolution. But at the time I was working on an IBM 360, mostly doing Fortran for scientists running anemometer simulations. The center for this activity was the person in charge of the 360 who could dole out time on the computer.

The power dynamic was something I did not really notice, but in retrospect this was frustrating for the mathematicians/scientist trying to run simulations. They had to queue up and wait.

Then one day a mathematician brought in an Apple II running VisiCalc. His own personal computer. He ran his simulations on that.

It was like our small world trembled as the tectonic plates of technology shifted. The power shifted just in that one instant. It was cool - how we saw the world changed in one instant.
by jennyholzer | 2025-11-05 14:35:02+00:00
Why are you hell bent on using a LLM model to solve your problem?

If I have a straight forward task, I give it to an LLM.

If I have a task I think is hard, I plan how I will tackle it, and then handle it myself in a series of steps.

LLM usage has become an end in itself in your development process.
by logifail | 2025-11-05 14:35:08+00:00
Does this do structural formulae too?

Was thinking of InChI[0] but on Googling SMILES and SELFIES I found this[1] talk, this[2] paper and my goodness I've been down a few rabbit holes since...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Chemical_Identif... [1] https://www.inchi-trust.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/18... [2] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/dd/d1dd0001...
by vrighter | 2025-11-05 14:35:22+00:00
You don't have to, but of that list at the beginning of your comment, I actually did study them a bit on my own just for shits and giggles. And I am grateful for that because even if I don't use them directly, they have directly influenced my thinking when working at a higher level of abstraction.

For example: The recently posted-about pass-by-value overhead. And it seems that some AMD processors have a 4k aliasing issue. Knowing a tiny bit about how CPU caches actually work internally immediately made me go "oh.... I can see how that issue could arise due to how associative caches are typically implemented".

You don't necessarily use that stuff directly, but you will use them a lot more than you might think, even subconsciously.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-05 14:35:42+00:00
> FOSS has dropped into Code Reuse Mode, & getting out of that is going to require motivated individuals to build their own, entirely new versions

I don't necessarily disagree that there are some issues in the ecosystem, but I don't think that's the problem. For starters, I don't think anyone is* forking LibreOffice and throwing on a layer of paint? And when I need a word processor, I personally prefer AbiWord, which is its own thing.

In particular,

> which is why nearly every alternate OS ends up feeling like Linux with missing programs & weird commands, so why not just use Linux? we're going to be stuck in a rut for a long time to come.

This feels backwards. Alternatives tend to present a similar interface without* sharing code. In fact, even just on Linux I'd argue we have a rather lot of (re)implementations of the same things: Consider that we are in a position where Debian is shipping GNU coreutils, Ubuntu replaced them with a rust version (uutils), and Alpine has been happily shipping busybox for years (AFAIK, as long as it's existed).
by noisy_boy | 2025-11-05 14:36:30+00:00
I have a habit of filling my head with all kinds of trivia/information. Sometimes I think this is a useless habit.

Not today. I will try to remember the name of Mr. Stephen Carlsen as the inventor of TIFF format as long as I can. As a mediocre programmer, it is the least amount of respect I can pay for an unsung but talented engineer of an era that is fast going past us.
by isodev | 2025-11-05 14:36:35+00:00
> aside from the potential security and privacy concerns

I make apps both as an indie and during my day job. The App Store review doesn’t do anything to protect the privacy or security of iPhone users. Most of the review is focused on ensuring Apple doesn’t get sued and that you as a developer don’t try to advertise something Apple doesn’t like. The whole idea that the App Store is safer is a marketing thing.
Show HN: PACR – all in one academic ecosystem and professional social network
by anony_matty | 2025-11-05 14:36:56+00:00
Hey everyone,

For the past year, my team and I have been building PACR (pronounced pacer), an all-in-one academic ecosystem and professional social network designed specifically for academicians.

We are a team driven by a shared feeling that the world of academia lacks a true sense of community. Researchers often work in silos, and in a time where the future of science and research feels increasingly uncertain, we wanted to build a space where academics can feel welcome, connected, and supported.

PACR combines tools to share research, discover papers, connect with others, and discuss ideas, all in one place. We are planning to launch in mid-November, but for now, we have opened up a waitlist for early users.

I am completely new to Hacker News, but I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback about what we are building

Hope you guys have a great day!
by ak217 | 2025-11-05 14:37:28+00:00
Pixels are very noticeable at 32" 4K. If you don't notice them, your eyes still do - they try to focus on blurry lines, causing eye strain. You might not notice, but it adds up over the years.

It's simple math. A 32" 4K monitor is about 130 PPI. Retina displays (where you could reasonably say the pixels are not noticeable, and the text is sharp enough to not strain the eyes) start at 210 PPI.

Subjectively, the other problem with 32" 4K (a very popular and affordable size now) is that the optimal scaling is a fractional multiple of the underlying resolution (on MacOS - bizarrely I think Windows and Linux both know how to do this better than MacOS). Which again causes blur and a small performance hit.

I myself still use an old 43" 4K monitor as my main one, but I know it's not great for my eyes and I'd like to upgrade. My ideal would be a 40" or 42" 8K. A 6K at that size would not be enough.

I am very excited about this 32" 6K Asus ProArt that came out earlier this year: https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/monitors/proart/proar... - it finally gets Retina-grade resolution at a more reasonable price point. I will probably switch to two of these side-by-side once I can get them below $1K.
by UncleMeat | 2025-11-05 14:37:29+00:00
It does appear that RBG wanted to be replaced by a Clinton appointee and the Obama administration didn't push terribly hard to snap her out of this. This was, of course, outrageous foolish politicking and contributed to the mess we are in.

RBG was a 75 year old cancer survivor in 2008. She should have stepped down in 2010 and the Obama administration should have put public pressure on her to do so.
by b2ccb2 | 2025-11-05 14:37:41+00:00
"Hameln" is in northern Germany, don't know where the I comes from in the English transliteration.

There are many theories, one of them is the Children's Crusade[0], diseases, pagan sects, but yes, the leading one is the "Ostsiedlung".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsiedlung
by simonw | 2025-11-05 14:39:15+00:00
Why spend two minutes typing (and realistically longer than that, if I want to capture the exact transcript I would need to keep hitting pause and play and correcting myself) when I can spend ten seconds pasting a URL into my terminal and then dragging and dropping the resulting file onto the MacWhisper window?

I actually transcribed the whole TikTok which was about 50% longer than what I quoted, then edited it down to the best illustrative quote.
by bzzzt | 2025-11-05 14:39:32+00:00
If the entire stack would be open sourced there would be ports, but would there be a market for macOS devices without the optimized power management and device integration Apple offers now?

I'm still hoping some other integrated software/hardware company will stand up and offer the same attention to detail as Apple did. Instead of that everybody's actively enshittifying their own products and complaining Apple is earning so much...
by macNchz | 2025-11-05 14:39:45+00:00
Services are super high margin (twice that of hardware), growing quickly year over year, and now make up a big fraction of Apple's overall revenue. Sadly, I think, the days of Apple having the incentives and motivations associated with being primarily a hardware company are well past us—we're at the stage where hardware and OS product decisions reflect a need to drive services revenue, rather than simply making something great that people want to buy.