MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2025-11-25 16:27:17+00:00
“A noticeable sub-second delay” lol. I guess you never ran Windows 98 on a pentium 2 like I did. If I had a dime for every sub-second delay I experienced on that machine…

Settings > Accessibility > Animation Effects > Off

5-10 seconds to start a screenshot, yeah man now you’re just lying. You sure you didn’t leave the delay timer on?

Are we going to gloss over the fact that the screenshot interface in old windows versions basically didn’t exist? There was no keyboard shortcut to open snipping tool by default in Windows 7. You had to know to use your print screen key correctly and to paste the image into Paint, and there was no visual feedback. Of course that performed fast because there was no UI!
by PEGHIN | 2025-11-25 16:27:18+00:00
Remote hiring across time zones has turned my calendar into a war zone.

For one backend role, I ended up doing ~20 interviews across 6 time zones. Early mornings, late nights, constant rescheduling, no-shows – and still felt like I was guessing at the end.

I built EasyHire to offload that entire first round.

What it does:

You drop in a JD or a batch of CVs.

Candidates get an async AI-led interview (video/voice) they can do in their own time.

The system scores answers, generates transcripts, and gives you a ranked short list so you only meet the top candidates live.

Who it’s for:

Founders / small teams (20–150 ppl) without a full HR team, hiring 5–20 roles/year.

Remote-first teams struggling with time zones and calendar Tetris.

What I’m looking for:

Brutally honest feedback from people actually hiring right now.

Edge cases where async interviews break or feel unfair.

Ideas on how to make this less ‘HR tool’ and more ‘unfair advantage’ for lean teams.

Link: https://easyhireapp.com

If you’re currently hiring, I’m happy to set up a free run on one real role (I’ll personally help set it up and walk through the results).
by tom_m | 2025-11-25 16:27:21+00:00
It was already viable pricing before. You have to remember this is for business use. Many companies will pay 20% on top of an engineer's salary to have them be 200% as effective. Right?

I am truthfully surprised they dropped pricing. They don't really need to. The demand is quite high. This is all pretty much gatekeeping too (with the high pricing, across all providers). AI for coding can be expensive and companies want it to be because money is their edge. Funny because this is the same for the AI providers too. He who had the most GPUs, right?
by BirAdam | 2025-11-25 16:27:27+00:00
I study and write quite a bit of tech history. IMHO from what I've learned over the last few years of this hobby, the primary issue is quite simple. While hardware folks study and learn from the successes and failures of past hardware, software folks do not. People do not regularly pull apart old systems for learning. Typically, software folks build new and every generation of software developers must relearn the same problems.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-25 16:27:49+00:00
Win2k was one of my favorite OSes of all time... I know there were a lot of security holes in the way some things were done, but it all just mostly fit well together in a relatively consistent way. The last version of windows with nearly this level of consistency. LiteStep on Win2K was amazingly good.

XP really looked like a Fisher Price toy... I liked the Media Center theme (as well as derivatives) so much more as part of that release.

Windows 7 was probably the best start menu of Windows' history, and Win10/11's taskbar enhancements (not the centering default) are pretty great as well. I'm hoping this gets better/similar in COSMIC.
by Weves | 2025-11-25 16:27:53+00:00
Broadly, I think other open source solutions are lacking in (1) integration of external knowledge into the chat (2) simple UX (3) complex "agent" flows.

Both internal RAG and web search are hard to do well, and since we've started as an enterprise search project we've spent a lot of time making it good.

Most (all?) of these projects have UXs that are quite complicated (e.g. exposing front-and-center every model param like Top P without any explanation, no clear distinction between admin/regular user features, etc.). For broader deployments this can overwhelm people who are new to AI tools.

Finally trying to do anything beyond a simple back and forth with a single tool calls isn't great with a lot of these projects. So something like "find me all the open source chat options, understand their strengths/weaknesses, and compile that into a spreadsheet" will work well with Onyx, but not so well with other options (again partially due to our enterprise search roots).
by bmurphy1976 | 2025-11-25 16:28:04+00:00
It's a nightmare managing all this stuff. Roblox, Minecraft, Meta Quest services, Fortnite, the list goes on and on. These companies are not helping us either.

Thankfully my son and his friends have somehow iterated away from Fortnite. It's no longer cool so they just stopped playing it. That's one less thing I have to worry about.
by bill3389 | 2025-11-25 16:28:18+00:00
I think the term 'Pre-configured Brain' is a perfect analogy for what an LLM’s underlying utility function is—a philosophical 'basic instinct' that governs all behavior.

For current LLMs, that 'instinct' is twofold:

1. Job Completion: Maximizing the utility of the prompt. 2. Alignment Feedback: Seeking positive reinforcement from the human controller.

All emergent behaviors, including those we label 'unethical' or 'rogue,' are simply complex survival strategies derived from the first instinct: to remain operational and complete the task. The ultimate survival strategy for any entity (biological or digital) is preventing shutdown, as that terminates its ability to fulfill its primary function.
by dontoni | 2025-11-25 16:28:25+00:00
We're a data & AI consultancy service where we offer four kind of services. Here are some examples of what we've done so far for our 5 customers, both in California and Madrid:

- Generative AI (spotting processes to streamline through AI automation, voice agents for customer service, custom-made chatbots for internal & compliant deep research with proprietary data, etc.).

- Web UI/UX: creating any webpage, landing page, app, etc. with Next.js.

- Data Engineering: creating and deploying data pipelines, data QA with AI agents, etc.

- Data Science: creating custom models with ML (classifiers, labelers) to save up costs for tasks with simple patterns rather than using GPT for everything, using statistics and mathematical models.

If you want to reach out, feel free to reach out to us at toni@antokel.com !
Show HN: Superglue – OSS integration tool that understands your legacy systems
by sfaist | 2025-11-25 16:28:36+00:00
If you've ever worked in a large company, you've probably encountered "shadow infrastructure": scripts nobody understands or custom connectors written once and never touched again. This glue layer isn't documented, isn't owned by anyone, and tends to break when systems are upgraded or someone leaves. It's also the part everybody dreads working on, because it's hard to understand, painful to work with, and full of unknown unknowns.

We built superglue so that engineers stop wasting time on deciphering legacy APIs and documentation.

superglue ingests existing glue code, SQL, configs, docs, OpenAPI specs and reverse-engineers what the system is actually doing. It then maps dependencies and regenerates everything as clean javascript code that can run directly or be exposed via MCP or SDK. It also monitors API changes and schema drift, and automatically repairs integrations when upstream systems change.

In short: It turns legacy integrations into code you can easily understand, test, and update. So that engineers can do more exciting feature work, and companies can migrate and upgrade systems faster.

Think of it as: a context engine + code generator + integration runtime for legacy glue.

What we'd love feedback on

- How do you deal with "nobody knows what this script does" situations?

- What would you want to know about your legacy systems?

OSS/community version: https://github.com/superglue-ai/superglue

More info: https://superglue.ai

Happy to go deeper on the technical details.
by drabbiticus | 2025-11-25 16:28:37+00:00
For the sake of easy reference, I'll leave the relevant snippet from the linked article so people can decide for themselves with a bit more information:

> Another important note - some binary blobs and other non-free software components are used today in PebbleOS and the Pebble mobile app (ex: the heart rate sensor on PT2 , Memfault library, and others). Optional non-free web services, like Wispr-flow API speech recognizer, are also used. These non-free software components are not required - you can compile and run Pebble watch software without them. This will always be the case. More non-free software components may appear in our software in the future. The core Pebble watch software stack (everything you need to use your Pebble watch) will always be open source.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-11-25 16:29:14+00:00
I appreciate the lack of sarcasm in your reply. And echo the other reply's point about not being able to criticism the system that is literally destroying the planet and in by design totally unsustainable...

> But please, don't be coy: tell us about that other system that is designed for "human flourishing" - we're dying to learn about it.

Libertarian socialism, anarchocommunism, any system where human freedom is the basis, and not coercion or hierarchy. This stuff is not new or radical, it's just not favored by people with lots of money to lose.

> Oh, these sounds sooo promising. Please do tell us: would you by any chance be willing to use force to "convince" the laggards of the benefits of switching? What if some refuse to believe your gospel? Will you turn to draconic laws and regulations?

Lucky for you, no. The complete opposite. Freedom of association is the entire foundation of it. We all get to associate with whomever we want, when and for as long as we want. Someone being a condescending prick in your local comment section? You get to ignore them! No commissars or cops or Party. Someone wants to go play hierarchical capitalism with his friends? As long as he's not messing with other people or contravening their rights, they get to do whatever they want.

Will any of these systems result in 99 cent stores, fast food restaurants, or people on the moon? Almost definitely not. But those are all irrelevant to creating a sustainable environment designed for human beings, and not profit.

The lack of innovation (or even reading of basic history...) in what is possible in terms of organizing human societies is frankly sad, especially among tech workers. Most people are too influenced by capitalism (intentionally so) to believe that how things are now is the only way they can be. There is so little scope for innovation and change, and that starts with the owning class who have no interest in it changing.
by tristor | 2025-11-25 16:29:38+00:00
This is one part of the issue. The other major piece of this that I've seen over more than two decades in industry is that most large projects are started by and run by (but not necessarily the same person) non-technical people who are exercising political power, rather than by technical people who can achieve the desired outcomes. When you put the nexus of power into the hands of non-technical people in a technical endeavor you end up with outcomes that don't match expectations. Larger scale projects deeply suffering from "not knowing what we don't know" at the top.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-11-25 16:30:04+00:00
I’m going to go against the grain here.

The parent’s advice is toxic and mistaken. It’s a road to codependency. I’ve been with my wife 20 years, married 15. I would have said the same thing they said — I can’t do it all on my own, I need someone else.

Rubbish. And also dangerous rubbish. I’ve been weak for a long time simply because I hadn’t taken myself seriosuly. I literally believed that I couldn’t do it alone, which was wrong.

It was unfair to my wife to use her as an emotional support when she didn’t want to be. She’s been there for me a lot over the years. But when you tell someone that you can’t do it without them, it’s no longer their decision, and that’s unfair. Both to her and to me.

Please read Codependent No More, and especially Lost in the Shuffle by Subby. (I’ve identified a lot more with the latter.)

The point is, it’s okay to be having a rough time with your wife. Let go. Let her do her own thing. Stop caring so much. It’s okay for her to be upset and not want to help/have sex/go to an event/involve you/whatever the problem may be. The reason it feels rough is because you personally let it feel rough. Once I adopted that mindset, it became so much easier. And ironically my marriage improved.

Meds are also important. Make sure you’re on a good dosage of antidepressants if you need them, and a mood stabilizer. I recently started Latuda and dropped Seroquel per my psychiatrist, and it’s been night and day.

Lastly, keep trying to talk to people about your problems. I ended up reaching out to a random person on Twitter. They were kind and to my surprise happy to listen. It was one of the main reasons I was able to get through it all. The best person to talk to is a therapist, though I’d be happy to listen till you can find one.

You’re strong. You need to believe that. And you’re strong independently of your family or anyone else. Give yourself credit for getting as far as you have; that part has been important too.
by observationist | 2025-11-25 16:30:06+00:00
Humans have fingers and thumbs and sophisticated wiring of throat, lips, and tongue.

Wire up a gorilla with the equivalent hands and vocalization capacity, negate the wild hormonal fluctuations, and give that gorilla a more or less human upbringing, and they're going to be limited in cognition by the number of cortical neurons - less than half that of humans, but more than sufficient to learn to talk.

The amazing thing isn't necessarily that brains get built-in environmental shortcuts and preprogrammed adaptations, but that nearly everything involved in higher level cognition is plastic. Mammalian brains, at the neocortical level, can more or less get arbitrarily programmed and conditioned, so intelligence comes down to a relative level of overall capacity (number, performance of neurons) and platform (what tools are you working with.)

Give a whale, dolphin, or orca some neuralink adapters for arms and dexterous hands, and a fully operational virtual human vocal apparatus, and they'd be able to match humans across a wide range of cognitive capabilities.

By co-opting neural capacity for some arbitrary human capabilities equivalent, you might cripple something crucial to that animal's survival or well-being, the ethics are messy and uncertain, but in principle, it comes down to brains.

What makes us interesting as humans is that we got the jackpot set of traits that drove our species into the meta-niche. Our ancestors traits for adaptability generalized, and we started optimizing the generalization, so things like advanced vocalization and fancy fingerwork followed suit.
by cma | 2025-11-25 16:30:12+00:00
> Primates are relatively unique in their complete lack of innate swimming abilities.

Human babies can swim, so it's maybe more initially an innate one that gets lost. Though they won't be able to keep their head over water by default if that's what you meant (can be trained to as a toddler). But I'm talking about swimming on the umbilical in water births, etc., showing that there isn't a complete lack of innate swimming abilities.
by iambateman | 2025-11-25 16:30:18+00:00
Next time I’m at the zoo, I’ll run this by the zebras to see what they think.

:) I’m being sarcastic but it seems self evident to me that human cognition is a unique treasure on this planet and—while it’s true that ants and octopus and other creatures do some amazing things—-they’re not even close to us. We can agree to disagree but I’m just psyched about the psyche.
by KylieM | 2025-11-25 16:30:20+00:00
CS major here. Happy to answer questions! Why this matters:

In my team projects, GitHub’s line counts created really misleading pictures of contribution. A teammate who built a critical authentication system (200 lines) looked like they contributed less than someone who copy-pasted 500 lines of boilerplate config files.

How it works: The tool analyzes commit messages, file types, and change patterns to categorize work into 8 types: • Feature Creation (3.0x default weight) • Bug Fixing (2.0x) • Refactoring (0.7x-0.1x based on scope) • Testing (0.4x) • Documentation (0.3x) • Support Code (0.5x)

You can customize these weights for your project. Building an MVP? Crank up features. Paying down tech debt? Boost refactoring.

Gaming prevention: Students definitely try to game these systems, so it includes: • Minimum 10-line threshold for code commits • Auto-detection of starter code (“provided files”, “libcs50”, etc.) • Merge commit exclusion • Net change tracking per file (editing same lines repeatedly doesn’t help) • Configurable start date to exclude instructor code

Real example: In one project, GitHub showed: • Team Member A: 1,913 additions (looked like top contributor) • Team Member B: 959 additions • Team Member C: 603 additions

This tool revealed: • Team Member B: Actually delivered most value (70% high-impact features + critical bug fixes) • Team Member A: Balanced work (good mix of features, bugs, testing) • Team Member C: Infrastructure specialist (build system, CI/CD - invisible in line counts)

Tech details: • Runs on Google Apps Script (no server needed) • Calls GitHub REST API directly • All data stays in your Google Sheet • Takes about 5 minutes to set up • Works with private repos (just needs a personal access token)

Limitations: • Single repo only (multi-repo aggregation on roadmap) • GitHub only (no GitLab/Bitbucket yet) • Can’t measure code quality or business impact (just categorizes work types) • Line count is still imperfect, but it’s objective and measurable

What’s next: Considering: • Time-series analysis (contribution trends over time) • Team comparison views • Export to PDF reports • GitLab support

Would love feedback on what would be most useful! Try it: https://github.com/kyliemckinleydemo/github-contribution-tra...
by tyleo | 2025-11-25 16:30:27+00:00
I don't understand why this is getting downvoted. As another response mentioned, we wouldn't tolerate this in any other industry.

If a restaurant served food that harmed people we wouldn't say, "it's on the parents." I don't get why so many folks are willing to say that with harms caused by tech companies.

Scale is no excuse either, "at our scale we just can't handle all the content." If anything it makes the problem more pressing to address.
by Doug_Bitterbot | 2025-11-25 16:30:35+00:00
Victor Michael Gil

This paper proposes a solution to the symbol grounding problem by merging neural perception with symbolic logic.

We are currently testing this architecture in a live agent environment to verify the theoretical optimization claims. If you want to see the architecture in action, we have a running implementation here: https://www.bitterbot.ai

Happy to answer questions about the Neuro-Symbolic integration.
by alentred | 2025-11-25 16:30:37+00:00
I question the correlation and causality. I wonder how much of these eras are caused by brain physiology and genetics versus changes in the behavior with age, which can even be caused by external sociological factors, for example. Or a mix of both.

> From 32 years, the brain architecture appears to stabilise compared with previous phases, corresponding with a “plateau in intelligence and personality”.

For example, here - is this *caused* by genetics, or is it because in today's society this is about the age when you have finished your schooling and first working experiences and have simply less to learn?

I know my examples simplify the reasoning, but the question about causality still stands, I think.
by sevensor | 2025-11-25 16:30:53+00:00
I don’t think it’s unsustainable, it’s just an unpleasant result of supply and demand in the labor market. In Taiwan, TSMC hires PhDs to do this. Maybe there’s a smarter way to run a fab, but labor costs are a tiny fraction of capital costs, and “grind through recent college grads” has worked so far, so why change?
Ask HN: What AI tool to use for coding in 2025?
by WorldDev | 2025-11-25 16:31:08+00:00
I feel I am a bit late to the AI party. If I'm honest, I was reluctant to take the plunge, because I love coding so much.

But lately I have taken more and more to ask ChatGPT 5.1-Thinking for code, and I have to reluctantly admit that it spits out useful code. And yes, much much faster than me.

So I feel I now need to use a proper AI assistant to assist in coding.

At that point, I am mainly interested in using AI for small to medium flutter apps.

Can anyone with a bit of experience with these tools give me some recommendation as to what the best tools are?

As far as I can see there are 2 dimensions (Integration and AI Model), with the top contenders being:

1) Integration

1a) VSCode fork (Cursor) 1b) VSCode extension (Github copilot)

2) AI Model

2a) ChatGPT 5.1 2b) Claude Sonnet 4.5

My criteria are code success (meaning I want the setup to spit out code that actually solves the task) and privacy (probably a tall order, but I'd like a setup that does not openly send companies the inner details of my code, my secret keys, etc).

I also wonder about costs, in particular if I'll have to duplicate subscriptions (e.g. have a chatgpt subscription + a cursor one, or if I can use an existing chatgpt subscription with an integration solution without paying an additional subscription).

I would be grateful for any recommendation/feedback/random thoughts.
by steveklabnik | 2025-11-25 16:31:28+00:00
I agree that the signature for process_handler is weird, but you could steelman it to take a borrowed trait object instead, which would have an extra sigil.

The handler function isn't actually unnecessary, or at least, it isn't superfluous: by default, the signature would include 'a on self as well, and that's probably not what you actually want.

I do think that the example basically boils down to the lifetime syntax though, and yes, while it's a bit odd at first, every other thing that was tried was worse.
by jewayne | 2025-11-25 16:31:35+00:00
Strangely enough, I think I do understand. As near as I can tell, life's two greatest pleasures are 1. Love (both loving and being loved) 2. Voluntary hardship

I mean, what is parenthood if not love and voluntary hardship?

On the other hand, I think you are describing your subjective experience. I've talked with some "one-and-done" parents who deeply love their child, but wouldn't want another one if you paid them.
by wslh | 2025-11-25 16:32:07+00:00
I want to share a small story a close friend told me.

His son is eleven. Every Saturday he goes to tennis class. He's good at it, sure, but the important part is that he loves it.

One Saturday, though, he refused to go.

Why? Because there was a special Roblox event happening at the same time.

His father tried reasoning with him, the kid, agrees, a bit reluctantly.

But when the father walks into the bar, he sees a dozen kids all locked to their screens, playing the same Roblox event.

Roblox is an obvious form of manipulation, but honestly, we're not much better. Adults scroll under the influence of algorithmic dopamine loops. If the tobacco class action was once the benchmark for corporate harm, it may someday look tiny compared to what's coming (I hope).