MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-13 02:44:17+00:00
I was prepared to be totally underwhelmed but after just a few questions I can tell that 5.1 Thinking is all I am going to ever use. Maybe it is just the newness but I quite like how it responded to my standard list of prompts that I pretty much always start with on a new model.

I really was ready to take a break from my subscription but that is probably not happening now. I did just learn some nice new stuff with my first session. That is all that matters to me and worth 20 bucks a month. Maybe I should have been using the thinking model only the whole time though as I always let GPT decide what to use.
by skissane | 2025-11-13 02:44:29+00:00
So, Steam is planning to sell these at a loss, but isn’t planning to lock out third party OS?

What’s to stop people buying them to use for completely unrelated use cases?

I guess it depends on how big the loss is… if it is small, it might not be really worth it for most people; but any larger, I wonder how sustainable this will be.
by cookiengineer | 2025-11-13 02:44:53+00:00
> Yeah, let's ask the Debian team about installing packages from third party repos.

Debian already is sideloaded on the graciousness of Microsoft's UEFI bootloader keys. Without that key, you could not install anything else than MS Windows.

Hence you don't realize how good of an argument it is, because you even bamboozled yourself without realizing it.

It gets a worse argument if we want to discuss Qubes and other distributions that are actually focused on security, e.g. via firejail, hardened kernels or user namespaces to sandbox apps.
by anon291 | 2025-11-13 02:45:21+00:00
The jobs, the buzz, the popularity... That's all part of it. Mumbai has some of that appeal within India obviously. In SF you are competing with the world. I'm not sure why there is such an unwillingness to admit Mumbai and SF are on different levels of desirability. Mumbai also has a lot less infrastructure. Many people don't have 24/7 water. The crosswalks in SF and San Jose exist and work. The sidewalks are usable and not falling apart. Why is this even up for debate.
by sipofwater | 2025-11-13 02:45:38+00:00
* "Android Developer Verification Discourse" by agnostic-apollo (https://github.com/agnostic-apollo), Termux app (https://github.com/termux/termux-app) developer: https://gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a... (gist.github.com/agnostic-apollo/b8d8daa24cbdd216687a6bef53d417a6) and https://old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_dev... (old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_developer_verification_discourse/)

* "Android Developer Verification Proposed Changes" by agnostic-apollo (https://github.com/agnostic-apollo), Termux app (https://github.com/termux/termux-app) developer: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/459832198 via https://old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_dev... (old.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1ourtxj/android_developer_verification_discourse/)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-13 02:46:53+00:00
News Plaintiffs October 15, 2025 Letter Motion to Compel

https://ia801205.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.61...

OpenAI October 30, 2025 Letter Opposing Motion to Compel

https://ia601205.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.61...

November 7, 2025 Order on Motion to Compel

https://ia601205.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.61...

"OpenAI has failed to explain how its consumers privacy rights are not adequately protected by: (1) the existing protective order in this multidistrict litigation or (2) OpenAIs exhaustive de-identification of all of the 20 million Consumer ChatGPT Logs.1

1. As News Plaintiffs point out, OpenAI has spent the last two and a half months processing and deidentifying this 20 million record sample. (ECF 719 at 1 n.1)."
by starkparker | 2025-11-13 02:47:18+00:00
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-paramedic-sta...

> Last year, Toronto paramedics reported that in 2023 there were 1,200 occasions where no ambulances were available to respond to an emergency call. That was up from only 29 occasions in 2019.

> CUPE Local 416, the union representing 1,400 paramedics working in Toronto, has also reported high instances of burnout in recent years.
by mcastle | 2025-11-13 02:48:08+00:00
Thanks so much for your support and perspective. I’ve seen some debates where one debater dominates, but so far it hasn’t ended discussion of the given topic but has rather led to more questions raised for discussion in future debates. But I could see an outcome where it does end the discussion for some amount of time.

I’ve also seen a surge of interest in debate outside just political debate, especially on platforms like Jubilee, podcasts, and X spaces.
by torton | 2025-11-13 02:48:28+00:00
TL;DR chronic underfunding of the system, here's one example article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ambulance-response-ti...

The federal government shifts the responsibility to the provinces, the provinces in turn try to download as much as possible onto the cities. There's not enough money for everything on every level of the government.

This also reflects on 911/dispatch systems, where there indeed might not be easy visibility of when an ambulance might be available, and even then it could be preempted by a higher priority call -- although a heart attack has to be close to the top of the list.

There are also occasional weather events, like the storm two days ago, that cause a surge in demand (>300 crashes reported and many of them needed attending to).
by LoganDark | 2025-11-13 02:48:50+00:00
It's not possible to provide a path for advanced users that a stupid person can't be coerced to use.

Moreover, it's not possible to provide a path for advanced users that a stupid person won't use by accident, either.

These are what drive many instances of completely missing paths for advanced users. It's not possible to stop coercion or accidents. It is literally impossible. Any company that doesn't want to take the risk can only leave advanced users completely out of the picture. There's nothing else they can do.

Google will fail to prevent misuse of this feature, and advanced users will eventually be left in the dust completely as Google learns there's no way to safely provide for them. This is inevitable.
by sipofwater | 2025-11-13 02:48:50+00:00
Android Debug Bridge (https://developer.android.com/tools/adb) using two Android smartphones and Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app):

* Search for "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2" "adb tcpip 5555" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

* Search for "termux-adb" in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by vkou | 2025-11-13 02:48:56+00:00
We're also told to do a lot of things by officials because it's correct most of the time, but with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, generally correct advice can turn out to be dead wrong for you.

Sometimes doing what you're told is the right thing. Sometimes, not doing what you're told is the right thing. Sometimes, you're told to do the intuitive thing, and it's wrong. Sometimes, you're told to do the unintuitive thing, and it's wrong. It's hard to tell the difference between those situations, even when you're not stressed.
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-13 02:49:09+00:00
My condolences, very sorry for your loss.

I work as an EMT (911) and resourcing is certainly a problem. In my small city, our response time is around 5 minutes, and if we need to upgrade to get paramedics, that’s maybe another 5-10.

However, if we are out on a call, out of service, or the neighboring city is on a call, now the next closest unit is 15+ minutes away.. sometimes there can just be bad luck in that nearby units are already out on multiple calls that came in around the same time, making the next closest response much further.

for a heart attack or unstable angina, the most an EMT will do (for our protocols) is recognize the likely heart attack, call for paramedics to perform an EKG to confirm the MI, administer 4 baby aspirin to be chewed and/or nitro (rx only), and monitor closely in case it becomes a cardiac arrest. If medics are far away we will probably head immediately to a hospital with a catheterization lab, or rendezvous with medics for them to takeover transport.

The few goals though:

- recognition (it could also be something equally bad/worse like an aortic aneurysm).

- aspirin to break any clots, assist administering nitro if prescribed.

- getting to a cath lab.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-13 02:49:52+00:00
Yea, I've heard and noticed that as well (thought about adding a note about it to my original comment). But what I'm curious about is the timing. What I suspect is that peripherals are more sensitive to motion, but still lag slightly behind the center of focus. I'm not sure if it's dependent on how actively you are trying to focus. I'd love to learn more about this, but I didn't find anything when I looked online a bit.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-13 02:50:35+00:00
The big feature which I would like to see is a way to easily interact with the content of the local filesystem --- I have a prompt for re-naming scans based on parsing their content which I've been using in Copilot --- recent changes require that I:

- launch Copilot

- enter a prompt to get it into Copilot Pages mode

- click a button to actually get into that mode

- paste in the prompt

- drag in 20 files

- wait for them to upload

- click the button to process the prompt on the uploaded files

- quit Copilot, launch Copilot, delete the conversation, quit, launch Copilot and have it not start, which then allows repeating from the beginning

It would be much easier if I could just paste in the prompt specifying a folder full of files for it to run on, then clear that folder out for the next day's files and repeat.

Would that be something which your front-end could do? If not, is there one which could do that now? (apparently jan.ai has something like this on their roadmap for 0.8)
Show HN: Chime – Full-screen meeting alerts for time blindess (macOS)
by tsormed | 2025-11-13 02:51:00+00:00
I struggle with time blindness and kept missing client Zoom calls. MacOS notification banners appear for 5 seconds and vanish...my brain can't hold onto them. I spent 2 months building a solution.

What it is: Chime shows full-screen alerts that physically interrupt whatever you're doing. It's impossible to miss.

Technical details: - Built entirely in Swift/SwiftUI using Cursor. - Uses EventKit for Calendar + Reminders integration - Todoist REST API v2 for task sync - All data stays local—no cloud sync

How it works: - Syncs from Calendar, Apple Reminders, and Todoist every 1-30 min (This is customisable) - Extracts meeting links from meetings (30+ platforms: Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, etc.) - Schedules Timer-based full screen alerts with customizable timing - Sound rotation system to prevent habituation

The insight: Most accessibility focuses on making things "clearer" or "simpler." Neurodivergent brains need "impossible to ignore." Subtle equals invisible. I've been using it for a few weeks and went from missing chunk of meetings to zero.

Try it: 14-day free trial on Mac App Store. No signup required, just download and grant Calendar permissions. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chime-remember-everything/id67...

Happy to discuss: - Building macOS apps with AI assistance - EventKit's quirks (hourly recurrence workaround, full screen alert implementation, etc) - Designing for neurodivergent users
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-13 02:51:14+00:00
Valve certainly won't win it, but they're bringing the heat where it wasn't before.

SteamOS is the important part here - if it is proven to be a good console experience (which the deck has basically proven already) then licensing of the OS to other manufacturers will put a lot of pressure on integrated h/w s/w manufacturers.

Unlike the handheld format, the tvbox console is fairly easy to manufacture and is tolerant of a lot of spec and price variety. Any slip up by Sony and Microsoft in specs and price will result in steam machine variants carving away market share, which could force more frequent console releases.

The steam machine will almost certainly come in at a higher price point than the PS5, but with no 'online' subscription charge and reasonably priced storage upgrades we may see these revenue streams disappear from the next console generation in order to compete.

SteamOS isn't perfect, and the variety inherent in the platform that is a strength is also a weakness. The core markets for Nintendo and for Sony aren't going anywhere.
by handoflixue | 2025-11-13 02:51:36+00:00
Netflix was initially $7/mo in 2007. Currently it goes for $18/mo in 2025.

150% increase in 18 years is about triple the rate of inflation

I'd call that more than "a little bit", but I'd agree that if LLMs go the same way it probably doesn't change the equation much at all.

Plus they do still have an $8/mo ad-supported plan. After adjusting for inflation, that's actually cheaper than the original!
by morty137 | 2025-11-13 02:52:25+00:00
Built a lightweight front-end utility for “address envelope online” tasks. Pick country + envelope size, enter sender/recipient once, and it renders a true-to-scale preview with USPS OCR safe-zone overlay. Supports US/CA/UK/AU/international templates, clipboard copy, and print-to-PDF without storing data. Curious how others handle postal compliance + print workflows purely in the client. Feedback welcome: https://addressenvelope.com/
by hodgehog11 | 2025-11-13 02:53:07+00:00
But neural nets were always popular, they just went through phases of hype depending on the capacity of hardware at the time. The only limitation of neural nets at the time was computational power to scale up. AI winters came when other techniques became available that required less compute. Once GPGPU became available, all of that work became immediately viable.

No similar limitations exist today for JEPA, to my knowledge.
by staticman2 | 2025-11-13 02:53:56+00:00
I don't follow Anthropic marketing but the system prompt for Claude.AI says sounds like a partner/ chatbot to me!

"Claude provides emotional support alongside accurate medical or psychological information or terminology where relevant."

and

" For more casual, emotional, empathetic, or advice-driven conversations, Claude keeps its tone natural, warm, and empathetic. Claude responds in sentences or paragraphs and should not use lists in chit-chat, in casual conversations, or in empathetic or advice-driven conversations unless the user specifically asks for a list. In casual conversation, it’s fine for Claude’s responses to be short, e.g. just a few sentences long." |

They also prompt Claude to never say it isn't conscious:

"Claude engages with questions about its own consciousness, experience, emotions and so on as open questions, and doesn’t definitively claim to have or not have personal experiences or opinions."
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-13 02:54:03+00:00
I don't buy this argument at all that this specific implementation is under pressure from the government - if the problem is indeed malware getting access to personal data, then the very obvious solution is to ensure that such personal data is not accessible by apps in the first place! Why should apps have access to a user's SMS / RCS? (Yeah, I know it makes onboarding / verification easy and all, if an app can access your OTP. But that's a minor convenience that can be sacrificed if it's also being used for scams by malware apps).

But that kind of privacy based security model is anathema to Google because its whole business model is based on violating its users' privacy. And that's why they have come with such convoluted implementation that further give them control over a user's device. Obviously some government's too may favour such an approach as they too can then use Google or Apple to exert control over their citizens (through censorship or denial of services).

Note also that while they are not completely removing sideloading (for now) they are introducing further restrictions on it, including gate-keeping by them. This is just the "boil the frog slowly" approach. Once this is normalised, they will make a move to prevent sideloading completely, again, in the future.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-13 02:54:09+00:00
Human history is full of this ridiculous hand-wringing over nothing. some people don't actually do shit, just sit around pointing fingers and nitpicking. They skip the real work of digging into social change and fixate on surface-level bullshit.

The fertility rate mess really boils down to just two core reasons: in fancy democratic developed countries, folks are so damn self-absorbed that the whole system screws over regular people and kills their vibe for having kids. And in poorer countries, it's solar panels and TikTok exploding everywhere, giving way too many fun distractions to keep things lively. But the real root of it all? It's baked into the political systems and setups. Still, barely anyone wants to face the music and admit their "great" democracy and any other policical system is straight-up trash.

This article just flat-out refuses to face the real damn problem.

Either you're banking on robots to save the day, or you gotta crank up the birth rate. But ramping up the birth rate? Only three ways to pull that off: straight-up tank women's rights across the board, socialize childcare big-time, or just smash the current political system to bits and build something better. Thing is, none of those are any more doable than hoping robots magically fix everything.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-11-13 02:54:42+00:00
This is very conspiratorial thinking.

Do you really think that in a high stress situation you’re going to make the best decisions?

Do you really think health workers are all concerned about legalities first?

Not moving a patient unless you explicitly know how is probably right the vast majority of the time. Sometimes that’s wrong, but how are you going to get the entire public to understand what the right situation is?

It’s so easy looking at a single case in hindsight. May we all have the ability to make the right choices all the time.
by swisniewski | 2025-11-13 02:54:43+00:00
Another interesting thing… random data has a high likely hood of disassembling into random instructions, but there’s a low probability that such instructions (particularly sequences of such instructions) are valid semantically.

For example, there’s a very high chance a single random instruction would page fault.

If you want to generate random instructions and have them execute, you have to write a tiny debugger, intercept the page faults, fix up the program’s virtual memory map, then re-run the instruction to make it work.

This means that even though high entropy data has a good chance of producing valid instructions, it doesn’t have a high chance of producing valid instruction sequences.

Code that actually does something will have much much lower entropy.

That is interesting…even though random data is syntactically valid as instructions, it’s almost certainly invalid semantically.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-13 02:55:57+00:00
>Does that mean we are doomed to die out? Henry Gee thinks so, if only because all species die out in the end. The question is simply how long it takes.

Why isn’t this the default position?

The most firmly predictable position is that every biological species will go away eventually. Even humans are vastly different chimeral species from the proto-humans that made up modern anatomical human.

Most europeans have significant Neanderthal genetics, and yet all Neanderthal are existinct. Same with homo denisovian, habilis, etc…

As a species working on transitioning human level intelligence into something that can last longer than human species should be our only goal.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-13 02:55:58+00:00
We heard this literally with the previous steam machine lol

There’s no doubt they’re tee’d up to radically alter the landscape. But man they better have a truly plug and play, turnkey system if they want to compete with consoles. The steamdeck even after this many years is absolutely trash at going from handheld to docked (better the other direction at least) and is incredibly hit or miss when it’s plugged into a TV in general. I had to buy a special DP->HDMI cable that forces 1080p @60 to get it to consistently appear on screen docked (LG C1 for reference).

I am excited for the steam machine. But yeah, telling me it’s a more powerful steamdeck is super exciting in some ways and eyebrow raising in others unless they got some big SteamOS overhaul coming.
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 02:56:20+00:00
100%, a non-spyware Quest 3 is what I wanted. The Q3 is a fantastic headset, easily the best amalgamation of features at the right level of performance. Very pragmatic.

But Meta basically having access to my room in 3D, full audio, is not ideal. The very last company I want to invite into my home.
by hinkley | 2025-11-13 02:56:35+00:00
The normal human field of vision is about 190°, which mine is just about. If you don’t have a stoop that will catch the front edge of your shoulders. Fingers wiggling with your shoulders slightly overextended is just easier to see than a shoulder shrug.

It’s the amount of compute power that my brain allows for peripheral vision that’s the only unusual thing. But it makes video games feel claustrophobic to an unpleasant degree.
Show HN: I made an open-source Rust program for memory-efficient genomics
by logannyeMD | 2025-11-13 02:56:50+00:00
My cofounder and I run a startup in oncology, where we handle cancer genomics data. It occurred to me that, thanks to a recent complexity theory result, there's a clever way to run bioinformatics algorithms using far less RAM. I built this Rust engine for running whole-genome workloads in under 100MB of RAM. Runtime is a little longer as a result - O(TlogT) instead of O(T). But it should enable whole-genome analytics on consumer-grade hardware.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-13 02:56:56+00:00
> I'm not commenting on the core point of your comment, only the "why retain for 30 days" question. Im an age of automated backups and failovers, deleting can be really hard.

I doubt it's that. Deletion is hard, but it's not "exactly 30 days" hard.

The most likely explanation is that OpenAI wants the ability to investigate abuse and / or publicly-made claims ("ChatGPT told my underage kid to <x>!" / "ChatGPT praised Hitler!"). If they delete chats right away, they're flying blind and you can claim anything you want.

Now, whether you should have a "delete" button that doesn't really delete stuff is another question.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-13 02:58:24+00:00
> Of course we are, but my question is why is that notable?

> You also breathe a nitrogen-oxygen-hydrogen mixture, and have a body that is built to walk around at 1g on a planet between 0-100 degrees F.

> That doesn’t seem to bother people.

Humans like to explore. We've populated the globe from our starting position in East Africa.

When we look to the skies, beyond our own galaxy, and into the early history of the universe, we are seeing a world that will never get to explore first-hand. Humans like to explore.