MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martin-t | 2025-11-06 01:19:31+00:00
> you have a massively simplistic view of employee value

That's why I talk about skill levels later, but briefly because this is a comment, not a book.

There's also a difference between how much value is provided can be attributed to a particular person vs a particular position. Some positions allow a much wider range of possible outcomes. How much extra wealth does a 90th percentile carpenter produce over and average carpenter? What about programmer, fashion designer, manager, salesman, doctor?

Does this mean the value of life of different people is based on how productive they are?

Because each person has roughly the same amount of time available to them and if they are spending an equal amount of it building a company, does one deserve to own more of it? Should this distribution be the same or different from the (monthly) monetary compensation?

These are rhetorical questions (mostly) but they are questions society should be discussing IMO.

Tangent: a carpenter who has no salesman and is so shit at selling his furniture that he gives it away for free is still producing value for society, even if he goes broke doing it. OTOH a salesman who has no carpenter and is so shit at making furniture that nobody wants it even for free is not producing any value at all.

> This is basically the labor theory of value

Ok, I need to read up on LVT. Seems like I am finally getting somewhere because I can't believe I am the only one saying things like this but at the same time I have not found anybody else with similar opinions. At best, I've seen people try to pattern match my opinions onto something similar they were familiar with but actually different.

> If it was true, the value of a newly discovered gold mine would be 0.

I don't know how this results from LVT yet but it seems what I am proposing must then be fundamentally different depending on how you meant it:

a) You meant gold as a natural resource with inherent value. It is necessary for making e.g. some electronics. The only question remains how to distribute the reward for discovering and mining it.

b) You meant gold as a substitute for money, ignoring its value as a natural resource. In that case, yes, money is a medium of exchange, you can't eat it or make anything out of it (maybe a fire?). Having more money in circulation does not bring any extra value for society, it just multiplies all monetary values by a number slightly larger than 1. (OTOH for the person discovering and mining it, it would be beneficial but only because he now has more relative to others. The same way as if he printed more money.)
by tmtvl | 2025-11-06 01:19:31+00:00
We could probably argue all day about what 'smart' means and what 'happy' means and about how IQ only measures test taking ability and how happiness is usually self reported and all these things.

But I think a crucial element is that we haven't evolved to be happy. If we had then we probably would have never invented the wheel and stolen fire from the gods and left Africa and create medicine and cars and bombs and those little boxes kids these days look at to see what their friends are up to rather than just asking them personally. I mean, maybe it would have been better if we were happy, but then we wouldn't have had Beethoven's 9th and that would be a shame.
by LarsKrimi | 2025-11-06 01:19:32+00:00
RISC-V cemented their own deathsentence when they brought seasoned MIPS software developers into their fold early on.

The calling convention was botched, just like it had been for 10s of different MIPS ones And it was hyperoptimized before there was existing silicon, just like the SysV AMD64 calling convention was fucked up by Suse developers before there was existing silicon
by Yaina | 2025-11-06 01:20:40+00:00
It still creates separate folders but you're right that about:profiles seems to treat them as the same.

When you open about:profiles in both your "new" profiles, you can see that even though it has the same name, the path changes.

So I think in effect they still behave like profiles before, just with some extra logic on top so they have names, icons and so on.
by iwanttocomment | 2025-11-06 01:20:43+00:00
I own 3 EVs. Two of those, from 2012 and 2014, were built with 3G modems, and fully lost connectivity in 2022 when the 3G networks were turned down. Nothing changed, not even an error message inside the car, except that trying to connect to them with their apps now fails. They're still totally functional cars. The failure mode on both appears to have been "guess I don't have service, I'll sleep the modem." Bluetooth still works, but even if that failed one of them has a functional CD player!

My newer EV that came with LTE connectivity will also fully work without network connectivity, except for the apps and remote updates. You can turn off the built-in cell connectivity via the head unit menus, and if you're especially paranoid, you can pull the fuse on the modem (and I've done it!). When it doesn't have a network connection it too operates just like a normal car.

There's a lot of fear around EVs being "software on wheels" based on a few manufacturers making non-remote features that depend on remote connectivity and botching updates or requiring subscriptions, and I agree that all is super problematic both from a privacy perspective and point-of-failure reason. But there's absolutely nothing intrinsic to the core design of EVs that demands that they're connected to the network.
by panxyh | 2025-11-06 01:21:13+00:00
> Maybe we should just stop commenting about whether or not something is AI generated. It doesn't add anything to the discussion, and is a waste of time.

Ok, sure!

As for the rest, "excuse me if I'm wrong" is a very common and valid phrase, though a bit ruined by sarcastic misuse

I attempted to show with it that I don't assume anything or default to hostility, though on a different occasion you'd yourself probably argue that others feelings are not my responsibility.

I'm not sorry for asking the question, unless t0mas88 got offended by it.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-06 01:22:22+00:00
I'm interested to see where this goes. I don't like how it's likely reducing privacy the internet. But social media is obviously a threat so serious that it might be worth the costs.

I've also been thinking that perhaps social media platforms should start displaying some kind of indicator when a poster is from out of your country. So when foreign troll farms start political posting you can see more clearly they aren't legitimate. I suspect that social media is largely to blame for the insane politics of the world right now.
by sjfkeifj | 2025-11-06 01:23:07+00:00
Allow me to explain through an example:

When I protest that LLMs stole the collective creative output of all of humanity and are now trying to sell it back to us to supplant human creative output, or that it is an ecological, or economic, disaster, further consolidating wealth and power in a few narcissistic sociopaths, and defendants reply, "bUt ThE CApAbIlitIEs!!1!"
by Loughla | 2025-11-06 01:23:39+00:00
The publishers are playing shit games with faculty and providing free access for them to high quality instructional materials. To the point that the faculty doesn't really have to do anything for online classes(which is a whole other ball of shit).

The secret to why they can provide this?

The content is locked behind a code the student has to buy that provides access to the book or comes with the book.

It's absolutely disgusting. For profit bullshit is fucking the youth of America. It's disgusting.

Source; the three times I've failed to push my current instruction to open access materials instead of McGraw Hill bullshit. And it failed because the lazy ass faculty can't be bothered to develop their own lessons anymore. Fuck.
Show HN: Dynamic Code Execution with MCP: A More Efficient Approach
by pranftw | 2025-11-06 01:23:56+00:00
I've been working on a more efficient approach to code execution with MCP servers that eliminates the filesystem overhead described in Anthropic's recent blog post.

The Anthropic post (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-mcp) showed how agents can avoid token bloat by writing code to call MCP tools instead of using direct tool calls.

Their approach generates TypeScript files for each tool to enable progressive discovery. It works well but introduces complexity: you need to generate files for every tool, manage complex type schemas, rebuild when tools update, and handle version conflicts. At scale, 1000 MCP tools means maintaining 1000 generated files.

I built codex-mcp using pure dynamic execution. Instead of generating files, we expose just two lightweight tools: list_mcp_tools() returns available tool names, and get_mcp_tool_details(name) loads definitions on demand. The agent explores tools as if navigating a filesystem, but nothing actually exists on disk.

Code snippets are stored in-memory as strings in the chat session data. When you execute a snippet, we inject a callMCPTool function directly into the execution environment using AsyncFunction constructor. No imports, no filesystem dependencies, just runtime injection. The function calls mcpManager.tools directly, so you're always hitting the live MCP connection.

This means tools are perpetually in sync. When a tool's schema changes on the server, you're already calling the updated version. No regeneration, no build step, no version mismatches. The agent gets all the same benefits of the filesystem approach (progressive discovery, context efficiency, complex control flow, privacy preservation) without any of the maintenance overhead.

One caveat: the MCP protocol doesn't enforce output schemas, so chaining tool calls requires defensive parsing since the model can't predict output structure. This affects all MCP implementations though, not specific to our approach.

The dynamic execution is made possible by Vercel AI SDK's MCP support, which provides the runtime infrastructure to call MCP tools directly from code.

Project: https://github.com/pranftw/aiter-app

Would love feedback from folks working with MCP at scale. Has anyone else explored similar patterns?
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-06 01:23:57+00:00
Right. When presented with evidence of someone selling upwards of 50-100 stolen Macbooks and a similar number of phones, including my own, my police department's first reaction was:

"Well, he probably didn't steal them himself"

And when I, somewhat confused, asked, "isn't knowingly selling stolen goods also a crime?", "How do you know he is doing it knowingly?" "Hmmm, the fact that none of them have chargers or accessories and that the IMEI of every phone has the last two digits swapped so people can't search for them, but so they look legit?"

"We're not going to investigate this."

Great. Thanks for your concern.
by chermi | 2025-11-06 01:23:58+00:00
Do you mean that there may be some harm in "hiding" from children their intelligence? I can see that maybe at early ages, but certainly they'll eventually catch on with grades and such? I don't know when different parts of personality manifest, maybe some child psychologist can chime in. But my hunch is that maybe not saying anything until grade 2-3 could potentially help. Above all, I think the key is to tell them that it's trying hard that leads to getting what you want. Obviously that's a bit of a lie, but I think acceptable until a later age.
by DenisM | 2025-11-06 01:24:23+00:00
> For men in NAS, higher baseline optimism levels were similarly related to longer life span (Table 1, NAS; P trend = 0.002). After adjusting for demographics, baseline health conditions, and depression, compared to the least optimistic men, those in the highest quintile had 10.9% (95% CI: 1.3%, 21.5%) longer life span.

Notably absent: control by wealth.
by fullstacking | 2025-11-06 01:24:55+00:00
Did you really just compare this to desktop apps? Stop playing games.

Ok I will bite. in the realm of desktops, what is the "backend"?....

But also lets assume you are talking about c/rust what ever code. Then you saying that because qt/gtk does not generate something for that code that is equivalent? This is such a reach. First The c code does not need to render a initial output before qt or gtk kicks in for starters. sounds like you just want to boil the ocean. F it, lets reinvent TCP everyone...

Also just gonna put this out there, what is your web agent if not a desktop app...

But really I can't even with this. I'm looking for sensible solutions to this real problem. I guess throwing your hands up and saying everything sucks is an option but I don't have time to think like that.
by dgjhu669 | 2025-11-06 01:25:05+00:00
My employer demands that I have some proprietary 2FA app installed. And while it’s the norm for companies to provide you with a laptop that you install their trojans on, it’s not the norm to provide you with a work phone, so I’m glad there is a middleman limiting the damage I’m exposed to when I install corporate software on my phone. And that’s a device that has access to much more information about me, whom I talk to and what I do with my spare time, when and where.
by consumer451 | 2025-11-06 01:25:31+00:00
This is the part that really caught my attention:

> For the first time, primary aged children will gain vital skills like how to spot fake news and identify misinformation and disinformation, helping them develop the critical thinking needed to challenge what they see and protect them from online harms. Primary pupils will also learn more about the fundamentals of money, recognising that children are now consumers often before they reach secondary school, while bringing important changes to strengthen children’s reading.
by phs318u | 2025-11-06 01:26:27+00:00
- Inflate expectations of AGI

- Attract ridiculous levels of investment

- Profit!

- Extend corporate entanglements to ensure that if OpenAI fails, many others will fail, thereby attracting yet more funding to keep the balloon in the air.

- Profit!

- Keep pumping, and when it looks like even the biggest investors aren't big enough to keep the bubble inflated, call on the good ol' government as funder of last resort.

- Profit!

- ...

- (Move some profits to a safe haven if you haven't already. Maybe get a friendly passport)

- ...

- BOOM!

- ...

- Profit!

EDITED to fix formatting.
by altairprime | 2025-11-06 01:26:49+00:00
While I’m sure dismissing the video is easy for someone with a dishwasher that already works fine with pods, having worked through all four(?) of those dishwasher videos, I have finally made an enzymatic powder work after months of effort when pods did not help.

Heavy Duty + Hot Wash doesn’t usually work. Doesn’t finish washing.

Heavy Duty + Sani Rinse doesn’t usually work. Weird residue issues for entire top rack.

Heavy Duty + Hot + Sani doesn’t work. Both of the above issues at once!

But, as it turns out —

Normal + Hot + Sani does work, perfectly, repeatedly.

The takeaway from the latest video for me is that the options aren’t Boolean on/off flags for different cycle-specific parameters, the cheap U.S. rental dishwasher comprehensively alters the entire program based on which total set of options are selected in non-intuitive ways.

So I have to use Normal not Heavy, Hot Wash and Sani-Rinse, or my wash cycle doesn’t wash properly. Which is absurd and obnoxious, but TIL, and suddenly I’ve had two consecutive loads of dishes come out clean for the first time in a year of trying.

No, the pods didn’t work either, as it turns out my dishwasher doesn’t reach the “enzymatic cleaning” temperatures off my rental’s barely-120F water using Hot Wash alone. No, the filter isn’t dirty. Yes, it drains fine. Yes, I’ve run cleaning cycles with several cleaning powders. Yes, run the tap to hot. Etc etc.

TLDR for the entire video: If your dishwasher isn’t cleaning fully, even if you use maximum powder or pods or cleaning it, make sure you’ve tried counterintuitive combinations with Light/Normal instead of Heavy, or Sani Rinse to improve the wash cycle, etc. Ruling out unlikely combos because they seem illogical may prevent you from finding a working set. (And if you’re using a powder formulated by anyone who sells colorful dishwasher pods, it’s probably designed to be less effective than the powder in their pods.)
by api | 2025-11-06 01:27:26+00:00
It’s a thought stopping cliche in the form of an ad hominem shotgun whose trigger is tied to the door handle. You can’t disagree with the author’s take on technology or you’re a bigot and probably a misogynist and a fascist.

I hate watching fascism take over, and that’s why I hate this kind of leftist purity culture. It’s a big thing pushing people to the right.

Of course the far right does it too, which pushes people back the other way I guess.

The present day left and right are like having one obnoxious self righteous asshole screaming in each ear. I have never in my life seen the public discourse in worse shape.
by Incipient | 2025-11-06 01:27:57+00:00
>so as long as he[Gabe] is at the helm I assume Valve is going to continue delivering good service

THIS. Valve I trust to be a good entity for as long as Gabe leads it. As soon as he's gone, Valve will be taken over by some accountant CEO and will abuse their market position (functional monopoly).

I kinda hope Gabe pulls a Patagonia and leaves Steam to some impenetrable legal entity that runs it for the good of the users.
by slackpad | 2025-11-06 01:28:07+00:00
It's interesting - YouTube does show AI summaries now - here's the one for this video:

This video explores dishwasher detergent, focusing on a new powder formulation. The creator details the science behind effective dishwashing, including pre-wash cycles and water temperature. Independent testing results comparing the new powder to leading pods are revealed.

I've noticed that they all seem to not give away too much so you still have to watch the video to get the conclusion. It makes sense why they do this for creators, but I do agree it would be awesome to just read the conclusion on many of these.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-06 01:28:32+00:00
Mozilla's own site expounds on "Don't Break the Web" as "Web browser vendors should be able to implement new web technologies without causing a difference in rendering or functionality that would cause their users to think a website is broken and try another browser as a result."

There is no meaningful risk of that here. The percentage of web users who are trying to understand content via XSLT'd RSS is nearly zero, and for everyone who is, there is either polyfill or server-side rendering to correct the issue.

> and those engineers can and should go work on Android and iOS

With respect: taken to its logical conclusion, that would be how the web as a client-renderable system dies and is replaced by Android and iOS apps as the primary portal to interacting with HTTP servers.

If the machine is so complex that nobody wants to maintain it, it will go unmaintained and be left behind.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-06 01:29:01+00:00
I seem to have personally offended you, and for that I am sorry.

This seems personal to you so I'll bow out of further discourse on the subject as it is not particularly personal to me. The websites I maintain use a framework to build RSS output, and the framework will be modified to do server-side translation or polyfill as needed to provide a proper HTML display experience for end-users who want that.
by latchup | 2025-11-06 01:29:44+00:00
That's a downright insane comparison. The whole problem with generative AI is how extremely unreliable it is. You cannot really trust it with anything because irrespective of its average performance, it has absolutely zero guarantees on its worst-case behavior.

Aviation autopilot systems are the complete opposite. They are arguably the most reliable computer-based systems ever created. While they cannot fly a plane alone, pilots can trust them blindly to do specific, known tasks consistently well in over 99.99999% of cases, and provide clear diagnostics in case they cannot.

If gen AI agents were this consistently good at anything, this discussion would not be happening.
by thunky | 2025-11-06 01:29:49+00:00
> When exactly were the democrats supposed to "fix" the ACA without compromising?

The Democrats did have full control when they first passed the ACA and they ended up getting in their own way.

But I never said that the Democrats were supposed to fix it on their own. I said both parties are to blame.

It shouldn't require one team have full control for something to happen. That's the real issue. They refuse to work together, and somehow this gets them more support (votes). Both sides. Total shit show.
by QuadrupleA | 2025-11-06 01:29:51+00:00
Alright, you're extremely rude and combative so I'll probably tap out here.

But consider if the "yellow tchotchkes" draw some power from my house, produce some stinky blue smoke that occasionally wafts over, requires a government-paid maintenance person to occasionally stop by and work on, that I partly pay for with my taxes.

That's my point.
by alvah | 2025-11-06 01:29:56+00:00
It's very difficult for most (not all) people to relate to others who are either significantly more or significantly less intelligent than them. So, for example (using IQ as a proxy), most people of average intelligence (~100IQ) would find it difficult to relate to those of ~65IQ, and equally difficult to find much in common with someone much more intelligent than them (140+IQ). Given power laws / bell-curve distribution, most people on the tails of intelligence distribution will spend most of their time surrounded by people they can't really relate to. This does not seem like a recipe for happiness.
Show HN: I'm open sourcing my Chrome extension that uses AI to modify websites
by kishcha | 2025-11-06 01:30:31+00:00
Hey HN! Creator here.

I launched this as a SaaS earlier this year, failed to gain traction. Realized I was solving MY problem but not explaining it clearly.

So I'm open sourcing it with a better pitch:

The problem: I had 20+ Tampermonkey scripts for one-off tweaks. Maintaining them sucked. Writing new ones for simple stuff felt like overkill.

The solution: Chat interface where you describe the change, AI generates CSS/JS, applies it instantly.

Daily use cases: - "Dark mode this page" - "Hide YouTube shorts" - "Remove paywalls" (yes, controversial) - "Add keyboard shortcuts"

Technical stuff: - Your API key (Claude/GPT/Gemini/Grok/OpenRouter) - Smart DOM selector with stability scoring (checks for stable IDs, attributes like data-testid, role, aria-label before falling back to classes or nth-child) - Handles Shadow DOM, SPAs, dynamic content - Cloud sync via Supabase (optional)

GitHub: https://github.com/kchander/magix-extension Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/magix/ebfhenlkpdngc...

The hard part wasn't the AI - it was making modifications survive page updates. Uses Chrome's UserScripts API (Chrome 138+) to register scripts persistently, handles dynamic content injection, and manages script lifecycle across navigations. Lots of MutationObserver shenanigans for elements that get swapped out by SPAs.

See ya! Also my first open source project :)
by potsandpans | 2025-11-06 01:31:20+00:00
The guy in the video disagrees with you. From his other video, 23 mins in,

> next, rinse aids. use them. this isn't a scam.

I'll trust the dishwasher expert until there's some proper citations.

You have to realize that every time you sip a glass or eat off a surface that's provided by a commercial entity, you're getting items that have come in contact with industrial appliances that dispense rinse aid.

I have a difficult time believing that something so ubiquitous is as harmful as you claim, but I'm open to being convinced.