MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dtkav | 2025-11-24 21:49:29+00:00
I work on one of the third party plugins enabling real-time collaboration in Obsidian called Relay [0].

We have a novel architecture where you can optionally register a self-hosted relay server with our control plane for complete privacy for all of your docs and attachments.

We know that people typically prefer to have a unified vault, so you can share individual folders with different groups of people within your vault.

Relay is free for markdown docs up to 3 users, and then we have a hobby plan which includes attachment storage (especially popular with D&D and TTRPG players), as well as per-seat plans for businesses and universities. There are a couple of cloud-only alternatives like peerdraft and screen garden as well.

[0] https://relay.md
Show HN: Open-Source Visual Wiki Your Coding Agent Writes for You
by theo_bazille | 2025-11-24 21:49:31+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo. A couple of days ago we released the early repo for Davia and were surprised by how much feedback came in right away. We decided to turn it into a full open-source package you can run locally.

Davia is designed for coding agents to generate an editable internal wiki for your project. It focuses on producing high-level internal documentation: the kind you often need to share with non-technical teammates or engineers onboarding onto a codebase. Writing this kind of documentation takes forever, diagrams are often missing, and most tools don’t let you edit everything locally or integrate smoothly with your workflow.

Davia is fully open source. It produces an editable workspace: – Text lives in a Notion-like editor – Diagrams live on editable whiteboards – Everything runs locally and can be modified either in your IDE or in the workspace

One thing people found especially interesting is that you can delegate the documentation to your IDE’s AI agent. Davia handles all the heavy lifting. Your agent just writes the docs, and Davia turns them into structured pages, diagrams, and visuals.

The project is still early, and we’d love feedback, ideas, and examples of how you handle internal documentation today.

GitHub: https://github.com/davialabs/davia Discord: https://discord.gg/A79mEzP8me
by delichon | 2025-11-24 21:50:04+00:00
> In 1995, Fraidy Reiss was forced into a marriage by her Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. Reiss was just 19 at the time.

The essay includes exactly one anecdote of child marriage ... which isn't child marriage by its own definition. If age 18 isn't old enough for consent, what is? Forced marriage isn't legal anywhere in the US.
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-24 21:50:11+00:00
Back when ChatGPT Plugins were a thing a built a small framework for auto-generating plugins that would make ChatGPT incessantly plug (hehe) a given movie:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6924d192-46c4-8004-966c-cc0e7720e5...

https://chatgpt.com/share/6924d16f-78a8-8004-8b44-54551a7a26...

https://chatgpt.com/share/6924d2be-e1ac-8004-8ed3-2497b17bf6...

They would also modify other plugins/tools just by being in the context window. Like the user asking for 'snacks' would cause the shopping plugin to be called, but with a search for 'mario themed snacks' instead of 'snacks'
by dijit | 2025-11-24 21:51:21+00:00
I was hit pretty hard when Russia was trying to block telegram; I don’t buy that it was a coverup. And there is only a single (anonymous) source for that whole article.

That said, would be good to rely on no central authority and use Matrix instead; or at least put OTR/Ratchet on top of Telegram with custom clients.

TG does not seem hostile to third party clients the same way Whatsapp/Signal are.

It would otherwise serve the USA for people to prefer Signal over TG (due to jurisdiction).
by alephnerd | 2025-11-24 21:51:46+00:00
> Then why did I never took an Indian or Chinese made paracetamol, but all generics in my EU country I ever took from the pharmacy ware locally made

Because it was synthesized using Chinese and Indian sourced "Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients" (APIs) [0], both of whom synthesize around 80% of all APIs required by European pharma manufacturers.

The EU is trying to rectify this, especially after COVID when India decided to stop all exports of APIs and pharmaceuticals to Europe in order to prioritize domestic production [1], but it still takes time (they started in 2021, and it'll probably take another 5-7 years to build the critical mass needed to rebuild a domestic ecosystem).

> Meanwhile I can't buy a locally made laptop, smartphone, GPU, it's all Asian made goods

Becuase, as I have kept elucidating on multiple occasions on this thread, the entire ecosystem for these goods simply does not exist in Europe, and no European member state is interested in opening their pocketbooks to subsidize manufacturers to move to Europe in order to begin manufacturing the intermediate parts needed.

Countries like those across ASEAN, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, the US, and India offer millions to billions of dollars in hard cash, land, tax subsidizes, or a mix of all 3 in order to attract or retain manufacturers. EU member states simply does not do the same for electronics. Some of them absolutely do so for biopharma (such as Denmark), but by and large they tend to be exceptions of the rule.

> Pharma gets special privilege over industries like cars, phones or semiconductors, since it deals with people's lives

Ime, Pharma PLIs and incentives are fairly comparable to those that would be provided to electronic industries as well. The same tax sops India gave to attract Apple to TN were similar to those that India gave Novartis and Bayer decades ago, and China has been using the same subsidy program it used to attract electronics manufacturing to attract and become a major player in the biopharma space.

[0] - https://pharmacia.pensoft.net/article/172383/

[1] - https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/05/india-vaccine-heist-shod...
by nebula8804 | 2025-11-24 21:51:53+00:00
Drive it and park it in front of the GM's headquarters. Do a cannonball run. These guys are Youtubers so I expect lots of great content. However I fear some of the more exciting ideas may not come to bear because "Influencers"/Press are usually afraid of OEM cutting off access. Hopefully these guys aren't in that group.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-24 21:52:19+00:00
> When I zoom all the way out, all of consumer computation has existed as sort of an addendum or ancillary organ to the big customers: government, large corporations, etc.

Perfectly stated. I think comments like the one above come from a mentality that the individual consumer should be the center of the computing universe and big purchasers should be forced to live with the leftovers.

What's really happening is the big companies are doing R&D at incredible rates and we're getting huge benefits by drafting along as consumers. We wouldn't have incredible GPUs in our gaming systems and even cell phones if the primary market for these things was retail entertainment purchases that people make every 5 years.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-24 21:53:09+00:00
The 1994 Fantastic 4 movie was the same deal. Produced for $1M, never released. I guess it's hard to make a legal standard for "actually trying" with a license, but it is really weird to see that you can keep these licenses alive with these zombie products.

Another less token one I'm aware of is the Marvel themed land of Universal Orlando. Universal has an indefinite license to the IP as long as they don't 'mishandle' it. An easy way to make it very clear that you haven't done that is to just never change anything. So all the rides, signage, etc is carefully maintained but identical to how it was 20 years ago.
by oersted | 2025-11-24 21:53:14+00:00
It's great, but that's not what I meant.

Farthest Frontier has the kind of strict grid of Anno, and is reminiscent of the older more predictable and mechanical pathing of classics like Caesar or Pharaoh. Newer indie city builders like Lethis or Nebuchadnezzar have revived this style. But transporters still move independently through the grid of paths, the main factors are distance from producer to consumer and how many stops a transporter takes in their route.

But in Settlers 1 and 2 you literally build a graph with buildings as nodes and paths as edges with a strict throughput limits per link. It's quite interesting to optimize the resource flows through this graph. It's a lot like designing a good network, except that you have tons of types of resources moving to tons of different producers and consumers, with long multi-step supply chains. It's closer to Factorio perhaps in feel, but there are significant differences.
by sershe | 2025-11-24 21:53:24+00:00
Another vacuous statement with no relevance to previous claims. Human societies existed for ages without, for example, any welfare state to speak of, while also being much more collectivist in a way distinct from modern statism. So what?

As of the time frame relevant to the discussion, welfare state still grows nearly non stop, living standards for most are improving nearly non stop, and the tax burden on the rich is, at least, not decreasing much. I'm still right and you are still saying nothing but vibes, vague insults and platitudes. And data unrelated to specific claims, I guess. Like nearly all modern left/rightists, and bottom-tier creationists back in the aughts.
by gunnarmorling | 2025-11-24 21:53:29+00:00
Great to see more love for using Lucene on Lambda via GraalVM native binaries! Explored that same idea few years back for my personal blog [1]. It worked pretty well, but I moved eventually away from Lambda as I wanted to close down my personal AWS account. One thing I always meant to explore was embedding the (in my case small) Lucene index directly into the binary image using Lucene's RAMDirectory via Quarkus' bytecode recording machinery, but I never got to it.

[1] https://www.morling.dev/blog/how-i-built-a-serverless-search...
by pojzon | 2025-11-24 21:53:52+00:00
Truth is you still need human to review all of it, fix it where needed, guide it when it hallucinate and write correct instructions and prompts.

Without knowledge how to use this “PROBALISTIC” slot machine to have better results ypu are only wasting energy those GPUs need to run and answer questions.

Majority of ppl use LLMs incorrectly.

Majority of ppl selling LLMs as a panacea for everyting are lying.

But we need hype or the bubble will burst taking whole market with it, so shuushh me.
by ballpug | 2025-11-24 21:54:37+00:00
For Cargo.toml, an error: invalid basic string, expected `"` for 10:11 std/parking_lot_mutexes.

Sourcing VS, documentation indicates Python, C/C++, GitHubCopilot, and an Extension Pack for Java in top extensions.

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs
by onion2k | 2025-11-24 21:54:41+00:00
It's not great for the teacher though. They're the ones who will truly suffer from the proliferation of AI - increased complexity of work around spotting cheating 'solved' by a huge increase in time pressure. Faced with that teachers will have three options: accept AI detection as gospel without appeals and be accused of unfairness or being bad at the job by parents, spend time on appeals to the detriment of other duties leading to more accusations of being bad at the job, or leave teaching and get an easier (and probably less stressful and higher paid) job. Given those choices I'd pick the third option.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-24 21:54:44+00:00
> Unfortunately, software got slower more quickly than hardware got quicker.

Hard disagree. A $600 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM runs everything insanely faster than even my $5000 company-purchased developer laptops from 10 years ago. And yes, even when I run Slack, Visual Studio Code, Spotify, and a gazillion Chrome tabs.

The HN rhetoric about modern computing being slow is getting strangely disconnected from the real world. Cheap computers are super fast like they've never been before, even with modern software.
by zknill | 2025-11-24 21:54:45+00:00
This will work, so long as people trust the results are not (too) skewed by paid ads.

I recently used Claude and ChatGPT for exactly one of the examples; comparing different bikes to buy. They could both look up the bike specs and geometry online and tell me what the 1 degree difference in head angle or 5mm difference in reach would feel like to ride. They both did really well.

But I used them only (with cross checks) because I was fairly sure they were giving me unbiased info. As soon as the "discovery" phase of this shopping research becomes polluted with adverts, the product becomes much less useful. The same as "no one trusts online reviews anymore".
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-24 21:54:55+00:00
I think you misunderstood the person you're responding to. They did not say there was some higher force beyond the physical pieces.

What they're saying is that the brain is really really complicated and our understanding of biology is far too rudimentary right now to be saying "yes, absolutely, 100% sure that we know the nature of consciousness from this one measurement of one type of signal".

* Neurons are very complex and all have unique mutations from one another

* Hundreds of other types of cells in the brain interact with them and each other in ways we don't understand

* The various other parts of the body chemically interact with the brain in ways we don't understand yet, like the gut microbiome

Trying to flatten all of consciousness to one measurement is just not sufficient. It's like trying to simulate the entire planet as a perfect sphere of uniform density. That works OK for some things but falls apart for more complex questions.
by adidoit | 2025-11-24 21:56:11+00:00
This is exactly why I'm focusing on job readiness and remediation rather than the education system. I think working all this out is simply too complex for a system with a lot of vested interest and that doesn't really understand how AI is evolving. There's an arms race between students, teachers, and institutions that hire the students.

It's simply too complex to fix. I think we'll see increased investment by corporates who do keep hiring on remediating the gaps in their workforce.

Most elite institutions will probably increase their efforts spent on interviewing including work trials. I think we're already seeing this with many of the elite institutions talking about judgment, emotional intelligence critical thinking as more important skills.

My worry is that hiring turns into a test of likeability rather than meritocracy (everyone is a personality hire when cognition is done by the machines)

Source: I'm trying to build a startup (Socratify) a bridge for upskilling from a flawed education system to the workforce for early stage professionals
by srean | 2025-11-24 21:56:16+00:00
I was expecting Mathologer's book when you mentioned shoelaces. Thanks for the link

https://www.ams.org/books/mawrld/024/mawrld024-endmatter.pdf

> whereas old search engines would find it right away

One of my pet peeves is how Google makes it hard to get at the url to share directly from the search results. Yes there's the share link but that does not link to the original.
by dave1010uk | 2025-11-24 21:57:11+00:00
The Claude Opus 4.5 system card [0] is much more revealing than the marketing blog post. It's a 150 page PDF, with all sorts of info, not just the usual benchmarks.

There's a big section on deception. One example is Opus is fed news about Anthropic's safety team being disbanded but then hides that info from the user.

The risks are a bit scary, especially around CBRNs. Opus is still only ASL-3 (systems that substantially increase the risk of catastrophic misuse) and not quite at ASL-4 (uplifting a second-tier state-level bioweapons programme to the sophistication and success of a first-tier one), so I think we're fine...

I've never written a blog post about a model release before but decided to this time [1]. The system card has quite a few surprises, so I've highlighted some bits that stood out to me (and Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini).

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-5-system-card

[1] https://dave.engineer/blog/2025/11/claude-opus-4.5-system-ca...
by plastic-enjoyer | 2025-11-24 21:57:14+00:00
> Train a decoder on rich neural recordings, then test it on entirely new thoughts chosen under blinded conditions.

There have been enough studies about this and the result is mostly the same: it's difficult to nearly impossible to reliable decode neural recordings that differ from the distribution of neural recordings that the decoder was trained on. There are a lot of reasons why this happens, electrical activity being insufficient is not one of them.
by pmdr | 2025-11-24 21:57:18+00:00
So, like, we were already pretty much priced out of higher-end graphic cards, and now it's happening to RAM. All this while jobs are disappearing, layoffs are ongoing and CEOs are touting AI's 'capabilities' left and right.

Next is probably CPUs, even if AIs don't use them that much, manufactures will shift production to something more profitable, then gouge prices so that only enterprises will pay for them.

What's next? Electricity?

Where the f*k is all the abundance that AI was supposed to bring into the world? /rant
by pwython | 2025-11-24 21:57:37+00:00
I was excited to see this today, as I just finished a new website in Figma last night and planned to have CC help build it out with the Figma MCP today. CC started up with Opus 4.5 and... Not off to a good start. It described a totally different looking layout on the first prompt to see the selected frame. I asked why:

You're right to call that out. Looking back at what happened:

1. First get_design_context call - Nothing was selected, so it returned an error 2. Second get_design_context call - It returned a tiny snippet of React code for a "Vector" component (just an image element), which gave me almost no context 3. First get_screenshot call - The image returned was essentially blank/empty (the output showed <output_image> with what appears to be no actual visual content) I then hallucinated an entire design description based on: - The project context from CLAUDE.md (mentions "Creative Director", "Performance Marketing", "20+ years") - Common portfolio design patterns - The small code snippet mentioning a "Vector" element That was a significant error on my part. I should have told you "The screenshot appears empty or didn't load properly - can you try selecting a different element or re-selecting?" instead of fabricating a description.
by NYCNews | 2025-11-24 21:58:16+00:00
Thousands of Bronx Residents Went to Yankee Stadium to Receive Food Vouchers for the Holiday

Bronx Voice November 24, 2025

BRONX LOCAL NEWS - The New York Yankees and Krasdale Foods teamed up to host their annual Thanksgiving Food Voucher Giveaway at Yankee Stadium.

Approximately 4,000 $25 food vouchers were distributed to Bronx residents to assist local families in preparing their Thanksgiving meals. The vouchers may be redeemed at participating Bronx-based C-Town and Bravo supermarkets.

“I need it very much,” said local resident Letitia Martin. “It’s a good thing because it shows that they care about the community.”

“It’s a priority of our organization to work with our neighbors, our network of community based partners, our business partners to make a difference,” said Brian Smith - Senior Vice President, Corporate/Community Relations, New York Yankees. “These are our neighbors this is our community. We want to give back and work with our neighbors to promote change and spread and promote holiday cheer.”
by Vegenoid | 2025-11-24 21:58:27+00:00
> Video is only limited by our capacity to produce enough of it at a decent quality, otherwise humanity is definitely not looking back fondly at BBSes and internet forums

Video is limited by playback speed. It is a time-dependent format. Efforts can be made to enable video to be viewable at a range of speeds, but they are always somewhat constrained. Controlling video playback to slow down and rewatch certain parts is just not as nice as dealing with the same thing in text (or static images), where it’s much easier to linger and closely inspect parts that you care more about or are struggling to understand. Likewise, it’s easier to skim text than video.

This is why many people prefer transcripts, or articles, or books over videos.

I seriously doubt that people would want to switch text-based forums to video if only video were easier to make. People enjoy writing for the way it inspires a different kind of communication and thought. People like text so much that they write in journals that nobody will ever see, just because it helps them organize their thoughts.
by lysace | 2025-11-24 21:58:36+00:00
You didn't even bother to do the most basic amount of research on the specific situation before posting those links, did you?

I don't understand how you think what is entially spam will bolster your cause.

It's just plain rude. But somehow it's common, even with normally intelligent people like you. Do think a few extra steps, next time, please.
by saghm | 2025-11-24 21:58:44+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful response! I also had not been aware someone posted this to reddit, so I appreciate the heads-up on that as well.

I was not aware of at least some of the potential work being considered on these things, so I'm definitely going to start reading more about each of the things you've linked over the next couple of days. Somehow I was under the false impression that there wasn't much appetite for the types of changes I've been hoping for, so all of this is awesome to hear!
by rdl | 2025-11-24 21:58:45+00:00
I insure like >$3B worth actively I think (which includes some additional power equipment, hvac, etc. below the scale of main site transformers, etc.). If you count former equipment which has been removed from service over the years it is probably about $5-10B for Bitcoin in total? (Not pulling the BDX to look at specific breakdown of miners vs AI)
by Pxtl | 2025-11-24 21:58:54+00:00
Right. And that particular use-case sounds nice, but realistically this new format will not be exclusively used in that particular case.

Dealing with basically another .webp-like format in those cases (one that might be a backwards-compatible jpeg or might not and determining that can only be done by inspecting the file contents) doesn't sound super fun.

So ideally, to make up names, I wish they'd used separate extensions and so a ".jp3" is a file that can be downconverted to a jpg and you could get a browser extension to automate that for you if you wanted, and a ".jxl" is the new file format that's functionally another ".webp"-like thing to deal with and all the pain-points that implies.
by stavros | 2025-11-24 21:59:15+00:00
When reading the article, I thought this would be an LLM call, ie the main agent would call `find_tool("I need something that can create GitHub PRs")`, and then a subagent with all the MCP tools loaded in its context would return the names of the suitable ones.

I guess regex/full text search works too, but the LLM would be much less sensitive to keywords.
Show HN: DataTalk CLI, Query CSV and Excel in Plain English Using LLM and DuckDB
by vtsaplin | 2025-11-24 21:59:16+00:00
Hi everyone. I built this tool because I often needed quick insights from CSV or Excel files without writing SQL. It uses an LLM to generate SQL and DuckDB to execute locally. All computation stays on the user's machine since only the schema is sent to the model.

Happy to answer any questions or receive feedback.