MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xis | 2025-11-26 10:12:05+00:00
Last year I was working on a calendar supporting multiple calendar schemes. Currently it is only dogfooded with fictional calendars and a demo with heavy Vue and UI library.

You inspired me to revive the project. Possibly remove the dependency and make it a usable datepicker.

Lyowforall: https://github.com/0xis-cn/lyowforall
by imtringued | 2025-11-26 10:12:32+00:00
I like the responses:

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/3770

>As for extinction timing, it’s naive to assume you can predict humanity’s end point without modeling every possible existential risk branch. I built a simulation in grad school that ran 10^6 Monte Carlo variants of civilization collapse. Spoiler: entropy wins eventually. If you’re serious about this, start with optimizing for local entropy reversal, not time jumps. Otherwise you’re just playing with thought experiments.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-11-26 10:12:44+00:00
> Taking Zepbound definitely reshaped my perception of obesity though, compared to Keto which required constant, intense self-enforced discipline avoiding 4/5 of any menu, being on a GLP1-a and able to eat what everyone else is eating but just stop and not feel hunger pains or cravings convinced me the attitude of "fat=lacking discipline" is antiquated and ignores real variance in how different people experience hunger/satiation.

Well I always assumed that people are fat because they are eating too much...of the wrong thing.

I lost 10kg not long ago, 20 lbs in American, and never ever i did feel hungry. Quite the opposite, i would be stuffed to the nose on fruits, vegetables and meats.

And believe me when I tell you I ate like an ogre.

I challenge anyone to actually gain weight on eating only vegetable fruits and meat. After losing these 10kg, I tried to gain 15kg of muscle and overeat on this regime to the point to want to vomit, couldn't gain weight. When I added fat and cereals, weight increased so fast I had to slow down.

With the average caloric expenditure being 2200 kcal for a normal healthy man, not even doing sport, the average vegetable being 300 kcal per kg, it means you would have to eat 7.3kg (16lbs) of vegetable per day.

I don't know you personally but I can safely say that you can't eat 16 lbs of vegetable per day, or 5lbs per meal. It's physically impossible.

So yeah I guess that how people experience hunger/starvation could play a role, but it's not the full story.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-26 10:12:50+00:00
Sigh... You'd think people would know this by now. What does it even mean to be a "web developer" if you don't know the difference between pixels and text size? It seems like such a fundamental thing, like a decorator knowing how to calculate how much paint is needed for a job. But no... now we have web browsers where a pixel isn't even a pixel, it's 4 pixels, on a "HiDPI" display...
by ghosty141 | 2025-11-26 10:13:37+00:00
You don't have to fire "low performers" you just have to be realistic about their skillsets and use them that way.

If you see an engineer is out of his depth then change his position, no need to fire them since like others have pointed out, that can have severe consequences in their personal lives and most of the time they can still be useful if they get more adequate work.
by sd9 | 2025-11-26 10:15:00+00:00
Why are some models better than others today if everything is publicly known and many organisations have access to massive resources?

Somebody has to come up with an idea first. Before they share it, it is not publicly known. Ilya has previously come up with plenty of productive ideas. I don't think it's a stretch to think that he has some IP that is not publicly known.

Even seemingly simple things like how you shuffle your training set, how you augment it, the specific architecture of the model, etc, have dramatic effects on the outcome.
by ordu | 2025-11-26 10:15:29+00:00
There is an old Russian joke, that goes like this:

A man approaches a girl and asks, "Would you sleep with me for $1 million?”

She responds, “Yes, of course!”

Excited, he then asks, “What about for $1?”

She indignantly replies, “Who do you think I am?”

To which he responds, “We already established who you are; now we’re just discussing the price.”

I think it fits there. There is surprising amount of people believing that they have some Values, but just to a point when they were offered to sell them for a right price.
Show HN: An app that turns doomscrolling into learning
by HamadAlmheiri | 2025-11-26 10:16:03+00:00
Hi HN, I made BrainScroller — an app that takes the same scrolling habit we all have and turns it into learning instead of doomscrolling.

Why I built it: I noticed I wasn’t addicted to my phone — I was addicted to scrolling. So I wondered: what if the scroll itself fed my curiosity instead of draining it?

How it works: You swipe like Instagram/TikTok, but each card is a short summary, idea, or concept from philosophy, history, psychology, tech, and science. It's meant to feel as easy as social media but leave you smarter, not anxious.

What I'm looking for: – Feedback on the UX and the “scroll-to-learn” model – Whether the content feels useful or too shallow – Any suggestions before I work on the next version

Happy to answer anything. Thanks!
by pickledoyster | 2025-11-26 10:16:34+00:00
This is based on HSBC's model, which assumes some incredible numbers, such as: > user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China.

Unfounded statements (outside of language tasks, fwiw), such as: >LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says.

As well as this bold claim about OAI's potential to double the conversion rate: >It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.

Does not include a major player in its market share analysis at all: >Google is excluded entirely

And, still, it suggests that: > OpenAI is expected to still be subsidising its users well into next decade

Fascinating.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-26 10:16:57+00:00
You're assuming that people are only interested in image and text generation.

RL excels at learning control problems. It is mathematically guaranteed to provide an optimal solution for the state and controls you provide it, given enough runtime. For some problems (playing computer games), that runtime is surprisingly short.

There is a reason self-driving cars use RL, and don't use GPTs.
by eru | 2025-11-26 10:17:58+00:00
I don't think you can make the EULA bite here?

To circumvent: you have someone (who might be bound by the EULA, and is otherwise not affiliated with you) dump the data on the internet, and someone else (from your company) can find it there, without being bound by the EULA. Nvidia could only sue the first guy for violating the EULA.

However you are right, that copyright and patents still bite.
by ghosty141 | 2025-11-26 10:19:13+00:00
I don't think unions are the right thing here, you just need to get together as a team and talk with your higher ups, that's a far smaller scope than where unions normally come in.

But I totally agree, I think people are too compliant and fear banding together to have influence on higher ups. I'd argue in most places the engineers have far more power than they realize since they are in high demand due to shortages of qualified personnel. (at least in many countries in Europe)

There are tons of factors in play though that I believe contribute to this like some employees being friends with their higher ups not wanting to hurt their careers, not wanting the tough discussions, the repercussions if management says "no" etc..
by Smaug123 | 2025-11-26 10:19:31+00:00
The .NET source build team looked at subtrees (https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/issues/10257#issuecomment-1...).

> Introduces a very messy and complex history which would not work for the repo of our size > Apparently the support in git is buggy and can lead to problems in the repo (the SO is full of examples) > Doesn't support cloaking

(I think by "cloaking" they are referring to https://github.com/premun/dotnet/blob/766c564dd379e634c38739... )
by josephg | 2025-11-26 10:23:33+00:00
Yeah. Its also weird that people online are fixating on unwrap - as if changing or fixing unwrap's semantics would have helped cloudflare here.

The best way to think about unwrap is that its like an assert. If an assert trips, the answer isn't to remove the assert and just hope for the best. Asserts are almost never the problem. The problem is whatever happened right before the assert. Ie, the buggy codepath that generated the erroneous state in the first place.

In cloudflare's case, the bug was that their code required that a database query returned less than 200 results. Only the database returned more results than that. This isn't a problem with unwrap. It was these two mutually incompatible pieces of behaviour colliding in code. I don't see why rust has anything to do with this at all. Sloppy programmers can make a mess in any language. Rust is no exception.
by anileated | 2025-11-26 10:24:50+00:00
Bad: 1) of poor quality or a low standard, 2) not such as to be hoped for or desired, 3) failing to conform to standards of moral virtue or acceptable conduct.

(Oxford Dictionary of English.)

A broken tool is of poor quality and therefore can be called bad. If a broken tool accidentally causes an ethically good thing to happen by not functioning as designed, that does not make such a tool a good tool.

A mere tool like an LLM does not decide the ethics of good or bad and cannot be “taught” basic ethical behavior.

Examples of bad as in “morally dubious”:

— Using some tool for morally bad purposes (or profit from others using the tool for bad purposes).

— Knowingly creating/installing/deploying a broken or harmful tool for use in an important situation for personal benefit, for example making your company use some tool because you are invested in that tool ignoring that the tool is problematic.

— Creating/installing/deploying a tool knowing it causes harm to others (or refusing to even consider the harm to others), for example using other people’ work to create a tool that makes those same people lose jobs.

Examples of bad as in “low quality”:

— A malfunctioning tool, for example a tool that is not supposed to access some data and yet accesses it anyway.

Examples of a combination of both versions of bad:

— A low quality tool that accesses data it isn’t supposed to access, which was built using other people’s work with the foreseeable end result of those people losing their jobs (so that their former employers pay the company that built that tool instead).

Hope that helps.
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-26 10:26:00+00:00
I wish someone would do the math, it feels like a human body wouldn’t leave that much remains after degrading. I remember learning in the cemetery tour at New Orleans that those above ground tombs are family tombs and that they contain generations of people. The top shelf is where the body goes and it stays for one year and degrades before it is opened again and scraped into the bottom layer where multiple generations dwell forever together.

https://historyinstone.blogspot.com/2019/07/above-ground-bur...
by zamadatix | 2025-11-26 10:29:03+00:00
I think it's a situation akin to HOAs where there are absolutely people who prefer being in an HOA but it has this feedback loop which results in significantly more people being in an HOA than would prefer to be just because there are limited options and undoing an HOA is higher friction than new construction including one.

On one hand this is still preference. They pick to be in a city over the other options available. On the other hand the other options aren't available because enough people are already interested in centralizing life choice options into a city and so it just drives that feedback loop over and over as more people choose where the option of the day is rather than what they'd like. The only thing holding this loop back from runaway is large cities eventually seem to have population growth fall behind cost of living growth and that stops the runaway for the particular city.

Perhaps more simply: the immediate and big picture preference often don't align and this misalignment further drives a larger gap in those two preferences over time until the cost to scale the city finally becomes too high.
by Yokohiii | 2025-11-26 10:30:26+00:00
I think if we look at the lack of accountability it's obvious that one major problem is that many of these projects do heavily rely on contract work. No company or gov in the world can supply the perfect brain- and manpower necessary on day one (on a huge and complex project that requires expert knowledge). So there is an prevalent delusion that talent just spawns at project kickoff and those people even care about what they do.

Maybe this is some artifact we carried over from the industrial era. We expect that complex machinery is built by expert companies over night and they just work, with a bit of maintenance and knowledge transfer. But software doesn't work like that.
by raverbashing | 2025-11-26 10:31:18+00:00
Note this is the council position

The path from position to actual implementation (details) is long

And you can bet there's still a lot of opposition of people (with actual involvement in the legislative process)

And legal hurdles for implementation as well

(this all reminds me of the discussion around the copyright directive where people here were decrying it was going to be the end of memes. So, how did that go again?)
by defrost | 2025-11-26 10:31:51+00:00
Do you have evidence that Malaysia was "colonized" by Arabs?

There is evidence that Parameswara converted to Islam following his infatuation with and marriage to a girl from the Samudera Pasai Sultanate.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameswara_of_Malacca

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudera_Pasai_Sultanate
by fhd2 | 2025-11-26 10:32:18+00:00
Agreed. If you "create demand", it usually just means people are spending on the thing you provide, and consequently less on something else. Ultimately it goes back to a few basic needs, something like Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

And then there's followup needs, such as "if I need to get somewhere to have a social life, I have a need for transportation following from that". A long chain of such follow-up needs gives us agile consultants and what not, but one can usually follow it back to the source need by following the money.

Startup folks like to highlight how they "create value", they added something to the world that wasn't there before and they get to collect the cash for it.

But assuming that population growth will eventually stagnate, I find it hard to not ultimately see it all as a zero sum game. Limited people with limited time and money, that's limited demand. What companies ultimately do, is fight for each other for that. And when the winners emerge and the dust settles, supply can go down to meet the demand.
by mbork_pl | 2025-11-26 10:33:03+00:00
I did my share of coding on a Commodore 64 (have you seen that keyboard?) with a cassette tape as the only external storage, no debugger (just a very poor BASIC variant) and (of course) a mono CRT tv set as a monitor. No internet, of course, just a few books/magazines.

Kids these days... ;-)
by skydhash | 2025-11-26 10:33:45+00:00
You may have a very justified reason to switch, including nnot liking one aspect of emacs. But you are presenting it as a general flaw. Which people cannot obviously accept as it’s fine for them and they are not experiencing your issue (and as you know, everyone’s setup and workflow are different)

As for the single threaded nature of it, it doesn’t bother me. Because what should be async already is. The only thing left that is synchronous follows closely the repl model of the terminal. I issue a command and I wait for the result. If the result doesn’t matter or I want part of it as soon as possible, then it can be async and there’s plenty of way you can make it so.
by compsciphd | 2025-11-26 10:33:58+00:00
I agree with you. the counter that some people make (that I personally disagree with as being a reason to not do it) is that anything that lets voters confirm that their vote was properly counted also enables 3rd parties to influence said voters (i.e. buying a vote is more valuable if one can validate that bought vote was actually delivered).

Personally I find other mechanism to heavily criminalize vote buying as being effective to discouraging that behavior and providing a slip of paper to the voter that enables them to post factor validate that their vote was counted as they believe it should have been to be much more valuable.

but its important to address the issue that some people have.
by pdimitar | 2025-11-26 10:34:33+00:00
While I too doubt that unions would be a net negative and I might even suspect interference by paid malicious actors to discourage people to unionize and thus never have power, I can't agree with your skepticism that PMs cannot be replaced by LLMs.

Most PMs I've ever met had zero clue what they are doing. And no it's not only N=1 sample, same anecdote is heard from many, many other people.

But sadly enough, undeniable human incompetence there is not even the biggest problem. The "we will never make more reasonable deadline" is.

Most managers, not just PMs, are an objective net negative. As any ruling class always does, they get complacent and think that just putting their foot down is going to magically change reality.
by fragmede | 2025-11-26 10:34:40+00:00
If we assume that you're a human being that sleeps, say 8 hrs/day, and not an LLM, that leaves you with 16 hours of consciousness a day, for an uptime of 66%. That's upsidedown nines. You don't even crack one nine of uptime. If we assume you've a diet of meth and cocaine, and only sleep 2 hours a day, that still puts you at only like 92% uptime.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-26 10:35:22+00:00
Apple TV apps, in general, are terrible. Every single one [that I routinely use] (including Apple’s apps) regularly crash or lock up, often leaving it to me, to force-quit.

Amazon has started getting into a state, lately, where it ignores the remote, unless I go back, then go forward again.

This kind of “quality” is considered “acceptable,” in today’s world.

AppleTV has a JavaScript-based development system. It also has a fairly classic native Swift system (which I use). I suspect most apps are JavaScript, though.

[EDIT: Added the “routinely use” qualifier]
by fhennig | 2025-11-26 10:35:58+00:00
Maybe it's a nitpick, but

> The reality is that the internet has become decentralized

What the author seems to mean is that internet _culture_ has become fragmented ("decentralized").

The internet (servers etc) always was decentralized by design. And the web built on top of it (commonly referred to as the internet) certainly hasn't become decentralized, rather it got more centralized.

It's unfortunate that the language isn't used precisely here, I think.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-26 10:36:15+00:00
Yeah but it's just one model.

Call it Dave. Now Microsoft hires Dave and Open AI hires Dave. And Meta hires Dave and Oracle hires Dave and the US govt hires Dave. And soon each of those had hired not just one Dave but 50 identical copies of Dave.

It doesn't matter if Dave is a smart-ish ok guy. That's not the problem with this scenario. The problem is the the only thing on the market is Dave and people who think exactly like Dave thinks
by PEGHIN | 2025-11-26 10:36:50+00:00
Hey everyone,

I just launched AskGAAI, an AI analyst for GA4 + Google Ads built around a very SaaS‑founder problem:

We had all the data… but still couldn’t answer basic growth questions:

Why did signups drop this week?

Which campaigns are actually profitable, not just cheap clicks?

Where exactly are users leaking in the funnel?

What should we fix first to move MRR instead of random metrics?

I was spending hours inside GA4 and still guessing. By the time we noticed issues, revenue or ROAS was already hurting.

So I built AskGAAI to watch GA4 + Google Ads and tell you, in plain English:

1⃣ What changed – traffic, signups, CAC, key events 2⃣ Why it changed – which channel, campaign, or step in the funnel moved 3⃣ What to do next – concrete recommendations, not just another chart

On top of that, it:

Sends a daily email brief with your key metrics, 3 insights, and 1 recommended action

Triggers real‑time alerts when signups or conversions drop, CAC spikes, or tracking breaks

Lets you ask questions like a human (“Why did trial → paid conversion fall yesterday?”) instead of clicking 10 GA4 reports

We just went live on Product Hunt here https://www.producthunt.com/products/askgaai-ga4-copilot

If you’re a founder, marketer, or growth person who lives in GA4, an upvote or comment there would help a ton.

I’d love your thoughts on two things:

What’s the one metric or funnel step you’re constantly worried about but don’t have a clean explanation for?

If AskGAAI could send you only one alert, what would you want it to be?

I’ll be around all day replying to questions and sharing examples. Also happy to check out and support your launches too – drop them below.
by pkphilip | 2025-11-26 10:36:51+00:00
Having consulted on government projects - especially huge projects spanning dozens of government departments, what I have learnt is that the project is doomed right from the start. The specifications are written in such a way that it is impossible to get a working software which can address all of the millions (yes, literally) of specifications.

For instance, I had the opportunity to review an RFP put out by a state government for software to run a single state government. The specifications stated that a SINGLE software should be used for running the full administration of all of the departments of the government - including completely disparate things such as HR, CCTV management, AI enabled monitoring of rodents and other animals near/at warehouses, all healthcare facilities, recruitment, emergency response services etc...

ONE SOFTWARE for ALL of these!

There isn't a single company in the world who can write software to monitor rodents, hospital appointment booking, general payroll, etc. And since the integration required was so deep, it would be impossible to use existing best-of-breed software.. and everything has to be written from scratch.

How is such a software project ever going to suceeed?
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-26 10:37:26+00:00
I find the downsampling thing happens on Temu ads a lot.

I do a cryptic crossword from a free UK newspaper most days, because my Dad (many thousands of miles away), also does the same crossword and we can bond over good and bad clues, and so on.

The banner ad on that page is always Temu. It always, always looks pornographic. And then you look closer, and it's completely innocuous.

I have assumed that the alogrithm is just optimising for attention, and it just so happens those images, at that scale, are going to get a lot of attention. But it does mean I can't show somebody else the crossword I'm doing for fear of looking like a degenerate pervert, and I am at risk of causing an issue if I play it on public transport.
by blubber | 2025-11-26 10:38:46+00:00
"The reason you can use this simpler syntax in R is because it’s non-standard-evaluation ..."

So it actually is about Python vs R.

That said, while this kind of non-standard evaluation is nice when working interactively on the command line, I don't think it's that relevant when writing code for more elaborated analyses. In that context, I'd actually see this as a disadvantage of R because you suddenly have to jump through loops to make trivial things work with that non-standard evaluation.