MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zzrrt | 2025-11-04 14:09:39+00:00
> is Israeli society, by supporting this woman, perhaps expressing support for punishing rapists and mass murderers, even where such punishment does not entirely follow the rules?

It’s unclear what woman you refer to, but anyway I don’t think there is enough “support for punishing rapists” to cancel out the riots in support of the alleged rapists, or the government, military, and media campaign to demonize the whistleblower with incendiary lies like “blood libel.”
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-04 14:10:05+00:00
A few months ago, Cloudflare accidentally turned off 1.1.1.1 (I’m simplifying slightly, most notably DNS-over-HTTPS continued to work). Over the course of five or six minutes, traffic dropped to 10% of normal, and stayed there. Somehow, it took another six minutes before an alert fired, at which point they noticed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578490

You’d think that for such a company they’d notice if global traffic for one of their important services for a given minute had dropped below 50% compared with the last hour, but apparently not.

And that’s Cloudflare, who I would expect better of than most.
by caravel | 2025-11-04 14:10:12+00:00
Hey, creator here. I built this over the past month to try and stay sane while coordinating Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini across projects.

Quick feature rundown:

- Real-time collaboration with spatial comments/reaction + live cursor sync - Full MCP support + agents are self-aware of the workspace via internal MCP server - Built-in scheduler for agent tasks - Session forking/subsession spawning (sessions shown as trees on the canvas) - Shared dev environment management - Mobile site for prompting on-the-go

Built the whole thing using Agor itself with multiple agents collaborating. Watching agents build the tool they're working in is pretty wild. Happy to answer questions
by shardullavekar | 2025-11-04 14:10:42+00:00
we took a basic example and described it. (will try adding a complex one)

we have our designer/intern in our minds who creates shorts, adds subtiles, crops them,and merges the audio generated. He is aware of ffmpeg and prefers using a SaaS UI on top of it.

However, we see him hanging out on chatgpt, or gemini all the time. He is literally the no coder we have in mind.

We just combined his type what you want + ffmpeg workflows.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-04 14:11:02+00:00
> If Ctrl+v is bound to paste, how do you insert a verbatim character in the shell?

For those unaware:

> Unix interactive terminals use Control-V to mean "the next character should be treated literally" (the mnemonic here is "V is for verbatim"). This allows a user to insert a literal Control-C or Control-H or similar control characters that would otherwise be handled by the terminal. This behavior was copied by text editors like vi and Unix shells like bash and tcsh, which offer text editing on the command line.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-V
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 14:11:03+00:00
Ah, that's not too bad honestly, nicely done.

I can't wait for us to somehow figure out how to connect all the various mesh-networks in the world. MeshCore is a whole continent and ocean(s) away from say Freifunk or Guifi, but would be incredible if we could figure out how to interconnect between them, so we could all talk via the already built alt-infra. Maybe the FossaSat mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806794) could finally be one option.
by pas | 2025-11-04 14:11:31+00:00
but you need to put the TV on the wall

VESA mounts and installation are not cheap

it's really an apples and or ciders comparison

that said, now I realized I have a door with two pictures screwed to it, because we punched a hole through it more than a decade ago during a house party, and that specific door is out of production, and it's the door to the storage room so it was (and still is) the perfect solution :)
by creaghpatr | 2025-11-04 14:11:41+00:00
Agree with your prediction in many cases but not bookkeeping. The whole point of bookkeeping is to balance the ledger to the penny so people would toss bookkeeping altogether before accepting a 'probabilistic' output. Agents will be used to accelerate the recon process though, or maybe they will become advanced enough to provide a (correct) deterministic result.
by lossyalgo | 2025-11-04 14:11:53+00:00
Furthermore regarding reasoning, just ask any LLM how many "r letters are in strawberry" - repeat maybe 3 times just to get a feeling for how much variance in answers you can get. And this "quirk" of the inability to get the right answer is something that after 2 years making fun of LLMs online on various forums is still an issue. The models aren't getting smarter, and definitely aren't thinking, they are still token generators with a few tricks on top to make them seem more intelligent than predecessors.
by criddell | 2025-11-04 14:12:01+00:00
In my experience, it isn't necessarily classist horseshit that divides office and shop (or field) workers.

> They’d followed my oily bootprints down the hallway and begun to leer. Who is this diesel-stinking contractor?

That's probably the real reason. Being a welder is messy, stinky work and office workers don't want that in their space.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-04 14:12:01+00:00
Looking at statistics of how much most people have in income in retirement and how much most depend on social security, people aren’t retiring rich.

While I understand helping your kids to “launch”, letting them move back in for a couple of years after they graduate, subsidizing some of their expenses because they aren’t making enough to live where the opportunities are early on, etc, I never understood why parents pressure themselves helping grown kids buy houses, pay for expensive weddings etc.

I told my parents plenty of times they should “die dead broke” - in other words spend their last dollar on their last breath and not worry about leaving me anything (only child).
by reactordev | 2025-11-04 14:13:42+00:00
I’m pretty sure you just confirmed that focal length varies. So I stand by my statement. Our rods and cones enable us to see great detail and yes, it’s more concentrated in the center of field of view, but if we’re talking pixels… 567MP is what people claim. I know it’s a lot higher. Pilots are able to spot specks at 4nm. Astronauts can see objects that are just a speck at 50nm. Our actual eye resolution is insane when paired with the right focal length.
by ernst_klim | 2025-11-04 14:13:51+00:00
Format is part of OCaml stdlib. You can write formatters for it manually.

Derivers are a library yes, it's pretty widespread if you need derive functionality, and it can derive basic functions. Proper link:

https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving?tab=readme-ov-file...
by arcbjorn | 2025-11-04 14:13:57+00:00
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by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 14:14:45+00:00
The APIs definitly used to be open enough that you could hit a "Generate token", hit one endpoint with cURL and then receive a firehose of all public tweets from that moment on, no reviews or validation at all, all you needed was an account + token.

I think this is a huge reason for the initial popularity, because it was trivial to build really fun experiences on top of that, until they cut it off for whatever reason (guessing money, one way or another).

At the same time, you could also view tweets without being logged in, and you saw replies too.
by jockm | 2025-11-04 14:15:13+00:00
Not just Chinese companies, Ti has done this forever with their Sitara SoCs. This is the chip in the beaglebone. The chip includes two PRUs which are microcontrollers that run at 200mhz and share memory with the rest of the system.

TIs latest version of it (AM625x) has four A53 cores, one PRU, and a Cortex M4F. It is similar in performance to the Qualcomm chip in my own benchmarks
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-04 14:15:38+00:00
I have had 10 jobs now and had to rollover my 401K 6 times. I call the financial institution, they send me a check made out to “Vanguard FBO (for the benefit of) $MyName” and mail it to Vanguard with a form.

Now you can do it electronically by taking a picture of the check. When I’m done with the company I’m done. I sold all of my RSUs when I worked for BigTech as soon as they vested and diversified too.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-11-04 14:15:53+00:00
> So the question is, how intelligent are LLMs when you reduce their training data and training? Since they rapidly devolve into nonsense, the answer must be that they have no internal intelligence

This would be the equivalent of removing all senses of a human from birth and expecting them to somehow learn things. They will not. Therefore humans are not intelligent?

> LLMs dont do that; they just lack understanding.

You have no idea what they are doing. Since they are smaller than the dataset, they must have learned an internal algorithm. This algorithm is drawing patterns from somewhere - those are its internal, incorrect assumptions. It does not operate in the same way that a human does, but it seems ridiculous to say that it lacks intelligence because of that.

It sounds like you've reached a conclusion, that LLMs cannot be intelligent because they have said really weird things before, and are trying to justify it in reverse. Sure, it may not have grasped that particular thing. But are you suggesting that you've never met a human that is feigning understanding in a particular topic say some really weird things akin to an LLM? I'm an educator, and I have heard the strangest things that I just cannot comprehend no matter how much I dig. It really feels like shifting goalposts. We need to do better than that.
by criddell | 2025-11-04 14:16:25+00:00
Have you played Atari today? 11 year old me was able to always answer that question yes.

So many times the box art would totally capture my imagination. I'd ask for some cartridge for Christmas or my birthday and it was always a bit of a gut punch to see the screen for the first time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/11ddevl/atari_...
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-04 14:17:02+00:00
>But saying we somehow settled upon the perfect combination the very first time labor won concessions from business, and also that the human condition can never improve from where it is, it a ridiculous position.

Good thing I never said that. What I said was, if you work less then you should get paid less. On a related note, there's also nothing about any particular job that guarantees a living wage. There are many jobs that can provably not bring in enough profit to justify paying a living wage.

If you demand a 32 hour work week for the same pay as 40 now, while people abroad can work overtime 50-60 hours for a quarter to a tenth of your salary, you're essentially claiming that an hour of your time is 20x more valuable than theirs. You can demand all you want but you ultimately can't make anyone employ you.
by lossyalgo | 2025-11-04 14:17:11+00:00
Tell that to German-speakers, where the verb comes last, and the order of things in sentences is not anything like English, therefore requiring you to think of the entire sentence before you just spit it out. Even the numbers are backwards (twenty-two is two-and-twenty) which requires thinking.

Furthermore, when you ask an LLM to count how many r's are in the word strawberry, it will give you a random answer, "think" about it, and give you another random answer. And I guarantee you out of 3 attempts, including reasoning, it will flip-flop between right and wrong, but unlike a human, it will be random, because, unlike humans who, when asked "how many r's are in the word strawberry" will not be able to tell you the correct answer every. fucking. time.

edit: formatting
by Aurornis | 2025-11-04 14:17:12+00:00
> The real problem, IMO, is that the law is generally not deferential enough to cyclists and already forces them off sidewalks, onto the street, and to follow traffic laws designed for cars.

If we’re talking about high powered e-bikes, I don’t want them on the sidewalk either. Once they exceed the current regulations they’re in the moped/motorcycle category.

> There's not much else to take away, and the rules right now are unreasonable enough that cyclists always break them.

So what’s your suggestion? Let people ride electric motorcycles on sidewalks? Change the laws so that high powered e-bikes don’t have to follow the rules of the road?

I don’t think the current laws are unreasonable. I live in a place where people routinely ride their e-bikes on the sidewalks and it’s absolutely awful, especially with young children. Every time we go somewhere I have to hold their hands and yank them off the sidewalk at least once to dodge another e-bike zooming past. I can only hope enforcement catches up and starts impounding bikes from people breaking the law and issuing large fines, because I don’t know how else to stop this.
by finghin | 2025-11-04 14:17:18+00:00
In my personal experience for a day procedure (gastroscopy) it was fentanyl + midazolam, although on another occasion for the same procedure they added ketamine for some reason.

In the latter case I actually remember more of the procedure - although I was completely detached and thought it lasted about a minute (it was a 10-15 min procedure). In that case I can recall having the tube removed and passing out what seems like instantly.
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-04 14:17:24+00:00
It may be that this tech produces clear, rational, chain of logic writeups, but it's not clear that just because we also do that after thinking that it is only thinking that produces writeups.

It's possible there is much thinking that does not happen with written word. It's also possible we are only thinking the way LLMs do (by chaining together rationalizations from probable words), and we just aren't aware of it until the thought appears, whole cloth, in our "conscious" mind. We don't know. We'll probably never know, not in any real way.

But it sure seems likely to me that we trained a system on the output to circumvent the process/physics because we don't understand that process, just as we always do with ML systems. Never before have we looked at image classifications and decided that's how the eye works, or protein folding and decided that's how biochemistry works. But here we are with LLMs - surely this is how thinking works?

Regardless, I submit that we should always treat human thought/spirit as unknowable and divine and sacred, and that anything that mimics it is a tool, a machine, a deletable and malleable experiment. If we attempt to equivocate human minds and machines there are other problems that arise, and none of them good - either the elevation of computers as some kind of "super", or the degredation of humans as just meat matrix multipliers.
WhatsApp Web Shows "Download WhatsApp for Mac" Screen
by cateye | 2025-11-04 14:17:34+00:00
When opening WhatsApp Web in Chrome on macOS, the sidebar and interface still load, but the chat area is replaced with a “Download WhatsApp for Mac” prompt.

It’s unclear if this is a bug or a gradual move away from web access, but it effectively prevents using chats in the browser.
by czl | 2025-11-04 14:18:13+00:00
I get the worry. AFAIK most of the current capex is going into scalable parallel compute, memory, and networking. That stack is pretty model agnostic, similar to how all that dot com fiber was not tied to one protocol. If transformers stall, the hardware is still useful for whatever comes next.

On reasoning, I see LLMs and classic algorithms as complements. LLMs do robust manifold following and associative inference. Traditional programs do brittle rule following with guarantees. The promising path looks like a synthesis where models use tools, call code, and drive search and planning methods such as MCTS, the way AlphaGo did. Think agentic systems that can read, write, execute, and verify.

LLMs are strongest where the problem is language. Language co evolved with cognition as a way to model the world, not just to chat. We already use languages to describe circuits, specify algorithms, and even generate other languages. That makes LLMs very handy for specification, coordination, and explanation.

LLMs can also statistically simulate algorithms, which is useful for having them think about these algorithms. But when you actually need the algorithm, it is most efficient to run the real thing in software or on purpose built hardware. Let the model write the code, compose the tools, and verify the output, rather than pretending to be a CPU.

To me the risk is not that LLMs are a dead end, but that people who do not understand them have unreasonable expectations. Real progress looks like building systems that use language to invent and implement better tools and route work to the right place. If a paper lands tomorrow that shows pure next token prediction is not enough for formal reasoning, that would be an example of misunderstanding LLMs, not a stop sign. We already saw something similar when Minsky and Papert highlighted that single layer perceptrons could not represent XOR, and the field later moved past that with multilayer networks. Hopefully we remember that and learn the right lesson this time.
by piva00 | 2025-11-04 14:18:37+00:00
> Regarding shareholder value, Welch said in a Financial Times interview on the 2008 financial crisis, "On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy...your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products."[69]

Rather odd to see this quote coming from Welch, the man who almost single-handedly destroyed the notion that corporations had a duty to employees, and society at large first, and shareholder value coming as a result of those.

His actions, and management style completely defined the era of corporate behaviour we live since the 1980s: the layoffs, the carelessness on axing whole departments of companies which underperformed for a couple of quarters, only looking through short-term financials, all the focus on quarterly reports and financialisation of the economy come from his "teachings".

It was very hard for me to believe he uttered these words, rot in hell, Jack.
by uberduper | 2025-11-04 14:19:06+00:00
Sometimes I start thinking our brains work the same way as an LLM does when it comes to language processing. Are we just using probability based on what we already know and the context of the statement we're making to select the next few words? Maybe we apply a few more rules than an LLM on what comes next as we go.

We train ourselves on content. We give more weight to some content than others. While listening to someone speak, we can often predict their next words.

What is thinking without language? Without language are we just bags of meat reacting to instincts and emotions? Are instincts and emotions what's missing for AGI?
Show HN: I made a Bluesky algorithm that Rick Rolls you with trending content
by IdreesInc | 2025-11-04 14:19:52+00:00
Source code available here (as part of my other feed): https://github.com/IdreesInc/Indie-Tech-Bluesky-Feed

The feed subscribes to the bluesky firehose and keeps track of trending posts grouped by each lyric. It then sorts each group using the hacker news algo score (almost like each word is a mini feed) and stitches them together. The result is a feed where every post starts with the lyrics to Never Gonna Give You Up and is dynamically updated like any other trending feed. Not exactly revolutionary, but it was a fun thing to try out.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-04 14:20:07+00:00
Working on the road has become so prevalent for many field folks that Ford's F-150 has a "Center Console Work Surface" (at least as an option):

* https://www.ford.ca/support/how-tos/more-vehicle-topics/f-se...

* https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-is-the-for...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyZgeM7JM0
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-04 14:20:30+00:00
the lesson of Nixon's later years (and heavily alcoholism) and Reagan's dementia and "plausible deniability" is that the GOP needs a face, while the plutocrats run the show. Chaney got his start under Nixon and was a Big Dick under Reagan.

HW Bush was the exception, but he raised taxes and generally pissed everyone off.

W and Trump are a return to form. Vance (channeling Thiel) and Stephen Miller are running the actual show.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-11-04 14:20:56+00:00
>the only option I have for contributing to a Roth IRA is via backdoor contributions

Here's a simple idea: roll over your 401k, and then take the $7K (or whatever) you were going to put into the Roth and instead use it to pay the tax on a conversion of $20K. Much bigger bang for the buck.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-11-04 14:20:58+00:00
I feel like there should at least be some sort of disclaimer then that tells me the status page can take up to xx minutes to show an outage and not make it seem as if it is updated instantaniously. That way I could way those xx minutes before I file a ticket with support and not have the case thinking it is an isolated problem for me instead of a major outage.
by bluGill | 2025-11-04 14:21:30+00:00
The question is how far can you break things down. Also what your job is (if you need to wash your hands before starting that matters)

If you are sewing a ballroom dress (that is any very large project) you probably need longer stretches to get it together. However you could take an individual piece and put in a few embroidery stitches.

Still it does feel like you get 2 minutes of work for your 15 minute break
by karmakaze | 2025-11-04 14:22:02+00:00
No software bloat isn't ok. Tech debt can be ok, and software bloat can be the consequence of tech debt taken on with eyes open. But to say that (some) software bloat without considerations is ok is how we have the fastest machines imaginable and still end up with UI that can't keep up visually with keystrokes.

Quoting Knuth without the entire context is also contributing to bloat.

> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered.

> We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-11-04 14:22:06+00:00
>Is is the cluster that is conscious? Or the individual machines, or the chips, or the algorithm, or something else?

The bound informational dynamic that supervenes on the activity of the individual units in the cluster. What people typically miss is that the algorithm when engaged in a computing substrate is not just inert symbols, but an active, potent causal/dynamical structure. Information flows as modulated signals to and from each component and these signals are integrated such that the characteristic property of the aggregate signal is maintained. This binding of signals by the active interplay of component signals from the distributed components realizes the singular identity. If there is consciousness here, it is in this construct.
by y3k | 2025-11-04 14:22:15+00:00
Hahaha, thank you for "quoting the full name".

It's mostly a "toy app / learning experience" at this point, but I'm glad it may provide even the tiniest bit of value to others.

Sadly on mobile seems to be fairly useless due the OS killing the worker, but I'll try to wrap it in a native app.