MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JackSlateur | 2025-11-23 13:57:19+00:00
Why do you need to clean your house every week/couple of weeks ? Why not clean only once a year ?

Keeping your infrastructure/code somehow uptodate ensures: - each time you have to upgrade, this is not a big deal - you have less breaking changes at each iteration, thus less work to do - when you must upgrade for some reasons, the step is, again, not so big - you are sure you own the infrastructure. That current people owns it (versus people who left the company 8 years ago) - you benefits from innovation (yes, there is) and/or performance improvements (yes, there is)

Keeping your stuff rotting in a dark room brings nothing good
by verall | 2025-11-23 13:58:01+00:00
Your point is clear, but Charli does a lot of production on her albums, so I'm not sure she's the one to make this point about. She's not a once in a lifetime producing genius like Sophie, but she doesn't claim to be. Yung Lean did not produce the sound that made him famous either.

I think in the modern day, due to Internet, access to DAWs, etc, a lot of pop stars actually do/did much more of their own writing and production, see Billie & Finneas or Chappel Roan. It's just much more accessible, there's lots of pretty faces on social media so to really break out, you either need some real connections or real chops.
by cess11 | 2025-11-23 13:58:18+00:00
The Jezero crater where the Perseverance rover has been roaming looks a lot like it was a lake and was expected to tell us whether Mars has held life. It was a good guess because the rover has found clay and organic molecules.

Human habitation on Mars is a pipe dream for oligarchs, most serious space people are more interested in extraterrestrial life and the history of the solar system.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-23 13:58:52+00:00
We really need a browser (or several) that aren't effectively controlled by private interests (such as corporations).

Basically they are used as spy-tools. Many anti-features are pushed into them - a simple example is the disable-right-click functionality. I do understand that some of this have a useful functionality (for instance during an exam on-campus-site, to restrict what the students may do), but I always hate that I need e. g. a browser extension just to disable this antifeature. That's a super-simple example; there are many more severe examples such as fingerprint spy-sniffing here.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-11-23 13:59:01+00:00
Zod is quite unpleasant to use, IME, an has some edge cases where you lose code comments.

From experience, we end up with a mix of both Zod and types and sometimes types that need to be converted to Zod. It's all quite verbose and janky.

I quite like the approach of Typia (uses build-time inline of JavaScript), but it's not compatible with all build chains and questions abound on its viability post Go refactor.
by xbaicai | 2025-11-23 13:59:03+00:00
Current market rates for high-end AI image generation:

Replicate (Flux Pro): $0.14/image Fal.ai (Flux Pro): $0.14/image Midjourney: $0.28/image (on basic plan) Us (Gemini 3 Pro): $0.04/image for 1K-2K, $0.12 for 4K That's 71% cheaper than the alternatives, for what we believe is technically superior output.

Gemini 3 Pro Image (released Nov 20, 2025) solves problems that have plagued AI image generation:

1. Text Actually Works

Generate logos with crisp, legible typography Create infographics with readable labels Render multi-language text correctly No more garbled characters or broken fonts 2. Google Search Grounding

Pulls real-time data for factual accuracy Generate weather maps with actual conditions Create charts with verified information Reduces hallucinations significantly 3. Native 4K Resolution

True 4096px output, not upscaled Print-quality results Professional texture detail Supports 1K, 2K, 4K natively 4. Multi-Object Consistency

Maintain consistency across 5+ people Blend 14+ objects in single composition Professional scene complexity Coherent group portraits 5. Studio-Level Physics Control

复制 Prompt: "Product shot, 85mm lens, f/1.4, golden hour lighting, color grade: warm cinematic, focus: foreground sharp" The model actually understands and applies these parameters correctly.
Show HN: Building a no-code browser automation system for OSINT
by purge12 | 2025-11-23 13:59:04+00:00
I have been working on a browser automation system for OSINT analysts. I took this up because the tools that exist today have a few problems:

1. They require a little more precise notions of what needs to be done by the system (like, go here, click here, then do this, then do that etc.)

2. To perform complex tasks, the few tools that exist, they need some knowledge of the system itself (like telling it to call a specific function or a class etc.)

My goal with this project (I call it `pyba`) was to abstract everything from the user's side. I have two "exploratory" modes built into it, these are for Depth First Search (wherein, it will pick one train of thought, and execute that in full, then revert), or Breadth First Search (where it executes multiple tangential plans in parallel).

All an analyst has to do is type out in words, everything they already know and can share, and what all they'd like to find out more. To ensure that there are no roadblocks in this journey, I also have hardcoded logins, which read your credentials from the environment and log you in to websites like gmail, facebook and instagram (so your credentials never go to the LLM).

And of course, you can use it for normal stuff as well (like tell it to scroll reels for you if you want)!

Test it out:

1. Install using `pip install py-browser-automation`

2. A simple sample code you can just plug and run:

```py from pyba import Engine

eng = Engine(openai_api_key="", use_logger=True, handle_dependencies=True)

output = eng.sync_run("go to hackernews and tell me what is the most upvoted post")

print(output) ```
by IcePic | 2025-11-23 14:00:45+00:00
How can we make programs this slow in 2025 when people have ssd and nvme drives, people have 12-24-64 threads in the cpus, memory that is lightning fast and still we wait for crap to load? How is it that noone creates pushback on applications being this bad in the first place? We get to read articles on how someone made something 10x faster, but seldom anyone complaining about it being 1/10th of decent speed to begin with.

I think it was MS Access 2.0 that had some text on the back about being up to 100x faster than the previous versions, and to me that reads as "old was crap as hell", but some marketing person thought that was a super quote to put on the packaging. Perhaps it works, perhaps not.
by mallets | 2025-11-23 14:01:30+00:00
Having kids is half the reason (or more) for such marriages, nothing completes the nuclear family picture quite like it. And not like it's easy for gay couples in accepting environments to have kids either, surrogacy is banned in most countries ("liberal" ones too, US is kind of an exception here) and adoption is nigh impossible. Some countries like Italy go as far as selectively making both illegal, but only for gay couples.

I would say many asian parents care very little about the partner, as long as they get their grandkids. A mix of that and "what would society think".
by ryanjshaw | 2025-11-23 14:01:51+00:00
Not all lies are equal. Marriage is a contract built on trust and commitment. When you have been lying about that specifically, you have defrauded someone.

You’ve stolen time and emotional energy from these people. They can never get those years back.

Your children have been deprived of seeing parents role modeling romantic love. They have built their entire world views based on your behavior towards your spouse, which incorporated subtle lies and deception.

The victims of your fraud now have to deal with second guessing which things you said might be true and which might be lies - you shatter everything they ever believed throughout the marriage. It is a horrendous thing to put people through.

So can I understand why they did it? Sure. But I will definitely judge them for their actions and not support them.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-23 14:01:56+00:00
There is always much path dependence in what becomes the business requirements, making the business requirements less than optimal to start with.

Then over time their is a type of entropy with all business processes.

If we don't figure out dynamic systems to handle this it is hard to see how we get a giant productivity boost across the economy.

There is also the problem that what percentage of people even have exposure to the concepts of dynamic systems? When I was in college, I distinctly remember thinking dynamic systems, "chaos theory", was some kind of fractal hippy pseudoscientific fraud best to ignore.

I think of how often I hear the average person use language from probability theory but never from dynamic systems.
by NotNerdz | 2025-11-23 14:02:52+00:00
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by michaelcampbell | 2025-11-23 14:03:10+00:00
> I mean, if you really know you code, you know it, there is no much value in reinforcing it in your head one more time via writing comprehensive commit messages - it’s a waste of time, imho.

I know the code...when I write it. But 2 weeks later all the context is gone, and that's just _for me_. For my colleagues who also have to be in that code, they don't even start with context.

I mean do what works for you, but understand the bulk of the work that this applies to is for >1 person shops with code bases too big to fit in ones head at all, much less for more than a day or so.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-23 14:04:21+00:00
Consider that the average CTO is about 50† and that roughly people expect to retire at 65 and die at 80.

If you can get away with one or zero overhauls of your infra during your tenure then that's probably a hell of a lot easier than every two to three years.

† https://www.zippia.com/chief-technology-officer-jobs/demogra...
by reactordev | 2025-11-23 14:04:26+00:00
Bet you wished we passed net neutrality and made these monopolies common carriers now don’t you? The moment you saw the state of the junction should have told you everything you need to know and I would do everything to get out of Xfinity. Starlink is a great choice if you don’t have hosting requirements. I empathize because there’s regions in the US that have one 1 provider. You’re kinda screwed.

Worst is Xfinity will do everything to blame it on you including charge you, the customer, for new cable lines and junction box. Rusted out splitters is also common.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-23 14:04:32+00:00
> At one job I was told explicitly I was hired mostly because the hiring manager liked my website - I wasn't the only one that passed the interview process and so my website was why I was chosen. He liked how minimalist it was.

I intentionally made my website very minimalistic, using only HTML and CSS. Also fully responsive using modern CSS layouts and even made everything composable, avoiding media queries for specific widths. Kind of an experiment, but very minimalistic. So what you write makes me think: "If only someone took a look at my website and had that mindset!!"

Well, I will keep my website, maybe one day it will amount to something.
by brabel | 2025-11-23 14:04:33+00:00
But I was talking about is that she believes there’s a hate of women, that they must fit some preconceived image… and what I see in real pop stars is the total opposite . They seem to do all they can to look scandalous and shocking. They mostly go for the hot female image but some don’t. Being good looking yes is an expectation but how does that have anything to do with hating women and patriarchy??
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-23 14:04:40+00:00
> since most authors seem to regard such text as unnecessarily harsh on their readers.

To push back on this, following convention is often the easy thing to do (so not something regarded versus defaulted to).

There's a literary history of form influencing story; there was even a story about a famous example of this on HN recently that discussed this year's Nobel laureate—who notably publishes long novels that play with punctuation conventions: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/against-high-brodernism/
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-23 14:06:00+00:00
One of the central points of the Mueller report is that they were organized and operated at a large scale, running major social media accounts and were infiltrating various fringe groups such as the Tea Party and BLM.

Though it's worth noting this was happening under Prigozhin's lead, and since he's fallen out of a window now, it's unclear what's become of his troll factories.
by FooBarBizBazz | 2025-11-23 14:07:10+00:00
IMO "seduce" has the negative connotation that you are somehow manipulating a "target", whereas "charisma" is more positive; it means your behavior attracts positive attention -- that people find you compelling and interesting, that they will want to follow your lead. (Granted, in concrete terms these may not always be so different -- but to say that is to accept a cynical frame.)

I understand "rizz" as entirely a short form of "charisma" with all the same connotations -- in which case I wouldn't focus it to "romantic interests" or to the goal of "ultimately seduce[ing] them" -- but it's possible that younger people use "rizz" differently than I use "charisma".

The word "charisma" is a little gendered. You are more likely to hear a man described as "charismatic" than a woman. A woman is more likely to be -- well, honestly, the word would probably just be "hot" (or "sexy" -- as used here for Garibaldi), which would place a lot more emphasis on appearance; though to focus more on behavioral aspects, one might hear (I'm reaching here) "effervescent" or "fascinating". I suppose "magnetic" is also an option, though that seems pretty gender-neutral to me.

The slang "game" you mention seems intermediate in connotation to me. The meaning is closer to "ability to seduce", but the connotation is not quite so negative. The implication is that "the game" is simply part of life, neither good nor bad; it is what it is.

Of course, the connotations of "rizz" or "charisma" are less sexual overall. Possibly some amount of what I'm calling "positive connotations" or "negative connotations" simply reflects that, and our society's Judeo-Christian negativity towards sex (which in "conservative" places forces LGBT people at least a little into the closet; and in "liberal" places survives primarily for straight men, the bastards).

Put another way, "charisma" or "rizz" is work-safe, indeed desirable in a CEO (and will likely be rewarded in most employees); whereas "seduction' is not work-safe.
by jb_briant | 2025-11-23 14:07:47+00:00
Not trolling but def not hanging out on HN as much as twitter. I'm in the gamedev circle and GenAI is the only concern, not LLM code. Despite games being a mix of art and code. I'm also in the solopreneur / build in public circle where everybody wants to vibe code the next SaaS.

From your feedback, GenAI makes obvious some important problems our society is facing. LLM result is technical, genAI result is emotional because despite being the same exact tools, one produces text and the other produces images.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-23 14:08:12+00:00
Actually, no, I applied at small to medium sized companies and also some startups. But these days they are thinking they must use the same processes as the big players, it seems.

I would actually prefer working in a startup again, where I can still influence technical implementation and guide things into good paths, compared to working as a tiny cog in a huge machinery of a big company. Of course, a lot depends on the team. It might be possible to be part of a great team in a big company, that is in charge of some aspect of the whole, and having more influence over how things are done there.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-23 14:09:16+00:00
Is that intended as a correction? If so, I said "daytime TV -ish". I meant the initial vibe was similar to the lighthearted fare the BBC and other channels put out during the day at that time, albeit with jokey "spooky" trappings, despite its post-watershed airing. I know it was on late, I watched it "live".

The fact that they were investigating night time paranormal activity even gave them an excuse for airing such seemingly kid-friendly stuff so late in the evening. A lot of parents let their kids stay up for it, including mine.

Shat me right up it did.
by tauchunfall | 2025-11-23 14:09:22+00:00
I worked on a product that used BPMN where users could define processes. The company I worked for used Java for decades already. Clients of the product were banks.

The people I worked with were not specifically HN audience. Rather in the Java bubble in Germany-Austria-Switzerland which is also surprisingly a small world. If BPMN is not really needed, then I would also not use it nowadays. It increases complexity, and who knows if it makes project communication better at all.

Update: On the Camunda website there are 60 case-studies of customers/clients using BPMN, https://camunda.com/case-studies/. One of them has the teaser: "The 10th largest US Bank created an omnichannel onboarding platform that handles 12m process instances per year across 100 workflows". Now I have something to read for this Sunday evening.
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-23 14:09:23+00:00
The two solar powered ones are decommissioned, both mostly because of diminishing power but one got stuck first. Away from the equator solar power is less effective right? And it's colder, which exacerbates a serious problem: most the energy goes to heating the main components.

The nuclear rovers are doing their assigned missions, and can go about 100m/day IIRC. So, 5000km trek to the pole would take about 50,000 days at 10d/km. Give or take a few thousand km. (It's a whole planet right?)

This is all Wikipedia level research and from memory.
by fakedang | 2025-11-23 14:09:44+00:00
Because it's the great nation of India, where harassment and dowry cases and custody laws swing hard in favor of the wife. Which has resulted in the worst of both worlds - poor women who won't even see a the light of day in front of a courthouse, never mind inside it, continue to be oppressed by their husbands, while wealthy women tired of their marriages hire ever-more-eager lawyers and slap false dowry cases on their ex-husbands.

A guy, Atul Subhash, recently (about a year ago) committed suicide because his ex-wife and her family slapped false dowry cases against him and his extremely aged parents. Another case, a woman named Jasleen Kaur falsely accused a guy of sexual harassment, because they had a minor argument on the street. That case took 4 years, and in the meantime, Jasleen went to Canada to study, received the then Chief Minister's support and never appeared in court even once. Meanwhile the guy, Savjit, was arrested, had to post bail, was called "National Predator" and "Delhi's Pervert" on mainstream media, and received zilch for all the harassment he received. After he was acquitted, he pressed criminal charges against Jasleen and her family for false accusations, but the courts threw that case away because apparently "loss of reputation" isn't enough to press charges.

All of this in a backdrop where poor women are raped, sometimes even murdered, every single minute, while actual rapists walk free and often even freely contest and win elections on the current ruling party's ticket. Yeah, India is super fucked.
by bad_haircut72 | 2025-11-23 14:10:07+00:00
For you and anyone else reading this I recommend the book "the designer relationship" - its actually about polyamory but I think it does a great job solidifying the concept that really, a relationship between two people can be basically whatever they want it to be, not defined by social norms. What comes first is open and honest communication and negotating through hard conversations to find a way of mutually meeting everyones needs

FWIW my wife is bi and dates women, not that really ever bothered me but in no way has it ever been more damaging to our marriage beyond basic scheduling conflicts. I will admit I would have had a much harder time opening up to her being with other men though. Im lucky that she has never fallen in love and wanted to run away with one of em I guess, but partly thats because our marriage is otherwise great and shes already free to explore her gay side so why would she want to leave?

https://www.amazon.com/Designer-Relationships-Monogamy-Polya...
by api | 2025-11-23 14:10:35+00:00
I think there’s a difference between something just being a bit addicting and scientifically optimizing something to be addicting. Differences in magnitude do matter because there are thresholds in almost everything where a thing becomes harmful.

Coca leaves can be chewed as a stimulant and it’s relatively harmless, though a bit addictive. Extract cocaine and snort it and it’s a lot more addictive. Turn it into freebase crack and it hits even harder and is even more addictive.

If this is coca leaves, Twitter is cocaine and TikTok is crack.
by sandblast | 2025-11-23 14:10:50+00:00
> I am not sure I run a single piece of software where this is done.

And yet you run it. Have you vibe-checked every such software? Did that bring you enough information about individuals creating it? If not, if there are no readily available signs, have you vetted their own, private beliefs otherwise — in order to ensure they don't clash with your own?

What if Linus Torvalds turned out to be secretly a Nazi pedophile for the whole time? Would that make you stop using Linux?
by ktallett | 2025-11-23 14:10:54+00:00
It will only get worse whilst costs are not regulated of essentials such as housing, food, utilities, and public transport. The rich need to be taxed on all UK based assets and income no matter where you live and we need to restrict profit and pricing accordingly. We can't keep being held hostage by those who wish to increase their bank balance year on year. Now we have no incentive right now as those who are in government make far too much from the status quo. We need to remove this current governmental style by removing the option to have multiple jobs and remove the ability to be given cash or any benefits from private companies whilst working for the public. Capitalism is failing the vast majority and we need to realise that.