MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-11-21 15:08:16+00:00
I am not challenging the safety release mechanism. The OP already demonstrated that.

I am challenging the result of that release in your poorly framed experiment.

You explicitly sought to test 'a different side of the spectrum.' You cannot equate a holistic character judgment with a narrowed, specific medical safety protocol judgement.

A clean account without memories will solve the tie-breaker issue. It will not solve the poor experimental design.
by wadadadad | 2025-11-21 15:08:47+00:00
I don't think riddles are necessarily 'solvable' in that there's only one right answer; the very fact that they're open to interpretation, but when you get the 'right' answer it (hopefully) makes sense. So if an AI/LLM can answer such a nebulous thing correctly- that's more of the angle I was going at.

Regarding the wizards example, I'm a bit confused; I was thinking that the best way to judge answers for problem solving/creativity was for correctness. I'll think more on whether the 'thought process' counts in and of itself.

The answer to my riddle is 'ball'.
by RHSeeger | 2025-11-21 15:09:03+00:00
> Whereas if the test is unreasonably expensive then the government has a problem

There's a matter of scale here...

A single company doing the test(s) for itself

vs

The government paying for the tests for as many companies has happen to want to try their hand in the field.

Expecting the government to pay for testing for every company is, for most cases, unreasonable.
by sfifs | 2025-11-21 15:09:59+00:00
I'm very surprised the US doesn't seem to be taking the risk of Ukraine becoming a Nuclear Weapons state seriously. By now, they surely would have had time to develop get to the brink of weaponization as a backup plan - they've after all always had a nuclear industry. If they do so and offer cover to their neighbors who realize NATO may not be sufficient, we are in for interesting times.
by MatthiasPortzel | 2025-11-21 15:10:14+00:00
I also found the Zulip UX to be really confusing at first. The issue is messages show up in multiple places which is unintuitive for someone with a spacial brain like me. What I do (because I use Zulip every day) is read messages only in their threads. I click on one thread in the sidebar, get caught up, then move to the next thread. (This is also how I use Discord and Slack.) So I treat it as if channels contain threads which contain messages.

But Zulip’s default view is a list of all messages in all threads in all channels which has no context for the individual messages, like

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-21 15:10:32+00:00
They weren't specifically required to drop AWDL, they were just required to implement WiFi-Aware in such a manner that neither technology had an advantage.

In theory Apple could've maintained both, but that seems like a waste of development time to me.

I doubt they would've had to implement any specific protocol if they had just opened up AWDL, but I suppose they'd rather keep that closed to maintain the ability to guard their walled garden in non-EU devices.
by immibis | 2025-11-21 15:11:13+00:00
Can you explain what happened to Hind Rajab? She was the five year old girl who was the only survivor of a missile attack and managed to call emergency services, and so humanitarians called up Israel and agreed to clear a specific path where they wouldn't be shot so they could save the little girl, and they drove a van with a big red cross painted on top on that exact route, and when they got to the little girl and got out of the ambulance, they were all murdered by a precisely targeted missile aimed at the precise coordinates they gave to Israel, set for the precise time when the ambulance would get there, and there was nobody else around who could be a target since they all died in the first missile attack that only the little girl survived? Can you explain how that is not intentional targeting of civilians and medical personnel?

I suppose you'll just say it didn't happen, but if it did, the medics were Hamas.
by neom | 2025-11-21 15:11:19+00:00
The permission thing happens to me too, but very intermittently, usually a couple of hard refreshes of the tab clears it up, sometimes I need to delete the conversation I'd just tried to start and start a new conversation. I can't remember the exact message, sometime like you don't have permission or permission denied. If I had to guess it happens 1 in 5 sessions I load. The API key stuff would be a lot easier if it landed you on the correct page in the GCP portal when it directs you out of AI studio, I think that is the most confusing part of the experience, you end up on what seems like a random GCP billing page with no clear indication as to what it has to do with API keys.
by SkyBelow | 2025-11-21 15:11:38+00:00
>Some contries enforce regulations on what tyres are deemed road-legal, due to requirements on safety and minimum grip. It's also why it's illegal to drive around with bald tyres.

Yes, this is a good thing. Where it becomes bad is when someone says "Oh, we should stop that from happening, let's ban the sell of such tires." With no exception.

This isn't a problem unique to regulations and laws. In software development, it is very common for the user to not think about exceptions. The rare the exception, the more likely it is missed in the requirements. It is the same fundamental problem of not thinking about all the exception cases, just in different contexts. You also see this commonly in children learning math. They'll learn and blindly apply a rule, not remembering the exceptions they were told they need to handle (can't divide by zero being a very common one).
by z0r | 2025-11-21 15:11:56+00:00
Is the suggestion here to remove environmental regulations that make outsourcing to countries without regulations appealing? I'm not sure what problem that solves. Of course without discussing specific regulations it is hard to argue about anything - maybe there are useless environmental regulations that make lead battery recycling impossible in first world countries? Or maybe your line of reasoning just doesn't make sense, at least in this case. I don't think I'd want to live near a polluting lead battery recycling operation.
by foo-bar-bat | 2025-11-21 15:12:00+00:00
Lots of bees are dying suddenly, for multiple reasons. Here is a (sensationalized) summary:

https://youtu.be/qWsBZbnt_4A?si=3AcS7IdGT41gF598

Professional nerds in silicon valley and beyond might consider whether they can help, and how.

My understanding from long conversations with a beekeeper who has lost millions of bees, including entire colonies remote from agricultural and residential pesticides and artificial colony technology (which are some of the hypothesized causes blamed) is there is a mix of a) pathogens, and b) global supply chain homogeny distributing the pathogens mixed into various agricultural products eg mulch and soil, and c) environmental factors to include possibly RF which have been observed to destroy previously healthy colonies very quickly and then also scramble or interfere with the colony division/expansion process where a queen starts over. To include in some cases the queens apparently getting lost and/or leading astray their entire swarm of minion bees during the fragile process of relocating. This getting lost is apparently a new puzzling phenomenon.

Anyway, it would be bad if large fragile ecosystems upon which many species including ours depend, were deprived of key pollinators. There is probably some very smart insightful person or team here on HN who could help and profit from helping on a global scale.

Edit. Typos
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-11-21 15:12:22+00:00
> Government capture by big players who promote heavy regulation in order to eliminate smaller competition?

This is a meaningless statement without specifics. It has absolutely nothing concrete in it that would actually inform someone about what drives insulin production. It's a wrong and overly simplifies.

Are you really saying the regulations regarding the actual production of insulin is what drives up costs? We've been manufacturing insulin for > 100 years now.

And can you find a single resource that agrees with your assessment?

When you say "big players", you mean the top 3 right? Would regulating monopolies in the pharmaceutical industry maybe be a good thing?

Why do other counties pay less if it costs so much to make? Why does regulation in the US make US consumers pay more but not Europe, for example?

Do you think PBM's have any part to play in this? What about over-zealous patents by the monopoly at the top?

Do you have any actual experience in this field or are you just parroting talking points?
by kevincox | 2025-11-21 15:12:53+00:00
At they very least it will take time. Rotating is a fairly common operation, even simple photo viewers often have buttons to quickly rotate the image. Being able to do this efficently is beneficial.

You can also have other situations where this is useful like a primarily hardware pipeline that doesn't support rotation, but you can mark the rotation at the end. Although this is probably less of an issue for PNG than formats that typically come out of cameras and scanners.
by Gravityloss | 2025-11-21 15:12:54+00:00
1 acre-foot = 1200 cubic meters. That amount of wood chip is needed per day per machine. So perhaps 1000 medium trees worth per day, or 10,000 small trees. If it's waste chip then might make some sense on limited scale. If the conditions inside the mud are anoxic, then the chips don't turn into CO2.

It's also an alternative to wood trunks used as piles + earth/mud in between, like used in Venice. Venice is extremely dense, no space for cars or industry.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-21 15:13:12+00:00
> Anyone who's worked on a real software product knows that the "easy" bugs usually aren't actually easy (or else they would've been fixed already!).

Well, could be many reasons, "priorities" is usually the reason I see as the top reason for things like that to not be fixed immediately, rather than "we looked into it and it was hard". Second most popular reason is "workaround exists", and then after that probably something like "looks easy but isn't".

I think the solution would be to stop consider "easy-but-isn't" as easy bugs, even if they might appear so. So the "easy bugs" team would have their worklog, and if they discover one of those bugs weren't actually easy and would need large changes, reject it and push it somewhere else, and start working on something that is actually easy instead.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-21 15:13:50+00:00
I used all of my credits working on a PySide QT desktop app last weekend. What worked:

I first had Claude write an E2E testing framework that functioned a lot like Cypress, with tests using element selectors like Jquery and high level actions like 'click' with screenshots at every step.

Then I had Claude write an MCP server that could run the GUI in the background (headless in Claude's VM) and take screenshots, execute actions, etc. This gave Claude the ability to test the app in real time with visual feedback.

Once that was done, I was able to run half a dozen or more agents at the same time running in parallel working on different features. It was relatively easy to blow through credits at that point, especially since I think VM times counts so whenever I spent 4-5 min running the full e2e test suite that cost money. At the end of an agents run, I'd ask them to pull master and merge conflicts, then I'd watch the e2e tests run locally before doing manual acceptance testing.
by salemh | 2025-11-21 15:14:20+00:00
The efficacy of anti-depressants has been consistently over-inflated, so generations were poisoned with side-effects: suicidal ideation, homicidal tendencies, etc.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20616621/

Results: Meta-analyses of FDA trials suggest that antidepressants are only marginally efficacious compared to placebos and document profound publication bias that inflates their apparent efficacy. These meta-analyses also document a second form of bias in which researchers fail to report the negative results for the pre-specified primary outcome measure submitted to the FDA, while highlighting in published studies positive results from a secondary or even a new measure as though it was their primary measure of interest. The STARD analysis found that the effectiveness of antidepressant therapies was probably even lower than the modest one reported by the study authors with an apparent progressively increasing dropout rate across each study phase.*
by zamadatix | 2025-11-21 15:15:35+00:00
If you retry until it gives the answer you want then it only serves to amplify your bias. If you retry and see how often it agrees with itself then it serves to show there is no confidence in an answer all around.

It's a bit of a crutch for LLMs lacking the ability to just say "I'm not sure" because doing so is against how they are rewarded in training.
by beala | 2025-11-21 15:15:55+00:00
I don't understand why people downvote questions like this rather than just answer the question. It's a perfectly reasonable question imo given that it's not clear how this feature is being disabled. It appears that most of this is based on reddit speculation and the OEMs don't provide a definitive answer.

Meta: recently it seems like the community has been way too loose with the downvote button, but I'm not sure if I'm just noticing it more because it's getting on my nerves, or if there has actually been a change in behavior.
Show HN: Cossistant – open-source and open components support widget for React
by frenchriera | 2025-11-21 15:16:32+00:00
I built Cossistant as a lightweight, open-source alternative to Intercom/Zendesk for NextJS/React devs. You can embed it with a simple NPM command and under 10 lines of code.

The goal was so far to be a very very good human to human support platform, the next goal is to enable AI agents to auto-handle 80% of queries (train on your docs and knowledge) and eventually escalate to humans when needed.

Everything is customizable with Tailwind or your custom React components.

Support tools are bloated, pricey and never FEEL / LOOK like your product, this is why it's being shipped as part of your stack and not coming from someone else's.

It's already generally available!

Feedback/debates are welcome, what's missing?
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-21 15:16:43+00:00
Printer manufacturers make it difficult. There are standard printing protocols but printer manufacturers will disable those until you've installed their ad-filled, subscription-filled app. If it weren't for the industrial sabotage, just plugging a USB printer into a computer or clicking "add printer" from a network browser would just work out of the box.

Mopria pretty much universally fixes printing on all competent printers by smoothing over the rough edges of IPP.
by mooreds | 2025-11-21 15:17:54+00:00
I work for FusionAuth.

We have lambdas (basically JavaScript code that can make API calls[0] and be managed and tested[1]) that execute at fixed points in the auth lifecycle:

- before a login is allowed

- before a token is created

- after a user returns from a federated login (SAML, OIDC, etc)

- before a user registers

And more[2].

And we're currently working on one for "before an MFA challenge is issued"[3].

There are some limitations[4]. We don't allow, for instance, loading of arbitrary JavaScript libraries.

Not sure if that meets all your needs, but thought it was worth mentioning.

0: https://fusionauth.io/docs/extend/code/lambdas/lambda-remote...

1: https://fusionauth.io/docs/extend/code/lambdas/testing

2: full list here: https://fusionauth.io/docs/extend/code/lambdas/

3: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-issues/issues/2309

4: https://fusionauth.io/docs/extend/code/lambdas/#limitations
by jdranczewski | 2025-11-21 15:17:56+00:00
I think in your first point the difference is between "calculation" and "conversion". For calculations, it's generally accepted that arbitrary numbers are possible and a calculator may have to come out. For conversions, it's nice to be able to say that 1250m is 1.250km - I bump into conversions much more commonly than having to do calculations, and it's nice to be able to do them in my head.

I don't think the second point is particularly valid. The SI unit is a kg - which is weird, but always consistent. All Physics units in metric involve kilograms. I will grant that it's unusual that it has a prefix, but still - if you know the 7 base SI units (including the kg), the rest follows reasonably, and conversions are trivial compared to Imperial (orders of magnitude vs arbitrary multipliers).

Fundamentally yeah, what one's familiar with is the system that feels most intuitive, but I don't think these specific arguments against metric work super well
by superkuh | 2025-11-21 15:18:28+00:00
It could get us out of this mess after a decade of it's hardware encoder/decoder being built into things. If we all just switched to it now, if everything shipped with hardware encoder for AV1 now magically, it would still be a decade before the pre-existing computers/devices were no longer used and AV1 could actually be a default. That's only become possible with HEVC recently.

I do look forwards to an open future. But it's no quick solution.
by mzur | 2025-11-21 15:18:32+00:00
Browsers starting to rotate images based on EXIF is such a pain. I maintain an image annotation tool and all of a sudden images were shown differently to users depending on the browser they used. Then you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to ignore the EXIF orientation again. In some cases you are not allowed to see if the orientation was changed for security reasons. And then the only way to control this is through a CSS attribute which only works if the element is in the DOM.
Ask HN: Are you still working with a website that requires Internet Explorer?
by urnicus | 2025-11-21 15:19:03+00:00
I ran across one of these warnings the other day while working with a government website, "For best results, we suggest using Internet Explorer".

That warning was so common during the 2000's. Nowadays, it is like cat nip to me when I run across one. Does anybody still need to interact with one of these types of websites? Are you able to interact directly with it or do you need to utilize a virtual machine? I'm so curious.
by jl6 | 2025-11-21 15:19:14+00:00
Is there any chance that this is part of a good-faith attempt to apply pressure to the patent pool consortium*? They are presumably now missing out on a substantial license fee revenue stream, and may wish to regain Dell and HP as licensees by lowering the price? There must be some thread of rationality over at patent pool HQ that knows this is just going to hyper-accelerate the migration away from HEVC to other codecs, as well as make VVC completely toxic?

* Not sure if consortium is the right word. Racket maybe?
by doublerabbit | 2025-11-21 15:19:21+00:00
The CnC machine is aiding in teach, it's not doing it for you. It's being used a tool to increase your efficiency, learning. If you were asking the CnC machine what is the best frequency and to set the speed of the spindle you're still putting in your own work. Your learning the skills of the machine via another method and no different as if you worked with a master carpenter were asking questions.

An electric wheel for clay making is going to result in an quicker process in making a bowl than using a foot spindle. You've still need to put the effort in to get the results you want to achieve but it shows in time.

Using LLMs for let me do this for you is where it gets out of hand and you've not really accomplished anything other an elementary "I made this".
by rokumar510 | 2025-11-21 15:20:37+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the creator of Wozz.

I've been doing K8s consulting for Series B startups and kept seeing the same pattern: massive over-provisioning (like 8GB RAM limits on apps using 500MB), but no easy way to audit it without installing agents like Kubecost or CAST AI.

The problem: Security teams block agent installs for 3-6 months. The waste just sits there burning money.

So I built this. It's a bash script that runs locally using your existing kubectl context. It: - Compares resource requests vs actual usage (kubectl top) - Finds orphaned load balancers, unused storage, missing requests - Anonymizes pod names locally (SHA256 hashes) before exporting - Generates a report you can share

It's ~300 lines of bash + Python, MIT licensed. You can audit the code before running.

Try it: ```bash curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WozzHQ/wozz/main/scripts/w... | bash ```

Or clone first if you don't trust curl | bash: ```bash git clone https://github.com/WozzHQ/wozz.git cd wozz bash scripts/wozz-audit.sh ```

Most common finding: "AI-generated YAML" with overly generous limits. ChatGPT/Copilot tends to suggest 8GB when 1GB would work.

I'm doing free analysis for the first 50 clusters (email output to audit@wozz.io). Would love feedback on: 1. Is the anonymization approach sufficient for your security team? 2. What other cost patterns should I detect? 3. Would a GitHub Action version be useful?

Code: https://github.com/WozzHQ/wozz Website: https://wozz.io

Happy to answer questions!
by pona-a | 2025-11-21 15:21:28+00:00
You've prompted it to play simulated democracy. Overwhelmingly the kind of person role-playing as a state on the internet will be a civically-minded liberal. So the language model trained to mimic webtext recalled this pattern.

If you've instead structured the conversation first around complaints, bringing up whatever set of issues you're dissatisfied with, you could probably nudge it towards any off-center position, tapping into the region of latent space corresponding to political discussions instead of political simulation.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-21 15:22:01+00:00
WiFi Direct has been in Android for at least a decade, maybe even a decade and a half: https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/wifi/wifi...

The code was added to Android with Android 4.0 back in 2011.

You can check for WiFi Direct networks manually in Settings > Network & internet > Internet > Network preferences > Wifi Direct. If you live in a city, you can probably find one or two printers in the neighbourhood advertising a WiFi Direct channel you can use to print over.
by lacksconfidence | 2025-11-21 15:22:23+00:00
I think the mistake you have is starting from the wrong premise. The premise, IMO, should be that OP has been harassed, demeaned, and otherwise been made to feel bad for 20+ years for using the units they were raised with. At least that's my experience as an American.

Most people don't seem to care about the units, what the haters care about (not you, but the general experience) is having an opportunity to proclaim how much better they are than other people, mostly over an accident of birth.