MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajross | 2025-11-05 22:59:19+00:00
Right, and I repeat: if this you arguing with drunk uncles, that's not me. If this is you doing praxis and trying to organize, you are aiming at the wrong target by trying to engage with your political allies here on HN.

Mostly, I suspect, you're just angry and wanting to blow off steam. Which is fine! But not likely to make either of us feel better.
by vkou | 2025-11-05 22:59:36+00:00
It's a wealth transfer from healthy people to sick people. That's the whole point of health insurance.

Older people are sicker and older people are wealthier, but older sicker people on ACA plans are not wealthier than the median.

It's a sleight of hand to collate the two (old-rich and old-sick), but sure, if this is such a large concern, the solution is adding means testing, not just leaving sick people with care they can't afford.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-05 22:59:37+00:00
The IDF has killed more babies alone than the total number of Israelis killed on October 7th.

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has nothing to do with Judaism itself, and the Palestinians don't care that the Israelis are Jewish, so I don't know why you keep bringing Jews into this (except to somehow relate it to the Holocaust).
by emtel | 2025-11-05 22:59:55+00:00
Pods work great for me, and I love not having crumbs of powder under the sink, or a bottle of liquid detergent with encrusted drips down the side. It's just gross.

They are more expensive, but I buy them on sale at Costco for about $16/100, so at $0.16 per load I really don't care if powdered detergent is only $0.03 per load or whatever.

There is clearly a revealed preference for pods among consumers for these things, and "proving" that everyone is wrong for liking them is just not a very interesting exercise imo.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-05 23:00:12+00:00
> How do you figure libraries would be deemed illegal? They operate today.

The history of public libraries is extremely messy, and the RIAA almost managed to get secondhand music made illegal in the 90s. Publishers did not ever support the idea of loaning a single copy of a work to dozens of people. While it's a huge stretch to say that every illegal download represents a lost sale (people download 100x more than they read), it's a lot less of a stretch to say that people who would sit down and read an entire book are fairly likely to have bought it.

Also, when books were relatively more expensive for people (19th century), a lot of income from publishers came from renting their books, rather than selling them. Public libraries involved a lot of positive propaganda and promises of societal uplift from wealthy benefactors, along the same lines and around the same time as the introduction of universal free public education. I remember hearing a lot about this history at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, which iirc was the first. Libraries were at that time normally private membership clubs.

edit: I also agree that the free book thing was stupid and have been very harsh about it. I don't know if it's possible to be too harsh about it, because it was obviously never going to get past a court. It felt almost like intentional sabotage.
by al_be_back | 2025-11-05 23:00:15+00:00
Replaced them with App stores, why one code base when you can have N code bases: web sites, ios, android , tv …

cheaper, privacy-oriented and more secure lol obviously not, doesn’t help the consumer or the developer.

Xslt is brilliant at transforming raw data, a tree or table for example, without having to install Office apps or paying a number of providers to simply view it without massive disruption loops.
by alphazard | 2025-11-05 23:00:40+00:00
It's always been CYA. They know people are using it for this, and they want to keep answering these sorts of queries. The changes just reflect the latest guidance from their legal team, not a change in strategy.

Modern LLMs are already better than the median doctor diagnostically. Maybe not in certain specialties, but compared to a primary care physician available to the average person, I'd take the LLM any day.
by zkmon | 2025-11-05 23:00:58+00:00
If we define happiness as cognition of some reality being better than expected, smartness can affect both expectations and results (realities) and the difference is not correlated to smartness.

Sometimes, smartness can push up expectations beyond realities, resulting in lack of happiness which can be attributed to smartness, as a non-smart person would have appreciated and accepted the realities better.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-05 23:01:07+00:00
Cope, an insider at Anthropic told me that Claude is 100% vibe coded now by three people (sometimes four when Dario is arounrd). Contractors are in place at the FAANG companies installing the latest version, that is a significant leap into AGI. I expect the announcement and mass layoffs to start happening before the end of the year. Buckle up!
by woodpanel | 2025-11-05 23:01:23+00:00
The point you're making is important and I can already see how many, once years out of school, are able to re-frame their memories into something that bullying wasn't so bad and it's actually a social good, etc. It's as if the return-to-office-policies bringing back bullying/sexual harrassement to one's work environment would be hailed as a chance to improve one's social skills. Ridiculous.

I do think though that it's worth discerning here: We don't need to accept a world in which we have to decide between apathetic children stuck to tiny screens and daily traumas. Both things are evil, and in both cases it's a testament to lack of care our education systems have for us/children.
by bluebarbet | 2025-11-05 23:02:12+00:00
Yes, I tried that and everything else. Either it refuses to launch with `--new-instance` or (from memory, in the case of your command) subsequent `--new-tab`s may open in the wrong profile. Presumably due to the order in which the original instances were created. The point is that the system turns on these UIDs, which are not paths or even hashes of paths.
Show HN: Which technologies are trending in job posts
by antgoldbloom | 2025-11-05 23:02:16+00:00
I worked at GCP from 2017 and 2022 when Google was trying to figure how important it was to support PyTorch on GCP's managed training and inference services. At the time, it was really hard to get a sense for the extent to which PyTorch had made the jump from academia to industry.

One of the best sources of technographic data in industry is job post data. When employers are hiring employees who are skilled with a technology, that's a strong indicator that the technology has made the jump. So with that in mind, I put together a simple app that shows which technologies are trending in job posts from the last 3 years. I using rolling averages to smooth the charts and making it easier to see trends.
by colonial | 2025-11-05 23:02:27+00:00
> Many people already use non-portable SIMD for the 1-3 targets they care about, instead.

This is something a lot of people (myself included) have gotten tripped up by. Non-portable SIMD intrinsics have been stable under std::arch for a long time. Obviously they aren't nearly as nice to hold, but if you're in a place where you need explicit SIMD speed-ups, that probably isn't a killer.
by HiPhish | 2025-11-05 23:02:49+00:00
> How about if the builder of your house comes into your home via an access route unknown to you, and starts rearranging where things are placed, or where you and your wife are placed, etc. in order to maintain homogeneous layout?

And if you complain he kicks you and your wife out of the house you bought. And if you dare to close off the backdoor he sends you to jail.
by dpark | 2025-11-05 23:03:43+00:00
> Filing a 1040 in the US is also very easy

Not for most people. It’s a giant pain in the ass if you have bank accounts and want to file correctly.

If all you do is plug in your w-2 and pretend that’s your whole tax return and you don’t care about anything except the standard deduction, sure. That’s not correct for most people.

> state taxes are filed at the same time and each state has its own separate system

Can we stop pretending like this is a problem insurmountable for the federal government?

This idea that TurboTax can make this work but the government can’t is absurd.
by metadope | 2025-11-05 23:03:58+00:00
I do all of my browsing with Javascript disabled. I've done this for decades now, as a security precaution mainly, but I've also enjoyed some welcome side-effects where paywalls disappeared and ads became static and unobtrusive. I wasn't looking for those benefits but I'll take 'em. In stride.

I've also witnessed a welcome (but slow) change in site implementations over the years: there are few sites completely broken by the absence of JS. Still some give blank screens and even braindead :hidden attributes thrown into the <noscript> main page to needlessly forbid access... but not as many as back in the day when JS first became the rage.

I don't know much about XSLT other than the fact that my Hiawatha web server uses it to make my directory listings prettier, and I don't have to add CSS or JS to get some style. I hate to see a useful standard abandoned by the big boys, but what can I do about it?

I bristle when I encounter pages with a few hundred words of content surrounded by literally megabytes of framework and flotsam, but that's the gig, right, wading through the crap to find the ponies.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-05 23:03:59+00:00
>I don't know about age breakdown, but in sheer percent of voters, Mamdani has essentially the same mandate Trump had a year ago.

Huh?

Trump v. Harris (2024) [0]

Trump: 49.8%, Harris: 48.3%

Margin: 1.5%

Mamdani v. Cuomo vs. Sliwa (2025) [1]

Mamdani: 50.4%, Cuomo: 41.6%, Sliwa: 7.1%

Margins:

Mamdani v. Cuomo: 9.8%

Mamdan v. Sliwa: 40.7%

how is that even remotely comparable?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_ele...

Edit: Fixed formatting.
by phs318u | 2025-11-05 23:04:10+00:00
"Millions of people" should either be putting their money (and their objections) where their mouth is or stop relying on someone else's resource. The reality is, that like Wikipedia, few people have donated to IA as a proportion of all its users.

The "good" that they've done is the "good" as the creator's see it, not the "good" as the freeloaders see it. All of which is to simply say that almost all users of IA are relying on the goodwill of the creators.
by misswaterfairy | 2025-11-05 23:04:19+00:00
> "In response to the demand for advanced AI tools, we introduced AI capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions that we offer in Australia,"

The 'demand' here is that Microsoft is demanding you use Copilot and be forced to pay for it, unless you 'opt-out' by threatening to cancel.

"In hindsight" my arse. They knew what they were doing, and are only now 'apologising' after being taken to court over it.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-05 23:04:23+00:00
Related:

Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721682 - October 2025 (129 comments)

Australia sues Microsoft over AI-linked subscription price hikes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721127 - October 2025 (1 comment)

ACCC sues over Microsoft 365 subscription hikes allegedly misleading Australians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716067 - October 2025 (0 comments)
by tmsh | 2025-11-05 23:04:52+00:00
Interestingly the Gemini summary is nowhere near as good. But when it is... how helpful will that be! So many things with a very good summary will save so much time / avoid having to dive into unless truly in need of the details.

But the quality of the summary - and maybe the ability to expand it if slightly more details are required - and the low latency with that - are all super important. In that sense, AI can potentially save a lot of time in getting the right information quickly.
by losvedir | 2025-11-05 23:05:18+00:00
This has been his stance for a long time. He has a lot of dishwasher videos for some reason!

One thing I can't get a good answer to is whether the "prewash" step is universally the case or not. I have a good Bosch dishwasher and there's no compartment for a bit of pre-wash detergent. I don't even know if my dishwasher cycle has a pre-wash step. I would assume the dishwasher manufacturer knows what's best.

The owner's manual gives advice about not pre-rinsing the dishes because the food bits actually help the wash cycle, so I'm wondering if it works differently from the two-step process in this video.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-05 23:05:57+00:00
There has been a ton of research in the area of re-growing teeth from stem cells. A cursory search-engining will turn up a ton of articles, some going back decades, and many giving the impression that it's close to happening. I've been following it for awhile because I knew I'd be in the market for a new tooth eventually.

Here's an example of one from earlier this year at King's College, London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lab-grown-teeth-might-become-an-a...
by beeflet | 2025-11-05 23:05:57+00:00
>Of course, because the Capitalists try to control the industry they've invested in.

But does the system eventually result in a small number of capitalists taking power or is it distributed over many capitalists? Not all monopolies are natural.

What is the "work" being done here? Manufacturing or installation? It's not like all of the solar companies are co-ops and contractors.
by viler | 2025-11-05 23:06:03+00:00
That was one option I thought of at first (mentioned in the first section), but the info I found indicated that the /370 models used the same firmware as the "plain" 5170s - if there were any BIOS extensions, they were probably somewhere on the add-on cards. The AT/370 also had 512K of on board RAM, while this BIOS seems to indicate 640K.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-05 23:06:12+00:00
It's wild to me that Bannon still seems 100% Trump (https://www.thedailybeast.com/bannon-details-dark-new-plot-f...). When I imagine some of the moves your seeing from Fuentes and MTG seem to be a reaction to Trump going full tech bro neo-con and abandoning almost anything resembling MAGA principles. Though still going after immigrants which may be Bannon's #1, 2, and 3 issues.
by Agingcoder | 2025-11-05 23:06:17+00:00
Thanks.

I get that FHE is not realistic today, but can’t I use ( if it’s really critical) a combination of confidential vms and an external hsm ? I understand I’ll be limited to traditional workloads , and not managed services though.

I asked the wrong question, what I really meant was ‘if I run in a less trusted environment, am I not supposed to use all possible crypto mechanisms available to make that environment more trustworthy , so that I can’t be deceived by my cloud operator sending my data to the us government’
by yubozhao | 2025-11-05 23:06:46+00:00
Creator here. Happy to answer any questions

Background:

We been helping mid-market companies for the past 1.5 years and finally ready to share the internal platform publicly. Yansu (严肃) is a AI coding platform that use spec + TDD to build complex software projects. It is more like a SOP than coding agent. We focus on understanding requirements and checking outcomes against those requirements while iterating the code based on the tests.

Yansu tries to learn as much tribal knowledge as possible. These are things you don’t write down in google doc or Notion. Yansu absorbs these knowledge by continuously talking to users and distilling learning from them.

It's as if a spec + TDD platform had a baby with character.ai.

Why care about requirements? B/c 80% of any software development is understanding requirements and what exactly we want to build. We also focus on outcomes, the only thing that matters. We deliver satisfying outcomes by simulating scenarios and generating tests based on those scenarios. Our agents take that tedious testing part of the code away from others.

We prioritize accuracy over latency/cost, using a mixture of agents (not limited to CC, codex, and etc) to get the job done. We then run through continuous-testing-generating pipelines until all things pass.

What does Yansu mean? “Serious” in Chinese. Just like my favorite artist, Rene Magritte, painting in his kitchen in a suit. I want to give my coding respect and care.

Our goal is to level people up from IC to tech leads, to work on the high leverage work of planning, validating, and educating.

We made a launch video to celebrate human work that builds on all of the creative minds before us. Shoutout to CinemaSings for making this happen.

Enjoy the video and check us out: https://x.com/isoformai/status/1986101032477434129
by vidarh | 2025-11-05 23:06:48+00:00
I haven't, but not surprised given some of the very aggressive (in a good way) things they've done to address performance. It's impressive. I spoke to Chris Seaton back when it was getting started, and loved many of the things they were doing. Personally I want something leaner, and self-hosting, but that's also why mine is still experimental and wildly incomplete and TruffleRuby works for a lot of things.
by ggm | 2025-11-05 23:07:26+00:00
Helped a senior install Office 2024. It's really hidden on the login page of products and services. Search finds it, but if you think the entire product catalog is visible: it isn't. They "sell" 365. They will provide downloadable Office if you ask for it, but don't offer it overtly. To me, thats deceptive in and of itself: Seniors have limited mental bandwidth and distrust their own belief "oh that 365 thing must be what I wanted"

All the install time interactions project 365 "plus those other things" and are causing some FUD for them, during install "I thought you said it was the downloadable version"
by booleanbetrayal | 2025-11-05 23:08:15+00:00
Never connected my Roomba to the internet and it has worked fine for the past several years. It insists that I should connect to it via the app to resolve the occasional minor issue, but I would always ignore those. It's starting to show its wear and it's probably time for a new vacuum. I'm not sure if I'll be able to bootstrap one without connectivity, nowadays. Any good recommendations out there?
by pka | 2025-11-05 23:08:34+00:00
> Would you say that there was a single consciousness that both bodies shared, but that it suddenly split once the meteorite hit?

I agree, this is super weird. In a sense this seems to be the difference between viewing consciousness from the first person vs the third person. But until we understand how (if at all) matter generates felt experience the latter view can not, by definition, be about consciousness itself.

I guess this kind of perspective commits one to viewing first person experience in the way we understand abstract concepts - it is nonsensical to ask what the difference between this "1" here and that other "1" over there is. Well, you can say, they are at different positions and written in different materials etc, but those are not properties of the concept "1" anymore.

So yes, coming back to the thought experiment, one of the consequences of that would have to be that both bodies share the same consciousness and the moment something diverges the consciousnesses do too.

The point about time is interesting, and also directly related to AI. If at some point machines become conscious (leaving aside the question if that's possible at all and how we would know without solving the aforementioned hard problem), they would presumably have to generate quanta at discrete steps. But is that so strange? The nothingness in between would not be felt (kind of like going to sleep and waking up "the next moment").

But maybe this idea can be applied to dynamical continuous systems as well, like the brain.

(Btw this conversation was super interesting, thank you!)
by spondyl | 2025-11-05 23:08:41+00:00
Hah! I had watched this just last night. I have a Fisher & Paykel Dishdrawer so this prompted me to check the instruction manual and sure enough, I had been putting Rinse Aid in the pre-wash area. I don't even really know what Rinse Aid is honestly but it's fun having some things be a black box. Turns out the correct spot is turning a knob, pulling it out and pouring it down a hole containing a glowing red light. I had assumed there was just some sort of circuitry down there and doing so would be a horrible idea. Thanks Technology Connections!
by _heimdall | 2025-11-05 23:09:25+00:00
Not private insurance. We all pay into it obviously, but our individual rates in an insurance market are based on individual risk. My rate is only impacted by others in a relative sense, if I'm more risky than someone else I pay more.

With preexisting conditions off the table, my rates may go up only because someone else is a higher risk and the insurance company can't charge them for it.

I said this in another post, but morally I don't want others to be denied health care. I don't want health insurance at all in that case because insurance implies that you pay more for riskier coverage.
by pron | 2025-11-05 23:09:44+00:00
Python is doing very well, and the really good thing about established languages is that their pros and cons are known. Not many people would choose Python to write a high-performance server or a program that's expected to grow to a million lines or so, and if they do, they have no one but themselves to blame. With newer or less popular languages, you might not know what you're really getting yourself into, and if, five or seven years in, you end up not where you wanted, well, you also have no one but yourself to blame.
by Izkata | 2025-11-05 23:09:56+00:00
I used pods and tried out powder after one of his previous videos on this, it was pretty terrible even following his advice and using rinse aids.

I like chocolate milk, made by mixing chocolate powder (Nesquik) into milk, and somehow everything except pods manages to leave a film of the chocolate powder over everything. I haven't watched this video yet, but my suspicion is he's using bad pods - ones that really are just packaged detergent without the extra chemicals they often include in the pods nowadays.
by HiPhish | 2025-11-05 23:09:57+00:00
That's always a good idea, but how many people have the resources to research these details? First of all you have to be aware that this issue even exists. Then you have to scrape the corners of the internet for whether an appliance has any anti-features, because no manufacturer will ever write "collects unsolicited data about you, we will break the appliance if you refuse us your personal information" on the box. And finally you need to be able to afford the time and patience for the whole process.

I don't own a smart vacuum cleaner because the trouble is not worth it to me. However, I can see smart vacuum cleaners being very good for elderly or disabled people, or someone who has very limited free time and could let the robot clean the house on its own while the owner is out. It is really disgusting that scumbag manufacturers are exploiting those people.
by AuthAuth | 2025-11-05 23:11:04+00:00
toomuchtodo's arugments are deluded and ill respond to those in a bit. But I want to be clear that no one "gave" their dirty work to china. Industry in all these countries were priced out.

The Western and Asian governments increased environmental regulations and the cost to do business rose. In China the government ignored its climate obligations and slashed environmental regulations and increased coal investment to drive energy costs down and thus the manufacturing moved there. You think Germany couldnt have cut environmental regulations slapped down a few coal plants and made solar panels?

Thats why there was climate meetings to get everyone on the same track. If everyone is aligned in their goals then the economic hurt is easier to bare. China intentionally captialised on this and I do not think they deserve any praise for it.