MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pndy | 2025-11-24 20:23:53+00:00
I'm asking because my mother is really unhappy with the quality of new mold and she says there's a difference in material. This new firm material rubs her auricle to the point she needs to apply some healing ointment now and then - it's a little bit too big.

Woman who accepted the order for replacement mold said that production plant uses now some kind manufacturing with printing and they also replaced soft silicone for this firm stuff. In fact it's the second new mold and despite her detailed notes on how and where to cut it so it wouldn't damage the ear, it seems they just did the job and sent it back to us.
by hebejebelus | 2025-11-24 20:24:07+00:00
It looks like they've now added a Sonnet cap which is the same as the previous cap:

> Nov 24, 2025 update:

> We've increased your limits and removed the Opus cap, so you can use Opus 4.5

> up to your overall limit. Sonnet now has its own limit—it's set to match your

> previous overall limit, so you can use just as much as before. We may continue

> to adjust limits as we learn how usage patterns evolve over time.

Quite interesting. From their messaging in the blog post and elsewhere, I think they're betting on Opus being significantly smarter in the sense of 'needs fewer tokens to do the same job', and thus cheaper. I'm curious how this will go.
by johnwayne666 | 2025-11-24 20:24:23+00:00
To be fair, the quote in the second article is from Johanna Brousse who is behind the Durov arrest.

> "Mais ça ne nous empêchera pas de poursuivre les éditeurs, si des liens sont découverts avec une organisation criminelle et qu’ils ne coopèrent pas avec la justice."

> “But that won't stop us from prosecuting publishers if links to a criminal organization are discovered and they fail to cooperate with the justice system.” (DeepL)

I understand this can be seen as more threatening even if the whole quote softens this a bit.
by rvba | 2025-11-24 20:24:49+00:00
> Except the car wasn’t there when the police arrived. “GM knew about this, and they smuggled the car separately from all the other cars out of the state,” Sawyer claims.

> Because the car left the State, Sawyer had little recourse. “The cop says, ‘Well, the car’s out of State, contact the FBI.’ And I tried to contact the FBI, but they weren’t interested,” he tells me.

I dont understand this part of the story. So if somene steals a car and drives it out of state only FBI can search for it and they dont???

Doesnt this mean legalization of crime?

If it works on the car, will it work on other things too, that they just look the other way?
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-24 20:26:00+00:00
Skills are like the "end-user" version of MCP at best, where MCP is for people building systems. Any other point of view raises a lot of questions.

Aren't skills really just a collection of tagged MCP prompts, config resources, and tools, except with more lock-in since only Claude can use it? About that "agent virtual environment" that runs the scripts.. how is it customized, and.. can it just be a container? Aren't you going to need to ship/bundle dependencies for the tools/libraries those skills require/reference, and at that point why are we avoiding MCP-style docker/npx/uvx again?

Other things that jump out are that skills are supposed to be "composable", yet afaik it's still the case that skills may not explicitly reference other skills. Huge limiting factors IMHO compared to MCP servers that can just use boring inheritance and composition with, you know, programming languages, or composition/grouping with namespacing and such at the server layer. It's unclear how we're going to extend skills, require skills, use remote skills, "deploy" reusable skills etc etc, and answering all these questions gets us most of the way back to MCP!

That said, skills do seem like a potentially useful alternate "view" on the same data/code that MCP is covering. If it really catches on, maybe we'll see skill-to-MCP converters for serious users that want to be able do the normal stuff (like scaling out, testing in isolation, doing stuff without being completely attached to the claude engine forever). Until there's interoperability I personally can't see getting interested though
by cxr | 2025-11-24 20:26:02+00:00
> I’m not sure what sort of Come to Jesus they had to realize their giant pile of sins needed some redemption but they’re trying.

If they were trying, they'd stop doubling down on sunk costs and instead publicly concede that lock files and how npm-the-tool uses them to attempt to ensure the integrity of packages fetched from npm-the-registry is just a poor substitute for content-based addressing that ye olde DVCS would otherwise be doing when told to fetch designated shared objects from the code repo—to be accompanied by a formal deprecation of npm-install for use in build pipelines, i.e. all the associated user guides and documentation and everything else pushing it as best practice.

npm-install has exactly one good use case: probing the registry to look up a package by name to be fetched by the author (not collaborators or people downstream who are repackaging e.g. for a particular distribution) at the time of development (i.e. neither run time nor build time but at the time that author is introducing the dependency into their codebase). Every aspect of version control should otherwise be left up to the underlying SCM/VCS.
by timschmidt | 2025-11-24 20:26:31+00:00
Potentially unpopular take: memory manufacturers have been operating on the margins of profitability for quite a while now. Their products are essentially an indistinguishable commodity. Memory from Samsung or Micron or another manufacturer may have slight differences in overclockability, but that matters little to folks who just want a stable system. Hopefully the shortage leads large purchasers to engage in long-term contracts with the memory manufacturers which give them the confidence to invest in new fabs and increased capacity. That would be great for everyone. Additionally, we're likely to see Chinese fab'd DRAM now, which they've been attempting since the '70s but never been competitive at. With these margins, any new manufacturer could gain a foothold.

If LLMs' utility continues to scale with size (which seems likely as we begin training embodied AI on a massive influx of robotic sensor data) then it will continue to gobble up memory for the near future. We may need both increased production capacity _and_ a period of more efficient software development techniques as was the case when a new 512kb upgrade cost $1,000.
by tmp10423288442 | 2025-11-24 20:26:33+00:00
Looks like he did follow up, and the title is actually descriptive: "Visual integration across fixation: automatic processes are split but conscious processes remain unified in the split-brain"

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...
by pphysch | 2025-11-24 20:26:52+00:00
Widespread cognitive atrophy is virtually certain, and part of a longer trend that goes beyond just LLMs.

The same is true of other aspects of human wellbeing. Cars and junk food have made the average American much less physically fit than a century ago, but that doesn't mean there aren't lively subcultures around healthy eating and exercise. I suspect there will be growing awareness of cognitive health (beyond traditional mental health/psych domains), and indeed there are already examples of this.

Yes, average person will get dumber, but overall distribution will be increasingly bimodal.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-24 20:28:04+00:00
There's also the not-maintained (because outdoors and no longer used) Mississippi River Basin model, built near the site of a WW2 POW camp in Mississippi. Italian and German POWs provided the initial labor for site preparation.

It covers 200 acres (~80 ha), vs 1.5 acres for the Bay model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Model

If you have an interest in going (I've never been despite growing up in the area and having family there still), I would advise waiting for cold weather - it is perfect snake habitat, and water moccasins are both venomous and relatively aggressive.
by belval | 2025-11-24 20:28:26+00:00
> I worry about the damage caused by these things on distressed people. What can be done?

Why? We are gregarious animals, we need social connections. ChatGPT has guardrails that keep this mostly safe and helps with the loneliness epidemic.

It's not like people doing this are likely thriving socially in the first place, better with ChatGPT than on some forum à la 4chan that will radicalize them.

I feel like this will be one of the "breaks" between generations where millennial and GenZ will be purist and call human-to-human real connections while anything with "AI" is inherently fake and unhealthy whereas Alpha and Beta will treat it as a normal part of their lives.
by jancsika | 2025-11-24 20:28:56+00:00
Seems like this could be practically addressed by teachers adopting the TSA's randomized screening. That is, roll some dice to figure out which student on a given assignment comes in either for the oral discussion or-- perhaps in higher grades-- to write the essay in realtime.

It should be way easier than TSA's goal because you don't need to stop cheaters. You instead just need to ensure that you seed skills into a minimal number of achievers so that the rest of the kids see what the real target of education looks like. Kids try their best not to learn, but when the need kicks in they learn way better spontaneously from their peers than any other method.

Of course, this all assumes an effective pre-K reading program in the first place.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-24 20:28:59+00:00
I see, I overlooked the 'toaster' part. That's a good world model benchmark question for models and a good reading comprehension question for humans. :-P

GPT 5.1 Pro made the same mistake ("Face the legs away from the door.") Claude Sonnet 4.5 agreed but added "Note: Most toaster ovens max out around 10-12 pounds for a whole turkey."

Gemini 3 acknowledged that toaster ovens are usually very compact and that the legs shouldn't be positioned where they will touch the glass door. When challenged, it hand-waved something to the effect of "Well, some toaster ovens are large countertop convection units that can hold up to a 12-pound turkey." When asked for a brand and model number of such an oven, it backtracked and admitted that no toaster oven would be large enough.

Changing the prompt to explicitly specify a 12-pound turkey yielded good answers ("A 12-pound turkey won't fit in a toaster oven - most max out at 4-6 pounds for poultry. Attempting this would be a fire hazard and result in dangerously uneven cooking," from Sonnet.)

So, progress, but not enough.
by jabl | 2025-11-24 20:29:20+00:00
This was AFAIU a 'dry annealing' on a full scale power reactor: https://inis.iaea.org/records/505bf-gcq02 and https://inis.iaea.org/records/a42j1-np856

Not the whole reactor vessel though, just one critical circumferential weld seam.

(As mentioned in the second link, other VVER-440 reactors had previously been annealed, I'm sure one could find information about them as well.)
by oblio | 2025-11-24 20:29:29+00:00
Yet the most popular platforms on the planet have people pointing a finger (or several) at a picture.

And the most popular media format on the planet is and will be (for the foreseeable future), video. Video is only limited by our capacity to produce enough of it at a decent quality, otherwise humanity is definitely not looking back fondly at BBSes and internet forums (and I say this as someone who loves forums).

GenAI will definitely need better UIs for the kind of universal adoption (think smartphone - 8/9 billion people).
by joecool1029 | 2025-11-24 20:29:55+00:00
Yes, and it's been done in the past. Will likely still get caught at some point. I had a friend that owned a Motorex skyline where the importer did the testing but then fudged the papers to say it was something else and federal gov revoked its status but people that had cars imported before that got to keep them.

This article has some info about it and other things: https://www.jalopnik.com/here-s-how-people-illegally-import-...
by pixelready | 2025-11-24 20:29:58+00:00
I don’t think it’s true that the culture war issues themselves were the cause of those swayed votes so much as there’s a propaganda machine running 24/7 stoking those resentments and using such cultural critique as fodder.

This works really well to whip people into an othering frenzy to distract them from voting for their own economic interests.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-24 20:30:00+00:00
> Unfortunately users are very adverse to learning anything about how their devices work, so I don't have any idea what can be done about the problem.

They are.

But there's precedent: Manufacturers spent years shipping consumer routers that worked out-of-the-box with default wide-open networks with SSIDs like "NETGEAR" or "linksys," which was gloriously insecure.

Some folks were sure back then that this could never change, but it has changed. These days, such devices generally reasonably-secure by default.

It can presumably change for Matter and IoT, too.

(Except the rabbit hole is kind of interesting, because... The usual method of setting up a Matter device means scanning a QR code with a pocket supercomputer to begin the process of connecting the Matter device to whatever wifi network it is that the pocket supercomputer is currently using.

And this does work for getting a Matter device online, but it doesn't allow for easy separation of network roles.

So the routers will need to change, and the Matter setup process will also need to change. Shouldn't take more than another decade or two for both things to get accomplished, I suppose.)
by sevensor | 2025-11-24 20:30:03+00:00
It didn’t happen, but the facilities team at the fab where I worked was seriously considering installing a flywheel to cover power bumps. What I don’t get about this story is how this actually happened. All our process gasses were out in a tank farm and we knew how much pressure we had. We would have stopped the line if there wasn’t enough to proceed. Were they separating air onsite or something?
by avensec | 2025-11-24 20:30:20+00:00
It may not be a concern now, but it comes down to their level of maintaining critical thinking. The risk of epistemic drift, when you have a system that is designed (or reinforced) to empathize with you, can create long-term effects not noticed in any single interaction.

Related: "Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)" ( https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cmy7n_v5 )
by jajuuka | 2025-11-24 20:30:22+00:00
This is a bit misleading. They have have achieved 1 million downloads of their new version that just released. The downloads coming from Windows machines is not definitive as many Linux users mask their user agent.

Not to mention I'm very skeptical that 780K Windows users just happened to discover a more obscure Linux distro suddenly and switched to it in October while Windows 10 is still supported. This is basically an ad for the OS.
by hinkley | 2025-11-24 20:30:26+00:00
I think we can blame the IO streaming API in NodeJS on this. It’s a callback and you just know you got another block. My guess is chunked mode and not checking whether the bytes expected and the bytes received matched.

Not to diminish the facepalm but the blame can be at least partially shared.

Our UI lead was getting the worst of this during Covid. I set up an nginx forward proxy mostly for him to tone this down a notch (fixed a separate issue but helped here a bit as well) so he could get work done on his shitty ISP.
by verdverm | 2025-11-24 20:30:42+00:00
This is not the way

these agents are not up to the task of writing production level code at any meaningful scale

looking forward to high paying gigs to go in and clean up after people take them too far and the hype cycle fades

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I recommend the opposite, work on custom agents so you have a better understanding of how these things work and fail. Get deep in the code to understand how context and values flow and get presented within the system.
by lanthissa | 2025-11-24 20:30:45+00:00
for whatever reason gemini 3 is the first ai i have used for intelligence rather than skills. I suspect a lot more will follow, but its a major threshold to be broken.

i used gpt/claude a ton for writing code, extracting knowledge from docs, formatting graphs and tables ect.

but gemini 3 crossed threshold where conversations about topics i was exploring or product design were actually useful. Instead of me asking 'what design pattern should be useful here', or something like that it introduces concepts to the conversation, thats a new capability and a step function improvement.
by lukev | 2025-11-24 20:30:58+00:00
There are two possible explanations for this behavior: the model nerf is real, or there's a perceptual/psychological shift.

However, benchmarks exist. And I haven't seen any empirical evidence that the performance of a given model version grows worse over time on benchmarks (in general.)

Therefore, some combination of two things are true:

1. The nerf is psychologial, not actual. 2. The nerf is real but in a way that is perceptual to humans, but not benchmarks.

#1 seems more plausible to me a priori, but if you aren't inclined to believe that, you should be positively intrigued by #2, since it points towards a powerful paradigm shift of how we think about the capabilities of LLMs in general... it would mean there is an "x-factor" that we're entirely unable to capture in any benchmark to date.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-24 20:31:15+00:00
>Yet European Biopharma and chemicals engineering remains competitive despite having similar issues as a similar capex heavy industry with a significant IP component. It's really just an institutional issue.

Pharma is not a commodity nor resembling anything like "free market" competition. It's a crazy patent minefield, massive regulatory moat, massive state subsidies and government protectionism plus sometimes backroom deals between pharma and politicians. Nothing remotely similar to commodities like consumer software and hardware.
by a022311 | 2025-11-24 20:31:38+00:00
> - Compile speed. Why do people care so much? Use debug for correctness and iterating your code. You're hardly going to change much between runs, and you'll get an incremental compile. Let rust-analyzer tell you if there are errors before you even try compiling. Let your CI do release optimization in its own time, who cares if CI is slow?

Even if you know you're code compiles, it's often easier and faster to validate the logic or complex interactions by running the code. In large (and even not so large actually) projects, debug builds can be painfully slow, even on good hardware. It's important to have a tight feedback loop so that you can interate quickly.
by mkagenius | 2025-11-24 20:32:27+00:00
It's definitely not vendor locked. For instance, I have made it work with Gemini with Open-Skills[1].

It is after all a collection of instructions and code that any other llm can read and understand and then do a code execution (via tool call / mcp call)

1. Open-Skills: https://github.com/BandarLabs/open-skills
by Lerc | 2025-11-24 20:32:38+00:00
The prima facie case for free will* is that it feels free. If you can predict the action before the feeling it removes that argument (unless you want to invoke time travel as an option)

*one of the predominant characterisations of free will, anyway. I'm a compatiblist, so I have no issue with caused feelings of decision making being in conflict with free will. I also have a variation of Tourette's, so I have a different perception of doing things wilfully when compared to most people. It's really hard to describe how sometimes you can't tell if something was tic or not.
by piskov | 2025-11-24 20:32:55+00:00
I will elaborate:

The first update after install failed.

To make my two screens work (one of them portait) I needed to learn how to modify text config. And for some reason my 23” display ran at 150% instead of 200% scaling.

Keymaps in komorebi on windows are alt+hjkl to focus windows and alt+shift+hjkl to move them. On omarchy it’s some accords with arrows. Arrows on system that touts vim and tui! I don’t have arrows on my uhk keyboard.

The font is too small. To make it at least 10 you don’t have one setting for that.

The list just goes on and on.

So, like I’ve said, I’m perfectly ok with windows and wsl for my C# stuff and my mac for everything else.
by ekr____ | 2025-11-24 20:32:55+00:00
> It is however a document scoped so it cannot be expanded to include either of those things. Work to define interoperable use of other algorithms, including hybrid algorithms, would be in other documents.

FYI, the specification for hybrid MLKEM + ECC is ahead of this document in the publication process. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/
by doodlebugging | 2025-11-24 20:33:27+00:00
I hit the wall over the last month. The last version of Firefox that works on my Win7 workstation where I do almost everything is too old for some banking websites to work so I have been using a Win10 tablet for a couple of sites. That is the straw that shifted the pile from Windows to Linux for me. I have had to sort through family member's issues when they upgraded, intentionally or otherwise, to Win11 and from that I know that I have reached the end of the trail that began with PC-DOS 3.0 a long time ago.
by jameslk | 2025-11-24 20:33:33+00:00
> Tool Search Tool, which allows Claude to use search tools to access thousands of tools without consuming its context window

At some point, you run into the problem of having many tools that can accomplish the same task. Then you need a tool search engine, which helps you find the most relevant tool for your search keywords. But tool makers start to abuse Tool Engine Optimization (TEO) techniques to push their tools to the top of the tool rankings
by t0mk | 2025-11-24 20:33:46+00:00
I read the drama last week, and after seeing this, I have to side with Rebble. I think they kept the community alive since Eric M cashed out and Fitbit shut it down. As the stars have aligned in recent years, Eric revives Pebble, but if Rebble wouldn't spend all the effort maintaining the app store, his consumer base would be much smaller and it would be much harder to bootstrap again.

With Repebble (Core Devices) and their new appstore (or/and apt-style repository system), Rebble seems obsolete, it's a bit sad. They deserve credit which they won't be able to claim anymore. They should be rewarded somehow for bridging the dark age, otherwise it seems they served purpose all until Eric returned and said "Thank You and fuck off".

Also, to me, Eric talking doesn't sound authentic, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's lying. I don't mean to insult though, mad respect for putting project like Pebble together.

Hope that there's some place and purpose for Rebble in the future.
by scottlamb | 2025-11-24 20:33:53+00:00
Unhelpful response. This cuongle.dev article does not answer nextaccountic's question, and neither do the webkit.org articles that describe the parking lot concept but not this Rust implementation. The correct answer appears to be that it's impossible: `parking_lot::RawMutex` has private storage that owns the entire byte and does not provide any accessor for the unused six bits.

https://docs.rs/parking_lot/0.12.5/parking_lot/struct.RawMut...

(unless there's somewhere else in the crate that provides an accessor for this but that'd be a weird interface)

(or you just use transmute to "know" that it's one byte and which bits within the byte it actually cares about, but really don't do that)

(slightly more realistically, you could probably use the `parking_lot_core::park` portion of the implementation and build your own equivalent of `parking_lot::RawMutex` on top of it)

(or you send the `parking_lot` folks a PR to extend `parking_lot::RawMutex` with interface you want; it is open source after all)