MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-08 12:10:23+00:00
Just in case you unironically don't understand this and aren't just playing it up:

Allowing third party installations does not mean uncontrolled third party apps. It merely means users have to option to install software on their phones - which continues to limit the softwares capabilities until the user was prompted to allow each.

You could argue "but a braindead person can randomly go on a phishing website, randomly download some .app file and suddenly - through magic go through a theoretical installation dialog to finally explicitly grant this malware problematic permissions... And I'm sure there are going to be people that will do exactly that... But without it, they'll still manage to do the same to the same effect, just without the app installation by inputting their bank credentials in a phishing site or similar

The thing your citing as a problem solved by disallowing app installs isn't actually solved - and it would not become more problematic either.

Finally, the fact of the matter remains that almost nobody would actually use the capability to install from third party stores, as you've correctly insinuated. But if anything, that should be another proof that allowing third party installs doesn't reduce security.

People just like to have everything provided to them from a single source, and will usually pay a premium for that.
by abc123abc123 | 2025-11-08 12:12:24+00:00
Stay away from the Angel investor game unless:

1. You're extremely rich. 2. You see it as a learning opportunity or you enjoy helping, without thought of financial reward.

What will happen, at the slightest whiff of success, is that professional investors and VC will swoop in at a moments notice, and dilute you to pieces.

In the end, you will have paid for the company while it was small, to get it started, and then the VC:s will snatch it away by diluting you. Hence nr 1 above, but be prepared to spend!
by lossyalgo | 2025-11-08 12:13:06+00:00
Sorry I didn't meant to discount your argument. I don't think SERPs are a valid comparison, AI is for me an apples vs. oranges comparison, or rather rocks vs. turtles :)

btw your linked article/study doesn't support your argument - SERPs are definitely stealing clicks (just not nearly as many as AI):

> In other words, it looks like the featured snippet is stealing clicks from the #1 ranking result.

I should maybe clarify: I have been using LLMs since the day they arrived on the scene and I have a love/hate relationship with them. I do use summaries sometimes, but I generally still prefer to just at least skim TFA unless it's something where I don't care about perfect accuracy. BTW did you click on that imgur link? It's pretty damning - the AI summary you get depends entirely on how you phrase your query!

> Yes, it might not be 100% accurate, but based on my own experience, it is reliable for the vast majority of use cases. Certainly beats hunting for what I need in an arbitrarily ordered list and visiting hostile web sites.

What does "vast majority" mean? 9 out of 10? Did/do you double-check the accuracy regularly? Or did you stop verifying after reaching the consensus that X/Y were accurate enough? I can imagine as a tech-savvy individual, that you still verify from time to time and remain skeptical but think of 99% of the users who don't care/won't bother - who just assume AI summaries are fact. That's where the crux of my issue lies: they are selling AI output as fact, when in fact, it's query-dependent, which is just insane. This will (or surely has) cost plenty of people dearly. Sure, reading a summary of the daily news is probably not gonna hurt anyone, but I can imagine people have/will get into trouble believing a summary for some queries e.g. renter rights - which I did recently (combination summaries + paid LLMs), and almost believed it until I double-checked with a friend who works in this area who then pointed out a few minor but critical mistakes, which then saved my ass from signing some bad paperwork. I'm pretty sure AI summaries are still just inaccurate, non-deterministic LLMs with some special sauce to make them slightly less sketchy.

> Those are issues that plague conversational UIs, and long context windows. "AI" summaries answer a single query and the context is volatile.

Just open that imgur link. Or try it for yourself. Or maybe you are just good at prompting/querying and get better results.

> So the web will survive this specific feature. Website authors should be more preoccupied with providing better content than with search engines stealing their traffic.

I agree the web will survive in some form or other, but as my Register link shows (with MANY linked studies), it already IS killing web traffic to a great degree because 99% of users believe the summaries. I really hope you are right, and the web is able to weather this onslaught.
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-08 12:13:16+00:00
Then call out the ones you know for a fact are assholes and racists, and stop adding to the problem by whitewashing and excusing and carrying their water.

I personally know LOTS of brilliant people in the bay area tech scene who are not assholes, and are wonderful kind people, so if you only know assholes, you're hanging out with and licking the boots of the wrong people, and that's your problem, and you should re-think who your friends and heros are.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-11-08 12:14:06+00:00
The best performance on GSM8K is currently at 0.973, so less than perfect [1]. Given that GSM8K is a grade school math question data set, and the leading LLMs still don't get all answers correctly it's safe to assume that they won't get all high school questions' answers correctly either, since those are going to be harder than grade school questions. This means there has got to be at least one example that GPT-5 as well as every other LLM fails on [2].

If you don't think that's the case I think it's up to you to show that it's not.

___________________

[1] GSM8K leaderboard: https://llm-stats.com/benchmarks/gsm8k

[2] This is regardless of what GSM8K or any other benchmark is measuring.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-08 12:14:52+00:00
> That means the general expectation is not that it is never a rehash of existing ideas.

There’s a different from rehashing existing ideas and copying multiple passages off as your own.

> If that is true, it sounds certainly fishy, but that is a case of violation of copyright and intellectual property and not of plagiarism.

What exactly do you think plagiarism is? Here’s one common definition:

“An instance of plagiarizing, especially a passage that is taken from the work of one person and reproduced in the work of another without attribution.”
by keiferski | 2025-11-08 12:16:53+00:00
There is a recurring trend of interpreting democracy to mean "leaderless consensus-based decision-making", which really doesn't work and never has. That's why Occupy and pretty much every other similar bottom-up movement failed: leaders are necessary. People follow other people, not algorithms or groups.

"Making democracy work" should be about training better leaders and getting them into the system.
by brunosutic | 2025-11-08 12:16:54+00:00
The usual response to this complaint in the Ruby/Rails community is that optimizing for nanoseconds, or even milliseconds doesn't matter when the same operation also involves multiple database queries or API calls.

Let's take this example from the article:

Billing::Plan.find_or_create_all_by_attrs!( 1.month => {standard: 10, pro: 50, enterprise: 100}, 1.year => {standard: 100, pro: 500, enterprise: 1000} )

This ensures six billing plans are created. That means 6 DB queries and 6 Stripe API queries, at a minimum.
by beeflet | 2025-11-08 12:17:47+00:00
The network does not elect a leader. that is a mischaracterization of the PoW process.

It's not like you are hashing based on your public key or something and then you get to sign a block afterwards. You have to commit to a block template before every hash. And also the miner is decided randomly by a weighted hashrate.

Imagine applying this to anything else. The group with the most (extremely specialized) computer power just gets to decide everything?
by BinaryIgor | 2025-11-08 12:18:41+00:00
Very wise; have been following this approach since years and I highly recommend it. This one (from the article) is a gem:

"I’ll work like I might stay forever, and like I might leave tomorrow"

Besides practical benefits of this approach mentioned in the article, it's the attitude that brings you closer to stoicism that just makes your whole life, not only professional one, better.
by JoeyJoJoJr | 2025-11-08 12:19:07+00:00
This is tangential to what you are saying, but does it blow any else’s mind that we just so happen to exist right at the start of the universe’s existence? If the universe is going to have a habitable window of however many quadrillion years, what are the odds that it just so happens that our existence falls within the first blink of that timeframe. If life is abundant in the universe it would stand to reason that it will continue to be abundant for a very, very long time. Further, if I am to spawn in the universe as a self conscious being, wouldn’t it be likely I would spawn at a random point on (almost) the total timeline of the habitable universe? So then the odds of existing (basically) right at the beginning of the timeline is exceptionally small, unless there is some factor that influences where on the timeline we must exist.
by yawpitch | 2025-11-08 12:20:13+00:00
You can also find equally anecdotal cases of people who “healed” migraine with exorcism, trephanation, and blunt-force trauma, but that doesn’t mean it’s caused by demons, swelling brains, or remaining conscious and alive.

The science says susceptibility to migraine seems to be related to hormonal shifts and there’s plenty of reason to believe it runs in families; though dietary changes might help reduce the symptoms and therefore treat some of those susceptible to migraine, it’s not a panacea and it’s definitely not causal.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-08 12:22:57+00:00
I think the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study [1] is the most interesting study on this question. It was intended to be a study that would, once and forever, put to rest any question of race and intelligence. You had numerous well-to-do white families, with mean IQ a sigma above the mean, adopt children from a variety of different races. The study then tracked these families and their outcomes while working to ensure relative balance in education, opportunity, identical testing standards, and every other variable they could reasonably control.

However, in the end there was a 18 point IQ difference, at age 17, between the adopted white children (105.5) and the adopted black children (83.7). Half white/black children fell almost exactly in between (93.2). The study also had some interesting accidental (?) control variables in that some children had been racially misclassified, but their IQs ended up aligning with their race rather than their identity.

Of course one can still argue that this is environmental, by appealing to e.g. prenatal or social biases and the like, but I think there is no evidence based argument that there is no difference between races, even when every effort is made to eliminate as many viable environmental factors as possible. Obviously the mean doesn't define the individual. There are plenty of high IQ black individuals, and plenty of low IQ white individuals. But group differences are nonetheless very real.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...
Automated bank data analysis just leveled up
by vinserello | 2025-11-08 12:24:34+00:00
Many users of Datastripes asked to analyze directly their company bank data automatized so we did it: Datastripes now taps straight into TTP Plaid grade pipes, plugs into your bank and auto breaks down your transactions like it is nothing.

Zero chaos. Zero spreadsheet trauma. Just instant “oh cool, now just let me inspect better where my money-pipe leaks” vibes.

https://datastripes.com/
by talideon | 2025-11-08 12:26:35+00:00
If that's what you use as your yardstick of what's Unixy, then I guess you don't consider "find" to be Unixy, in spite of being one of the early Programmer's Workbench tools.

Short options were a compromise to deal with the limits of the input hardware at the time. Double dashes were a workaround for the post-dash option car crash traditional Unix tooling allows because teletypes were so slow. There is nothing particularly Unixy about any of these options other than the leading hyphen convention.

OCaml using single hyphens is not un-Unixy.
Show HN: Computational Metaphysics: Zeroth Implementation of Grover's and Shor's
by polymetron | 2025-11-08 12:26:56+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with classical recreations of Grover’s and Shor’s algorithms on a standard CPU. This is just a demonstration that my Zeroth framework can reproduce their structure and results at small scales.

https://github.com/ElSolem/psychohistory
by gethly | 2025-11-08 12:26:58+00:00
I still use an old 2022 version. I despise Jetbrains and their pricing model and won't support them one iota. When the time comes, I'll move to something else. VS Code never worked for me. Maybe Zed could be a replacement, who knows. I only use probably 5% of the features anyway and I am sticking with it merely due to familiarity.
by ajross | 2025-11-08 12:27:26+00:00
> You aren't making any points.

You replied directly to a comment where I tried to engage substantially and with external links in a discussion about whether or not he was "literally" doing a Nazi salute.

You ignored that part in favor of a "actions have consequences" quip. Then when I called you out you decided to change the subject to something that amounts to "Well Teslas aren't any good anyway!".

To be blunt: that's a taking-your-toys-and-going-home argument, and HN deserves better. The whole point of this interminable subthread is that I'm trying to challenge your assumptions. And it seems like I'm doing it pretty well, given the way you're deflecting. Maybe you'd find it more productive to do some introspection?
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-08 12:29:23+00:00
> A hot prewash helps loosen fat, that was his claim. Anecdotal experience suggests to me that he's right. So maybe try to disprove that instead?

I don’t know who’s right but the article here already addresses this by pointing out that the short bursts of hot water in a prewash will never have as much impact as the sustained hot water wash in the main cycle.

The author of the post isn’t denying that a hot pre-wash will clean more than a cold pre-wash. What they’re saying is whether the hot pre-wash cleans more than a cold one is irrelevant to the final result since whatever the cold pre-wash doesn’t clean will almost certainly be cleaned in the longer, sustained, hot main cycle.
by dlisboa | 2025-11-08 12:29:29+00:00
Go gets a lot of flack for getting some things wrong but it was a stable and productive language within a couple of years.

If you look at the current Zig website the hello world example doesn’t compile because they changed the IO interface. Something as simple as writing to the console.

It’s easier to get things right if you have no issues breaking backward compatibility for a decade. It feels it’ll be well over 10 years before Zig is “1.0”.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-08 12:30:23+00:00
This is called the tyranny of the majority, where you're arguing that because most people don't care about freedom, therefore freedom doesn't have value. It's not a sound argument, much like saying freedom of speech doesn't matter because most people have nothing to say.

Editing to add: it seems particularly ironic that you think iPhone users make great purchasing decisions when they buy the phone, but are incapable of making good decisions when selecting software. What accounts for the discrepancy?
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by brucehoult | 2025-11-08 12:30:59+00:00
For a start it means you can much more naturally define arithmetic operators for a variety of built in and user-defined types, and this can all be done with libraries not the core language.

Because methods aren't "inside" objects, but just look like functions taking (references to) structs, you can add your own methods to someone else's types.

It's really hard to give a concise example that doesn't look artificial, because it's really a feature for large code bases.

Here's a tutorial example for Julia

https://scientificcoder.com/the-art-of-multiple-dispatch
by brunosutic | 2025-11-08 12:31:20+00:00
Hi, I'm the author of the article and the software library. I confirm I actually do use the examples from the article in my code.

Here's the example that runs in hundreds of integration tests:

expect(billing_pricing_plans).to eq billing_plans( 1.month => [:free, :premium, :pro, :enterprise], 1.year => [:free, :premium, :pro, :enterprise] )

It asserts what plans the customers see on the pricing page.
by Neywiny | 2025-11-08 12:32:00+00:00
My goodness is there a huge difference between TSMC and OpenAI. TSMC moving to the US is a benefit to all US fabless companies and fabless companies that want to do business in any sensitive US industry, and they have an incredible track record as an industry leader. Open AI's chip manufacturing is much more risky and much less payoff. I wouldn't want the government to pay a penny towards it. Especially because an estimated cost for a leading edge chip is maybe $500 million. If they can commit to $1.4T, they can do it on their own. It's almost an omen they don't feel comfortable spending that without a guarantor.
by idle_zealot | 2025-11-08 12:32:01+00:00
What point are you even trying to make? That's not a counter-argument unless you assume that people in aggregate always make great purchasing decisions. Wait until you hear about cigarettes, heroine, slot machines, snake oil, tulips, and the rest of the effectively infinite list of fun and unique ways people make terrible choices or are bamboozled into acting against their own and others' interests. This is a comment thread about protecting people from scams. The premise acknowledges that people make widespread poor decisions. Is it so unthinkable that buying an iPhone is one of them?
by da_chicken | 2025-11-08 12:32:30+00:00
I'm the opposite. I started out using VLC, but once I found the codec packs (K-Lite being one of the last) I immediately started using other, more user friendly media players.

The problem with VLC is that the interface consistently feels... both imprecise and ridiculously granular. Everything just behaves weird. It felt weird in 2002 and it still feels weird in 2025. Like they cribbed the design from a DivX player, and haven't thought about it since.

VLC seems bound and determined to not let you interact with a video without pausing it, then opening the menu and hunting for option you need. Yes, I could set up my own interface, but that's not an excuse for not having a bare minimum of functionality that matches modern user expectations. Besides, configuring VLC to have the interface you want is itself not an easy task. Like, they have interface presets. Why isn't there a preset interface for "make this match YouTube"?

Just looking at what they chose to make be default key bindings is just bizarre to me. Half the things they have bound to single key presses are things that have never come up for me ever, while several things I want to use frequently are double or triple key combinations or not available for binding at all. All the default adjustments like skipping ahead or adjusting speed are all so granular that you have to hit them 10 or more times to actually accomplish anything. Just a completely alien interface to me. This software feels like it was built to solve media problems that I have not encountered since the late 90s when video tracks and audio tracks were more frequently out of sync from the producer.

What using VLC has taught me over 20 years is that the best way to play media with VLC is to open the software, begin playback of the media, and then under no circumstances attempt to interact with the software again.
by gethly | 2025-11-08 12:32:35+00:00
I was able to read books in double digits in 2021 and 2022. I have some I want to read but I cannot. It simply boils down to distractions. I need to have nothing to do. It does not even have to be something imminent. Just knowing I have things to do is enough. Then I am able to read every day with no issues.

But I started working on Gethly platform, and have not been able to find time for books for 3 years now. I am currently finishing a big feature for the platform but after that, I think I might be able to be distraction-free as I do not plan to spend as much time working on it as I did until now, as most things I wanted to implement will be done. So I am looking forward to it.

tl;dr it is about not being distracted and having the time to focus solely on one thing. Also the books must be intriguing. People usually think they do not like reading books when in reality is that they are not sufficiently interested in specific books. If you find some that get you excited, those are easy to read.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-08 12:33:01+00:00
The trouble with the abuse thing is that anyone can claim it. Women are the only ones for whom such an excuse can generally persuade a jury. False allegations of abuse abound. It is nearly impossible for a man to prove that he did not abuse a woman at some point, and women use this to their advantage.

While I admit that there are some men who abuse women and get attacked for it, plenty of other crimes and plenty of situations exist where being a man is a distinct legal disadvantage. Lots of places have a policy that forces police to assume that the man in the relationship is the offender/instigator in any domestic violence dispute. If you hit a woman in self-defense and don't have reliable witnesses or video evidence to back you up, you're probably going to have a hard time. There is a very clear pattern in most of society: if a woman does something to a man, they ask "what did he do to deserve it?" There are no shelters for men to leave abusive relationships, and feminists have literally campaigned to keep it that way.

I don't have a ton of links to establish my point here but this one seems to have relevant citations. https://www.mcgrathtraining.com/post/offenders-and-sentencin...

Frankly I would be shocked if you could find a single crime for which women would get a more harsh sentence than men on average.

>Don't have time to find a stat link, but its widely known and published in news articles on the topic, studies etc that come up in a basic search

Basic search is not very helpful lol. You need to look past the headlines to find this kind of stuff. Women have excellent PR and everyone tries to pander to them. Government, academia, marketing, religion, Hollywood, etc. are all on women's side for the most part and cling to half-truths that paint women in the best light (while smearing men).