MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zkmon | 2025-11-18 18:33:44+00:00
Looking at biological evolution, purpose and functioning of instincts and senses is more useful and more grounded than abstract philosophies, in my opinion. We don't need to analyze mind and thoughts in a manner that is fully disconnected from biology.

Mind is just an orchestrator of responses by processing of sensory information, memories and instincts. Actually, such processing and response can happen throughout the body as well to a limited extent.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-18 18:34:05+00:00
> He told the BBC that the company owns what he called a “full stack” of technologies, from chips to YouTube data to models and frontier science research. This integrated approach, he suggested, would help the company weather any market turbulence better than competitors.

I guess but is it better for an investor to own 2 shares of Google or 1 share of OpenAI and 1 share of TSMC?

Like I have no doubt that being vertically integrated as a single company has lot of benefits but one can also create a trust that invests vertically as well.
by nicolaslem | 2025-11-18 18:34:30+00:00
For me the firmware 0x01030b00 solved most of the problem. It now runs well on my previous laptop 65W HP charger, which is much lighter than the literal brick the G1a came with. It still does not work on an Anker 140W power bank I have.

However this firmware was only available on HP's website for a few days. It has now been retracted, but it works well for me so YMMV.

My last remaining hurdle is getting color correction working for the DCI-P3 OLED screen. Maybe it's a Gnome/Wayland thing but I cannot get full display correction to work so colors are ultra saturated.

Edit: the fan curve is also bad, it makes fans spin up/down continuously under certain conditions. Not a deal breaker but quite annoying when it happens.
by scottlamb | 2025-11-18 18:34:36+00:00
I imagine you exclude failures of customer systems from your reliability measurements—for example, if you send a backend request to or redirect the user's browser to the customer's corporate identity provider and that persistently fails, you don't call it your own outage.

The same can apply to latency. What is the latency of requests to your system—including dependencies you choose, excluding dependencies the customer chooses. The network leg from the customer or user to your system is a bit of a gray area. The simplest thing to do is measure each request's latency from the point of view of your backend rather than the initiator. This is probably good enough, although in theory it lets you off the hook a bit too easily—to some extent you can choose whether you run near the initiator or not and how many round trips are required, and servers can underestimate their own latency or entirely miss requests during failures. But it's not fair to fail your SLA because of end-user bufferbloat or bad wifi or a crappy ancient Chromebook with too many open tabs or customer webapp server's GC spiral or whatever. Basically impossible to make any 99.999% promises when those things are in play.

My preferred form of SLO is: x% of requests given y ms succeed within y ms, measured by my server. ("given" meaning "does not have an upfront timeout shorter than" and "isn't aborted by the client before".) I might offer a few such guarantees for a particular request type, e.g.:

* 50% of lookups given 1 ms succeed within 1 ms.

* 99% of lookups given 10 ms succeed within 10 ms.

* 99.999% of lookups given 500 ms succeed within 500 ms.

I like to also have client-side and whole-flow measurements but I'm much more cautious about promising anything about them.
by LTL_FTC | 2025-11-18 18:35:01+00:00
Absolutely. People just crank up the brightness on the inside lights because "blinky lights" but I have also noticed that, modern cars typically include fog lights which used to be a luxury or premium option, many people just drive around with these lights on as well. Fog lights are illuminating the area closer to the vehicle and therefore inhibit one's visibility further down the road. So now we get super bright vehicles coming at us, inhibiting our ability to see.

Don't get me started on lifted vehicles and their lights...Dept. of transportation needs to figure out a way to enforce a standard height for headlights from all vehicle shapes and heights. Driving after dark is getting more and more dangerous, not less.
by k310 | 2025-11-18 18:35:05+00:00
They have less life experience for XKCD style passwords, i.e.

RMWla18mgontdt

Rose Mary Woods left an 18 minute gap on Tricky Dicky's tape.

Of course, now that I posted it, it can't be used.

18.5 if punctuation is demanded.

Sorry, everyone.
by jmye | 2025-11-18 18:35:07+00:00
> to take up arms against our citizens

Why are you changing your words?

> against their own citizenry

Germany, 1930s. Cambodia, 1970s.

> You mention Kent State, but that actually illustrates to my point.

It flatly doesn't. US armed forces fired on citizens. No US military stopped them. The second amendment didn't stop them, or cause them to hesitate. The idea that the second amendment will change anything about the US military's response or choice to follow any orders they're given no matter how reprehensible or obviously evil (My Lai, Abu Ghraib) is laughable fantasy, based on a bunch of people who want to dream about being heroes and pretend that their 9mm handgun means something.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-18 18:35:26+00:00
Camissa is not as unhinged as Clarkson, their most common trait is their appreciation and knowledge of cars and how they treat their histories.

Listening to Camissa makes me feel like I’m listening to someone who appreciates all cars for being cars. He has no biases and preferences like Clarkson (German cars being cold, Italian cars being awesome, etc.).
by jdeibele | 2025-11-18 18:36:09+00:00
I proposed on 01/01 and got married on 07/07. Both 2001 so 01/01/01 for the proposal but I didn't want to wait until 07/07/07.

I originally wanted to do 01:01 on the 1st but we both were asleep by then. We dated for almost a year before the proposal.
by evrenesat | 2025-11-18 18:36:11+00:00
JFYI, Qwen managed to recognize the sixth finger:

Max: https://chat.qwen.ai/c/ca671562-7a56-4e2f-911f-40c37ff3ed79

VL-235B: https://chat.qwen.ai/c/21cc5f4e-5972-4489-9787-421943335150
by koakuma-chan | 2025-11-18 18:36:28+00:00
In "real world" you don't use OpenAI or Anthropic API directly—you are forced to use AWS, GCP, or Azure. Each of these has its own service for running LLMs, which is conceptually the same as using OpenAI or Anthropic API directly, but with much worse DX. For AWS it's called Bedrock, for GCP—Vertex, and for Azure it's AI Foundry I believe. They also may offer complementary features like prompt management, evals, etc, but from what I've seen so far it's all crap.
by modeless | 2025-11-18 18:36:55+00:00
Core doesn't want Rebble's data. They want the data from the original Pebble store, which is not owned by Rebble. It's the work of thousands of independent developers and it should be shared freely, not kept in a walled garden with "no scraping" terms added on. It's actually offensive that Rebble is using other developers' data (that they originally scraped from Pebble) as a bargaining chip in their contract negotiation that they made into a public squabble.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-18 18:36:57+00:00
They're not a moral entity. corporations aren't people.

I think a lot of the harms you mentioned are real, but they're a natural consequence of capitalistic profit chasing. Governments are supposed to regulate monopolies and anti-consumer behavior like that. Instead of regulating surveillance capitalism, governments are using it to bypass laws restricting their power.

If I were a google investor, I would absolutely want them to defeat ad-blocking, ban yt-dlp, dominate the ad-market and all the rest of what you said. In capitalism, everyone looks out for their own interests, and governments ensure the public isn't harmed in the process. But any time a government tries to regulate things, the same crowd that decries this oppose government overreach.

Voters are people and they are moral entities, direct any moral outrage at us.
by dang | 2025-11-18 18:37:48+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Gemini 3 Pro Preview Live in AI Studio - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211 - Nov 2025 (385 comments)

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963670 - Nov 2025 (263 comments)
by eldaisfish | 2025-11-18 18:38:40+00:00
this is also my understanding. The range is large because it caters to passenger cars, lorries and construction equipment. Construction equipment is seen are more rugged (it often is) and this is now projected as a desirable trait for SUVs and pickup trucks.

The irony is that SUVs and pickup trucks do not need lights 137 cm above ground, but that height is perfectly legal in too many countries. These vehicles are a menace and should be legislated out of existence.
by tyre | 2025-11-18 18:38:47+00:00
In my experience, these are often leadership failures. Many people can generally understand competing priorities and prioritization, even if they might disagree with them. They often lack the context.

It's good to understand when to push and how much. It's also necessary for leaders to walk through why some things have to burn for a while because of resourcing trade-offs.

And I say this as a manager. This is part of my responsibility. I should be able to explain to everyone why we're saying no to what we are or, if there's new information from people who are squeaking, incorporating that and adjust direction.
by Delk | 2025-11-18 18:39:01+00:00
Lots of organizations have a blanket ban on any third-party software that wasn't specifically approved by IT. Being free might help it get cleared but that's nowhere sufficient. Since Notepad comes with Windows, it's probably always there and never banned. (Although of course the cloud-based LLM integration might actually be a problem.)

With that said, I think I've also had NotePad++ made available by IT at all employers and clients that had me use Windows even when the desktop setup was otherwise quite restricted. It's a rather established tool after all and probably considered a safe and reputable bet even by somewhat conservative IT leadership.
by yorwba | 2025-11-18 18:39:02+00:00
The approach in the paper specifically addresses the case where an LLM can usually solve a task when it requires few steps, but fails for the same kind of task with more steps because it randomly gets a step in the middle wrong and then derails. It can't do anything for tasks that the LLM can't solve even when there's just a few steps.

In other words, it compensates for random error, not systematic error.
by Defletter | 2025-11-18 18:40:26+00:00
This is a bit of a what-if, but I had a Pebble watch back then and was considering trying to make an app for it. The idea that, if I had succeeded and published the app, that Rebble would be claiming ownership over my binary and threatening legal action against the original Pebble creator, to be really quite ridiculous and affronting.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-18 18:40:27+00:00
People are likely downvoting you because allegations of astroturfing aren't allowed, you are supposed to just report what you suspect.

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
by tocs3 | 2025-11-18 18:40:53+00:00
While not making any new points I certainly believe this is more or less true. It would be nice to see high schools in the US with more hands on classes. Not just job training but things for everyday life. Shop classes, ag. classes, home ec. There is a lot of space for things like science hands on. Setting up weather stations, steam flow gauges, census for plant and wildlife. A good school newspaper (that could supplement community/local news).

While the federal government might have a roll to play in these sorts of programs most of the work would have to be at the local level.
by doctorshady | 2025-11-18 18:40:59+00:00
In the early 2020s, I was driving at night in rural America on a daily basis in a nineties car with pre-LED yellow lights. There were plenty of animals in the road, and I never felt they were hard to see or stop for, even with no street lights.

I really don't know what everyone's talking about when they swear they need all this extra light.

What I will say is with newer cars where the center console had an LCD screen and far more lighting, it did feel genuinely dangerous to drive through these same areas. Any real solution to this should start with all this being adjustable (I assume it actually is in most models?), or even far dimmer in its stock state with your lights on.
by bitwize | 2025-11-18 18:41:40+00:00
Starcraft could only do internet play through battle.net, which required a legit copy. Pirated copies could still do LAN IPX play though, and with IPX over IP software you could theoretically do remote play with your internet buddies.

By the way, this is why bnetd is illegal to distribute and was ruled such in a court of law: authenticating with battle.net counts as an "effective" copy protection measure under the DMCA, and providing an alternate implementation that skips that therefore counts as "circumvention technology".
by bluGill | 2025-11-18 18:41:42+00:00
I'm not sure who invented "object oriented", but objects were invented by Simula in 1967 (or before, but first released then?) and that is where C++ takes the term from. Smalltalk-80 did some interesting things on top of objects that allow for object oriented programming.

In any case, Alan Kay is constantly clear that object oriented programming is about messages, which you can do in C++ in a number of ways. (I'm not sure exactly what Alan Kay means here, but it appears to exclude function calls, but would allow QT signal/slots)
by zikani_03 | 2025-11-18 18:42:24+00:00
Nice, this looks interesting.

Somewhat related is a project we worked on within Golang community in Malawi: https://github.com/golang-malawi/geneveev

It supports converting types to Zod schemas and Dart classes. Never got around to TypeScript and would be cool to see if we could add support for guts
by JacobiX | 2025-11-18 18:42:29+00:00
Tested it on a bug that Claude and ChatGPT Pro struggled with, it nailed it, but only solved it partially (it was about matching data using a bipartite graph). Another task was optimizing a complex SQL script: the deep-thinking mode provided a genuinely nuanced approach using indexes and rewriting parts of the query. ChatGPT Pro had identified more or less the same issues. For frontend development, I think it’s obvious that it’s more powerful than Claude Code, at least in my tests, the UIs it produces are just better. For backend development, it’s good, but I noticed that in Java specifically, it often outputs code that doesn’t compile on the first try, unlike Claude.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-18 18:43:07+00:00
But that's not a problem caused by Cloudflare.

That's a problem caused by bots and spammers and DDoSers, that Cloudflare is trying to alleviate.

And you generally don't have to prove it over and over again unless there's a high-risk signal associated with you, like you're using a VPN or have cookies disabled, etc. Which are great for protecting your privacy, but then obviously privacy means you do have to keep demonstrating you're not a bot.
by jmount | 2025-11-18 18:43:09+00:00
In my opinion, BPP (one of the major topics of the book) is such a weird complexity class. It seems both an easy and hard class.

Roughly it accepts inputs that have at least 2/3rds of witnesses accepting and rejects inputs that have no more than 1/3 of witnesses accepting. Witness means additional input (usually considered random input). The super nicety is the huge gap between 1/3 and 2/3.

One can simulate a BPP recognizer to a high degree of fidelity. Just try a bunch of random witnesses.

However, we don't yet know how to efficiently perfectly implement a perfect recognizer. Until we have sampled a lot of witnesses we really don't know what fraction the of overall population we are drawing from is accepting.

However (as the book points out) we know the strategy for perfect solution. We can decide BPP perfectly and efficiently if and only if certain very strong efficient pseudo random number generators exist. And the existence of such is very much tied to if certain problems are hard (require large circuits to solve) or not.
by NietzscheanNull | 2025-11-18 18:43:38+00:00
> I've been tempted to purchase digital billboard space to raise awareness.

Ironically, digital billboards are often 10x more obnoxious than even LED high beams in my area (and those are plenty awful, FWIW). We've got a few nearby that are so bright they could be used as stadium lighting when they're set to white. Naturally, half the ads running on them feature a white background, so it's like a stadium light that flips on and off every 15 seconds. Considering they're pointed directly at drivers' faces, I genuinely don't understand why there isn't more opposition to them; they're absolutely blinding. I'm seriously considering bugging local and state reps about it until they pass light intensity ordinances in my area.
by huijzer | 2025-11-18 18:43:44+00:00
> Sometimes people do DDoS your small blog because some random stranger didn't like something you said somewhere online.

People come with that argument so often. But then one day I was completely done with something and I put out a rant on Reddit in my real name. Hundreds op people disagreed and told me "Why do you do that under your own name?! Are you crazy? This will lead to many problems."

Guess what. This was months ago and nothing happened. Nada. Zero. Null. I have many servers running and nothing was taking down. Maybe one day it will. If that happens then I'll find a fix. It will probably not be a nice day, but it is what it is. The world will keep spinning. I'm done giving in to the fear.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me." -Frank Herbert, Dune
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-18 18:43:55+00:00
I'm somewhat confused at the question only becomes it comes across as a defense of GiveWell, which implies I was attacking it, which was not at all intended.

But hoping I'm misreading and engaging anyway, "room for funding" varies in the specifics across domains, but involves some combination of unmet need plus organizational capacity to meet that need. Try not to get hung up on the object-level examples because I have no idea if these are true now or were true in the past, but I think they're close to real examples from 15 years ago or so last time I cared about this. Imagine you've got 50000 people in some equatorial country living in places scurged by malaria. 5000 of them have nets. Some charity exists with the supply chains, connections to manufacturers, and local distributors such that they could easily giving 20000 additional people net, but they simply don't have the money to buy them. Conversely, imagine pancreatic cancer research is in a state whereby there may be plenty of fruitful areas of research not currently being explored, but every person on the planet qualified to conduct such research is 100% booked with whatever it is they're currently doing for at least the next five years. Then it is more effective to donate to the former than the latter, at least for the next five years, at least up to the point that there is still sufficient unmet need and capacity in the former. Again emphasizing that they're not static conditions.

As for "really" charitable, as always, it's a judgment call. I assume most people would find poverty assistance and medical aid to be charitable, but funding college sports not as much, in spite of both qualifying for tax deductions under US tax law. I can't guarantee all people will agree, but somethig like GiveWell is nonetheless premised on the assumption that some outcomes are more morally valuable than others. Curing children of parasites that might kill them or severely impede mental development is more morally valuable than the civic pride and bragging rights of Oregon alumni and the local fan base.

But at the same time, just as I say above I don't think we want a world with no art, I also don't think we want a world with no sports. I can't speak for GiveWell, but certainly I don't think the correct amount of money to donate to amateur sports or art museums is zero. In line with the origin coming from hedge funds, instead of all or nothing thinking like that, we should think in terms of portfolio allocations. Overweight high-QALY early childhood health interventions and underweight adding $10 million to Harvard's $50 billion endowment. Exactly how much? I have no idea. Each person should decide that for themselves, but I still think there's value in bringing up the topic and starting the discussion.
by jsheard | 2025-11-18 18:44:21+00:00
Der8auer did some similar videos a few years ago, but in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2P8mjWRqpk

The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-11-18 18:44:26+00:00
> Sure, but your post reads like an infomercial, hence the snark.

Re-reading it you're right, but ultimately the last sentence aims at directly answering this question from the parent:

> If you added up all the outage time caused by DDOS and all the outage time caused by being behind auxiliary services that have their own outages... I wonder which would be larger?
by anvuong | 2025-11-18 18:44:57+00:00
This reminds of a friend I had in college. We were assigned to the same group coding an advanced calculator in C. This guy didn't know anything about programming (he was mostly focused on his side biz of selling collector sneakers), so we assigned him to do all the testing, his job was to come up with weird equations and weird but valid way to present them to the calculator. And this dude somehow managed to crash almost all of our iterations except the few last ones. Really put the joke about a programmer, a tester, and a customer walk into a bar into perspective.
by klaussilveira | 2025-11-18 18:45:16+00:00
He most definitely is cooking something. Seen contributions from him to chocolate-quake: https://github.com/Henrique194/chocolate-quake/pull/60

As well as bug reports: https://github.com/Henrique194/chocolate-quake/issues/57

I personally would love to get some help with my chocolate Doom 3 BFG fork, specially with pesky OpenGL issues: https://github.com/klaussilveira/chocolate-doom3-bfg
by Uehreka | 2025-11-18 18:45:28+00:00
One issue I often run into with this stuff is the tightly coupled nature of things in the real world. I’ll fashion an example:

Let’s say you break a job down into 3 tasks: A, B and C. Doing one of those tasks is too much for an LLM to accomplish in one turn (this is something you learn intuitively through experience), but an LLM could break each task into 3 subtasks. So you do that, and start by having the LLM break task A into subtasks A1, A2 and A3. And B into B1, B2 and B3. But when you break down task C, the LLM (which needs to start with a fresh context each time since each “breakdown” uses 60-70% of the context) doesn’t know the details of task A, and thus writes a prompt for C1 that is incompatible with “the world where A1 has been completed”.

This sort of “tunnel vision” is currently an issue with scaling 2025 agents. As useful context lengths get longer it’ll get easier, but figuring out how to pack exactly the right info into a context is tough, especially when the tool you’d reach for to automate it (LLMs) are the same tool that suffers from these context limitations.

None of this means big things aren’t possible, just that the fussyness of these systems increases with the size of the task, and that fussyness leads to more requirements of “human review” in the process.