MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by riskable | 2025-11-06 18:52:13+00:00
I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine. This is just another nail in the coffin.

When an AI searches google.com for you, the ads never get shown to the user. Search engines like kagi.com are the future. You'll give the AI your Kagi API key and that'll be it. You won't even need cloud-based AI for that kind of thing! Tiny, local models trained for performing searches on behalf of the user will do it instead.

Soon your OS will regularly pull down AI model updates just like it pulls down software updates today. Every-day users will have dozens of models that are specialized for all sorts of tasks—like searching the Internet. They won't even know what they're for or what they do. Just like your average Linux user doesn't know what the `polkit` or `avahi-daemon` services do.

My hope: This will (eventually) put pressure on hardware manufacturers to include more VRAM in regular PCs/consumer GPUs.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-06 18:52:35+00:00
> [1] Politics

> Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources.

I don't know how much more obvious I can make this for you. Bribery is political.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
by WaitWaitWha | 2025-11-06 18:54:01+00:00
>I can only speak to my experience, certified devices by the largest firms will mostly not interoperate (fails around authN).

>Apple: Keeps Thread credentials locked to HomeKit's border routers.

>Google: Shares some credentials, but only within Google Account environment.

>Amazon: TBD, but their Matter implementation is mostly cloud-tied.

>Samsung: Hybrid approach; still best when used inside SmartThings, their 1.4 update seems to support for joining existing Thread networks. Still have to test it.

>So, even though Thread theoretically allows full interoperability, no vendor wants to be reduced to a dumb router in someone else’s ecosystem.

>there is no easy way to bridge Apple Thread to Home Assistant or Google Thread, even though it is theoretically supposed to be possible from a protocol standpoint.

>If you have such solutions, let me know, because I would take full advantage of it, and will regale your contributions in multiple home automation threads.
by pstuart | 2025-11-06 18:54:22+00:00
I have another comment that's a sibling to this and I'll avoid the copypasta.

tl;dr -- the current model is whack-a-mole and is a fiasco except for it's unstated but intended purpose (oppression of "others"). What you're suggesting will not work, will waste likely billions of dollars, and just create even more misery in the world.
by robertlagrant | 2025-11-06 18:54:52+00:00
> Robert Koch Institute (RKI) – entered a contract on 11 June 2025 to use openDesk as the technical basis for the “Agora” platform for public‑health authorities.

Wow - I was just thinking this would be good. Here in the UK Microsoft are slowly taking over healthcare with their terrible Dynamics 365 platform, and some competition would be really nice.
by LaurensBER | 2025-11-06 18:54:58+00:00
Sure and I see that they're fully owned by the German government but getting the entire German government to switch (lots of politics involved even if the product is developed by the government) is a lot harder than starting bottoms-up. Getting some departments/small companies to switch and growing organically from there seems like a better path towards success.

I guess they could offer a hosted solution but that's usually a challenge to get approved in most government agencies (even if the contracting party is also sponsored by the government).
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-06 18:55:13+00:00
I think if something is hosted in a different country, the laws of that country apply to that service. It's not under your jurisdiction, so you have no say in whether it's allowed to exist, nor should you.

You can, of course, pass a law making it illegal for your citizens to communicate with that service, but I think it's really important to understand that that's what's happening. You are passing a law which applies to your citizens and their right to communicate with people in other countries; it's their freedoms you are placing limits on, not the freedoms of the foreign website. Sometimes when you frame things that way, such restrictions stop making sense. (Though perhaps not always.)
by yabones | 2025-11-06 18:55:22+00:00
That was exactly the goal with the Buffalo Bicycle project, and I'd say it worked pretty well. Make a bike that's mechanically simple & reliable, maintainable with common tools, and train technicians to fix and upkeep them. Basically create the Toyota Landcruiser of bikes. I kind of want one, even though it's a "bad" bike by the standards of most western audiences (heavy, slow, ugly, etc)

https://buffaloride.org/buffalobicycle https://worldbicyclerelief.org/product-development/
by bjackman | 2025-11-06 18:55:46+00:00
> no one, not even people operating the inference hardware

You need to be careful with these claims IMO. I am not involved directly in CoCo so my understanding lacks nuance but after https://tee.fail I came to understand that basically there's no HW that actually considers physical attacks in scope for their threat model?

The Ars Technica coverage of that publication has some pretty yikes contrasts between quotes from people making claims like yours, and the actual reality of the hardware features.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/new-physical-attack...

My current understanding of the guarantees here is:

- even if you completely pwn the inference operator, steal all root keys etc, you can't steal their customers' data as a remote attacker

- as a small cabal of arbitrarily privileged employees of the operator, you can't steal the customers' data without a very high risk of getting caught

- BUT, if the operator systematically conspires to steal the customers' data, they can. If the state wants the data and is willing to spend money on getting it, it's theirs.
by Scoundreller | 2025-11-06 18:55:46+00:00
I’m confused by everything tbh.

I maintain a 20 year old Corolla, which is incredibly common throughout Africa (exported 2nd/3rd/4th hand).

But users from there rarely pop up in the forums or anywhere else I’ve found.

I dunno how they diagnose obscure condition XYZ without the like 9 retired mechanics on the forum.

Do they all use closed WhatsApp groups? Do they just consume tech info but not produce?

I appreciate they don’t all speak English, nor a language that Google Translate is good at.

They’ve gotta be dealing with the same problems we do fixing these, if not more.
by keeda | 2025-11-06 18:56:03+00:00
The more appropriate analogy is: you have a vending machine that dispenses a paper slip with your fortune on it everytime somebody presses a button. However you can only get one fortune told per day, but you can pay to get more in bulk.

Turns out people find these fortunes super useful, and many are actually paying real money to get more, and each vending machine is actually making money on this.

But now the vending machine industry has also figured out that bigger, more powerful machines produce tell better fortunes which draws in even more people.

So now the industry is investing heavily to build more, bigger vending machines. However, these machines need tons of expensive parts and power, and oh, we can't slow down because China, and so they are racing like crazy to build more.

Unfortunately, there is effectively only one company making a key part, and there's not enough power for all the machines being built, and so very expensive new infrastructure has to be built to meet the forecasted demand for all the fortunes in the world.

And this requires trillions in funding, which gets very expensive to borrow, and so the US government is being asked to provide loan guarantees, because who better would know what interest payments on trillions of debt look like?
by youoy | 2025-11-06 18:56:40+00:00
> AlphaEvolve did not perform equally well across different areas of mathematics. When testing the tool on analytic number theory problems, such as that of designing sieve weights for elementary approximations to the prime number theorem, it struggled to take advantage of the number theoretic structure in the problem, even when given suitable expert hints (although such hints have proven useful for other problems). This could potentially be a prompting issue on our end,

Very generous from Tao to say it can be a prompting issue. It always surprises me how easily it is for people to says that the problem is not the LLM, but them. With other types of ML/AI algorithms we dont see this. For example, after a failed attempt or lower score in a comparison table, no one writes "the following benchmark results may be wrong, and our proposed algorithm may not be the best. We may have messed up the hyperparameter tunning, initialization, train test split..."
by Ethee | 2025-11-06 18:57:23+00:00
Just because they don't 'want' to, doesn't mean it's not a good solution. Clearly they're not getting me to pay for their whole site subscription so why not just sell me the article? The biggest issue with most of these services is the lack of consumer 'ease' by which the creator can actually get paid. It's the same reason why I'm seeing all my friends go back to piracy, it was nice when we had a consumer convenient place to consume our content. Just look at Steam, it's easier than ever to go pirate the majority of games, but my Steam library just keeps getting bigger. I'm not against buying things, I'm against shitty services.
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-06 18:57:28+00:00
The entities training AI are not anti-copyright, or anti-intellectual-property. If I were to steal their AI models they would sue me into the ground and probably win. Furthermore, even if you are anti-copyright, you probably still don't want your shit scraped by AI trainers since the bots are extremely aggressive, almost like a bona fide DDoS attack.

AI is not an attack on copyright, it is an attempt to replace it with something worse.
by signal11 | 2025-11-06 18:58:21+00:00
This is a great example of moving the goalposts re the original (false) point that a previous comment made about French having a longer literary history than English.

If you’ve got a specific agenda, say x > y, you can be very selective about success criteria to suit yourself.

In this particular case of English and French, the reality is that few modern French speakers can read the Song of Roland. “Resembles x much more” is pretty irrelevant because it cherry-picks similarities while glossing over differences. One can equally say Old English’s “and forgyf us ure gyltas” is pretty readable, but really you’re scraping the bottom of the argument barrel.

Also glossing over an older literary tradition because the language mutated in response to a new political reality (conquest) is ... curious.
by mywittyname | 2025-11-06 18:58:25+00:00
> Of all the things that people on the left might find objectionable about Trump, this should be at the very far bottom of the list.

Given that the left are the only ones complaining about the extrajudicial killings under the Obama administration, I disagree.

Personally, I find public officials murdering unarmed people objectionable in practically all cases. And I think it's probably the worst thing a public official can do.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-06 18:58:28+00:00
Your friend is not the last person that will own that house, forcing a utility connection is a good thing for future owners. The same reasoning is why building codes exist, nobody really cares if you want to live in a substandard dwelling (aside from your mortgage insurer) but basically every house has more than one owner over time. Building codes mean when you buy a house, you can be reasonably certain there aren’t any weird cut corners.

He should’ve done DD on the land and local AHJ restrictions before moving ahead with a plan that wouldn’t work. One call to the local planning and permit office is all it would’ve taken to avoid this problem and find a different jurisdiction.
by lelandfe | 2025-11-06 18:58:29+00:00
> Large promoters who regularly throw events or have the budget for larger events would use their own promotion mechanisms

No (at least in the US) - it’s because of exclusive contracts with the ticketing platforms.

Whereas you can list on RA and other platforms too, the biggest clubs and venues get lucrative deals with eg AXS to only list tickets on their platform.
by riffraff | 2025-11-06 18:58:54+00:00
No dandelion? I can't recommend it enough.

About every part is edible too: new leaves are sweet, old leaves are bitter, buds can be pickled, roots you can make teas and coffee substitute.

A few related plants are also good (e.g. wild chicory), and it's one of the easiest plants to identify.
by cge | 2025-11-06 18:59:17+00:00
>I think the bigger question is why they were using microsoft products in the first place.

Public institutions in Europe, in my experience, often have a confusing insistence on using Microsoft cloud products. Universities heavily push Office 365 and Teams, often trying to demand that faculty use them, while faculty continue to use alternatives as much as possible in order to actually work effectively. During the pandemic, the only online conferences I attended that insisted on running via Teams, against all reason, were run by a UK public institution, and they had as many embarrassing technical problems as might be expected.

This is despite Microsoft's cloud services being generally designed for businesses and often poorly suited for public institutions, especially universities. The services are fundamentally built with the assumption that work will primarily take place within a single organization, with clearly defined employees. European research collaborations constantly seem to be hobbled by needing to use hacks around this assumption, but the inexplicable importance of using Microsoft seems to outweigh these problems. In the most ridiculous case, a conference online during the pandemic asked everyone during registration to please not register using their university email address, but to use a personal one not associated with any Office 365 account, because they had no way of allowing access to Teams if the email address was managed by Microsoft at a different university. Yet still the importance of using Teams was paramount to the organizers.

I have had no clear explanation of why using Microsoft services is so important, despite them being so poorly suited to the institutions, so opposed (and often just not used) by many of the actual users, and arguably being used in ways that they are not really intended to be used. I've had some people claim it is necessary for GDPR compliance, despite the GDPR compliance of any US company being on shaky ground. Microsoft itself has described what seem like rather extensive contingency plans around US-enforced GDPR violations or requirements for service cutoffs (there is a blog post somewhere), but these must also imply a fear that such things could actually happen (and, of course, actually did happen with the ICC). It all seems rather strange.
by pron | 2025-11-06 19:00:23+00:00
Ok, so what is a consistent epistemology that would lead someone to (probably an American) to believe the following things: planes are safe, atoms and viruses are real, the world is a globe, vaccines cause autism, Tylenol causes autism, vitamins are helpful, mobile phones do not cause cancer, weather forecasts are usually more-or-less right, man-made climate change is not real, the government can control the weather, GPS is reliable, stimulus causes inflation but tariffs do not, immigration harms my personal economic opportunities but natural population growth does not, the Roman Empire was real but descriptions of its ethnic makeup or the reasons for its collapse are not, etc. etc.? (the content of each individual belief is less important than the composite whole where the scholarship of strangers is sometimes accepted and sometimes rejected in a way that isn't explained by, say, reputation or replication)

The only thing I can come up with is that they do believe rigorous scholarship can arrive at answers, but sometimes those who do have the "real answers", lie to us for nefarious reasons. The problem with that is that this just moves the question elsewhere: how do you decide, in a non-arbitrary way, whether what you're being told is an intentional lie? (Never mind how you explain the mechanism of lying on a massive scale.) For example, an epistemology could say that if you can think of some motivation for a lie then it's probably a lie, except that this, too, is not applied consistently. Why would doctors lie to us more than mechanics or pilots?

Anohter option could be, "I believe things I'm told by people who care about me." I can understand why someone who cares about me may not want to lie to me, but what is the mechanism by which caring about someone makes you know the truth? I'm sure that everyone has had the personal experience of caring about someone else, and still advising them incorrectly, so this, too, quickly runs into contradictions.
by shagie | 2025-11-06 19:02:02+00:00
Many of these words transferred during the Norman Conquest. During that time, England was ruled by French speakers. The upper class and nobility in England were French (and French speakers).

When someone in the upper class wanted boeuf, they wanted the meat of a cow - not the cow itself. And so beef entered the English language as the meat. This extended to other animals. In general, the word for the meat in English is the French word for the animal and the word for the animal is derived from the German word.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/beef and https://www.etymonline.com/word/cow

This also extended to the language law and things that the upper classes (rather than the commoners) dealt with. When the common English (germanic) did have to deal with those topics, they used the French words and those words were brought into English.
by toast0 | 2025-11-06 19:02:51+00:00
> In general, clubs don't want to let in folks who don't match the culture... for example, Berghain, at it's core, wants people coming in who want to dance, so if you show up in glasses and Patagonia you're not going to enjoy yourself.

I can tell you, if I show up to an event without my glasses, I'm not going to enjoy myself either :P But, thanks to the internet, I can listen to dance music without having to go to a club https://www.di.fm/ (also I have the joy of having a local dance music station https://www.c895.org/ so I can listen to dance music with just an FM radio)
by vkou | 2025-11-06 19:02:53+00:00
You're missing one further step - you can also sanction a foreign business from doing business in your country. So, you can allow it to serve your citizens packets, but if you block it from collecting revenue, it will have little incentive to (unless it's a state-sponsored bad actor, then you can only lean on the two mechanisms you described).

All three prongs (ban hosting, ban access, ban revenue) can be used to keep foreign interference out of your country.
Show HN: Mongoose Studio: A Schema-Aware MongoDB GUI with AI Dashboards for Node
by code_barbarian | 2025-11-06 19:03:00+00:00
We’ve been working on this for a while: Mongoose Studio, a MongoDB GUI and dashboard layer that runs alongside your Node.js app (Express, Vercel, or Netlify).

It uses your existing Mongoose connection and schemas to make querying and exploration feel familiar - with autocomplete, proper schema casting, and a filter syntax that supports inline JavaScript (e.g. { createdAt: { $gte: Date.now() - 1000 } }).

Mongoose Studio also includes a lightweight dashboarding framework where ChatGPT helps generate aggregation scripts using your schemas and code as context.

You can literally ask it for “a chart of users created this week by country,” and it’ll build one with Chart.js.

Demo + docs: https://studio.mongoosejs.io GitHub: https://github.com/mongoosejs/studio

Would love feedback from anyone running MongoDB in production - what tools are you currently using to query or visualize your data?
by temp0826 | 2025-11-06 19:03:28+00:00
I think it's also involved in collagen formation? There is an herb (horsetail herb) that allegedly helps with bone remineralization/regrowth as well as hair/skin/nail growth and it is loaded with silica. (Beware it also contains thiaminase, which can deplete vitamin B1. Some supplements contain B1 to compensate but it is mostly taken as a tea).
by bell-cot | 2025-11-06 19:03:57+00:00
What fraction of conspiracy theories have proven correct, at a Snowden-ish level?

My sense is that conspiracy theorists are essentially a cron job crying "Wolf!" every 60 seconds. The occasional real-world wolf does not justify paying any attention to the alarms. OTOH, it's a false dichotomy to believe that the false alarms prove the non-existence of wolves.
by maciejgryka | 2025-11-06 19:04:00+00:00
I think this is a description of how things are today, but not an inherent property of how the models are built. Over the last year or so the trend seems to be moving from “more data” to “better data”. And I think in most narrow domains (which, to be clear, general coding agent is not!) it’s possible to train a smaller, specialized model reaching the performance of a much larger generic model.

Disclaimer: this is pretty much the thesis of a company I work for, distillabs.ai but other people say similar things e.g. https://research.nvidia.com/labs/lpr/slm-agents/
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-06 19:04:16+00:00
This is surprising to hear; my experience matches the parent comments' exactly. The crates exist, but are usually toys that haven't been applied to practical problem. This is a generalization, but it applies well in many domains. Often, they're someone's one-off school project, a "let's build X in rust" from someone who doesn't have a practical use case for X etc.
by zahlman | 2025-11-06 19:04:31+00:00
> so what is a consistent epistemology that would lead someone to (probably an American) to believe the following things:

First, show me a person who believes all of them.

Then, try asking that person.

You are trying to ask me to justify entire worldviews. That is far beyond the scope of a single HN post, and also blatantly off topic.
by goku12 | 2025-11-06 19:04:40+00:00
> If the day ever comes where this is not an option anymore, then I will just clean my house with a broom. Same thing goes for washing machines. If I can't buy one without internet, then I will clean my clothes by hand.

Perfect! I wish a large enough section of the population took this principled stance. Those greedy corpos wouldn't be abusing their customers so much if the latter were united in denying them the market and the opportunity. Those 'smart devices' really need and deserve a lobotomy.
by kmicinski | 2025-11-06 19:04:40+00:00
It's true that Ascent does not index ADTs either, but there are some tricks that you can use when you control the container type to get similar performance by, e.g., storing a pre-computed hash. I believe Arash, the main author of Ascent, was exploiting this trick for Rc<...> members and seeing good performance gains. It is a bit nuanced, you're right that Ascent doesn't pervasively index ADTs out of the box for sure.