MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isaacremuant | 2025-11-08 16:45:42+00:00
If you are not doing this same thing to every comment trying to remove my freedom, which then will call me some label for disagreeing with COVID policies or whatever then I can't really take any of the guidelines seriously. I was here when it was all about segregating the ones who disagreed from life, even denying healthcare while still forcing them to pay taxes.

We're way past fake politeness when the discourse is always pro war, pro xenophobia for certain acceptable targets (e.g. Russia), pro disparaging certain alleged ideologies/parties (e.g. US republican).

2020-2021 happened and there's been no apology. Till then, the biased moderation rings hollow.
by throwawaypath | 2025-11-08 16:45:51+00:00
>The bad actor part is e.g. shutting down review processes in his company when they contradict his beliefs

His company, his rules. He banned activist employees from using work as a platform to proselytize their grievance politics.

>In "As I remember London", he claimed Britain was a third native brit, then backed it up with a wikipedia link showing a third of London was white.

This is what happens when you only read posts on Bluesky/Mastodon. He claimed London was only a third "native Brit" which is the factual reality, backed up by Wikipedia. He didn't include "all Whites" just "White Brits." White Brits are the only native Brits to Britain.

>So in DHH's mind white = British.

Wrong. White Brit = native Brit, which is factually correct.

>There's no other way to interpret that

Correct, no other way to interpret the facts.

>and he hasn't corrected it.

"He hasn't removed the wrongthink!"
by singron | 2025-11-08 16:47:16+00:00
No. AIME is a test for advanced high schoolers that mostly tests higher level math concepts like algebra and combinatorics. The arithmetic required is basic. All the answers are 3-digit numbers so that judging is objective and automated while making guessing infeasible. You have 12 minutes on average for each question, so even if you are terribly slow at arithmetic, you should still be able to calculate the correct answer if you can perform all the other math.
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-08 16:47:41+00:00
I love your username. Offtopic,I have complicated thoughts about crypto but I would genuinely agree that for a normal person like crypto is just scam.

I just have money in usdc and I might like monero for privacy sometimes but I guess I am just using it as a bank account right now with usdc

I would personally like it if visa/stripe etc. middleman's could be cut preferably, its honestly insane how we still can't figure that issue of middleman taking cuts etc.

Maybe the issue isn't technological but regulatory

But overall I agree that crypto/ especially the web3 mostly is a scam.
by MangoToupe | 2025-11-08 16:47:49+00:00
Eh. I think the idea of journalism as a career or distinct field is less important with the advent of social media. People are either reliable or they aren't, and "journalist" was never a strong signal. And investigative journalism seems pretty dead in traditionally-reputable outlets; the good investigative journalism seems to be done by independent people and sold to publishers.

Even the people I like/trust at newspapers I prefer to consume via social media without passing through the editor.
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-08 16:48:41+00:00
I don't know if this is the official answer but if you've ever played DOOM and pressed Esc then you'll feel right at home using btop!

DOOM ==== :) NEW GAME OPTIONS LOAD GAME SAVE GAME QUIT

Compare with:

BTOP++ ==== v1.3.2 -> OPTIONS HELP QUIT

Apart from that, there are not other gaming mechanics.
by codazoda | 2025-11-08 16:49:06+00:00
Looks pretty nice. I could download and try it but one character I find missing, from the sample, is emdash. I wrote a lot of markdown and many programming typefaces get emdash wrong (it’s hard to tell from a regular dash).

Looks like I’ll have to install this to see if it’s the case here.

BTW, I find the screenshots for this font quite a bit more useful in evaluating it than any of the other fonts referenced in the HN comments here. These help you decide at a glance.
Show HN: Easily reduce GitHub Actions costs with Ubuntu-slim migration
by r4mimu | 2025-11-08 16:49:14+00:00
Hi, HN!

I've been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate. (Blog: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-1-vcpu-linux-runner...)

But manually checking which workflows can safely migrate is tedious—you need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, execution times, and missing commands.

So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates this. It scans your workflows, detects migration candidates, checks for incompatible patterns, identifies missing commands, and can safely update workflows with one command.

Try it: gh extension install fchimpan/gh-slimify gh slimfy # Scan workflows gh slimfy fix # Update safe jobs only

Open source (MIT). I'd love feedback on how to improve it or what edge cases I might have missed.
by lateforwork | 2025-11-08 16:49:15+00:00
The title of the article says "don't die of heart disease", but given that we all have to die at some point, if you could choose what natural cause to die of, wouldn't you pick heart disease? It is the best way to die. The worst is stroke. So once you cross a certain age, say 60, don't worry about heart disease, worry instead about stroke.
by bbor | 2025-11-08 16:49:23+00:00
I'm already quite put off by the title (it's science -- if you have a better benchmark, publish it!), but the contents aren't great either. It keeps citing numbers about "445 LLM benchmarks" without confirming whether any of the ones they deem insufficiently statistical are used by any of the major players. I've seen a lot of benchmarks, but maybe 20 are used regularly by large labs, max.

"For example, if a benchmark reuses questions from a calculator-free exam such as AIME," the study says, "numbers in each problem will have been chosen to facilitate basic arithmetic. Testing only on these problems would not predict performance on larger numbers, where LLMs struggle."

For a math-based critique, this seems to ignore a glaring problem: is it even possible to randomly sample all natural numbers? As another comment pointed out we wouldn't even want to ("LLMs can't accurately multiply 6-digit numbers" isn't something anyone cares about/expected them to do in the first place), but regardless: this seems like a vacuous critique dressed up in a costume of mathematical rigor.

At least some of those who design benchmark tests are aware of these concerns.

In related news, at least some scientists studying climate change are aware that their methods are imperfect. More at 11!

If anyone doubts my concerns and thinks this article is in good faith, just check out this site's "AI+ML" section: https://www.theregister.com/software/ai_ml/
by tonymet | 2025-11-08 16:49:31+00:00
Fabulous information, but lacking information isn’t the issue. The behavioral changes are obvious and well evangelized : lose weight, regular activity (walking), and if necessary, take meds. (Yes I know your marathon runner cousin who died suddenly of a heart attack, but these are still your best odds)

Telling people what to do rarely fixes anything. People need dozens of impressions for those changes to sink in. Friends, family, social outings, commercials, movies, songs all promoting overindulgence won’t be overcome with a helpful pamphlet or nagging.
by mouse_ | 2025-11-08 16:50:31+00:00
Windows 7 solved this problem, in 2009. I think we should just start over and do it like that... Or I guess we could embrace the sunk cost, in which case I'm certain people will still be malding about this in 2050, with blurry YouTube videos and screenshots that fuck up the frequency domain, breaking things like subpixel rendering. Actually, let's just deprecate subpixel rendering altogether to justify the path we've decided to make our whole personality. Oh and I forgot, can't have your favorite bitmap fonts anymore either, those are old!

Can't have shit in this house.
by beej71 | 2025-11-08 16:51:17+00:00
I also don't care what Jobs would have thought, but I do refuse to use forced advertising products, so...

Related to your second paragraph, I have a 2017 MBP that just end-of-lifed so we're gonna try Linux on that.

And the M line is fast. A pretty good computer for the money. That said, I hear getting Linux running on those platforms is troublesome and may be a path that Apple is actively fighting against. And if I can't install Linux, that makes the computer premature landfill fodder which pisses me off.

I love the Framework concept, but you'll pay for the privilege. Not sure what's next for me.
by dmitrygr | 2025-11-08 16:51:21+00:00
As an iOS user, I love this and you are free to hate me for it. It keeps my grandma safer from scams. This is why I bought her an iPhone.

I don't want to hear any of the usual "don't use sideloading if you don't like it". I don't want it to exist so nobody can talk my grandma into installing a fake bank app over the phone, like they did to her once when she had an android phone and stole all her money.

Yes this is not foolproof still, some scam apps might make it past notarization. Just like cover fees in clubs and gates in gated communities -- it does not keep all the riff-raff away, but it helps.
by whstl | 2025-11-08 16:51:37+00:00
Not GP but I can answer:

Rails apps can get very expensive server wise because the “IO is slow anyways” attitude means more servers will be needed to serve the same amount of requests. For a specific bad case I worked at, the cloud bill was the same cost of 15 senior developers. And it was an app without external users (I was actually responsible for the external parts of it, it was isolated and not in Rails).

Excessive abstraction at the ORM can also make it extremely difficult to optimize db queries, so each user request can trigger way more DB queries than necessary, and this will require more db power. I have seen this happening over and over due to abstraction layers such as Trailblazer, but anything that is too layered clean-code style will cause issues and requires constant observation. And refactoring is made difficult due to “magic”. Even LLMs might find it too much.

Another problem with the slowness is that it slows down local development too. The biggest test suite I ever saw took 2 hours to run in a 60-machine cluster, so 120 hours of CI. Impossible to run locally, so major refactoring was borderline impossible without a huge feedback cycle.

The solution for the slow development ends up being hiring more developers, of course, with each one responsible for a smaller part of the app. In other companies these kind of features I saw would be written by people over days, not by team over months.

The terseness of both Ruby and Rails is also IMO countered by the culture of turning 10-line methods into bigger classes and using methods and instance variables instead of local variables. So it also hurts both readability (because now you have 5x more lines than needed) but also hurts optimization and stresses the garbage collection. If you know this, you know. I have seen this in code from North+Latin American, European and Japanese companies, so it’s not isolated cases. If you don’t know I can provide examples.

I have seen this happening with other tech too, of course, but with Rails it happens much much faster IME.

It is also 100% preventable, of course, however a lot of advice on how to prevent these problems will clash with Ruby/Rails traditions and culture.

These are just examples out of personal experience, but definitely not isolated cases IMO.
by czl | 2025-11-08 16:52:18+00:00
> Our entire societal system is based on increasing revenue (due to inflation).

Yes that is capitalism however if inflation cuts value of money in half and in the same time your revenue doubles, did you actually double your revenue? Do you even need to change your service or product to justify raising prices when the currency is being devalued? For both these questions there is a strong case that the answer is no.
by skydhash | 2025-11-08 16:53:07+00:00
If you do that, then you intent to take advantage of the native framework (or a mature one like qt for some platform). They are really expansive and you can create an interface very quickly. You usually get animations, themability, navigation,… for free and you’re mostly arranging the layout and writing glue code.

Also, you usually get better tooling in regards to instrumentation and the like.
by Bender | 2025-11-08 16:53:09+00:00
It probably depends on the topics people are interacting with. I've spent the last few days teaching Grok how to manage iptables and nftables when all I wanted was to translate my u32 module rules into nftables and I was being lazy, something the provided translate scripts can not do. Grok would confidently give me an answer, I would say that is wrong and it would admit straight away it was wrong and would confidently give me another wrong answer and I would teach it the right answer after a bit of bumbling on my part. It feels worse than being an editor on serverfault but that's just the silly topics I play with. It could be that most topics it does fine but that has not been my experience thus far. At the end of the day I would have been better off just sticking with the man pages and tcpdump.
by web3-is-a-scam | 2025-11-08 16:53:17+00:00
Sure let’s just centralize hardware attestation to Microsoft’s cloud tied to a Microsoft account with keys you can’t change what could possibly go wrong?

This is all publicly documented by Microsoft you just need to translate their doublespeak.

Google is doing does the exact same thing and people were sounding the alarms when they did it but Microsoft gets a pass?

Use ChaGPT to outsource your critical thinking for you because I’m not gonna do it.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-11-08 16:53:25+00:00
The one thing about rich people is that they’re very greedy. But that greed often fuels economic activity. They don’t take the money their companies earn and hide it under a mattress, because inflation would make it lose value. Instead, they reinvest it, which either creates new jobs or expands the company’s assets.

Expanding assets can mean building new factories, ordering more raw materials, or entering new markets. Each of these steps involves third-party vendors: construction firms to build facilities, delivery companies to transport materials, mining companies to extract resources, suppliers, logistics providers, marketers, and contractors.

All of this spending creates jobs. Maybe not directly within their own company, but across the many other businesses that support their growth.
by triclops200 | 2025-11-08 16:54:51+00:00
That's funny, I implemented something similar for my stumpwm config (common lisp window manager). I created a matrix of themes for the WM, emacs, my terminal (kitty), Firefox, and my RGB light panels that change with time of day: day, late afternoon/evening, sunset/twilight, night, post-midnight, and then broken into multiple desktop variations as a way of visually knowing what virtual desktop I'm currently on. Stumpwm coordinates all of the themes for all the apps and synchronizes them with time and desktop and whatnot.

Really helps with circadian rhythm, I've found. Especially because I take a live webcam feed and convolve a hexagonal mask to match my light panel's layout, so it's like having a low res window from whatever webcam I would like. And, at sunset to night, it smoothly fades the light panels into a display that represents a angle compressed sky projection of the stars relative to a fixed location moon with live phase displayed.

Obligatory images:

The day themes: https://youtu.be/danulUB-J-k

Light panels: https://imgbox.com/MQfPNjtI <- sunset on the hex display

https://imgbox.com/qcrFxncU <- random cloudy day hex display

https://imgbox.com/EOFk63WZ <- a night still of the hex display
by tyami94 | 2025-11-08 16:56:29+00:00
I've looked into this fella before because he didn't pass the smell test. He's running a grift selling schlocky cell phones and cloud services. His videos are excessively clickbait-y and show minimal understanding of the actual tech, it's more or less concentrated disinformation and half-understood talking points. GrapheneOS devs also had something to say about him: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20165-response-to-dishonest...
by Spivak | 2025-11-08 16:57:04+00:00
Well if you have absolutely no stake then you're just playing with other people's money. If your entire stake is tied to the stock price then that's also bad for the known reasons. In a somewhat better governance model I would expect "the board" to reward / punish the CEO financially based on tangible growth metrics. This is how my current CEO gets paid at $dayjob.
by dangus | 2025-11-08 16:57:32+00:00
Teleportation is actually in the base game, just with only one mark and recall point, as you may know.

The mods I’ve seen add a selectable list and scale out how many locations you’re allowed to save based on your associated magic skill.

So it’s both a boon to quality of life and still relatively balanced and not too overpowered.
by Fabricio20 | 2025-11-08 16:57:41+00:00
Dropping windows 10 support is a really reasonable decision. The focus is on 11, it's been out for almost 5 years. I'm guessing they are close to releasing 12 at this point, maybe in a year or two. Supporting three entire fully fledged oses is quite alot of work. I also understand supporting newer hardware, they dropped 32bit on 11 and moved the instruction set up a bit. You gotta do a cutoff somewhere and I'm happy that they are at least allowing us to use the improved performance our modern CPUs have. I'm not happy with alot of stuff, but I get this at least.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-08 16:57:52+00:00
It isn’t whataboutism, I’m not deflecting. What I’m alluding to is that there is some moral crusade these days about women’s historical achievements that seems to have veered into conspiracy theorist tier paranoia lately. Men weren’t rubbing their hands and twirling their mustaches and stealing women’s inventions to keep them down, there were just more classical gender role norms back then. We can certainly tut tut at the social pressure to stay at home with children back then and how that did prevent some women from inventing things, or how men didn’t take women seriously in industry because that wasn’t their role in the classical role setup, but this notion that men are or were somehow out to get women is silly.

If anything though I think the real problem is actually being inverted. At the time when women began pushing or being pushed into industry and academia, why did we value industry and academia over what the women were doing at the time? Caring for children seems pretty important, and outsourcing that to under-resourced strangers and in many cases foreigners as we do today is quite odd when you think about it.
by wolttam | 2025-11-08 16:58:17+00:00
I'd like to see some video generation benchmarks. For example, one that tested a model's ability to generate POV footage of a humanoid form carrying out typical household tasks

Even if it requires human evaluators at first, and even if the models completely suck at this task right now: it seems like the kind of task you'd want them to be good at, if you want these models to eventually carry out these tasks in embodied forms in the real world.

Just having the benchmark in the first place is what gives model makers something to optimize for.
by tonymet | 2025-11-08 16:59:27+00:00
“Stress” is so abused and nebulous that it’s impossible to define. Nearly every condition is worsened by “stress” but there’s no way to measure it. And there’s no conclusive way to manage stress either. Medication, psychotropics, self medication, meditation. Nearly all of those are more broadly abused and yet stress “worsens”.

One person may run an intense soup kitchen 15 hours a day and feel little stress, and another can sit at a computer for 9 hours sending pointless emails and feel tremendous stress.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-08 17:00:50+00:00
I think the concern is something like the huge Entergy investment going on in Louisiana. Facebook basically cut a deal with them to build out all kinds of electrical load just for them. We also saw how committed Facebook was to the metaverse - they basically spent the GDP of a small nation, nothing came of it, fired a bunch of people, and moved on.

Entergy is not just going to sit around and take the L if the project doesn’t ultimately turn out to be a good long-term investment. They’re simply going to pass the cost on to their customers in the region (more so than they already plan to in the event of success). Meanwhile Louisiana taxpayers are footing the bill for all the subsidies going through these projects.

So yeah I agree it’s not quite as high risk because at least there’s some in infrastructural investment, but that’s not the kind of investment that is really needed in the region right now and having that extra capacity is not a good thing unfortunately.

To be clear I’m not really disagreeing with you. I’m just kind of bickering over the nuances lol
by somenameforme | 2025-11-08 17:01:17+00:00
This is one of those many issues that can be approached at a macro level. Don't think about this as an argument on the internet, but about the implications. Imagine there was compelling evidence for a environmental factor that might even possibly be controlled for. Do you realize how huge a deal this would be?

Every single parent wants the best for their kids and would do anything for this. We, socially, already spend an obscene amount of money on education and other factors meaning government support to try to turn this viability into a reality would be through the roof - including in endless support on promising research along these lines. And keep in mind this isn't only for black families - there's a significant IQ deficit between whites and East Asians as well, for instance.

But where are these exciting studies on the verge of revolutionizing society? They do not exist. It's kind of like cold fusion. The latest science and research on this topic doesn't really matter. People want to find it and have been searching for decades with promising leads that go nowhere. But if one day they do, you'll know, because it will be something that would have dramatic implications for all of humanity.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-08 17:02:30+00:00
> There’s a button for the hand brake now, it’s called the ‘electronic parking brake’. Nopeity nope nope. It’s called the oh-shit brake for a reason. I want to yank on that summabitch like my life depended on it, because — it might.

At best doing that will do absolutely nothing useful, as anyone who's accidentally driven off with it set will know. At worst it'll spin you, since the hand brakes only lock the rear wheels. This is used deliberately to perform a "handbrake turn", but if you're yanking it like your life depends on it you're turning a front impact with big crumple zones into a side impact.
by throwuxiytayq | 2025-11-08 17:02:47+00:00
But don't you find it convenient to be connected with products you might like based on your preferences? /s

VC-brained morons are literally incapable of not ruining the companies and products they get their hands on. I've been a soft proponent of a global ban on ads for as long as I can remember, and I've only become more convinced over the years that it is something we need to agree on and start enforcing as a society.

Ads are evil, the whole incentive structure is fucked, the "free" products are brainrot trash. It is time to cut off the limb before the infection spreads.