MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geon | 2025-11-04 12:08:21+00:00
The LLM architectures we have now have reached their full potential already, so going further would require something completely different. It isn’t a matter of refining the existing tech, whereas the internet of 1997 is virtually technologically identical to what we have today. The real change has been sociological, not technological.

To make a car analogy; the current LLMs are not the early cars, but the most refined horse drawn carriages. No matter how much money is poured into them, you won’t find the future there.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-04 12:08:37+00:00
That's what I tend to do. I give someone my app, don't say a thing, and see how they attack it.

I like to think that the discoverability of my apps is good, but I can be surprised.

Just a couple of days ago, I got a request for help from my own timer app[0], that surprised me. They did not understand that the pickers were pickers. That's because I modified their appearance, so they look more like buttons. I'm still not exactly sure how I'll deal with it, but it's definitely my problem.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ambiamara/id1448933389
by chimprich | 2025-11-04 12:09:00+00:00
I don't agree that LLMs can't reason reliably. If you give them a simple reasoning question, they can generally make a decent attempt at coming up with a solution. Complete howlers are rare from cutting-edge models. (If you disagree, give an example!)

Humans sometimes make mistakes in reasoning, too; sometimes they come up with conclusions that leave me completely bewildered (like somehow reasoning that the Earth is flat).

I think we can all agree that humans are significantly better and more consistently good at reasoning than even the best LLM models, but the argument that LLMs cannot reliably reason doesn't seem to match the evidence.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-04 12:09:20+00:00
It was even called cyberspace.

I feel like cyberspace was never meant to use your real name and identity. The entire point was that you were free from the constraints of the real world to be something else.

Cyberspace is still alive and well though at the individual level. The only social media I have is twitter with no followers and I have never posted anything. I don't cultivate any kind of online "brand" of my real world self. My twitter is basically an art machine that shows me wonderful works of art. Even the slightest mention of political nonsense, I block the sender no matter who it is.

Society is a lost cause in this regard but the individual can still enter cyberspace if they want to.

The real lost cause is even the word "simulation" is lost to a science fiction computer internet fantasy as opposed to the process of creating and sustaining simulacra like most people are spending their lives doing on social media.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-04 12:09:56+00:00
To be fair, the use of midazolam is ultimately up to your healthcare professionals. It's not required and may be skipped if they think it would be harmful (age or respiratory / nervous system health) or is unnecessary (no anxiety). It's almost always given as an IV drip 10-ish minutes before wheeling you around to the OR, which is how you'd recognize if you got it. It's just a very common practice to give it by default for most people under 65-ish.

You may also require either a higher baseline dose than expected, and an onset of acute anxiety can actually affect dosing too. Both totally normal!

Either way, it's best to speak with your doctor leading up to surgery if that experience was upsetting. There's lots that can be done for dosage, supplemental medication, etc. Your comfort is important!
by sudodevnull | 2025-11-04 12:10:05+00:00
hey Alex, I hope you are well. Datastar has had direct support for req/rep of HTML, JS, JSON while still morphing for a quite a while. They allow you to go as coarse as you want. Give the size and ability to choose what plugins you actually need seems like Datastar is more in line with your wants at this point. Strange times.
by areddyfd | 2025-11-04 12:10:10+00:00
Good question - Currently our approach to semantic layer creation is based on source data, interaction with the agent, and publishing workflows. We recompute the semantic layer every time a user takes an action that fits in those categories. We also plan to give the user the ability to be able to edit the semantic layer. Wrt to synced or uploaded source data, we plan to alert the users, when a change is detected. Additionally, we have been contemplating version controlled semantic layers to be able to provide the user the control as well, which would help in the scenario you have mentioned
by meetingthrower | 2025-11-04 12:10:20+00:00
Mag7 surely is self insured. They have an amazing risk pool of young people. Probably biggest cost is babies. So in this way employer sponsored health insurance screws the rest of the market, as it "hordes" the best risks. The insurance companies then wail about the cost of the risker pool of those of us stuck in the smaller plans...
by Yizahi | 2025-11-04 12:11:03+00:00
Alternative to the reject and request rewrite approach, which may not work in the corporation environment. You schedule a really long video call with the offending person, with the agenda politely describing that for such a huge and extensive change, a collaborative meeting is required. You then notify your lead that new huge task has arrived which will take X hours from you, so if he wishes to re-prioritize tasks, he is welcome. And then if the meeting happen, you literally go line by line, demanding that author explain them to you. And if explanation or a meeting are refused, you can reject RP with a clear explanation why.
by new23d | 2025-11-04 12:11:25+00:00
Our report seeks to answer some of our questions for seven of the most popular agentic code editors and plugins. By intercepting and analysing their network flows across a set of standardised tasks, we aim to gain insight into the behaviour, privacy implications, and telemetry patterns of these tools in real-world scenarios. Incidentally, a side-effect was running into OWASP LLM07:2025 System Prompt Leakage for three of the chosen coding agents. You can see the system prompts in the appendix.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-04 12:11:27+00:00
Well I remember the fun days of crossing borders before EU, ordering stuff from computer magazines from other countries, having to deal how to pay them across countries, and so forth.

I also happened to work in Switzerland, before they made cross-region agreements with EU, and it was lot of burecratic fun, explaining the situation regarding a Portuguese, living in France and working in Switzerland.
by roryirvine | 2025-11-04 12:11:36+00:00
It absolutely is. Enterprise plans allow an org-wide managed-settings.json to be imposed, which take precedence over user or project settings.

There's also a whole compliance API, allowing automated policy enforcement (see https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-team-and-enter...).

And then there's the growing field of 3rd party policy-as-code tooling available which can also do stuff like this.
by vibenex | 2025-11-04 12:11:48+00:00
That's the point! Money is just a symbolic intermediary for value.

"Content is the new Currency"

The traded asset is narrative. A party gives something tangible and in return gets visibility, context and social proof.

You're right in asking the evidence of value in such transactions and we're exploring just that.

In our case, the exchange stays simple, social media content in return for experiences or services. A business describes what they want to offer and people apply if they're interested. The business then chooses whom to invite. No matching algorithm or enforced pairing, entirely self-selected.

The café still spends milk and spice, but now the transaction feedback loop runs through social proofing, not accounting.

If visibility offsets material cost, is it measurable? Or just disguise it under a different incentive structure?
by pmarreck | 2025-11-04 12:12:20+00:00
"Working with AI is like being a mentor for a monkey pissing into its own mouth. Using agentic pipelines is doing the same, but now it's 5 monkeys pissing into each others' mouths in a Roman fountain kind of way."

Except it's worse than that because we'll all end up having to do it anyway, because the overall velocity of emitted working code will be faster, and productivity > all.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-11-04 12:13:40+00:00
The tool did it because the person asked it to.

The tool did it because this is what it was designed and trained to do --- at great expense and effort --- but somewahat less than successfully.

You can't have it both ways --- the tool can't be "intelligent" yet too stupid to understand it's own limitations.

If people ask the wrong questions, the "intelligent" response would be, "Sorry, I can't do that".

Maybe the problem here is that this "intelligent" tool is really as dumb as a rock. And it's only a matter of time until lawyers argue this point to a jury in court.
by Orygin | 2025-11-04 12:16:34+00:00
I mean, you already are "executing a binary coming from Muse groups server" if you downloaded Audacity from their website. How is an auto update mechanism a backdoor? You have to accept a modal for it to run the downloaded binary.

I guess it could be improved by using and verifying signatures, but it seems pretty on point for a standard windows software auto update feature
by golden-face | 2025-11-04 12:16:49+00:00
I am convinced MS has code in Windows which looks for de-bloating and then purposely slows things down. Or the code base has gotten to the point where things are so entangled that de-bloating leads to the slow down as every app tries to connect to telemetry or hook into Copilot and stumbles when the bloat is not there.
by eugengeist | 2025-11-04 12:17:35+00:00
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by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-04 12:18:10+00:00
China has between 5:1 and 10:1 advantage depending on asset class. If not already on standby, US interdiction is ~48 hours. For sure China is going to blast on all fronts, so cyber and grid interruptions combined with shock and awe are definitely gonna be a thing. It's not a great setup for Taiwan.
by huntercaron | 2025-11-04 12:18:41+00:00
> In 4.0, with the complexity savings we achieved by moving to fetch(), we can now comfortably fit a morphInner and morphOuter swap into core

It seems odd to me to treat these as different properties on their own? might as well keep it as an extension if it is not going to be more deeply integrated and let htmx 4.0 be smaller? Possible I may not be understanding the use case though
by JAlexoid | 2025-11-04 12:18:42+00:00
Apple and Qualcomm only use ARM ISA at this point.

And no, Apple and Qualcomm are the standard setters in ARM these days. Should they drop ARM for something else... ARM will be on the same trajectory where MIPS ended up.

RISC-V is just an ISA standard, the standard body is not a CPU designer in any shape or form.
by roenxi | 2025-11-04 12:19:05+00:00
> Being required to dispose of air filters in a landfill is not the reason why you can't afford a repair.

It is for someone - the market price is pretty much always going to be around the point where a small increase causes a noticeable drop-off in customers (otherwise the only sensible thing for the seller to do is charge more). If something causes even a relatively small increase in price will mean someone can't afford the thing any more.
by probably_wrong | 2025-11-04 12:19:16+00:00
> "(...) I’ve written stories and parts of my novels during breaks—fifteen minutes for coffee and then half an hour for lunch. (...) Most artists I know are like this. Finding time to make art while working another job, or taking care of loved ones."

Has anyone had success finding a way do this, but for drawing? I've been trying to make time for a small comic project and, while I do have plenty of fifteen-minutes breaks I could use, those breaks are usually in places where drawing is impractical (such as buses).
by caspar | 2025-11-04 12:19:41+00:00
Been using syncthing with keepass(X/XC) for probably half a decade now and it works great, especially since KeepassXC has a great built-in merge feature for the rare cases that you get conflicts from modifying your vault on different clients before they sync.

The only major point of friction with syncthing is that you should designate one almost-always-on device as "introducer" for every single one of your devices, so that it will tell all your devices whenever it learns about a new device. Otherwise whenever you gain a device (or reinstall etc) then you have to go to N devices to add your new device there.

Oh, and you can't use syncthing to replicate things between two dirs on the same computer - which isn't a big deal for the keepass usecase and arguably is more of a rsync+cron task anyway but good to be aware of.
by andrepd | 2025-11-04 12:20:12+00:00
The work of Piketty [0] and others shows that wealth inequality has surpassed pre-WWI historical maximums. The postwar "golden age of capitalism" has given way, from the 70s until today, to a neoliberal system that simply doesn't serve most people on the planet.

It's an unfortunate fact that significant change happens rarely without large convulsions, e.g. after a major war, because I don't see this being sustainable even medium-term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce... and subsequent
by kace91 | 2025-11-04 12:20:47+00:00
What do you dislike about cmd placement?

I feel the opposite, the near-thumb position for the most used modifier is a godsend vs pinky strain.

Ctrl in caps lock is debatably better but that key is arguably better used for esc in vim setups (or the harder to setup “ctrl if held, esc if tapped”).
by messe | 2025-11-04 12:21:16+00:00
I agree that focusing on Lorentz transformations is the wrong way to approach thinking about special relativity. But It might be the right way to teach it to physics students.

The issue is the level of mathematical sophistication one has when a certain concept is introduced. That often defines or at least heavily influences how one thinks about it forever.

The basics of special relativity came up in my first year of university, and the rest didn't really get focused on until my second year.

The first time around I was still encountering linear algebra and vector spaces, while for the second I was a lot more comfortable deriving things myself just given something like the Minkowski "inner product".

(As an aside: I really love abstract index notation for dealing with tensors)
by DrScientist | 2025-11-04 12:21:24+00:00
I'm trying to work out in my head if it helps the true challenge of programming - not writing the program in the first place, but maintaining it as requirements evolve.

The examples for functional programming benefits always seem to boil down to composable functions operating on lists of stuff where the shape has to be the same or you convert between shapes as you go.

It's very useful, but it's not a whole programme - unless you have some simple server side data processing pipeline - and I'd argue those aren't difficult program.

Programming get's difficult when you have to manage state - so I accept that parts that don't have to do that are therefore much simplier, however you have just moved the problem, not solved it.

And you say you've moved it to the edge of the program - that's fine with a simple in->function-> out, but in the case of a GUI isn't state is at the core of the program?

In that case isn't something with a central model that receives and emits events, easier to reason over and mutate?
by latexr | 2025-11-04 12:21:24+00:00
The vast majority of PRs are bad. They could even be described as “selfish” in the sense that the “contributor” is haphazardly making whatever change minimally fixes their exact use case without consideration for the project’s style, health, usability, or other users. This isn’t outright malicious or even deliberately inconsiderate, but it still has a negative effect.

Refusing such a PR (which, again, is most of them) is easy. But it is also time consuming if you don’t want to be rude. Everything you point out as inadequate is a chance for them to rebut or “fix” in a way which is again unsatisfactory, which only leads to more frustration and wasted time. The solution is to be specific about the project’s goals but vague about the code. Explain why you feel the change doesn‘t align with what you want for the project, but don’t critique specific lines.

There are, of course, exceptions. Even when I refuse a PR, if it’s clear it was from a novice with good intentions and making an effort to learn, I’ll still explain the issues at length so they can improve. If it’s someone who obviously used an LLM, didn’t understand anything about what they did and called it a day, I’ll still be polite in my rejection but I’ll also block them.

Ginger Bill (creator of Odin) talked about PRs on a podcast a while back and I found myself agreeing in full.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mbrLxAT_QI&t=3359s
Best low-cost lead tool?
by Farid_agha87 | 2025-11-04 12:22:01+00:00
Hi everyone, We’re an early-stage startup (building an AI HR & retention platform) and need a single affordable tool that can:

Find verified B2B leads (email / LinkedIn) by title + company size + region.

Send cold emails or LinkedIn outreach automatically.

Alert us when someone replies or books a call.

Work well with a small budget (< $100 / month if possible).

Which tools have you actually used that deliver well
by blibble | 2025-11-04 12:22:06+00:00
> Are they? I mean I wouldn't say they are strictly deterministic, but with a temperature and topk of 0 and topp of 1 you can at least get them to be deterministic if I'm correct.

the mathematics might be

but not on a GPU, because floating point numbers are an approximation, and their operations are not commutative

if the GPUs internal scheduler reorders the operations you will get a different outcome

remember GPUs were designed to render quake, where drawing pixels slightly off is imperceptible
by ben_w | 2025-11-04 12:22:11+00:00
Western economic history is 75% of businesses failing in the first 15 years, and the market still growing because the last 25% has outsized rewards.

More pertinently, we have a long history of people buying into bubbles only for them to crash hard, no matter how often people tell them "past performance is not a guarantee of future growth" or whatever the legally mandated phrase is for the supply of investment opportunities to the public where you live.

Sometimes the bubbles do useful things before they burst, like the railways. Sometimes the response to the burst creates a bunch of social safety nets, sometimes it leads to wars, sometimes both (e.g. Great Depression).
by bdangubic | 2025-11-04 12:22:14+00:00
keep in mind though that size of the organization/team/... matters greatly. I have been involved with tens of projects over the course of my career (3 decades) and have encountered numerous scenarios where the choice of languages/technologies/... is already made, company-wide. I have seen this especially in companies that do a lot of contracting work. If apps are built say on top of springboot services and angular front-ends and we have 200 developers that specifically learned and know those technologies (along with myriad of internal libraries etc built on top of those technologies) swapping people between the projects becomes a non-event (or even adding few bodies to meet deliverables).
by inbx0 | 2025-11-04 12:22:31+00:00
I don't have much experience in dedicated vector databases, I've only used pgvector, so pardon me if there's an obvious answer to this, but how do people do similarity search combined with other filters and pagination with separate vector DB? It's a pretty common use case at least in my circles.

For example, give me product listings that match the search term (by vector search), and are made by company X (copanies being a separate table). Sort by vector similarity of the search term and give me top 100?.

We have even largely moved away from ElasticSearch to Postgres where we can, because it's just so much easier to implement with new complex filters without needing to add those other tables' data to the index of e.g. "products" every time.

Edit: Ah I guess this is touched a bit in the article with "Pre- vs. Post-Filtering" - I guess you just do the same as with ElasticSearch, predict what you'll want to filter with, add all of that to metadata and keep it up to date.
by phplovesong | 2025-11-04 12:23:12+00:00
This is just wrong. If we skip the ultra rich totally and focus on normal families inheritance is THE way to help you decendants.

Right now (where i live) you pay a big tax on inheritance, this is ok if you only inherit cash. In 99% of inheritances this is not the case. You inherit family home, a cottage etc. Then you must sell because you cant afford to pay for it. Now the asset is gone forever and the next generation will most likely inherit nothing.

Its really hard to keep anything of value in the family because of this, that one house that was purchased for 60K is now somehow worth 600K (even it has all kinds of problems) and you need to take a loan just to keep it.

By taxing inheritance its sure that decendants that work basic jobs will forever be poor.
by u_sama | 2025-11-04 12:23:42+00:00
Counter-example: All the European, and world countries who have implemented the various inheritance, wealth taxes and heavy redistribution yet the inequality is still widening. Take France, Norway or Sweden as the ideal social democracies.

Argentina (the end game of social democracy) pre-Milei had a huge array of taxes and regulations which lead to the state misusing that money to actually enrich a small elite of politically aligned. Similar things and arrangements (under the form of subsidies to companies) will happen under Trump and levying more taxes will just give more opportunity for corruption.