MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dcchambers | 2025-11-13 19:55:50+00:00
I feel like the stars are all aligned for Linux-on-the-Desktop right now.

- Windows 11 forced-AI integrations and telemetry. Many "old" devices are incompatible - Windows 10 is officially end-of-life - MacOS 26 looks and feels like a toy operating system. Performance issues and bugs continue to pile up and undo the incredible work that Apple hardware teams have done the past decade. - Omarchy Linux has some substantial hype in the developer world. - Valve continuing to make Linux a first-class OS for gaming and is pushing forward ease-of-use. - New hardware from Valve looks to be a great entryway into PC Gaming/Linux for outsiders. - Framework is becoming more mainstream and has great options at all price points.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-13 19:55:52+00:00
There are too many threads, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919651. I don't see why we got here from PGP though.

> I think I'm missing something, how does asking for their public key improve security or verify their identity?

OK, so this was the question. My response should have been "it does not necessarily verify their identity". I mentioned some of the mechanisms for identity verification in the other thread.
by philcrocket | 2025-11-13 19:56:13+00:00
As others mentioned, unfortunately the last bill allowed for some large loopholes and emboldened underground growers (also due to more lax state laws) to grow and flood the market with sub-par or even poisonous product. It’d a billion dollar market that state actors and cartels alike are using to launder money (and ruin lives). Very informative video on this: https://youtu.be/3qC4c-zNxTg?si=oy4ab6kuo27fJqcx
by falcor84 | 2025-11-13 19:56:16+00:00
I personally am extremely impressed about it reaching 15% on unseen environments. Note that just this year, we were surprised that LLMs became capable of making any progress whatsoever in GBA Pokemon games (that have significantly simpler worlds and control schemes).

As for "true intelligence" - I honestly don't think that there is such a thing. We humans have brains that are wired based on our ancestors evolving for billions of years "in every possible environment", and then with that in place, each individual human still needs quite a few years of statistical learning (and guided learning) to be able to function independently.

Obviously I'm not claiming that SIMA 2 is as intelligent as a human, or even that it's on the way there, but based on recent progress, I would be very surprised if we don't see humanoid robots using a approaches inspired by this navigate our streets in a decade or so.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-13 19:56:28+00:00
Take great offense at being called a bot, especially considering any glance can spot my numerous typos. And the weakness of your search capability: that quote is from a discussion of Ev’s following the pub of this paper

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/

And btw, that’s not a blanket statement that’s an empirical statement that wipes away quite a bit of LLM relevance. I’d say it destroys the approach.

Do the research. And an apology is in good order.
by mmoustafa | 2025-11-13 19:56:32+00:00
We do not live in a democracy, we live in a representative democracy. The founders simply had no option, you had to pick a person, put them in a carriage, and send them to the capitol to do your bidding (also why electoral college exists for reporting votes, but I digress).

I always wonder what they would’ve created if everyone had a device in their pocket to send their preferences directly to the capitol at the speed of light.
by laacz | 2025-11-13 19:56:46+00:00
Though I'm still pissed at Kagi about their collaboration with Yandex, this particular kind of fight against AI slop has always striked me as a bit of Don Quixote vs windmill.

AI slop eventually will get as good as your average blogger. Even now if you put an effort into prompting and context building, you can achieve 100% human like results.

I am terrified of AI generated content taking over and consuming search engines. But this tagging is more a fight against bad writing [by/with AI]. This is not solving the problem.

Yes, now it's possible somehow to distinguish AI slop from normal writing often times by just looking at it, but I am sure that there is a lot of content which is generated by AI but indistinguishable from one written by mere human.

Aso - are we 100% sure that we're not indirectly helping AI and people using it to slopify internet by helping them understand what is actually good slop and what is bad? :)

We're in for a lot of false positives as well.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-11-13 19:56:53+00:00
> Computer Science

do we really have to retread this? unless you are employed by a university to perform research (or another research organization), you are not a computer scientist or a mathematician or anything else of that sort. no more so than an accountant is an economist or a carpenter is an architect.

> The article you are complaining about starts from the presumption that software

reread my comment - at no point did i complain about the article. i'm complaining that SWEs have overinflated senses of self which compel them to write such articles.
by saulpw | 2025-11-13 19:57:07+00:00
Some people like Peter Norvig prefer top-down, hackers like me and you prefer bottom-up. Many problems can be solved either way. But for some problems, if you use the wrong approach, you're gonna have a bad time. See Ron Jeffries' attempt to solve sudoku.

The top-down (mathematical) approach can also fail, in cases where there's not an existing math solution, or when a perfectly spherical cow isn't an adequate representation of reality. See Minix vs Linux, or OSI vs TCP/IP.
by nrclark | 2025-11-13 19:57:10+00:00
I think that a lot of companies stepped back from the GPL when GPLv3 was announced, because it puts some pretty severe restrictions on how you can productize.

The tl;dr is that for any GPLv3 software that you ship, you have to also give your users a way to install a modified copy. If you're trying to ship a secured product, that basically means that you have to give code/rootfs signing keys to your customers. This is a non-starter for many kinds of products that need tamper protection (whether for product, legal, or safety reasons).

The Linux kernel remains on GPLv2, and is still used quite heavily. Most GNU software (coreutils, gcc, etc) moved to GPLv3 and then commercial companies abandoned them in favor of permissively-licensed replacements.
by hattmall | 2025-11-13 19:57:43+00:00
I think that's a very idealistic idea. The reality is that some people / land area are simply far more important than others. It's not to say that the individual themselves is more meaningful as a matter of state, but there positioning, role in society etc simply carries more raw value than others.

The US is huge and you have a major divide from the producers and the benefiters, the most critical components of the US don't require large populations centers. Mainly your food production, natural resource extraction, and logistical operations are what allows the entire rest of the country to function.

You absolutely have to offer some level of appeasement that outsizes their population representation to the people who support everyone else.
by schmichael | 2025-11-13 19:57:51+00:00
> Really, setting the interval balances speed of detection/cost of slow detection vs cost of reacting to a momentary interruption.

Another option is dynamically adjusting heartbeat interval based on cluster-size to ensure processing heartbeats has a fixed cost. That's what Nomad does and in my 10 year fuzzy memory heartbeating has never caused resource constraints on the schedulers: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/configuration/ser... For reference clusters are commonly over 10k nodes and to my knowledge peak between 20k-30k. At least if anyone is running Nomad larger than that I'd love to hear from them!

That being said the default of 50/s is probably too low, and the liveness tradeoff we force on users is probably not articulated clearly enough.

As an off-the-shelf scheduler we can't encode liveness costs for our users unfortunately, but we try to offer the right knobs to adjust it including per-workload parameters for what to do when heartbeats fail: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/job-specification...

(Disclaimer: I'm on the Nomad team)
by echelon | 2025-11-13 19:58:15+00:00
The author went to great lengths about open source early on. I wonder if they'll cover the QwenEdit ecosystem.

I'm exceptionally excited about Chinese editing models. They're getting closer and closer to NanoBanana in terms of robustness, and they're open source. This means you can supply masks and kernels and do advanced image operations, integrate them into visual UIs, etc.

You can even fine tune them and create LoRAs that will do the style transferring tasks that Nano Banana falls flat on.

I don't like how closed the frontier US models are, and I hope the Chinese kick our asses.

That said, I love how easy it'll be to distill Nano Banana into a new model. You can pluck training data right out of it: ((any image, any instruction) -> completion) tuples.
by drumsmaster | 2025-11-13 19:58:23+00:00
1. Most importantly, the type of personality testing you are implementing (4-letter types with 16 total) has no academical backing. As far as I understand, of all personality models only Big5 has been validated to some extent, everything else has not been proven as accurate at all.

2. As with most of similar tests, there is no value or insights in the test's results. I haven't gotten anything beyond what I already knew about myself. It asked me whether I liked to be a center of a party, I said no, and the test binned me to introverts. Thanks, but that is too obvious.

3. There are 9 ad blocks on the main page. The top one covers half of the page and stays up when I scroll. This is overwhelming.

4. All texts on the website are generic and most likely ai-written.

5. There is no info on who created the website. These days I feel that I don't trust anything which does not have an author stamp on it. I want to know that there is an actual person who put effort into what I am using.
by gspencley | 2025-11-13 19:58:26+00:00
> But the design clearly is not fit for where our society is or the direction it is moving, people have much more affiliation with the national entity than with the state entity

For better or worse.

I would argue that government serves you much better the closer it is to you. A municipal government is going to be a lot more responsive to people who live in that city vs the State / Provincial level, who have a much broader constituency. And the State / Provincial level is going to be a lot more responsive to its constituency than the Federal level.

Politics is the direct result of the philosophy of a culture. The more culturally people identify as "American" instead of "Californian", "Texan", "Virginian" etc. the more you're going to see the scope of the federal level expand, because that's what "the people" are asking for.

The problem with democracy is that people don't always vote or act in accordance with their objective best interests.

And not to go off on a tangent, but the cultural attitude towards democracy itself is indicative of my point. Culturally people tend to equate democracy with "freedom" even though democracy is but a tool. A perfectly appropriate tool for certain things (should we spend the city budget on a new sporting stadium or upgrades to our roads?). But there are other matters that should never, under any circumstance, be put to a vote (ex: what groups of people have rights).
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-13 19:58:43+00:00
> Imagine having to tell voters that the government is going to spend 11b (Waymo funding since 2020) on automating an entire profession away, good luck winning your next election.

So what, NASA spent billions on the new space race, with everyone knowing the true aim was to kick Boeing's ass and Boeing being widely known as a pork distributor first and foremost and rocket/plane manufacturer second.

The job of politicians isn't to cater to the whims of reactionaries, the job of politicians is to do the right thing and sell it to the voter base.
by railing | 2025-11-13 19:59:26+00:00
Any plans to leverage 3D at all in the interface?

was floored by the "explode all layers in the user interface and simulate a 3D camera rotating around them" graphic when i first saw it !

3D is always difficult to get right, but felt it had some really cute possibilities,

any way to open this up so devs can try things out?? < 3
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-13 19:59:38+00:00
The problem is too much centralization of power in the federal government, when the entire purpose of the constitution was supposed to be to LIMIT the power of the federal government so that states could mostly govern themselves.

California should make it's own laws, Montana should make it's own laws - and the federal government should set out the rules on how they talk to each-other.

States Rights are supposed to be the protection against political-party and legislator capture at the federal level.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-13 20:00:08+00:00
Not every Dev is a UNIX developer, for some reason this misunderstanding keeps being repeated.

Proton is a betting on the wrong horse, until Microsoft decides to put an end to it, in whatever way they feel like it. They own Windows, and are one of the biggest publishers in the industry, when grouping all studios they own.

Apple margins are too much for economies not on the same level as USA.

I do agree with devices being returned, this happened quite often with netbooks.
by calquedev | 2025-11-13 20:01:07+00:00
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We built it because we’ve repeatedly spent the first 3–8 hours of every project on things that don’t actually matter—configs, boilerplate, and deploy scripts. Calque removes that friction so you can start building what matters.

We’d love HN’s feedback: what would make this genuinely useful for you?

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by bloppe | 2025-11-13 20:01:22+00:00
Of course you don't have to agree on everything, but the whole point of joining a party is to coordinate action to maximize power. Whether you agree with the party policies doesn't matter if you vote for them anyway to gain political currency with your party that you can hopefully spend later on your own priorities.

That said, I guess the Alaska legislature is a lot more balanced than I assumed. If the single subject rule works there, bravo. Congress is a different beast, though.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 20:01:34+00:00
In very real ways, the median American is richer today than throughout history.

But in some ways we are clearly worse off, and going downhill. The cost of housing is one of the most important of those.

Unfortunately both sides blame each other. While neither side takes action on the thing that is important - building more housing. If your population grows and your housing doesn't, the cost of housing must go up.

While there is growing support for "yes in my backyard", overall we're headed the wrong way. We have not enough housing, and we are not building it as fast as demand is growing. We have thickets of regulations that make building housing very difficult. And little appetite for fixing that. Even in cases that desperately need it - such as to rebuild properties that were destroyed in California fires early this year.
by arjie | 2025-11-13 20:01:36+00:00
I didn't mean "from that era". I meant literally "from that day". As in, the day the Apple iPad was announced https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPad...

The announcement post had a bunch of unhinged comments about how it was a garbage product.

Ah ha, this was hard to find, but here's a post from that day: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/auw6b/the_ipad_...

Haha, this is great. And you can tell that with 2400 points that was going to be at the tippy-top of things considering most days the top few posts have under 1k points back then on reddit.com https://web.archive.org/web/20100202213044/http://www.reddit...

I knew I remembered it right! The comments are artwork. Explaining how it would be so much better if it had a lid and a keyboard. Oh my sides. I looooooove it.
by johaugum | 2025-11-13 20:01:37+00:00
Can confirm, has been flawless for me. I waited until 2 weeks after release to upgrade, possible I avoided some initial friction that way.

The only device I’ve found more sluggish after this recent OS upgrade is my Apple Watch Ultra (gen 1).

Animations when navigating the OS are noticeably sluggish where the previous version was smooth as butter. This degradation has persisted through multiple minor version updates since, so it seems to be permanent.

Disappointing for what is marketed as the most powerful watch in their lineup.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 20:02:01+00:00
Intended to, but due to the Permanent Apportionment Act, does not do so in actuality.

Congress is currently structured so that both chambers provide outsized representation to lower population states. With how the electoral college works, this also provides them with outsized representation in presidential selection, as well.

If it was reasonable to argue that the House should not invest so much power into higher population states, then it is reasonable to argue that the Senate should not invest so much power into lower population states as well.
Show HN: Chat with Orion – a visual agent that sees, reasons and acts
by fzysingularity | 2025-11-13 20:02:11+00:00
Hey HN! We’re excited to share Orion [1] — our new visual agent that sees, reasons, and acts across images, videos, and documents.

Frontier VLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini) can describe what they see, but they can’t reliably act on visual inputs. Ask them to detect objects, segment images, or chain visual steps — they’ll fail in surprisingly inconsistent ways. High-res images collapse to ~1024px. And the visual AI ecosystem is fragmented across separate APIs for image understanding, OCR, image-gen, video-gen, etc.

We built Orion to fix this.

Orion combines VLM reasoning with reliable computer-vision tools inside a unified chat-completions interface. You can chain visual steps, inspect results, and treat visual tasks the same way you treat text workflows. Here’s a quick demo [2].

What Orion can do today: - Detect objects, faces, people (with precise, visualized boxes) - Segment objects or salient regions interactively - Edit, remix, and re-imagine images/videos from prompts - Summarize visual content (images or videos) - Transform images: crop, rotate, upscale - Transform videos: trim, sample, highlight scenes - Parse and structure documents: pagination, layout, OCR, extraction

One unified “chat-completions”-like interface — no juggling multiple vision APIs. Check out the tours in the chat [3] or read the announcement [4].

API access opens next week. Happy to answer any questions — otherwise, feel free to try the tours and break things!

[1] Learn more about Orion: https://vlm.run/orion

[2] Promo video: https://youtu.be/cPJN4iZz6QQ

[3] Chat: https://chat.vlm.run

[4] LinkedIn announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sudeeppillai_ai-computervisio...
by rdtsc | 2025-11-13 20:02:30+00:00
The patent system for software is garbage, but it also doesn't seem to jive with the title. They don't claim to invent continued fractions, what they patent is applying them to some domain.

https://patents.justia.com/patent/20230401438#history

> A method, a neural network, and a computer program product are provided that provide training of neural networks with continued fractions architectures.

It's a bit like the propelling device https://patents.google.com/patent/US1331952A/en -- it doesn't invent or patent shoes, or invent or patent springs, but it patents attaching springs to shoes.

It would seem using continued fractions with elliptic curves what the author wants to do, wouldn't be covered.

However, I still think it can still be challenged if someone can show that continued fractions have been used in with NN before. Or even better, maybe pytorch or other open source projects can explicitly reject crap that's patented. If you put your shit in a junk patent, take it out of the project and enjoy yourself, don't spread it around. So, if the authors of the patent are the ones pushing for the inclusion, then someone should challenge that and have it removed unless the patent is withdrawn.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-13 20:02:31+00:00
Microsoft hasn't announced the next Xbox yet. They've been promoting the Xbox-branded ROG Ally this cycle, which is just a Windows PC in a tiny package, but that's not the next console, just a current generation SteamDeck competitor.

They've been implying there will be a greater convergence in which Windows devices feel (play) like an Xbox, but they've been saying the same things since initiatives like Xbox Play Anywhere originally launched in 2016 (almost a decade ago!), which didn't result in the Xbox Series X being a PC in 2020 (despite similar speculation that it might be at the time).

It will be interesting to see where Xbox is planning to go, but so far most of the speculation is just reading (decade old) tea leaves.
by hattmall | 2025-11-13 20:03:12+00:00
Is it not obvious why this is the case. If rural dwellers are cut off from the outputs of a city their lives are mostly unchanged and not impacted. If the city dwellers are cut off from the output of rural areas their existence is wildly constrained. How much food / energy / and raw materials do cities typically produce? Obviously there has to be a balance but you have to look at it logically and recognize that one is far more critical than the other.
by ryanmerket | 2025-11-13 20:03:17+00:00
Man I love this, but this isn't a business. Facebook, Reddit, et al will almost certainly C&D you and eventually sue you for violating their policies.

"Facebook does not have a specific policy against Greasemonkey like extensions by name, but it has banned users for creating or using scripts that interfere with Facebook's functionality, which can include those made with Greasemonkey. Such actions are against Facebook's terms of service, which prohibit anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of the site.

Interfering with site functionality: Scripts, including Greasemonkey scripts, that alter how Facebook's pages load or work can be seen as a violation of the terms of service, which can lead to account suspension or banning. Examples of banned scripts: A specific example is the ban of the creator of the FB Purity add-on, which was a Greasemonkey script used to customize Facebook, say The Next Web."