MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-12 16:54:37+00:00
I think that happens when the rift between producers and consumers require some learning to jump from one to the other, at least professionally.

Some of the people who produce videos for a living require vastly different tools than someone who needs to trim the edges of a short home video clip, so the the UI and UX has to be different, otherwise these people won't be able to effectively do their job.

For writing, everyone pretty much does it the same way. You sit down, you enter characters with a keyboard, and sometimes to remove/edit stuff. Of course, there are professional tools for people who write stories for a living, that helps you keep track of arcs, characters, environments and so on, and many professionals do use them.

So while it looks like "Ah, Word actually works for everyone, why can't we do the same for video?" there are still professionals who need tools specifically for "writing stories" or "writing screenplays", and same in other areas :)
by dxdm | 2025-11-12 16:54:38+00:00
> I wouldn't even put this in the "somewhat amusing" category. This is really in the 16 pieces of allowed flair category as far as I am concerned.

There you are, the perfect quote for you to print out and stick on your laptop!

Turns out you were just waiting for the right one all along. And you thought you just dropped in here to be grumpy. Oh, no, we have stickers here for everyone. =)
by reducesuffering | 2025-11-12 16:54:43+00:00
Not just social media, all media. Spotify will steer music towards AI generated freebies. And it will get so generically pop, that all your friends will like it, like people mostly enjoy pop now. And when your stubborn self still wants to listen to "handmade" music and discuss it with someone else who would still appreciate it, well, that's where your AI friend comes in.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-12 16:54:47+00:00
Slightly off-topic, but seeing that this one is behind a paywall, I looked at Deepmind's site and was surprised that there aren't any new entries since September [0]. I wonder if there was some intentional change in their publication strategy, or if perhaps they're keeping hush ahead of some big drop.

[0] https://deepmind.google/research/publications/
by anon291 | 2025-11-12 16:54:51+00:00
In general, determining if two arbitrary reals are the same is impossible per the halting problem. People claim to measure 'real' numbers. This is a lie. People can only measure rational numbers. A real number is either a rational or the supremum of some arbitrary set of rationals (perhaps an infinite one). A set is described by whether or not a number is in it. To be able to determine what number is in your set you need to have some sort of decision procedure (a program). However, more real numbers exist than there are possible written programs. Thus, the full set of reals is inexpressible

On the other hand, it's very easy to see and measure rational complex numbers with a protractor.
by verdverm | 2025-11-12 16:55:05+00:00
Recent research results from many groups suggest otherwise. The lag between private models to competitive open models has been shrinking, same for the resources required to train and run them

The people who are spending billions on ai infra build outs want you to believe it's necessary, because frontier mega models are supposedly so much better. China has been showing us otherwise, especially being handicapped by export controls and showing how you can do more with less
by kastagg | 2025-11-12 16:55:12+00:00
The text and context of the complaint can be used to steelman it, adopting the principle of charity.

From that perspective, the most likely problem is not that bugs are being reported, nor even that patches are not being included with bug reports. The problem is that a shift from human-initiated bug reports to large-scale LLM generation of bug reports by large corporate entities generates a lot more work and changes the value proposition of bug reports for maintainers.

Even if you use LLMs to generate bug reports, you should have a human vet and repro them as real and significant and ensure they are written up for humans accurately and concisely, including all information that would be pertinent to a human. A human can make fairly educated decisions on how to combine and prioritize bug reports, including some degree of triage based on the overall volume of submissions relative to their value. A human can be "trained" to conform to whatever the internal policies or requirements are for reports.

Go ahead and pay someone to do it. If you don't want to pay, then why are you dumping that work on others?

Even after this, managing the new backlog entries and indeed dealing with a significantly larger archive of old bug reports going forward is a significant drag on human labor - bug reports themselves entail labor. Again, the old value proposition was that this was outweighed by the value of the highest-value human-made reports and intangibles of human involvement.

Bug reports are, either implicitly or explicitly, requests to do work. Patches may be part of a solution, but are not necessary. A large corporate entity which is operationally dependent on an open source project and uses automation to file unusually large volumes of bug reports is not filing them to be ignored. It isn't unreasonable to ask them to pay for that work which they are, one way or another, asking to have done.
by repsilat | 2025-11-12 16:55:37+00:00
"Easier" is probably the right one-word generalization, but worth noting that there are quite different challenges. Stopping distance is substantially greater, so "dead halt" isn't as much of a panacea as it is in dense city environments. And you need to have good perception of things further away, especially in front of you, which affects the sensors you use.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-12 16:55:42+00:00
If you watch the videos that insiders have been posting, it never exceeds the speed limits.

If you watch the videos more carefully, you will notice the people who speed by at 85 MPH later enter the screen again, because that is the nature of freeway traffic.

I predict that a few hundred of these on the road will measurably improve safety and decrease severe congestion by being that one sane driver that defuses stop-and-go catastrophes. In fact I think CHP should just contract with them to pace 101 in waves.
by Mukesh_dhal17 | 2025-11-12 16:56:04+00:00
A Detailed Guide on AI Interviewers and Their Impact on Modern Hiring

The hiring landscape is evolving faster than ever and AI interviewers are at the forefront of this change.

In my latest blog, I break down: What AI interviewers are and how they work Their role in streamlining candidate assessments The ethical and practical challenges they bring How organizations can balance automation with human judgment

Whether you’re an HR professional, recruiter, or tech enthusiast, this guide will give you a comprehensive look into how AI is reshaping the way we identify and evaluate talent.

Read the full article here:

Would love to hear your thoughts — do you think AI interviewers make the hiring process fairer or more biased?

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by bakies | 2025-11-12 16:56:18+00:00
I dont have any of this experience. I only have to change the version number and the upgrades roll themselves out.

MetalLB is good yes, and admins should have IP knowledge. I ask this in interview questions.

Yes, sheep not pets is the term here. Self healing is wonderful. There's plenty to dig into if you run into the same problem repeatedly. Being able to yank a node out that's misbehaving is very nice from a maintenance pov.

Talos on bare metal to get kubernetes features is pretty good. That's what my homelab is. I hated managing VMs before that.
by gpderetta | 2025-11-12 16:56:30+00:00
I would also like to have type checked exceptions in c++ (as long as we can also template over exception specifications).

But what I would really want is noexcept regions:

<potentially throwing code>... noexcept { <only noexcept code here> ... } <potentially more throwing code>...

i.e. a way to mark regions of code that cannot deal with unwind and must only call non-throwing operations.
by GeekyBear | 2025-11-12 16:56:34+00:00
Why not start with the large sources that you can personally control?

> One 2023 study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that microwaving plastic food containers releases more than 2 billion nanoplastics (smaller microplastics) and 4 million microplastics for every square centimeter of the container.

https://www.prevention.com/health/a65025549/can-you-microwav...
by zcw100 | 2025-11-12 16:56:42+00:00
I think it's more a very lame flex. Macbooks were expensive and if you were walking around the office with a Macbook it was because you were important enough to convince management to buy you one instead of some crappy Dell. Eventually enough people get Macbooks that you need another way to stand out so you slap a bunch of cheap stickers all over it to show everyone, "See, you coddle your trophies. I beat mine up because it's just a tool and I don't care. I'm too busy gettin' it done!"
by daveguy | 2025-11-12 16:56:55+00:00
LeCun's net worth is estimated between 5-10 million.

Just for payroll of 10 AI researchers at 300k/yr would cost over $3 million per year. And his wealth probably isn't fully liquid. Given payroll + compute he would be bankrupt in a year. Of course he's not using just his own money.

However, I expect he will be a major investor. Most founders prefer to maintain some control.
by Barrin92 | 2025-11-12 16:57:21+00:00
>If an AI company has a 10% shot of developing a product that can replace 10% of it, they are worth $120 billion in expected value.

that's not how profits work. Companies don't get paid for the value they create but for the value they can capture, otherwise the ffmpeg people would already be trillionaires.

If you have a dozen companies making the same general purpose technology, not product, your only hope is being able to slap ads on top of it, which is why they're so keen on targeting consumers rather than trying to automate jobs.
by greesil | 2025-11-12 16:57:44+00:00
I have seen a Waymo do a very stupid thing where it darted across a busy street, and it left very little margin of error for the oncoming traffic, which happened to be a loaded dump truck that could not have stopped. The dump truck driver was clearly surprised. It was a move that I never would have made as a driver. Did they dial the aggression up? I'm sure they're safer than humans in aggregate as there are some dumb humans out there but it's not infallible.
by ianferrel | 2025-11-12 16:57:48+00:00
Setting prices to avoid the need for pennies is probably technically challenging given the combination of requirements to post prices and sales taxes that don't always round the same way.

If the effective tax rate is 7.432%, you can price single items so that the price plus tax ends up in a multiple of $0.05, but if you get a purchase with multiple items, you either need to round somewhere or post prices that are like $9.346263437.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-12 16:59:12+00:00
> Freeways might appear "easy" on the surface, but there are all sorts of long tail edge-cases that make them insanely tricky to do confidently without a driver

Maybe my memory is failing me, but I seem to remember people saying the exact opposite here on HN when Tesla first announced/showed off their "self-driving but not really self-driving" features, saying it'll be very easy to get working on the highways, but then everything else is the tricky stuff.
by retrac | 2025-11-12 16:59:21+00:00
> There’s tacit admission of defeat in this, it’s basically saying America doesn’t have the political power necessary to offset globalization and its forces.

That is a core theme of the admin. They seem to be radically pessimistic about US capabilities. Otherwise-inexplicable conduct like the sabre-rattling about control of Greenland only makes sense, if you imagine the United States becoming an isolated regional power cut off from the world ocean.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-12 16:59:23+00:00
> The same logic behind getting rid of pennies (they cost more to make than the face value)

I've honestly never understood why this is a valid reason to object to the coin. Coins aren't used only once, so that they cost most to make than their face value doesn't seem very important, unless the differential is much, much larger than it actually is.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-12 17:00:13+00:00
I think the real key is to only compress enough initially so that you don't blow out your storage in terms of size and throughput... Once you have the stream captured at a higher quality, you can always recompress more optimally.

A relatively low compression with hardware h.264 will still take up a lot less space and throughput than mpeg-2 or raw.
Show HN: AI music discovery for super nerds (Now on iOS AND macOS)
by pj4533 | 2025-11-12 17:00:23+00:00
Recently updated my open source app Back2Back to be multiplatform. Still all native code, but targeting macOS and iOS.

Use the default DJ persona's to explore different music, or create your own persona. Use GPT-5 in high thinking with web search tooling to create in depth style guides.

Each selection is made by an LLM using the persona, then another LLM matches the selections to Apple Music, and a final LLM validates that the Apple Music track fits the DJ persona.

This workflow provides the very best results, much better than other ML-based methods I have used in the past.

Still in beta, would love feedback.
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-12 17:00:37+00:00
Yes okay, I confirm that the part iFixit is offering is just the standard capacity (9.34Wh / 2.4Ah):

https://www.ifixit.com/en-ca/products/iphone-13-mini-battery

It doesn't seem like Repart do direct to consumer sales; I'll look around and see if I can find somewhere reputable to buy that in Canada.

Based on this reddit thread, it doesn't seem that there's really a consensus around whether these purported supersized after market batteries are the real deal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhone13Mini/comments/1gap4yc/share...
by portaouflop | 2025-11-12 17:00:45+00:00
Giving up just ensures that your voice and values certainly won’t be heard. But I guess it’s comfortable enough for you still so there is little reason to get active. Soon it won’t be so comfortable anymore also for you, by then it will be too late to speak up.

It’s laughable that you think nothing has changed in the last 50 years politically. Not so recently they were still putting people to death by the hundreds of thousands in my country and I’m sure as shit not gonna let it happen again, even if it’s a bit cringe for you to witness resistance to facism
by bushbaba | 2025-11-12 17:01:18+00:00
My company is on prem, spending north of 1 billion per year. Cloud is actually cheaper when considering total cost of ownership. Thats salaries, opex, capex costs. Worse, our speed to delivery is generally worse.

Because on prem is inelastic, we are at sub 10% peak utilization of compute resources. If we added in the likely higher cloud utilization rate we are talking of 30%+ savings from on prem.
Show HN: Cancer diagnosis makes for an interesting RL environment for LLMs
by dchu17 | 2025-11-12 17:01:42+00:00
Hey HN, this is David from Aluna (YC S24). We work with diagnostic labs to build datasets and evals for oncology tasks.

I wanted to share a simple RL environment I built that gave frontier LLMs a set of tools that lets it zoom and pan across a digitized pathology slide to find the relevant regions to make a diagnosis. Here are some videos of the LLM performing diagnosis on a few slides:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ixTWswT5c): traces of an LLM choosing different regions to view before making a diagnosis on a case of small-cell carcinoma of the lung

(https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cMbqLnKkGU): traces of an LLM choosing different regions to view before making a diagnosis on a case of benign fibroadenoma of the breast

Why I built this:

Pathology slides are the backbone of modern cancer diagnosis. Tissue from a biopsy is sliced, stained, and mounted on glass for a pathologist to examine abnormalities.

Today, many of these slides are digitized into whole-slide images (WSIs)in TIF or SVS format and are several gigabytes in size.

While there exists several pathology-focused AI models, I was curious to test whether frontier LLMs can perform well on pathology-based tasks. The main challenge is that WSIs are too large to fit into an LLM’s context window. The standard workaround, splitting them into thousands of smaller tiles, is inefficient for large frontier LLMs.

Inspired by how pathologists zoom and pan under a microscope, I built a set of tools that let LLMs control magnification and coordinates, viewing small regions at a time and deciding where to look next.

This ended up resulting in some interesting behaviors, and actually seemed to yield pretty good results with prompt engineering:

- GPT 5: explored up to ~30 regions before deciding (concurred with an expert pathologist on 4 out of 6 cancer subtyping tasks and 3 out of 5 IHC scoring tasks)

- Claude 4.5: Typically used 10–15 views but similar accuracy as GPT-5 (concurred with the pathologist on 3 out of 6 cancer subtyping tasks and 4 out of 5 IHC scoring tasks)

- Smaller models (GPT 4o, Claude 3.5 Haiku): examined ~8 frames and were less accurate overall (1 out of 6 cancer subtytping tasks and 1 out of 5 IHC scoring tasks)

Obviously, this was a small sample set, so we are working on creating a larger benchmark suite with more cases and types of tasks, but I thought this was cool that it even worked so I wanted to share with HN!
by lunias | 2025-11-12 17:01:45+00:00
I have 2 pairs of pants that cost over $500. Both of them use technical fabrics (Schoeller Dryskin and Stotz EtaProof), have complex patterns (asymmetrical, articulated, etc.), lots of hardware (Riri zippers, magnetic pocket closures, Cobrax snaps), and can be ordered in custom sizing. They also have no text / logos anywhere on the pants. One pair is garment dyed as a complete unit after sewing to give a unique effect that's more interesting and has more "depth" compared to a flat, consistent color.
by knadh | 2025-11-12 17:01:45+00:00
We've allocated $60,000 to NTP from FLOSS/fund [1]. It happened in May, but the disbursal is pending owing to paperwork [2]. We hope it'll go through in the next couple of months.

[1] https://floss.fund/projects/2025/

[2] https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/#wha...
by Netcob | 2025-11-12 17:01:57+00:00
Yeah, that's the one problem I'd have with stickers.

I'm personally not interested, but I also would never make fun of people expressing themselves.

On the other hand... mandatory fun, mandatory self-expression, any anything that takes something very personal and turns it into official or unofficial company policy makes me sick. I'm glad it's not too common here in Germany.

It's like HR forcing you to listen to punk songs because the company wants to promote a rebellious spirit as long as it's compatible with "disruption". It's also a bit like being asked "why are you so quiet" by someone who said everything worthwhile 5 minutes after getting out of bed but never stopped yapping.
by scottlamb | 2025-11-12 17:02:06+00:00
There are a lot of reasons anyway I like to have the design doc around. A few:

* I think the designs are often better when people write down their goals, non-goals, assumptions, and alternatives rather than just writing code.

* Reading previous designs helps new people (or even LLMs I guess) understand the system and team design philosophy.

* It helps everyone evaluate if the design still makes sense after goals change.

* It helps explain to upper management (or promotion committee in a large company) the work the author is doing. They're not gonna dig into the code!

...so it's usually worth writing up even if not as a stage before implementation starts. It can be a quick thing. If people start using a LLM for the writing, your format is too heavy-weight or focused on style over substance.

There's definitely a negative side to approval stages before shipping, as this article points out, but when quality (reliability, privacy/security, ...) is the system's most important attribute, I can't justify having zero. And while getting the design approved before starting implementation isn't necessary, it should avoid the bad experience tombert had of having to redo everything.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-12 17:03:28+00:00
> Ultimately they found the best experience was three text boxes, day, month and year

This is what we found was most acceptable for our banking users. They were coming from terminal interfaces. This is a UI/UX flow that we just had to go with. We experimented with fancy date pickers (i.e., <input type='date'>) and it lasted about a month before we were forced to refactor. We kept a date picker icon (exempt from tab order) for novice / younger employees who prefer the tap-tap-tap bs.

If you are replacing a mainframe app with something on the web, the least you can do is make a half-ass attempt to keep the # of physical fields the same and place them in the same tab order. This can make or break your pitch in a competitive B2B SaaS environment. We sold to the users, not to the business. The users then sold to the business for us. You cannot get end users to help sell for you if they don't like the UX. They know they'll have to live with it every day if they successfully advocate for it.
by nis0s | 2025-11-12 17:03:36+00:00
Hidden in all of this is the issue that all countries really have are their people, factories (or centers of production) and bombs. Non-western countries have improved the condition of their average citizen via immigration, providing havens for offshoring, and remittances, but the conditions for average western citizens are deteriorating.

I am afraid all of this is going to be unsustainable because non-western countries don’t have productivity centers, but they have workers (who work for companies producing jobs outside of their own country), and when their quality of life or standard of living goes up, so does the cost of doing business in those places, which companies will offset by firing people. This already happened, this is part of why inflation went up so dramatically post-COVID, and the end result is mass firings and layoffs, disguised as “AI taking jobs”.

In some terrible scenarios this means keeping standards of living down in some countries to ensure populations don’t ask for more worker protections or other types of rights, which is the main driver of increased costs of doing business in western countries. But if your population keeps getting richer because of offshored jobs or remittances, then you’re on a collision course with forces beyond your control.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-12 17:03:44+00:00
I really enjoyed learning Prolog in university, but it is a weird language. I think that 98% of tasks I would not want to use Prolog for, but for that remaining 2% of tasks it's extremely well suited for. I have always wished that I could easily call Prolog easily from other languages when it suited the use case, however good luck getting most companies to allow writing some code in Prolog.
by pxc | 2025-11-12 17:03:59+00:00
Crush is notably and disappointingly proprietary, being a fork (by the original author, who was hired by Charm) of the open-source OpenCode¹.

Despite the indications in that old repo, OpenCode is still F/OSS and still under active development by the other maintainers (in a new GitHub org²).

You can find the OpenCode website here: https://opencode.ai/

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1: https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode

2: https://github.com/sst/opencode