MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exasperaited | 2025-11-10 09:16:54+00:00
If you perceive your work to be artisanship (and a lot of people in the automotive and custom bicycle business do, along with people in the high end furniture business, for example), and you have enough customers who agree, and enough work to keep yourself and your employees busy and your families all fed, then a messaging system that speeds up productivity really is a lot of bollocks, basically (particularly for a company which is, in my experience of these amazing people, still disproportionately likely to hire people with dyslexia or reading difficulties). Because you cannot do more work of the same quality faster.

One thing tech people misunderstand is that these "artisanship" oriented companies can scale at least into the dozens of employees, almost all of whom want to do methodical uninterrupted skilled work or quiet, consistent labour, and who would rather hire four or five very understanding, very capable tech people to handle all that stuff for them. This is not a failing, it's a culture. Some great businesses in the UK run on the "don't add unnecessary tech bollocks" model, and IMO they should be encouraged to continue if they can, because that, it seems to me, is one route to surviving in an AI-bullshit-led industry.

The fact that the tech industry seems to thrill at systemically fucking this up and selling systems users do not need based on marketing fear that they are falling behind is quite depressing to me, not to mention a failure of systems analysis. Just because you are a tech person it doesn't mean you should be selling a messaging system to people who actually could just get the benefit from one more person to handle co-ordinating with the front office.

Tech people are, IMO, quite irresponsible in this way. We have all been trained to answer "we have a problem with X" questions with "we can build you a Y for that", when responsible consultancy would first rule out non-technical process flow improvements.

This is not Luddism. It is obvious that in skilled-work industries you should get things like "office-wide-instant-messengers" out of the way of people doing the skilled work so they can do it uninterrupted at an appropriate pace. There is no non-desk-bound job that is meaningfully improved by notifications buzzing.
by tga | 2025-11-10 09:17:17+00:00
The value of the space is whatever the user/team finds valuable.

You almost had the right idea there: the value of what this emits is really in the summary of diffs. I'm certainly not going to go through each commit and read the diff each time I look at the log, but I still want to understand what happened and be able to find individual commits. If extra information about the author's thoughts is just not available, I'd much rather have summaries than a blank log of "WIP" comments.

It's absurd to gatekeep commit messages to only "the thoughts of the author", even if that's what usually goes in there. A good diff summary might even be more useful than a ramble that doesn't mention important changes.
by sltkr | 2025-11-10 09:17:22+00:00
I don't think it's a critical feature, but it is nice-to-have.

Imagine if you opened a direct link to a JPEG image and instead of the browser rendering it, you'd have to save it and open it in Photoshop locally. Wouldn't that be inconvenient?

Many browsers do support opening web-adjacent documents directly because it's convenient for users. Maybe not Microsoft Word documents, but PDF files are commonly supported.
by frm88 | 2025-11-10 09:17:38+00:00
What strikes me most with this quote is that (consistent) labour is very much a defining, if not the defining parameter in all our cultures and the author highlights this later on with data from China etc. I feel we might have a problem with the emphasis on that value in the future. If we think automation through to it's extreme and accept a growing world population and worsening climate effects, we've got to shift cultural values accordingly or face severe societal upheavals. I don't have a point here, just gave me stuff to think about.
by PEGHIN | 2025-11-10 09:17:51+00:00
Hey HN,

I spent 23 hours/week screening CVs for our startup. It was killing our ability to ship product.

So I built EasyHire — AI that handles CV screening and first-round interviews automatically. We went from 30-day hiring cycles to 9 days.

The AI conducts structured video interviews 24/7, ranks candidates by fit, and gives you transcripts + scores. You only meet the top 3.

We've been using it for 3 months. Hired 15 people. Spent ~2 hours total on first-round screening.

Beta tested with 127 other founders. Average results: 70% faster hiring, 50% fewer no-shows.

Live now: https://easyhireapp.com

Happy to answer technical questions about the implementation (GPT-4 + HeyGen + custom scoring algorithms).

What I'm most curious about: Would you trust an AI to interview your candidates? Why or why not?
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-10 09:19:11+00:00
> The intent of the transaction code is that the consistency is checked (using `tx.commit()`) "even if an unexpected exception occurs".

A transaction failing is the opposite of an unexpected event. Transactions failing is a central use case of any transaction. Therefore it should be handled explicitly instead of using exceptions.

Exceptions are for unexpected events such as the node running out of memory, or a process failing to write to disk.
by Maxious | 2025-11-10 09:19:49+00:00
>AI assistant to use: claude, gemini, copilot, cursor-agent, qwen, opencode, *codex*, windsurf, kilocode, auggie, roo, codebuddy, amp, or q

https://github.com/github/spec-kit/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-f...
by vinc | 2025-11-10 09:20:15+00:00
Interesting, but it'd be even better if it was the OpenStreenMap of Roman Roads instead of Google Maps because like some already mentioned I could easily spot inaccuracies in my local area and a collaborative effort could fix that.

You can click on a road segment and get some info about it so the first step would be to add a way to contact its author to suggest improvements.

For example I know of some hidden ruins of a very ancient bridge where my local roman road crossed the river with two paths that show where the road on both sides would have been instead of where the road cross the river on the segment.
by eXpl0it3r | 2025-11-10 09:20:29+00:00
It is misleading in so far that XSLT is an independent standard [1] and isn't owned by Google, so they cannot "kill it", or rather they'd have to ask W3C to mark it as deprecated.

What they can do is remove support for XSLT in Chrome and thus basically kill XSLT for websites. Which until now I didn't even know was supported and used.

XSLT can be used in many other areas as well, e.g. for XSL-FO [2]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
by atemerev | 2025-11-10 09:21:01+00:00
To clarify: initially, the first web browser evolved from a SGML-based documentation browser at CERN. This was the first vision of the web: well-structured content pages, connected via hyperlinks (the "hyper" part meaning that links could point beyond the current set of pages). So, something like a global library. Many people are still nostalgic to this past.

Surprisingly, the "hyperlinked documents" structure was universal enough to allow rudimentary interactive web applications like shops or reservation forms. The web became useful to commerce. At first, interactive functionality was achieved by what amounted to hacks: nav blocks repeated at every page, frames and iframes, synchronous form submissions. Of course, web participants pushed for more direct support for application building blocks, which included Javascript, client-side templates, and ultimately Shadow DOM and React.

XSLT is ultimately a client-side template language too (can be used at the server side just as well, of course). However, this is a template language for a previous era: non-interactive web of documents (and it excels at that). It has little use for the current era: web of interactive applications.
by charlysisto | 2025-11-10 09:21:14+00:00
Probably a joke... nevertheless I had the same reaction ! It exercises your deduction, binary thinking, also stochastic vs systematic methodology (first look around randomly find the most obvious before going number by number). Getting to discover all the tricks and reasoning in various "dimensions" is very satisfactory as well. But above all sudokuing puts you in a sort of meditative state : focusing your mind on this micro deductive world gets rid of all the noise and can be very relaxing between 2 pomodoros :)
by ang_cire | 2025-11-10 09:21:14+00:00
> what games published after 2020 can you play on LAN with one player creating a server and another connecting via IP?

There are tons, it really just depends on what you want to play. Looking at my steam library (installed only, so I can verify there's a LAN option) gives me:

Misery, Necesse, Voyagers of Nera, Infinite Rails, Windward Horizon, 7 Days to Die, HumanitZ, Barotrauma, Avorion

Keep in mind that those are just from the MP games I have currently installed, that are from 2020 onwards. I have 131 mp games from that release period, and only 33 of those are installed, and I only checked games that I figured would be likely candidates (i.e. I excluded Sniper Elite 5, Remnant 2, MechWarrior 5, etc).

So yeah, LAN/ direct IP connect options are still really common, it's just something to check beforehand. Also, the genre really changes the likelihood of having it.
by LeoPanthera | 2025-11-10 09:21:19+00:00
A lot of commenters showing up suspiciously quickly to crow about how "biased" the BBC is.

In fact independent checking reveals the BBC is consistently centrist with a slight leftward skew, and scores highly for accuracy/reliability.

(For example: https://adfontesmedia.com/bbc-bias-and-reliability/ )

(And to be clear, this is on the non-US left/right axis. The entire US is skewed so far to the right that it's not comparable.)

Or you could just actually read/listen/watch for yourself.

What people think of the BBC is quite a useful canary for that persons own biases.
by oblio | 2025-11-10 09:21:44+00:00
We're not cracking down on LLMs in any meaningful way. They're built on copyright infringement on an unprecedented way. It's the kind of thing where the law is looking at the other way while people's lives are destroyed, and some, if lucky, will be compensated 30 years from now, probably with pitiful amounts of money.

Corruption generally works by inflicting a diluted, distributed harm. Everyone else ends up a bit worse off except for the agent of corruption, which ends up very well off.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-10 09:21:47+00:00
" People used to have vision for the next 50+ years, now they care about the next 3-5 years "

This sounds like a modern version of Golden Age nostalgia. First, I am not at all sure that people had longer visions; some probably did, but the entire nations? Not so sure.

Second, there is a certain wisdom in accepting that you don't know how the world will look in 50+ years. 50 years ago, China was an extremely impoverished country that no one would take seriously as a competitor for global influence, Iran was US-friendly and the USSR was on the peak of its power.
by dijit | 2025-11-10 09:22:00+00:00
Broadly speaking, a strong and common rebuttal to this is that "if everyone accuses them of bias, then they're not biased".

To be clear though, the BBC is a large organisation with many sections, and those sections are quite biased.

As such it's pretty easy to find areas where they're biased against "your side", whichever side that may be - and when combined with their policy of not upsetting the sitting government, it can start to feel less like journalism and more like propaganda.
by altacc | 2025-11-10 09:22:03+00:00
> Why hasn't the UK been able to create any local tech giants?

In the UK there are several tech or tech adjacent companies valued in the tens or hundreds of billions such as ARM, BAE, Revolut, Sage and delivery companies like Deliveroo & Ocado are tech equivalents. Sure there could be more but given that the UK only recently came out of 14 years of being run by pro-capitalist, pro-privatization, small-government conservatives, I don't think it's 18 months of weak Labour rule that is the issue. Personally, from having spent half my life there working in tech, I think it's more a mix of culture and market size.

I often hear "why are the big tech companies only in the US" but there are big tech companies all over the world that people haven't heard of because "we" have a US focused media. The big 7 do definitely dominate globally but I'd argue that this isn't actually a healthy situation or model that other countries should emulated. I suspect smaller, localized versions of US companies would probably have better consequences.
by stevekemp | 2025-11-10 09:22:47+00:00
I built a small hardware device to show the departure time of the tram next to my house, because here in Finland it gets cold in winter.

Mostly the winter isn't super-cold, something like -10°C/14°F, but there are weeks where it will be -20°C/-4°F and then there's a big difference between waiting at the tram stop for 1 minute or 7 minutes.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-10 09:23:16+00:00
And frustratingly many allegations have to do with bias surrounding the Gaza war, currently being reported by The Telegraph, but every submission here being flagged.

This one got through because it doesn’t mention Israel, I presume. But the BBC bias has been egregious and constant with respect to the Gaza conflict, as opposed to a one time editing of a Trump speech.
by L1nefeed | 2025-11-10 09:23:24+00:00
I've been building an ideation platform, and I deliberately prompt AI to "hallucinate" during brainstorming.

The problem is that humans get stuck in design fixation. We recycle the same ideas. AI has the opposite problem—it hallucinates nonsense when you push it toward novelty. But for creative divergence, that's exactly what you want.

The trick is separating phases: let AI go wild during ideation, then apply human judgment to filter and refine.

The post covers practical techniques and guardrails so creative outputs don't get mistaken for facts.

Anyone else deliberately prompting AI to be "wrong" in controlled contexts? What's worked for you?
by blurayfin | 2025-11-10 09:23:32+00:00
I'm working on Chatolia, an AI chatbot builder.

The goal is to let anyone create task‑specific agents, train with their own data and an embed it into any site.

Training is simple: paste text, upload files (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, CSV), or paste URLs and it will crawl/index them into a per‑agent knowledge base.

https://www.chatolia.com/

I'd love to know what you think.
by lazide | 2025-11-10 09:24:22+00:00
Have you ever lived in India? (not just visited, but actually lived there)

I have, and while of course not 100% of any society is ever any specific way, Indian society is this way.

In the same way as german society is very ‘rules oriented’ (to put it mildly), even when individual germans can (and sometimes are!) the opposite.

Don’t mess with the Polizei and expect to come out unscathed, and don’t expect to get what you paid for (or what you’re asked to pay being a fair price) without fighting for it in India. Or for people to follow the rules if they can profit from not following the rules, even if it’s short term.

It’s just the way things work.

Occasionally, there are exceptions, but they typically prove the rule. (Ikea in India is awesome, for instance. And some individual local vendors are too. Autorickshaw drivers, cabbies, landlords, and vendors in busy markets tend to be the worst. Like 5x a fair price sometimes, or a fair price and 1/5 of what you should get. And in some situations, the Polizei are very kind. Like if you’re lost and a pleasant drunk. But do not argue with the Polizei, it will go very badly.).

Like in any society, these have reasons which are extremely obvious to most people in the society, and may not be obvious until you live there.

In India, for example, when everyone is trying to penny pinch/get rich quick because of a history of extractive behavior from authorities and economic/social instability to an extreme degree (including historically, famines, religious wars, purges, etc.) and so many factions/groups that ‘us vs them’ is just the norm - and once enough people start doing it, you’ll be screwed if you don’t do it yourself. It’s the prisoners dilemma writ large, but when there are already a ton of people floating around doing the ‘wrong’ thing. The rich can get away with not doing this (as much) sometimes, when they are dealing with foreigners, but it’s pervasive.

Or in Germany, when there is a history/culture of strong willed people doing what they want and making life harder for everyone else (in an environment where that can get people killed) but a reasonably consistent and obvious majority ‘us’ group, for instance. In weather that WILL kill the unprepared/weak without assistance a large portion of the year, and requires significant energy to be spent just to not freeze to death for everyone.
by roansh | 2025-11-10 09:25:24+00:00
https://startreverie.com

Rates your sleep, tracks sleep debt, and tracks how workout timing, coffee time, AC temperature, etc influence your sleep.

2.0 is in review - adds support for recovery (based on sleep HRV, HR), and strain.

a demo video here https://x.com/rohitshindein/status/1985643097439813831
by pydry | 2025-11-10 09:25:26+00:00
it spent a little too long excusing and downplaying a nazi style genocide to depict it as having a "slight leftward skew".

realistically it generally functions more of a bellwether for what the british elites wants people to think rather than as a news outlet.

the cackhanded attempt to smear trump that led to this resignation was part of that and the crackdown signifies that the British establishment has largely shifted from "fervently anti trump" to a policy of appeasement / cordial relations. Two years ago this kind of dishonest editing would probably have been tolerated if not outright encouraged (as it was when done to Jeremy Corbyn).

The way that Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy declared powerless "not President Trump" a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath" but is now keen on cordial relations is another reflection of this narrative shift: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2z1zm1pk3o
by fractallyte | 2025-11-10 09:26:30+00:00
Here's another perspective, from science fiction writer James H Schmitz, in the introduction to his book, A Pride of Monsters: https://web.archive.org/web/20010727131117/http://www.white-...

Extract:

"That was a period vastly longer than the civilization which has brought us a growing security against the beast that prowls by night. And the beast remains part of our heritage, unforgotten; it pads through the dark back-ways of our minds, peers out into our dreams. There is a kinship, a bond, between it and us. It's part of the raw substance of life; if necessary, we'll create new forms for it. As the original monsters of the environment dwindled into relative insignificance, man invented mythological terrors to replace them, new heroes to confront his inventions. It was as if he sensed a lack-and dragons and griffins, werewolves and vampires were born to hunt the outer dark again and restore to it what was missing."
by redbell | 2025-11-10 09:26:31+00:00
This is a lovely game!

This game was Show HNed two times in ten days, [1][2], but unfortunately, it didn't get as much attention as it should! Ironically, this current thread has already gained almost double the comments from both submissions combined!

I whish you best of luck to succeed in your journey.

___________________

1.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750789

2.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45634525
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-10 09:27:03+00:00
Good fun. I discovered a big though. I could not yet reproduce it, but I managed to somehow have letters glitch out of the Tetris shapes they are in. When I move the tiles or rotate them, the letters are back where they should be. So it's not game breaking, but seems to happen in some case. At first I suspected, that it was because my phone was locked in between, but I tried that and when locking it manually, that bug did not happen. So no idea, sorry!
by csomar | 2025-11-10 09:27:15+00:00
The US (and maybe the EU) are currently in the process of destroying their knowledge-based economy in the pursuit of dust manufacturing. The reason China is willing to negotiating with the US or the EU is because of massive leverages these countries have when it comes to the monopoly of the knowledge and information economy. If China could turn on a switch and become independent, they'd do it. They can't and it's interesting that the US/EU are not happy with this superior status quo and would rather return to a pre-1900 world where they are the sole center of the world.

It's not going to work, in my opinion; and it's going to end with them having neither. You being downvoted shows that this is not the opinion of the elite only but everyone is onboard the insanity train.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-10 09:27:16+00:00
The water companies are too busy lobbying for price rises/manufacturing consent in the media (of which these stories are a part of. The water companies will again claim they are a victim of low bills meaning they can't invest which is what causes these events...)

It's all so insidious

UK gov will permit bills to rise and nothing will fundamentally change when it comes to water in the UK except how much we pay
by xxs | 2025-11-10 09:27:20+00:00
>Does it stress you to read ++i over i++?

Of course not, I do use both. Admittedly i++ is a lot more common in Java, and for loops i++ is the standard idiom. Not using the standard idiom usually implies less practice, e.g. str.indexOf('x') < 0 is the standard one, not == -1. Even the backwards iteration is a postfix subtraction::

for (int i = array.length; i-- > 0;) doStuff(array[i]);
by dijit | 2025-11-10 09:27:29+00:00
I always got the feeling as a child that I was growing up in the ruins of a once strong nation. I thought it was because my city (Coventry) was devastated after world-war-2 (the blitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz), the collapse of the British car industry (which, primarily affected Coventry) and then the closing of the coal mines leading to lower income tax money to the council for roads and things.

However I just returned last night from a trip to London (I live in Sweden now) and I have to say, the decline is precipitous and pronounced, London gets all the investment so if it's decaying this way then I shudder to think about the rest of the nation.

I think a lot of people outside the UK believe that because the UK had an empire that everybody was rich. This is decidedly not the case, the first people the British elite subjugated was the British themselves, that's why most of the food we're mocked about is so bland: it's poverty food, so when I say that it feels like a decline, please keep it within the context that most of us have our entire family tree in the underclass - not because we were once rich.

Most infrastructure has not been invested in during my lifetime, and it was old when I was a child.
by thoander | 2025-11-10 09:28:02+00:00
Hello! I'm with Digel, a Norwegian startup. We recently launched a tool for troubleshooting issues in production, conducting root cause analysis. The idea is that manufacturing companies can easily draw up their own production lines, connect data and machine documentation in a live canvas. Under the hood the tool creates a knowledge graph agents can use to source required information using GraphRAG techniques. You can try out the tool in an interactive food production scenario from here: https://playground.digel.io/. Feedback is much appreciated!!