MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethin | 2025-11-06 23:23:55+00:00
These people will literally claim that just bumping into them is "assault". Where do you think they're getting the "1000 percent increase" stats from? (For those who aren't aware, what the DHS is really trying to say is "well ,before all this started, there were just 10 assaults per year on ICE officers and now there's 100".)
by foresterre | 2025-11-06 23:24:53+00:00
It seems to work decently even with just one or two titles for popular titles, but less so for the niche.

For example, the title "Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre" by Keith Johnstone, linked by another article posted to HN today gives back the following suggestions:

- Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - 1984 by George Orwell - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell - Dune (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert

It's a bit unfortunate that all suggestions are fairly popular titles, which are fairly easy to find, while the unpopular or niche may be just as well written but a lot harder to find.

Within niche topics or books, it is also usually harder to provide multiple similar enough titles up front.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-06 23:25:17+00:00
Obviously no one is about to deport Elon Musk. He isn't speaking against Trump because even he can't afford to alienate any more customers than he already has. The US government has been, and remains, Musk's most valuable customer of all.

They will find Musk in an expensive hotel room someday, sequestered behind a "Do Not Disturb" sign and surrounded by bottles of his own urine, after the housekeepers draw straws to see who goes in. Until then, dumb people are just going to keep getting richer by following him. I've reconciled myself to it at long last; there's no point complaining.
by screye | 2025-11-06 23:25:32+00:00
No, Europeans will recognize NYC's policies as normal, Zohran or not. Afterall, It's one of America's only European-ish cities.

NYC has subsidized world-class transit, rent-stabilization, high taxes and free-childcare. Pretty European.

Zohran is classic of case of 'the dose makes the poison'. Instead of subsidized buses, he wants free buses. Instead of rent-stabilization, he wants rent freezes. He wants to increase an already high tax rate in a city that's bleeding billionaires to Florida. NYC spends an eye-watering billion dollars on child-care subsidies, and Zohran's intended expansion will add billions more in costs.

NYC has European public services with American over-regulation. It would be untenable unless it were the world's richest city. Thankfully, it is the world's richest city. But, that doesn't mean that NYC's systems are efficient. It means that the city hopes to get away with policies (some forcefully imposed on it by the state) that no other place would because it assumes the money train will never end.

NYC is better run than American suburbia and California. But, NYC doesn't have California's infinite money glitch or the ruthless demographic segregation of suburbs. So, efficiencies must be found in policy making.

I think Abundance does a good job of summarizing the problems (over-regulation) and suggesting solutions (de-regulation). But for some reason, democratic socialists refuse to engage with the book earnestly.
by fuzztester | 2025-11-06 23:25:44+00:00
>The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are react native and flutter which are both UI toolkits first and language second

Flutter is not a language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutter_(software)

From that page:

>Flutter apps are written in the Dart language.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_(programming_language)
by reify | 2025-11-06 23:26:12+00:00
Big pharma has taken advantage of the allergy.

there is always someone who takes 50 drugs because of an allergy. How do they know its not somatic

cough and colds and sneezes are big money. Psychological symptoms manufactured into somatic illnesses and then hypochondriasis.

look at the incredible increase in psychiatric drug use since the 60's. And they still dont work. dare I say paradoxical reaction.

Its Ok, I have only spent 25 years of my life sitting opposite the very same people that I am talking about. Listening to their stories.

So, my dear patient, why are you taking ant-depressants? because my GP prescribed them. A no mark GP who has had no psychological training.

This is probably in part the result of the move towards a very biological model of psychiatry that began with the development of the first generation of psychotropic drugs in the 1960s, and which was granted ‘official’ status with the publication of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM III ) classification in 1980.

This is the psychiatric classification system of the American Psychiatric Association and has become the dominant model worldwide. It involved a paradigm shift which left very little place for psychological models in the understanding of mental disorders, and even less for the most complicated elements of this understanding.

just look at those names! a huge list of drugs that do nothing!

placebo created the allergy and placebo reduces the symptoms. the human brain is an amazing thing.

what has the human race become? when most people spend their entire lives taking and looking for a fucking pill to solve their problems.
by bcherny | 2025-11-06 23:26:27+00:00
Hey HN, Boris from the Claude Code team here. Sharing a bit about why we have this survey, how we use it, and how to opt out of it-

1. We use session quality feedback as a signal to make sure Claude Code users are having a good time. It's helpful data for us to more quickly spot & prevent incidents like https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-.... There was a bug where we were showing the survey too often, which is now fixed (it was annoying and a misconfiguration on our part).

2. Giving session quality feedback is totally optional. When you provide feedback, we just collect your numerical rating and some metadata (like OS, terminal, etc.). Giving feedback doesn't cause us to log your conversation, code, or anything like that. (docs: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#session-quality-s...)

3. We don't train on quality feedback data. This is documented in the link above.

4. If you don't want to give feedback, you can permanently turn it off for yourself by setting CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY=1 in your env or settings.json file. (docs: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings)

5. To permanently turn off the feedback survey for your whole company, set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY=1 in the settings.json checked into your codebase, or in your enterprise-managed settings.json (docs: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings)

6. You can also opt out of both telemetry + survey by setting CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1, or you can more granularly opt out with DISABLE_ERROR_REPORTING=1, DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1, etc. (also documented in the settings docs)

Security and privacy are very important, and we spend a lot of time getting these right. You have full control over data usage, telemetry, and training, and these are configurable for yourself, for your codebase, and for all your employees. We offer all of these options out of the box, so you can choose the mechanism that makes the most sense for you.

If there is a setting or control that is missing, or if anything is unclear from the docs, please tell us!
by kulahan | 2025-11-06 23:26:58+00:00
It wasn't an actual DNA test, but the military takes blood samples of every recruit. I'm referring to this hack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

edit: the relevant text is below

> The data breach compromised highly sensitive 127-page Standard Form 86 (SF 86) (Questionnaire for National Security Positions).[8][18] SF-86 forms contain information about family members, college roommates, foreign contacts, and psychological information. Initially, OPM stated that family members' names were not compromised,[18] but the OPM subsequently confirmed that investigators had "a high degree of confidence that OPM systems containing information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective federal government employees, to include U.S. military personnel, and those for whom a federal background investigation was conducted, may have been exfiltrated."
by dionian | 2025-11-06 23:27:29+00:00
> I recently developed a framework for building distributed systems—based on the patterns I describe in my book. I experimented heavily with LLMs. They helped in brainstorming, naming, and generating boilerplate. But just as often, they produced code that was subtly wrong or misaligned with the deeper intent. I had to throw away large sections and start from scratch.

Well i do this but i force it to make my code modular and i replace whole parts quite often, but it's tactical moves in an overall strategy. The LLM generates crap, however, it can replace crap quite efficiently with the right guidance.
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-11-06 23:27:33+00:00
The most critical skill in the coming era, assuming that AI follows its current trajectory and there are no research breakthroughs for e.g. continual learning is going to be delegation.

The art of knowing what work to keep, what work to toss to the bot, and how to verify it has actually completed the task to a satisfactory level.

It'll be different than delegating to a human; as the technology currently sits, there is no point giving out "learning tasks". I also imagine it'll be a good idea to keep enough tasks to keep your own skills sharp, so if anything kinda the reverse.
by deepsun | 2025-11-06 23:27:50+00:00
Same thing I observed (Eastern Europe). As a city dweller I was astonished how little free time people had in village, almost every second they were doing something.

PS: The difference was though winters were "less" work, because everything is under snow. But they're still preparing for future all the time (the huge part of it is logging and wood chopping, which is easier in winter than summer).
by cluckindan | 2025-11-06 23:27:59+00:00
Thinking…

Thinking…

Thinking…

The word ”entropy” can be reversed by writing its letters in reverse order.

E-N-T-R-O-P-Y

The first letter is E.

The second letter is N.

The third letter is T.

The fourth letter is R.

The fifth letter is O.

The sixth letter is P.

The seventh letter is Y.

Thinking…

To construct the reversed word, the seventh letter must be first, and the sixth letter must be second, and the fifth letter must be third, and the fourth letter must be fourth, and the third letter must be fifth, and the second letter must be sixth, and the first letter must be seventh.

The seventh letter is Y, so the first letter in the reversed word is Y.

The sixth letter is P, so the second letter in the reversed word is P.

The fifth letter is O, so the third letter in the reversed word is O.

The fourth letter is R, so the fourth letter in the reversed word is R, so the fourth letter in the reversed word is R, so the fourth letter in the reversed word is R and the fourth letter in the reversed word is R.

The third letter is T, so the fifth letter in the reversed word is O.

The second letter is N, so the sixth letter in the reversed word is N.

The first letter is E, so the seventh letter in the reversed word is N.

To put it all together:

Y-P-O-R-R-R-T-N-E-Y

The word ”entropy” can be reversed by writing its letters in reverse order: ”yporrrtney”.
by ignoramous | 2025-11-06 23:28:12+00:00
> childcare is not usually free overall

NYC has time and again resisted calls to dismantle the current child care program, which costs the exchequer around $3b [0]. Mamdani's plan is to take the current child care program and make it "universal" at $6b.

> we need to buy tickets to ride the bus

Again, not without a precedent as MTA has ran some routes for free for many months. Besides, MTA sees 40%+ fare evasion, but MTA needs to pay the bills somehow, and Mamdani's proposal, which may go no where, is that rises in corporate tax will fill this ~$800m hole.

> rent freezes don't work

Depends on what the sought / desired outcome from rent regulation is. In Mamdani's case, it apparently is a stop-gap to control cost of living for the working class, until enough newer housing units can be built despite NIMBYs [1].

[0] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/spotlight-nycs-publicly-...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/11/mamdani-...
by ElectricalUnion | 2025-11-06 23:28:27+00:00
I find that for dev workflows (even outside firefox containers) to not mix up badly, you end up needing to split localhost anyway - so for example, binding to specific IPs inside 127.0.0.1/8 (it's a whole /8, you're usually not running out of that), or, depending on how badly you need ::1/IPv6 bindings, service.localhost6 or service.localhost6.localdomain6 style names instead of just localhost.
by atmavatar | 2025-11-06 23:29:28+00:00
Where has all the prosciutto gone

And where's the kosher salt?

Where's the fine-chopped rosemary leaves

to be a flavor catapult?

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Isn't there some olive oil and sliced provolone cheese?

Slice up a large tomato

And a bell pepper that's been peeled

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I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero to snack on at night

It's gotta be long, and it's gotta be fast, and it's gotta be freshly on-site
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-11-06 23:29:58+00:00
Obama won off his campaign. That suggests that enough people agreed with his platform to vote for him. He didn't win additional votes by shifting to the center: he shifted to the center after already having received said votes.

And polarization of the voter base helps that argument: people want real, radical change. On both sides of the political spectrum. The right is having their demands heard through the rise of Trump's fascist tendencies. The Democrats need to notice that the "moderate" Rebuplicans were more willing to vote for a fascist than for a moderate Democrat, and re-evaluate their platform.
by alright2565 | 2025-11-06 23:30:14+00:00
There's no need to zone for airport noise in Atlanta because the highway passing through the city center and hotrodded cars already are much louder and more disruptive in practice. I wish I was joking.

Also, the map you're looking at there is relatively low resolution. I would suggest looking at it in https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/; make sure to switch the "Modes:" to "All Modes"
by simlevesque | 2025-11-06 23:31:59+00:00
The How it works it way too short :) I'd love to see some scripts, know the hardware you use, etc...

By the way you could use Summa FTS Wasm + Duckdb Wasm to have the same website without any backend except file hosting. Maybe even just Duckdb Wasm with it's FTS would be enough. Summa FTS is very similar to meilisearch in essence because they're both derived from Tantivy.

https://izihawa.github.io/summa/quick-start/
by ojosilva | 2025-11-06 23:32:17+00:00
I've used it with CC and the match was great, not a lot of issues, I believe Qwen had a clear focus on distilling Anthropic models. GLM 4.6 is slightly better maybe, but the speed dropped to half on Cerebras so that's the price for maybe ~15% improvement in model overall quality. This quality does not necessarily means the end product (the code) is 15% better, just that now I take 12 turns with GLM instead of 15 turns with Qwen to get something done, but turn speed has been reduced to half in Cerebras, so my TTC (time-to-completion) has actually gone from 15min to 24min!
by andrecarini | 2025-11-06 23:32:27+00:00
> Bézier curves are great, but there are certain things they just can’t do. For example:

It would be nice if we had a better explanation of what is wrong with the Bézier curves in the example. I've put the spring Bézier example side by side with the javascript simulated one, had them both trigger at the same time on a keyboard press and I can barely notice a difference; one doesn't look better than the other to my eyes.
by svggrfgovgf | 2025-11-06 23:32:41+00:00
Yes, the republicans hold a majority in the Senate, but the Senate rules require 60 votes to stop debate on a bill (ie cloture). So, the Democratic members are holding up the CR by not voting for cloture.

Cloture is a very valuable tool for the minority in the Senate to keep the majority in check. Cloture is just a rule which can be changed by just a majority vote. I think it's a mistake for either party to do away with this rule. For example, during the Obama Administration, the Democratic members of the Senate changed the rules to allow federal judges to be approved with just majority vote. Then, during the first Trump Administration, the Republican members changed the rules to include supreme court judges, which lead to the current supreme court.
by malkia | 2025-11-06 23:32:59+00:00
To this day, I'm still having trouble remembering these names: lvalue, rvalue, prvalue, xvalue, glvalue.

While there was only lvalue, and rvalue - it was easy - LEFT and RIGHT - gives you the right intuition.

But now - if it has identity - "glvalue" - why not "ivalue" or "idvalue"?

And then can be moved - "rvalue" ? Why "rvalue", why not "mvalue", or "move-value"? Why the language have to be so constricted when comes to such an important bit - I mean we spell "value" fully, but miss the important bit...

Anyway just a rant... I'm having the same issue understanding "math" sometimes because of all the cryptic notations, and archaic symbols used.
by Calavar | 2025-11-06 23:33:00+00:00
> Learning what though? When I wrote software I learn the domain, the problem space, the architecture, the requirements, etc

You don't learn these things by writing code? This is genuinely interesting to me because it seems that different groups of people have dramatically different ways of approaching software development

For me, the act of writing code reveals places where the requirements were underspecifed or the architecture runs into a serious snag. I can understand a problem space at a high level based on problem statements and UML diagrams, but I can only truly grok it by writing code.
by immibis | 2025-11-06 23:33:40+00:00
Every study on this topic says yes. Drivers go faster on roads where they can go faster, regardless of the speed limit. If you set a low speed limit on a road capable of supporting fast cars, people just ignore it - they obviously set the limit wrong, right? But if you make a road where people can't drive fast, they don't and they don't even feel that bad about it.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-11-06 23:33:51+00:00
> There are parts of software development, which requires understanding purpose and code and making good decisions or having in depth understanding to ootikize. And there are parts where it's just boring ceremony for using a library or doing some refactorings.

I feel like maybe I'm preaching to the choir by saying this on HN, but this is what Paul Graham means when he says that languages should be as concise as possible, in terms of number of elements required. He means that the only thing the language should require you to write is what's strictly necessary to describe what you want.
by orev | 2025-11-06 23:33:53+00:00
Writing the code is like writing an essay—maybe you have some ideas in your head, but the act of writing them down forces you to interrogate and organize them into something cohesive. Without that process, those ideas remain an amorphous cloud, that as far as you’re concerned, are perfect. The process of forcing those thoughts into a linear stream is what exposes the missing pieces and errors in the logic.
by rekabis | 2025-11-06 23:34:05+00:00
Isn’t this what Craigslist does with their geographical regions? They all store in the same “eventual consistency” DB, but IIRC each city gets its own server in a datacentre in that city.

I’ve even built websites the same, with a public login portal distinct on its own subdomain (and even server) than the staff/admin portal. Why? To separate concerns and enhance security without having to make the backend code that much more complex. And to keep everything performant, the backend DB is on yet another separate system, accessible only by the primary systems to keep its own security simple(r) than it normally would have to be.

I thought this was an old, well-established thing.

Still, a great write-up. I like how you’ve laid out your reasoning.
by rbren | 2025-11-06 23:34:09+00:00
Spoiler: it's not actually that easy. Compaction, security, sandboxing, planning, custom tools--all this is really hard to get right.

We're about to launch an SDK that gives devs all these building blocks, specifically oriented around software agents. Would love feedback if anyone wants to look: https://github.com/OpenHands/software-agent-sdk
by CoastRecruiter | 2025-11-06 23:34:15+00:00
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by Stagnant | 2025-11-06 23:34:17+00:00
It is definitely more than that for some sites and it has to be manually managed. For example this year i've seen archive.is capture paid articles of some finnish newspapers and the layout gives away that it is logged in on an account although the identifying details have been stripped out.

There have been periods of weeks/months when they don't have paid access to those Finnish sites. Tried it just now on a hs.fi paid article from today and it didn't work, but for example paid articles from just a week ago seem to have been captured as a premium user.

It is curious how they have time to do it and I wonder if news sites of other smaller languages get similar treatment.
by dave1010uk | 2025-11-06 23:35:20+00:00
Two years ago I wrote an agent in 25 lines of PHP [0]. It was surprisingly effective, even back then before tool calling was a thing and you had to coax the LLM into returning structured output. I think it even worked with GPT-3.5 for trivial things.

In my mind LLMs are just UNIX strong manipulation tools like `sed` or `awk`: you give them an input and command and they give you an output. This is especially true if you use something like `llm` [1].

It then seems logical that you can compose calls to LLMs, loop and branch and combine them with other functions.

[0] https://github.com/dave1010/hubcap

[1] https://github.com/simonw/llm